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Archivist Liz<p>This blog has been a very long time in the making. Last summer I visited the Niels Bohr Library and Archives of the American Institute of Physics. That visit turned into an interview (Allison Rein interviewed me). Very excited to share this. I hope it will help a few more people find their way to our catalogue as well! <a href="https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/inside-the-international-atomic-energy-agency-archives-unit" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aip.org/library/ex-libris-univ</span><span class="invisible">ersum/inside-the-international-atomic-energy-agency-archives-unit</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/arhives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arhives</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/historyofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historyofscience</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/nuclearphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclearphysics</span></a></p>
The Inquisitive Biologist<p>149 years ago today <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/GeorgeMurrayLevick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeMurrayLevick</span></a> was born. This British Antarctic explorer made observations on penguins considered too shocking for the world, as recounted in A Polar Affair, an unusual and colourful book of <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PolarExploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PolarExploration</span></a>, <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Penguins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penguins</span></a>, and perversion.</p><p><a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2020/02/20/book-review-a-polar-affair-antarcticas-forgotten-hero-and-the-secret-love-lives-of-penguins/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquisitivebiologist.com/2020/</span><span class="invisible">02/20/book-review-a-polar-affair-antarcticas-forgotten-hero-and-the-secret-love-lives-of-penguins/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookReview</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScienceHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceHistory</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a></p>
The Inquisitive Biologist<p>This week's <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/NewBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewBooks</span></a> at the library: I bought a second-hand copy of <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/JamesHutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesHutton</span></a>: The Genius of Time from Birlinn Publishing and adopted a damaged copy of The Great Auk from Bloomsbury Sigma that I hope to review soon. Also very pleased to have found a second-hand copy of Peter Wellnhofer's classic The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Pterosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pterosaurs</span></a> which was recommended by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sauropods.win/@markwitton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>markwitton</span></a></span> for its section on the history of research (when Witton recommends, I listen).</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scicomm</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geology</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScienceHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceHistory</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Ornithology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ornithology</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
The Inquisitive Biologist<p>This week's <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/NewBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewBooks</span></a> at the library: Two academic books</p><p>- "Science for All: The Popularisation of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain" from the University of Chicago Press; and<br>- "The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire" from Harvard University Press.</p><p>Completely unrelated, won at auction, a vintage artbook from <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/GamesWorkshop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GamesWorkshop</span></a> by John Blanche and one of my favourite illustrators, Ian Miller.</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScienceHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceHistory</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scicomm</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
IHC<p>🆕 Congratulations to Quintino Lopes, whose paper about Armando de Lacerda and the Coimbra Phonetics Laboratory (co-authored with Francisco de Lacerda and Ana Simões) was the winner of the 2025 edition of the A. H. de Oliveira Marques Prize for Portuguese History! 🥳</p><p>👉 Full story: <a href="https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/quintino-lopes-aholiveira-marques-prize/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/quintino-lo</span><span class="invisible">pes-aholiveira-marques-prize/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/PortugueseHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PortugueseHistory</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/HistoryfTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryfTechnology</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Phonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Phonetics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Awards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Awards</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/ASPSH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ASPSH</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AcademicLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicLife</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3riaDePortugal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistóriaDePortugal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3riaDaCi%C3%AAncia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistóriaDaCiência</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3riaDaTecnologia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistóriaDaTecnologia</span></a></p>
hightable notes<p>For most of history, the disciplines of science and philosophy are tightly connected, arguably even the same.</p><p>Alchemy was considered a science, and indeed people like Newton and Bacon dabbled in it. Facts and theories as we now know them are much different, and bordered on philosophical arguments. Experimentation wasn't a standard procedure, and a community of scientific professionals hardly existed.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/historyOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historyOfScience</span></a></p><p>1/4</p>
IHC<p>📖 In an paper published in History of Science, Inês Gomes and Frederico Ágoas examine ‘the intersection of environmental history and the history of science, specifically the impact of forestry science and fire management on land use and community dynamics in rural Portuguese mountains’.</p><p>An output of the <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/FIREUSES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FIREUSES</span></a> project!</p><p>👉 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/00732753241304144" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1177/00732753241304</span><span class="invisible">144</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/envhist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>envhist</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/EnvironmentalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/FireManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FireManagement</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/LandUse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandUse</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfires</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3riaAmbiental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistóriaAmbiental</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3riaDaCi%C3%AAncia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistóriaDaCiência</span></a></p>
