“History of science?! Only one regional conference in Texas would dare to discuss the history of science…”
Made it to Huntsville for my 1st meeting of the Lone Star History of Science Group, featuring a talk by @pratik-hstm.bsky.social!
lonestarhistoryofsciencegroup.blogspot.com
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#AmWriting #STS #HistSci
Was looking through my wordpress stats and this article seems to be quite popular! I ought to revisit it, as there’s been a lot more research and public history done on the role of the technician:
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The Man Nobody Could Find
He bought a one-way ticket for $18.52, ordered a bourbon, paid his tab, and hijacked the plane. He specified non-sequential twenties, stepped off the back of a moving 727 into a freezing rainstorm, and was never found. D.B.
https://oddlet.com/p/zt7
#HistSci #history #SciComm
It just occurred to me that I am reading chapters from one second book, one first book, and one book-to-be—all very exciting, all from my own current and former students!
(no names but looking, @ederummadum.bsky.social @ayahnerd.bsky.social)
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#histmed
I don’t know his birthday but the Anglican Church has a Commemoration of Ochkam day April 10 so it seems a good day to reshare.
#linocut #printmaking #OccamsRazor #sciArt #histsci
My linocut print of Occam’s Razor shows Ockham himself, inspired by an image of him from a stained glass window in Surrey, the proverbial and labelled razor and many unlikely things (aliens, ghosts, cryptozoological creatures) it would cut away. It is printed by hand, from two carved relief lino blocks in lavender, silver, pale yellow and phthalo blue on delicate Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. Each print is 8" by 9" or 20.3 cm by 22.9 cm.
This print “Occam’s Razor” is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), “pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate” or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. 🧪🐡 #histsci More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is 🧵
Book cover of "Anti-Asian Racism and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada," edited by Chandrima Chakraborty, Sibo Chen, Muyang Li, Guida Man, and X. Alvin Yang. Teal background with stylized coronavirus particles. Title and editors' names in white text.
New edited volume by Postdoc Xiao Alvin Yang,
@chandrima-c.bsky.social, Sibo Chen, Muyang Li, Guida Man. 📘
"Anti-Asian #Racism and the #COVID19 Pandemic in Canada" examines a recent rise in anti-Asian racism and community strategies of defence and solidarity.
🔗 buff.ly/ECMmxH2
#HistSci #PolSci
📣Join us at the next Minescapes working group meeting!⛏️📚 SCARCE shares work-in-progress from their case studies in the Saxon Ore Mountains, Idrija/Venice and Habsburg Hungary - centering on methodological challenges🔧🔬
🗓️ April 13, 7 pm CEST
👉 more info: bit.ly/Minescapes
#Scarce #HistSci
Yesterday was a very special day after somewhat difficult start of the year. I had my professorial examination and now I’m a full professor in #histsci. It was a very beautiful ceremony and I’m very happy 💜💜💜 @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social @chendirl.bsky.social @eurohealthhist.bsky.social
The parallel between Marcello Malpighi's representation of the optical nerve and Gian Lorenzo Bernini's rumpled garment is striking. Cloth, textile, and texture are a clear reference in the work of seventeenth-century anatomists #textile #analogies #histsci #anatomy #texture
Cover page of "A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities" by Dorothy Hahn and Arthur Comey | 1921
4/9/1876 — b. Dorothy Hahn, American organic chemist, author. Prof of biology, Penn Coll forWmn(1899-06); organic chem prof, MountHolyoke Coll 1908-41). Many publications; co-author, "A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic(1921) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #BioSky #SciSky #HistSci
Physicist Sonja Ashauer was born 103 years ago today. In 1948 she became the first Brazilian woman to earn a PhD in physics, and she was on her way to a brilliant career in the field of quantum physics when she caught pneumonia and died at the age of just 23.
