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rossb_oxford
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossb_oxford@mastodon.social · Aug 07, 2026
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I'm hyperexcited that QUEER ORIGINS will be published in the UK on Tuesday! Just a reminder that discount code HSS26 (from the recent history of science conference in Edinburgh) gets you a cracking 30% off the book from my publisher's website until the end of August: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ As it stands, I think it remains the cheapest way to buy it (£17 with free UK postage). 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🦋 #book #books #history #science #nature #Darwin #histsci #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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bibliolater
✨ Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@social.vivaldi.net · Aug 05, 2026
The 5 people who saved the most human lives in history 🔗 https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/5-people-saved-most-human-lives #History #Histodons #Science #HistSci
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minouette
Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social · Jul 30, 2026
Happy birthday to #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.⁠ ⁠ After studying #geology & math, Maurice ‘Doc’ Ewing at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia hired her to draft 1000s of echo sounder profiles. 🧵1/5 https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/217247292 #sciart #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #linocut
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rossb_oxford
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossb_oxford@mastodon.social · Jul 29, 2026
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Just a reminder that discount code HSS26 (from the recent history of science conference in Edinburgh) gets you a cracking 30% off my book, and free UK postage, from my publisher's website until the end of August. 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🦋 https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ #book #books #history #science #nature #Darwin #histsci #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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rossb_oxford
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossb_oxford@mastodon.social · Jul 25, 2026
I've written about Charles Darwin's surprisingly queer science of sex in the latest issue of History Today! 🏳️‍🌈🦚 :transgender: 🦋 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/charles-darwins-sexual-revolution #Darwin #science #nature #history #Victorian #histsci #sex #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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minouette
Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social · Jul 25, 2026
Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), #chemist & x-ray #crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to #carbon & #virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠ ⁠ Watson’s bio lead some to (inaccurately) joke, “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.” While it’s important 🧵1/ #linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #histsci #mastoArt #sciart⁠
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Lignedescience
Fabienne Gallaire @Lignedescience@social.sciences.re · Jul 24, 2026
‘Cabinet of Materia Medica for the Major Examination Published by Evans, Lescher and Evans, London; and Evans, Sons and Co, Liverpool’ Circa 1860 - 1880 https://www.finch-and-co.co.uk/artwork-detail/814272/18676/victorian-mahogany-cased-cabinet-of #histsci #histmed #histpharma #histedu
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Lignedescience
Fabienne Gallaire @Lignedescience@social.sciences.re · Jul 24, 2026
Le médecin en musicien ? Un rapprochement moins étrange qu'il n'y paraît, à une époque où les montres n'avaient pas de trotteuses pour objectiver la fréquence d'un pouls. https://books.google.fr/books?id=halGAAAAcAAJ&hl=fr&pg=PA1#v=onepage #histsci #histmed #histtech #histmus
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minouette
Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social · Jul 24, 2026
Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.⁠ ⁠ Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. 🧵 https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/578429732 #printmaking #sciart #BlackInSTEM #womenInSTEM #histsci
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minouette
Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social · Jul 19, 2026
Happy birthday to Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011) medical physicist & Nobel laureate for radioimmunoassay for measuring concentrations of molecules in blood. Born to an immigrant Jewish family in the Bronx she went to Hunter College, tuition-free, their 1st physics major & graduated with honours by 19. WWII meant the chance for grad school for woman. At U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, she was only woman amongst 400 in engineering. 🧵 https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4463578733 #womenInSTEM #histsci #physics
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minouette
Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social · Jul 16, 2026
Happy birthday to amateur pioneering American scientist, inventor & women’s rights advocate Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888) who did the earliest experiments to show the insulating effect of certain gases & correctly concluded that increasing carbon dioxide levels would affect atmospheric temperature and climate, which we now call the Greenhouse Effect. This discovery was often attributed to later studies by male scientists. 🧵 #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #HistSci #climateScience
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Alistair K @libroraptor@mastodon.nz · Jul 16, 2026
Just been helping my son with chemistry, and accidentally flipped the narrative. He was looking at the Haber–Bosch process for making ammonia. I asked him about what ammonia's good for, the timing of the development, the timing of World War 1... He was so suddenly interested like he's never been interested in chemistry before. Then we got onto older ways of extracting nitrates from urine, something that Germany also had an advantage in because they drank so much beer. And then to the initial extraction of phosphorus. And then to calculating that, if only one person were involved, it'd take about a decade of collecting urine to replicate Brand and Kunckel's work. Apparently the chem teacher never talks about things like this. Even though we've been talking about the importance of doing so since the 1990s, and it's supposedly REQUIRED by the national curriculum. #school #chemistry #histSci #histSciTech
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Lignedescience
Fabienne Gallaire @Lignedescience@social.sciences.re · Jul 15, 2026
Enfin disponible en ligne : la thèse "Génie de la collection et échanges savants au XVIIe siècle, le modèle social et la symbolique culturelle du cabinet de curiosités" de Lorenzo Cirrincione ! #histsci #histmed #histnat #materialCulture #materialhistory #histart #collections
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minouette
Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social · Jul 15, 2026
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Happy birthday to #astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell! In 1967, as a grad student she discovered the 1st radio pulsar, a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of EM radiation. This radiation can only be observed when the star is pointed towards us; so, like the light from a lighthouse, it appears to pulse at a precise frequency. She had been working with her supervisor Antony Hewish & others to construct a radio telescope to study quasars. 🧵 #linocut #printmaking #histsci
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inquiline
tools for commensality 🧿 @inquiline@assemblag.es · Jul 14, 2026
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anyone have handy a good overview of the history of regulation of chemicals in the US? bonus for comparison to europe? *edit, most interested in post Silent Spring and EPA era #lazyposting #STS #histSci #histodons #HistSTM
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minouette
Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social · Jul 04, 2026
Happy birthday to #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. My portrait of Leavitt is printed in silvery lavender ink on Japanese kozo paper. Behind her is a line showing stellar luminosity (capital L with subscript sun-symbol, a circle with a dot) as a function of time (t). She is printed over constellations in gold (Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Draco, Ursa Minor & Andromeda). ⁠🧵1/ ⁠ #linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #sciart #histsci #astronomy #mastoArt
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Lignedescience
Fabienne Gallaire @Lignedescience@social.sciences.re · Jun 08, 2026
"Toutes les eclipses de soleil sont faictes par iour et de lune par nuit" Compost et kalendrier des bergiers, imprimé, 1493 https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/iiif/82970/canvas/canvas-1410897/view #astro #histsci "#histciel (vue 54, folio 17)
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Lignedescience
Fabienne Gallaire @Lignedescience@social.sciences.re · Jul 02, 2026
"Milk sickness is a kind of poisoning that affects individuals who ingest milk, other dairy products, or meat from a cow that has fed on the white snakeroot plant, which contains the poison tremetol." "Dr. Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby is credited with identifying the plant in the 1830s. Legend has it that she was taught about the plant's properties by a Shawnee woman." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_sickness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageratina_altissima#Toxicity #histsci #histnat #histmed #womeninSTEM
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minouette
Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social · Jun 08, 2026
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Happy birthday to autodidact #mathematician Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940), shown here with diagrams of cross-sections of 4D polytopes from her publications. Alicia came to math honestly. Her father Prof George Boole developed Boolean logic, but died when she was 4. Her mother Mary Everest Boole was an autodidact mathematician & innovative math educator, who taught kids math through manipulation of objects. 🧵1/5 https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4459151187 #womenInSTEM #histsci #mathematics #geometry #mastoArt
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