IHC<p>🆕 On 25 May, the exhibition Angola: Saberes em movimento [Angola: Knowledge on the Move] will open at the Frei Manuel do Cenáculo National Museum in Évora, as part of the KNOW.AFRICA project.</p><p>👉 We tell you all about it here: <a href="https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/knowafrica-exhibition-evora/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/knowafrica-</span><span class="invisible">exhibition-evora/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/ColonialCollections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialCollections</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AfricanExpeditions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AfricanExpeditions</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/PortugueseColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PortugueseColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Exhibition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Exhibition</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/HistoryInThePublicSphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryInThePublicSphere</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/IndigenousKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousKnowledge</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Colec%C3%A7%C3%B5esColoniais" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColecçõesColoniais</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Expedi%C3%A7%C3%B5esAfricanas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExpediçõesAfricanas</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3riaDaCi%C3%AAncia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistóriaDaCiência</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/ColonialismoPortugu%C3%AAs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialismoPortuguês</span></a></p>
Daniel Pomarède<p>CEA: Une histoire spatiale qui commence en 1959</p><p>Pour traquer les poussières radioactives liées aux essais nucléaires, le CEA embarque un compteur Geiger dans un missile. À 100 km d’altitude, surprise : des rayons gamma viennent d’au-dessus. C’est le début de l’astrophysique au CEA.</p><p>📷 CEA/D. Baclet/C. Jehanno/J.Labeyrie<br><a href="https://www.cea.fr/Pages/actualites/sciences-de-la-matiere/aventure-astrophysique.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cea.fr/Pages/actualites/scienc</span><span class="invisible">es-de-la-matiere/aventure-astrophysique.aspx</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CEA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Saclay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Saclay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astrophysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/missile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>missile</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/STEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STEM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CEA80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CEA80</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rocket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rocket</span></a></p>
michael<p>my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookReview</span></a> of The Green Ages: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medieval</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Innovations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Innovations</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sustainability</span></a> by Annette Kehnel is in the May issue of C&amp;I: <a href="https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/05/three-book-reviews.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2</span><span class="invisible">025/05/three-book-reviews.html</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a></p>
Harald Sack<p>Building on the 90s, statistical n-gram language models, trained on vast text collections, became the backbone of NLP research. They fueled advancements in nearly all NLP techniques of the era, laying the groundwork for today's AI. </p><p>F. Jelinek (1997), Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA</p><p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NLP</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/LanguageModels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LanguageModels</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/HistoryOfAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfAI</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/TextProcessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TextProcessing</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/historyofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historyofscience</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ISE2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ISE2025</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sigmoid.social/@fizise" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fizise</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wisskomm.social/@fiz_karlsruhe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fiz_karlsruhe</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@tabea" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tabea</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sigmoid.social/@enorouzi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>enorouzi</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@sourisnumerique" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sourisnumerique</span></a></span></p>
The Inquisitive Biologist<p>166 years ago today, the world lost <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AlexanderVonHumboldt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlexanderVonHumboldt</span></a>. This admirably concise biography offers a factual and nuanced picture of his life and work, and critically interrogates previous portrayals.</p><p><a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/02/11/book-review-alexander-von-humboldt-a-concise-biography/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/</span><span class="invisible">02/11/book-review-alexander-von-humboldt-a-concise-biography/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookReview</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Biography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biography</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScienceHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceHistory</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scicomm</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@princetonupress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>princetonupress</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@princetonnature" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>princetonnature</span></a></span></p>
Harald Sack<p>Next step in our NLP timeline is Claude Elwood Shannon, who already laid the foundations for statistical language modeling by recognising the relevance of n-grams to model properties of language and predicting the likelihood of word sequences.</p><p>C.E. Shannon ""A Mathematical Theory of Communication" (1948) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19980715013250/http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/1998071501</span><span class="invisible">3250/http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ise2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ise2025</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/nlp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nlp</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/lecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lecture</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/languagemodel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>languagemodel</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/informationtheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>informationtheory</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/historyofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historyofscience</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sigmoid.social/@enorouzi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>enorouzi</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@tabea" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tabea</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@sourisnumerique" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sourisnumerique</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wisskomm.social/@fiz_karlsruhe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fiz_karlsruhe</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sigmoid.social/@fizise" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fizise</span></a></span></p>
