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  1. Happy birthday to British-born, American #astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) who was one of the people instrumental in building our understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis, how nuclei are produced in stars & you and I are all stardust! She was the 1st author of a monumental scientific paper Synthesis of the Elements in Stars, which became known as B2FH from the initials of its authors: 🧵1/4

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/185
    #linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM #mastoArt

  2. Happy birthday to British-born, American #astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) who was one of the people instrumental in building our understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis, how nuclei are produced in stars & you and I are all stardust! She was the 1st author of a monumental scientific paper Synthesis of the Elements in Stars, which became known as B2FH from the initials of its authors: 🧵1/4

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/185
    #linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM #mastoArt

  3. Happy birthday to British-born, American #astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) who was one of the people instrumental in building our understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis, how nuclei are produced in stars & you and I are all stardust! She was the 1st author of a monumental scientific paper Synthesis of the Elements in Stars, which became known as B2FH from the initials of its authors: 🧵1/4

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/185
    #linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM #mastoArt

  4. Happy birthday to British-born, American #astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) who was one of the people instrumental in building our understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis, how nuclei are produced in stars & you and I are all stardust! She was the 1st author of a monumental scientific paper Synthesis of the Elements in Stars, which became known as B2FH from the initials of its authors: 🧵1/4

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/185
    #linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM #mastoArt

  5. Happy birthday to British-born, American #astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) who was one of the people instrumental in building our understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis, how nuclei are produced in stars & you and I are all stardust! She was the 1st author of a monumental scientific paper Synthesis of the Elements in Stars, which became known as B2FH from the initials of its authors: 🧵1/4

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/185
    #linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM #mastoArt

  6. 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: yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwins-q

    #book #books #history #Darwin #evolution #science #nature #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM

  7. 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: yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwins-q

    #book #books #history #Darwin #evolution #science #nature #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM

  8. 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: yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwins-q

    #book #books #history #Darwin #evolution #science #nature #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM

  9. 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: yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwins-q

    #book #books #history #Darwin #evolution #science #nature #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM

  10. 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: yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwins-q

    #book #books #history #Darwin #evolution #science #nature #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM

  11. Stolen from a Greek island at fourteen. Ran an empire for forty-six years from behind a wooden lattice. Signed off on her own son's execution. Kösem Sultan, strangled at sixty-two with a torn-down curtain because protocol forbade silk.

    oddlet.com/p/kjs

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  12. Stolen from a Greek island at fourteen. Ran an empire for forty-six years from behind a wooden lattice. Signed off on her own son's execution. Kösem Sultan, strangled at sixty-two with a torn-down curtain because protocol forbade silk.

    oddlet.com/p/kjs

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  13. Stolen from a Greek island at fourteen. Ran an empire for forty-six years from behind a wooden lattice. Signed off on her own son's execution. Kösem Sultan, strangled at sixty-two with a torn-down curtain because protocol forbade silk.

    oddlet.com/p/kjs

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  14. Stolen from a Greek island at fourteen. Ran an empire for forty-six years from behind a wooden lattice. Signed off on her own son's execution. Kösem Sultan, strangled at sixty-two with a torn-down curtain because protocol forbade silk.

    oddlet.com/p/kjs

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  15. Shotgunned off her horse two days before her 41st birthday. Suspects: her third husband, her own son, and a Florida fugitive next door. They buried the Bandit Queen in black velvet with a revolver in her hands.

    oddlet.com/p/228

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  16. Shotgunned off her horse two days before her 41st birthday. Suspects: her third husband, her own son, and a Florida fugitive next door. They buried the Bandit Queen in black velvet with a revolver in her hands.

    oddlet.com/p/228

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  17. Shotgunned off her horse two days before her 41st birthday. Suspects: her third husband, her own son, and a Florida fugitive next door. They buried the Bandit Queen in black velvet with a revolver in her hands.

    oddlet.com/p/228

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  18. Shotgunned off her horse two days before her 41st birthday. Suspects: her third husband, her own son, and a Florida fugitive next door. They buried the Bandit Queen in black velvet with a revolver in her hands.

    oddlet.com/p/228

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  19. Please help me get QUEER ORIGINS 'out there' by recommending it to your favourite libraries!

