Call for Papers – Forecasting the Weather between Divination & Science (Antiquity to the Present)
Submission Deadline: 31 May 2026
Workshop, organised at the University of Oxford, UK, 9 Oct 2026, by @simondolet.bsky.social & Michelle Pfeffer
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The Man Who Found a Taste for Digging
He dug a wine cellar, found a taste for it, and kept going for forty years. His tunnels ran sixty feet in every direction. The clay had to go somewhere, so it went into the rooms above. William Lyttle: the man who traded his house for a hole.
https://oddlet.com/p/154
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in the portrait.
I also cut a small second block from printing the penny so these prints are not yet complete.
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #compsci
Several of my linocut portraits of Claude Shannon laid out on a table to dry. He is in very dark teal blue, facing the viewer and wearing a suit. In front of him is the maze with electromechanical mouse and penny in forest green. Perspective makes it look like it’s coming out toward you. Behind him are binary numbers in silver.
Work in progress on a commissioned scientist portrait: polymath Claude Elwood Shannon (1916 – 2001). 🐡🧪🎢🧮 #histsci I continued carving my block, especially adding to the maze, which contains the electromechanical mouse named Theseus, which he built with his wife Betty. Theseus was built to search
📚 Hoverflies in Historical Books P1 🔍
Join me to discover more as I leaf through dusty shelves in search of hidden wonders.👇
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Today we celebrate the 125th anniversary of microbiologist Hattie Alexander's birth. She studied meningitis in children, and her development of a sulfa drug regimen for them cut the child mortality rate from Hib from 100% to 25%. We salute her!
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The Nun Who Signed in Blood
At six, she wanted to cut her hair and disguise herself as a boy to attend university. At her teens, forty scholars were assembled to examine her at once. She was self-taught. She passed.
https://oddlet.com/p/p4g
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B&W plate (with considerable age tanning) of what looks like a cockerel, but the caption reveals that it is a 'Domestic Hen with Male Plumage.'
It's #Easter Sunday! 🌱
No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. But I do have a *lot* of queer chickens. 🥚🏳️🌈🐤🏳️⚧️🐔
Here's a domestic hen with male plumage, described in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society in 1821.
#queer #birds #histbio #histsci #sts #HappyEaster 🗃️
"NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate ...according to two NSF staff members who shared information anonymously..." #histtech #histsci share.google/whr23kvoLGp5...
The Woman Who Wrote From Inside a Wall
In 1373, a woman had her own funeral sung while she was still alive, then walked into a hundred-square-foot stone room and let the door be sealed behind her. She never left.
https://oddlet.com/p/j8h
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My Lino block in progress shows a portrait of Claude Shannon. Behind him are zeroes and ones. In front of him is his maze with electromechanical mouse and a penny as a target. The maze looks like one constructed for laboratory mice. The block is tinted blue and seen on a cutting mat.
Work in progress on a commissioned scientist portrait: polymath Claude Elwood Shannon (1916 – 2001). 🧪🧮🐡🎢 #histsci A mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer and inventor known as the “father of information theory,” he did a wild variety of things. Because of his 🧵
See both threads and the article on (poor) oral history practice and how memories of significant moments, such as scientific discovery, are (re)created 🧵 #histsci 🗃️
Science collections curators, beware : a significant portion of historical microscope slides could be containing arsenic from the green pigment of their paper labels!
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The Squire Who Taught Darwin Everything
He rode a caiman like a horse. He climbed St. Peter's Basilica to leave a glove on top, then climbed back up to fetch it when the Pope demanded its removal. He dangled his bare foot from a hammock so vampire bats could feed on his toes.
https://oddlet.com/p/zrl
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Yesterday, we started fully disassembling the 16th century clock 🕰️. After three hours, we were at about 45 components, and we're nowhere near done yet 🤯
Christ on a cracker... just when you thought you could not have more respect for #EarlyModern craftspeople #HistSci #HistSTM 🗃️ 🏛️ #MaterialCulture
Galileo forbade one of his students from publishing a letter the student wrote.
