Rebekah Higgitt

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Historian of science
Principal Curator of Science at National Museums Scotland
#histsci #histSTM #museums
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It arrived! For more info see www.instagram.com/reel/C91vDqc... 📜🗃️ #histsci

Something's coming! 📜 #museums

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Norse texts hint at how medieval Icelanders once hunted blue whales, and a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, historians, folklorists, and geneticists try to piece together how. By Andrew Chapman hakaimagazine.com/features/how...

How Viking-Age Hunters Took Down the Biggest Animal on Earth | Hakai Magazinehakaimagazine.com New research suggests that medieval Icelanders were scavenging and likely even hunting blue whales long before industrial whaling technology.

Something's coming! 📜 #museums

I crossed the Scottish-English border six? times on Friday, by car and foot, and will do twice today by train (images from Friday's crossing of the Tweed, not today's whizzing down the east coast main line to Durham)

Searching online, I can only find references to the artist on this story of banning subversive maths diagrams - any #histsci or #histmath people know more?

So no joke: the dictatorship in 1970s Argentina once banned Venn diagrams. Because they could be seen as finding common ground between two (apparently) different groups, and if you’re a dictator, unity is a threat. There’s an artist whose work revolves around this!

Subversive Mathematics: The Outlawing of Venn Diagrams in 1970’s Argentinavariablewest.com Adelaide Blair invites you to a performance of Subversive Mathematics: The Outlawing of Venn Diagrams in 1970’s Argentina. It is about the Argentinian Dirty War, the subsequent outlawing of Venn di…

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Anything other than a clean hand-off to Kamala and a convention entirely devoted to re-introducing her to the American people, unifying the party, and pumping people up to support her IS PURE SELF-IMMOLATING INSANITY.

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No. We're not fucked. There's no giving up, because if we do THEN we're fucked. Don't just give the fuckers the win, now or ever. Fight for yourself, fight for the people you care about, fight for the people who will be even more fucked than you will be. Be pissed that you have to fight. But fight.

We're so fucked.

The Eyemouth Herring Queen has been piped onto her official vessel for the flotilla from St Abbs

Tagging with 📜 in case this has not been shared with GLAMS already

How does that #sound (in a #museum)? Please join us in Hamburg in December 2024 for a conference on how sound is used, produced, exhibited, explored & experienced in museums. The event is part of @valuepast.bsky.social & organized by the German Port Museum & the German Maritime Museum & partners.

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This looks fabulous! From the Yale Press page linked in quoted tweet: "In tracing the rise and deployment of archives in early modern British imperial rule, Asheesh Kapur Siddique uncovers the origins of our data-driven present."

Loving the cover - and thanks for the very kind blurbs! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... 🗃️

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Good morning #easst4s2024 people. Sounding a TRIPLE #jobklaxon for #STS #scipol #hps adjacent research jobs here at Exeter! Deadline dates unfortunately tight, so please spread the word ASAP if you know someone who might be interested. Will thread job ads below..

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Includes some fantastic ruminations on Galileo, John Flamsteed, Aldus Manutius, and more. 😃 📚 #earlymodern #HistSci #BookHistory

After a little summer hiatus, mine and Rhiannon Knol’s “Half Sheets to the Wind” is up, and we’re ruminating On Error in this one! twohalfsheets.substack.com/p/on-error

On Errortwohalfsheets.substack.com the shame, the inevitability, the silver lining

Untitled (sea view)

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If I don’t want to build a complicated new platform, a website that will be obsolete in 5 years, data sets that no one can use. How do we ethically use open/free platforms? 🗃️

Is bootstrap digital public humanities/history a thing? have people written about it? What are your fav projects that did a lot using simple tools, free platforms? I mean eg the blogs Notches and ManyHeadedMonster, or researchers using genealogy websites to connect with family historians. 🗃️

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by me on membering, remembering, dismembering hunterian.blog/fragments-re...

Fragments, relics and remembering | The Hunterian Bloghunterian.blog On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Lord Kelvin, Nicky Reeves reflects on relics and broken things in The Hunterian's collections.

Out of Office

Fascinating on space law and Space X's polluting of earth as well as skies #histsci #sts

Fab #sciam story on space junk and what to do if it falls on your land. "SpaceX has provisional permission..to launch.. 42,000 Starlink satellites. Assuming each one.. lasts 5 years.. SpaceX will be [de-orbiting] burning up ~1 satellite per hour."😮 🔭🛰️🧪 📖: www.scientificamerican.com/article/spac...

Took a picture of a picture of *the* view in Aberystwyth just in case I didn't have time to see it. (I didn't.)

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Europe @ every single person in the Democratic Party.

Part of life when I was living in north London, I think it was in Palermo that I last heard the familiar squawk and spied the flash of green.

I don’t write the headline but happy to see continued interest in the parakeets and their origin myths. #ukbirding www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Britain has been invaded by parakeets – and it’s got nothing to do with Jimi Hendrix | Tim Blackburnwww.theguardian.com These exotic birds are common in the UK now. That raises many questions, some fears, and a fair few myths, says academic Tim Blackburn

Meanwhile, take a look at the fabulous books on the shortlist for the BSHS Pickstone Prize www.bshs.org.uk/bshs-picksto... Winner to be announced at #BSHS2024 #histSTM

Heading to Aberystwyth for #BSHS2024 today. Not sure how many delegates will be here on #histsci Bluesky. 👋 to those who are - see you soon!

Shame Nick Robinson doesn't seem to have heard about this before interviewing Tony Blair on AI on Today R4

Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

Looks good for #hisSTM too

Now published OA! You can download the book here: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... Thanks @amsterdamupress.bsky.social & @erikagaffney.bsky.social & congratulations Nuno Vila-Santa! 👏👏👏 #seafever #history

Still a huge number of seats to the far right, of course, even if the polls are right

Great news! (Anxiously: how good are French exit polls? I'm sure this kind of split is hard to get right)

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

We're ordering carry out after the game - o/h entered the details (they literally just said it and I said "yes"!)

One for Keir

Goal to Arsenal!

So many games in the Euros that have only come to life at the end (and then how!). Not to be for the hosts, unless this last free kick...