    Academics and students can usually submit a request to their uni libraries. Public libraries all have a way for members to suggest a title. Thank you! 💜🌈📚🦋

    #book #books #library #libraries #lovelibraries #GLAM #librarian #history #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #science #nature #histsci #PrideInSTEM

  20. Please help me get QUEER ORIGINS 'out there' by recommending it to your favourite libraries!

    Academics and students can usually submit a request to their uni libraries. Public libraries all have a way for members to suggest a title. Thank you! 💜🌈📚🦋

    #book #books #library #libraries #lovelibraries #GLAM #librarian #history #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #science #nature #histsci #PrideInSTEM

  21. Please help me get QUEER ORIGINS 'out there' by recommending it to your favourite libraries!

    Academics and students can usually submit a request to their uni libraries. Public libraries all have a way for members to suggest a title. Thank you! 💜🌈📚🦋

    #book #books #library #libraries #lovelibraries #GLAM #librarian #history #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #science #nature #histsci #PrideInSTEM

  22. Please help me get QUEER ORIGINS 'out there' by recommending it to your favourite libraries!

    Academics and students can usually submit a request to their uni libraries. Public libraries all have a way for members to suggest a title. Thank you! 💜🌈📚🦋

    #book #books #library #libraries #lovelibraries #GLAM #librarian #history #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #science #nature #histsci #PrideInSTEM

  23. Please help me get QUEER ORIGINS 'out there' by recommending it to your favourite libraries!

    Academics and students can usually submit a request to their uni libraries. Public libraries all have a way for members to suggest a title. Thank you! 💜🌈📚🦋

    #book #books #library #libraries #lovelibraries #GLAM #librarian #history #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #science #nature #histsci #PrideInSTEM

  24. He jumped through a closed dining-room window to escape the police, wrote to the Abwehr from his cell, and parachuted into Cambridgeshire to blow up a factory MI5 then faked with papier-mache. Eddie Chapman: safecracker, double agent, decorated Nazi.

    oddlet.com/p/ijc

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  25. He jumped through a closed dining-room window to escape the police, wrote to the Abwehr from his cell, and parachuted into Cambridgeshire to blow up a factory MI5 then faked with papier-mache. Eddie Chapman: safecracker, double agent, decorated Nazi.

    oddlet.com/p/ijc

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  26. He jumped through a closed dining-room window to escape the police, wrote to the Abwehr from his cell, and parachuted into Cambridgeshire to blow up a factory MI5 then faked with papier-mache. Eddie Chapman: safecracker, double agent, decorated Nazi.

    oddlet.com/p/ijc

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  27. He jumped through a closed dining-room window to escape the police, wrote to the Abwehr from his cell, and parachuted into Cambridgeshire to blow up a factory MI5 then faked with papier-mache. Eddie Chapman: safecracker, double agent, decorated Nazi.

    oddlet.com/p/ijc

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  28. This week's #NewBooks at the library:
    - Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
    - #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
    - I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.

    #Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon

  29. This week's #NewBooks at the library:
    - Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
    - #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
    - I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.

    #Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon

  30. This week's #NewBooks at the library:
    - Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
    - #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
    - I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.

    #Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon

  31. This week's #NewBooks at the library:
    - Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
    - #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
    - I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.

    #Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon

  32. This week's #NewBooks at the library:
    - Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
    - #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
    - I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.

    #Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon

  33. He read fourteen languages, refused a raise for five decades, and shouted "My God, it talks!" into Bell's prototype before ordering a hundred. Meet Pedro II of Brazil: the monarch who would rather have been a teacher.

    oddlet.com/p/er8

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  34. He read fourteen languages, refused a raise for five decades, and shouted "My God, it talks!" into Bell's prototype before ordering a hundred. Meet Pedro II of Brazil: the monarch who would rather have been a teacher.

    oddlet.com/p/er8

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  35. He read fourteen languages, refused a raise for five decades, and shouted "My God, it talks!" into Bell's prototype before ordering a hundred. Meet Pedro II of Brazil: the monarch who would rather have been a teacher.

    oddlet.com/p/er8

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  36. He read fourteen languages, refused a raise for five decades, and shouted "My God, it talks!" into Bell's prototype before ordering a hundred. Meet Pedro II of Brazil: the monarch who would rather have been a teacher.

    oddlet.com/p/er8

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  37. Again, me with the somewhat provocative takes 😳😎😇

    Does a digital or computational history of science and knowledge even exist as a field? 🤔

    Find out what I think here:

    doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2026.
    #DH #ComputationalHumanities #alchemy #histsci #DigitalHumanities #digitalhistory

  38. Again, me with the somewhat provocative takes 😳😎😇

    Does a digital or computational history of science and knowledge even exist as a field? 🤔

    Find out what I think here:

    doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2026.
    #DH #ComputationalHumanities #alchemy #histsci #DigitalHumanities #digitalhistory

  39. Again, me with the somewhat provocative takes 😳😎😇

    Does a digital or computational history of science and knowledge even exist as a field? 🤔

    Find out what I think here:

    doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2026.
    #DH #ComputationalHumanities #alchemy #histsci #DigitalHumanities #digitalhistory

