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 🗃️

We had a great day at Micropia in Amsterdam. We are convinced, microbes are the best! #hpbio #histbio #philbio 🦠 🔬@utrechthps.bsky.social

I'm looking forward to celebrating the achievements of historian of science Dan Kevles in Oxford next week. I'll be talking about the mercurial associations between the pursuit of eugenics through the 20th century and ideas about sex selection.

#histbio #histsci #sts @oxmedhum.bsky.social 🗃️

Finally ! My book on metaphysics/biology soon out
And open access #philsci #kant #histbio #organism

www.routledge.com/When-Metaphy...

Awesome! ✨

#histbio #histsci #sts #glams #museums #1920s 🗃️

Reflections on the Human Genome Diversity Project: a conversation with Marcus W. Feldman, Henry T. Greely, and Mary-Claire King Abstract. The Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) began in 1991 as an initiative to study genetic variation from human populations worldwide. In 2002, th

academic.oup.com/genetics/adv... #histbio #hps

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You can join us tomorrow at 15:30 CET for our reading group!
We will be reading “The Allure of Microbiome Research: Promises of Holism and the Potential for Cruel Optimism,” by Tine Fiis, Louise Whiteley, and Adam Bencard. Join the meeting here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi... #philbio #histbio

There is still time to send an abstract for our special issue in the South African Journal of Science! Find the call for abstracts for The human diversity dilemma: Navigating the intersection of microbiomes, ethics and society in Africa here: sajs.co.za/call-human-d... #philbio #histbio

Affiche dans le métro. jusqu'au 29 mars titre : la découvreuse oubliée Illustrée d'un portrait de la comédienne, une élégante dame âgée, cheveux ondulés au carré

Au Théâtre La Reine Blanche (merveilleusement sous-titré "Scène des Arts et des Sciences"), une pièce en l'honneur de Marthe Gauthier, grande généticienne et vraie découvreuse de la trisomie 21.
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#hpbio, #histbio, #philbio, 🐋🌱, 🌱🐋 friends, anyone know of an artistic/historical study of the changing placements of the Owen/Darwin/Huxley statues in the @nhm-london.bsky.social @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social? 1/2

Nineteenth Ischia Summer School - Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences 2013 Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences, 29 June -- 6 July 2013: "Creating Life --- From Alchemy to Synthetic Biology"

The 19th Ischia Summer School in the History of the Life Sciences will take place 28 Jun - 5 July 2026. Interested graduate students should apply by 27 February. This year's theme? PROBLEMS of GROWTH! ischiasummerschool.org/theme #histSTM #histbio #histsci

Christmas on HMS Beagle Charles Darwin spent Christmas day of 1831 in Devonport awaiting favourable weather for the departure of HMS Beagle. Darwin wrote in his diary for the voyage: Christmas day is one of great importan…

Happy Christmas! 🎄🎅

'Christmas day is one of great importance to the men: the whole of it has been given up to revelry, at present there is not a sober man in the ship' - Charles Darwin, 25 December 1831. 🍾

thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/c... #Christmas #histsci #histbio 🗃️

Current Volume - British Society for the History of Medicine Topics in the History of Medicine – Volume 5 https://bshm.org.uk/thom/v5 ISSN 2753-9695   Quirks, Quacks and Cul-de-sacs   Five and Counting Hilary S Morris THoM 2025; 5: 1-3. PDF   Navigating the Pub...

Pleased to announce that the just published new edition of Topics in the History of Medicine (Volume 5: Quirks, Quacks and Cul de Sacs) includes my contribution, 'A Disgusting and Useless Substance? Hyraceum between Folk Medicine and Pharmacopoeia' #histmed #histbio #histsci
bshm.org.uk/thom/v5/

To history of science scholars that may be around: Do you happen to have any good refs on the history of chromosome linkage mapping, map units, the definition of the centiMorgan and so on?
#histsci #histbio #genetics #biology #historyofscience #haldane

Any historians of #astrobiology, #xenobiology, and/or #exobiology out there? I'm designing a course and would love to add some readings about the field and its history. Point me in the right direction! #histbio #hpbio

📣 Our second call for abstracts for our special issue is out! 🙌
If you work on the intersection of human microbiomes, ethics and society in Africa, this call is for you! Check it out there: sajs.co.za/call-human-d...
If not, you can still spread the message widely!
#histbio #philbio🐋🌱

Opinion | James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him.

"An overweening faith that our genes make us who we are is a terrifying thing."

