Centre for the Global Histories Medicine, Disease and Health at Durham University is launching the History of Medicine Lab To facilitate discussion about new publications, films and documentaries relevant to #histmed
open to anyone (incl. students) in the university & wider northeast
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Margaret Hamilton Led the NASA Software Team That Landed Astronauts on the Moon:

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#WomenInSTEM #histSTM #ProtectTheSmithsonian

I am delighted to share our fall 2026 lineup for the #Harvard Science and Technology in Asia online seminar series!

Join us over Zoom for six terrific talks from October through December. All are welcome.

Details and registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia

#histstm #sts 🧪

Historian of Imperialism in the Global South with a preference for #histsci #histSTM! And in TX, it is the private Christian schools where you have actually more freedom of speech than public ones.
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(Appel à candidatures) Soutien financier à la recherche du Comité pour l'histoire de l'Inserm histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/09/sout... #histSTM

First use in print of the math term 'googol,' invented by mathematician Edward Kasner's 9-year-old nephew (Mathematics and the Imagination)

#histSTM #mathematics

My friend Carin Berkowitz was recently diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) & is now searching for a liver donor.

If you are blood type O (+/-) & healthy, you could be a match. Please spread the word & help her beat liver cancer! givealiver.com

#CancerSucks #skystorians #histsci #histSTM

[Archive]
Simia to Homo: from C. F. Hoppe's Anthropomorpha (1760)
"As for me, I am still uncertain, by what characteristic mark the troglodytes can be distinguished from man, according to the principles of natural history"
#HistSTM #HistSci
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[Archive] The Paradoxa by Linnaeus (1735)
The Paradoxa are the various species Linnaeus did not include in his Systema Natura because he judged them to be either fabulous, the result of mistaken observations by travelers or fraudulent.
#HistSTM #HistSci
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It seems to be a flawed kind of Baconianism (as people in the 17thC imagined machines might manage). As Philip says in the thread, it would be good if some historians and philosophers of science were brought into such initiatives and discussions. #hps #histSTM

OTD in 1854, Charles Darwin began sorting his notes in preparation for writing a treatise with the working title “Natural Selection.”

He would never publish the book, instead publishing a short “abstract”—titled “On the Origin of Species”—in 1859.

🐋🌱 #HistSTM #evolbio 🧪

OTD in 1854, Charles Darwin began sorting his notes in preparation for writing a treatise with the working title “Natural Selection.”

He would never publish the book, instead publishing a short “abstract”—titled “On the Origin of Species”—in 1859.

🐋🌱 #HistSTM #evolbio 🧪

The boys are, of course, #puttiofscience and, gloriously, one of the drawings produced by the drawing putto is another #puttoofscience in a chariot being pulled by a butterfly! (I'm sure you know this @dominikhhh.bsky.social!) #histSTM

Look what I saw in Neuchâtel! So wonderfully discussed in Simon Schaffer's Mechanical Marvels, Clockwork Dreams en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaquet-... #histSTM

And to return to Rachel's point: We'd better not tell them anything about Abrahman Ibn Ezra's Sefer ha-Mispar.
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#mathematics

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Late to the party, but recently come across "Salutogenic Urbanism: Architecture and Public Health in Early Modern European Cities" ed. Mohammad Gharipour and Anatole Tchikine that has some great contributions

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#histmed #histstm

[Archive]
Until (and a bit after) Darwin
for "Diversity, Culture, Theory, and Data: Science on Human Variety."
SLAS Faculty Research Seminar (2011).
#HistSTM #HistSci
#CharlesDarwin
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