Tiffany Nichols, JD, PhD

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Heads up, #humanities scholars! @ransomcenter.bsky.social is hosting an online info session about our 2026-27 research fellowships.

Join me & Tracy Bonfitto next Thursday (Oct. 2) at 9 AM, CDT for details about our collections & application process.

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Rainer Weiss, Who Gave a Nod to Einstein and the Big Bang, Dies at 92

This is tough news. Rai touched so many lives and cultivated a new way of knowing the universe! As I was working on my PhD, he answered every email--literally, was incredibly generous with his time, a huge supporter of the history of science, and so much more.

That is so cool! LIGO members do such amazing outreach and programming (in addition to new detections!)!!

Great read for anyone interested in relationships between big science projects, science policy, and land/landscapes.

Huge thank you to AIP (@aip.bsky.social) History and Rebecca Charbonneau (@rebeccacharbon.bsky.social) for spotlighting my latest article! 🤩 #ligo #physics #history #histstem

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@ligo.org #historical #histofphysics #siting #envhist #physics

A drawing of how the LIGO physicists envisioned ideal facility sites in their revolutionary 1989 NSF proposal is featured on the cover of this @isisjournal.bsky.social issue. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Finding sites for precision instruments, especially in LIGO's case, is no easy task. My article on LIGO's consideration of placing part of their broadband gravitational wave detector in the Blueberry Barrens of Maine is now available in @isisjournal.bsky.social! #histstem #hps #gravitationalwaves

Thanks to Donald Salisbury for the invitation to write a piece on the crisis in American science for the APS FHPP Newsletter. This time I interviewed four colleagues on their areas of expertise. My heartfelt thanks to all.

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Check out Kathy's post raising issues around science in the USA and current policy climate. She reached out for comment on my thoughts on the LIGO array, which is spread across two sites that work together as a single broadband gravitational wave detector. #physics #sciencepolicy

The crisis in American science - Kathryn M. Olesko, Anthony Eames, Cyrus C. M. Mody, Ilana Löwy, Thomas Zeller, Mark Walker, Mitchell G. Ash, Donna Haraway, 2025 The second regime of Donald J. Trump has decimated federal science and federally supported science to a greater degree than his first regime, unleashing an unpr...

I ask my new + old followers to circulate this open access roundtable onAmerican science. Please repost! We in the USA are losing our lead in scientific research due to totalitarian tendencies in the current administration. This loss will affect all of us.
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Photo is inside of the vertex of the LIGO Hanford facility. Highly recommend visiting the LIGO facilties!!! Such an amazing and important feat of science and engineering!

Check out the Humans of LIGO blog! Provides an inside look at the amazing LIGO community! It has been a dream to study the history of the amazing endeavor that is LIGO and those who founded, foster, and research in the LIGO Scientific Community! Thanks so much for featuring me! #gravitationalwaves

Aerial views of the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA detectors Credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab; The Virgo collaboration/CCO 1.0; ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo

LIGO and Virgo will resume observing on 11 June joined by KAGRA! All four kilometre-scale gravitational-wave detectors will observe at the same time!

Our observing run (O4) has been extended to run until 18 November 2025 and we look forward to many discoveries

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Where Do, and Should, Science and Science Education Happen? - Science & Education Wherever scientific research can be found, science education is usually present too, and vice versa. Moreover, the sites of science and science education often contain much else besides: commerce, bur...

I have a new article out in Science & Education (journal of the Int'l History, Philosophy & Science Teaching Group) that should eventually be part of a special issue surveying common ground in the recent-ish history of science and science education literatures:

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Huge thanks to AIP for providing the opportunity to share my research!

Curious about the process that Dr. Walter Massey (then-Director of the National Science Foundation) used to select LIGO'S Hanford, WA, and Livingston, LA, sites? This talk stems from my extensive research of first impression used to reconstruct this history.

Thank you so much for having me! Really enjoyed my visit to the American Institute of Physics!

Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics The American Physical Society is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance physics by fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and global community dedicated to science and society.

Nominations for the American Physical Society's Pais Prize for History of Physics are due June 2. The nomination package is a fairly heavy lift, so get cracking! #histsci www.aps.org/funding-reco...

Happening tomorrow!

Two images of sign-up boxes for the AIP History Weekly Edition and the AIP History Monthly Update.

The AIP history, library, and archives teams are excited to launch two new #histsci email newsletters. Our Weekly Edition will offer a short article on the history of the physical sciences and the history community's work. The Monthly is an update on what we're doing at AIP. ww2.aip.org/newsletters

Really looking forward to this!!! #physics #historyofphysics #histstm

Tiffany Nichols faculty page at Northeastern Assistant Professor of History and Civil and Environmental Engineering; Legacy Surve Space and Time Discovery Alliance

Faculty page for Wendy Parker is professor of philosophy at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on topics in general philosophy of science and philosophy of climate science/meteorology.

We are delighted to welcome to the AAAS, Section-L ( #HPS ) Steering Committee #histsci @tiffanynichols.bsky.social (as Early Career Representative) & #philsci Wendy Parker (Member-at-Large). Congrats to them both on their election! 🎉
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Huge thanks to the executive committee of @apsphysics.bsky.social Forum on the History and Philosophy of Physics!

Mini-Symposium: Early History of LIGO 10:45 am – 12:33 pm, Monday March 17, Session APR-B04, Anaheim Marriott, Platinum 3

Nice seeing colleagues @ the APS Global Summit! Enjoyed presenting my research on the nat'l phase of LIGO's site selection & the important role that experts across physics, engineering, grants, law, & science policy played in determining LIGO's two locations. Abstract: summit.aps.org/events/APR-B...

How Tearing Down Small Dams Is Helping Restore Northeast Rivers More than 30,000 small dams currently block river tributaries from Maine to Maryland. New initiatives to remove them are aimed at restoring natural flows, improving habitat for aquatic life, and reope...

What happens when dams no longer in use are removed? Nature springs back! Great piece for environmental history & history of technology courses--especially thinking about long-term implications of abandoned tech/what remains from tech & industries that have moved on. e360.yale.edu/features/nor...

Prepare for the March 13-14 Total Lunar Eclipse The total lunar eclipse of March 13–14 — the first anywhere since 2022 — will be visible across all of North and South America.

The total lunar eclipse of March 13–14 — the first anywhere since 2022 — will be visible across all of North and South America.
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The book cover of Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History by Dawn Day Biehler features a sepia-toned historical photograph of a woman dressed in early 20th-century attire bending forward and feeding a squirrel in Central Park. The background shows a tree-lined park path with fallen leaves. The title is displayed in bold, yellow and brown block letters, with the subtitle in smaller, dark brown text below. The author's name is in green, and a foreword credit to Paul S. Sutter appears at the bottom.

In this episode of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social's New Books in Animal Studies, author Dawn Day Biehler discusses her book ANIMATING CENTRAL PARK with Miranda Melcher
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Once again boosting the signal for any #histSTM (or #histsci, #histttech & #histmed) friends in the audience!

@contingent-mag.bsky.social is one the few publications that prioritizes the work of historians outside of tenure-track academia. Now you can join their editorial team!

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