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He ran his engine on peanut oil and took a million in cash from Adolphus Busch. On 29 September 1913 he boarded the SS Dresden, asked to be woken at 6:15, and marked a small cross on his diary. Rudolf Diesel, the rational man.
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He ran his engine on peanut oil and took a million in cash from Adolphus Busch. On 29 September 1913 he boarded the SS Dresden, asked to be woken at 6:15, and marked a small cross on his diary. Rudolf Diesel, the rational man.
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He ran his engine on peanut oil and took a million in cash from Adolphus Busch. On 29 September 1913 he boarded the SS Dresden, asked to be woken at 6:15, and marked a small cross on his diary. Rudolf Diesel, the rational man.
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He ran his engine on peanut oil and took a million in cash from Adolphus Busch. On 29 September 1913 he boarded the SS Dresden, asked to be woken at 6:15, and marked a small cross on his diary. Rudolf Diesel, the rational man.
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I never thought I'd see the day.
Charles Darwin is currently trending above two porn-related articles, Luke Evans, and Kit Connor in Attitude Magazine! 🙃
The power of #histsci . . .
Thank you, one and all — please keep sharing. Here's the article: https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/literature/darwins-queer-creatures-532721/
#reading #writing #science #nature #animals #Darwin #evolution #history #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM
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I'm overjoyed to be the featured author in the latest issue of IFLScience's Curious Magazine!
Read a 'book bite' from QUEER ORIGINS and discover what inspired me to write it. 🐟️ 🌈 🦋 🏳️⚧️ 🐦️
As ever, the whole issue is fabulous . . .
#book #books #reading #writing #science #nature #history #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM
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I'm overjoyed to be the featured author in the latest issue of IFLScience's Curious Magazine!
Read a 'book bite' from QUEER ORIGINS and discover what inspired me to write it. 🐟️ 🌈 🦋 🏳️⚧️ 🐦️
As ever, the whole issue is fabulous . . .
#book #books #reading #writing #science #nature #history #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM
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I'm overjoyed to be the featured author in the latest issue of IFLScience's Curious Magazine!
Read a 'book bite' from QUEER ORIGINS and discover what inspired me to write it. 🐟️ 🌈 🦋 🏳️⚧️ 🐦️
As ever, the whole issue is fabulous . . .
#book #books #reading #writing #science #nature #history #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM
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I'm overjoyed to be the featured author in the latest issue of IFLScience's Curious Magazine!
Read a 'book bite' from QUEER ORIGINS and discover what inspired me to write it. 🐟️ 🌈 🦋 🏳️⚧️ 🐦️
As ever, the whole issue is fabulous . . .
#book #books #reading #writing #science #nature #history #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM
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I'm overjoyed to be the featured author in the latest issue of IFLScience's Curious Magazine!
Read a 'book bite' from QUEER ORIGINS and discover what inspired me to write it. 🐟️ 🌈 🦋 🏳️⚧️ 🐦️
As ever, the whole issue is fabulous . . .
#book #books #reading #writing #science #nature #history #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM
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Queer history of science in Attitude Magazine — oh yes!
Read about some of the queer creatures that fascinated Charles Darwin, including the first fish discovered to be dual-sexed, butterfly species with multiple female forms, and good emu dads. 🐟 🌈 🦋 🏳️⚧️ 🐦
https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/literature/darwins-queer-creatures-532721/
#reading #history #nature #animals #science #histsci #queerhistory #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM
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Friends and neighbours on the Sussex Coast (UK), I've signed some copies of QUEER ORIGINS for you at three Waterstones stores: Brighton, Eastbourne, and Worthing.
And, yes, there are a few of those coveted bookmarks too . . . if you get in quick! 🌈 📚 🌞 🌊 🍦
#book #books #bookshop #bookshops #reading #history #science #histsci #histsex #nature #queer #queerhistory #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #Brighton #Eastbourne #Worthing #Sussex #SouthCoast #UK
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Friends and neighbours on the Sussex Coast (UK), I've signed some copies of QUEER ORIGINS for you at three Waterstones stores: Brighton, Eastbourne, and Worthing.
