(Colloque) Lutter contre la nocivité : Travail, santé et environnement entre savoirs et pouvoirs (XIXème – XXIème siècles) histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/10/trav... #histmed #histSTM #envhist

Sure, Photograph 51 is cool, but if you really want to understand Rosalind Franklin's DNA research, you need to look at Photograph 49!

Congrats to @alistairsponsel.bsky.social & Brian Sutton on the publication of their compelling new @jhistbiol.bsky.social article!

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"One of the most important works of Darwin scholarship has now been fully transcribed for Darwin Online:
Di Gregorio, Mario A. with the assistance of N. W. Gill. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia. Volume I. New York; London: Garland. #HistSTM #Histsci
darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...

OTD in 1905, Henry Fairfield Osborn named Tyrannosaurus Rex, the king of the tyrant lizards. The specimen was collected by Barnum Brown in the Hell Creek formation in Montana.

Below are the first published image of T. rex and a photo of the fossil being removed from the quarry.

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Always a treat to see mine and Nick's article on Galileo's *il Saggiatore* put to good use #HistSTM #histsci 🗃️📜🔬📜 #libsky #rarebooks #booksky : www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...

📣 Important Membership News 📣 Keep informed with latest issue of The Gazette (September 2026). This issue explains changes to membership management with a new system from November. Look out for your renewal letters arriving early December.
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Looking forward to welcoming Zuoyue Wang to Harvard next week! 🚀

His talk follows "Father of Chinese Rocketry" Qian Xuesen across the Pacific to explore the changing relationship between science and politics in the Cold War and after.

seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia

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The postwar funding boom in US physics came to a halt at the end of the 1960s, when officials in the Nixon administration made major cuts to the federal science budget. As historian Julia Menzel of @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social notes, the lessons learned then may be helpful to today’s scientists. #histSTM

OTD in 1836, HMS Beagle docked at Falmouth, after a 5 year voyage.

Charles Darwin wrote in his diary, “To my surprise and shame, I confess the first sight of the shores of England inspired me with no warmer feelings, than if it had been a miserable Portuguese settlement.”

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A lot has changed at LHL, but Bill Ashworth’s posts remain consistently excellent. I particularly appreciate when he call attention to recent acquisitions as w/his Maestlin post from earlier this week.

https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/michael-maestlin-2/ #histSTM #histsci

Big changes are afoot at my former place of employment!

I wish my colleagues at the Linda Hall Library the best of luck finding a new leader committed to growing & maintaining its print collections and supporting scholarship that bridges the divide between STEM & the humanities.

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[Archive]
Notes on Royal Society’s “Types of Mankind” post (2012)
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until-darwin.blogspot.com/2012/10/note...

"We seek a historian specializing in the modern history of science, technology, & medicine ... and will consider applicants who specialize in any scientific practice in any part of the world since 1600." App review begins Nov 6, so after election results. 👀

faculty.utexas.edu/career/193102 #HistSTM

(Parution) D’en haut. La photographie aérienne et ses usages savants (1918-1939) sciencepress.mnhn.fr/fr/collectio... #histSTM

(New Book) Cultural Techniques of Biosensing. A History of the Body in Error histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/10/une-... #histSTM #histbody