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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.

https://oddlet.com/p/e7s

#Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

#histsci folks, if you're not following @[email protected] yet on all the things, now's the time!

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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...

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: https://yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwin-queer-inheritance/

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

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.

https://oddlet.com/p/lvr

#Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

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.

https://oddlet.com/p/otj

#Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

Avis aux Iséroises et Isérois : exposition sur Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu les 3–4 et 10–11 octobre prochains, à… Dolomieu, son village natal. Ce géologue et volcanologue a donné son nom à la roche dolomie, au principal cratère du Piton de la Fournaise, et surtout au massif italien des Dolomites. Cette exposition, conçue en Sicile en 2024 et désormais adaptée en français, retrace la vie aventureuse du savant et ses découvertes scientifiques à travers 34 panneaux richement illustrés (gravures, cartes…). Elle s’inscrit dans un projet plus vaste, qui vise à terme à créer un « espace Déolomieu » au sein du village. Bref, ça a l’air chouette ! Mon seul regret, que je n’ai pas manqué de notifier aux organisateurs : une affiche blindée de slop IAg, plutôt que de faire bosser un artiste, ou tout simplement de piocher dans la vaste iconographie d’époque… Je vous la partage quand même, attention les yeux.

#exposition #expo #Isère #géologie #histsci #histnat #FêtedelaScience

Avis aux Iséroises et Isérois : exposition sur Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu les 3–4 et 10–11 octobre prochains, à… Dolomieu, son village natal. Ce géologue et volcanologue a donné son nom à la roche dolomie, au principal cratère du Piton de la Fournaise, et surtout au massif italien des Dolomites. Cette exposition, conçue en Sicile en 2024 et désormais adaptée en français, retrace la vie aventureuse du savant et ses découvertes scientifiques à travers 34 panneaux richement illustrés (gravures, cartes…). Elle s’inscrit dans un projet plus vaste, qui vise à terme à créer un « espace Déolomieu » au sein du village. Bref, ça a l’air chouette ! Mon seul regret, que je n’ai pas manqué de notifier aux organisateurs : une affiche blindée de slop IAg, plutôt que de faire bosser un artiste, ou tout simplement de piocher dans la vaste iconographie d’époque… Je vous la partage quand même, attention les yeux.

#exposition #expo #Isère #géologie #histsci #histnat #FêtedelaScience

Avis aux Iséroises et Isérois : exposition sur Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu les 3–4 et 10–11 octobre prochains, à… Dolomieu, son village natal. Ce géologue et volcanologue a donné son nom à la roche dolomie, au principal cratère du Piton de la Fournaise, et surtout au massif italien des Dolomites. Cette exposition, conçue en Sicile en 2024 et désormais adaptée en français, retrace la vie aventureuse du savant et ses découvertes scientifiques à travers 34 panneaux richement illustrés (gravures, cartes…). Elle s’inscrit dans un projet plus vaste, qui vise à terme à créer un « espace Déolomieu » au sein du village. Bref, ça a l’air chouette ! Mon seul regret, que je n’ai pas manqué de notifier aux organisateurs : une affiche blindée de slop IAg, plutôt que de faire bosser un artiste, ou tout simplement de piocher dans la vaste iconographie d’époque… Je vous la partage quand même, attention les yeux.

#exposition #expo #Isère #géologie #histsci #histnat #FêtedelaScience

Avis aux Iséroises et Isérois : exposition sur Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu les 3–4 et 10–11 octobre prochains, à… Dolomieu, son village natal. Ce géologue et volcanologue a donné son nom à la roche dolomie, au principal cratère du Piton de la Fournaise, et surtout au massif italien des Dolomites. Cette exposition, conçue en Sicile en 2024 et désormais adaptée en français, retrace la vie aventureuse du savant et ses découvertes scientifiques à travers 34 panneaux richement illustrés (gravures, cartes…). Elle s’inscrit dans un projet plus vaste, qui vise à terme à créer un « espace Déolomieu » au sein du village. Bref, ça a l’air chouette ! Mon seul regret, que je n’ai pas manqué de notifier aux organisateurs : une affiche blindée de slop IAg, plutôt que de faire bosser un artiste, ou tout simplement de piocher dans la vaste iconographie d’époque… Je vous la partage quand même, attention les yeux.

#exposition #expo #Isère #géologie #histsci #histnat #FêtedelaScience

Avis aux Iséroises et Isérois : exposition sur Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu les 3–4 et 10–11 octobre prochains, à… Dolomieu, son village natal. Ce géologue et volcanologue a donné son nom à la roche dolomie, au principal cratère du Piton de la Fournaise, et surtout au massif italien des Dolomites. Cette exposition, conçue en Sicile en 2024 et désormais adaptée en français, retrace la vie aventureuse du savant et ses découvertes scientifiques à travers 34 panneaux richement illustrés (gravures, cartes…). Elle s’inscrit dans un projet plus vaste, qui vise à terme à créer un « espace Déolomieu » au sein du village. Bref, ça a l’air chouette ! Mon seul regret, que je n’ai pas manqué de notifier aux organisateurs : une affiche blindée de slop IAg, plutôt que de faire bosser un artiste, ou tout simplement de piocher dans la vaste iconographie d’époque… Je vous la partage quand même, attention les yeux.