And, yes, there are a few of those coveted bookmarks too . . . if you get in quick! 🌈 📚 🌞 🌊 🍦
#book #books #bookshop #bookshops #reading #history #science #histsci #histsex #nature #queer #queerhistory #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #Brighton #Eastbourne #Worthing #Sussex #SouthCoast #UK
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Friends and neighbours on the Sussex Coast (UK), I've signed some copies of QUEER ORIGINS for you at three Waterstones stores: Brighton, Eastbourne, and Worthing.
And, yes, there are a few of those coveted bookmarks too . . . if you get in quick! 🌈 📚 🌞 🌊 🍦
#book #books #bookshop #bookshops #reading #history #science #histsci #histsex #nature #queer #queerhistory #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #Brighton #Eastbourne #Worthing #Sussex #SouthCoast #UK
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Friends and neighbours on the Sussex Coast (UK), I've signed some copies of QUEER ORIGINS for you at three Waterstones stores: Brighton, Eastbourne, and Worthing.
And, yes, there are a few of those coveted bookmarks too . . . if you get in quick! 🌈 📚 🌞 🌊 🍦
#book #books #bookshop #bookshops #reading #history #science #histsci #histsex #nature #queer #queerhistory #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #Brighton #Eastbourne #Worthing #Sussex #SouthCoast #UK
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Friends and neighbours on the Sussex Coast (UK), I've signed some copies of QUEER ORIGINS for you at three Waterstones stores: Brighton, Eastbourne, and Worthing.
And, yes, there are a few of those coveted bookmarks too . . . if you get in quick! 🌈 📚 🌞 🌊 🍦
#book #books #bookshop #bookshops #reading #history #science #histsci #histsex #nature #queer #queerhistory #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #Brighton #Eastbourne #Worthing #Sussex #SouthCoast #UK
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Happy birthday to mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics and played a pivotal role in the success of the US crewed spaceflights from the beginning. 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1305748672
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInStEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #physics #space #mastoArt
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Last call for this fantastic offer as the month draws to a close . . .
Discount code HSS26 (from the recent history of science conference in Edinburgh) gets you a cracking 30% off QUEER ORIGINS from my publisher's website until the end of August: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/.
Several bookshops are discounting the book, but I think this remains the cheapest price (£17.50 with free UK postage). 🏳️🌈 📚️️ 🦋
#book #books #history #science #nature #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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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
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It's just magical seeing QUEER ORIGINS in bookshops, especially the iconic Gay's the Word.✨
I've signed some copies there — nab one while you can (there are also some soon-to-be-collector's-item bookmarks)! 🏳️🌈 📚 :transgender: 🦋
https://www.gaystheword.co.uk/
#book #books #bookshop #bookshops #London #history #Darwin #evolution #science #nature #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM
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It's just magical seeing QUEER ORIGINS in bookshops, especially the iconic Gay's the Word.✨
I've signed some copies there — nab one while you can (there are also some soon-to-be-collector's-item bookmarks)! 🏳️🌈 📚 :transgender: 🦋
https://www.gaystheword.co.uk/
#book #books #bookshop #bookshops #London #history #Darwin #evolution #science #nature #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM
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It's just magical seeing QUEER ORIGINS in bookshops, especially the iconic Gay's the Word.✨
I've signed some copies there — nab one while you can (there are also some soon-to-be-collector's-item bookmarks)! 🏳️🌈 📚 :transgender: 🦋
https://www.gaystheword.co.uk/
#book #books #bookshop #bookshops #London #history #Darwin #evolution #science #nature #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM
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It's just magical seeing QUEER ORIGINS in bookshops, especially the iconic Gay's the Word.✨
I've signed some copies there — nab one while you can (there are also some soon-to-be-collector's-item bookmarks)! 🏳️🌈 📚 :transgender: 🦋
https://www.gaystheword.co.uk/
#book #books #bookshop #bookshops #London #history #Darwin #evolution #science #nature #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM
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It's just magical seeing QUEER ORIGINS in bookshops, especially the iconic Gay's the Word.✨
I've signed some copies there — nab one while you can (there are also some soon-to-be-collector's-item bookmarks)! 🏳️🌈 📚 :transgender: 🦋
https://www.gaystheword.co.uk/
#book #books #bookshop #bookshops #London #history #Darwin #evolution #science #nature #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM
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DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE is published in the UK today! 🥳🎈🍾
To mark the occasion, I've written a blog on my publisher's website about the natural wonder of sexual polymorphism—and why Richard Dawkins' view of Darwin needs some clarification. 🌈📚 :transgender: 🦋
