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Rosalind Franklin was born OTD in 1920.

Her X-ray crystallography was key to discovering DNA’s structure (her student Raymond Gosling took photo 51).

She also studied viruses. After her untimely death, a colleague Aaron Klug continued her work and won a Nobel.

🌱🐋🧪 #EvoBio #HistSTM #WomeninSTEM

Rosalind Franklin was born OTD in 1920.

Her X-ray crystallography was key to discovering DNA’s structure (her student Raymond Gosling took photo 51).

She also studied viruses. After her untimely death, a colleague Aaron Klug continued her work and won a Nobel.

🌱🐋🧪 #EvoBio #HistSTM #WomeninSTEM

Adding: #histSTM #histsci #philsci #philbio

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Adding: #histSTM #histsci #philsci #philbio

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Hey, still need to submit fall book orders? (I KNOW)

Teaching #envhist #envhum #envstudies #histsci #histtech #histstm #sts #discardstudies ?

🤩Please consider #TransformingNight 🌌💡🌃 -- out 3 Aug, just in time for the new academic year!

uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Transforming Night

Hey, still need to submit fall book orders? (I KNOW)

Teaching #envhist #envhum #envstudies #histsci #histtech #histstm #sts #discardstudies ?

🤩Please consider #TransformingNight 🌌💡🌃 -- out 3 Aug, just in time for the new academic year!

uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Transforming Night

Read an excerpt from my forthcoming book, DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE . . . 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

Just posted on Yale University Press's website: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2026/06/10/an-excerpt-darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/

#book #books #history #science #biology #nature #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #sex #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #pride #PrideMonth

Read an excerpt from my forthcoming book, DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE . . . 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

Just posted on Yale University Press's website: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2026/06/10/an-excerpt-darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/

#book #books #history #science #biology #nature #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #sex #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #pride #PrideMonth

Happy #PrideMonth! 🌈

Here's a lovely western capercaillie described by Swedish zoologist Sven Nilsson in 1832 as a female that had developed male-typical plumage. 🐦 :transgender:

#history #science #biology #nature #birds #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #pride

Happy #PrideMonth! 🌈

Here's a lovely western capercaillie described by Swedish zoologist Sven Nilsson in 1832 as a female that had developed male-typical plumage. 🐦 :transgender:

#history #science #biology #nature #birds #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #pride

Check out Katherine Harvey's (@katherineharvey.bsky.social) recently published 'The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living' which explores the way that medieval people looked over their physical and mental health.

https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-medieval-guide-to-healthy-living

#histmed #histstm

Check out Katherine Harvey's (@katherineharvey.bsky.social) recently published 'The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living' which explores the way that medieval people looked over their physical and mental health.

https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-medieval-guide-to-healthy-living

#histmed #histstm

But Lorenz was not the first with the intuition. In The Phantom Tollbooth, the Princess of Pure Reason says: "...whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world." 🧪🦋🦫🧠🗃 #PhilSci #HistSTM #Booksky

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But Lorenz was not the first with the intuition. In The Phantom Tollbooth, the Princess of Pure Reason says: "...whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world." 🧪🦋🦫🧠🗃 #PhilSci #HistSTM #Booksky

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Edward Lorenz, of “butterfly effect” fame, was born OTD in 1917. "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.” 🧪🦋🦫🧠🗃 #PhilSci #HistSTM

Edward Lorenz, of “butterfly effect” fame, was born OTD in 1917. "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.” 🧪🦋🦫🧠🗃 #PhilSci #HistSTM

Whoop, whoop! 🥳

My book has just been sent to the printers! It also features in Yale University Press's Autumn Catalogue, in some very illustrious company . . . #excited

All shares and preorders much appreciated! 🙏

UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ :transgender: 📜 🦋

#books #bookstodon #history #science #biology #nature #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

Whoop, whoop! 🥳

My book has just been sent to the printers! It also features in Yale University Press's Autumn Catalogue, in some very illustrious company . . . #excited

All shares and preorders much appreciated! 🙏

UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ :transgender: 📜 🦋

#books #bookstodon #history #science #biology #nature #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

Upcoming talk by G. Geltner "The Workers’ View: An Environmental Approach to Premodern Public Health" as part of the Oxford Medieval History Seminar. 1 June, 5pm BST at the Wharton Room, All Souls College

For remote attendance, email [email protected]

#histmed #histstm

Upcoming talk by G. Geltner "The Workers’ View: An Environmental Approach to Premodern Public Health" as part of the Oxford Medieval History Seminar. 1 June, 5pm BST at the Wharton Room, All Souls College

For remote attendance, email [email protected]

#histmed #histstm

Kurt Gödel was born OTD in 1906. “If a 'religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.” John Barrow, The Artful Universe 🧪🦫🦋 #HistSTM #PhilSci

Kurt Gödel was born OTD in 1906. “If a 'religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.” John Barrow, The Artful Universe 🧪🦫🦋 #HistSTM #PhilSci

Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800, by me, @[email protected] and Noah Moxham, is available as a paperback from Thursday! A relative snip at £26 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM

Pleased to say that 'Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances' is now available through Oxford Scholarship Online!

