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- 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, & 🧵
- Fancy something fun, silly, yet informative this weekend? Check out this episode of @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social: I talked about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY with @billschuttauthor.bsky.social. 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ15...
- At the Hall of Biodiversity and Botanical Garden of the University of Porto, making plans for the Opening Session of #ISHPSSB2025 #hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts
- 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
- The audiobook of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @tantoraudio.bsky.social read by@christinadelaine.bsky.social drops May 13! Pre-order now! HUMANS: a history of the idea of human in relation to... 1/n 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH tantor.com/humans-surek...
- 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
- 🧵 Did you know four Earths could fit inside Saturn's North Polar Hexagon? This intriguing false-color image was recorded by Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera in late 2012. ➡️ photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA1... Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI 🔭 🧪 #planetsci #HistSci
- 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
- 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
- For the lovers of optics: A true 'Schatzkammer' filled with some of the most (in)valuable instruments in the history of optics from antiquity to the early 20th century! #HistSci #HisTech 🗃️ 🏛️.
- 🚨 Tomorrow! Don’t miss Prof. Jon Topham’s jontopham.bsky.social inaugural lecture & BSHS PG Conference keynote: Science and Religion from the Ground Up. 📆 25 April | 3.30pm BST 📍 Leeds & Online 🔗 Register now: bit.ly/4hDxuyV Join us live online! #HistSci #BSHSPG2025
- Book talk and convo with @philipcball.bsky.social, science writer and author, Mon 28 Apr, 5:30pm, in London, on the theme of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! Monsters: where science and history come together. 1/2 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
- Next Monday at 17:30! Join us for a book talk with @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social. Dr. Davies will be speaking about her new book Humans: A Monstrous History. Followed by a conversation and Q&A with Dr. Philip Ball. Food and drink served afterwards! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/book-...
- 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 first article in the special issue @martinkusch.bsky.social and I are coediting is out! Thomas Uebel lays to rest various myths about the Vienna Circle views of social sciences, proving yet again that they were right about pretty much everything. #philsci #philsky #histsci #sts
- 1/2 16 April 1958: pioneering physical chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin passed away at age 37. She is mostly remembered for not receiving full credit for her contributions to the discovery of DNA’s structure, but it’s time to recognize her for the full breadth and 🧪 ⚛️ #histsci
- I heartily recommend seeing this if you can. Highlights include Emilie du Chatelet's manuscript translation of the Principia, the abbé Nollet's air pump, Breguet's watch made for Marie Antoinette, and the barrel chested (literally) rhinosaurus of Versailles #histsci
- This is your last week to see Versailles: Science and Splendour, our 'glittering science history blockbuster' (The Guardian), closing 21 April! ✨ To mark its final week, get 50% off our accompanying book, and delve into the extraordinary history of France’s most opulent palace. 🎟️ bit.ly/4jCrRCO
- I've also decided very reluctantly not to attend @4sonline.bsky.social in Seattle this year. Wanted to hear the Bernal Prize lectures by Anna Tsing and @avastmachine.bsky.social; learn the latest in the field; meet friends and colleagues ... but I'm told it's not safe #STS #histstm #histsci
- #London and London environs folks: I'll be talking about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY AT @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social on Monday April 28! Register to attend. 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
- CEMS is delighted to be hosting @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social for a talk on her fantastic new book Humans: A Monstrous History. Join us on 28th April! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/book-... @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsenglish.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social
- A wonderful opportunity to apply for a fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship in partnership with @royalsociety.org. "Weather Sceptics: Almanacs and the Making of Scientific Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Britain". Deadline 6 May. See link for full details. #histsci @bshsnews.bsky.social
- ESA's Gaia mission has been a milestone in our understanding of the Universe. Its farewell closes a chapter, but it leaves behind a remarkable legacy of discoveries that will continue to influence astronomy for decades to come. Thank you, Gaia. 🔭 🧪 #Gaia #ESA #histsci #stellarastro #cosmology
