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Timoer
@timoer.bsky.social
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Wannabee science historian, PhD in chemistry. Fan of Davy, Dirac and a few others. Avid reader
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julyarabinowich.bsky.social
Nachdem man #Mo&Moritz nicht zu Weihnachten,sondern nur zu Ostern verschenken kann,schlage ich unvoreingenommen alle Bücher von mir vor.Es gibt Rabinowich für alle!Wiener Wahnsinn v Jugendstil bis Arisierung&seltsame Sexszenen&femme fatalst AlmaMahler #krötenliebe www.morawa.at/detail/ISBN-...
alte Kommode, auf dieser: eingerexte Persönlichkeiten der Wiener Boheme und ein Salamander
December 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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lc-beguines.bsky.social
Free online event from the New York Historical Museum, Thursday, 11 December, 12:00: Live From New Amsterdam: Jacob Leisler's New York, with David Voorhees and Russell Shorto. Tickets and info at www.nyhistory.org/programs/liv...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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onslies.bsky.social
Calvin & Hobbes cartoon. The pair is lying on the floor reading newspapers. With his little face in his hands, elbows on the floor, Calvin observes 'These are interesting times.' He then gets up and wide-armed declares 'we don't trust the government, we don't trust the legal system, we don't trust the media, and we don't trust each other! we've undermined all authority and with it, the basis for replacing it!'. 'Intersting is a mild way of putting it,' Hobbes mumbles, mouth an inch from the floor and face mostly hidden in his crossed arms. A more delighted Calvin adds 'it's like a six-year-old's dream come true!'
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
timoer.bsky.social
Never saw a player getting a red card for hitting his own teammate. #muneve
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
timoer.bsky.social
Hilarious podcast. Sapiens is a book by a college student that ate too many magic mushrooms and thinks he understands everything.
ifbookspod.bsky.social If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 20d
Episode 46: Sapiens

It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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bhgross144.bsky.social
Henry Moseley, the English physicist whose X-ray spectroscopy experiments led to a reorganization of the #PeriodicTable, was born #OnThisDay in 1887. He later died in the Battle of Gallipoli.

More via @sciencehistory.org: www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

#histSTM #physics #chemistry #WWI 🗃️📜
Henry Moseley in the Balliol-Trinity College Laboratories, soon after his graduation. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Moseley#/media/File:BigMoseleyCard.jpg)
November 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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thomasdiecks.bsky.social
Das Amsterdamer Antiquariat "Die Schmiede" gibt demnächst sein Geschäft auf, auf der Webseite läuft ein Verkauf mit einem Preisnachlass von 50%.
www.dieschmiede.nl/index.php?la...
Antiquariaat Die Schmiede
www.dieschmiede.nl
November 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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proflroach.bsky.social
Will you be in Vienna in mid-December? If so, you can come hear me give the annual IMAFO lecture on editing the East Frankish royal charters! You know you want to... #charterrific
A poster for my lecture in Vienna on 16th December.
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
This is not the worst book we've ever read but it is the meanest episode we've ever done.
ifbookspod.bsky.social If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 20d
Episode 46: Sapiens

It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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ihara-saikaku.bsky.social
Good morning. Mihara City, Hiroshima Prefecture is clear weather. Today, “In occupied Germany, the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg Trials) begins in Nuremberg to try Nazi war crimes (1945).” Have a good day! #What_day_is_it? ‪http://www.nnh.to/11/20.html‬
November 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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josephtorigian.bsky.social
Very cool to see this long interview with me about my book on Xi Zhongxun, father of Xi Jinping, in Dutch newspaper @volkskrant.nl t.nl

