Abb. 4, Rekonstruktionen der Erdkarte nach der Verschiebungstheorie für drei Zeiten: Jung-Karbon, Eozn, Alt-Quartär
Dieselben Rekonstruktionen wie in Abb. 1, in anderer Projektion
It's Earth Day! Enjoy Alfred Wegener's 1929 illustrations of Pangaea and continental drift, from the 4th ed. of Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane, catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00200... #histsci #earthday
Today is #EarthDay. 🌍
But what about Earth at #night? 🌌🌃
And how did scientists come to understand #night as environment, albeit in distinct ways?
#envhist #envhum #histsci #histtech #sts
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uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Ruth A. M. Schmidt standing next to a "Danger" barrier with Alaskan mountains and glaciers in the background
4/22/1917 — b. Ruth A. M. Schmidt, American geologist, paleontologist, environmentalist, educator. Part of the Military Geology Unit (WWII)+US Geological Survey, Washington, DC during McCarthyism(1946-55). Founder, USGS field office, U of Alaska #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #GeoSky #PaleoSky #HIstSci
¡Gran oportunidad de participar en un proyecto de investigación super interesante! Checa el link abajo 👇Great opportunity to do exciting research! Check the call below! 👇 #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio 💗🌱
Linocut portrait of Oppenheimer in a suit leaning on his hand, in purple ink on white paper. Above to the right is a spacetime diagram for a Blackhole in turquoise. Above to the left is a schematic for the adiabatic approximation in gold.
Born on this day: #physicist J. R. Oppenheimer (1904-1967). While best remembered for his role in the Manhattan Project, he was a giant of 20th century theoretical physics, nominated for a Nobel 3 times. 🎢🧪🐡 #histsci
In 1927 he & Max Born greatly simplified how we predict electrons behaviour 🧵
taken up by nerves from their targets & allowing them to survive, in ‘52.
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#womenInSTEM #sciart #histsci #histmed
In a gradient of magenta-red at the top to navy blue at the bottom, this is my linocut print of of neuroscientist Rita Levi-Montalcini in 1940, at a desk with compound binocular microscope, leaning on an incubator, holding an egg and looking at the viewer. Behind her is a large circular image of a photograph of nerve cells she took with this microscope
Happy birthday to Italian #neurobiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909 – 2012) who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with for her co-discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF) 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬 #histsci
Youngest of 4 of a Turin Jewish family, she planned to be a writer but the death of a nanny to 🧵
Local collector from Guatemala (left) and digitized herbarium specimen (right)
📣 We're #Hiring! #ERC Consolidator Project BOTLEG at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting:
- 1 PostDoc ➡️ jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/9...
- 2 PhDs ➡️ jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/c...
📅 Deadline: 25 May 2026
#PhDSky #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio #EnvHist #DigitalHumanities #AcademicSky
Stabius and Dürer wanted to find new ways of visualizing the heavens for the purpose of calculation and analysis. In short, after training you were able to set into context the relationships between the fixed stars, the hour of night, and the 12 signs of the Zodiac. #histsci #histknow
"Published in early 1553, Servetus's Restitutio went unnoticed by medical scholars for well over a hundred years, until it was rediscovered in the eighteenth century by the French encyclopedists Diderot and D'Alembert, who credited Servetus with discovering the circulation of the blood before […]
Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.
We're happy to announce Franziska Neumann from @tu-braunschweig.de on "Waste and Tear: Time, Materiality, and Waste in the Early Modern Period."
📍MPIWG & Harnack-Haus
🔗For the full program & information on registration, please check bit.ly/42Zq98m
#HistSci #DeepTime #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies
Hard to believe it but #HSTM Annual Meetup is in just 2 days time! 24 April - if you are in #Limerick do come along and hear what is happening in #HistMed #HistSci #HistTech #MedHums in #Ireland #Speigorm #Skystorians
Remember to join the Consortium for the History of Science's #oceanhist group today at 1-2:30 CT to discuss Sam Robinson and my "'Research and Development in the Dependencies of the Falkland Islands’: The Early Politics of the Discovery Investigations" #histsci #envhist
www.chstm.org/group/histor...
The Witch of Wall Street
She heated lunch on a radiator, hunted for two-cent stamps at midnight, and wrote a personal check to keep New York City solvent. Her name was Hetty Green — the richest woman in the Gilded Age.
https://oddlet.com/p/m8c
#HistSci #history #SciComm
Screenshot from zoom showing the title slide of the talk by Banu Subramaniam, entitled "Migrant Ecologies: Plant Worlds & the Afterlives of Empire", as well as the speaker.
Screenshot from zoom showing a slide on Linné's nomenclature of plant parts as well as the speaker.
Screenshot from zoom showing participants during the discussion.
A big thanks to Banu Subramaniam who gave an inspiring talk about botany, colonialism, sexuality, migration, conservation and much more in our first lecture of this semester yesterday!
Thank you also to everyone who joined the talk and the great discussion afterwards!
