@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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@ferwen.bsky.socialSeptember 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.socialThe @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.
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialHe 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.
@fabribald.bsky.socialpreparing 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.socialDay 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
@friendsofdarwin.bsky.social23-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.socialFor 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
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialHe 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.
@alisabokulich.bsky.socialvia 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.socialIn 1626 she published a 900 page genealogy of Danish nobility. She remained famous for garden till her death in her 80s.
@minouette.bsky.socialHappy 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 🧵
@bartlettastro.bsky.socialTo 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).
@beamjockey.bsky.socialI 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.
@sarabpritchard.bsky.socialDelighted 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.socialMy 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