@ps2270

Seth Low Professor of History and Director of the Center for Science and Society, Columbia University

 New York, NY
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Joined June 2015
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Twelve years in the making: From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World is now available from @Chicago (remarkably affordable at $35 even with 117 mostly color images) tinyurl.com/57dnr3e7. Thank you @Chicago!
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For Online & in-person registration and more information: 🔗 sofheyman.org/events/celebra… @ps2270 @kaohu11 @columbiacss #OttomanHistory #HistoryOfScience #Astrology #IslamicHistory

Celebrating Recent Work by A. Tunç Şen | Event

Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450–1600 by A. Tunç Şen Forgotten Experts offers a history of Ottoman court…

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Welcome to Next Stop City Hall, where I answer as many of your questions as I can before the next train comes. 🚂
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Michael S Roth@mroth787 Jun 2025
.@NickKristof I fear the upshot is increased risk of war, of nuclear proliferation, of pandemics. Instead of protecting America, Trump may have made our world more dangerous, perhaps for decades to come —and that will not be easily reversed." @nytopinion nytimes.com/2025/06/07/opini…

Opinion | Hope After Trump (Gift Article)

An authoritarian may be transient, but he can leave a legacy of enduring damage.

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The Special Issue on Historical Pharmacopeias is out with History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals. Thanks to Paula de Vos for shepherding this project from inception to completion. As an overview, check out the "Visual Pharmacy" essay (co authored with Dan Smail) which lays out how the project works. hopp.uwpress.org/content/66/…

Historical Pharmacopeias

![Figure 1. The Pharmacy lunette, a scene of medieval life in the Castello di Issogne in the Valle d’Aosta. Photo by Daniel Smail. Image used with permission from the Regione Valle d’Aosta.][1]...

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Michael S Roth@mroth7825 May 2025
From my #Commencement speech @wesleyan_u "Practicing education is like practicing democracy – both are collaborative, experimental paths of improvement, both depend on inclusion rather segregation. Both are now very much endangered." #FreeSpeech #HigherEducation
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Michael S Roth@mroth7826 May 2025
"The bill has $1.1 trillion in tax cuts for people who make more than $500k a year..it has $1.1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid &food stamps. ..a straight transfer from people who cannot afford food and medical care to people who can afford to fly 1st class" nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opini…

Opinion | Trump’s Big Budget Bomb (Gift Article)

We are all in the blast radius of Trump’s tax-cut bill, which Catherine Rampell calls ‘transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, from the young to the old and from the future to the past.’

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We are thrilled to announce our latest round of Course Development awardees! The three awarded grants will support the development of new science and society classes open to undergraduate students. Learn more: tinyurl.com/mh39wa38
Course Development Grants Awarded

ALT Course Development Grants Awarded

Nature, Race, and Indigeneity in the US taught by Carlos Alonso Nugent (Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature). Examines how nature has inspired various groups and sparked conflicts between settlers and Native Americans, racial groups, and social class in America. Funds will cover a museum visit

ALT Nature, Race, and Indigeneity in the US taught by Carlos Alonso Nugent (Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature). Examines how nature has inspired various groups and sparked conflicts between settlers and Native Americans, racial groups, and social class in America. Funds will cover a museum visit

The Science of World History taught by Matthew Delvaux. Trains students in adapting the material sciences for historical research, with a focus on connectivity, migration, and environmental history. Funds will support guest collaborators and materials.

ALT The Science of World History taught by Matthew Delvaux. Trains students in adapting the material sciences for historical research, with a focus on connectivity, migration, and environmental history. Funds will support guest collaborators and materials.

Science, Technology, and Human Rights taught by Martin Chalfie and Rebecca Everly. Explores how scientific research and technology can both promote and undermine human rights. Funds will support research time and materials.

ALT Science, Technology, and Human Rights taught by Martin Chalfie and Rebecca Everly. Explores how scientific research and technology can both promote and undermine human rights. Funds will support research time and materials.

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Brad Lander
@bradlander25 Apr 2025
The @JimOwles Dem Club has paved the way for millions of LGTBQ New Yorkers to live freely in our City by fighting for LGBTQ rights, which are evermore threatened by the Trump Administration. Thank you for the trust and faith you've put in me with this endorsement.
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Today at 6:30PM! RSVP: tinyurl.com/kktaatbp
Center for Science and Society@columbiacss17 Apr 2025
Learn more about the historical evolution of human-earth models by following a network of U.S. postwar technoscientific elites and their allies across the capitalist bloc in the 1970s. RSVP: tinyurl.com/kktaatbp
Emil Flatø - When Science Could Not Wait: Human-Earth Modeling and the Epistemics of Urgency April 23 at 6:30pm. Hybrid event. New York History of Science lecture series

