If anyone is interested in #Antarctic History #envhist #histsci #exploration, you should check out the new (mostly digitized) collection at UT-Arlington!
mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcolle...
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@farsouthhistory.bsky.socialIf anyone is interested in #Antarctic History #envhist #histsci #exploration, you should check out the new (mostly digitized) collection at UT-Arlington!
mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcolle...
@fabribald.bsky.socialWild strawberries - among many other cases, in Leonart Fuchs's Historia stirpium (1542), plant illustrations depict the entire lifecycle of plants, including all parts, showing flowers at various stages, and capturing the entire life of plants🍓🫛🌹 #histbotany #visualknowledge #histsci #illustrations
@bhgross144.bsky.socialSure, Photograph 51 is cool, but if you really want to understand Rosalind Franklin's DNA research, you need to look at Photograph 49!
Congrats to @alistairsponsel.bsky.social & Brian Sutton on the publication of their compelling new @jhistbiol.bsky.social article!
@drnereide.bsky.socialYou are looking at the dunes of Endurance Crater on #Mars, in this approximate true-color panoramic camera image, highlighting the reddish-colored dust present there.
What a fascinating geological phenomenon!
science.nasa.gov/resource/end...
🔭🧪⚛️ #planetsci #HistSci
@node801.bsky.social"One of the most important works of Darwin scholarship has now been fully transcribed for Darwin Online:
Di Gregorio, Mario A. with the assistance of N. W. Gill. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia. Volume I. New York; London: Garland. #HistSTM #Histsci
darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...
@stemfem.bsky.social10/5/1932 — b. June Almeida, Scottish virologist. Discoverer of the first #coronavirus; a pioneer in virus imaging, identification, and diagnosis. Her skills in electron microscopy earned her an international reputation #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #SciSky #HIstSci #BioSky #virology #covid #viruses
@ferwen.bsky.socialHappy 121st birthday to our favorite dinosaur: #OTD in 1905, Henry Fairfield Osborn published the first description of the T. rex 🦖⚒️🧪#histsci
paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/a...
@jasonwdean.comAlways a treat to see mine and Nick's article on Galileo's *il Saggiatore* put to good use #HistSTM #histsci 🗃️📜🔬📜 #libsky #rarebooks #booksky : www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialOtters climbed out of the North Sea to dry his feet. Ravens brought lard by way of apology. He stood neck-deep in the surf singing psalms until dawn. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, patron saint of the cuddy duck.
@duhe.bsky.socialDan David Postdoc fellowships. Suitable to anyone working on topics that can be considered as studying the human past. #history #histsci en-humanities.tau.ac.il/dan-david-fe...
@drnereide.bsky.social" #Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve."
— #MaxPlanck, 'Where Is Science Going?' (1932)
He passed away #OTD in 1947.
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialShe was five feet tall, sewed her own Quaker skirts, and could split a playing card edge-on at thirty paces. In 1889, Annie Oakley asked for a volunteer in Berlin. The newly crowned Kaiser stepped forward with a cigarette between his lips.
@rmathematicus.bsky.socialChristen Sørensen, better known as Longomontanus, Tycho Brahe's longest serving and leading observatory assistant, was born 4 October 1562 #histsci
thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/08/08/t...
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialThe plan took two minutes: cross-dress as a lady's maid, shoot the fiancée's mother and the piano manufacturer, swallow poison. Backup laudanum in case the pistols misfired. Hector Berlioz, twenty-seven, freshly crowned Prix de Rome, prepared.
@sthosdkane.bsky.socialI’m proud to announce that my dissertation was approved today! Onto the next project. #phd #earlymodern #histsci
@eastasiascitech.bsky.socialLooking forward to welcoming Zuoyue Wang to Harvard next week! 🚀
His talk follows "Father of Chinese Rocketry" Qian Xuesen across the Pacific to explore the changing relationship between science and politics in the Cold War and after.
seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histsci #histstm 🧪
@friendsofdarwin.bsky.social02-Oct: On this day in 1836, HMS ’Beagle’ docked in Falmouth after an almost five-year voyage circumnavigating the globe. After he disembarked, young Charles Darwin was to remain a landlubber for the rest of his life.
friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar...
#HistSci
@drnereide.bsky.social19 January 2007, natural color.
Not a single frame: 36 wide-angle shots from #Cassini, assembled later.
Spacecraft was ~1.23 million km from #Saturn.
Image scale 70 km/pixel.
-> science.nasa.gov/photojournal...
📷NASA/JPL/SSI
@alisabokulich.bsky.social