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  1. He weighed strings with birdshot, photographed the sag, and flipped the picture to find his church. He carried hazelnuts and one key when the tram hit him. Taxis refused the rags. Antoni Gaudí, the dandy who ended up trusting what falls.

    oddlet.com/p/e7s

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  2. An excerpt on AI & robots from the “Machines” chapter of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, 1st published by @[email protected], now out from @[email protected] in a South Asian edition, is out in Newslaundry!
    🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

    If the only value lies in what...

  3. I wrote this blog when QUEER ORIGINS was published in the UK. I'm reposting it now that the book is out in Canada and the US.

    Read about the natural wonder of sexual polymorphism — and why Richard Dawkins' view of Darwin needs amending. 🌈📚🦋

    Darwin's Queer Inheritance: yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwin-qu

    #book #books #bookstodon #reading #readingcommunity #writing #author #science #nature #animals #darwin #Darwin #evolution #history #histsci #sts #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia

  4. He ate his meat raw, slept bolt upright by candlelight, and casually mentioned that 18,000 boys were sacrificed to an ox-headed god each year. Oxford gave George Psalmanazar rooms and asked him to teach the language. He was from Marseille.

    oddlet.com/p/lvr

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  5. In 1901, she strapped herself into a padded oak barrel with an anvil at her feet and went over Horseshoe Falls. She was sixty-three. A charm-school teacher. Broke. And she had already sent the cat. Meet Annie Edson Taylor, Queen of the Mist.

    oddlet.com/p/otj

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  6. Thrilled to announce our upcoming symposium exploring the interconnected histories of medicine, science and technology in Japan, Korea and Taiwan in the 20th century.

    with @[email protected]
    @[email protected] & online (17-18.09.2026)

    #histmed #histsci #eastasia #sts #japan #korea #taiwan

  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. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. "A 200-year-old illustrated condom will go on display with Dutch golden age masters in Amsterdam this week, after the 19th-century “luxury souvenir” became the first-ever contraceptive sheath to be added to the Rijksmuseum’s art collection."
    #histsci #histmed #histsex (#histnat?) #collections
    theguardian.com/world/2025/jun

  14. Hmmm, no book reviews in August. Do you still have a pulse?

    Yes, dear readers, I might have mentioned that once I get my teeth stuck in Darwin's Descent of Man, they would remain firmly lodged there. Here is a progress shot as I am grinding my way through over 700 pages of Victorian English and effectively a separate book of dense annotations. No shortcuts here, just reading books cover to cover before writing a review, so I beg your patience.

    And those books on the left? I am settling in for a deep dive into this topic.

    #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #Evolution #SexualSelection #CharlesDarwin #HistSci #Scicomm @bookstodon @princetonupress @princetonnature

  15. Hmmm, no book reviews in August. Do you still have a pulse?

    Yes, dear readers, I might have mentioned that once I get my teeth stuck in Darwin's Descent of Man, they would remain firmly lodged there. Here is a progress shot as I am grinding my way through over 700 pages of Victorian English and effectively a separate book of dense annotations. No shortcuts here, just reading books cover to cover before writing a review, so I beg your patience.

    And those books on the left? I am settling in for a deep dive into this topic.

    #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #Evolution #SexualSelection #CharlesDarwin #HistSci #Scicomm @bookstodon @princetonupress @princetonnature

  16. Hmmm, no book reviews in August. Do you still have a pulse?

    Yes, dear readers, I might have mentioned that once I get my teeth stuck in Darwin's Descent of Man, they would remain firmly lodged there. Here is a progress shot as I am grinding my way through over 700 pages of Victorian English and effectively a separate book of dense annotations. No shortcuts here, just reading books cover to cover before writing a review, so I beg your patience.

    And those books on the left? I am settling in for a deep dive into this topic.

    #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #Evolution #SexualSelection #CharlesDarwin #HistSci #Scicomm @bookstodon @princetonupress @princetonnature

  17. Hmmm, no book reviews in August. Do you still have a pulse?

    Yes, dear readers, I might have mentioned that once I get my teeth stuck in Darwin's Descent of Man, they would remain firmly lodged there. Here is a progress shot as I am grinding my way through over 700 pages of Victorian English and effectively a separate book of dense annotations. No shortcuts here, just reading books cover to cover before writing a review, so I beg your patience.

    And those books on the left? I am settling in for a deep dive into this topic.

    #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #Evolution #SexualSelection #CharlesDarwin #HistSci #Scicomm @bookstodon @princetonupress @princetonnature

  18. Hmmm, no book reviews in August. Do you still have a pulse?

    Yes, dear readers, I might have mentioned that once I get my teeth stuck in Darwin's Descent of Man, they would remain firmly lodged there. Here is a progress shot as I am grinding my way through over 700 pages of Victorian English and effectively a separate book of dense annotations. No shortcuts here, just reading books cover to cover before writing a review, so I beg your patience.

