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Jimena Canales

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Historian of Science

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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

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...

07.03.2026 21:20 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Henri Bergson and the Flow of Time: Roving Philosophical Report
Henri Bergson and the Flow of Time: Roving Philosophical Report YouTube video by Philosophy Talk

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

26.08.2025 14:10 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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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

Thank you! www.ec-chronoi.de/post/worksho...

23.07.2025 01:43 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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What are Science readers enjoying?

08.05.2025 22:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

#ACLS www.diverseeducation.com/leadership-p...

02.05.2025 22:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

#ACLS news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/d...

02.05.2025 22:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

#ACLS www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

02.05.2025 22:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

24.04.2025 08:45 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

New book review: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

31.03.2025 14:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Excited to participate: news.stonybrook.edu/university/c...

25.03.2025 15:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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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

Beyond the equations and experiments, physics has always carried echoes of the divine.

18.03.2025 10:30 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
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Bedeviled How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities—demons—to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible

And more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

18.03.2025 15:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bedeviled How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities—demons—to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible

More about demons: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

18.03.2025 15:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bedeviled How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities—demons—to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible

More about demons: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

18.03.2025 15:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bravo @clearwing3.bsky.social !

18.03.2025 00:29 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Medido / vivido – Formas Nómadas

Tiempo medido y tiempo vivido
formasnomadas.com/2025/01/30/m...

10.02.2025 14:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

LOVE that book, and your 10th of a Second Book.

22.01.2025 04:21 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

21.01.2025 20:41 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you! Totally recommend

21.01.2025 20:42 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

21.01.2025 20:42 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Of course! I have gotten so much out of “Bedeviled” and “The Physicist and the Philosopher”, so I should be the one thanking you ☺️

21.01.2025 20:57 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

thinking about Jimena Canales, Tenth of a Second; D&G, 1000 Plateaus; Foucault on power&resistance; Barthes' Camera Lucida. Any readings on movements & dynamics in political, musical senses?
@alc0fribas.bsky.social are there perhaps accessible works in history of maths for non-expert mathematicians?

08.09.2023 21:35 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 7 📌 0

Thank you!

21.01.2025 20:42 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

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

18.11.2024 18:26 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Thank you! Totally recommend

21.01.2025 20:42 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

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Thank you!

21.01.2025 20:41 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
2 accounts one imposter of Maarten Van Dyck

2 accounts one imposter of Maarten Van Dyck

Hmmm seems another imposter case....
#philsci

21.01.2025 17:03 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
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Book of the month! #Bedeviled letraslibres.com/revista/maia...

13.01.2025 15:15 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Demonología de la imaginación científica | Letras Libres Maia F. Miret reseña "La ciencia y sus demonios", de Jimena Canales.

La historia de los demonios es nada menos que un buen trozo de la historia de la física occidental ... y discutir con lucidez y picardía su utilidad como herramienta para extender las ideas científicas

letraslibres.com/revista/maia...

22.12.2024 00:43 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0