Yes! I am particularly fond of integrating wonderful port images, like this one of Canton during the Qing Dynasty. The lecture is on Chinese Dynastic Trajectories and Trade.
03.02.2026 02:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This semester, I am teaching four classes (three preps). Two of the courses are brand new. So, lecture prep can be tedious, especially prepping slides. This said, I truly love it when I finish a deck and it turns out to be aesthetically beautiful !
02.02.2026 23:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A Treatise on the Virtues and Efficacy of a Crust of Bread: Eat Early in a Morning Fasting ... (1756)
By Nicholas Robinson
No shortage of practical guide books in the 18th century...
#history #food #medicine #disease #anatomy
02.02.2026 16:41 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
Oh snap! Sorry for spoilers! But yes, it is worth the watch!
29.01.2026 00:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
I thought the same thing whilst watching it. I also found it lame how the one judge wouldn't make a decision and would instead put the chefs on hold. The ANXIETY!
29.01.2026 00:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We draw your attention to the Oceanic and Maritime History workshop co-convened by Aristide Chryssoulis and @joaomoreiradasilva.bsky.social (Centre Prize Student 2024-25 and Student Mentor 2025-26).
27.01.2026 20:10 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Feel free to take a peek at some of the Bulletin's open-access articles!
24.01.2026 23:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A wonderful tool for historians of science and technology!
24.01.2026 23:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
100 followers in under 24 hours!
Speaking of time…
Society members can access the Bulletin archive, featuring gems like Lajos Bartha’s 1988 piece, “Old Time Measuring, Astronomical and Surveying Instruments in the Museums of Hungary.”
scientificinstrumentsociety.org/SISTopicsInd...
24.01.2026 23:09 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Can you tell the difference between a hydrometer & a hygrometer? A Leyden jar & a Crookes tube? An armillary sphere & an equatorial ring?
Then you should follow @sis-instrument-soc.bsky.social for updates concerning the history of scientific instruments!
#histSTM #histsci #histtech #FollowFriday 🗃️
23.01.2026 19:34 — 👍 22 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
Blog – Scientific Instrument Society
If you're new here; check out our wonderful blogs!
We offer a wide variety of all things scientific instruments from volvelles used in alchemy, to instruments in Ottoman education!
We also accept contributions!
scientificinstrumentsociety.org/blog/
23.01.2026 21:57 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hello Everyone! I am in the process of getting our social media up and running here on BlueSky for the Scientific Instrument Society. If you like instruments, then you'll love SIS! Please follow and stay updated!
23.01.2026 19:33 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
View our recent Bulletin, no. 167!
We’ve got a whole range of open-access articles available—including this gem by Anthony Turner:
“On the Origin and Naming of the Planetary Machine Known as an ‘Orrery’.”
Well worth a read.
scientificinstrumentsociety.org/BulletinArti...
23.01.2026 19:25 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Week one of term is wrapping up here nicely on a Friday. It feels great to be back on campus - but I must say, I am a little tired! I flew in a week ago - so perhaps I am still feeling the jet lag.
23.01.2026 15:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II lying in state. He died #otd 20 Jan 1612 in Prague #Praha (British Museum)
20.01.2026 22:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join us this Friday lunchtime for an online talk with @s-pooley.bsky.social exploring the remarkable history of the okapi: a rainforest giraffid that became a symbol of scientific discovery, colonial power, and modern conservation challenges.
buff.ly/9Xr2iCf
Fri 23 January | 12:30pm to 1:30pm
19.01.2026 17:10 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 3
We are officially live for the Spring 2026 term at Tennessee! I am especially excited to teach UT's first ever ST(H)S course in the wonderful Cowan Cottage!
18.01.2026 19:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The first page of Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrighty, showing Baker’s secretary hand and the unfinished drawings of Noah’s Ark and of shipbuilders. Reproduced by permission of the Pepys Library, Cambridge.
Unfolding the multiple lives of a shipbuilding manuscript: Our first Artefact of the Month in 2026 is known as 'Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrighty' and reveals the interactions between mathematics and practice in the Scientific Revolution:
uhh.de/csmc-aom-35
15.01.2026 15:30 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Pforzheimer Lecture
How Renaissance Scholars and Printers Decided on the Size of Books w/Dr. Ann Blair
Wednesday, January 21 at 6 p.m.
The most exciting #BookHistory talk of the season is coming up next week!
Join us @ransomcenter.bsky.social or online as Ann Blair delivers the 2026 Pforzheimer lecture. This talk has Erasmus, Gessner, and volumes both large &small!
Learn more: www.eventbrite.com/e/pforzheime...
#booksky 🗃️📜📚
15.01.2026 21:14 — 👍 50 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 2
That’s unreal.
14.01.2026 16:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I messed up my left and right - but that is due to the loading of the images incorrectly. apologies.
14.01.2026 11:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
thanks for sharing @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social !
14.01.2026 11:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ok, I am done - off this rabbit trail. It was fun and I learned more about acoustic machines and their relationship to the practical aspects of shell collection in the 17th century.
14.01.2026 11:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In the museum, shells became frozen machines; in the books, machines became living shells. Both demonstrated how nature and art converged through spiral motion, proportional growth, and gradual amplification. Kircher’s instruments thus did not merely imitate nature, they operationalized it.
14.01.2026 11:04 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This logic ultimately traced back to Archimedes’ water screw: a machine that raised heavy matter through rotation and curvature rather than brute strength. Kircher explicitly treats the cochlea as a universal machine, equally applicable to hydraulics, mechanics, and acoustics. Here in his Musaeum:
14.01.2026 11:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
International society promoting the study and preservation of scientific instruments; publisher of the Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society
https://scientificinstrumentsociety.org/
This is the Bluesky account of the philosophy department at the University of Nottingham. We like philosophy!!
🍏 Green MP for North Herefordshire and leader of the Green Party MP group in Parliament. Mum, activist, optimist!
Interdisciplinary environmental philosopher 🌳🌹🌎🌞🦝 Values in/and Environmental Science/Research Ethics, Environmental Utopias, posting nuance, jokes 🫠 for/as myself only
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opinions mine.
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Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
At the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures and its Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts, we conduct cross-disciplinary research on handwritten artefacts from all periods and regions of the world.
https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/
Founder and coordinator of the Research Unit on Everyday Bioethics and Ethics of Science. Senior researcher at Dept of Legal Sciences, University of Florence.
Writes about writing, especially for PhDs and researchers: poetry, music, food. Blogs at Research Degree Insider
Early Modernist at UVic. Editor. Book historian. Text encoder. Director of LEMDO and MoEML. Fan of Garry Oak meadows, motorcycles, and XML.
Association for Computers and the Humanities, the US-based professional society for the digital humanities. #digitalhumanities
Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe, Tide, The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century, Periodic Tales and other things.
Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | existing somewhere between Euston and Bangor | writing my third book
Assistant Professor of Sociology @UVM | STS | Med Soc | Social Movements | Previously Post-doc @BermanInstitute, Partners In Health
Personal Website: https://www.jonathanshaffer.net
Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
The official Society for U.S. Intellectual History Account at Bluesky! #USIH
Early modern book provenance, libraries, ethics of ownership, names, &c.
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network.
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Historian of capitalism, environment, & technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of the @hagleycenter.bsky.social. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal.
