The earliest medical images of the plague: manuscripts of Aldobrandino of Siena’s Régime du corps, pestilence, and the Black Death: doi.org/10.1098/rsnr... Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France #NotesandRecords #HistSci #HistMed

She stopped going to church at thirty. Skipped her own father's funeral one floor above. And yet Emily Dickinson lowered gingerbread by rope to the neighborhood children she called storm-tossed pirates.

https://oddlet.com/p/5q7

#HistSci #history #SciComm

I've added the excerpt and Q&A to my website:

rossbrooks.co.uk/2026/08/31/i... #reading #writing #science #nature #Darwin #histsci #queerhistory 🌈

At thirteen, a loom took her right ear, an eyebrow, and most of her scalp. At thirty-seven, she rode alone into the Valleys of the Assassins and corrected the British maps by hand. Freya Stark crossed the desert in a Dior cartwheel brim.

https://oddlet.com/p/65x

#HistSci #history #SciComm

Glad to learn that city & state leaders are trying to keep the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, even though it appears Drexel is abandoning its long-time home on the Ben Franklin Parkway.

6abc.com/post/philade...

#museums #histsci #scicomm

Fascinating long read that should interest many in #envhist #envhum #histsci #energyhist #energyhum #envirotech

Would be a great essay to teach, too--and in STEM courses
What if we taught physics principles, say, with essays like this?