I’ve posted some archival document finds that show John Prescott (RIP) in interesting lights over on the bluer, less musky site. Join me there!

I’m co-organising, with Cathy Lucas and Simon Werrett of @stsucl, an ‘Experimental History of Science Workshop’ to take place in April 2025 Think about entirely new ways of doing #histsci Let your imagination go wild! Here’s the call for proposals. 1/5

Common toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) at Walthamstow Wetlands today #wildflowerhour

In Munich to talk 1990s science policy

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A century ago Henry Ford showed you could be a genius at business, and a brilliant pioneer in engineering, but a dangerous fool in relation to politics, admiring and admired by all the wrong people. Elon Musk is following in his footsteps – this week giving $75m to the campaign of a man, who according to the head of the military when he was President, is ‘fascist to the core’. I can't tell whether Musk is wholly cynical or a political fool. Luckily Ford’s politics had little impact in the US. But in that respect I fear history won’t repeat itself.

Not seen this one before: “Wireless War” (poster, 1943)

In Harmondsworth, for barns and Barnes Wallis

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