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  1. A gorgeous, lyrical essay by @[email protected]. If you're interested in literature, the history of science and technology, whales, or - of course - #StarTrek - you might love it, as I do.
    #histsci

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3le7dvxqc2rhvyswiida2cgf/post/3muz5myjbms2z

  2. He set out honey for cold bees, moved worms off the road, and asked a red-hot cautery iron to be courteous before it touched his face. Then, in 1220, Francis of Assisi walked out alone to negotiate with the wolf eating the town of Gubbio.

    oddlet.com/p/7zl

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  3. I spoke with @[email protected] CEO Patrick Spero on the Useful Knowledge podcast! We discussed monster-thinking and first contact in #VastEarlyAmerica and in outer space.

    🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵

  4. Word embeddings alone are not the be-all end-all for historical data: semantic changes over time trip them up 🤷‍♀️

    BUT have you heard of contextual word embeddings? 👀

    In this article, we use them to untangle the meanings of terms Ruland's 1612 alchemical dictionary.

    doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2026. #DH #histsci #alchemy #computationalhumanities #digitalhumanities #wordembeddings

  5. The South Asian edition of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out from @[email protected]! It’s the history of the category of the human since antiquity, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making.
    🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵

  6. The South Asian edition of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out from @[email protected]! It’s the history of the category of the human since antiquity, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making.
    🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵

  7. The South Asian edition of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out from @[email protected]! It’s the history of the category of the human since antiquity, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making.
    🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵

  8. The South Asian edition of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out from @[email protected]! It’s the history of the category of the human since antiquity, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making.
    🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵

  9. The South Asian edition of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out from @[email protected]! It’s the history of the category of the human since antiquity, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making.
    🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵

  10. [Archive]
    Until (and a bit after) Darwin
    for "Diversity, Culture, Theory, and Data: Science on Human Variety."
    SLAS Faculty Research Seminar (2011).
    #HistSTM #HistSci
    #CharlesDarwin
    until-darwin.blogspot.com/2011

  11. [Archive]
    Until (and a bit after) Darwin
    for "Diversity, Culture, Theory, and Data: Science on Human Variety."
    SLAS Faculty Research Seminar (2011).
    #HistSTM #HistSci
    #CharlesDarwin
    until-darwin.blogspot.com/2011

  12. [Archive]
    Until (and a bit after) Darwin
    for "Diversity, Culture, Theory, and Data: Science on Human Variety."
    SLAS Faculty Research Seminar (2011).
    #HistSTM #HistSci
    #CharlesDarwin
    until-darwin.blogspot.com/2011

  13. [Archive]
    Until (and a bit after) Darwin
    for "Diversity, Culture, Theory, and Data: Science on Human Variety."
    SLAS Faculty Research Seminar (2011).
    #HistSTM #HistSci
    #CharlesDarwin
    until-darwin.blogspot.com/2011

  14. [Archive]
    Until (and a bit after) Darwin
    for "Diversity, Culture, Theory, and Data: Science on Human Variety."
    SLAS Faculty Research Seminar (2011).
    #HistSTM #HistSci
    #CharlesDarwin
    until-darwin.blogspot.com/2011

  15. The Feejee Mermaid was a monkey sewn to a fish. Fifteen thousand a day paid a quarter to see it, then lingered. So he painted a sign over the exit: THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS. Another quarter to come back in. P.T. Barnum, working as advertised.

    oddlet.com/p/fuq

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  16. The Feejee Mermaid was a monkey sewn to a fish. Fifteen thousand a day paid a quarter to see it, then lingered. So he painted a sign over the exit: THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS. Another quarter to come back in. P.T. Barnum, working as advertised.

    oddlet.com/p/fuq

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  17. The Feejee Mermaid was a monkey sewn to a fish. Fifteen thousand a day paid a quarter to see it, then lingered. So he painted a sign over the exit: THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS. Another quarter to come back in. P.T. Barnum, working as advertised.

    oddlet.com/p/fuq

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  18. The Feejee Mermaid was a monkey sewn to a fish. Fifteen thousand a day paid a quarter to see it, then lingered. So he painted a sign over the exit: THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS. Another quarter to come back in. P.T. Barnum, working as advertised.

    oddlet.com/p/fuq

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  19. Everything is horrible, but CHALLENGING HISTORIES, a new #podcast from @[email protected], hosted by @[email protected], drops on 14 September!

    Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's never been more important to understand the past and its legacies.

    🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #medieval

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4zf2vfijfc2pfzz6nr3whfqx/post/3muwc5c77ik2o

  20. Everything is horrible, but CHALLENGING HISTORIES, a new #podcast from @[email protected], hosted by @[email protected], drops on 14 September!

    Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's never been more important to understand the past and its legacies.

    🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #medieval

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4zf2vfijfc2pfzz6nr3whfqx/post/3muwc5c77ik2o

  21. Everything is horrible, but CHALLENGING HISTORIES, a new #podcast from @[email protected], hosted by @[email protected], drops on 14 September!

    Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's never been more important to understand the past and its legacies.

    🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #medieval

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4zf2vfijfc2pfzz6nr3whfqx/post/3muwc5c77ik2o

  22. Everything is horrible, but CHALLENGING HISTORIES, a new #podcast from @[email protected], hosted by @[email protected], drops on 14 September!

    Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's never been more important to understand the past and its legacies.

    🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #medieval

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4zf2vfijfc2pfzz6nr3whfqx/post/3muwc5c77ik2o

  23. Everything is horrible, but CHALLENGING HISTORIES, a new #podcast from @[email protected], hosted by @[email protected], drops on 14 September!

    Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's never been more important to understand the past and its legacies.

    🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #medieval

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4zf2vfijfc2pfzz6nr3whfqx/post/3muwc5c77ik2o

  24. He moved apartments up to sixty times in Vienna. When notes wouldn't come, he stripped down, poured pitchers of cold water over his head, and bellowed scales until the floorboards leaked. Beethoven: deaf, drenched, evicted repeatedly.

    oddlet.com/p/56o

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  25. He moved apartments up to sixty times in Vienna. When notes wouldn't come, he stripped down, poured pitchers of cold water over his head, and bellowed scales until the floorboards leaked. Beethoven: deaf, drenched, evicted repeatedly.

    oddlet.com/p/56o

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  26. He moved apartments up to sixty times in Vienna. When notes wouldn't come, he stripped down, poured pitchers of cold water over his head, and bellowed scales until the floorboards leaked. Beethoven: deaf, drenched, evicted repeatedly.

    oddlet.com/p/56o

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  27. He moved apartments up to sixty times in Vienna. When notes wouldn't come, he stripped down, poured pitchers of cold water over his head, and bellowed scales until the floorboards leaked. Beethoven: deaf, drenched, evicted repeatedly.

    oddlet.com/p/56o

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  28. This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
    - #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
    - The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
    - Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon

  29. This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
    - #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
    - The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
    - Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon

  30. This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
    - #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
    - The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
    - Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon

  31. This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
    - #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
    - The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
    - Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon

  32. This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
    - #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
    - The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
    - Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon

  33. A remarkable write-up by Neal Stephenson (yes, that one!) on the physics of whip cracking and crucially, who it was discovered. Enjoy!
    nealstephenson.substack.com/p/
    #histsci #histphy #MaterialCulture #physics

  34. HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out in Korean, from Hyeonamsa! Please considering sharing this with Korean folks in your circles.
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    💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #histsci #histmed #politics

    www.hyeonamsa.com/book/book_de...

  35. "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
    archive.org/details/oapen-20.5