Francesco Cassata
@francescocassata.bsky.social
Historian of European science policies, #fascism, #eugenics, #racism, Cold War science, #PrimoLevi. Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Genova. Director of CENTRA (www.centrastudies.org) Born at 331 ppm
Jim Watson and Trivial Pursuit (Watson Papers, Cold Spring Harbor)
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Jim Watson and Trivial Pursuit (Watson Papers, Cold Spring Harbor)
Excited to hold my AH special issue on 'atomic agriculture' - in real, tangible, three-dimensional paper! 😊 Thank you @dukepress.bsky.social !
June 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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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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.
www.statnews.com
June 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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
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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.
buff.ly
June 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The NIH archives of the Human Genome Project could fall victim to Trump administration cuts, writes a former archivist. buff.ly/H1WkRpn
Moral Contamination, Emotion, and the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement* url:https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/48/3/424/7612716
June 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Moral Contamination, Emotion, and the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement* url:https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/48/3/424/7612716
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L’historien Pierre Nora est mort
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.
www.lemonde.fr
June 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
L’historien Pierre Nora est mort
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$9.5 billion of biomedical research support, 2,100 grants, have already been terminated at NIH
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n...
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n...
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.
www.statnews.com
May 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
$9.5 billion of biomedical research support, 2,100 grants, have already been terminated at NIH
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n...
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n...
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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May 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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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
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Medicine on a Larger Scale
Cambridge Core - Global History - Medicine on a Larger Scale
doi.org
May 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
What a time to be a historian...
The Russian foreign intelligence service is calling for an alliance between Russia and the US against the EU.
April 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
What a time to be a historian...
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“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’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize
April 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
“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’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize
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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.
academic.oup.com/hwj...
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.
academic.oup.com/hwj...
April 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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.
academic.oup.com/hwj...
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.
academic.oup.com/hwj...
my ghiblified selfie
April 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
my ghiblified selfie
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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.”
“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.”
March 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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.”
“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.”
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/...
March 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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/...
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...
link.springer.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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
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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.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
The War Trump Chooses
That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason
snyder.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
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Get moving, Europe. This will be what it takes.
🧑🏭🪖🎖️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
@financialtimes.com
@financialtimes.com
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
www.bruegel.org
February 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Get moving, Europe. This will be what it takes.
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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."
www.npr.org
February 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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.