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Campbell F. Scribner

@scribnerumcp.bsky.social

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History and Philosophy of Education at UMD. Author of A IS FOR ARSON (2023); SPARE THE ROD (2021); and THE FIGHT FOR LOCAL CONTROL (2016). Art lover. Romantic.

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · Jan 23

"The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play." --Friedrich Nietzsche

Carl Spitzweg, "Flying Kites" (1880)

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Aug 25

First day of classes at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social. A glorious day to learn #QuantumMechanics!

I'm teaching two courses - QM for physics majors, and Philosophy of Cosmology for a general audience. I'm going to try to maintain a thread saying what happens in each class, let's see how I do.

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 7h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/s...

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Every Artist Has a Favorite Subject. For Some, That’s Math.

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 8h

Vugar Guliyev, "White Tiger" (2024)

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 8h

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In Praise of Jane Austen’s Least Beloved Novel

Part marriage plot, part novel about novels, “Northanger Abbey” is Austen’s strangest—and perhaps most underappreciated—work.

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 7h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/s...

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Every Artist Has a Favorite Subject. For Some, That’s Math.

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 8h

Vugar Guliyev, "White Tiger" (2024)

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 8h

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

In Praise of Jane Austen’s Least Beloved Novel

Part marriage plot, part novel about novels, “Northanger Abbey” is Austen’s strangest—and perhaps most underappreciated—work.

www.newyorker.com

Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 19h

"One of a Pair of Wine Cups with Willow and Swallows" (Japan, 19th century)

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 1d

Carlos Mateu, "El Trovador" (2025)

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 1d

I was soooooo close to buying this for my office!

Margaret Dowell, "Self Portrait with Bush Hog and Ancestor" (2022)

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 1d

Carlos Mateu, "El Trovador" (2025)

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 2d

New blog post up: "Me, Jane," about Patrick McDonnell's biography of Jane Goodall, and the importance of childhood to scientific progress.

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Me, Jane.

In honor of Jane Goodall’s recent passing (and because everyone knows that I like the illustrator Patrick McDonnell), I thought I would share a few images from the children’s book, Me, Jane (2011), re...

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 1d

"Les Liaisons Dangereux," in particular!

Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting new article on dams and modernization in China, by an old friend!

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People’s Republic of China | Environment and History

Scholars often characterise dam building as an instance of high modernism par excellence. Such characterisations typically imagine dams as gargantuan projects that involve government elites drawing on technoscientific expertise to re-engineer the ...

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 1d

I was soooooo close to buying this for my office!

Margaret Dowell, "Self Portrait with Bush Hog and Ancestor" (2022)

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 2d

I liked this essay on #AI and #humanism:

mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 2d

2/ And this one, on Rorty, irony, and common sense.

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There is no Artificial Irony

Large-language models are dead-metaphor machines

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 2d

I liked this essay on #AI and #humanism:

mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 2d

New blog post up: "Me, Jane," about Patrick McDonnell's biography of Jane Goodall, and the importance of childhood to scientific progress.

#Art
#education
#science

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Me, Jane.

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