He outlines this in his 1604 "Difesa contro alle calunnie et imposture di Baldessar Capra" [trans De Angelis, Galileo and the 1604 Supernova pp. 61-69]
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#SkyStorians, art historians and historians of science: Is anyone familiar with or specialized in decorative engravings on #EarlyModern scientific instruments, especially clocks? We have questions with respect to the dating! #HistSci #HistTech #ArtHistory #HistSTM #MaterialCulture 🗃️ 🏛️
Flyer image for our symposium’s second workshop, titled, "Madness as a Way of Seeing - An Experimental Study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper” and happening on April 18th from 10-11:30a PT 1-2:30p ET 6-7:30 GMT. The description reads, "fACILITATED BY CARA-JULIE KATHER, PHD (Leuphana University Lüneburg), Independent Scholar, THIS WORKSHOP ASKS “What is seen, heard, AND experienced in modes routinely understood as mad? What do we find out when we engage with madness as a way of perceiving?” In this workshop we experiment on this matter together by engaging with reading and writing collectively. The short story - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – will guide and inspire us as it is a story of a “woman gone mad” dating back to the patriarchal diagnosis of ‘hysteria’ common in the Victorian era. We will read parts of this story and let it wash us into our own writing on mad seeing."
Full Day 2 Symposium Schedule flyer. You can view this on our eventbrite registration site and our conference website, linked in previous posts.
✍🏾💛 Day 2 Workshop Announcement! This one’s for all you medical/health and experimental humanities folks. 💛✍🏾
"Madness as a Way of Seeing: An Experimental Study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper"
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The Woman Who Rewrote French Opera With a Sword at Her Hip
She burned down a convent, defeated three duels at a single party, and earned two royal pardons before anyone thought to check the law. A composer eventually built an entirely new vocal category around her voice.
https://oddlet.com/p/7se
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Maria Merian was born 379 ago today. An entomologist who founded the ecological approach to taxonomy, she traveled by herself to Surinam in 1599 to document the insect life there, then published her findings with her own lush illustrations.
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16th century Iron gall ink on paper, top corner of legal proceedings with a brown stain that follows the edges of the written words
16th century Iron gall ink on paper, top corner of legal proceedings with a brown stain that follows the edges of the written words
structural formula of iron gall ink
Look at how pretty this manuscript damage is. Any cross disciplinary scholars want to explain why iron gall ink would repel (water? who knows) in this way? A chemistry friend of a friend provided the structural formula. #earlymodern #skystorians #histsci
Portrait of Henry Stuart c. 1610
Henry Frederick Stuart (1594–1612) eldest son of James VI of Scotland, I of England & Anne of Denmark, heir apparent to the thrones of Scotland & England engaged several of the leading mathematical practitioners of the age at his court as tutors #histsci
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Linocut portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian in gradient of green to brown with pomegranate branch, caterpillar and butterflies
Happy birthday #entomologist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! 🧪👩🏼🔬🐡🦋 #histsci Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, “I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars 🧵
New #OpenAccess educational resource: "Teaching Animal Mobilities: (How to) Move Animals into Your Classroom" 🐛🪼 🐘
Modules include historical sources, discussion questions, assignment ideas, and readings to explore key themes in animal mobility.
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Diffraction was first investigated and described by the Jesuit astronomer, mathematician and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi, who was born 2 April 1618 #histsci
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100th speaker! 🥳
Come join the S&T in Asia online seminar series @ Harvard for this talk by Michitake Aso on Agent Orange and dioxin knowledge in postwar Vietnam.
🗓 Tue (4/14)
🕥 10:30 am ET
📍 Over Zoom
Register: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia%E2%...
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NMS @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social is hosting a new art installation for the Edinburgh Science Festival, called The Great Instauration (a familiar title for #histsci). I'll be taking part in a discussion with the artist, Gayle Chong Kwan on Saturday evening www.edinburghscience.co.uk/event/exclus...
