She 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.

https://oddlet.com/p/6q3

#HistSci #history #SciComm

Christen 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...

The 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.

https://oddlet.com/p/6hk

#HistSci #history #SciComm

I’m proud to announce that my dissertation was approved today! Onto the next project. #phd #earlymodern #histsci

Looking 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 🧪

02-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

19 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

🔭🧪⚛️ #planetsci #histsci #astronomy #science

Early comet descriptions
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fNkuHyXLDP8 #histsci #histastro

He counted his paces at every doorway. He laid a hand on every post he passed. Miss one, and he walked back. This was Samuel Johnson, the man who fixed the meaning of forty thousand English words.

https://oddlet.com/p/xb8

#HistSci #history #SciComm

So good to see QUEER ORIGINS in my local public library!

I love spotting the different ways that bookshops and libraries categorise the book. Some put it in their science section, others history, others (as here) LGBTQ. All are correct! 🌈📚🦋🗃️

#books #booksky #reading #histsci @yalebooks.bsky.social

For #spacetober_challenge day 2: galaxy - astronomer Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies &
🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 #histsci

There is still time to register for @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social seminar "Empires of Extinction in the Anthropocene" on Tuesday, 15-16 CET (abstract below). For Zoom link please email: [email protected] #skystorians #histsci #envhist

A lot has changed at LHL, but Bill Ashworth’s posts remain consistently excellent. I particularly appreciate when he call attention to recent acquisitions as w/his Maestlin post from earlier this week.

https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/michael-maestlin-2/ #histSTM #histsci

Big changes are afoot at my former place of employment!

I wish my colleagues at the Linda Hall Library the best of luck finding a new leader committed to growing & maintaining its print collections and supporting scholarship that bridges the divide between STEM & the humanities.

#histsci #histSTM

[Archive]
Notes on Royal Society’s “Types of Mankind” post (2012)
#HistSTM #HistSci
until-darwin.blogspot.com/2012/10/note...

Oct. 1, 1847, Nantucket (MA).

That evening, 29-year-old #MariaMitchell went to the roof of their home above the Pacific Bank.

With a small 2-inch telescope she spotted a fuzzy object 5° above Polaris, the North Star.

It wasn't on the charts. It was moving. A telescopic #comet.

🔭🧪⚛️ #HistSci

This semester's Colloquium of History & Philosophy of Science will start in 2 weeks! We have 9 amazing speakers and great topics, so come around to room GA 1/128 at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de and join us for great talks and interesting discussions! 🤗
#HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio #HPS

The court jurist: raw poultry and fish pinned around a syphilis-scarred face. The historian: a stack of books. Then, around 1590, Giuseppe Arcimboldo turned to Rudolf II, the most powerful man in Christendom, and reached for a pear.

https://oddlet.com/p/ljv

#HistSci #history #SciComm

Check out Samantha Wagner's review of David Bainbridge's "Geology: An Illustrated History," published in 2026 by @princetonupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #histsci
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...