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Mineral Cup Round 1 Match 16 Cassiterite vs Graphite.

Vote Graphite for its role in physics here:
https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-r1m16

Millie Dresselhaus (1930-2027) was known as the Queen of Carbon & was recognized for her work on graphite, graphite intercalation compounds, fullerenes (a form of carbon known as buckyballs) conductors, thermoelectrics and band-structure. 🧵1/2

#MinCup26 #sciComm #physics #Minerals #womenInSTEM #histSci

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RACE AFTER DARWIN [for Devin Griffiths and Deanna K. Kreisel, eds. 2023. After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge University Press.]
#HistSTM #HistSci #CriticalTheory
[PDF] https://www.academia.edu/attachments/116926857/download_file

[Archive]
RACE AFTER DARWIN [for Devin Griffiths and Deanna K. Kreisel, eds. 2023. After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge University Press.]
#HistSTM #HistSci #CriticalTheory
[PDF] https://www.academia.edu/attachments/116926857/download_file

[Archive]
RACE AFTER DARWIN [for Devin Griffiths and Deanna K. Kreisel, eds. 2023. After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge University Press.]
#HistSTM #HistSci #CriticalTheory
[PDF] https://www.academia.edu/attachments/116926857/download_file

[Archive]
RACE AFTER DARWIN [for Devin Griffiths and Deanna K. Kreisel, eds. 2023. After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge University Press.]
#HistSTM #HistSci #CriticalTheory
[PDF] https://www.academia.edu/attachments/116926857/download_file

[Archive]
RACE AFTER DARWIN [for Devin Griffiths and Deanna K. Kreisel, eds. 2023. After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge University Press.]
#HistSTM #HistSci #CriticalTheory
[PDF] https://www.academia.edu/attachments/116926857/download_file

He threw his pocket-watch into the Seine, tucked his umbrella into bed, and cut two cat-flaps because the kitten needed her own. Meet André-Marie Ampère: founder of electrodynamics, who once chased a fiacre down the street to finish a proof.

https://oddlet.com/p/kkp

#Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

It’s heartening to see QUEER ORIGINS finding its way into libraries — just in time for the new academic year! 🏳️‍🌈📚🦋

Academics & students: if your uni library doesn’t have it yet, please ask them to stock it. 🙏

#book #books #bookstodon #library #libraries #librarians #reading #readingcommunity #science #sts #nature #Darwin #evolution #animals #history #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia

He weighed his food, his sleep, his feces, and, by his own accounting, his sex life. For thirty years he sat in a chair that took his dinner away. Santorio Santorio, founder of quantitative physiology, discovered that we are all quietly evaporating.

https://oddlet.com/p/evs

#Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

as would be visible over Paris.

She & husband adopted his nephew, Joseph Lepaute Dagelet in 1768 whom she trained as a mathematician & astronomer. He became a professor & was inducted in the French Royal Academy of Sciences in 1785.

#printmaking #womeninSTEM #histsci #sciart 🧵5/5

257 years ago today, #AlexanderVonHumboldt was born. The Invention of Nature is a delightful biography that paints a lively portrait of this ever-restless polymath, showing he was a force of nature.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/02/11/book-review-the-invention-of-nature-the-adventures-of-alexander-von-humboldt-the-lost-hero-of-science/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Biography #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm @andrea_wulf

Latest newsletter! Fahrenheit vs. Celsius. Temperature is natural. Degrees are man made.

https://foundhistory.substack.com/p/fahrenheit-vs-celsius

#History #HSTM #HistSci

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I adopted a damaged copy of David Farrier's Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet, published by @canongatebooks.