  40. Again, me with the somewhat provocative takes 😳😎😇

    Does a digital or computational history of science and knowledge even exist as a field? 🤔

    Find out what I think here:

    doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2026.
    #DH #ComputationalHumanities #alchemy #histsci #DigitalHumanities #digitalhistory

  41. Again, me with the somewhat provocative takes 😳😎😇

    Does a digital or computational history of science and knowledge even exist as a field? 🤔

    Find out what I think here:

    doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2026.
    #DH #ComputationalHumanities #alchemy #histsci #DigitalHumanities #digitalhistory

  42. 07-Aug: On this day in 1838, Charles Darwin described his first ever railway journey. He was not overly impressed.
    friendsofdarwin.com/articles/d
    #HistSci

  43. 07-Aug: On this day in 1838, Charles Darwin described his first ever railway journey. He was not overly impressed.
    friendsofdarwin.com/articles/d
    #HistSci

  44. 07-Aug: On this day in 1838, Charles Darwin described his first ever railway journey. He was not overly impressed.
    friendsofdarwin.com/articles/d
    #HistSci

  45. 07-Aug: On this day in 1838, Charles Darwin described his first ever railway journey. He was not overly impressed.
    friendsofdarwin.com/articles/d
    #HistSci

  46. 07-Aug: On this day in 1838, Charles Darwin described his first ever railway journey. He was not overly impressed.
    friendsofdarwin.com/articles/d
    #HistSci

  47. In 1875 a Manhattan parlor began receiving letters from Tibetan Masters, dropped from the ceiling onto devotees' heads. One hundred and forty-two arrived. Blavatsky kept a stuffed baboon holding Darwin. Every yoga studio owes her its vocabulary.

    oddlet.com/p/f0g

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  48. In 1875 a Manhattan parlor began receiving letters from Tibetan Masters, dropped from the ceiling onto devotees' heads. One hundred and forty-two arrived. Blavatsky kept a stuffed baboon holding Darwin. Every yoga studio owes her its vocabulary.

    oddlet.com/p/f0g

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  49. In 1875 a Manhattan parlor began receiving letters from Tibetan Masters, dropped from the ceiling onto devotees' heads. One hundred and forty-two arrived. Blavatsky kept a stuffed baboon holding Darwin. Every yoga studio owes her its vocabulary.

    oddlet.com/p/f0g

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  50. In 1875 a Manhattan parlor began receiving letters from Tibetan Masters, dropped from the ceiling onto devotees' heads. One hundred and forty-two arrived. Blavatsky kept a stuffed baboon holding Darwin. Every yoga studio owes her its vocabulary.

    oddlet.com/p/f0g

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  51. Happy birthday to Claudine Picardet (1735-1820) chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist & perhaps most importantly, translator of latest science from Swedish, English, German, Italian & possibly Latin to French at the height of the chemical revolution.

    She married barrister & member of the Académie royale des sciences, arts, et belles-lettres de Dijon, Claude Picardet in 1755, 🧵1/

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/185

    #sciart #printmaking #histsci #womenInSTEM #linocut chemistry

  52. Happy birthday to Claudine Picardet (1735-1820) chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist & perhaps most importantly, translator of latest science from Swedish, English, German, Italian & possibly Latin to French at the height of the chemical revolution.

    She married barrister & member of the Académie royale des sciences, arts, et belles-lettres de Dijon, Claude Picardet in 1755, 🧵1/

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/185

    #sciart #printmaking #histsci #womenInSTEM #linocut chemistry

  53. Happy birthday to Claudine Picardet (1735-1820) chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist & perhaps most importantly, translator of latest science from Swedish, English, German, Italian & possibly Latin to French at the height of the chemical revolution.

    She married barrister & member of the Académie royale des sciences, arts, et belles-lettres de Dijon, Claude Picardet in 1755, 🧵1/

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/185

    #sciart #printmaking #histsci #womenInSTEM #linocut chemistry

  54. Happy birthday to Claudine Picardet (1735-1820) chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist & perhaps most importantly, translator of latest science from Swedish, English, German, Italian & possibly Latin to French at the height of the chemical revolution.

    She married barrister & member of the Académie royale des sciences, arts, et belles-lettres de Dijon, Claude Picardet in 1755, 🧵1/

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/185

    #sciart #printmaking #histsci #womenInSTEM #linocut chemistry

  55. Happy birthday to Claudine Picardet (1735-1820) chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist & perhaps most importantly, translator of latest science from Swedish, English, German, Italian & possibly Latin to French at the height of the chemical revolution.

    She married barrister & member of the Académie royale des sciences, arts, et belles-lettres de Dijon, Claude Picardet in 1755, 🧵1/

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/185

    #sciart #printmaking #histsci #womenInSTEM #linocut chemistry