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RACE AFTER DARWIN [for Devin Griffiths and Deanna K. Kreisel, eds. 2023. After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge University Press.]
#HistSTM #HistSci #CriticalTheory
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@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialHe threw his pocket-watch into the Seine, tucked his umbrella into bed, and cut two cat-flaps because the kitten needed her own. Meet André-Marie Ampère: founder of electrodynamics, who once chased a fiacre down the street to finish a proof.
@mpiwg.bsky.socialPostdoctoral Scholar Jacob Schmidt-Madsen in conversation with Adrija Roychowdhury for @indianexpress.com
They discuss the cultural history of the #BoardGame "Snakes and Ladders," its spiritual origins in India, and appropriation by Europeans. 🎲
@farsouthhistory.bsky.socialRemember to join the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine's #oceanhist #maritime group today for a discussion of teaching as we assess Ali Glassie's syllabus for "Ocean Literacies" 1-2:30 CT #histsci #envhist
www.chstm.org/group/histor...
@rossbrooks.co.ukIt’s heartening to see QUEER ORIGINS finding its way into libraries — just in time for the new academic year! 🏳️🌈📚🗃️
Academics & students: if your uni library doesn’t have it yet, please ask them to stock it. 🙏
#books #booksky #libraries #lovelibraries #librarians #science #histsci #queerhistory
@arnoldke.bsky.socialIt was a real pleasure to contribute a piece to this fantastically interdisciplinary volume organized by Danielle Sands & Daniel Whistler, in collaboration with colleagues in the Library & Archives at @rbgkew.bsky.social 🌿
@bartlettastro.bsky.socialGot plates?
Astronomical photographic plates that is?
If so, please let us know
2026 Census in Progress
harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Because we can never image the same sky twice
#astronomy #photography #archives #histsci #astrophotography @aas.org @aip.bsky.social 🏛️☀️🧪
@drnereide.bsky.social14 September 2015 went down in #history.
That is, in fact, the day the #LIGO researchers first detected a #gravitationalwave signal, formally named #GW150914.
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
#cosmology #histsci #blackholes 🔭 🧪 ⚛️
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialHe weighed his food, his sleep, his feces, and, by his own accounting, his sex life. For thirty years he sat in a chair that took his dinner away.
@stemfem.bsky.social9/14/1898 — b. Lorna Marshall, American anthropologist, author. Researcher the undocumented Bushmen of Africa, the !Kung people of the Kalahari Desert (1950s-70s). Early scholar to study the traditional hunter-gatherers #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #AnthroSky #anthropology #HistSci #womenwriters
@minouette.bsky.socialDay 14 #SciArtSeptember prompt crescent: 👩🏼🔬🧮🎢🔭 #histsci mathematician & astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788)! My linocut celebrates her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s
@drnereide.bsky.social@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialHe weighed strings with birdshot, photographed the sag, and flipped the picture to find his church. He carried hazelnuts and one key when the tram hit him. Taxis refused the rags. Antoni Gaudí, the dandy who ended up trusting what falls.
@minouette.bsky.socialFor the Day 13 diamond shape prompt of #SciArtSeptember I am sharing Marjorie Rice (née Jeuck, 1923–2017) who discovered 4 new pentagonal tilings of the Euclidian plane! 👩🏼🔬🧮🧪 #histsci
The San Diego mother of 5 (6th died in infancy) completed half a correspondence art course after high school & had
@nichecanada.bsky.socialBaby Teeth and Cold War Radiation
In the second episode of Season Six of NiCHE Conversations, Brandon Cordeiro broke down the baby teeth collection program—where families mailed in lost teeth to help measure radiation after atomic testing.
www.youtube.com/shorts/L-e75...
@historybeagle.bsky.socialA good thread on the vegetable lamb of Tartary, Blackwell and Sloane. #HistSci
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialHe ate his meat raw, slept bolt upright by candlelight, and casually mentioned that 18,000 boys were sacrificed to an ox-headed god each year. Oxford gave George Psalmanazar rooms and asked him to teach the language. He was from Marseille.
