Mastodawn

What happens when a young scholar’s career is shaped – and cut short – by war and ideology? Heinz Gau’s brief academic journey is an example of how the intersection of science and politics can influence researchers' career path.
#HistoryOfScience #WWIIHistory #Archaeology #EAZ #EAZArchives
Rauchfuß, Björn. 2013. “Heinz Gau – A Greifswald Prehistorian in National Socialist Germany”. EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift 54 (1/2): 5-28 (in German)
https://doi.org/10.54799/YJLC3139

Memecosystem Services Aug 3

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

The Inquisitive Biologist Aug 2

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.

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Julia S.Aug 2

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

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So 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...

Barnes & Noble

Matilda's Lab Jul 30

It took a little while to get around to the artwork for this one, but we finally have the next instalment of the History of Science: The Menga Dolmen.
https://matildaslab.wordpress.com/2025/07/30/menga-dolmen/
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Menga Dolmen

A glimpse of the technological feats that the human race was capable of over 1000 years before the construction of the pyramids.

Matilda's Lab

IHC Jul 30

📗 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'.

👉 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-68759-4

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IHC Jul 29

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

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Science | The Guardian Jul 28

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

Edinburgh University’s ‘skull room’ highlights its complicated history with racist science

Skulls were collected from all over the world because of some academics’ fascination with the discredited belief that skull shape denoted intelligence

The Guardian

The Inquisitive Biologist Jul 26

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