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Maria Rentetzi

@mrentetzi.bsky.social
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Professor of Science, Technology, and Gender Studies @FAU; history of nuclear science; science diplomacy; author of children's book rentetzi.de

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BayCEER @bayceer.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
📣 We are hiring! Six postdoctoral positions in Earth System Science & Science Diplomacy are open within a new international MSc program led by FAU in collaboration with the Uni Bayreuth. 🔗 fau-earth-system-science.github.io/pdfs/ESDE_pr... @fau.de @unibayreuth.bsky.social @mrentetzi.bsky.social
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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Can science diplomacy be used to maintain int. coops? A panel with: @uschroeder.bsky.social, @mrentetzi.bsky.social, Anke Reiffenstuel @diplo.de, Jan Marco Müller @ec.europa.eu and Marcelo Knobel Details: bit.ly/4mYw8Sj In Coop with @uni-hamburg.de, @buceriuslaw.bsky.social & ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS
Panel Discussion: The Role of International Science Cooperation in Disruptive Times
14 October, 2025, 5p.m. at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
An amazing evening at the Schlossgartenfest thanks @fau.de
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Two days to go!!! last details and we are almost ready www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-C8... @fau.de @erc.europa.eu @atomiclinda.bsky.social @marialep.bsky.social
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Living with Radiation – Exhibition Teaser (2)
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Preparing the #LivingWithRadiation exhibit has been one of the most demanding and rewarding projects I have ever done. Register here to join the opening, June 12, 6pm MedMuseum, Erlangen www.stgs.fau.de/2025/02/28/r...
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Register for the Living with Radiation exhibition
We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition Living with Radiation, which promises to enlighten and engage, offering a unique perspective on the history of radiation protection during the…
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"Huge thanks to Mark Walker and Dieter Hofmann for premiering our new @erc.europa.eu clip at their Heraeus seminar—so thrilled to share it with a group of the best #nuclear #historians www.we-heraeus-stiftung.de/veranstaltun...
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 04/06/2025
Living with Radiation – a new exhibition by Maria Rentetzi opens 12 June at Siemens Healthineers MedMuseum, Erlangen 🇩🇪. A thought-provoking look at the history of radiation protection, from science to diplomacy. More info: livingwithradiation.eu @fau.de @mrentetzi.bsky.social #FrontierResearch ‪
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I spoke to Charlie Gammell about recent developments on the Iran nuclear file. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
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Iran and the US: is a new nuclear deal in sight?
Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 02/06/2025 · 38m
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Join us in Erlangen, Germany on June 13–14, 2025 for the international workshop on the #Geopolitics of #Radiation #Protection co-organized with @kapilpatil.bsky.social From Cold War fallout to global nuclear policy—history, science, diplomacy & power intersect #RadiationPolitics #STS @fau.de
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat
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Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) @aiasdk.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
From 1 September, a Science Diplomacy Theme Group of fellows starts at AIAS. They will address issues from research security, the idea of ‘dual use’, the role of universities in science diplomacy to how AI and science diplomacy may reinforce inequalities between societies👇 aias.au.dk/events/show/...
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Four Science Diplomacy Theme Group Fellows selected to AIAS
In a global world marked by changing geopolitical contexts, science diplomacy is more important than ever. Four AIAS-SD fellows have been selected to work together in a theme group to address ‘Science...
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Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) @aiasdk.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
📖Six researchers selected to carry out their @carlsbergfondet.dk Monograph Fellowship in an #interdisciplinary and #international research community at AIAS. Their research span topic of the lymphatic vessels, minor tech and fear. Learn more about their projects here👇 aias.au.dk/events/show/...
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Six Carlsberg Monograph fellowship grantees at AIAS
Six successful Carlsberg Monograph fellowship recipients have been selected for a research stay at AIAS, from 1 September 2025. The six fellows are funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and will carry ou...
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Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) @aiasdk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
🌍Nine AIAS-AUFF Fellows selected from all over the world. They will explore novel research projects, from ocean & climate change, hybrid warfare, neurodiverse cooperation to plastics & recycling, and will bring new perspectives and methods together in one house at AIAS🎉 aias.au.dk/events/show/...
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Nine international researchers selected in the AIAS-AUFF Fellowship programme
Out of a record number of applications received in the second call in the AIAS-AUFF fellowship programme, nine talented researchers have been selected. From September, the fellows arrive from around t...