The other two are cases of the more I read, the more I go down rabbit holes.
- After reviewing Mysteries of the Deep, I bought an ex-library copy of the classic 1995 Paleoclimate and Evolution, with Emphasis on Human Origins, published by Yale University Press, to read more on the work of Elisabeth Vrba and colleagues (this one came from the holdings of the University Library of Durham)

- After reviewing Every Living Thing, I wanted to know more about Cuvier and tracked down an ex-library copy of the classic 1987 The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French Biology in the Decades Before Darwin, published by Oxford University Press (this one came from the holdings of the University of Saint Katherine Library)

#ClimateChange #Evolution #Palaeoclimate #HumanEvolution #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

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

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

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

⚰️ 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

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

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 co-authors and I are deeply honoured to be shortlisted in this group of inspiring books by wonderful authors! And delighted to see #BSHS supporting collaborative research (i.e. multi-author monographs)

A History of Scientific Journals: publishing at the Royal Society 1665-2015 (UCL Press, 2022, #openaccess ) is short-listed for the Pickstone Prize for the the best academic book (in English) in history of science, medicine and technology. #hstm #histsci #histodons

https://www.bshs.org.uk/bshs-pickstone-prize-2024-shortlist-announced

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

#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

Just a reminder that, following the Royal Society event in Jan, my article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' has been made freely available until the end of Feb/LGBTQ+ History Month.

Download away while you can! 🧬🏳️‍🌈🐦

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

#LGBTplusHM #HistSTM #HSTM #STS #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #lgbtqia #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #genetics #eugenics

'all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it'
- Charles Darwin to William Darwin Fox, 7 May 1855

Poor ol' Chas.

It's Darwin Day! 🌱🌈🐵

My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)' has been viewed over 33K times! Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648

#Darwin #DarwinDay #HistSTM #HSTM #STS #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #lgbtqia #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #genetics

Today I'm writing about how sex selection emerged as one of the leading promises of 20th-c. biologists/eugenicists as they got to grips with sexological genetics. 😬

Ad for The Science of Life (by Julian Huxley, G. P. Wells, & H. G. Wells) in Popular Science Monthly (March 1931).

#HistSTM #HSTM #histsci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #1930s #sex #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

Gynandromorph bordered white moth from Charles Barrett's Lepidoptera of the British Isles (1901). 🦋

At 11am (GMT) next Wednesday (31 Jan) I will be discussing my article 'Mendel's Closet' as part of the Royal Society history of science seminar series. 🏳️‍🌈 🧬

Details: https://cassyni.com/events/K7KB3CY521F84kjXqn3mws/

The article is currently free to read: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036

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

📢 At 11am (GMT) on Wednesday 31 January I will be discussing (online) my latest article, 'Mendel's Closet,' as part of the Royal Society history of science seminar series. 🧬🏳️‍🌈🐦

Details here: https://cassyni.com/events/K7KB3CY521F84kjXqn3mws/

Ahead of the event, the article has been made free to access from the Notes and Records website. 🥳 Download away!

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

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

My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet' in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has been viewed over 30K times! Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🏳️‍🌈 🐒

There's now a prequel, 'Bounds of Diversity': https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/195/1/1/6568055 :transgender: 🦞

. . . and a sequel! 'Mendel's Closet': https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036 🐦 🧬

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #Darwin #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #genetics

📰 25% off subscriptions to the British Newspaper Archive until 27 November: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/account/subscribe?PromotionCode=SAVE25

This is the only Black Friday deal I look forward to each year. Simply the best stay-at-home research resource. I've found many sexological gems over the years . . .

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #britishhistory #histodons @histodons #archives #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #science #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #animals

In June 2019 I acted as contributing editor to a queer-themed edition of Viewpoint: The Magazine of the British Society for the History of Science. I thought I would share it here today as it's #lgbtqstemday!

https://www.bshs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Viewpoint_119_web_v3.pdf

🔬 🏳️‍🌈 🐦 :transgender: 🪐

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #science

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Gynandromorph Gouldian finch possessing female plumage on the left side and male on the right. Described and pictured in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1939. 🏳️‍🌈 🐦 :transgender:

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #science #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #animals #birds

'Every man & woman is hermaphrodite' (Charles Darwin, c.1838)

My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)' in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has now been viewed over 25K times! Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🏳️‍🌈 🐒

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #Darwin #biology #zoology #science

My new article, along with all Royal Society journal content, will be freely available #OpenAccess for 3 more days! Download away while you can . . .

'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain.' 🌈 🧬

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

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