Hey #histodons, wondering if there are any folks who have found use in getting green revolution and big science ideas to talk to eachother? #HistoryOfScience #Envhist
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Three very different books. I won a copy of #Fantasy Miniatures at auction. I adopted a damaged copy of #ForensicEntomology. And I bought a second-hand copy of Volume 1 of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin.
#Warhammer #Wargaming #GamesWorkshop #Insects #Entomology #Evolution #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon
ENTERTAINING, IMPRESSIVELY COMPREHENSIVE history of humanity’s long and confused journey to the discovery of germ theory is a work of popular science with all the propulsive energy of a mystery novel, even though we know the ending. A MINUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/so-very-small-thomas-levenson/1146072181?ean=9780593242735
Barnes & NobleSo Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease|Hardcover“An elegant, wide-ranging history” (The New York Review of Books) of the centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease thatreveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about...
Luís Mendonça de Carvalho edited the book ‘The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective. Volume 1’ (Springer), which provides us with a 'unique re-evaluation of the Victorian Age and presents a new historiography based on plants'.
There's a new issue of HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology. It includes the themtic dossier "Towards a global history of eclipses_ Entanglements of disciplines, actors, and practices".
Available on #OpenAccess: https://sciendo.com/issue/HOST/19/1
Edinburgh University’s ‘skull room’ highlights its complicated history with racist science https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/28/edinburgh-university-skull-room-highlights-its-complicated-history-with-phrenology #UniversityofEdinburgh #Historyofscience #Scotland #Science #UKnews #Race
The Guardian · Edinburgh University’s ‘skull room’ highlights its complicated history with racist science
This week's #NewBooks at the library: Second-hand copies of The Lying Stones of Marrakech (another one of the essay collections of #StephenJayGould), The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants by Leigh Calvez, and The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee #Books #NaturalHistory #Whales #MarineBiology #Genetics #HistoryOfScience #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon
It's often said that journal publishing is still using 17th-century technology, but I think that's unfair. After all, they didn't have DOIs in the 1600s.
This blog has been a very long time in the making. Last summer I visited the Niels Bohr Library and Archives of the American Institute of Physics. That visit turned into an interview (Allison Rein interviewed me). Very excited to share this. I hope it will help a few more people find their way to our catalogue as well! https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/inside-the-international-atomic-energy-agency-archives-unit #arhives #digipres #historyofscience #physics #nuclearphysics
AIP · Inside the International Atomic Energy Agency Archives UnitAn Interview with Archivist, Elizabeth Kata
149 years ago today #GeorgeMurrayLevick was born. This British Antarctic explorer made observations on penguins considered too shocking for the world, as recounted in A Polar Affair, an unusual and colourful book of #PolarExploration, #Penguins, and perversion.
The Inquisitive Biologist · Book review – A Polar Affair: Antarctica’s Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of PenguinsA Polar Affair is an unusual and colourful book of polar exploration, penguins, and perversion.
It is 121 years ago today that the world lost #JohnBellHatcher. Meticulous in its historical detail, King of the Dinosaur Hunters is the definitive biography of this quietly famous and influential fossil collector.
The Inquisitive Biologist · Book review – King of the Dinosaur Hunters: The Life of John Bell Hatcher and the Discoveries that Shaped PaleontologyMeticulous in its historical detail, King of the Dinosaur Hunters is the definitive biography of the quietly famous and influential fossil collector John Bell Hatcher.
my review of the proceedings from the conference on #Copernicus in #Ferrara has been published in the ‘ Annali di Storia delle Università Italiane’
you can read it here: https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.17396/117143
This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought a second-hand copy of #JamesHutton: The Genius of Time from Birlinn Publishing and adopted a damaged copy of The Great Auk from Bloomsbury Sigma that I hope to review soon. Also very pleased to have found a second-hand copy of Peter Wellnhofer's classic The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of #Pterosaurs which was recommended by @markwitton for its section on the history of research (when Witton recommends, I listen).
#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Geology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Ornithology #Palaeontology #Paleontology @bookstodon
Good Will Hunting in reverse: the real-life story of Peter Putnam, promising physicist turned janitor.
HT @cdarwin
Nautilus · Finding Peter PutnamThe forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind
This week's #NewBooks at the library: Two academic books
- "Science for All: The Popularisation of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain" from the University of Chicago Press; and
- "The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire" from Harvard University Press.
Completely unrelated, won at auction, a vintage artbook from #GamesWorkshop by John Blanche and one of my favourite illustrators, Ian Miller.
#HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Anthropology #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Congratulations to Quintino Lopes, whose paper about Armando de Lacerda and the Coimbra Phonetics Laboratory (co-authored with Francisco de Lacerda and Ana Simões) was the winner of the 2025 edition of the A. H. de Oliveira Marques Prize for Portuguese History! 
Full story: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/quintino-lopes-aholiveira-marques-prize/
Now online: Videos from the workshop "Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science",
April 2-4, 2025, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5rAX6ywmP7O_nT99Osd74uino78BJMVT
Said Robert Proctor: “If you don’t like the science that’s out there, create some of your own. And then claim ‘we need more research.’ And then label your opposition as a bunch of close-minded fanatics.”
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/industry-weaponizing-science-agenda/
The MIT Press Reader · How Industry Weaponizes Science and Sows Doubt to Serve Their Agenda“When you’re shining a light on something, almost everything else remains in the dark. And sometimes that darkness is deliberately kept dark.”
For most of history, the disciplines of science and philosophy are tightly connected, arguably even the same.
Alchemy was considered a science, and indeed people like Newton and Bacon dabbled in it. Facts and theories as we now know them are much different, and bordered on philosophical arguments. Experimentation wasn't a standard procedure, and a community of scientific professionals hardly existed.
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90 segundos para a Ângela Salgueiro nos contar o que anda a fazer no projecto #PHONLAB, dedicado à História da fonética experimental em Portugal, nomeadamente ao Laboratório de Fonética Experimental instalado na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, em 1936, por Armando de Lacerda.
https://www.90segundosdeciencia.pt/episodes/ep-2026-angela-salgueiro/