The Inquisitive Biologist<p>This week's <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/NewBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewBooks</span></a> at the library: A second-hand copy of an original 1961 hardback of Arthur O. Lovejoy's The Great Chain of Being from Harvard University Press, a review copy of The Lives of <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Bats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bats</span></a> from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@princetonupress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>princetonupress</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@princetonnature" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>princetonnature</span></a></span>, and a second-hand copy of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@matthewcobb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>matthewcobb</span></a></span>'s The Genetic Age: Out Perilous Quest to Edit Life from Profile Books.</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scicomm</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScienceHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceHistory</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScalaNaturae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScalaNaturae</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Chiroptera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chiroptera</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Mammals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mammals</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genetics</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Project Gutenberg<p>Ideas ‘of pure genius’ – how astronomers have measured the Universe across history</p><p>by Terence Tao and Grant Sanderson </p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/videos/ideas-of-pure-genius-how-astronomers-have-measured-the-universe-across-history" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/videos/ideas-of-pure-g</span><span class="invisible">enius-how-astronomers-have-measured-the-universe-across-history</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/historyofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historyofscience</span></a></p>
The Inquisitive Biologist<p>Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life is now out in paperback! An epic history of taxonomy across three centuries, this book charts the lives, works, and legacy of Linnaeus and Buffon.</p><p><a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2024/12/24/book-review-every-living-thing-the-great-and-deadly-race-to-know-all-life/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquisitivebiologist.com/2024/</span><span class="invisible">12/24/book-review-every-living-thing-the-great-and-deadly-race-to-know-all-life/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookReview</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Taxonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Taxonomy</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Linneaus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linneaus</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Buffon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Buffon</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Biography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biography</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScienceHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceHistory</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scicomm</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Rita Singer<p>It's publication day!</p><p>Enwogion o fri: Diversity Project 2023-2025</p><p>Our free <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/DiversityProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DiversityProject</span></a> anthology for the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Bywgraffiadur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bywgraffiadur</span></a> has just dropped on KC Works. Over 40 authors contributed more than 60 articles about the most fascinating people in <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Welsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Welsh</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> you could possibly imagine. </p><p>We've covered <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/BAMEHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BAMEHistory</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/LGBTQ_" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ_</span></a> and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/DisabilityHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityHistory</span></a>, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a>, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ArtHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtHistory</span></a>, the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a>, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/HistoryOfReligion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfReligion</span></a> and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wales</span></a> </p><p>Frankly, there's not a single article in this collection that's not bound to be of interest to someone. </p><p>Get your own copy here as PDF or epub. And because we're in Wales, we even offer you two versions.</p><p>English: <a href="https://works.hcommons.org/records/dtb9c-bzm89" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">works.hcommons.org/records/dtb</span><span class="invisible">9c-bzm89</span></a><br>Cymraeg: <a href="https://doi.org/10.17613/mmwvm-ryh93" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.17613/mmwvm-ryh93</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OA</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a></p>
Mark McCaughrean<p>Niche question for astronomers &amp; historians of astronomy, particularly those at Harvard perhaps.</p><p>Can anyone tell me the birth &amp; death dates of Edith F. Reilly, who worked with Bart Bok in the 1940's &amp; co-authored the discovery paper on "small dark nebulae", now called "Bok globules"?</p><p>I've looked online, but have drawn a blank. They'd be good to have for my book. </p><p><a href="https://adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1947ApJ...105..255B" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1947ApJ</span><span class="invisible">...105..255B</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a></p>
Project Gutenberg<p>Beyond causality</p><p>In order to bridge the yawning gulf between the humanities and the sciences we must turn to an unexpected field: mathematics</p><p>By Gordon Gillespie</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/to-better-understand-the-world-follow-the-paths-of-mathematics" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/to-better-under</span><span class="invisible">stand-the-world-follow-the-paths-of-mathematics</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/historyofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historyofscience</span></a></p>
Project Gutenberg<p>Chemical laws</p><p>Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe</p><p>by Vanessa A Seifert</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/the-neglected-laws-of-chemistry-and-why-they-matter?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=0a874a1766-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_01_24&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-69b28dd3d9-72664972" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/the-neglected-l</span><span class="invisible">aws-of-chemistry-and-why-they-matter?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=0a874a1766-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_01_24&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-69b28dd3d9-72664972</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/historyofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historyofscience</span></a></p>
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