@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
@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
