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@rmathematicus.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 8:32 AM

From 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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@ferwen.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 4:20 PM

September 23, 1832, Darwin recovered his first fossil at Punta Alta (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He collected a considerable number of fossil mammals from South America. Those discoveries sparked the theory of #evolution
wp.me/p3ihHu-ji #histsci 🧪⚒️

@katysduncan.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 2:15 PM

The @rigb.org's Huxley portrait is **considerably** heavier than it looks.

Fortunately, the rest of the evening belonged to @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social, a menagerie of extinct soft toys, and a fascinating exploration of extinction & de-extinction.

🎥 youtu.be/pISdCeZCYEg
#histsci #envhist

@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 2:00 PM

He slept on soot, wore a blanket pinned with a meat skewer, left a thousand pounds uncashed rather than touch the Queen's stamps. Then he opened a window-grille to dukes, tramps, and Dickens. Meet James Lucas, Hertfordshire's receiving hermit.

https://oddlet.com/p/ikc

#HistSci #history #SciComm

The Hermit Who Kept Office Hours
@fabribald.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 12:29 PM

preparing my class on artisanship, science, modern society, environment and oeconomy as I start with the basics... #EnvironmentalHistory #descartes this text seems appropriate to fulfil my reasoning! #17thcentury #envhist #histsci

@minouette.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 11:36 AM

Day 23 #SciArtSeptember prompt is copper so I am sharing my #linocut of the first woman to earn a doctorate in science, physicist and professor Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti (née, & known throughout her life as Bassi, 1711-1778). 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡🎢 #histsci

I’ve shown her surrounded by the sort of

My linocut on white Japanese paper shows 18th century woman (Laura Bassi) in dress with fur cape, and hair in ringlets with a hairpiece which echoes a laurel crown. She’s holding an open book with Newtonian optics diagrams and in front of her is an electrical machine (a stand with vertical large glass plate and hand crank and brass tubes to channel the large electrostatic charges it could generate through friction). She is surrounded by typical high tech lab equipment of her day like conductors, an aurora flask, a luminous discharge tube, a Lane electrometer, Leyden jars and Volta's electric pistol. It’s printed in a gradient of a hint of turquoise through violet to red-magenta to bronze from the bottom to the top.
@friendsofdarwin.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 9:27 AM

23-Sep: On this day in 1832, young Charles Darwin made an important discovery at Punta Alta in Argentina: the fossil remains of what he took to be a species of rhinoceros. It was actually an extinct species of giant ground sloth, or Megatherium…
friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar...
#HistSci

@bartlettastro.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 3:27 AM

For those that observe, may you and yours be blessed w/ abundance & balance this #equinox

Sept 23 0005 UT (Sept 22 2005 EDT)
#Sun crossed #celestialequator southward

UMass Amherst Sunwheel vividly teaches these #season cycles

#astrophysics #autumnalequinox #calendar #fall #histsci 🧪🏛️🍎☀️ #scicomm

Red-gold sunset sky over distant hills framing two standing stones with a sign identifying the direction as "West" in the foreground. Two people, one with a dog on a leash, are talking by the stones.
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 2:00 PM

He failed out of two religious orders and passed his ordination exam by luck. Then he started levitating — triggered by music, stray remarks, the mention of heaven. The Church's solution: ban him from everything.

https://oddlet.com/p/lij

#HistSci #history #SciComm

The Friar Who Kept Flying
@alisabokulich.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 1:45 PM

via Siska De Baerdemaeker:
2 #HPS #philjobs in Philosophy Dept @ Stockholm Uni:
1. #PhilSci w/ a focus on social epistemology, values & science:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

2. #HistSci or #DigitalHumanities:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Deadline: November 8, 2026.

@minouette.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 1:39 PM

In 1626 she published a 900 page genealogy of Danish nobility. She remained famous for garden till her death in her 80s.

#womenInSTEm #histsci #printerSolstice #sciart

@minouette.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 1:39 PM

Happy birthday to Sophie Brahe (born either Aug 24, 1559 or Sept 22, 1556 -1643) 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🔭 #histsci horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools & illustrations 🧵

My 11” x 14” linocut portrait of Sophie Brahe, a Renaissance aristocrat in headgear, ruff, dark clothing with medallion on a wide band and a long scarf or other thin fabric draped over her shoulders with her hands folded in front of her and alchemical vessels, printed in dark bronze ink, on a bronze background. In green behind her head is a map of the gardens at Uranienborg, with her head at the centre of the diamond shaped pale green knot garden (geometric planned gardens). This is surrounded by an orchard in darker green with semicircle bump outs on each side of the diamond. The stars of Cassiopeia from De stelle nova are printed in gold on top of everything; there are stars across her chest and ruff and in the garden and the large supernova is above her head
@bartlettastro.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 10:02 PM

To those who observe, may you have a good final sealing.

#RoshHashanah is #newmoon, #newyear
#YomKippur occurs 10 days later w/ #Moon waxing but not yet full

Jewish #calendar synchronizes #moonphases & #seasons ( #lunar & #solar cycles).

#timekeeping #astrophysics #histsci 🧪🍎 🏛️ #scicomm

c.4th/5th cen CE bronze protective talisman with three Jewish symbols: a lulav, menorah, and shofar. photograph by J.-L. Pilon of item in Reifenberg collection, Israel Museum.
@beamjockey.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 5:37 PM

I don't watch a lot of TV news, but I sure hope the news channels are making hay out of "Secretary Bessent asserts (smugly) that Robert Oppenheimer was NOT a physicist."

Perhaps interviewing a Historian of Science.

Or, better, a Sixth Grader Who Has Learned How To Use An Encyclopedia.

#HistSci

@sarabpritchard.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 3:28 PM

Delighted to share that I'll be on @askhistorians.bsky.social to talk #ArtificialLight #LightPollution #Night #Darkness 🌌💡🌃🛰️ tomorrow, 9/22 -- the day that #TransformingNight drops! 🥳🤩
#envhist #envhum #histtech #histsci #sts #histSTM

@fabribald.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 3:21 PM

My book review of a nice volume on #plantphilosophy #plantcognition #planthumanities - the volume is edited by Ferretti, Schulte and Wild, Philosophy of Plant Cognition #plantstudies #histsci

www.academia.edu/175946150/Bo...

@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 2:01 PM

She slept in a rosewood coffin, took mail through a hinged skull named Sophie, and shot a boa constrictor in her drawing room. Sarah Bernhardt, the most famous actress alive, also kept an alligator. She fed him champagne.

https://oddlet.com/p/hz3

#HistSci #history #SciComm

The Divine Sarah's Menagerie
@minouette.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 12:25 PM

elected to the Geological Society of America in 1924; & elected VP of the GSA in 1930. She was associate editor of the American Geologist, 1896-1905. In 1906 she was added to the list of 100 most influential geologists by Men in Science, selected by her peers. #printmaking #histsci #linocut

@minouette.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 12:25 PM

The next category for #sciArtSeptember is category, starting with kaolin, a mineral which appears in several papers of US geologist & prof Florence Bascom (1862-1945). 👩🏼‍🔬⚒️🧪 #histsci She championed women’s education, & used polarizing microscopes for detailed petrographic analysis to show that rocks

My linocut portrait of geologist Florence Bascom as a young woman from neck up, in blue, looking at the viewer with her curly hair pulled back wearing a blouse with large lace collar on green vinyl. Behind her are two geological cross-sections with layers carved with different patterns to indicate different rock materials in black. Below on either side are two circular diagrams: these are thin sections of rhyolite printed in pale beige, brown, and black.
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