history of science @univienna đź’Ž following the early modern gem trade across the indian ocean đź’Ž seldom on social media, now @ claaire . bsky . social
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Claire Conklin Sabel @eclaaire talks about the gem trade in South and Southeast Asia, and the way this trade was impacted by European traders in the 17th and 18th centuries @Radiolab @NautilusMag @Rix_Harriet timetoeatthedogs.com/2025/10…
never tweeted much but remain grateful to those who are able to use it for good. now planning to lurk primarily on eclaaire.bsky.social
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Visiting Fellowships for scholars from the Global South working on Science, Politics, and Justice, hosted by CRASSH and History and Philosophy of Science, to spend Lent Term 2026 at Cambridge.
Deadline 24 February 2025.
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crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/fe…
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BREAKING: Penn and Philadelphia Police officers in riot gear arrested over a dozen individuals at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at around 6 a.m. on Friday. thedp.com/article/2024/05/pe…
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NEW: During the process of making arrests at Penn’s encampment, police physically pushed reporters and photographers from the area to escort them away and threatened them with arrests.
Legal observers were also forced to leave.
@jasmineni_ reports:
thedp.com/live-blog/encampme…
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Lydia Polgreen asks: If our richest universities “cannot be citadels of free speech and forums for wrestling with the most difficult ideas, what hope is there for any other institution in our country?” nyti.ms/44e23WX
Excited to be joining this project in the fall, and following Central European mining expertise in its global peregrinations! My research will focus on the women involved in making central European mining expertise work in diverse settings across Europe and Southeast Asia 👷‍♀️⛏️🌏
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At our launch today (broadcast live from Vienna on Zoom!) we will preview our collective research agenda. I will of course mention gemstones -- perhaps the oldest global mineral resource!
ALT Imperial crown of the Holy Roman Empire, replete with gemstones of Asian origin
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Manuscript 3799 at the Imam Essayouti library in Timbuktu is a firsthand West African Arabic account of the 1755 earthquake that devastated Lisbon and reshaped the thought of European philosophers like Voltaire and Kant
w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/v… – at Philadelphia, PA
"The FBI found the object in the witch’s bedroom, covered with a baseball cap, Lang says. “She had had it down on the coffee table, but the sun kept coming in and burning holes in her rug.” penntoday.upenn.edu/news/bac…
love to see a whole issue dedicated to #hstm pedagogy including shireen's essay on teaching incarcerated students
Reflections on teaching #histsci with @ArtsPrison available below. Appreciate @Melinda_Baldwin & Brigid Vance for including it among work by @jchristianyi @JohnDiMoia @SohaBayoumi & more on pedagogy in #histSTM
From Chicago to Palestine #FreeThemAll
online.ucpress.edu/hsns/arti…
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Join us on Friday, March 22, for our free Science and Society speaker series event: The Troubled History of Alternative Medicine. Join us in person or online. ⬇️ rb.gy/7san40
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BREAKING: Penn faculty filed a lawsuit against the University, alleging "McCarthyism" for preventing speech in opposition to Israel and seeking to stop the University from submitting documents to Congress. thedp.com/article/2024/03/pe…
💔 Flaco Never Escaped defector.com/flaco-never-esc…
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Local women journalists from SEA experienced cases of unpaid labor, biased reporting, and ignorance of local practices when working with Western media.
With the unbalanced power between Western male editors and SEA women journalists, these problems remain buried under the rug.
ALT The world of journalism is not exempt from asymmetric power dynamics, mainly between journalists and editors. This is the case between Southeast Asian journalists and their Western counterparts.
ALT The asymmetry in power dynamics between Southeast Asian journalists and Western editors can lead to certain dents in journalism, including: - Biased reporting - Lack of knowledge and familiarity with local practices - Cheap and unpaid labor
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I can’t begin to tell you how much, among all the letters of support i have received, this particular letter means to me
Open Letter from Researchers of the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology
docs.google.com/document/d/e…