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#historyofscience

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Holle Meding

Exploring Model Templates Across Disciplines 📊

At the @tuberlin workshop “Large Language Models for HPSS” Maximilian Noichl presented #OpenAlexMapper—a tool to trace how model templates, concepts, and methods like #RandomForest spread across scientific disciplines over time.

His talk offered a compelling case for combining projective methods with large-scale bibliometric data.

maxnoichl.eu/full/talks/talk_B

Visualization with OpenAlexMapper Breiman (2001) Bzdok, Altman, and Krzywinski (2018) Andrews (2023), https://maxnoichl.eu/full/talks/talk_BERLIN_April_2025/talkBERLIN.html#/title-slide
#LLMs#MachineLearning#HistoryOfScience
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Rita Singer

It's publication day!

Enwogion o fri: Diversity Project 2023-2025

Our free #DiversityProject anthology for the #Bywgraffiadur has just dropped on KC Works. Over 40 authors contributed more than 60 articles about the most fascinating people in #Welsh #history you could possibly imagine.

We've covered #BAMEHistory #LGBTQ_ and #DisabilityHistory, #WomensHistory, #ArtHistory, the #HistoryOfScience, #HistoryOfReligion and #Wales

Frankly, there's not a single article in this collection that's not bound to be of interest to someone.

Get your own copy here as PDF or epub. And because we're in Wales, we even offer you two versions.

English: works.hcommons.org/records/dtb
Cymraeg: doi.org/10.17613/mmwvm-ryh93

Book cover for Enwogion o fri, showing two African and South Asian students of Harlech College in the 1960s. They're reading a piece of paper -- and clearly enjoy it.
#BlackHistory#OA#OpenAccess
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Mark McCaughrean

Niche question for astronomers & historians of astronomy, particularly those at Harvard perhaps.

Can anyone tell me the birth & death dates of Edith F. Reilly, who worked with Bart Bok in the 1940's & co-authored the discovery paper on "small dark nebulae", now called "Bok globules"?

I've looked online, but have drawn a blank. They'd be good to have for my book.

adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1947ApJ

#SpaceScience#Astronomy#HistoryOfScience
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IHC

📖 In a chapter of the book "A History of Physics", Quintino Lopes contributes to the #HistoryOfPhysics in the period between-wars, "examining relations between the physics laboratories of the Faculty of Sciences ogf teh University of Lisbon and the Instituto Superior Técnico on the one hand and the Laboratoire Curie, the @collegedefrance and other prestigious science institutions on the other hand".

👉 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1

@histodons

Cover of the book "A History of Physics: Phenomena, Ideas and Mechanisms. Essays in Honor of Salvo D'Agostino", edited by Raffaele Pisano and published by Springer.
#Histodons#SciHist#HistoryOfScience
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Josh Wells

“ Although the details of animal magnetism may sound absurd (and even morally dubious) to modern ears, within its context Mesmerism was very much in line with the latest scientific developments. In some ways, exciting experiments with invisible forces — gravity, electricity, magnetism, wondrous gases like hydrogen — defined the era. Unlike the occultists of the previous ages, Mesmer was striving to give his practices a rational scientific as opposed to a religious flavour. Indeed, although the magnetic fluid part did not work out, in an important sense, animal magnetism marked the beginnings of hypnosis and psychological suggestion. These are very real and possibly still clinically useful phenomena, as a recent resurgence in research shows.”

publicdomainreview.org/essay/m

The Public Domain ReviewMesmerising Science: The Franklin Commission and the Modern Clinical TrialBenjamin Franklin, magnetic trees, and erotically-charged séances — Urte Laukaityte on how a craze for sessions of “animal magnetism” in late 18th-century Paris led to the randomised placebo-controlled and double-blind clinical trials we know and love today.
#historyofscience
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