@jon_agar

Professor of STS, UCL. Historian of science and technology

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Joined October 2010
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I’ve posted some archival document finds that show John Prescott (RIP) in interesting lights over on the bluer, less musky site. Join me there!
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In Merida, Yucatán, Mexico, for the HSS annual big meeting. Arrived on the brand new Tren Maya. Station is still being built. But it turns out you ** CAN ** build a fast train that goes roughly the distance between London and Manchester
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It’s day of the dead time of year. So there are flowers, little shrines, and photos of loved ones everywhere. And even Tren Maya-branded day of the dead candies
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I’m co-organising, with Cathy Lucas and Simon Werrett of @stsucl, an ‘Experimental History of Science Workshop’ to take place in April 2025 Think about entirely new ways of doing #histsci Let your imagination go wild! Here’s the call for proposals. 1/5
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I’m co-organising, with Cathy Lucas and Simon Werrett of @stsucl, an ‘Experimental History of Science Workshop’ to take place in April 2025 Think about entirely new ways of doing #histsci Let your imagination go wild! Here’s the call for proposals. 1/5
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Call for proposals for the Experimental History of Science Workshop 4/5
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Call for proposals for the Experimental History of Science Workshop 5/5 please share and circulate!
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Common toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) at Walthamstow Wetlands today #wildflowerhour
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In Munich to talk 1990s science policy
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Seen Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)! If you are in London, it’s clear and you can see the tail through binoculars Look near alpha Serpens, left of Arcturus
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Last week at @stsucl History of Science Reading Group we had a good discussion of Warwick Anderson's 'Hybridity, Race, and Science: the Voyage of the Zaca, 1934–1935'. Was scientific anti-racism made in the South Pacific? doi.org/10.1086/666354
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Today at @stsucl History of Science Reading Group we are discussing Michael Bycroft's 'A neo-positivist theory of scientific change', BJHS Themes, an argument that if we become neo-positivists we can heal our discipline and help save the humanities bit.ly/3XaF3Xd
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Today at @stsucl History of Science Reading Group we’re discussing Daniel Immerwahr’s ‘All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States’, Past & Present (2024). Looking forward to it. It’s a superb paper doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtad01…

All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States*

Abstract. Industrial capitalism arrived in Europe as great urban fires were already retreating. The United States, however, was generously timbered and far

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A century ago Henry Ford showed you could be a genius at business, and a brilliant pioneer in engineering, but a dangerous fool in relation to politics, admiring and admired by all the wrong people. Elon Musk is following in his footsteps – this week giving $75m to the campaign of a man, who according to the head of the military when he was President, is ‘fascist to the core’. I can't tell whether Musk is wholly cynical or a political fool. Luckily Ford’s politics had little impact in the US. But in that respect I fear history won’t repeat itself.
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Not seen this one before: “Wireless War” (poster, 1943)
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In Harmondsworth, for barns and Barnes Wallis
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