Prof Joe Cain

Leviathan and after – a celebration of the history of science, the A joint UCL STS – Science Museum Conference

We are thrilled to announce a joint UCL STS - Science Museum conference titled: "Leviathan and after". Taking place on 12 May at the Science Museum. For more details and how to book: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/ev...

A group of palaeontologists in Scotland have extracted the most complete dinosaur fossil in the country, on the Isle of Skye. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM It dates all the way back to the Middle Jurassic – a period from which dinosaur fossils are notoriously h How Scotland’s largest dinosaur fossil was extracted - BBC World Service

Some excellent work produced by Mykyta Osadchyi - one of our MSc Science Communication students - for @bbcworldservice:

www.youtube.com/watc...

#dinosaurs #fossils #scotland #scicom #sts #science #technology

We will be at this event: T-shirts and books (for sale!), 3D-printed creatures (not for sale!), stickers and A5 leaflets (free!), plenty of facts (ask us why the Dinos owe their existence to..bananas! 🍌)

And paging the speakers: @richardfallon.bsky.social @hydrarchos.bsky.social @markwitton.bsky.social @susieoftraken.bsky.social @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social @toriherridge.bsky.social @tetzoo.bsky.social @profjoecain.bsky.social

Sucks when people take your stuff and use it to make their stuff and don’t pay for it, eh?

New Year's Eve Dinner in Iguanodon | Professor Joe Cain "Dinner in the Iguanodon Model" is a famous story about Crystal Palace Dinosaurs that took place New Year's Eve 31 December 1853.

(There are loads of great online articles about this legendary event, and we will continue to reference many on a regular basis, but we would always recommend starting with anything written by our friend @profjoecain.bsky.social)

profjoecain.net/dinner-iguan...

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scan of the letter from Waterhouse Hawkins (the full transcript is in the web link), which includes an very stylised drawing of the Iguanodon dinner, with ALL the guests snugly fitted inside

For National #Handwritingday, a letter from Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins to Edward Trimmer (of the Royal College of Surgeons) in Aug 1862, recalling the famous NYE dinner in the Iguanodon mould

(from one of @profjoecain.bsky.social’s many excellent posts, profjoecain.net/remembering-...)

Imagine if Nick Clegg was interested in democracy. He could tell us some things about Facebook, and maybe help us regulate it. Worth breaking an NDA for?

📢 We’re hiring! We are looking for a Lecturer in Medicine, Health and Society to join our Department from Sept 25.

For more info and to apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/41CTiXk

Closing Date: 2nd March 2025

#medicine #health #society #science #technology #WeAreSTS

A great thread by our friend @markwitton.bsky.social on the recent UK tracksite, and his accompanying art

(The site is only a mile-or-so from the current human trackway that is the M40 motorway..)

Day 22 🌲🌲🌲 @profjoecain.bsky.social is reading Earn It: Unconventional Strategies for Brave Marketers by Steve Pratt this week - "A long time pro describes ways to break out from the pack through story-telling and 'opposite' strategies".

TEZ Talks - Series 2 - 4. Made in Britain - BBC Sounds Tez talks about what it is like being both Muslim and British at the same time.

Love TEZ Talks repeats on BBC Sounds from 2018ish. Brilliant comedy. Clever. Fresh. Wide-eyed. Funny, funny, funny.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Burning the Clocks in #Brighton today, marking the Winter Solstice; charity event run by SameSky samesky.co.uk/events/burni... Fabulous event

19th Day!! 🎁 🎁 🎁 PhD Lala Luthfiyah is reading Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas - "about the origin and damages inflicted by the fast fashion industry - not only harming the environment but also based on dangerous practices. It is also optimistitc about smaller more sustainable brands".

Charles Nelson (1951–2024) in 2023. © Photograph Gina Douglas.

Sad to learn of the death this year of E. Charles Nelson (1951–2024), botanist and historian of natural history. Long-time editor of Archives of Natural History.

Splendid obituary just published by Elaine Shaughnessy
www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

Typewritten script with censor’s stamp and handwritten corrections

I’m grateful to the folks at @archive.org who’ve agreed to scan and post some of the historic #radio scripts by my late friend, “Murrow Boy” Richard C. Hottelet. They should be available online in early 2025.

Dick would be pleased.

