Gabriel Finkelstein

@gabridli

Biographer of Emil du Bois-Reymond, the greatest forgotten intellectual of the 19th century Shortlisted Pickstone Prize.

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Joined October 2013
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    26 Dec 2014

    The greatest forgotten intellectual of the 19th century: Emil du Bois-Reymond †1896

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    May 19

    He kidnaps; she screams: Fascinating analysis of plot descriptions of 100,000 stories shows which verbs are most likely to follow "he" rather than "she," and vice versa

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    "The Revolutionary Tradition and Its Lost Treasure" (1963)

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    20 hours ago

    Was Giordano Bruno Burned at the Stake for Believing in Exoplanets? Most historians say no, but new evidence suggests otherwise. By Alberto A. Martínez:

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    18 hours ago

    When your institution is unhappy with your tweets.

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    May 30

    History is at least as hard to teach and to learn as anything in STEM. People approach it with false beliefs + assumption it's easy. Have to unteach that, then teach new, specific, abstract way of thinking thru infinite variables + tons of content to get that far.

    Unpopular opinion: History Edition. (LMAO does this format even work with this discipline?)
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    23 hours ago

    NEW on Forbidden Histories: Why Was the First Compilation of William James’ Essays on Unorthodox Science Published in French?

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    May 30

    List of more than twenty mostly Jewish Nobel Prize winning scientists who left Germany between 1933 and 1945; most of them for the United States. If you turn your back on science, it will abandon you and enrich others. (Beyerchen, “Scientists under Hitler”)

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    May 30

    I want us to be radically philosophical about philosophy of science. Meaning: I want us to push the question of what we really can do, what possibilities we have, & what further can be done. I am deeply convinced that philosophy of science is most valuable in this critical sense.

    Replying to @smellosopher
    Is this what you want with respect to philosophy of science?
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    18 hours ago

    “Kim wants to .. explore how and why ballooning, balloonists, and their audiences got embroiled in the politics of the day.” Michael R. Lynn on Mi Gyung Kim, “The Imagined Empire: Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe”, Isis 109/1, .

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    May 29
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    Thanks dear Spiros🍀 all 🎶💞 🎨Frank Dicksee

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    May 29

    I'm working on re-writing our department's history for our website. One of the things we're getting rid of is the white-washing of some of the deep racism among the founders of our department. When people talk about the institutional racism of the academy, these histories matter

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    May 29

    Brandon Stell, head of , signed the letter defending Jessus, calling to punish her critics. And I sent him the invitation. Scary. This is what they protest against:

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  14. May 29

    As an Oxycontin 'junkie' at Yale, I saw how my addiction helped fund the university | Matthew Jeffrey Abrams

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  15. May 28

    Why do computers make weird noises in movies?

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  16. May 28

    History of Sciencey

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    May 28

    Ideas that won't go away. The Mediterranean Diet. Thanks for this debunking, Gary. Like spring cleaning it has to be done regularly.

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    May 28

    Good point. But what about the increasing lack of scholars' anonymity in the age of wider public scholarship? Sometimes the author is unable to remain anonymous (esp.with non-mainstream specialization). Undermining double-blind review regardless. Maybe it's time for open review?

    Really important to consider these stats if you are making your work available on e.g. arXiv prior to publication
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    May 28

    There's something deeply perplexing about people who write me letters in languages I don't speak.

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  20. May 28

    I want to generate discussion. Historiography shouldn't be taught in the least interesting manner, i.e., assigning a laundry-list survey organized by chronology.

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    May 28

    I know, I know, I know...

    All too often Ph.D.s nurture lingering hopes that a non-tenure-track job is the equivalent of a foot in the door — a door that leads to the promised land of tenure-track appointments. That is not the case.
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