Welcome to Episode Five of the #LongBibliography. Today we learn about Saint Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century Benedictine abbess and mystic. Plagued by visions and illness since childhood, she’d grow up to write important works of theology, as well music, biology, astronomy, and medicine. 2/16
Welcome to Episode Four of the #LongBibliography, where I tell stories of #devbiol history and the lengths we will go to do science. Today we learn about the pioneering insect developmental biologist, Maria Merian. Kim Todd tells her story in a great book, Chrysalis 2/15
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The embryologist Ernst Haeckel is famous for his maxim that “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” and for sketchy imaging. While Haeckel figures prominently in #DevBiol, the Fifth Dalai Lama doesn’t. Perhaps he should, though. He scooped Haeckel by about 200 years.
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Here’s a story about actual Nazis, the Original Gastruloid, and the lengths scientists will go for other scientists and for science itself. Welcome to Episode Two of the #LongBibliography
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