Read it here: https://yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwins-queer-inheritance/
#book #books #history #Darwin #evolution #science #nature #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM
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Cet appareil est un pyromètre de Wedgwood, inventé dans les années 1780 par un industriel potier anglais – par ailleurs grand-père de Charles et Emma Darwin – afin de mesurer la température dans ses fours. À l’époque n’existaient que les thermomètres à mercure de Fahrenheit, limités à 356 °C. Wedgwood eut l’idée d’utiliser une propriété de l’argile, qui se contracte en chauffant. Le principe : on place un petit cylindre d’argile calibré dans l’environnement dont on veut mesurer la température, puis on l’insère entre les règles en laiton graduées (qui ne sont pas parallèles) jusqu’où son nouveau diamètre l’emmène pour lire la température. L’échelle est spécifique, en degrés Wedgwood, démarrant à 0 °W ≈ 581 °C et s’incrémentant par pas de 72 °C – l’appareil dépasse donc allègrement les 17 000 °C !
Cet exemplaire fait partie du cabinet de physique et chimie de l’université de Catane. Il a été commandé en 1820 par Carmelo Maravigna, professeur de chimie, à Nicolas Constant Pixii, célèbre fabricant d’instruments parisien, par l’entremise de Jean‑André‑Henri Lucas, du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle. Il aurait servi à mesurer les températures de coulées de lave de l’Etna.
Avec le temps néanmoins, il s’est avéré que les mesures du pyromètre de Wedgwood étaient très imprécises. Le développement de nouveaux instruments l’a rapidement condamné aux oubliettes de l’histoire des sciences…
#histnat #histsci #histoire #science #mesure #température #thermomètre #MNHN #Etna
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Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.
Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. 🧵 -
A 500-year-old map known as “America’s Birth Certificate” was found a century ago. But what, and where, was “America”?
To learn more, check out my op-ed in the LA Times. PDF & images in 🧵.
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#maphistory #cartography #histsci #earlymodern #america250 #4thofJuly 🗃
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The audiobook of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is $0.99 on Amazon.com / 99p on Amazon.co.uk. Links in thread, plus links for 30% off from @[email protected] (valid for all books!).
Intro cliff-hanger in alt-text.
🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH -
Hunting for a #FathersDay gift? How about a book that blends history, science, & pop culture? HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is a history of the category of the human, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making. 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #histsci #histmed #politics 1/
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I need these for work. Book haul in London yesterday, for a new narrative nonfiction book idea. 1/ 🧵 #earlymodern #histsci 💙📚 🗃
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Whoop, whoop! 🥳
My book has just been sent to the printers! It also features in Yale University Press's Autumn Catalogue, in some very illustrious company . . . #excited
All shares and preorders much appreciated! 🙏
UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️🌈 📚️ 🐵
US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ :transgender: 📜 🦋
#books #bookstodon #history #science #biology #nature #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM
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Happy birthday to #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She established that “no bases other than adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine were present in appreciable amounts” in DNA - 🧵
#womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #printmaking #linocut #histmed #mastoArt
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#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate #mathematician & #geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930-2026). Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid groundwork for GPS!
Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/821408400
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #linocut #sciart #histsci #BlackInSTEM #mastoart
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#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She established that “no bases other than adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine were 🧵
#womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #printmaking #linocut #histmed #mastoArt
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#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate astronaut Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12, 1992! She also has a B.S. in chemical engineering, served in the Peace Corps, is a dancer and choreographer, 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #astronaut #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #mastoArt -
#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; 1918 – 2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics and played a pivotal role in the success of the US crewed spaceflights from the beginning.🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mastoArt #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #NASA #mathematician #physics #space