#exposition #expo #Isère #géologie #histsci #histnat #FêtedelaScience

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

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 🧵

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 🧵

"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
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/rijksmuseum-condom-exhibition

HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out in Korean, from Hyeonamsa! Please considering sharing this with Korean folks in your circles.
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💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #histsci #histmed #politics

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

Two historians and a #monster exchange! #histsci #histmed

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History of science meets forensic mysteries: what's not to like? I've pre-ordered mine and can't wait!
#histsci #histmed 🗃

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Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), #chemist & x-ray #crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to #carbon & #virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠
⁠
Watson’s bio lead some to (inaccurately) joke, “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.” While it’s important 🧵1/
#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #histsci #mastoArt #sciart⁠

‘Cabinet of Materia Medica for the Major Examination Published by Evans, Lescher and Evans, London; and Evans, Sons and Co, Liverpool’
Circa 1860 - 1880
https://www.finch-and-co.co.uk/artwork-detail/814272/18676/victorian-mahogany-cased-cabinet-of #histsci #histmed #histpharma #histedu

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.

https://books.google.fr/books?id=halGAAAAcAAJ&hl=fr&pg=PA1#v=onepage #histsci #histmed #histtech #histmus

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

It is 122 years ago today since the death of #JohnBellHatcher. Meticulous in its historical detail, King of the Dinosaur Hunters is the definitive biography of this quietly famous and influential fossil collector.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2018/12/10/book-review-king-of-the-dinosaur-hunters-the-life-of-john-bell-hatcher-and-the-discoveries-that-shaped-paleontology/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #SciComm

"Milk sickness is a kind of poisoning that affects individuals who ingest milk, other dairy products, or meat from a cow that has fed on the white snakeroot plant, which contains the poison tremetol."
"Dr. Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby is credited with identifying the plant in the 1830s. Legend has it that she was taught about the plant's properties by a Shawnee woman."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_sickness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageratina_altissima#Toxicity
#histsci #histnat #histmed #womeninSTEM

The audiobook of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is $0.99 on Amazon.com / 99p on Amazon.co.uk. Links in thread, plus links for 30% off from @[email protected] (valid for all books!).

Intro cliff-hanger in alt-text.

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

Day 8 #artAdventCalendar x-ray #crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994), Nobel laureate in #chemistry for her models of biomolecules like penicillin, vitamin B12 & insulin.

She was “captured for life by chemistry and crystals,” in childhood, 1 of 2 girls allowed to study chemistry rather than domestic science at her school with a small lab in her attic. On her 16th birthday her mother gave her 🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1863006411

#histsci #mastoArt #womenInSTEM

164 years ago today #JohnBellHatcher was born. Meticulous in its historical detail, King of the Dinosaur Hunters is the definitive biography of this quietly famous and influential fossil collector.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2018/12/10/book-review-king-of-the-dinosaur-hunters-the-life-of-john-bell-hatcher-and-the-discoveries-that-shaped-paleontology/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #SciComm

The #Mathober day 3 prompt is ‘#Polyhedron’. I have no art to offer, but I thought I would use the occasion to draw attention to a lesser-known role of polyhedra in Johannes Kepler's (1571–1630) thought.

Start with the famous part: Kepler argued that the five regular (or Platonic) solids fitted between the orbs of the then-known six planets [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kepler-solar-system-1.png].

When Galileo discovered four moons of Jupiter, Kepler sought a similar polyhedral structure for the Jovian system, and suggested that ‘semiregular’ solids provided the key. ‘Semiregular’ for Kepler meant that the polyhedra had rhombic faces and satisfied certain technical criteria. (The concept differs from today's notion of semiregular polyhedra.)

There were exactly three such ‘semiregular’ polyhedra:

• the cube (the square being a special kind of rhombus).

• the rhombic dodecahedron (12 faces; diagram attached).

• the rhombic triacontahedron (30 faces; diagram attached).

Kepler placed the rhombic dodecahedron between Io and Europa, the rhombic triacontahedron between Europa and Ganymede, and the cube between Ganymede and Callisto.

Kepler thought that there were six planets because God had shaped the cosmos around the five platonic solids. The three ‘semiregular’ solids would similarly explain why there were four moons of Jupiter.