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci
Screenshot from the website of Yale University Press showing praise for my book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life. It reads: “Evolution from an intersex ancestor? What a wondrous Darwinian idea! In this electrifying book, Ross Books helps us see the canon of natural history as queer from the very beginning. Sharp, clever, and as replete with evolutionary diversity as a history of biology could possibly be.”—Alison Bashford, author of An Intimate History of Evolution “Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life is an invigorating read pulsing with queer life. As politically essential as it is compelling, it's a rich counterhistory of biology which shows us how scientists always knew queerness was natural and nature was queer.”—Kit Heyam, author of Before We Were Trans “Ross Brooks’ smart new book is as fun to read as it is useful for rebutting all the bad takes on sexuality and gender that clog contemporary discourse. He has a delightfully ‘queer eye for the hermaphrodite guys’ of life’s evolutionary history, and more than a few arch words for Darwin and other biologists who’ve straightjacketed an abundance of animate forms into an unnatural binary.”—Susan Stryker, author of Changing Gender “Everything you need to know about sex and evolution, but were too indoctrinated by the cisheteropatriarchy to know to ask.”—Subhadra Das, author of Uncivilised “From Linnaeus to Darwin, Brooks brilliantly shows us how biology always has, and will always be, delightfully queer. A much-needed account of the queer history of natural history.”—Josh Luke Davis, author of A Little Gay Natural History “Few know of Darwin’s fascination with the queer biology of sex. This compelling, insightful, and original narrative illustrates Darwin’s (and others’) contributions and hesitancies in the enabling and restricting of queer evolutionary analyses.”—Agustín Fuentes, author of Sex is a Spectrum
Jacket design for Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science by Ross Brooks. It features a historical, drawn image of a gynandromorph gypsy moth, with distinctive female patterning on its left side and male on its right. Against a black background, the image and text (title and author's name) are brightly rendered in a spectrum of colours resonant of the Progress Pride Flag.
I'm bowled over by the first endorsements my forthcoming book has received. Such brilliant authors - WOW!
You will love it too . . . 🐟🌈📚
UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social
US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social
#booksky #histsci #queerhistory 🗃️
🦟 History of Hoverflies (1575-1737)📚
Taking the age of hoverflies in print back to the late 16th century. Discover more.👇
#Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Syrphidae #Booksky #ArtHistory #NatureIllustration #NaturalHistory #HistSci #Scicomm #Naturewriting #Hiddenwonders
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social
Mary Phelps Jacob standing with dog
4/20/1891 — b. Mary Phelps Jacob, American inventor, author, poet, publisher,arts patron, philanthropist. She was awarded the first patent for what is now considered the modern bra, she did not invent the first brassiere #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #InventorSky #SciSky #HistSci #IP #fashion #patents
The Man Who Built a Robot Band
In 1206, a mechanical boat floated across a palace lake carrying four robot musicians. The drummer alone performed fifty distinct movements per song — and if you rearranged the pegs, he played a different rhythm.
https://oddlet.com/p/3gj
#HistSci #history #SciComm
Also he was a total dish and women turned out in droves to hear his lectures at the Royal Institution. In #histsci this is usually talked about as an unusual interest in public understanding of science as opposed to the obvious fact that Humphry Davy was a gorgeous romantic rogue.
Linocut portrait of Keeling in teal with geochemical sampling tools with the Keeling curve in copy and axes (vertical: CO2 fraction micro-mol/mol from 325 to 400 and horizontal: Year 1960 to 2000).
Happy birthday to #geochemist Charles David Keeling (1928 - 2005) 🧪🐡⚒️ #histsci whose decades long observations of CO2 in air samples from Mauna Loa Observatory were some of the 1st direct data to show the human contribution to greenhouse effect & global warming. The ‘Keeling Curve’ (in copper & red)
#CFP: 'Cartographier les espaces aristocratiques : Domaines, forêts, jardins (Europe, XVIe-XIXe siècles)'
22-24/10/2026, Versailles
Deadline: 01/06/2026
Info: plafon.fr/2026/03/27/a...
#envhum #envhist #histsci
OPEN ACCESS
Projecting #Knowledge
The #OpticalLantern and #ScienceCommunication, 1880s–1940s
Edited by Dulce Da Rocha Gonçalves, Nico de Klerk, Frank Kessler, and Jamilla Notebaard
Info: bit.ly/3QjvRP3
#HistSci #ScienceSky #HistoryOfScience #Science #OA
Disculpad, pero este mapa tiene más de 160 años!
Map of Europe by Eugène Cortambert, 1894
#maps #cartography #gis #histsci
19-Apr: ☹️ On this day in 1882,
Charles Darwin died, age 73.
Here’s the sad story…
https://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/darwin-dies/
#HistSci
Mike Christenson continues to publish wonderful papers putting the inferential conception to use in architecture. I could not be more chuffed - exactly the kind of reaction I was hoping for with Inference and Representation:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#hps #philsci #histsci #metascience
The Bucket List
He fought a jungle war for 29 years, alone, convinced the newspapers left for him were enemy propaganda. A 24-year-old found him in four days — the same kid whose to-do list included a panda and the abominable snowman.
https://oddlet.com/p/ljg
#HistSci #history #SciComm
19-Apr: ☹️ On this day in 1882, Charles Darwin died, age 73. Here’s the sad story…
friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar...
#HistSci
An interesting and thoughtful review, that asks what #histsci was/is/will be. I'm also sympathetic to Dear - the Q of how science gained authority, and was shaped in the process, underlies much of what I do - but we gain from research on other kinds of natural knowledge. But is that #histsci?