The volume gathers fifteen studies on the history and archaeology of public health from across the preindustrial globe

academic.oup.com/book/62595

#histmed #histstm

Pleased to say that 'Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances' is now available through Oxford Scholarship Online!

The volume gathers fifteen studies on the history and archaeology of public health from across the preindustrial globe

academic.oup.com/book/62595

#histmed #histstm

Check out this article by Peter Mohr on a historical collection of microscope slides held at the @[email protected] @[email protected] Museum of Medicine and Health. #HistSTM #HistMed #MaterialCulture academic.oup.com/jhc/article/...

The Gibson microscope slide co...

Check out this article by Peter Mohr on a historical collection of microscope slides held at the @[email protected] @[email protected] Museum of Medicine and Health. #HistSTM #HistMed #MaterialCulture academic.oup.com/jhc/article/...

The Gibson microscope slide co...

I'm looking for colleagues in the UK, #HistSTM, #HistMed, or #STS who work in institutional settings where they find it is difficult to place them in the right Unit of Assessment for REF2029. DM if that's you?

I'm looking for colleagues in the UK, #HistSTM, #HistMed, or #STS who work in institutional settings where they find it is difficult to place them in the right Unit of Assessment for REF2029. DM if that's you?

I'm bowled over by the first endorsements my forthcoming book has received. Such brilliant authors - WOW!

You will love it too . . .

UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ :transgender: 📚 🦋

#books #bookstodon #history #science #biology #nature #animals #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

I'm bowled over by the first endorsements my forthcoming book has received. Such brilliant authors - WOW!

You will love it too . . .

UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ :transgender: 📚 🦋

#books #bookstodon #history #science #biology #nature #animals #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

Happy birthday to Canadian 🇨🇦 geneticist Irene Ayako Uchida (1917-2013)! My #linocut is hand printed on 9.25” x 12.5” Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. Uchida is shown surrounded by chromosones, with anomalies (shown with pink arrows) due to radiation exposure, based on one of her research papers. A strand of DNA is hidden in the image (as her watchband).⁠
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https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/608036877

#printmaking #sciart #genetics #cytology #DNA #histstm #WomenInSTEM #chromosomes #mastoArt

Happy birthday to Canadian 🇨🇦 geneticist Irene Ayako Uchida (1917-2013)! My #linocut is hand printed on 9.25” x 12.5” Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. Uchida is shown surrounded by chromosones, with anomalies (shown with pink arrows) due to radiation exposure, based on one of her research papers. A strand of DNA is hidden in the image (as her watchband).⁠
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https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/608036877

#printmaking #sciart #genetics #cytology #DNA #histstm #WomenInSTEM #chromosomes #mastoArt

The Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health April 17th meeting hosts Briana Brightly, who has shared a chapter from their doctoral dissertation titled "How to Draw the Buddha and Dissect a Corpse: Iconometry and Anatomy in Early-Modern Tibet".

#histmed #histstm

https://www.chstm.org/group/objects-images-and-spaces-health

The Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health April 17th meeting hosts Briana Brightly, who has shared a chapter from their doctoral dissertation titled "How to Draw the Buddha and Dissect a Corpse: Iconometry and Anatomy in Early-Modern Tibet".

#histmed #histstm

https://www.chstm.org/group/objects-images-and-spaces-health

The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine is opening proposals for a new working group. The call is for groups that will meet during the 2026-2027 academic year.

https://www.chstm.org/news/propose-new-working-group-2026-2027

#histmed #histstm

The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine is opening proposals for a new working group. The call is for groups that will meet during the 2026-2027 academic year.

https://www.chstm.org/news/propose-new-working-group-2026-2027

#histmed #histstm

It's #Easter Sunday! 🌱

No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. But I do have a *lot* of queer chickens. 🥚🏳️‍🌈🐤 :transgender: 🐔

Here's a domestic hen with male plumage, described in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society in 1821.

#HappyEaster #history #histbio #histsci #histstm #sts #science #biology #nature #birds #animals @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histstm @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

It's #Easter Sunday! 🌱

No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. But I do have a *lot* of queer chickens. 🥚🏳️‍🌈🐤 :transgender: 🐔

Here's a domestic hen with male plumage, described in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society in 1821.

#HappyEaster #history #histbio #histsci #histstm #sts #science #biology #nature #birds #animals @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histstm @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

Registration has opened for our conference - "Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches"!

Attendance is both virtual and in-person in Melbourne, Australia.

See the program here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mZ4FElavGNTvCSSM0svVliBGEVrI4Kvm/view?usp=sharing

Registration: https://forms.gle/w49zfP3CPBQjaXG38

#histmed #histstm

Registration has opened for our conference - "Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches"!

Attendance is both virtual and in-person in Melbourne, Australia.

