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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!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:batsswaxvws26rr3gf7wvm7k/post/3mvfhpbeils2l

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

[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
https://until-darwin.blogspot.com/2011/11/diversity-culture-theory-and-data.html

RE: https://sciences.social/@NODE801/117202571261839984

Frances Julia "Snow" Wedgewood's article "The Natural and the Supernatural" (1871) for the Spectator comparing Lucretius and Darwin's theory using portions of this translation can be found here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038698000&seq=558&view=2up

#HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin

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

New at Darwin Online translation of Lucretius for Darwin by his niece, the feminist writer Frances Julia 'Snow' Wedgwood. She also helped Darwin translate Linneaus.
Wedgwood, Frances Julia. 1871. 'Translation of Lucretius [De Rerum Natura] (Natural selection)' with marginal notes by Darwin.
#HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin

https://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=CUL-DAR47.77-79&viewtype=side&pageseq=1

Between Nature and Society: Empowering Research on the History of Science
Biodiversity Heritage Library Blog Reel, User Stories Interview/profile by Grace Costantino
#BHL #HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2019/08/between-nature-and-science

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

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1855643660
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM #mastoArt

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

Happy birthday to #astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell! In 1967, as a grad student she 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; so, like the light from a lighthouse, it appears to pulse at a precise frequency. She had been working with her supervisor Antony Hewish & others to construct a radio telescope to study quasars. 🧵 #linocut #printmaking #histsci

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Who is excited about the next few books he will be reviewing?

- After an impressive debut, I am looking forward to reading Cal Flyn's second book, The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness, published by HarperCollins.

- Time for another deep dive into the history of my favourite discipline, #EvolutionaryBiology. I really enjoyed Costa's annotated version of Wallace's notebook, and am very excited about delving into this annotated version of #CharlesDarwin's The Descent of Man, beautifully published here by @princetonupress. Expect me to go dark for a while, it's over 760 pages!

- And for context, I will be adding a review of Jeremy DeSilva's A Most Interesting Problem: What #Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about #HumanEvolution, published a few years back, also by Princeton.

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

Les montages à la Beauchêne, ou crânes éclatés (parfois accompagnés d'une mécanique), une technique ostéologique rare :
https://youtu.be/TX2Ss1hLLqs
#museum #histnat #histsci #histmed #histanat #resteshumains

Day 4 of #artAdventCalendar is my portrait of 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: 🧵

#mastoArt #linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM

For #spacetober_challenge 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; so, 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 🧵1/

#linocut #printmaking #histsci

For the #Spacetober_challenge prompt historic person, day 17, I’m sharing my portrait of 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 & that you and I are all stardust! She was the 1st author of a monumental scientific paper Synthesis of the Elements in Stars, 🧵

#mastoArt #linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM

For day 22 of #sciArtSeptember prompt fellowship, I am sharing my portrait of #astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who took her $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for her discovery of #pulsars & leadership in science and donated money to the Institute of Physics for PhD scholarships for underrepresented people including women, ethnic minorities & refugee students in physics! #linocut #printmaking #histsci

As a grad student in ‘67 she discovered the 1st radio pulsar, a 🧵

🇬🇧 💀 **How the racist study of skulls gripped Victorian Britain’s scientists **

"_In research for my forthcoming book on skull collections, I’ve found that Cambridge’s cranial register includes a skull sent from a former student stationed in India. He had plucked it from a cremation site in Bombay despite the outrage of gathered mourners. Brazen grave-robbing and colonial violence were central to the international network that furnished British universities’ skull rooms._"

🔗 https://theconversation.com/how-the-racist-study-of-skulls-gripped-victorian-britains-scientists-262280.

#History #Histodons #Science #HistSci #Phrenology #Universities #ScientificRacism #Racism #Medicine #UK #UnitedKingdom @histodons @science

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: Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge (her 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM

Happy birthday to #astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell! In 1967, as a grad student she 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; so, like the light from a lighthouse, it appears to pulse at a precise frequency. She had been working with her supervisor Antony Hewish & others to construct a radio telescope to study quasars. 🧵#linocut #printmaking #histsci

This week's #NewBooks at the library:

- I'm digging into the backcatalogue of #CarlSafina with The View from Lazy Point from #HenryHolt
- I bought a rare second-hand copy of Charles Darwin's Natural Selection (his *other* big book) from #CambridgeUniversityPress
- And Demon Download? Well, you can tell 'm Jordan Sorcery sent you

#NaturalHiistory #Evolution #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #CharlesDarwin #Warhammer #GamesWorkshop
#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon

For #SciArtSeptember prompt enchanted: Kepler’s Somnium. This hand-printed linocut illustrates astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler’s science fiction story Somnium, or “The Dream”. Kepler (1571-1630) wrote the strange manuscript in Latin, and circulated it amongst friends, with the intention of eventually publishing it but he died before that could could happen. 🧵1/n