Today's #histSTM lunchtime read: @nccomfort.bsky.social discusses James Watson's gradual embrace of genetic determinism in an essay for @nytopinion.nytimes.com.

#histbio #histsci
#eugenics #DNA 🗃️📜🧬

Photograph of mounted great false vampire bat (Vampyrum spectrum) against light green background in the collections of the Cole Zoology Museum (University of Reading). Its wings are fully extended and it has sharp teeth. It looks very scary.

🦇🩸⚰️ Happy Halloween! 🧛🩸🦇

Same-sex sexual behaviours in bats were first documented in 1895! Here's a more recent study: www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Same-sex-sex...

#Halloween #HappyHalloween #histsci #histbio #STS #GLAM #queer #lgbtq #queernature #PrideInSTEM 🌈🗃️

My 2023 Notes and Records article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' is free to read this #OpenAccess week! 🌈🧬

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Download and share while you can . . . #histbio #histsci #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #OAweek 🗃

The "habits" of plants appear to have been the traits of plants that adapt to their circumstances and environment. A nineteenth century piece of botanical terminology I previously didn't know. #histsci #histbio #taxonomy

“Helping to Bridge the Gap Between Genetics and Development:ˮ Julian Huxley, Early 20th Century Oxford Biology, and the Epigenetic Origins of Animal Characters - Journal of the History of Biology Julian Huxley is remembered as the author of his landmark 1942 Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. Nowadays, however, he is criticized for having reduced biology to the selection of genes. Some have nevertheless suggested that Huxley’s biological views were more expansive—including rather than excluding issues regarding development or environment. In this paper, using hitherto unexamined sources, I show that Huxley’s developmental understanding of animal characters was rooted in his education at Oxford in the early 20th century. From embryologically and physiologically trained Oxford teachers, he learned to see characters as things that could not be predicted from the cell’s physico-chemical properties. Characters arose anew through dynamic interactions between parts. Huxley and his teachers labeled these as “epigenetic” processes that integrated multiple cross-pollinating causes such as heredity and development. After briefly exploring Huxley’s understanding of character development, I show how we can get to grips with Huxley’s biological views by exploring the context of his education at Oxford from 1906 to 1909. I then show how Huxley received and used these ideas, before I illustrate how they played an important role in his academic and socio-political work.

Insightful new article by Stefan Bernhardt-Radu in the Journal of the History of Biology about Julian Huxley's biological views. 🧬🗃️ #openaccess

link.springer.com/article/10.1... #histbio #hpbio #philbio #histsci #hps @hpsleeds.bsky.social

Darwin's Revenge Statues of two 19th-century rivals battle it out in London's Natural History Museum

Help me #hpbio, #histbio, #philbio you're my only hope! I'm lecturing about propaganda and shifting views of evolution in my #DevoEvo class as told by Darwin-Huxley-Owen statues in the @nhm-london.bsky.social, anyone have the time-lapse video referenced here 🐋🌱

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Join us for this great conference on the legacies of Lewontin and Dialectical Biology! 🌱🐋 #philbio #evolution #histbio

A must read (but dense) book by a dear colleague. #histbio #philbio

Last days to register for The Human Diversity Dilemma workshop! Don't miss this great opportunity!

#hpbio #histbio #philbio🐋🌱

Register now! perspectivesrace.wixsite.com/the-human-di...

If you haven't registered yet, please do so before September 22nd!
#hpbio #philbio #histbio 🐋🌱
October 1st to 3rd, 2025 – Interdisciplinary Workshop in South Africa (Cape Town) – The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics, and Society in Africa

Wow wow wow. Excellent thread and irresistible #histbio lore.

Exciting news from my colleagues @sciencehistory.org! This archive documents the early history of #MolecularBiology & efforts to determine the structure of #DNA.

@matthewcobb.bsky.social provides an overview of its contents & significance in the thread below.

#histSTM #histsci #histbio #Molbio 🗃️📜🧬

For more on Rosalind Franklin's tobacco mosaic virus research--and her ongoing interactions w/Watson & Crick after the discovery of DNA's structure--check out Angela Creager's 2008 @isisjournal.bsky.social article: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

#histSTM #histbio #MolBio
#TMV #Virus 🗃️🔬

Welcome to Bluesky, @ishpssb.bsky.social!

(Boosting the signal for #histSTM friends, especially those interested in the history & philosophy of #biology...)

#histbio #histmed
#philsci #philbio 🗃️🧬