#WomenInSTEM #PhysicsSky #HistSci ⚛️
The Man Who Called for a Fictional Doctor
He sourced his coffee from three specific streets in Paris, eventually abandoned brewing it, and just ate the grounds dry. He wrote ninety novels in eighteen years, mostly between midnight and eight in the morning, in a white monk's robe.
https://oddlet.com/p/vou
#HistSci #history #SciComm
Tomorrow, April 10, 2026, at 12.00 pm (Italy time), there is an online seminar on #UlisseAldrovani, organized by the group working on the National Editions of Aldrovandi @m-azzolini.bsky.social, Matteo Martelli and Caterina Manco
Here the poster #nathistory #Renaissancestudies #histnat #histsci
What's New @scixcommunity.bsky.social?
ADS & #SciX founder Mike Kurtz retires
#APSsummit26 recap
#HistSci literature survey
#AIML workshop recap
#astrophysics #planetaryscience #Earthscience #digitallibrary #digitaltransformation #NASAscience #openscience ☀️
scixplorer.org/scixhelp/wha...
Congress prevented massive cuts to NSF once, please consider writing to your Rep. & Senators and hopefully they will work to step in again--and save NSF SBE Directorate from being eliminated! Congress.gov #nsf #histsci #science #socialscience
💳️ So here's another repost for all you fellow media historians out there. This fresh book is in German (as in: German Media Theory). I might come up with an English 🧵 on the credit card book if you're interested. In the meantime, enjoy history| theory beyond the Anglophone world! 📚️ #booksky #histsci
Erna Diez
4/8/1913 — b. Erna Diez, Austrian archeologist, professor, lecturer. Researcher of provincial Roman art in Noricum; head of the Institute of Classical #Archaeology, Univ of Graz(1945); member of the Historical National Commission for Styria (1967) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #SciSky #HistSci #EduSky
The Man Who Died in a Meeting
He kept leopards in his London garden and cadavers coming through the back door. He grafted a human tooth onto a rooster's comb to see what would happen. It grew. His motto: "Why think? Why not try the experiment?
https://oddlet.com/p/4by
#HistSci #history #SciComm
Linocut portrait of geneticist Irene Ayako Uchida (handsome, middle age woman of Japanese heritage with curly hair with a white streak on her right temple, with an open, thoughtful face) leaning on folded arms in a white button down shirt with a small watch with double-helix watchband on her wrist, in dark teal-grey ink. She is surrounded by chromosomes in gold, from one of her papers. The anomalous ones are pointed out with small pink arrows
Happy birthday to Canadian 🇨🇦 geneticist Irene Ayako Uchida (1917-2013)! 🧪🐡👩🏻🔬 #histsci In my #linocut Uchida is shown surrounded by chromosones, with anomalies (pink arrows) due to radiation exposure, based on one of her research papers. A strand of DNA is hidden in the image (as her watchband). 🧵
My article about post-mortem examinations on naval ships has been published in the newest issue of the British Journal for the History of Science! Available Open Access from @universitypress.cambridge.org and @bshsnews.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
#navalhistory #histmed #histsci
Newton's own copy of the 1st edition of Principia with his annotations
Newton vs. Descartes:- Newton's Principia its reception & the eventual victory of Principia Mathematica over Principia Philosophiae #histsci
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The eighteenth-century, pioneering, American instrument maker, mathematician and astronomer, David Rittenhouse, was born 8 April 1732 #histsci #histtech
thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/a...
Black and white photo of the Moon’s far side taken during Apollo 16 in April 1972, as the astronauts were heading back to Earth. You see a wide and rugged view of the surface, covered with lots of overlapping craters and rough highland terrain. There are no large dark plains like those on the side we usually see from Earth. On the right edge, you can just make out a small part of the near side, including the dark round area of Mare Crisium. This picture was taken with the Mapping Metric Camera.
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Here is one of the most impressive views of the #farside of the #Moon taken by astronauts.🔭
It is photo AS16-M-3021 from the #Apollo16 mission, taken in April 1972 during the return journey to Earth.🧪
➡️ www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/ap...
#histsci #Astronomy ⚛️
Here's something good for early career scholars in history and area studies! Submissions close in a week! Tell your frens!
#academicsky 🗃 #histsci #earlymodern #ancient #medieval
For our new #ResearchReels series, we invited scholars across the institute to pitch their recent publications!⚡️
To find more of our #ResearchReels or to learn more about our scholars and the MPIWG, visit our Mediathek:
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