I'm thrilled to share my latest article The EJPS! I assess the potential & limitations of aligning notions of 'research environments' with biological concepts of 'environment' to grasp the socio-material contexts in & through which science happens link.springer.com/article/10.100… #philsci

The oldest recorded evidence of honey collecting, found in the Cuevas de la Araña near Bicorp, Spain, is estimated to be between 8,000 to 10,000 years old. This Mesolithic cave painting depicts a person climbing to reach a wild bees' nest, with bees flying around and honeycombs

Finally out!!! Canguilhem face à la biopolitique shs.cairn.info/canguilhem-fac…

In the featured article in Issue 6.2 of Ancient Philosophy Today, Dominic O’Meara draws a taxonomy of the use of rhetorical genres in writings by Platonists of Late Antiquity. Read 'The Many Presences of Rhetoric in Late Antique Platonism' for free 👉 edin.ac/3ZipVXw

Another issue of Aldrovandiana is out!🐚🦚🌸 aldrovandiana.it/issue/view/34/… ...with book reviews by Pietro Li Causi, Beatrice Falcucci, and Stefano Mulas #histsci #naturalhistory #OA Daniele Morrone

Ursus, -i —a bear —a dangerous person IDIOM: "to excite the fuming nose of a live bear" ("fumantem nasum vivi tentaveris ursi")—that is, to provoke a dangerous person. (See Martial, 6.64.28)

Scientists are celebrating an adorable discovery: a 32,000-year-old sabertooth cub. It's remarkably well-preserved, offering scientists their first true look at what these ancient animals looked like—so what have we learned from this discovery? 🔗 on.natgeo.com/3DaPqCV

Indigenous Remedies Series 2: Mediterranean Materia Medica, 10th century from "Dioscoridis de simplici medicina libri V", MS BSB Clm 337, ff. 27v, 31r, 32r, 33v, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich. #CSMBR #Dioscorides #Indigenousremedies #materiamedica

Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) - Ritual masses are prohibited in the Easter Octave (GIRM 380) - Pope = "perpetual and visible principle of unity" (Lum. Gent. 23) - Liturgically, Easter is 1 day (CCC 1168) - Heilsgeschichte's continuity is broken: with no Pope the day can't end > Christian timeline is OVER

And now...the English edition: link.springer.com/book/978303188… Genesis and Development of French Historical Epistemology. A Trajectory Toward Political Epistemology Springer Nature #HPS #historicalepistemology #politicalepistemology

Scientists Use Ancient Chinese Poetry to Study Endangered Yangtze Porpoise | Scientific American ⁦Scientific American⁩ scientificamerican.com/article/scient…

Why Paul Bonet was the Surrealists’ favourite bookbinder #Surrealism #ArtHistory #PaulBonet #ArtCollectors Christie's christies.com/en/stories/sur…

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Large Language Models Reflect the Ideology of their Creators arxiv.org/abs/2410.18417

Footnote porn enthusiasts rejoice! Just out: Housley, Kathleen. "An Onslaught of Footnotes: How a Geologist Corrected the Errors of a Geographer." Isis 116, no. 2 (2025) journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

A new Ancient Greek web library enters the fray. oxytone.xyz lets you highlight different parts of a text (verbs and cases, for example) and offers full lemmatization. You can also create flash card decks from any custom selection of text.

Grateful to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for the publication of the substantive revision of the entry “Arabic and Islamic Metaphysics” (Jun 30, 2025) plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic…

Tell all the truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise This paper finds poetry is a universal single shot jailbreak for LLMs. Systems built to stop prosaic attacks fail when the request is phrased in verse.

Had Claude Code build a little plugin that visualizes the work Claude Code is doing as agents working in an office, with agents doing work and passing information to each other. New subagents are hired, they acquire skills, and they turn in completed work. Fun start.