www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/v...
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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matthewcobb.bsky.social
Len Deighton, the king of cool, apparently the first author to use a word processor (the thing that takes up the right side of the photo), working on his novel BOMBER with cutaway images of a Ju88 and (?) a Beaufort.
Len Deighton in white shirt and thin black tie, with maps of London and cutaways on the wall behind him.
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
timoer.bsky.social
This seemed appropriate reading for the Sunday morning. Very entertaining.
November 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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dandrezner.bsky.social
I liked DEATH BY LIGHTNING but also found it frustrating. I suspect that was partially by design. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/why-death-...
Why 'Death By Lightning' Was So Frustrating
The new Netflix limited series is a cruel reminder of what the United States has gain and lost since 1881 -- and what likely needs to happen to make things right.
danieldrezner.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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drannaclark.bsky.social
William Herschel, German-born British astronomer, born #OTD 1738; discovered planet Uranus in 1781, pioneered use of astronomical spectrophotometry, discovered infrared radiation; Fellow Royal Society, first President Royal Astronomical Society.
Portrait by Abbott 1785, NPG London
Herschel Museum
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 AM
timoer.bsky.social
“Een verse spits” Werd tijd, we voetballen al 85 min met een spits die ver over de datum is. #polned
November 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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monicamedhist.bsky.social
Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾

Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Black Knights
A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature.   In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe...
press.uchicago.edu
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
timoer.bsky.social
Depay, Kluivert en Geertruida onmiddelijk wisselen
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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wardqnormal.bsky.social
Second hydrogen bond tie. I love this one, because it shows the hexagonal structure of ice, which helps me explain to my students why ice floats in water.
Close-up photo of a man with a blond/gray beard, wearing a blue pin-striped shirt, light blue sweater vest, and a yellow tie with red and blue water molecule models in a hexagonal bee-hive arrangement.
November 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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mcnees.bsky.social
The result has since been refined by measuring the effect with distant space probes. In 2003, Bertotti, Iess, and Tortora used a signal sent to and from the Cassini probe to confirm the predictions of general relativity with an accuracy of 20 parts per million. (5/5)

www.nature.com/articles/nat...
letters to nature .............................................................. A test of general relativity using radio links with the Cassini spacecraft B. Bertotti1, L. Iess2 & P. Tortora3 1Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica, Universita ` di Pavia, Via U. Bassi 6, I-27100, Pavia, Italy 2Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale ed Astronautica, Universita ` di Roma “La Sapienza”, Via Eudossiana 16, I-00184, Roma, Italy 3II Facolta ` di Ingegneria, Universita ` di Bologna, Via Fontanelle 40, I-47100, Forlı ` , Italy ............................................................................................................................................................................. According to general relativity, photons are deflected and delayed by the curvature of space-time produced by any mass1–3. The bending and delay are proportional to g 1 1, where the par- ameter g is unity in general relativity but zero in the newtonian model of gravity. The quantity g2 1 measures the degree to which gravity is not a purely geometric effect and is affected by other fields; such fields may have strongly influenced the early Universe, but would have now weakened so as to produce tiny— but still detectable—effects. Several experiments have confirmed to an accuracy of,0.1% the predictions for the deflection4,5 and delay6 of photons produced by the Sun. Here we report a measurement of the frequency shift of radio photons to and from the Cassini spacecraft as they passed near the Sun. Our result, g 5 1 1 (2.1 6 2.3) 3 1025, agrees with the predictions of standard general relativity with a sensitivity that approaches the level at which, theoretically, deviations are expected in some cosmological models.
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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stephenaj.bsky.social
Strictly local #Oxford interest, but can't help blurting out #Bodleian news. After at least 40 years of using the central library, and restricted to reading onsite, I've just collected a couple of books which I am about to walk out the door with. A loan, but feels like I'll be apprehended for theft!
Front cover of hardback book on 15th-century Viennese astronomer/astrologer Johannes von Gmunden (ed. Simek/Klein, 2012).
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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hesterloeff.bsky.social
Als je nog andere dingen voor de feestdagen wil bestellen zoals #Noordzee kabinetjes (€23,50) of #basterkabinetjes (€59,95/€69,95) of #Schelptekeningen (€59,95 geloof ik) dan kun je dat ook al aangeven in DM want ik weet niet of ik overal genoeg voorraad van kan maken
November 1, 2025 at 7:46 AM
timoer.bsky.social
It is Saturday morning 8.20, had breakfast, went into the shower and now it is raining outside. What to do? Read a book I guess
November 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
timoer.bsky.social
Next book!
October 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM