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WOW! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871),' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 50K times!

I'm working hard on the book. For more about that, watch this space!

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648

#history #histodons @histodons #histsci #histbio #HistSTM #HSTM #STS @histstm #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #pride #pridemonth #queerhistory #histsex #sex #biology #nature #naturalhistory #science #animals #Darwin

17th-century, Italian/French, telescopic astronomer Giovanni Domenico/Jean-Dominique Cassini was born 8 June 1625 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/the-real-founder-of-telescopic-astronomy/

Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism
#HistSTM #HistSci
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/07/harvard-steven-pinker-aporia-podcast

Skulls once subject to racist study in Germany are laid to rest in New Orleans
"Researchers presume many of the 19 people had been enslaved, later moved freely after the Civil War, and eventually fell ill or were institutionalized in asylums before landing at Charity Hospital in New Orleans"
#HistSTM #HistSci #Slavery #CivilWar #Reconstruction
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/31/nx-s1-5419003/skulls-taken-to-germany-for-racist-study-are-laid-to-rest-in-new-orleans

Skulls of 19 Black Americans Return to New Orleans After 150 Years in Germany
#HistSTM #HistSci
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/black-americans-skulls-new-orleans-memorial-service.html

ICYMI: Who were the monsters for the Tudors? Find out on this episode of Talking Tudors, when I spoke with @onthetudortrail.bsky.social about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! 1/3 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #HAMH

Episode 283 - Exploring the Mo...

15th-century astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, printer-publisher Johannes Müller, aka Regiomontanus, was born 6 June 1436 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/the-worlds-first-scientific-press/

Why are bacteriophages only allowed for medicine in former Soviet Union and some satellites? (/u/BBlasdel delves into why phages became considered a fringe technique in the West, but not elsewhere for #ThrowbackThursday.) #Skystorians #HistMed #HistSci

BBlasdel's comment on "Why are...

Late posting, but here's the Chinese text (written by a friend) with English trans (retranslated and written by me) for the Dragon Boat commemorations last Saturday (i.e. the commemoration of Qu Yuan's suicide circa 2300 years ago). These lines are from his compilation of cosmological questions.

I picked this passage because, though it's superficially a yin–yang puzzle, it echoes Aristotle's theory of change and elements, written at about the same time (and that I am emotionally attached to, having spent a couple of years studying it), and it can be read as a metaphor of the adaptation that people go through – specifically the recent migrants, navigating cultural recombination, who were our primary audience on Saturday.

#DragonBoat #calligraphy #cosmology #history #histsci

Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), mathematician, physicist, inventor(?) of the barometer, the man who first showed that air has weight #histsci #histtech
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-xlv/

03-Jun: On this day in 1836, Charles Darwin visited the astronomer Sir John Herschel in Cape Town, South Africa. #HistSci

#HistSci and @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social folks - @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social's CHAIN REACTIONS is available to preorder in paperback!

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Happy birthday #physicist Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), who came up with a truly beautiful experiment to test whether the weak force conserves parity (whether beta decay would be the same if reflected in the mirror)! In my print on the left I show Wu in her lab & a schematic diagram of her experiment. On the right I show her reflection, as in the mirror, & the mirror reflection of the experimental set-up & the shocking result, 1/n

#linocut #sciart #physics #womenInSTEM #histsci #mastoArt

I spoke with @jennlynnjordan.bsky.social about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, just out from @ucpress.bsky.social, on the @splturnthepage.bsky.social #podcast! 1/n #SFF #politics #histsci #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #politics #HAMH turnthepage.blubrry.net/2025/02/27/t...

Today it is 69 years ago the world lost #GeorgeMurrayLevick.This British Antarctic explorer made observations on penguins that were considered too shocking for the world. They are recounted in A Polar Affair, an unusual and colourful book of #PolarExploration, #Penguins, and perversion.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2020/02/20/book-review-a-polar-affair-antarcticas-forgotten-hero-and-the-secret-love-lives-of-penguins/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #SciComm

15th century, Austrian, astronomer & mathematician, Georg von Peuerbach, was born 30 May 1423 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/the-astronomical-revolution-didn’t-start-here/

Andrew Curran (Wesleyan University) is live in a couple of minutes, giving a lecture: "Buffon and the Degenerated Human". #histsci #histmed #18thC www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjIq...

THP lecture - Buffon and the D...

Emmy Noether : la plus célèbre des mathématiciennes inconnues | La science CQFD France culture

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/la-science-cqfd/emmy-noether-la-plus-celebre-des-mathematiciennes-inconnues-2399643

Avec Sylvie Benzoni, mathématicienne, professeur à l’Université Lyon, et directrice de l’Institut Henri Poincaré ; Annalisa Panati, maître de conférences en physique mathématique au Centre de Physique Théorique de l'Université de Toulon ; et Roger Mansuy, professeur de mathématiques au lycée Saint-Louis.

#ConseilPodcast #histmath #histsci

Just posted my AMA thread on the @askhistorians.bsky.social subreddit! Ask Me Anything about monsters, or about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori... #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #arthistory #HAMH #monsters #SFF

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Where are the boundaries between humans, earth, gods, animals, machines? How have ideas about monsters shaped them? Ask Me Anything, 28 May! Live q & about monsters and HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social on @askhistorians.bsky.social. #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #HAMH

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