Francesco Cassata

Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs—but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the atomic bomb in war. But he also deserves some credit for the fact that atomi...

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Excited to hold my AH special issue on 'atomic agriculture' - in real, tangible, three-dimensional paper! 😊 Thank you @dukepress.bsky.social !

Massive NIH study challenges use of race as a proxy for genetic ancestry in research A large government study shows that Americans’ self-reported race is a poor proxy for their genetic ancestry.

Massive NIH study challenges use of race as a proxy for genetic ancestry in research www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n... via @statnews.com

Do you remember the Human Genome Project? I’m not sure the Trump administration wants you to The NIH archives of the Human Genome Project could fall victim to Trump administration cuts, writes a former archivist.

The NIH archives of the Human Genome Project could fall victim to Trump administration cuts, writes a former archivist. buff.ly/H1WkRpn

Moral Contamination, Emotion, and the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement* url:https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/48/3/424/7612716

The Global Observatory for Genome Editing looks for a bioethics reset A summit in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a special issue of The CRISPR Journal featured a diversity of voices advocating for a broader debate in the name of cosmopolitanism and participation. How …

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L’historien Pierre Nora est mort Historien, maître d’œuvre des « Lieux de mémoire », publiés en sept volumes à partir de 1984, le créateur de la revue « Le Débat » est mort le 2 juin, à l’âge de 93 ans.

L’historien Pierre Nora est mort

A Harvard scientist built a database of 2,100 NIH grant terminations. Then his own funding was cut Harvard's Scott Delaney helped build a database of NIH grant terminations that is being used in litigation against the Trump administration.

$9.5 billion of biomedical research support, 2,100 grants, have already been terminated at NIH
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Journal of the History of Biology The Journal of the History of Biology is devoted to the history of the biological sciences, with additional interest and concern in the philosophical and ...

The JHB issue 58.1, which includes part of our Topical Collection on the "Legacies of Asilomar," is finally out! Enjoy your reading! link.springer.com/journal/1073... #histsci #histtech #histSTM #HPS #STS

Medicine on a Larger Scale Cambridge Core - Global History - Medicine on a Larger Scale

in the fabulous anthology *Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine*, edited by Warwick Anderson, Jeremy A. Greene, and Ann Kweim Lie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). The whole volume is #OpenAccess

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What a time to be a historian...

Seth Rogen presenting the Breakthrough Prize for physics (Getty)

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.”

— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

History is under unprecedented attack from the Trump administration.

We have made free access for one month this important article on the origins & vision of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, established in 2016.

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NEW: Internal staff email from Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch addressing Trump’s executive order.

“As always, our work will be shaped by the best scholarship, free of partisanship, to help the American public better understand our nation’s history, challenges and trumphs.”

Why establishing a EUROPEAN laboratory? - Max Perutz interviewed by Graham Chedd for the "New Scientist" (29 February 1968) @embo.org @embl.org

The Topical Collection "Legacies of Asilomar" I co-edited with Luis Campos for the Journal of the History of Biology, is online! It includes essays by Matthew Cobb, Doogab Yi, Robin Wolfe Scheffler, and me (with S. de Chadarevian), all available in Open Access! link.springer.com/collections/...

Asilomar Across the Atlantic: EMBO, EMBL, and the Politics of Scientific Expertise - Journal of the History of Biology The internationalization of the 1975 International Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA molecules has received little attention, and in particular, the European impact on, and response to, the Asilo...

My and Soraya’s article “Asilomar across the Atlantic: EMBO, EMBL, and the Politics of Scientific Expertise” has just been published and is now available in Open Access! link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Enjoy your reading! @embo.org @embl.org

The War Trump Chooses That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason

The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow.
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50 years after a seminal conference, big questions about biotechnology remain In 1975, researchers met to discuss the emerging field of biotechnology. The issues surrounding the field today are familiar.

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Get moving, Europe. This will be what it takes.

Walking In Their Footsteps At A Former Japanese Internment Camp "I wanted to see Manzanar with my own eyes, so that my understanding of history might feel deeper through the experience of place."

Today is the #DayOfRemembrance commemorating Executive Order 9066 and the government's mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. Eight years ago, I wrote about visiting Manzanar, what life was like in the camp, and how the National Park Service plays a role in teaching civil rights.

And here we go—Trump blaming Ukraine for 'starting' the war, while the entire Italian press echoes Russian propaganda about 'dialogue' and 'peace'...

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CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired

Make no mistake. This is an all-out attack on health in America.

Not only is the EIS vital to controlling infectious disease; it was where a remarkably high fraction of our public health leaders received formative training and experience.

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Environmental Advocate Vadim Ni Warns of Impending Disaster for Caspian Sea and Calls for Global Action to Prevent Ecological Collapse - The Times Of Central Asia Vadim Ni is an environmental law attorney and climate expert. He has served on compliance committees for the Aarhus Convention and the Protocol of the

The environmental law attorney and climate expert Vadim Ni, Kazakhstan, warns that the Caspian Sea stands on the brink of a nature disaster and calls for global action to prevent an ecological collapse.
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