Seth Low Professor of History and Director of the Center for Science and Society, Columbia University

Joined June 2015
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Twelve years in the making: From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World is now available from @Chicago (remarkably affordable at $35 even with 117 mostly color images) tinyurl.com/57dnr3e7. Thank you @Chicago!
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Welcome to Next Stop City Hall, where I answer as many of your questions as I can before the next train comes. 🚂
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.@NickKristof I fear the upshot is increased risk of war, of nuclear proliferation, of pandemics. Instead of protecting America, Trump may have made our world more dangerous, perhaps for decades to come —and that will not be easily reversed." @nytopinion nytimes.com/2025/06/07/opini…
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The Special Issue on Historical Pharmacopeias is out with History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals. Thanks to Paula de Vos for shepherding this project from inception to completion. As an overview, check out the "Visual Pharmacy" essay (co authored with Dan Smail) which lays out how the project works. hopp.uwpress.org/content/66/…
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From my #Commencement speech @wesleyan_u "Practicing education is like practicing democracy – both are collaborative, experimental paths of improvement, both depend on inclusion rather segregation. Both are now very much endangered." #FreeSpeech #HigherEducation
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"The bill has $1.1 trillion in tax cuts for people who make more than $500k a year..it has $1.1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid &food stamps. ..a straight transfer from people who cannot afford food and medical care to people who can afford to fly 1st class" nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opini…
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We are thrilled to announce our latest round of Course Development awardees! The three awarded grants will support the development of new science and society classes open to undergraduate students. Learn more: tinyurl.com/mh39wa38
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25 Apr 2025
The @JimOwles Dem Club has paved the way for millions of LGTBQ New Yorkers to live freely in our City by fighting for LGBTQ rights, which are evermore threatened by the Trump Administration. Thank you for the trust and faith you've put in me with this endorsement.
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Learn more about the historical evolution of human-earth models by following a network of U.S. postwar technoscientific elites and their allies across the capitalist bloc in the 1970s. RSVP: tinyurl.com/kktaatbp
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RT @ProfKFranke: Breaking: a judge in GA ordered that the fed'l gov't CANNOT pull the visas of foreign students. The order applies ONLY to…

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19 Apr 2025
Fixed it: --> last year, the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal **combined** --> every $1 of research funded by NIH generates $2.56 in economic activity --> more than 1.1M foreign students come to the U.S. each year to study and they contributed over $43 billion to the U.S. economy in foreign currency balances --> students who came to the U.S. to study founded 55% of America’s 582 start-up companies worth at least $1 billion --> cutting health research in Texas will cause a loss of 3,698 jobs and cost the economy $856M --> The University of Alabama is the largest employer in the state --> shortage of trained occ/env docs set to cost CA $1B RECEIPTS🧵
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A photo of Boston's old North Church last night.
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18 Apr 2025
🏆 Congratulations to PhD student Garima Raheja of @Columbia & @LamontEarth, named one of world's top 30 young scientists working on climate solutions with 2025 Inflection Award for scientific excellence, ambition, potential to drive real-world impact! ➡️inflectionaward.com
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In 2023, Biden issued an Executive Order declaring April as Care Worker Recognition Month. And while the Trump administration hasn’t acknowledged it, we won’t wait for any politician to tell us what we already know: care work deserves our unwavering support all year round. truthout.org/articles/lets-r…
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📷 If you're working in an archive this summer, you could win a free @RSAorg year-long membership! ow.ly/8o9R50VBIUE #RenTwitter #earlymodern #twitterstorians
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🔥 TODAY! Apr 18 5-9pm ET, join us for Herança Ancestral, a celebration of Capoeira, Samba, and the deep connections between ancestral arts, community, and knowledge-sharing. Hosted by @columbiaclimate professor Kristina Douglass. Learn more/RSVP: climate.columbia.edu/events/…
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17 Apr 2025
'The Department of History at the University of Texas at Tyler...tenure-track Assistant Professor position in World History, with specialization in the area of East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Islamic World, Sub-Saharan Africa, or Oceania.' jobs.chronicle.com/job/37819…
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Learn more about the historical evolution of human-earth models by following a network of U.S. postwar technoscientific elites and their allies across the capitalist bloc in the 1970s. RSVP: tinyurl.com/kktaatbp
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