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.
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@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialShe 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.
@minouette.bsky.socialelected 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.socialThe 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
@rossbrooks.co.uk📣 A date for your diaries . . .
I’m looking forward to returning to Oxford's Museum of Natural History on Friday 6 November, 6–7:30pm.
It’s free, and everyone’s welcome—but booking is essential. 🌈🦋🗃️
www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/darwin... #histsci #sts #queerhistory #Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social
@principiah.bsky.social6 August 1890, Auburn Prison. William Kemmler is strapped into an oak chair wired to a second-hand alternating dynamo its maker refused to sell. Seventeen seconds; the doctors call it; his chest heaves. The war of the currents at its ugliest.
Ep. 9 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity
#histsci
@bhgross144.bsky.socialHappy birthday to @aaas.org!
The American Association for the Advancement of Sci. was established #OnThisDay in 1848. Its first meeting was held at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. (Another reason it shouldn't close...)
More info: www.aaas.org/news/aaas-ce...
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialA starling in a Vienna shop whistled a concerto back at its composer, held a fermata he hadn't written, and sharpened one G to G#. Mozart bought the bird for 34 Kreuzer, transcribed its version into his household book, and wrote: Das war schön.
@royalsocietypublishing.orgAn instructional map of the ‘sciences’ in early modern France doi.org/10.1098/rsnr... | #NotesAndRecords #HistSci
@minouette.bsky.socialAn inductee in Canadian Science & Engineering Hall of Fame & a designated national historic person.
@minouette.bsky.socialDay 20 #SciArtSeptember prompt is meander so I am sharing geologist & paleontogist Alice Wilson (1881-1964) with the Ottawa River. 🧪👩🏼🔬⚒️ #histsci
A job in the Mineralogy Division of the U of Toronto Museum was her entry into #geology. In 1909 as a museum assistant with Geological Survey of Canada
@royalsocietypublishing.orgIn order to understand early modern science, images are no less significant than words. A new #NotesandRecords special issue examines a wide range of images, from true-to-life drawings to carefully conceived schematics: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsnr/issue/8... #HistSci #HistSTM
@bartlettastro.bsky.social"And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by" (Sea-Fever, Masefield)
... & a quadrant for sights & calculations
celestial #navigation in the #GoldenAgeofPiracy
#celnav #astrophysics🧪🏛️ #talklikeapirateday #histsci #MarinersMuseum #instrumentation #timekeeping
@bernadettecogswell.bsky.socialInteresting reading. But this line from the author felt piercing, “note: I personally view wanting to be first to a discovery as a relatively fixed behavioral quality of scientists for at least the next few generations.” When did we become about priority > purpose? #scisci #metascience #histsci
@royalsocietypublishing.orgLeeuwenhoek in Mexico: new paths in the global circulation of scientific knowledge doi.org/10.1098/rsnr... | #NotesAndRecords #HistSci #AnthonyVanLeeuwenhoek
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialHe catalogued 98,721 letters. He did math in his head at night to hold off doubt. When even that failed, Lewis Carroll invented a gridded card so he could write in bed without lifting his hands from the sheets.
@ferwen.bsky.socialFlorentino Ameghino, pioneer of Argentine paleontology, was born #OTD 1854. He was a key figure in the development of science in the country. The Ameghino crater, located north of Sinus Successus on the Moon, is named in his honor—a very rare privilege for a paleontologist
wp.me/p3ihHu-Af #histsci
@ferwen.bsky.social#FossilFriday Elizabeth Vrba (1942-2025). Her extraordinary legacy continues to inspire researchers and students around the world. paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/t... #womeninstem #histsci 🧪⚒️
@bhgross144.bsky.socialHistory of science & #BookHistory friends: What was the size of the initial print run of Hooke's Micrographia?
(I've frequently seen the 1st edition referred to as a bestseller, but haven't found a source that confirms how many copies the Royal Society commissioned...)