#linocut #suminagashi #printmaking #histsci #sciart #Kepler #MastoArt #moon #astronomy

Evento próximo y con registro gratuito. Las anteriores ediciones han sido realmente enriquecedoras

See You there if interest
#phil #compsci #philsci #compBio #computerscience #computer_history #hist #history #histsci #philosophy #biol #biology #cogsci #cognitivescience #mind #mindscience

TOMORROW: I'll be doing a virtual event with the National WWI Museum at 1 pm CST (that's 7 pm for UK attendees). I'll be talking about the pioneering surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, who rebuilt soldiers' faces during WWI, followed by Q&A. Event is FREE! Please register: https://www.theworldwar.org/events/facemaker-lindsey-fitzharris?fbclid=IwAR18GASogq8Me0YtANsUZM-CvldBHWU2w-MGgoMV9-tuv8WbJbyuql_yEqE

#histodons #histodon #twitter #histmed #medhist #histsci #plasticsurgery #books #bookstodon #booktoot

Scarificator, late 17th century. This instrument with spring-loaded blades delivered many cuts simultaneously. Afterwards, the doctor placed a heated cup over the site. As it cooled, blood was forced out of the wounds.

Photo: University of Melbourne.

#histodons #histodon #history #histmed #medhist #histsci #instrument #scientific #science #medicine #doctors

“One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.

Follow me for more medical history content!

#histmed #histsci #histodons #histodon #twitterexodus #twittermigration #medhist #DYK #bigpharma

During WWI, Marie Curie created a vehicle that contained a hospital bed, a generator, an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment. These “petite Curies" (below) could be driven right up to the Front. Curie also helped train 150 women as radiology technicians.

#histmed #histsci #WWI #warhistory #war #medhist #science #womeninstem #womenshistory #histodon #histodons #twittermigration #twitterexodus

Watercolor of a malignant growth springing from the eye of a woman, 19th century. The eye protruded for two months. In the righthand corner, you can see a monochrome sketch of the eyeball and tumour after its removal. [Image: Wellcome Collection] #histmed #histodons #histodon #history #medhist #histsci #illustration

This remarkably detailed wax anatomical model (c.1787) is now housed at the Javier Puerta Museum. Wax models like this were used for teaching anatomy to medical students at a time when few bodies were available for dissection. It demonstrates the merging of art and science.

#histodon #histodons #histmed #sciart #histsci #medhist #anatomy

Male skeleton showing wear pattern to teeth resulting from long-term pipe smoking, c.1660. It was excavated from the Patuxent Point site, Calvert County, MD. All of the skeletons uncovered (men, women, and children) showed signs of smoking. #histodons #histodon #skull #histmed #medhist #smoking #skeleton #histsci #archaeology #archaeologist

#Job #Stipendium #Universitätsgeschichte

7 Promotionsstipendien am Institut für Geschichte @tudresden innerhalb des Forschungsprojekts „Die Technische #Hochschule #Dresden im #Nationalsozialismus.
Transformationen von #Wissen und #Wissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert“ (3 ½ Jahre mit Option auf weitere 6 Monate).

@histodons @historikerinnen
#histodons #Zeitgeschichte #20thcentury #HigherEducation #UniGeschichte #histSTM #histsci

Projekt: https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/ige/forschung/gesthd

Stipendien: https://tu-dresden.de/stellenausschreibung/10549

This is a photo of Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri at the turn of the 20th century. The walls were painted by a surgeon who wanted to give patients something to look at while they waited for their anesthesia. A beautiful merging of art and medicine.

#histsci #histmed #medhist #sciart #art #oldphoto #medhistorian #surgery #histodon #histodons

The hematologist Oswald H. Robertson pioneered the idea of "blood banks" in WWI by packing glass jars of citrated blood from universal donors in an ice-filled chest that he had constructed from ammunition cases. Learn more in my book THE FACEMAKER: https://linktr.ee/drlindseyfitzharris

#histodons #histodon #history #histmed #histsci #medhist #medhistorian #twitterstorians #twittermigration #twitter #TIL #writer #writing #nonfiction

@evopma on that list of philosophers and historians of the life sciences, you can follow & add:

@cepaea, @pence, @ehud, @sabinaleonelli, @kzollman, @HWorliczek, @ivanfr , @ct_bergstrom, @carlbrusse, @qruyant, @subanima, @marshall_0i, @chreliot, @emilyherring, @lisabortolotti, @AFabregasTejeda

... and more!

#WorldPhilosophyDay
#Philosophy #PhilosophyofBiology #PhilosophyofScience #PhilSci #PhilBio #HistSci #HistoryofScience #ScienceofScience #MetaScience #SociologyofScience #ISHPSSB