ALT Emil Flatø - When Science Could Not Wait: Human-Earth Modeling and the Epistemics of Urgency April 23 at 6:30pm. Hybrid event. New York History of Science lecture series

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Katherine Franke@ProfKFranke19 Apr 2025
Breaking: a judge in GA ordered that the fed'l gov't CANNOT pull the visas of foreign students. The order applies ONLY to students who are part of the lawsuit. If you want to join the lawsuit, email [email protected] & [email protected] youtu.be/FS6B8CM8uf4
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Joseph Allen
@j_g_allen19 Apr 2025
Fixed it: --> last year, the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal **combined** --> every $1 of research funded by NIH generates $2.56 in economic activity --> more than 1.1M foreign students come to the U.S. each year to study and they contributed over $43 billion to the U.S. economy in foreign currency balances --> students who came to the U.S. to study founded 55% of America’s 582 start-up companies worth at least $1 billion --> cutting health research in Texas will cause a loss of 3,698 jobs and cost the economy $856M --> The University of Alabama is the largest employer in the state --> shortage of trained occ/env docs set to cost CA $1B RECEIPTS🧵
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A photo of Boston's old North Church last night.
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Cutting Medicaid is nothing but a cruel act of greed. These stories make it abundantly clear: without Medicaid, people’s lives and ability to live with dignity are at risk. #HandsOffMedicaid protectourcare.org/faces-of-…

Faces of Medicaid: Who Are the People Who Will Suffer if Republicans Get Their Way? — Protect Our...

Millions of Americans across the country rely on Medicaid to see doctors, fill prescriptions, and get the care they need. They are members of our family, our neighbors, and our...

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@LamontEarth18 Apr 2025
🏆 Congratulations to PhD student Garima Raheja of @Columbia & @LamontEarth, named one of world's top 30 young scientists working on climate solutions with 2025 Inflection Award for scientific excellence, ambition, potential to drive real-world impact! ➡️inflectionaward.com
Garima Raheja, Columbia University in the City of New York, Measuring Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Developing Sensors, Algorithms, and Tools for Air Quality and Clean Energy, 2025 Inflection Winner

ALT Garima Raheja, Columbia University in the City of New York, Measuring Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Developing Sensors, Algorithms, and Tools for Air Quality and Clean Energy, 2025 Inflection Winner

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In 2023, Biden issued an Executive Order declaring April as Care Worker Recognition Month. And while the Trump administration hasn’t acknowledged it, we won’t wait for any politician to tell us what we already know: care work deserves our unwavering support all year round. truthout.org/articles/lets-r…

Let’s Recognize That Care Work Is the Labor That Makes All Other Labor Possible

As a former direct care worker, I am fighting for living wages and labor protections for this underpaid work force.

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📷 If you're working in an archive this summer, you could win a free @RSAorg year-long membership! ow.ly/8o9R50VBIUE #RenTwitter #earlymodern #twitterstorians
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🔥 TODAY! Apr 18 5-9pm ET, join us for Herança Ancestral, a celebration of Capoeira, Samba, and the deep connections between ancestral arts, community, and knowledge-sharing. Hosted by @columbiaclimate professor Kristina Douglass. Learn more/RSVP: climate.columbia.edu/events/…
Herança Ancestral: Celebrating Culture, Community, & Legacy, A Gathering of Movement, Music, & Knowledge, April 18 5-9pm, The Forum at Columbia

ALT Herança Ancestral: Celebrating Culture, Community, & Legacy, A Gathering of Movement, Music, & Knowledge, April 18 5-9pm, The Forum at Columbia

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Wilson Chan@LeviLivy17 Apr 2025
'The Department of History at the University of Texas at Tyler...tenure-track Assistant Professor position in World History, with specialization in the area of East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Islamic World, Sub-Saharan Africa, or Oceania.' jobs.chronicle.com/job/37819…

Assistant Professor of History - Texas, United States

Assistant Professor of History Position Information Job Type/Hours per Week Full-Time/40 hours

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Learn more about the historical evolution of human-earth models by following a network of U.S. postwar technoscientific elites and their allies across the capitalist bloc in the 1970s. RSVP: tinyurl.com/kktaatbp
Emil Flatø - When Science Could Not Wait: Human-Earth Modeling and the Epistemics of Urgency April 23 at 6:30pm. Hybrid event. New York History of Science lecture series

ALT Emil Flatø - When Science Could Not Wait: Human-Earth Modeling and the Epistemics of Urgency April 23 at 6:30pm. Hybrid event. New York History of Science lecture series

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