#histbio — Public Fediverse posts

"Perhaps even more fruitful for science was the partnership of biologist Christian Heinrich Pander and artist Eduard d’Alton. Although Pander is often credited with the discovery of the three germ layers of the early vertebrate embryo — the ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm — it was his artist, d’Alton, who first visualized and meticulously drew these as-yet-unnamed structures."
#histsci #histbio #artsci #sciart
https://archive.org/details/oapen-20.500.12657-85271/page/301/mode/2up

"Perhaps even more fruitful for science was the partnership of biologist Christian Heinrich Pander and artist Eduard d’Alton. Although Pander is often credited with the discovery of the three germ layers of the early vertebrate embryo — the ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm — it was his artist, d’Alton, who first visualized and meticulously drew these as-yet-unnamed structures."
#histsci #histbio #artsci #sciart
https://archive.org/details/oapen-20.500.12657-85271/page/301/mode/2up

Gemma AndersonTempini, ‘Embryo as a stratified spacetime worm’. Colour pencil on paper, 2017.
Thanks @atog for the heads up!
#artsci #sciart #scicomm #histsci #histbio https://archive.org/details/oapen-20.500.12657-85271/page/110/mode/1up

Gemma AndersonTempini, ‘Embryo as a stratified spacetime worm’. Colour pencil on paper, 2017.
Thanks @atog for the heads up!
#artsci #sciart #scicomm #histsci #histbio https://archive.org/details/oapen-20.500.12657-85271/page/110/mode/1up

Gemma AndersonTempini, ‘Embryo as a stratified spacetime worm’. Colour pencil on paper, 2017.
Thanks @atog for the heads up!
#artsci #sciart #scicomm #histsci #histbio https://archive.org/details/oapen-20.500.12657-85271/page/110/mode/1up

Dommage, encore un colloque passionnant que je découvre au dernier moment : ça commence mercredi 20, soit après-demain...
Je me console avec le livret des abstracts (où manque mystérieusement la première journée).
#paris #agenda #histsci #histbio
https://shesvie2026.sciencesconf.org/

via https://histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/05/les-territoires-de-la-genetique.html

Dommage, encore un colloque passionnant que je découvre au dernier moment : ça commence mercredi 20, soit après-demain...
Je me console avec le livret des abstracts (où manque mystérieusement la première journée).
#paris #agenda #histsci #histbio
https://shesvie2026.sciencesconf.org/

via https://histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/05/les-territoires-de-la-genetique.html

"Contrairement à une idée largement répandue, Lamarck ne fut ni un prophète isolé, ni un précurseur de Darwin auquel on aurait omis de rendre justice. Pas davantage un homme dépassé par son époque que les travaux novateurs des Lavoisier, Cuvier, Haüy puis Darwin auraient relégué au second plan.

Telle est la thèse soutenue par Pietro Corsi qui montre que le célèbre naturaliste participa pleinement aux grands débats de son temps sur l’extinction des espèces, sur la réforme de l’histoire naturelle, les limites épistémologiques des théories de la Terre ou la méthode naturelle en taxinomie... "
https://books.openedition.org/editionscnrs/35613
#histsci #histbio #histnat #openedition

"Contrairement à une idée largement répandue, Lamarck ne fut ni un prophète isolé, ni un précurseur de Darwin auquel on aurait omis de rendre justice. Pas davantage un homme dépassé par son époque que les travaux novateurs des Lavoisier, Cuvier, Haüy puis Darwin auraient relégué au second plan.

Telle est la thèse soutenue par Pietro Corsi qui montre que le célèbre naturaliste participa pleinement aux grands débats de son temps sur l’extinction des espèces, sur la réforme de l’histoire naturelle, les limites épistémologiques des théories de la Terre ou la méthode naturelle en taxinomie... "
https://books.openedition.org/editionscnrs/35613
#histsci #histbio #histnat #openedition

It's #Easter Sunday! 🌱

No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. But I do have a *lot* of queer chickens. 🥚🏳️‍🌈🐤 :transgender: 🐔

Here's a domestic hen with male plumage, described in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society in 1821.

#HappyEaster #history #histbio #histsci #histstm #sts #science #biology #nature #birds #animals @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histstm @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

It's #Easter Sunday! 🌱

No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. But I do have a *lot* of queer chickens. 🥚🏳️‍🌈🐤 :transgender: 🐔

Here's a domestic hen with male plumage, described in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society in 1821.

