@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialHe dug sixty-five rooms by hand. He grew an orchard twenty-two feet underground. He set an aquarium into the ceiling so he could watch his dinner swim overhead. Baldassare Forestiere, the immigrant who spent forty years going down.
@minouette.bsky.socialHappy birthday to #neuroscientist Hendrik Van der Loos (1929-1993) shown in my #linocut with his discovery (along with medical student Thomas Woolsey), of the barrel cortex, along with the mouse head & whiskers linked directly to it. 🧪🐡🧠 #histsci #histmed
Some species of rodents have a region of
@bookscribbler.bsky.socialJust received the Medical History preprint of my article on Dr J A B Horton. It should be online soon. #hsmt #histmed #histsci @bshsnews.bsky.social @durhamimh.bsky.social #health @africanarchives.bsky.social @pbhosu.bsky.social @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social @africanarchives.bsky.social
@ferwen.bsky.social#FossilFriday Forgotten women of Paleontology: Maria Pavlova wp.me/p3ihHu-4sN #WomenInSTEM #histsci #feministfriday
@wellreadnaturalist.bsky.socialIf you'd like to get nerdy today, and I mean really nerdy, you would be hard pressed to do better than this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social History of Science podcast episode about the new book "Projecting Knowledge: The Optical Lantern and Science Communication, 1880s-1940s" (Brepols). #HistSci
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@drnereide.bsky.socialThis extraordinary image was created by reprocessing & merging 16 frames from Voyager 1's flyby of Jupiter in 1979.
Just right of center, you can see the Great Red Spot, a huge storm system.
➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20062...
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/A. Tranchandon
🔭🧪⚛️ #histsci #planetsci
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialHe sold the Eiffel Tower for scrap in 1925, then came back a month later and sold it again. He borrowed $50,000 from Al Capone and returned every bill.
@mpiwg.bsky.social#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅
Elizabeth Hughes introduces "Biomedical Visions: #Epistemology, #Medicine, and Art Practice." The book explores artist-scientist collaborations in #Biomedicine's past and future. 🩻
@rmathematicus.bsky.socialDanish astronomer, Ole Rømer, who used the Moons of Jupiter to determine the speed of light, was born 25 September 1644 #histsci
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@medinternational.bsky.socialMeet Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Abraham Trejo Terreros
Abraham investigates how medical knowledge moved across Latin America via Pan-American networks, shaping policies in Mexico and beyond during the 20th C.
🌐 research.monash.edu/en/persons/a...
#HistMed #LatinAmericanHistory #HistSci #GlobalHealth
@bhgross144.bsky.socialThomas Pennant, everyone's favorite 18th-century Welsh naturalist and antiquarian, would turn 300 this year!
Now you can peruse a set of newly digitized letters and catalogs of his collections, courtesy of @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social.
@minouette.bsky.social🧪🎢🐡 #histsci
[Alt text: the photo is a coloured version of the famous (amongst physicists) of the attendees of the 1927 Solvay conference, with a veritable who’s who of early 20th century physics. Marie Skłodowska-Curie is the only woman. Names at the link]
@alisabokulich.bsky.socialHere's Tharp's map of the ocean floor— first of its kind—revealing the mid-Atlantic Ridge (photo is of a reproduction of Tharp's map given to me by my wonderful former PhD student @federicabocchi.bsky.social)
Learn more about Tharp here: lamont.columbia.edu/news/marie-t...
#WomenInSTEM #histsci ⚒️ 🌊🧪
@histmedsouth.bsky.socialGentle reminder that our CFP deadline is fast approaching!
Please submit your abstract here:
sahms.wildapricot.org/submit
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialSteel leg braces to fifteen. Thirteen miles down the Thames. Twenty-two down the Danube. Three tries at the English Channel. Then a Boston beach cop arrested her for wearing a one-piece. Meet Annette Kellermann, the Australian mermaid.
@rossbrooks.co.ukLovely plate showing two gynandromorph large yeoman butterflies (Cirrochroa aoris). One is shown from above (top) and beneath (centre). From an 1880 article by English entomologist J.O. Westwood in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 🌈🦋🗃️
@rmathematicus.bsky.socialFrom Brahmagupta to Viète: The thousand year journey of the decimal place-value number system and algebra into formal, European mathematics #histsci
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