Jon Agar

Professor of STS, UCL. Historian of science and technology

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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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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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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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@vayvenyuc Me encantan los autobuses eléctricos en Mérida. pero no puedo conseguir una tarjeta. 😢He pedido tarjeta en muchas tiendas OXXO pero no la tienen. ¿puedes ayudar? 🙏

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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 5/5

please share and circulate!

[Jon Agar @jon_agar]

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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Common toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) at Walthamstow Wetlands today #wildflowerhour

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In Munich to talk 1990s science policy

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@AndrewSeaton @UCLHistory @AHAhistorians @yalepress @YaleBooks Well done Andrew!!

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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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@bexin2d Navigate around the local stars (need binoculars)

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@bexin2d Hold your hand out. It’s a stretched hand span from horizon

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@AndrewSeaton @stsucl Yes will email. It’s thursdays at 11 on Teams

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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? https://t.co/1xSQe8HxoC

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@stsucl 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 https://t.co/Mgc8eTfGjt

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@stsucl 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 https://t.co/Pf2OEcZ8H0