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- Bonaventura Cavalieri the mathematician, who took big steps towards the modern concept of integral calculus with his method of indivisibles #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/f...
- Thank you @katysduncan.bsky.social and @miguelohn.bsky.social for convening such a wonderful discussion meeting on #histsci and #geophysics at @ri-science.bsky.social, and a great keynote from @naomioreskes.bsky.social
- The recording of my very first in-person book tour event for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social, at @politicsprose.bsky.social in Washington, DC, is online: 💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #politics #HAMH www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7w6...
- Happy birthday to x-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (née Crowfoot, 1910-1994), Nobel laureate in chemistry for her models of biomolecules like penicillin, vitamin B12 & insulin. 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬 #histsci She was “captured for life by chemistry and crystals," in childhood, 1 of 2 girls 🧵
- Happy birthday to #mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)! 🐡🧪👩🏻🔬🧮 #histsci The Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious #math awards, is awarded to mathematicians < 40. In 2014, she became 1st woman to win. Her research included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, & 🧵
- "Thomas Henry Huxley at 200: From Under Darwin's Shadow" by John van Wyhe in The Linnean (@linneansociety.bsky.social): bit.ly/43rFzmw #HPS #histsci
- If you're in or around London on Thursday 29 May, join @jasminekt.bsky.social and me to celebrate the publication of Metropolitan Science. Big thanks to the Institute of Advanced Studies & @stsucl.bsky.social for supporting the event. Book a free ticket here: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #histsci 🗃️
- "an enchanting journey". Thank you, @janmachielsen.bsky.social, for your review of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, from @ucpress.bsky.social, in @thetls.bsky.social! 1/n 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH www.the-tls.co.uk/politics-soc...
- Save the date! I am thrilled to announce our first Neuburger Lecture in 2025, at the Josephinum @meduniwien.ac.at on June 2nd in Vienna. Andreas Heinz (Charité Berlin) will give a talk on "The Colonised Brain" [in German]. www.josephinum.ac.at/.../max-neub... #histmed #histpsy #histsci #vienna
- London’s first institute of higher education, Gresham College, came into existence in 1597. thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/h... #histsci
- The astronomer, mathematician, and early French Newtonian, Alexis Claude Clairaut, was born 7 May 1713 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/a...
- 5/6/1882 — b. Ann Haven Morgan, American zoologist, ecologist, author and educator. A pioneer researcher of ecology and conservation. School and college science curriculums reformer; she wrote several field books that became standardized texts #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #OTD
- If you missed HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY on spring tour, you might like this recording of my talk at New York University. 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH #politics www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz-N...
- And after the sessions of #ISHPSSB2025, you can continue the debates on your favourite HPSSB topics in a beach terrace... #philsci #hpbio #histSTM #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts
- Who has any tips: I want to turn the reverse side of this nocturnal into a digital diagram (so not hand-drawn), but I cannot figure out how to create the divisions within the circles. Any suggestions for how to do this—in a way that won’t take 3 years or make me want to pull my hair out? #HistSci
- The third article in the special issue Are Social Sciences Special? which @martinkusch.bsky.social and I co-edit is by @federicobrandmayr.bsky.social. It presents results of a large survey of British academics on how they see their own disciplinary identity wrt social sciences #philsci #sts #histsci
- The second article in the special issue is by coeditor @martinkusch.bsky.social It’s a magisterial analysis of how German speaking philosophers delineated sciences by method and subject matter, politics raging in the background. #philsci #histsci #philsky #sts
- The recording of the HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY (@ucpress.bsky.social) book launch hosted by @srsrensoc.bsky.social is here! Science, culture & society define the human through monsters at the boundaries. 1/n 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #HAMH www.crowdcast.io/c/monsters-h...
- Congratulations to Peter Rees elected to the Cambridgeshire County Council! Among his achievements is a PhD in Cambridge HPS with a thesis entitled "The science of science and the social order in public debates in Britain 1935-1959" #histsci #sts
- 🚀 Green BREAKTHROUGH WE WON! Peter Rees has been elected in Newnham (Cambridgeshire) Now join the party: join.greenparty.org.uk
- Nominations for the American Physical Society's Pais Prize for History of Physics are due June 2. The nomination package is a fairly heavy lift, so get cracking! #histsci www.aps.org/funding-reco...
- Had a fab time at @histfest.bsky.social: thanks and congrats to @rebeccarideal.bsky.social and the team for a splendid event! - also to @k8lister.bsky.social for a fab convo about my new book, HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY. 1/n 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #politics #HAMH
- A great post below about rare book acquisitions + Galileo being eloquent & spectacularly wrong on the subject of comets. A few years ago I also wrote a May Day LHL post on Matthew of Miechów, his amazing library catalog, & its early reference to Copernicus: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #histsci
- Orazio Grassi, Jesuit mathematician and astronomer (and foe of Galileo), is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay. Really pleased that Bill featured two of our recent-ish acquisitions in this SOTD: #histSTM #histastro #galileo #OnThisDay 🗃️📜⚙️🔭 www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...
- Astronomer, mathematician, Jesuit missionary to China, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, was born 1 May 1591. #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2021/08/04/t...
- It is a pleasure to see Charles Darwin's original signature in the Charter Book of Fellows of the Royal Society of London, signed in January 1839 (two years after his return from the Beagle voyage) 🧪🌿💚 #evolution #ecoevo #histbio #histsci #bookhistory
- The March 2025 issue of Earth Sciences History marks the 200th anniv. of the description of the fossil Megalosaurus (William Buckland, 1824) w/ articles about that dinosaur & Plesiosaurus (Mary Anning, 1823). meridian.allenpress.com/esh/issue/44/1 #histsci #HPS #fossils #dinosaurs #paleontology
- #CfA: Journalists in Residence 2026 🗞️📺 📮 Applications of all career levels and media formats invited 🎙️ Pursue your own research project on history, philosophy, or sociology of science 🌐 Network with our researchers during a two-month stay 🗓️ Deadline: June 2, 2025 🔗 bitly.cx/Lqrk #HistSci #SciComm
- Meanwhile, we welcome Dr Stavros Ioannidis (online, U. Athens) and Dr Charu Singh (in-person, U. Cambridge) on 30 April and 7 May respectively, for papers in our Visiting Speaker Seminar Series. Details here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/vis... #histsci #histSTM #hps @leedsprhs.bsky.social
- Early bird rate for History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HoMSEA) ends May 1. Register soon for the Jogjakarta meeting! #histmed #histstm #histsci #STS @sshmedicine.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @anzshm.bsky.social sejarahkesehatan.net/history-of-m...
- To mark tonight’s FINAL spring book tour event for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social (at @cemskcl.bsky.social; details end of 🧵), here’s a history of science, the monster version - in pics! 1/ 🧵 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
- Finally! The paper is out! Want to see a naked eye daylight comet? Mark your calendars for 2097! At least if the "ancestry line" given in the paper is correct. Sadly, I won't live to see it. Would I bet my money? I'd say yes. www.sciengine.com/JAHH/doi/10.... ☄️🔭 #CometWatch #histsci #histastro
- Day 2 of #HistFest2025! Humans: A Monstrous History is in the foyer. I’m here all day, and speaking at 3pm (in person and online) with @k8lister.bsky.social; happy to autograph books! @histfest.bsky.social has been fab so far! #skystorians #booksky #earlymodern #histsci #histmed
- 26-Apr: On this day in 1882, Charles Darwin was buried in Westminster Abbey. Here’s the story of how it happened… friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar... #HistSci