Perhaps someone who is a better artist than I am could draw a diagram of the three rhombic solids and the orbs of the four Galilean moons in the style of Kepler's famous diagram of the Platonic solids between the orbs of the planets.

#Mathober2025 #HistMath #HistSci

It is 121 years ago today that the world lost #JohnBellHatcher. Meticulous in its historical detail, King of the Dinosaur Hunters is the definitive biography of this quietly famous and influential fossil collector.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2018/12/10/book-review-king-of-the-dinosaur-hunters-the-life-of-john-bell-hatcher-and-the-discoveries-that-shaped-paleontology/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #SciComm

Die #LangeNachtDerWissenschaften (#LNDW) findet heute in #Berlin zum 25. Mal statt – Gratulation!

Allen, die nicht teilnehmen können, empfehlen wir aus dem #Heftarchiv unsere noch ältere #WerkstattGeschichte 23/1999 »Populäres Wissen«, der Thementeil hg. v. Christine Brecht & Barbara Orland:
▶ https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/populaeres-wissen

@histodons @historikerinnen

#histodons #Wissensgeschichte #Wissenschaft #histsci #Wissenschaftsgeschichte

For the #Spacetober prompt lift-off: it’s my portrait of #mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; 1918-2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics and played a pivotal role in the success of the US crewed spaceflights from the beginning. 🧵1/n

#mathematics #sciart #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #spaceArt #histsci #BlackInSTEM #MastoArt

Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown in 1930)! Shown with satellite tracks & 3 satellites important to her career: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #Spacetober #EarthScience #Math

For the #Spacetober prompt Carl Sagan: the famous Arecibo message, an interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth that was sent to the globular cluster Messier 13 in 1974 alongside a view of space with stars & nebulae.

Designed by astronomers who were thinking about the possibility of & communicating with alien life, including Drake, creator of the Drake equation & others, the message was a demo of 🧵1/

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #astronomy #histsci

For the #Spacetober prompt orbit: my portrait of #mathematician and #astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)! We remember him for his role in the Scientific Revolution, and his three laws of planetary motion in particular. His laws modified Copernicus’ heliocentric model; he replaced the circular orbits with elliptical ones & described velocities of planets. Today we know them as:
🧵1/n

#sciart #histsci #MastoArt #Kepler #geometry #PlatonicSolids #mathematics #musicOfTheSpheres #linocut

For #Spacetober prompt telescope: #astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell as a grad student in ‘67 discovered the 1st radio pulsar, a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of EM radiation. This radiation can only be observed when the star is pointed towards us; like the light from a lighthouse, it appears to pulse at a precise frequency. She had been working with her supervisor Hewish & others to construct a radio telescope to study quasars.🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #histsci

163 years ago today #JohnBellHatcher was born. Meticulous in its historical detail, King of the Dinosaur Hunters is the definitive biography of this quietly famous and influential fossil collector.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2018/12/10/book-review-king-of-the-dinosaur-hunters-the-life-of-john-bell-hatcher-and-the-discoveries-that-shaped-paleontology/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #FossilFriday #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #SciComm

For the #Spacetober day 11 prompt wavelength: my #linocut of trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941) with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵1/n

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #printersolstice2024 #MastoArt

April 25 is #NationalDNADay so I’m sharing my portrait of Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), #chemist & x-ray #crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to #carbon & #virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠
⁠
There’s a joke amongst scientists that goes, “What did Watson & Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes” 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #histsci #sciart⁠

You can read my Hildegard von Bingen thread here but I’ve also made a longer blog post about her, botany, natural history and medicine in honour of Ada Lovelace Day! #ALD23 is an international day of blogging of #womenInSTEM.

#sciArt #histsci #histmed #naturalHistory #MastoArt #AdaLovelaceDay

http://minouette.blogspot.com/2023/10/hildegard-von-bingen-medival-medicine.html?m=1

Hello fediverse, [I‘m re-posting my #introduction as I changed instances…]

I’m a historian of technology, working mainly on historical #mobility and #technologyfutures . I'm just starting with a new project on the history of #childrensmobility while my first book on the history of #drivingassistance systems will hopefully soon be published.

My fields of interest are #STS #TechnologyAssessment #Anthropology and of course #HistTech #HistSci #HistSTM #histchild and #TheoryofHistory . Working @KIT_Karlsruhe , being #newhere , hoping to meet mutual #histodons @histodons @historikerinnen @histstm !

Hello fediverse, I’m a historian of technology, working mainly on historical #mobility and #technologyfutures. I am just starting with a new project on the history of #childrensmobility while my first book on the history of driving assistance systems will hopefully soon be published. My fields of interested are #STS #TechnologyAssessment #Anthropology and of course #HistTech #HistSci #HistSTM #TheoryofHistory. Working @KIT_Karlsruhe @histKIT, being #newhere ...