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Francesco Cassata @francescocassata.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs—but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped

On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the atomic bomb in war. But he also deserves some credit for the fact that atomi...

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Francesco Cassata @francescocassata.bsky.social · Jun 9

Excited to hold my AH special issue on 'atomic agriculture' - in real, tangible, three-dimensional paper! 😊 Thank you @dukepress.bsky.social !

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · Jun 7

Massive NIH study challenges use of race as a proxy for genetic ancestry in research www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n... via @statnews.com

Massive NIH study challenges use of race as a proxy for genetic ancestry in research

A large government study shows that Americans’ self-reported race is a poor proxy for their genetic ancestry.

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STAT @statnews.com · Jun 5

The NIH archives of the Human Genome Project could fall victim to Trump administration cuts, writes a former archivist. buff.ly/H1WkRpn

Do you remember the Human Genome Project? I’m not sure the Trump administration wants you to

The NIH archives of the Human Genome Project could fall victim to Trump administration cuts, writes a former archivist.

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Francesco Cassata @francescocassata.bsky.social · Jun 4

Moral Contamination, Emotion, and the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement* url:https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/48/3/424/7612716

Francesco Cassata @francescocassata.bsky.social · Jun 4

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The Global Observatory for Genome Editing looks for a bioethics reset

A summit in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a special issue of The CRISPR Journal featured a diversity of voices advocating for a broader debate in the name of cosmopolitanism and participation. How …

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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · Jun 2

L’historien Pierre Nora est mort

Historien, maître d’œuvre des « Lieux de mémoire », publiés en sept volumes à partir de 1984, le créateur de la revue « Le Débat » est mort le 2 juin, à l’âge de 93 ans.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · May 27

$9.5 billion of biomedical research support, 2,100 grants, have already been terminated at NIH
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A Harvard scientist built a database of 2,100 NIH grant terminations. Then his own funding was cut

Harvard's Scott Delaney helped build a database of NIH grant terminations that is being used in litigation against the Trump administration.

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Francesco Cassata @francescocassata.bsky.social · May 23

The JHB issue 58.1, which includes part of our Topical Collection on the "Legacies of Asilomar," is finally out! Enjoy your reading! link.springer.com/journal/1073... #histsci #histtech #histSTM #HPS #STS

Journal of the History of Biology

The Journal of the History of Biology is devoted to the history of the biological sciences, with additional interest and concern in the philosophical and ...

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · May 13

in the fabulous anthology *Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine*, edited by Warwick Anderson, Jeremy A. Greene, and Ann Kweim Lie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). The whole volume is #OpenAccess

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Medicine on a Larger Scale

Cambridge Core - Global History - Medicine on a Larger Scale

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Francesco Cassata @francescocassata.bsky.social · Apr 17

What a time to be a historian...

Jürgen Nauditt @juergennauditt.bsky.social · Apr 17

The Russian foreign intelligence service is calling for an alliance between Russia and the US against the EU.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Apr 16

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.”

— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

Seth Rogen presenting the Breakthrough Prize for physics (Getty)

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Apr 14

History is under unprecedented attack from the Trump administration.

We have made free access for one month this important article on the origins & vision of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, established in 2016.

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Francesco Cassata @francescocassata.bsky.social · Apr 1

my ghiblified selfie

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Benjamin S. Weiss @benjaminweiss.bsky.social · Mar 28

NEW: Internal staff email from Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch addressing Trump’s executive order.

“As always, our work will be shaped by the best scholarship, free of partisanship, to help the American public better understand our nation’s history, challenges and trumphs.”

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Francesco Cassata @francescocassata.bsky.social · Mar 29

Why establishing a EUROPEAN laboratory? - Max Perutz interviewed by Graham Chedd for the "New Scientist" (29 February 1968) @embo.org @embl.org

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Francesco Cassata @francescocassata.bsky.social · Mar 10

The Topical Collection "Legacies of Asilomar" I co-edited with Luis Campos for the Journal of the History of Biology, is online! It includes essays by Matthew Cobb, Doogab Yi, Robin Wolfe Scheffler, and me (with S. de Chadarevian), all available in Open Access! link.springer.com/collections/...

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Francesco Cassata @francescocassata.bsky.social · Mar 5

My and Soraya’s article “Asilomar across the Atlantic: EMBO, EMBL, and the Politics of Scientific Expertise” has just been published and is now available in Open Access! link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Enjoy your reading! @embo.org @embl.org

Asilomar Across the Atlantic: EMBO, EMBL, and the Politics of Scientific Expertise - Journal of the History of Biology

The internationalization of the 1975 International Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA molecules has received little attention, and in particular, the European impact on, and response to, the Asilo...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Mar 1

The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow.
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The War Trump Chooses

That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason

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Francesco Cassata @francescocassata.bsky.social · Feb 28

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Francesco Cassata @francescocassata.bsky.social · Feb 26

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50 years after a seminal conference, big questions about biotechnology remain

In 1975, researchers met to discuss the emerging field of biotechnology. The issues surrounding the field today are familiar.

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Steven Seegel @stevenseegel.bsky.social · Feb 21

Get moving, Europe. This will be what it takes.

Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social · Feb 21

🧑‍🏭🪖🎖️Europe needs to recruit 300,000 new soldiers, acquire 1,400 new tanks and roughly double its defence spending over the next five years to be able to defend itself without the support of the US, @bruegel.bsky.social research warns
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Defending Europe without the US: first estimates of what is needed

Europe could need 300,000 more troops and an annual defence spending hike of at least €250 billion in the short term to deter Russian aggression

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Melissa Hung @melissahung.bsky.social · Feb 20

Today is the #DayOfRemembrance commemorating Executive Order 9066 and the government's mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. Eight years ago, I wrote about visiting Manzanar, what life was like in the camp, and how the National Park Service plays a role in teaching civil rights.

Walking In Their Footsteps At A Former Japanese Internment Camp

"I wanted to see Manzanar with my own eyes, so that my understanding of history might feel deeper through the experience of place."

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Francesco Cassata @francescocassata.bsky.social · Feb 19

And here we go—Trump blaming Ukraine for 'starting' the war, while the entire Italian press echoes Russian propaganda about 'dialogue' and 'peace'...

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