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Simia to Homo: from C. F. Hoppe's Anthropomorpha (1760)
"As for me, I am still uncertain, by what characteristic mark the troglodytes can be distinguished from man, according to the principles of natural history"
#HistSTM #HistSci
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He shot them with fine shot to spare the feathers, ran wires through the bodies, posed the wings mid-lunge, then often ate the model. Snowy owl, not indelicate. Bald eagle, like veal. John James Audubon, taxidermist of the sublime.
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The Paradoxa from the Systema natura by Linnaeus (1735)
The Paradoxa are the various species Linnaeus did not include in his Systema Natura because he judged them to be either fabulous, the result of mistaken observations by travelers or, as in the case of the Hamburg hydra, simply fraudulent.
#HistSTM #HistSci
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A leading historian of science just sent me this pic, with QUEER ORIGINS nestled among some of the most respected books about Darwin. It's a huge compliment — I'm quite emotional! 😊
Now that it's published in the UK, Canada, and the US, do please send me photos if you spot the book out 'in the wild' . . . 🏳️🌈 📚 🦋
#book #books #bookstodon #reading #readingcommunity #writing #science #nature #animals #Darwin #evolution #history #histsex #histsci #sts #queerhistory #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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A leading historian of science just sent me this pic, with QUEER ORIGINS nestled among some of the most respected books about Darwin. It's a huge compliment — I'm quite emotional! 😊
Now that it's published in the UK, Canada, and the US, do please send me photos if you spot the book out 'in the wild' . . . 🏳️🌈 📚 🦋
#book #books #bookstodon #reading #readingcommunity #writing #science #nature #animals #Darwin #evolution #history #histsex #histsci #sts #queerhistory #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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A leading historian of science just sent me this pic, with QUEER ORIGINS nestled among some of the most respected books about Darwin. It's a huge compliment — I'm quite emotional! 😊
Now that it's published in the UK, Canada, and the US, do please send me photos if you spot the book out 'in the wild' . . . 🏳️🌈 📚 🦋
#book #books #bookstodon #reading #readingcommunity #writing #science #nature #animals #Darwin #evolution #history #histsex #histsci #sts #queerhistory #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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A leading historian of science just sent me this pic, with QUEER ORIGINS nestled among some of the most respected books about Darwin. It's a huge compliment — I'm quite emotional! 😊
Now that it's published in the UK, Canada, and the US, do please send me photos if you spot the book out 'in the wild' . . . 🏳️🌈 📚 🦋
#book #books #bookstodon #reading #readingcommunity #writing #science #nature #animals #Darwin #evolution #history #histsex #histsci #sts #queerhistory #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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A leading historian of science just sent me this pic, with QUEER ORIGINS nestled among some of the most respected books about Darwin. It's a huge compliment — I'm quite emotional! 😊
Now that it's published in the UK, Canada, and the US, do please send me photos if you spot the book out 'in the wild' . . . 🏳️🌈 📚 🦋
#book #books #bookstodon #reading #readingcommunity #writing #science #nature #animals #Darwin #evolution #history #histsex #histsci #sts #queerhistory #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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Rappel : à l'occasion des #JEP2026, vous pouvez visiter le petit Musée de la Radiologie et de l'Imagerie Médicale, dans le 13e arrondissement de #Paris ! https://journeesdupatrimoine.culture.gouv.fr/w/391796/evenement/19901988/visite-du-musee-de-la-radiologie-sur-inscription#/events/19901988
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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)
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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)
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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.
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I’m really not sure about these two oddballs in this #MinCup26 matchup. Putnisite: pleochroism, unrelated to other mineralogical families, translucent purple. Hafnon is like zircon but with hafnium instead of zirconium.
I’m leaning towards Hafnon for the hafnium, an element predicted by Mendeleev!
Vote for your preferred mineral here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-r1m09
I bet the vote will go the other way what with the “ooh, purple!” voting block this year. 😂
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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… https://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/darwin-encounters-bolas/
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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.
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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.
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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 🧵 -
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 🧵 -
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 🧵 -
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 🧵 -
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 🧵 -
Découvrir une figure encore trop méconnue de l'histoire des mathématiques : la grande Sophie Germain (1776-1831) !
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/serie-avoir-raison-avec-sophie-germain
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Découvrir une figure encore trop méconnue de l'histoire des mathématiques : la grande Sophie Germain (1776-1831) !
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/serie-avoir-raison-avec-sophie-germain
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Découvrir une figure encore trop méconnue de l'histoire des mathématiques : la grande Sophie Germain (1776-1831) !
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/serie-avoir-raison-avec-sophie-germain
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Découvrir une figure encore trop méconnue de l'histoire des mathématiques : la grande Sophie Germain (1776-1831) !
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/serie-avoir-raison-avec-sophie-germain
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Découvrir une figure encore trop méconnue de l'histoire des mathématiques : la grande Sophie Germain (1776-1831) !
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/serie-avoir-raison-avec-sophie-germain
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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.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2026.2692190 #DH #histsci #alchemy #computationalhumanities #digitalhumanities #wordembeddings
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Book review: The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe https://ianhopkinson.org.uk/2026/09/book-review-the-secrets-of-alchemy-by-lawrence-m-principe/ #histsci #bookreview #alchemy #chemistry #bookstodon
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Book review: The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe https://ianhopkinson.org.uk/2026/09/book-review-the-secrets-of-alchemy-by-lawrence-m-principe/ #histsci #bookreview #alchemy #chemistry #bookstodon
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Book review: The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe https://ianhopkinson.org.uk/2026/09/book-review-the-secrets-of-alchemy-by-lawrence-m-principe/ #histsci #bookreview #alchemy #chemistry #bookstodon
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Book review: The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe https://ianhopkinson.org.uk/2026/09/book-review-the-secrets-of-alchemy-by-lawrence-m-principe/ #histsci #bookreview #alchemy #chemistry #bookstodon
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Book review: The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe https://ianhopkinson.org.uk/2026/09/book-review-the-secrets-of-alchemy-by-lawrence-m-principe/ #histsci #bookreview #alchemy #chemistry #bookstodon
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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 🧵 -
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 🧵 -
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 🧵 -
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 🧵 -
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 🧵 -
[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
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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.
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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
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He moved apartments up to sixty times in Vienna. When notes wouldn't come, he stripped down, poured pitchers of cold water over his head, and bellowed scales until the floorboards leaked. Beethoven: deaf, drenched, evicted repeatedly.
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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
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05-Sep: On this day in 1831, Charles Darwin first met Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle. Here’s the story… https://friendsofdarwin.com/beau-ideal/
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She stopped going to church at thirty. Skipped her own father's funeral one floor above. And yet Emily Dickinson lowered gingerbread by rope to the neighborhood children she called storm-tossed pirates.
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A bird-headed prince eats souls on a toilet. A choir of the damned sings from sheet music tattooed on a sinner's bare buttocks. In 2014, a sophomore transcribed the notes. They play. Hieronymus Bosch, patient deposition-filer of Hell.