#HappyEaster #history #histbio #histsci #histstm #sts #science #biology #nature #birds #animals @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histstm @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

Au Théâtre La Reine Blanche (merveilleusement sous-titré "Scène des Arts et des Sciences"), une pièce en l'honneur de Marthe Gauthier, grande généticienne et vraie découvreuse de la trisomie 21.
#womenInSTEM #Histsci #histbio #histmed #theatre #paris
https://www.reineblanche.com/calendrier/theatre/la-decouvreuse-oubliee

Au Théâtre La Reine Blanche (merveilleusement sous-titré "Scène des Arts et des Sciences"), une pièce en l'honneur de Marthe Gauthier, grande généticienne et vraie découvreuse de la trisomie 21.
#womenInSTEM #Histsci #histbio #histmed #theatre #paris
https://www.reineblanche.com/calendrier/theatre/la-decouvreuse-oubliee

To history of science scholars that may be around: Do you happen to have any good refs on the history of chromosome linkage mapping, map units, the definition of the centiMorgan and so on?
#histsci #histbio #genetics #biology #historyofscience #haldane

To history of science scholars that may be around: Do you happen to have any good refs on the history of chromosome linkage mapping, map units, the definition of the centiMorgan and so on?
#histsci #histbio #genetics #biology #historyofscience #haldane

My 2023 Notes and Records article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' is free to read this #OpenAccess week! 🌈🧬

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036

Download and share while you can . . .

#OAweek #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #HistBio #STS #SciComm @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #QueerInSTEM #lgbtq #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

My 2023 Notes and Records article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' is free to read this #OpenAccess week! 🌈🧬

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036

Download and share while you can . . .

#OAweek #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #HistBio #STS #SciComm @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #QueerInSTEM #lgbtq #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

The "habits" of plants appear to have been the traits of plants that adapt to their circumstances and environment. A nineteenth century piece of botanical terminology I previously didn't know. #histsci #histbio #taxonomy

The "habits" of plants appear to have been the traits of plants that adapt to their circumstances and environment. A nineteenth century piece of botanical terminology I previously didn't know. #histsci #histbio #taxonomy

WOW! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871),' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 50K times!

I'm working hard on the book. For more about that, watch this space! 🏳️‍🌈🐒

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648

#history #histodons @histodons #histsci #histbio #HistSTM #HSTM #STS @histstm #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #pride #pridemonth #queerhistory #histsex #sex #biology #nature #naturalhistory #science #animals #Darwin

WOW! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871),' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 50K times!

I'm working hard on the book. For more about that, watch this space! 🏳️‍🌈🐒

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648

#history #histodons @histodons #histsci #histbio #HistSTM #HSTM #STS @histstm #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #pride #pridemonth #queerhistory #histsex #sex #biology #nature #naturalhistory #science #animals #Darwin

It's #WorldBeeDay! 🐝💛🍯🖤

This gorgeous gynandromorph potter flower bee is described in a 1845 article in The Zoologist by English entomologist Frederick Smith. It's pictured from above (left) and below (right).

#HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio #STS @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #animals #bees #science #naturalhistory

It's #WorldBeeDay! 🐝💛🍯🖤

This gorgeous gynandromorph potter flower bee is described in a 1845 article in The Zoologist by English entomologist Frederick Smith. It's pictured from above (left) and below (right).

#HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio #STS @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #animals #bees #science #naturalhistory

It is a pleasure to see Charles Darwin's original signature in the Charter Book of Fellows of the Royal Society of London, signed in January 1839 (two years after his return from the Beagle voyage)

🧪🌿💚 #evolution #ecoevo #histbio #histsci #bookhistory #darwin @evolution @nature @biodiversity @ecology

It is a pleasure to see Charles Darwin's original signature in the Charter Book of Fellows of the Royal Society of London, signed in January 1839 (two years after his return from the Beagle voyage)

🧪🌿💚 #evolution #ecoevo #histbio #histsci #bookhistory #darwin @evolution @nature @biodiversity @ecology

Happy Easter to all who celebrate! 🌱

No cute lambs or bunnies in my files, I'm afraid. I do, however, have a *lot* of queer chickens. This is Hector, a 'hen-cock' pictured in the Sporting Magazine in March 1833 and mentioned by Charles Darwin in his 1868 book The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication!

🥚🐥🐔

#Easter #HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio #STS @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #animals #birds #science #naturalhistory #art

Happy Easter to all who celebrate! 🌱

No cute lambs or bunnies in my files, I'm afraid. I do, however, have a *lot* of queer chickens. This is Hector, a 'hen-cock' pictured in the Sporting Magazine in March 1833 and mentioned by Charles Darwin in his 1868 book The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication!

🥚🐥🐔

#Easter #HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio #STS @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #animals #birds #science #naturalhistory #art

My 2023 article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain,' published in Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, has now been made free to access! 🌈 🧬 🐦

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #HistBio #STS #SciComm @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #QueerInSTEM #lgbtq #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

My 2023 article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain,' published in Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, has now been made free to access! 🌈 🧬 🐦

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #HistBio #STS #SciComm @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #QueerInSTEM #lgbtq #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

⚰️ Happy Halloween! 🧛

Same-sex sexual behaviours in bats were first documented in 1895.

Here's a more recent study: http://www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Same-sex-sexual-behaviour-in-bats,77304,0,2.html.

🦇🏳️‍🌈🦇

#Halloween #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #HistBio #STS #SciComm @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #QueerInSTEM #lgbtq #science #biology #zoology #animals #bats

⚰️ Happy Halloween! 🧛

Same-sex sexual behaviours in bats were first documented in 1895.

