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Happy birthday to the only two women with elements named after them on the periodic table-#MarieCurie & #LiseMeitner. As I do each year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day! #histSTM #chemistry #physics #OTD

Come and join me, Jon Agar gentraso (and more) UCL Science and Technology Studies on 12th October, to mark the 60th anniversary of Wilson's White Heat of Technology Speech. Eventbrite signup below.

Leo Szilard’s Legacy — a webinar with biographer William Lanouette and molecular biologist Matthew Meselson. November 2, 2023 at 4:00 PM Pacific time. library.ucsd.edu/news-events/ev…

On October 20, the AHA will host a Congressional Briefing to offer historical perspectives on the challenges posed by AI. Matthew L. Jones, Janet Abbate, Matthew Connelly, and Jeffrey Yost will put the current conversations on AI into historical context. historians.org/news-and-advoc…

Obituary: W. Jason Morgan, discoverer of plate tectonics (1935–2023) go.nature.com/3PL9FcD

Presidential science and technology advisor & White House Office of Science & Technology Policy director Arati Prabhakar has an essential task: “Making sure that this investment that we make in federal R&D ultimately changes the lives of Americans—that’s the job.” issues.org/interview-arat…

🚨New Issue Alert🚨Volume 53 Issue 4 contains 2 articles by Katy Duncan and @ESkulberg and Martin Sparre, and two essays by Eleanor S. Armstrong and Jordan Bimm and Mathias Grote.

#OnThisDay 38 years ago: Fermilab dedicated the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider. You can see the program from the event here: history.fnal.gov/historical/eve… and the proceedings from the event here: history.fnal.gov/historical/eve…

This year, the OR Society celebrates its 75th anniversary! We start our journey at 1948!

Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State. Advance copies are here! I must say they are very fine. Huge thanks to @AbbySCollier & @UPittPress & to supportive words from John Gascoigne, Rebekah Higgitt & William Ashworth. Publication 14 November. upittpress.org/books/97808229…

Are you interested in #SciPol? We're seeking applicants for our State Department Fellowship program. Fellows will spend their 1-year term contributing scientific and technical expertise at the State Department. Applications are due Nov. 1: aip.org/policy/fellows…

Scoop: House appropriators are backing NASA’s imperiled Mars Sample Return mission and prospective U.S. National Science Foundation large facility projects, according to a newly posted document: ww2.aip.org/fyi/house-rele…

Had long heard that US university libraries have strong collections of postcolonial Indian government documents as some of the PL480 rupees (from the sale of wheat to India) were used to buy literally every report published in India every year. Glad to see documentary evidence.

Check out Kristine Palmieri's new photo essay, "The Untold History of Women at Yerkes Observatory," at Physics Today: pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/o…

Tomorrow at 3pm Eastern, AIP presents our latest online Trimble Lecture: Bruce Hunt, “The Victorian Cable Empire and the Making of ‘Maxwell's Equations’”. Register here: aip.org/history-progra…

AIP's last online Trimble Lecture of the year will be on Dec. 6: Maria Rentetzi (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), “Making Radium Kinky: The Epistemology of the Familiar” aip.org/history-progra…

From Kristine Palmieri for Physics Today: A photo gallery of archival images highlight the work of female astronomers at the Yerkes Observatory facility in the early 20th century. #HistSTM #HistSci pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/o…

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I do not plan to post further from this account, which I will use mainly for monitoring other feeds. For #histsci and #scipol posts, find me at Bluesky under williamthomas. I have several invite codes available.

The application period for the @APSPhysics and AIP 2024 Congressional Fellowship Program is open! If you’re interested in #SciPol and providing analytical expertise and scientific advice to Congress, apply by Sunday, Dec 1, 2024: bit.ly/40qOp0V