    And those books on the left? I am settling in for a deep dive into this topic.

    #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #Evolution #SexualSelection #CharlesDarwin #HistSci #Scicomm @bookstodon @princetonupress @princetonnature

  19. 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

  20. HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out in Korean, from Hyeonamsa! Please considering sharing this with Korean folks in your circles.
    1/

    💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #histsci #histmed #politics

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

  21. This week's #NewBooks at the library: second-hand copies galore!
    - The #Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Life with a Lovable Tawny Owl, published by Bantam Press, bought at a local recycling shop.
    - Lyell: The Past is the Key to the Present, published by the Geological Society of London.
    - Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions, published by @princetonupress.

    Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Birds #BirdsOfPrey #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Geology #EarthSciences #Volcanoes #Volcanology @bookstodon

  22. This week's #NewBooks at the library: second-hand copies galore!
    - The #Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Life with a Lovable Tawny Owl, published by Bantam Press, bought at a local recycling shop.
    - Lyell: The Past is the Key to the Present, published by the Geological Society of London.
    - Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions, published by @princetonupress.

    Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Birds #BirdsOfPrey #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Geology #EarthSciences #Volcanoes #Volcanology @bookstodon

  23. This week's #NewBooks at the library: second-hand copies galore!
    - The #Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Life with a Lovable Tawny Owl, published by Bantam Press, bought at a local recycling shop.
    - Lyell: The Past is the Key to the Present, published by the Geological Society of London.
    - Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions, published by @princetonupress.

    Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Birds #BirdsOfPrey #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Geology #EarthSciences #Volcanoes #Volcanology @bookstodon

  24. This week's #NewBooks at the library: second-hand copies galore!
    - The #Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Life with a Lovable Tawny Owl, published by Bantam Press, bought at a local recycling shop.
    - Lyell: The Past is the Key to the Present, published by the Geological Society of London.
    - Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions, published by @princetonupress.

    Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Birds #BirdsOfPrey #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Geology #EarthSciences #Volcanoes #Volcanology @bookstodon

  25. This week's #NewBooks at the library: second-hand copies galore!
    - The #Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Life with a Lovable Tawny Owl, published by Bantam Press, bought at a local recycling shop.
    - Lyell: The Past is the Key to the Present, published by the Geological Society of London.
    - Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions, published by @princetonupress.

    Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Birds #BirdsOfPrey #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Geology #EarthSciences #Volcanoes #Volcanology @bookstodon

  26. 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

  27. 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

  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. ‘Cabinet of Materia Medica for the Major Examination Published by Evans, Lescher and Evans, London; and Evans, Sons and Co, Liverpool’
    Circa 1860 - 1880
    finch-and-co.co.uk/artwork-det #histsci #histmed #histpharma #histedu

  32. Le médecin en musicien ?
    Un rapprochement moins étrange qu'il n'y paraît, à une époque où les montres n'avaient pas de trotteuses pour objectiver la fréquence d'un pouls.

    books.google.fr/books?id=halGA #histsci #histmed #histtech #histmus

  33. Enfin disponible en ligne : la thèse "Génie de la collection et échanges savants au XVIIe siècle, le modèle social et la symbolique culturelle du cabinet de curiosités" de Lorenzo Cirrincione !
    #histsci #histmed #histnat #materialCulture #materialhistory #histart #collections

  34. This week's #NewBooks at the library:
    - I found a much reduced copy of Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of #Geology and #Palaeontology, published by Oxford University Press
    - I was so taken with Guillermo del Toro's visual take on #Frankenstein, I bought the book on the making of the movie by Sheila O'Malley, published by Titan Books.
    - I found a second-hand copy of The Spirit of System: #Lamarck and #EvolutionaryBiology, published by Harvard University Press, which should come in handy for a future review on Lamarck.

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

  35. This week's #NewBooks at the library:
    - I found a much reduced copy of Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of #Geology and #Palaeontology, published by Oxford University Press
    - I was so taken with Guillermo del Toro's visual take on #Frankenstein, I bought the book on the making of the movie by Sheila O'Malley, published by Titan Books.
    - I found a second-hand copy of The Spirit of System: #Lamarck and #EvolutionaryBiology, published by Harvard University Press, which should come in handy for a future review on Lamarck.

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

  36. This week's #NewBooks at the library:
    - I found a much reduced copy of Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of #Geology and #Palaeontology, published by Oxford University Press
    - I was so taken with Guillermo del Toro's visual take on #Frankenstein, I bought the book on the making of the movie by Sheila O'Malley, published by Titan Books.
    - I found a second-hand copy of The Spirit of System: #Lamarck and #EvolutionaryBiology, published by Harvard University Press, which should come in handy for a future review on Lamarck.

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