This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I finally bought #TerryGoodkind's "The Children of D'Hara" bundle from Head of Zeus to replace the individual novellas I had.
- Plus a second-hand copy of James Delbourgo's "Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of #HansSloane" from Allen Lane.
- and a second-hand copy of "Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?" by the ever-thoughtful Michael Ruse, published by Harvard University Press.

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Fantasy #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology @bookstodon

Vulcan | The Planet That Didn't Exist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJyweEcpsGc

Re-watching one of my favorite #youtube #documentaries. It is a nice #historical approach to how #sicence is constantly working to improve and challenge it self.

#relativity #astronomy #documentary #mathematics #physics #math #stem #history #historyofscience

Benjamin Franklin | Kite Experiment

#benjaminfranklin #kiteexperiment #sciencediscovery #JustKnowledge #Gujaratis #InformativeContent #educational #generalknowledge #historyofscience #ScientificDiscoveries #knowledgeispower #interestingshare #scienceisfun

🆕 As part of the IHC's efforts to consolidate scientific careers, we are pleased to announce the signing of eleven new permanent contracts.

👉 Read more here: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/eleven-permanent-contracts/

#Histodons #ScienceJobs #History #ContemporaryHistory #Migrations #SocialMovements #ModernHistory #Anthropocene #Colonialism #HistoryOfScience #Imperialism #Fascism #Capitalism #SocialHistory #PoliticalHistory #ColonialHistory #EnvironmentalHistory #CulturalHistory

This book on Freud sounds as if it might be worth reading.

I'm inclined to think of Freud and Marx as standing in the same relation to the human sciences as Boyle and Kepler do to the natural; important pioneers, whose path breaking insights were also tangled up in ideas that have been rightly discarded.

I'm aware that the idea of a science of the human is controversial; I feel that Mastodon is not the best place to engage in this controversy.

Image -- Sigmund Freud -- c.1921 -- Max Halberstadt -- Wikimedia Commons -- Public domain

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/12/the-only-cure-by-mark-solms-review-a-bold-attempt-to-rehabilitate-freud?CMP=share_btn_url

#SigmundFreud #TheOnlyCure #MarkSolms #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #Science #HistoryOfScience #HumanSciences

The shape of time

In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant – with profound implications for how we experience the world

By Emily Thomas

https://aeon.co/essays/when-we-turned-time-into-a-line-we-reimagined-past-and-future?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6edcc3967b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_01_10_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Space and Time at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7601

#books #literature #historyofscience

Cosmography archives

First Approximation to a Chart of the Nubecula Major, or greater Magellanic Cloud.

by John Herschel (1847)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1847raom.book.....H/abstract

#Cosmography #JohnHerschel #LargeMagellanicCloud #LMC #Nubeculae #NubeculaMajor #nebula #galaxies #Cosmology #nebulae #chart #map #cartography #stars #CosmographyArchives #science #astronomy #astrodon #science #history #historyofscience

Discovery of the Day

Discovery of the Day : Angelique Arvanitaki (1901–1983), a Greek neurophysiologist born in Cairo, was a little-known pioneer in neurology.

Major Contribution:
Demonstrated ephaptic transmission, a mode of communication between neurons without synapses, still poorly understood today—and completely absent from #AI and #DeepLearning models.

Original Article (in French):
📄 “Ephaptic Transmission” (1942)

A reminder that the history of science is full of inspiring, often forgotten figures.

#WomenInScience #Neuroscience #HistoryOfScience

Our new book on the "History of Ideas in the Science of AI" is on Apple Books!

https://books.apple.com/be/book/history-of-ideas-in-the-science-of-ai/id6757443110

#HistoryofScience #AIResearch #AI #Mathematics #Grammar

Today it is 248 years since the death of #CarlLinnaeus. The scholarly #biography The Man Who Organized Nature provides a full immersion in his life, revealing the polymath behind his reputation as the father of #taxonomy.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2024/12/05/book-review-the-man-who-organized-nature-the-life-of-linnaeus/

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