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
So nice to see #ScienceTakesATrip in bookstores. I love science for kids! @fau.de @mpiwg.bsky.social @fhi-mpg.bsky.social @nytimes.com @newyorker.com @hsnatsci.bsky.social @historians.org @jhideas.bsky.social @historytoday.com @sshmedicine.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @aahmhistmed.bsky.social
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
stay tuned! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGXf...
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Living with Radiation – Exhibition Teaser (1)
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Very proud to be part of the initiative thanks to @erc.europa.eu @fau.de @hornegger.bsky.social
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 18/04/2025
All new research grants have been frozen at the National Science Foundation, Nature reports, as DOGE considers canceling 200 existing grants flagged for terms associated with diversity, equity and inclusion. Story by @dangaristo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants
The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Why physicists need humanities! @fau.de @erc.europa.eu bildungsklick.de/hochschule-u...
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Sehr viel wertvoller als von vielen gedacht
Warum Physiker auch die Geisteswissenschaften beachten sollten – ein Plädoyer von Maria Rentetzi, die als Wissenschaftshistorikerin und Physikerin beide Welten kennt.
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bildungsklick @bildungsklick.de · 08/04/2025
Warum #Physiker auch die #Geisteswissenschaften beachten sollten – ein #Plädoyer von @mrentetzi.bsky.social , die als #Wissenschaftshistorikerin und Physikerin beide Welten kennt. bildungsklick.de/hochschule-u...
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Sehr viel wertvoller als von vielen gedacht
Warum Physiker auch die Geisteswissenschaften beachten sollten – ein Plädoyer von Maria Rentetzi, die als Wissenschaftshistorikerin und Physikerin beide Welten kennt.
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
we are hiring!! Are you a medical anthropologist, STS scholar or the like and want to pursue a PhD? Check out here www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/wissens...
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Wissenschaftliche Projektmitarbeit – Ethnographische Studie und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit (m/w/d)
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Pack and book your flight! #livingwithradiation is approaching @erc.europa.eu @fau.de @mpiwg.bsky.social
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"The U.S. seems to be trying to have it both ways. It doesn't want to pay for or participate in the U.N. but it still wants to boss it around," said Lucy McKernan, Deputy Director for United Nations at Human Rights Watch's Geneva office. www.reuters.com/world/us-lob...
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US lobbies UN rights council forsaken by Trump, diplomats say
Two months after President Donald Trump announced a halt to U.S. engagement with the United Nations Human Rights Council, Washington is influencing its work by applying pressure publicly and behind the scenes, seven diplomats and rights workers said.
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We are getting closer!!! livingwithradiation.eu
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I'm not kidding that the word "equality," a word used in the Declaration of Independence, has been put on the verboten list by the Trump Administration. bsky.app/profile/pete...
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
it is coming soon... @fau.de @hornegger.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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GreenPartyHan @greenpartyhan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Two major news stories today involving women and girls who've ended their lives after experiencing abuse. Approximately 3 women a week die by suicide as a direct result of domestic and sexual abuse, AS WELL AS the 3 women a week who are killed by men. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Girl, 12, died after assault allegation ‘wasn’t believed’, inquest hears
Semina Halliwell had reported case to police but ‘felt like she wasn’t believed’, her mother tells inquest
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Honored to be a member of wpd.ugr.es/~legabo/en/r... on the history of abortion trials. Thanks to Agata Ignaciuk! @fau.de @mpiwg.bsky.social
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Research team – Proyecto LEGABO
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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Depressing story by @jasperjolly.bsky.social this -https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/28/uk-based-british-pharma-gsk-pauses-diversity-work-citing-trump-orders
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UK-based British pharma GSK pauses diversity work citing Trump orders
London-based FTSE 100 firm is reviewing its policies saying it is obliged to comply because US government is its No1 customer
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Do you want to learn more about the history of radiation protection? Register for our exhibit www.stgs.fau.de/2025/02/28/r... @fau.de @mpiwg.bsky.social @shothisttech.bsky.social @jhideas.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @historytoday.com @aip.bsky.social
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Register for the Living with Radiation exhibition
We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition Living with Radiation, which promises to enlighten and engage, offering a unique perspective on the history of radiation protection during the…
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Thrilled to post our new short video on @humboldt-foundation.de visit at #STGS @fau.de last November www.stgs.fau.de/2025/02/25/1...
