@rossbrooks.co.ukI wrote this when QUEER ORIGINS was published in the UK. I'm reposting it now the book's out in Canada and the US. Read about the natural wonder of sexual polymorphism—and why Richard Dawkins' view of Darwin needs amending. 🌈📚🦋🗃️
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@royalsocietypublishing.orgLeeuwenhoek in Mexico: new paths in the global circulation of scientific knowledge: doi.org/10.1098/rsnr... Image: Biblioteca Nacional de México #NotesandRecords #HistSci
@rmathematicus.bsky.socialGuillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière perhaps the unluckiest astronomer of all time was born 12 September 1725 #histsci
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@danfalk.bsky.social1/3 Aww, man — writing in 1833, John Herschel says that stellar parallax has never been measured, and that no instrument has yet been built that is “delicate enough” to make this difficult measurement. But… #science #astronomy #histsci
@dollyjorgensen.bsky.socialIf anyone wants to do #histsci research on snowflakes, Buffalo Museum of Science is the place. They have collection of glass plates of snowflake images & accompanying weather data taken by Wilson Bentley, c1900. They look beautiful.
@inverting-vision.bsky.socialThis is a great thread!
Wrote a post a while back on the Dana Expeditions, which mapped the distribution of eel larvae in the 1920s. Oddly, a bunch of the funding came from the Carlsberg Foundation (yes, like the beer), which is celebrating its 150th.
@farsouthhistory.bsky.socialHistorian of Imperialism in the Global South with a preference for #histsci #histSTM! And in TX, it is the private Christian schools where you have actually more freedom of speech than public ones.
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@ccmmody.bsky.socialthe time for coy obfuscation is over - I can announce that the European Society for the History of Science 2028 meeting will take place in Maastricht in the last week of October or the first week of November. Maastricht hosted the first ESHS meeting in 2004, so European #histsci is coming home!
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialIn 1901, she strapped herself into a padded oak barrel with an anvil at her feet and went over Horseshoe Falls. She was sixty-three. A charm-school teacher. Broke. And she had already sent the cat. Meet Annie Edson Taylor, Queen of the Mist.
@stemfem.bsky.social9/11/1847 — b. Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer, professor. #Astronomy professor at Vassar, director of the Vassar Observatory for 22 years, developed Vassar’s renowned scientific program. Co-founder, American Astronomical Society (1899) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #EduSky #HistSci
@medinternational.bsky.socialMeet our CI, Prof. Paula Michaels. She bridges Eastern & Western European histories to examine how medicine is mobilised for political goals. Her work leads our ARC project on Cold War medical diplomacy research.monash.edu/en/persons/paula-michaels/
#HistMed #HistSci #ColdWarHistory #MedHist
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@bhgross144.bsky.socialMy friend Carin Berkowitz was recently diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) & is now searching for a liver donor.
If you are blood type O (+/-) & healthy, you could be a match. Please spread the word & help her beat liver cancer! givealiver.com
@drnereide.bsky.social"If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind."
― Émilie Du Châtelet, passed away #OTD in 1749
I reshare this thread.
@stemfem.bsky.social9/10/1942 — b. Christine Darden, American mathematician, aerospace engineer, data analyst, author. #NASA researcher, preeminent expert on supersonic flight+sonic booms. The first Af-Am wmn senior exec at NASA’s Langley Research Ctr #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #MathSky #SciSky #HistSci #woc
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Simia to Homo: from C. F. Hoppe's Anthropomorpha (1760)
"As for me, I am still uncertain, by what characteristic mark the troglodytes can be distinguished from man, according to the principles of natural history"
#HistSTM #HistSci
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@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialHe shot them with fine shot to spare the feathers, ran wires through the bodies, posed the wings mid-lunge, then often ate the model. Snowy owl, not indelicate. Bald eagle, like veal. John James Audubon, taxidermist of the sublime.
@node801.bsky.social[Archive] The Paradoxa by Linnaeus (1735)
The Paradoxa are the various species Linnaeus did not include in his Systema Natura because he judged them to be either fabulous, the result of mistaken observations by travelers or fraudulent.
#HistSTM #HistSci
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@bshsnews.bsky.social📢 CFP: Natural Histories. Genesis and Transformations of a Philosophical Method
Passing along this external call in case it’s of interest! Lo Sguardo is looking for contributions exploring natural history as both knowledge and method.
📅 30 May 2027
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