Here's a more recent study: http://www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Same-sex-sexual-behaviour-in-bats,77304,0,2.html.

🦇🏳️‍🌈🦇

#Halloween #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #HistBio #STS #SciComm @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #QueerInSTEM #lgbtq #science #biology #zoology #animals #bats

My 2023 Notes and Records article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' is free to read this #OpenAccess week! 🌈🧬

Download away and share while you can . . .

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #HistBio #STS #SciComm @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #QueerInSTEM #lgbtq #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

My 2023 Notes and Records article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' is free to read this #OpenAccess week! 🌈🧬

Download away and share while you can . . .

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #HistBio #STS #SciComm @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #QueerInSTEM #lgbtq #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

Wow! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871),' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 45K times! 😲

Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🐒 :transgender: 🐟

#history #histodons @histodons #histsci #histbio #HistSTM #HSTM #STS @histstm #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #histsex #sex #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #Darwin

Wow! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871),' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 45K times! 😲

Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🐒 :transgender: 🐟

#history #histodons @histodons #histsci #histbio #HistSTM #HSTM #STS @histstm #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #histsex #sex #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #Darwin

Wishing everyone a nice, relaxing weekend!✨

I've been writing about frog sex this week, so here's a lovely plate from German painter and naturalist August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof's sumptuous Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium ('The Natural History of Our Frogs,' 1758). 🐸 🐸

#histSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #frogs

Wishing everyone a nice, relaxing weekend!✨

I've been writing about frog sex this week, so here's a lovely plate from German painter and naturalist August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof's sumptuous Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium ('The Natural History of Our Frogs,' 1758). 🐸 🐸

#histSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #frogs

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My 2022 article 'Bounds of Diversity: Queer Zoology in Europe from Aristotle to John Hunter,' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 25K times!

🦞🏳️‍🌈🦌 :transgender: 🦚

It's free to read #OpenAccess - please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/195/1/1/6568055

#PrideInSTEM #histSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals

My 2022 article 'Bounds of Diversity: Queer Zoology in Europe from Aristotle to John Hunter,' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 25K times!

🦞🏳️‍🌈🦌 :transgender: 🦚

It's free to read #OpenAccess - please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/195/1/1/6568055

#PrideInSTEM #histSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals

Whoop, whoop! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)' has now been viewed over 40K times! 😲

Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🐟🏳️‍🌈🐒🏳️‍⚧️🐞

#history #histodons @histodons #histsci #histbio #HistSTM #HSTM #STS @histstm #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #Pride #PrideMonth #LGBTplusHM #histsex #sex #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #Darwin

Whoop, whoop! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)' has now been viewed over 40K times! 😲

Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🐟🏳️‍🌈🐒🏳️‍⚧️🐞

#history #histodons @histodons #histsci #histbio #HistSTM #HSTM #STS @histstm #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #Pride #PrideMonth #LGBTplusHM #histsex #sex #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #Darwin

I mustn't let May go by without a nod to my 2009 article on the discovery, during the 19th century, of same-sex copulation among Maybugs (also known as Maybeetles, cockchafers, doodlebugs). Do look out for them at it in your garden! 🌈🌳

https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/E0260954108000703

#history #histodons @histodons #HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio @histstm #sex #histsex #science #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #animals #beetles #maybugs #queer #lgbtq #pride #QueerInSTEM

I mustn't let May go by without a nod to my 2009 article on the discovery, during the 19th century, of same-sex copulation among Maybugs (also known as Maybeetles, cockchafers, doodlebugs). Do look out for them at it in your garden! 🌈🌳

https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/E0260954108000703

#history #histodons @histodons #HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio @histstm #sex #histsex #science #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #animals #beetles #maybugs #queer #lgbtq #pride #QueerInSTEM

#HappyEaster! 🌱☀️

No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. I do, however, have a *lot* of queer chickens. This is a painting of a hen-cock (c. 1900), a prize fighter, by English artist Herbert Atkinson. 🥚🐥🐔

#Easter #HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio #STS @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #animals #biology #science #naturalhistory #chickens #art

#HappyEaster! 🌱☀️

No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. I do, however, have a *lot* of queer chickens. This is a painting of a hen-cock (c. 1900), a prize fighter, by English artist Herbert Atkinson. 🥚🐥🐔

#Easter #HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio #STS @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #animals #biology #science #naturalhistory #chickens #art

I hope everyone has a relaxing weekend!✨

Lovely colour plate depicting gynandromorph specimens in the collections of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Produced by German entomologist Friedrich Klug in 1829. 🦋 🐞

#HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #animals #biology #science #naturalhistory #gynandromorph

I hope everyone has a relaxing weekend!✨

Lovely colour plate depicting gynandromorph specimens in the collections of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Produced by German entomologist Friedrich Klug in 1829. 🦋 🐞

#HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #animals #biology #science #naturalhistory #gynandromorph

#ish2023 is on! You should follow if you are into #philbio , #histbio and anything in the vicinity.

#ish2023 is on! You should follow if you are into #philbio , #histbio and anything in the vicinity.