This is page 1 of his D-Day script:

colour scan of the front cover of the magazine. Sophie/Ace, in her signature patched leather jacket, sits posing on the elephant-stanced Iguanodon, with the head of the ignuana-stanced creature behind. their paint scheme is a very dark green with a white underside, which was done under advice from the Natural History Museum

The nineties were crazy! Our Dinos still had paint jobs, and they were very much NOT on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register - as proved by @sophiealdred.bsky.social in this very cool (but irresponsible) photoshoot for DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE #162, July 1990

(archive.org/details/Doct...)

📢 We’re hiring! We are currently looking for a Lecturer in Medicine, Health and Society to join our Department from Sept 25. For more info and to apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/41CTiXk
Closing Date: 2nd March 2025 #medicine #health #society #science #technology #WeAreSTS

For the opportunity to present at this celebration and have Professors Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer respond to their work in conversation with Professor John Tresch, early career scholars are invited to send abstracts of max. 200 words. For more details go to: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/news/202...

#201 Dark Matter and the Search for Elusive Evidence | WeAreSTS WeAreSTS · Episode

Why do some physicists consider galaxy cluster mergers to be the 'smoking gun' for noninteracting particle #darkmatter? What do 50% of the words in that sentence mean? Find out with UCL graduate Mary Westover in #WeAreSTSPodcast Ep201: https://buff.ly/3Vtmzjl
#uclsts #scicomm #particlephysics

Day 11🎄 @jonagar.bsky.social is reading TWO history of science books: "Theresa Levitt's Elixir, about perfumes and the chemistry of life around the French Revolution, and Jessica Marie Otis's By the Numbers on how the population of early modern England went from faith to trust in maths. Both superb"

Paul McClean graduate trainee programme Applications will open in December for our 2025 intake

The grad trainee programme at the FT is extraordinary. We train you for THREE years you get decent money and an overseas placement. I've seen other news trainee schemes and this one is exceptional.
It's open now. Pls share with anyone you know who would benefit d/l 14/1/25 www.ft.com/content/314f...

10th Day!!🎄 MSc student Natalia Jordan Valenzuela is reading History of Information Graphics: "Infographics are everywhere and it's hard to imagine how they started and evolved. This massive compendium shows the rich history of data graphics. It's comprehensive, but above all really beautiful"

#202 Outlaw Ocean – Ian Urbina’s Book is STS1Book for 2024-25 | WeAreSTS WeAreSTS · Episode

ever want to run away from all civil society, claim a former british navy platform in the english channel as your own and declare it your own country? 🏄🌊🐠

too bad for you somebody got there first 😕 learn by example from the principality of #sealand on #WeAreSTSPodcast : https://buff.ly/4iBEONs

#203 Baby-Botox: Anti-Aging Is Out Of Control | WeAreSTS WeAreSTS · Episode

'We know that they make obscene amounts of profit … We know that they can limit these things when they want. You only have to look at where Tiktok originated in China, and the things that aren't allowed on the platform over there.' –Dr Shaughnessy, UCL, #WeAreSTSPodcast Ep203

What is dark matter and why does it... well, matter? To learn what makes dark matter so relatably W.I.M.P.-y, listen to #WeAreSTSPodcast Ep201: Dark Matter and the Search for Elusive Evidence, at https://buff.ly/3D61JA2 or anywhere you get your podcasts. #darkmatter #uclsts #particlephysics #science

#203 Baby-Botox: Anti-Aging Is Out Of Control | WeAreSTS WeAreSTS · Episode

Under-tens on Tiktok buying £60 'anti-aging' skincare. Twenty-year-olds getting preventative Botox injections. Everyone is obsessed with looking young, and social media is only feeding the beast. Catch UCL's Maddy Ross on the case with the #WeAreSTSPodcast: https://buff.ly/4fQvzHj #babybotox #uclsts

We have a new undergraduate brochure 🤓🤓🤓!! The brochure provides an overview of the field of STS and everything you need to know about our BSc Sociology & Politics of Science and BSc History & Philosophy of Science (alongside lots of other info about our department). www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sites/st...

Read this book for #ColumbusDay and learn how Columbus didn't discover America. If you are celebrating #IndigenousPeoplesDay read it to see how Columbus didn't discover America.

Hit an intriguing ethics bump using Claude.ai today. Fascinating reply, with alternative as correction