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The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and government-funded science Nature Reviews Physics - Over its 350 years of history, the establishment and evolution of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, reflects the history of scientific institutions in Britain.

I have a short Comment piece just published in Nature Reviews Physics on the 350-year-old Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and its funding rdcu.be/eSXb2 #histSTM

Book Review - The Emergence of Geophysics: Journeys into the Twentieth Century Gregory A. Good. Episodes 2025;48:587-8. https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2025/025029

My review is out of Richard Howarth's _The Emergence of Geophysics: Journeys into the Twentieth Century_.
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Reminder: Gemma Cirac Claveras is speaking next Tuesday. We are starting at 3pm GMT, not at the usual seminar time of 4pm.

Colleagues in history of geology (and in paleontology) will be saddened to learn that Philippe Taquet has passed.

Dear Philippe! I knew him through INHIGEO. He brightened any conference or field trip. He had depth and principles.

As a consequence L believed that, like classical physics, geological dynamics are ergodic. In exploring a Newtonian state space, the earth system will return to a state in which iguanadons, ichthyosaurs, and pterodactyls roam the earth

Henry De la Beche mocked him here

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Always worth bigging up #MaryHornerLyell who was into geology before she met her husband, Charles

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Faint red glow of Aurora through thick clouds, above the dark line of trees

I ventured out to the local state lands in West Virginia and saw a faint glow, nowhere close to the display a year ago for me so far. Clouds are the problem

I am loving all the photos of Aurora in other places, since I am under full cloud cover. Humor lightens my disappointment

And totally clouded over in the WV mountains, so I’ll have to rely on others

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Introducing our Spring 2026 catalog—featuring bold new voices, groundbreaking studies, and artful reimaginings across genres.📚

#SpringReads #NewReleases #BookCatalog

Some Americans also rhyme aunt with gaunt. But I admit my aunt's rant. (Actually they are all deceased)

Harbours and Beaches Alongside a Forgotten Sea: Terra Nova's Legacy  - Yale University Press Jack Bouchard— On a September day in the year 1542, a French Basque captain named Robert Lefant sat in a portside room in the little Spanish town of Fuenterrabía, answering... READ MORE

Jack Bouchard writes about Terra Nova, one of the earliest sites of colonial fishing activity in North America for our blog. Read now:

Michael Gordin - Five Way Interview Michael D. Gordin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Dean of the College at Princeton University. A specialist ...

Interview: Historian of science Michael Gordin tells us why he and Diana Buchwald felt there was room for another book on Einstein, why fascination with Einstein remains high, and new areas of Einstein research. popsciencebooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/mich... #interview #einstein #historyofscience

October 27, 1930, birthday of American mathematician and computer programmer Gladys Mae West.
She created an accurate model of the Earth's shape, and her work on satellite geodesic modelling laid the foundations for GPS technology 🛰️🌐
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Screenshot of part of a scanned page from a 19th century scientific journal. Text reads: "Now it appears that, in the present order of things, certain changes do go on, both in the position of portions of the earth, and in the forms of certain organised beings. The volcano and the earthquake are seldom long idle; the ocean is an unremitting assailant of the solid earth; the countless host of streams and showers second his attack, on the other side, by efforts formidable from their multitude and perseverance. The coast yields; the crest of the mountain descends; large tracts of the earth tremble and change their elevation: the volcanic island lifts its head above the waves. Here, at least, are some elements of mutations in the form of the earth and of the bed of the sea. The more we examine such causes, the more constant the more extensive, the more powerful, does their operation appear. In the course of progressive ages, what effects may they not produce? And what limit are were to place to the time during which their work has proceeded? We know that this past period must be long; we know not how long. Who shall prove to use that the forces which we ourselves witness are too weak, or unfit, to produce all the facts of position which the earth's crust exhibits? Such is the reasoning of the advocate of the geological adequacy of the existing dynamical laws of the world."

Reading William Whewell's 1832 review of Lyell's Principles of Geology, Vol 2, in which he coined "uniformitarianism", and I just love this passage summarizing what in many modern geological textbooks would describe as the principle of uniformitarianism.

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Issue Editors’ Introduction: Indigenous Maps and Mapping Published in Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2025)

In our editorial introduction (free to all to read!) we lay out our decolonial approach and why we won’t define “Indigenous” or “maps and mapping”

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Imago Mundi Volume 77, Issue 1 of Imago Mundi

Issue 77.1 of @imagomundi.bsky.social is out!

I co-edited this issue on Indigenous maps and mapping with Natchee Blu Barnd. Articles cover topics in North America, Africa, and Hawai’i.

#newissue #histcart #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️

Congratulations to this year's winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Be sure to check out our oral histories with:

John Martinis: repository.aip.org/node/129661

Michel Devoret: repository.aip.org/node/129778

I'll be listening to this podcast later today. The Carrington Event set the stage for generations of study of solar effects on the terrestrial environment and on our emerging electromagnetic techno system.

Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences This open access handbook assesses the historiography and the future of major themes and approaches within the history of the earth sciences.

Very happy to announce that the Handbook of the Historiography of Earth and Environmental Sciences I coedited with Elena Aronova and Marco Tamborini is now available, for free (open access) via this link:
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If you are in Toronto...

A green space with bushes and trees and a helix sculpture next to a beige building.

After a long hiatus, AIP's postdoc position for historians of the physical sciences is back!

3 years, $77,500 per year + benefits. Work in the Washington, DC area, close to Univ of Maryland. Open to US citizens/permanent residents. Apply by Nov. 15! #histsci

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Tomorrow 9/30 12pm EST, hear historian of science and exploration Michael Robinson talk on "Out There: Scientists, Exoplanets, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life," a Brown Bag for the @amphilsociety.bsky.social: bit.ly/4nZBr4S

#HPS #histsci

Policy primer: A new $100,000 fee on H-1B Visas President Trump has issued a proclamation requiring a $100,000 payment for each new H-1B petition. We examine what it does and does not do, how it is being justified, and what developments to look out...

At AIP we've launched a new policy research program to go deep on current questions and pull together more comprehensive pictures. Leading this work, Lindsay Milliken has produced her first public product, a primer on the new $100,000 fee on H-1B petitions.

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A photo of autumn color from the Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire. Trees in various colors through the mist

A photo from a grueling hike in the White Mountains in New Hampshire. The views through rain and mist and occasional wings were incredible. Vacation ends soon.