Welcome to my newsletter!

Or how I learned stop worrying and love the destruction of Twitter by a capricious billionaire

Hello there and welcome to my newsletter!

First of all, to thank you for subscribing (or if you haven’t subscribed yet, to thank you for reading this), here is a photo of my dog Maddy:

If you find yourself reading this, you probably follow me on the fast crumbling bird site. Hopefully this will be a nicer (less musky) way for me to share updates about my current writing projects and a way for us to keep in touch if Twitter does end up completely collapsing.

So, what will the Well-Read Herring newsletter be about?

As you perhaps know, I am writing a book about the life of French philosopher Henri Bergson for Basic Books. Before that, I was writing a PhD thesis on the links between Bergson’s philosophy and early 20th-century biology. In my research, I am always coming across fascinating stories, figures and ideas which don’t quite fit in my various projects. I always put them aside hoping I will one day find a home for them. I have decided this newsletter could be just that: a place for me to share all the interesting finds which would otherwise just sit collecting digital dust in a poorly organised file on my computer.

I hope to send you these once a month (perhaps more realistically once every two months). This week, I will be sharing the first one, the story of two French zoologists who tried to bring down Darwinism in the second half of the 20th century.

If that sounds good, and you haven’t already, why don’t you subscribe? Come on, what have you got to lose? Nothing! What do you stand to gain? Some very niche facts!

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I hope you have a fabulous day/evening!

Emily

P.S. Did you know Henri Bergson is an anagram of Herring bones?