20 years after first reading ‘Middlemarch’, I find I like Dorothea more and Lydgate less. There’s an awful lot in the book that’s great but I find it hard understand why it’s so loved. I enjoyed more all the other Eliot fiction I’ve read in the last year or so.
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'In this stupid world most people never consider that a thing is good to be done unless it is done by their own set.'
George Eliot, Middlemarch
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Portrait of Richard Owen posing next to a reptile skull.
Maull & Polyblank, Professor Richard Owen, 1855. Gernsheim Collection, 2024:0003:0001.
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Portrait of Michael Faraday leaning against a table while holding a magnet.
Maull & Polyblank, Professor Michael Faraday, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S., 1854–1855, published October 1857. Gernsheim Collection, 2024.0003.0001.0007.
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Exciting news for fans of Victorian science! @ransomcenter.bsky.social recently digitized a photo album featuring members of Maull & Polyblank's Literary & Scientific Portrait Club, including Richard Owen & Michael Faraday (seen here).
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A hundred and thirty years ago, here's one of the richest men on Earth fantasizing about colonizing Jupiter. No relevance at all to anybody's fantasies about colonizing Mars, obviously.
28.07.2025 16:58 — 👍 24 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
In his essay “Colonizing the Cosmos”, @irmorus1 joins the interplanetary safari that is John Jacob Astor’s A Journey in Other Worlds, a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperialism haunt a supposedly “perfect” future — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/colonizing-the-cosmos
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Parents! Carers! Anyone looking after children this summer! My regular reminder of this thread of TOYS you can make with scrap materials you probably have lying around the house:
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Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for FREE during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July. You can find all of these Elements free to download and read here: cup.org/4kEgivL
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So this week the CEO of NVIDIA said AI was as important as electricity, and this comparison always makes me think of mad Victorian products this ⬇️
AI *is* like electricity in the way grifters are trying to shove it in everything, and make dubious claims about its benefits.
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A black-and-white sketch of a robust, bearded prehistoric human figure (Neanderthal), shown in profile facing left. The figure is holding a simple stone tool or club in its right hand, with heavy brows and a sloped forehead. Handwritten notes in cursive script surround the figure on the left and right sides. The sketch has a rough, expressive line style.
Today in 1864, Thomas Huxley doodled this “ancient ape-man of Gibraltar” while bored in a meeting. It was inspired by the Forbes Quarry skull—a fossil his friend was puzzling over that we’d later recognize as a Neanderthal. #OnThisDay 🏺
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Proofs and Research Programmes: Lakatos at 100
This open access book offers new insights into issues raised in philosophy of mathematics and in philosophy of science by Imre Lakatos.
Excited to share that the volume Lakatos @ 100 has just been published (open access)! It’s a great collection on Lakatos’s legacy.
📘 Book link: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Grateful to the editors for including me!
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99p on kindle. A no-brainer, as people used to say
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Steven Rose obituary
Neuroscientist, author, political activist and advocate for social responsibility in science
Steven Rose - always an interesting and provocative thinker in science and a prominent figure in the so-called 'Darwin Wars' in the late 20th Century. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Latest read. It’s easy to see how this morally complex novel lends itself well to college courses and book clubs. There’s much to shock and this happens on many levels. I did, however, find the writing clunky at time - it could have been better edited. I will read more Butler.
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Latest read: This isn't Gaskell's best-known work, possibly because of the amount of dialect that features. However, it's arguably her most realistic (okay, minus the usual convenient coincidences) and the final 100 pages step things up a gear and pack an emotional punch.
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If you don’t do the research yourself, you don’t know what the LLMs HASN’T told you about the data it’s analyzed. You don’t know what materials are available but not accessible to the LLM. You don’t have anything close to the information you need to make a cogent argument that stands up to scrutiny.
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Edith Wharton's 'Summer' and 'Ethan Frome' are excellent and very different. You might like Gaskell's 'Cousin Phillis'. George Eliot's 'The Lifted Veil' is so, so well written.
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Redesigning our Year 9 curriculum to include Semmelweis and Snow, and vaccinations. Explaining through causality is part of our curricular metacontent. So these models build on a culture of explaining.
I explain metacontent here:
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#iTeachBio #chatbiology
30.05.2025 14:33 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 1
Latest reads. Baldwin’s ‘The White Man’s Guilt’ is a particularly powerful essay and the short stories often make difficult reading. Highly recommended.
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@mikehobbiss.bsky.social @paulclinepsy.bsky.social I’m looking forward to reading this - I’m sure I’ll learn a lot.
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Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
Former Marine Hotel, Penarth, Glamorgan. Grade II, perhaps Samuel Dobson, c.1865
Read more: t.co/5ehdITu4gL
#Wales
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Gaskell’s short stories are certainly interesting, and Cousin Phillis has much that is redolent some of the themes in her longer works. However, if you’re thinking or reading (more) Gaskell, I would prioritise the latter.
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I ordered it in December! Looking forward to it. Also, Amazon has a pub date of 31st May - I remember getting a notification of this too.
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