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Etymology and entomology: The semiotics and ethics of multispecies gene nomenclatures

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract This article examines controversies surrounding gene names that are perceived as humorous in the context of fruit flies but are considered rude in the clinical context of human medicine. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in insect laboratories, interviews with entomologists and geneticists, and an analysis of scientific and clinical ...
Colin M. E. Halverson
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: Ancient diseases and medical care: paleopathological insights, volume II. [PDF]

Front Med (Lausanne)
Nerlich AG, Bianucci R, Galassi FM, Saleem SN.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Contradicting Kuhn's Popular Notion of Scientific Revolution: Conservative Revolutionaries in the History of Biology

Natural Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Proposing the concept of a conservative revolutionary generally and using the examples of Gregor Mendel, Max Delbrück, and Eric Davidson, I fundamentally call into question Thomas Kuhn's ideas of scientific revolutions. I also highlight some problematic consequences of the increasing appreciation of Kuhn's work among scientists and show that ...
Ute Deichmann
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Editorial: Mobilities, migration, and digital humanities. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Chaudhuri M, Chattopadhyay C, Menon N, Arthur PL, Kenderdine S, Rischard M, Shanmugapriya T.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Introduction: A Mnemosyne of Art & Science

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Ana Duarte Rodrigues, Luís Campos Ribeiro, Henrique Leitão   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause

History, Volume 111, Issue 396, Page 347-368, June 2026.
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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REALISM OR IDEALISM? PERSPECTIVES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY FROM A PRACTICING HISTORIAN

History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 298-308, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This review essay argues that the realist philosophy of history, as represented by Adam Timmins in Towards a Realist Philosophy of History, raises interesting questions about the nature of historical writing and challenges some of the foundations of idealist philosophy of history.
Stefan Berger
wiley   +1 more source

Politics, geopolitics, and the history of science: on James Secord's "Inventing the scientific revolution". [PDF]

Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
Barahona A, Becerra-Bressant B, Galván-Escobar D, Granados-Riveros L, Ornelas-Cruces M, Raj K, Serrano-Juárez D, Torrens E, Villegas-López T, Villela-González MA.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM

History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 271-297, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
wiley   +1 more source