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Network Meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and the Chair of STGS
From November 20th to 22nd, 2024, over 200 scholarship grantees from 45 countries, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, visited several departments and chairs at Friedrich-Alexander…
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
check our STGS website for new posts! We are doing some wild things www.stgs.fau.de @fau.de @mpiwg.bsky.social
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Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies
A quick look at everyday news proves that science, technology, and medicine permeate all aspects of our everyday life. From the terrifying prospect of a nuclear conflict and the recent pandemic to…
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This is what happens when the boss comes late at the office!! I love working at @fau.de
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I am thinking of the future historian!!!
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
History of Science Society Community hssonline.org/blogpost/198...
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Science on a Trip: Bringing History of Nuclear Science to Children - History of Science Society
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Back at home a visit at the Cycladic museum reminded me the power of #women in Ancient Greece and the fluidity of #gender @fau.de
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Science takes a trip! Let’s follow it. Thanks to #HSS for posting hssonline.org/blogpost/198...
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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Well, anyway... Physics Today has a nice interview with Jahnavi Phalkey on her career as a historian of science and her work at the Science Gallery Bengaluru pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...
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Q&A: Historian of science Jahnavi Phalkey starts a museum
The founding director at Science Gallery Bengaluru in India aims to “bring science back into the culture.”
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We need more voices like Butler’s #gender english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
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Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
And then you have this! Decades of our research on #gender and #science have been thrown away by an executive presidential order. @fau.de www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
One more amazing story of #women in #science @fau.de bit.ly/2YhHjfE
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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009 was divided equally between Elinor Ostrom "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons" and Oliver E...
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“The civil servant of the future” an exciting discussion during the kick-off meeting of the AI4Gov-X in Milan. Looking forward to the next 4 years of a collaborative EU project without precedent! 38 partners
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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Marina Hyde is glorious when she's angry. Today she's angry. Must read. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress | Marina Hyde
If China has done to Sam Altman what his OpenAI has been accused of doing to creatives, it would take a heart of stone not to laugh, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
working feverishly on Living with Radiation, an exhibition about the history of radiation protection. Stay tuned and mark yours calendars: June 12, 2025. @ercresearch.bsky.social @mpiwg.bsky.social @fau.de
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
An amazing review by @profemmakowal.bsky.social of Spectacles of Waste @politybooks.bsky.social in Postcolonial Studies, advance access. Sadly not open access though. I love the last sentence: 'Anyone with an anus should read this book' Can't argue with that! #STS #histstm #anthro #postcolonial
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Hail the bog roll
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Looking forward to receiving your work @ercresearch.bsky.social @fau.de @mpiwg.bsky.social @jhideas.bsky.social @shothisttech.bsky.social @historyofscience.bsky.social @envhistnow.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @askehn.bsky.social www.stgs.fau.de/2025/01/08/c...
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Call for papers: Geopolitics of Radiation Protection
Dates: June 13-14, 2025 Deadline: February 20, 2025 Location: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany The Chair of Science Technology and Gender Studies (STGS) at Friedrich…
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
youtube.com/shorts/74JOc... An amazing way to draw attention to climate change!!!
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Stunning Footage Shows Ballerina Dancing on Ship's Bow Surrounded by Antarctica's Ice
YouTube video by uInterview
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Joachim Hornegger @hornegger.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
On the De-fence of the Erlanger Schloss: For over 10 years, a construction fence stood as a barrier—now, renovations begin! FAU's administration moves to a former Siemens building on Freyeslebenstraße. Change brings nostalgia, but also new opportunities! @fau.de
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Joachim Hornegger @hornegger.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Set up of the new office.
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
As 2025 begins, I would like to invite you to watch this brief introductory video about my chair, STGS. It provides a glimpse into our research and the people worked at STGS during 2024-2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD7Q... @fau.de
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Introducing STGS, 2024-2025
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Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Take a look at our video on IAEA's mobile radioisotope laboratories of the 1960s www.fau.eu/2024/11/28/n...
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Video: radioisotope laboratories in buses?
Two mobile radioisotope laboratories in eleven countries? That’s possible! Historian of nuclear science, Maria Rentetzi, explains her research on how two mobile radioisotope laboratories were offered…
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