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Jimena Canales
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Thank you! @physicsworld.bsky.social physicsworld.com/a/meet-the-d...
Meet the demons: four mythical creatures that inhabit science – Physics World
Scientists can learn a lot from diabolical creatures, Robert P Crease reveals
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June 29, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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BFD
acls1919.bsky.social American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · May 7
BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case

This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.”

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May 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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BFD
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 8
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration’s cancellation of more than 1,400 previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities violated the Constitution, while also creating a broad “chilling effect.”
DOGE’s Termination of Humanities Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional
A lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Humanities drew wide attention for revealing how DOGE had used ChatGPT to cancel grants.
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May 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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A federal judge ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration’s cancellation of more than 1,400 previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities violated the Constitution, while also creating a broad “chilling effect.”
DOGE’s Termination of Humanities Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional
A lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Humanities drew wide attention for revealing how DOGE had used ChatGPT to cancel grants.
nyti.ms
May 8, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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#ACLS www.acls.org/news/acls-ah...
ACLS-AHA-MLA Welcome First Amendment Win in Decision to Make DOGE Videos Public
Plaintiff statements about Decision of Judge Colleen McMahon
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March 25, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I just got "A Tenth of a Second" by @canales.bsky.social and this is R Austin Freeman from 1925
"Yes," agreed Varney, "and that is probably the explanation. An artist puts down what he sees and what anyone else would see and recognize. A photograph puts down what is there, regardless of how the scene would look to a spectator. Consequently, it is full of irrelevant detail, which gets in the way of the real effect as the eye would see it; and it may show appearances that the eye never sees at all, as in the case of Muybridge's instantaneous photographs of galloping horses. A photograph of a Dutch clock might catch the pendulum in the middle of its swing, and then the clock would appear to have stopped. But an artist would always draw it at the end of its swing, where it pauses for an instant, and that is where the eye sees it when the clock is going."
January 3, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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Very proud of #ACLS "the plaintiffs — the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Historical Association, the Modern Language Association, and the Authors Guild — argue that DOGE illegally took control of the agency"
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities
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March 7, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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For our next broadcast, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to get the story behind an infamous 1922 encounter from Jimena @canales.bsky.social, author of "The Physicist & the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time": youtu.be/IRQXam9WV-w #PhilSky
Henri Bergson and the Flow of Time: Roving Philosophical Report
YouTube video by Philosophy Talk
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August 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Thank you! www.ec-chronoi.de/post/worksho...
Workshop: “Time Revolution: Contemporary Thought and the Struggle Against Scientific Necessity”
Join us on July 17th and 18th for a workshop organized by Amir Engel
www.ec-chronoi.de
July 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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What are Science readers enjoying?
May 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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#ACLS www.diverseeducation.com/leadership-p...
Humanities Organizations File Lawsuit Against NEH Over Massive Program Cuts
NEH has suspended entire divisions, initiated firing 65 percent of its staff, and halted numerous grant programs in recent weeks.
www.diverseeducation.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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#ACLS news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/d...
DOGE Sued Over Cuts at National Endowment for the Humanities
The Department of Government Efficiency has left the National Endowment for the Humanities “a shell” of an agency through its cost-cutting efforts, several grantees said in a new lawsuit Thursday.
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May 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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#ACLS www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Three Humanities Organizations Sue NEH Over Its ‘Dismantling’
American Council of Learned Societies, American Historical Association, and MLA have sued the NEH over its dismantling, as well as DOGE.
www.artnews.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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📢Torna #FemCiència? ✨ @iec.cat
➡️ Estrenem la temporada amb @canales.bsky.social l historiadora de la ciència i membre de la @acls1919.bsky.social ,
Entrevista: schct.iec.cat/entrevista-a...
🔥 Los demonios de la ciencia no se presentan como antítesis de los ángeles, sino que tienen su propio lugar.
April 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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New book review: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Review | A new study of Einstein explores his search for spiritual meaning
