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Melinda Baldwin@mbaldwin.bsky.social |
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#histSTM studying scientific publishing, funding, and peer review. Associate prof @ UMD College Park. All opinions mine!
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Melinda Baldwin
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My 8-year-old just offered some incisive feedback on my book topic: "Peer review? More like PEE review." I nearly snorted my coffee out my nose 😂
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LNR
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Anyone who'd rather see the lecture than read the inappropriate sexualisation of the lecturer in the Spectator, it's linked online here:
bsky.app/profile/leay...
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Stephanie Rains
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Every woman who’s ever given a public talk has encountered the creepy old bloke who does “orchestrate a meeting” with you afterwards and sticks like velcro if given any chance at all. I now realise we may all have met Lloyd Evans.
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Melinda Baldwin
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Did I tell you that Making Art Work's introduction got me unstuck on my own introduction? I read it and thought "oh, THAT's what an introduction is supposed to do, I think I can do that or something like it!"
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Melinda Baldwin
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Academic friends: I am consistently hitting the same roadblock with the chapters of my new book, namely, the conclusion. Does anyone have strategies or tips for strong chapter conclusions? (Or want to start a second-book support group?)
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Melinda Baldwin
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I'm ashamed to say you probably could have copied-and-pasted that from my outbox.
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Ben Gross
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There is only one week left to apply for the Linda Hall Library's 2024-25 fellowships, including:
-Our 9-month NEH postdoc!
-#HistMed, #Aerospace & #Bibliography fellowships!
-Virtual fellowships for Ukrainian scholars!
Proposals are due Jan. 19, 2024: www.lindahall.org/research/lin... #histSTM 🗃️📜
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Melinda Baldwin
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Yes there was the little incident at the end of his career but according to this specific federal witness Galileo still had it better than anyone who has to apply for NIH funding.
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Melinda Baldwin
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I just read an interpretation of Galileo's life that was so bad I nearly walked out of the National Archives and into the nearest river. Did you know Galileo had unlimited funding and support from the Catholic Church?!
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Melinda Baldwin
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My husband steadfastly refuses to touch social media, so it falls to me to brag that his book "The Pandemic Paradox" in the New York Review of Books! www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Sjang ten Hagen
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – I'm teaming up with Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt to edit a special issue of Minerva on the history of peer review in the humanities (and its connection to the sciences). Submit your abstracts by March 15, 2024, and help us spread the word!
link.springer.com/collections/...
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Melinda Baldwin
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There's an Austen quote from Mansfield Park that I think about a lot when thinking about the academic job market. To paraphrase, there are certainly not so many tenure-track jobs as there are wonderful scholars and teachers to deserve them.
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Molligru 🏳️⚧️🦄
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Philip K. Dick: In my book I invented the Minority Report as a cautionary tale Tech companies: At long last we have created the Minority Report from the classic sci-fi novella Don't Create the Minority Report
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tweety fish
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to a degree I think most people outside academia do not understand academia is still constructed for a world where professors are men with partners/families who 1) don't work and 2) can just follow them wherever
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Melinda Baldwin
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::sighs, places head into hands, updates next year's STS syllabus::
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Erin Bartram
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I cannot express to you how much Twitter's collapse combined with no clear alternative site for sharing and engaging with print pieces crushed readership for what is usually one of our best-read set of pieces each year. If you missed History & Mystery last year, give it a look.
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Melinda Baldwin
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Looks like they might have dropped the Letters category around April 2018?
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Melinda Baldwin
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OK, a quick trip through Nature's archives indicates that in the mid-1970s (during the David Davies editorship), the journal's staff introduced a "Correspondence" column. However, there were still two types of research pieces: longer "Articles" and shorter "Letters."
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Melinda Baldwin
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Much of Ernest Rutherford's early 20th century radioactivity research, for example, was published as "Letters to the Editor." Later they introduce a "Correspondence" column for non-research letters, but for a long time the categories were mixed.
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Melinda Baldwin
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Definitely not early 17th century! Nature began publication in 1869. And I'm not sure it was quite as straightforward as renaming "Letters to the Editor" as "Research Articles," I think there was a bigger shuffling of categories post-WWII.
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Ben Gross
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It was my pleasure to review @ccmmody.bsky.social's examination of the scientific silent majority for the British Journal for the History of Science.
To paraphrase H. Lewis, et al., it's hip to read The Squares!
#histsci #histSTM #histtech
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Contingent Magazine
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🎉It's our 2023 book list, featuring historians working off the tenure track around the world 🎉
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Melinda Baldwin
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Scott keeps encouraging me to try an Air but 1) I've heard a few bad stories from friends and 2) I'm emotionally attached to the Pro line at this point 😂
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Melinda Baldwin
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I've owned 3 MacBook Pros since 2004 and they have each lasted beyond my wildest expectations. It's only recently that I've had some problems with battery life and large PDFs on my 2015, it's pretty amazing. And I think mine is a refurbished 2014 model, even.
