Jon Agar

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!

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

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

@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? 🙏

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

Call for proposals for the Experimental History of Science Workshop 5/5 please share and circulate!

Call for proposals for the Experimental History of Science Workshop 4/5

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

In Munich to talk 1990s science policy

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

I'm honoured that my book, 'Our NHS', has won the 2024 Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485. Thanks to @AHAhistorians, all of the judges, and @yalepress @YaleBooks!

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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

@bexin2d Navigate around the local stars (need binoculars)

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

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

@jon_agar @stsucl is there a mailing list for the reading group I can sign up to, Jon?

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

@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 doi.org/10.1093/pastj/…

@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 bit.ly/3XaF3Xd