And here (free): jhiblog.org/2017/11/13/w...

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Indeed, years before Genealogy of Morals, Darwin had argued that our moral principles had evolved from social instincts.

I wrote about that here (paywall): https://muse.jhu.edu/article/676147/pdf

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Friedrich Nietzsche was born OTD in 1844.

He derided Darwin’s theory, but On Truth and Lies explores the human mind as evolved. And Genealogy of Morals treats the evolution (“genealogy”) of our moral principles as more deeply revealing than their content.

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Congrats to @mbaldwin.bsky.social on the publication of her new book!

In Referees We Trust? is available in an open access edition from @mitpress.bsky.social and considers the rise of #PeerReview and how it became associated w/ideas of scientific legitimacy.

#histSTM #histsci #scicomm #booksky 🗃️📜📚

Some of you may be wondering why these incredible #histSTM & #BookHistory videos were taken down in the first place.

I can't speak to that, but I'm glad they're back. (Jason's chats with Nick Wilding, Adrian Johns & @prossian.bsky.social are personal favorites.)

#histsci #histastro #astronomy 🗃️📜🔭

Thanks to @bhgross144.bsky.social I am pleased to share that ALL of the LHL videos and programs are back online! Let's celebrate with some favorite ones I did, and this, with Nick Wilding on Galileo's Sidereus is still my top fav: #HistSTM #histsci 🗃️📜🔬 #libsky #rarebooks youtu.be/0pkJVR_C7XU?...

(Call for Papers) Community Mental Health in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/10/la-s... #histSTM

Hot off the press! 📚

Glad to see 𝘈 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, edited by Stephen Mosley, now in print. I had fun writing the chapter on "Work, Energy, and Power," with thanks to Stephen for shepherding the whole project to completion.

#envhist #envhum #histstm

(Colloque) Avec Contrepartie. Consentement & Transactions sexuelles histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/10/cons... #histSTM #histsex

The international working-group on Religion, Medicine, Disability, and Health in late antiquity invites applications for its 2027 article-in-progress workshop.

Find the call for applications in the attached link.

#histmed #histstm

Ten years ago today, I had the chance to show some incredible astronomy books to @stationcdrkelly.bsky.social during his visit to the Linda Hall Library.

(He asked me to take a photo of him holding a copy of Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius.)

#histsci #histSTM
#histastro #astronomy
#OnThisDay 🔭

The team would like to send a warm congratulations to Dr Elma Brenner for securing £1.2 million UK Research and Innovation award to become a Future Leaders Fellow.

The project will explore the relationship between healing and handcrafts in 1200-1550 France.

#histmed #histstm

As Weird Al once observed, a television like this was like having a drive-in movie in your own living room!

#TVHistory #histSTM #histtech 📺

📢📣The UK's National Archives has launched the Hospital Records Database - brilliant #HistMed #HistSTM #HistNursing #DisHist #HistPsych resource📣📢
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🔔 Coming up in our Seminar Series:

🗓️Wed 14 Oct | 15.00-16.30
📍Room STR807, Strand building, KCL
"The construction and maintenance of landline telegraphy in South America: A comparative analysis"
Dr Francisca Valenzuela Villaseca

#histsci #histtech #histmed #histstm

Africa, Evolution, and Representations of Lucy/Dinknesh
"...the question is not whether Lucy/Dinknesh is human, nor is it a matter of simply measuring the degree to which she can be classified as 'African'..."
#HistSTM #HistSci #Sociology #CharlesDarwin
until-darwin.blogspot.com/2018/07/afri...

#HistSTM & #HistSci friends: Did you enjoy Sponsel & Sutton's @jhistbiol.bsky.social article on Photograph 49?

If so, I highly recommend @byjessicadavies.bsky.social's essay on the subject, which features additional pages from Franklin's notebooks & Wilkins's correspondence!

#WomenInSTEM #DNA 🗃️📜🧬

I analyzed this cartoon as an example of the “march of progress” image in my essay review “Hey, Hey, We’re the Monkeys.”

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

There’s a paywall. DM me if interested.

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OTD in 1881, Charles Darwin published his last book, on earthworms.

It reflected a long interest in animal minds: “One alternative alone is left, namely, that worms, although standing low in the scale of organization, possess some degree of intelligence.”

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