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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. He entered Oxford at twelve, coined "international," and spent six decades redesigning civilization. He spent sixty-three years on his body's afterlife. UCL still wheels him into meetings. The minutes list him as present but not voting.

    oddlet.com/p/vbk

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  7. 08-Sep: On this day in 1832, Charles Darwin observed gauchos using bolas. He later tried them out for himself, and managed to ensnare his own horse in the process… friendsofdarwin.com/articles/d
    #HistSci

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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 🧵

  11. 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

  12. 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 🧵

  13. 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 🧵

  14. 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 🧵

  15. 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 🧵

  16. 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 🧵

  17. [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

  18. [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

  19. [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

  20. [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

  21. [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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. "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

  32. Happy birthday to writer, statesman and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). Made for the #printersolstice Fauvism prompt: This print is a hand-printed, limited edition, reduction block print portrait. While best known for his contributions to German literature, he pursued natural sciences, studying morphology, doing work which presaged evolution, 🧵1/

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/116

    #linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #Goethe #NaturalScience #reductionPrint #printmaker #mastoArt

  33. 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...