@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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@farsouthhistory.bsky.socialAwesome looking position at WPI #envhist #histsci #exploration
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@bmleitner.bsky.social
@inverting-vision.bsky.socialIn 1962, science's role in NASA/Apollo was uncertain. That June, scientists and officials met for a massive summer study. Among them were Van Allen, Kuiper, Shoemaker, Spitzer, Whipple, Drake, and Sagan.
I wrote about the study for The Space Review:
thespacereview.com/article/5308/1
#histsci 🗃️🔭
@duhe.bsky.social
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialHe entered Oxford at twelve, coined "international," and spent six decades redesigning civilization. He spent sixty-three years on his body's afterlife. UCL still wheels him into meetings. The minutes list him as present but not voting.
@alejandrofabregastejeda.comDeciding when a new experimental system is worth developing is costly & challenging. Vallejos-Baccelliere offers a framework grounded in 3 exp. virtues: opening data domains, enabling fine-grained interventions & reducing theoretical dependence 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #histsci
@drnereide.bsky.socialHe is not talking about the animal.
He is shutting women out of the laboratory and calling that mercy.
Hyde explains that the octopus's thrashing is just a reflex, puts it back on the table, and finishes the experiment.
Then she invents the microelectrode.🧪
@drnereide.bsky.socialThe scene that comes next is worth the whole thread on its own: the Kaiser walks in, the octopus thrashes, she is accused of cruelty.
"We may tolerate heartless research in American women, but our sympathetic German women would refrain from such cruel occupations!"🧪
@rmathematicus.bsky.socialThe Chinese use of the method of exhaustion and the determination of the value of pi #histsci
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@friendsofdarwin.bsky.social08-Sep: On this day in 1832, Charles Darwin observed gauchos using bolas. He later tried them out for himself, and managed to ensnare his own horse in the process… friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar...
#HistSci
@rossbrooks.co.ukDARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE is now published in the UK, Canada, and the US! 🏳️🌈📚🦋🗃️
Every recommendation helps get this extraordinary history into more hands, so please ask your favourite libraries and bookstores to stock it. Thank you! 🙏
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialHe set out honey for cold bees, moved worms off the road, and asked a red-hot cautery iron to be courteous before it touched his face. Then, in 1220, Francis of Assisi walked out alone to negotiate with the wolf eating the town of Gubbio.
@richardfisher.bsky.socialOne day, historian Alison Bashford opened a manila file in the Wellcome Collection and came across this striking palm print, owned by a gorilla called "Mok"... it would lead to a deep dive into medicine's fascination with decoding the hand 🧪 #histsci aeon.co/essays/what-...
@lignedescience.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gyDécouvrir une figure encore trop méconnue de l'histoire des mathématiques : la grande Sophie Germain (1776-1831) !
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/serie-avoir-raison-avec-sophie-germain
#histmaths #histsci #womeninSTEM
@ianhopkinson.bsky.socialBook review: The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe ianhopkinson.org.uk/2026/09/book... #histsci #bookreview #alchemy #chemistry