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Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, many citing Musk's policies. The most popular alternative for new social media accounts is Mastodon.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0
#mastodon #twitter #elonmusk

A messy attempt to squeeze those aspects of Aristotle's philosophy that played a role in the history of physics into a blog post #HistoryOfPhysics #Aristotle
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/08/16/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-iv/

Hi everyone. Thanks for the follows. I look forward to engaging.

I am an academic who researches #Education #Policy mainly in the #GlobalSouth. My long-term work is on #Privatization but I've also been working on #COVID and social inequity and education.

I am still mostly on Twitter. Using this account mainly as a holding place if it all explodes. #Introduction

#OTD 15 August 1769 Napoleon Bonaparte was born. He is often considered the greatest general in history, revolutionizing warfare & conquering most of Europe. He ended feudalism across Europe, inaugurating the modern age on the Continent. He has been criticized for overthrowing the First French Republic, warmongering & the reinstatement of slavery.

Researchers previously thought that humans arrived in the Americas 13,000 years ago. But discoveries in recent years puts the number as high as 31,000 to 33,000 years ago. Live Science has more: https://flip.it/WCPcpB
#Science #TheAmericas #Humans

The recent slowdown in sea ice growth in the #Antarctic is largely coming from declines (probably wind-driven) in the Ross Sea...

Find a map of the Antarctic regions at https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/map-of-antarctica/. Data from https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index.

#Introduction

I'm an historian of scholarship, who specialises in early modern religious studies.

My current research is about an unpublished treatise by Isaac Newton, known as "Of the Church". Through a combined analysis of codicological and textual data gathered from MSS held in Switzerland and Israel, I intend to offer a new perspective on their dating, re-ordering, and relationship to Newton's other works.

I'm also revising and completing its TEI transcription for the Newton Project.

New blog post: “Adam Smith’s sociolinguistic typology?” http://troutworthy.blogspot.com/2023/08/adam-smiths-sociolinguistic-typology.html #linguistics @linguistics