See the program here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mZ4FElavGNTvCSSM0svVliBGEVrI4Kvm/view?usp=sharing

Registration: https://forms.gle/w49zfP3CPBQjaXG38

#histmed #histstm

Stephen Toulmin was born OTD 1922. If we get to Heaven and are offered eternal residence with Erasmus, Rabelais, Shakespeare, and Montaigne, few of us will ask instead to join Descartes, Newton, and “the exact-thinking but darker-souled geniuses of the 17th century.” #Philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫 #Booksky

Stephen Toulmin was born OTD 1922. If we get to Heaven and are offered eternal residence with Erasmus, Rabelais, Shakespeare, and Montaigne, few of us will ask instead to join Descartes, Newton, and “the exact-thinking but darker-souled geniuses of the 17th century.” #Philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫 #Booksky

TOMORROW #HistMed #HistSTM

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TOMORROW #HistMed #HistSTM

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NEW PUBLICATION: First nations knowledge on health

The First Knowledges series offers an introduction to Indigenous knowledges; the eighth book in the series, by Shawana Andrews, Sandra Eades and Fiona Stanley and edited by Margo Ngawa Neale, focuses on health. First Knowledges Health: Spirit, Country and Culture shows once again how much we can learn from the deeper past about defining and preserving health, the crucial role played by the community, and how both require an environmental approach.

https://thamesandhudson.com.au/products/first-knowledges-health

#histmed #histstm

NEW PUBLICATION: First nations knowledge on health

The First Knowledges series offers an introduction to Indigenous knowledges; the eighth book in the series, by Shawana Andrews, Sandra Eades and Fiona Stanley and edited by Margo Ngawa Neale, focuses on health. First Knowledges Health: Spirit, Country and Culture shows once again how much we can learn from the deeper past about defining and preserving health, the crucial role played by the community, and how both require an environmental approach.

https://thamesandhudson.com.au/products/first-knowledges-health

#histmed #histstm

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 👩‍🔬💜

Working on my forthcoming book, finding out about English suffragist and naturalist Lydia Ernestine Becker was a revelation. In 1869, she made an inclusive, science-based case for women's rights. Just awesome! 🤩

#Victorian #women #iwd #history #science #nature #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 👩‍🔬💜

Working on my forthcoming book, finding out about English suffragist and naturalist Lydia Ernestine Becker was a revelation. In 1869, she made an inclusive, science-based case for women's rights. Just awesome! 🤩

#Victorian #women #iwd #history #science #nature #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM

Here's one we made earlier for #IWD - 8 women in Scotland who shaped #histSTM www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...

8 women in Scotland who shaped...

Here's one we made earlier for #IWD - 8 women in Scotland who shaped #histSTM www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...

8 women in Scotland who shaped...

Happy birthday to Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) renown Flemish cartographer.

What made Mercator a great #cartographer, was in fact his abilities as a #mathematician -and like those of us scientists who feel compelled also to create art he was wasn’t hindered by his immense ability as an engraver. He produced beautiful world maps (a version of which is depicted in this print), 🧵1/

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/170817596

#geographer #geography #histstm #sciart #linocut #printmaking #mapart #maps #Mercator

Happy birthday to Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) renown Flemish cartographer.

What made Mercator a great #cartographer, was in fact his abilities as a #mathematician -and like those of us scientists who feel compelled also to create art he was wasn’t hindered by his immense ability as an engraver. He produced beautiful world maps (a version of which is depicted in this print), 🧵1/

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/170817596

#geographer #geography #histstm #sciart #linocut #printmaking #mapart #maps #Mercator

Happy #ValentinesDay! 🐌❤️🐌

Delightful, if fanciful, depiction of garden snails exchanging love darts. By English artist Frederick Polydore Nodder and published in the Naturalist’s Miscellany in 1790. [The darts don’t propel through the air as the image depicts but are fired on contact.]

#ValentinesDay2026 #snails #animals #nature #naturalhistory #biology #science #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

Happy #ValentinesDay! 🐌❤️🐌

Delightful, if fanciful, depiction of garden snails exchanging love darts. By English artist Frederick Polydore Nodder and published in the Naturalist’s Miscellany in 1790. [The darts don’t propel through the air as the image depicts but are fired on contact.]

#ValentinesDay2026 #snails #animals #nature #naturalhistory #biology #science #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

'all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it'
- Charles Darwin, 7 May 1855

Poor ol' Chas.

It's #DarwinDay! 🦋🐵🐟

Here's an unsung hero in Darwin's queer menagerie, Serranus cabrilla. It proved that vertebrate species could be hermaphrodite. That made Chas happy!

This lovely fish will have a starring role in my book . . . 🏳️‍🌈 📚

https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/

#fish #animals #nature #science #books #history #histsci #histstm @histodons @histsci #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

'all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it'
- Charles Darwin, 7 May 1855

Poor ol' Chas.

It's #DarwinDay! 🦋🐵🐟

Here's an unsung hero in Darwin's queer menagerie, Serranus cabrilla. It proved that vertebrate species could be hermaphrodite. That made Chas happy!

This lovely fish will have a starring role in my book . . . 🏳️‍🌈 📚

https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/

#fish #animals #nature #science #books #history #histsci #histstm @histodons @histsci #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

#HistMed #HistSTM

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