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Melinda Baldwin
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My partner's family opens one at a time while watching the designated unwrapper for their reaction. It lasts hours. My family wasn't chaotic, but we were efficient (everyone got a gift and we all unwrapped at the same time), and I had to get used to the, ah, leisurely pace of my partner's family 😂
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Melinda Baldwin
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Option 2 is the cheaper one btw, I don't think that was clear in the initial post on further review 😂
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Melinda Baldwin
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No, both MacBook Pro options (I've heard mixed reviews of the Air so I'm wary). Paying out of pocket.
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Melinda Baldwin
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(I'm throwing this out to social media because I've had these tabs open for like 3 weeks and I need to just choose one.)
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Melinda Baldwin
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I think it's time to admit that my MacBook Pro, purchased in 2015, needs an upgrade. Which would you pick: 1) M3 processor + 16GB memory or 2) M2 processor + 24GB memory + $200? Option 2 is smaller screen but a half pound lighter.
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John Penniman
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I will never recover from this student email.
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Melinda Baldwin
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If I could figure out how to put gifs into Bluesky this would be the one of the little kid collapsing to the table in exhaustion. Sorry you're dealing with that!!
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Lisa Haushofer
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#histstm Postdoc ⬇️⬇️
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southpaw
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It only differs from a lynching in that there was a jury, official records were kept, the process was open to public scrutiny, the defendant had lawyers for his defense, the judge was independent of the prosecution, proceedings were conducted according to law, and sam bankman-fried is still alive.
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Melinda Baldwin
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I'm pretty sure "name at beginning of alphabet" is how I ended up elected to faculty senate 😂
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BSHS
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Not only did we discover BlueSky, but we also found the lost keys to our Instagram account again! (They were in the other sock.) - Check out our revived #Instagram page and follow us for more nice image content and exciting insight into the BSHS council and committees! www.instagram.com/bshsnews/
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Alisa Bokulich
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The journal Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences is now on Bsky!
@hsnatsci.bsky.social
🗃️🧪#histsci #philsci #hpbio
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Kevin M. Kruse
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No one prepares you for how different it is — the first book starts out as a diss with all the support of an advising team while you can focus entirely on it, the second is supposed to be bigger and better but you’re on your own and swamped with other duties.
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Anna O Law
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Periodically sharing this as a public service announcement. Is the SECOND book kicking your ass (yes, definitely mine) and delaying your promotion to Full? It's not you, it's structural. See the discussion w/ a panel of experts including the acquisitions editor of Princeton U. Press, abt strategies.
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Eponymous for now
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Title page & nebulae plate from my copy of a French edition of “On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences” by Mary Somerville. It was published in 1837, two years after she & Caroline Herschel were elected as the first female Honorary Members of the Royal Astronomical Society.
#histsci #histSTM
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Mar Hicks
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“Although some journals redact ad hominem reviewer comments, many do not, & authors commonly receive them…10–35% of peer reviews provided to authors contain demeaning language… These comments slow down the publishing process…because it’s rare such feedback provides tangible suggestions to address”
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Charlotte Abney
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Delighted to announce that applications are now open for 2024-25 fellowships at the Science History Institute! We offer curatorial, postdoc, dissertation, distinguished, and short-term fellowships to researchers from any field using our collections. More here: www.sciencehistory.org/about/news/2...
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Melinda Baldwin
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This is my thought too. I'd choose an AI narrator over no narrator solely for accessibility.
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Melinda Baldwin
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Mixbook is my go-to; I was really unhappy with the Snapfish calendars I had made for grandparents, but pleased with how the Mixbook option turned out. A quick Google suggests that Mixbook has a UK arm.
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Hopkins Press
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Hello Bluesky! We are slowly trying out this platform as the social media landscape changes.
As we explore, all the latest information on our books, journals, Project MUSE and more is available at our website: press.jhu.edu
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Ben Gross
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Good morning, #histSTM/#histsci friends! I've set up a new feed (SHOT 2023) where scholars can share their thoughts about this year's meeting of the Society for the History of Technology using #SHOT2023, #histtech, or the gear emoji (⚙️).
Send me a note if you would like to be added to the list!
🗃️📜
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Erin Bartram
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If you follow me, consider following @contingent-mag.bsky.social too--the collapse of Twitter has been really terrible for small publications like ours, a non-profit history magazine that publishes and pays historians working off the tenure track.
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The HPS Podcast
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"Scientists are not born, they are made"
Our latest ep features the fab MIT historian of physics (and physicist) Prof David Kaiser talking about how pedagogy and the training of scientists shapes science.
#histsci #philsci #sts 🧪
thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2180146/1375...
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Laura Ansley
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Nursing Clio has a call for writers out! Special series called “Clio in Motion,” which will be guest edited by @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social! nursingclio.org/write-for-us...
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Melinda Baldwin
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Patrick, are you sure this is a faculty meeting? Those clowns are all facing the same direction.
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