In “I Am a Part of Infinity,” Kieran Fox celebrates Einstein’s attempt to address the emptiness of a disenchanted world.
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March 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Excited to participate: news.stonybrook.edu/university/c...
March 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Beyond the equations and experiments, physics has always carried echoes of the divine.
Why physics today stands on the wings of angels and demons | Aeon Essays
When medieval scholars sought to understand the nature of angels, they unwittingly laid the foundations of modern physics
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March 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Bravo @clearwing3.bsky.social !
clearwing3.bsky.social Christine Wenc @clearwing3.bsky.social · Nov 21
“It feels weird being earnest about a history of #TheOnion but there's no way around it:I loved this book with all my heart.Funny BC It's True is a thrilling,inspiring must read for comedy nerds and normals alike.Christine Wenc has managed to write a book worthy of The Onion's greatness.” Simon Rich
Funny Because It's True
Discover the real truth behind the original fake news with this in-depth history of beloved humor publication, The Onion. In 1988, a band of University of Wi...
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March 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Tiempo medido y tiempo vivido
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Medido / vivido – Formas Nómadas
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February 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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LOVE that book, and your 10th of a Second Book.
January 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Thank you!
rhysjamais.bsky.social Rhys Ting @rhysjamais.bsky.social · Jan 1
Books that rewired my brain in 2024. 💙📚
(Yes, a lot of these were to do with thesis-writing.)
Science: 1. Terrence Deacon - Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged From Matter 2. Charles Seife - Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, From Our Brains to Black Holes 3. Amanda Gefter - Trespassing On Einstein’s Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of Everything 4. James Gleick - Chaos: Making A New Science 5. Sara Imari Walker, Paul W.C. Davies, George F.R. Ellis [eds.] - From Matter to Life: Information and Causality 6. Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion: Feeling the Spirit of Enquiry 7. Charles Seife - Zero: the Biography of a Dangerous Idea 8. Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman - A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age 9. Laura Tripaldi - Parallel Minds: Discovering the Intelligence of Materials 10. Felix Flicker - The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics 11. Jimena Canales - Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science 12. Paul Davies - The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life 13. Jessica Riskin - The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument Over What Makes Living Things Tick 14. Jim Baggott - Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation 15. James Essinger - Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age Philosophy: 1. Michel Serres & Bruno Latour - Conversations on Science, Culture & Time 2. Massimiliano Simons - Michel Serres & French Philosophy of Science: Materiality, Ecology & Quasi-Objects 3. Keith Ansell-Pearson - Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual 4. Theodor W. Adorno - Introduction to Sociology 5. Chris Watkin - Michel Serres: Figures of Thought 6. William Large - Heidegger’s Being and Time 7. Thomas Flynn - Sartre: A Philosophical Biography 8. Georges Canguilhem - A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings 9. François Dosse - History of Structuralism, Vol 2: the Sign Sets, 1967-Present 10. Kate Kirkpatrick - Becoming Beauvoir: A Life 11. Jean-Paul Vernant - Mythical Thought Among the Greeks 12. Sylvie Courtine-Denamy - Three Women In Dark Times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil 13. Jean-François Courtine - Sloterdijk 14. Rocco Gangle - François Laruelle’s Philosophies of Difference 15. Miguel de Beistegui - Heidegger & the Political Nonfiction & Biography: 1. Haing S. Ngor - Surviving the Killing Fields: The Cambodian Odyssey of Haing S. Ngor 2. Binyavanga Wainaina - One Day I Will Write About This Place 3. Darren McGarvey - Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass 4. Erika Fatland - Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan 5. Kate Washington - Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America 6. Binyavanga Wainaina - How To Write About Africa 7. Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing & Mike Merryman-Lotze [eds.] - Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire 8. Judith Tebbutt - A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survival 9. Naomi Klein - Doppelganger: A Trip to the Mirror World 10. Agnes Arnold-Foster - Nostalgia: The History of A Dangerous Emotion 11. Patric Gagne - Sociopath: A Memoir Fiction/Poetry/Classics: 1. Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi - Call Me Zebra 2. Paul Valéry - Selected Writings of Paul Valéry 3. Fred Moten - All That Beauty 4. François Rabelais - Gargantua & Pantagruel 5. Patrick McCabe - Poguemahone
January 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Thank you! Totally recommend
evanthompson.bsky.social Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · Oct 6
Thanks to Jimena Canales for this wonderful blurb for our new book!
January 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Thank you!
rogerwhitson.bsky.social Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · Nov 18
Playground - Richard Powers
The Just City - Jo Walton
Starmaker - Olaf Stapledon
What is Compersion? - Marie Thouin
The Physicist and the Philosopher - Jimena Canales

💙📚 #BookSky #BookList #BooksRead
paradiselibrary.bsky.social Mia - Book Blogger / Author @paradiselibrary.bsky.social · Nov 14
Repost w/ 5 favourite reads of this year (no particular order)

The Map of Bones - Kate Mosse
Scenes From A Tragedy - Carole Hailey
The Thirteenth Child - Erin A. Craig
Profile K - Helen Fields
Le Fay - Sophie Keetch

💙📚 #BookSky #BookList #BooksRead
January 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Of course! I have gotten so much out of “Bedeviled” and “The Physicist and the Philosopher”, so I should be the one thanking you ☺️
January 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM