Mastodawn

This week's #NewBooks at the library: three more books from my employer's January sale
- The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Paul D. Brinkman from the University of Chicago Press;
- Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins, a wonderfully illustrated book by John Gurche from Yale University Press;
- Rethinking Human Evolution edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz, a volume in the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from @themitpress.

#Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

michael Mar 17

Oldest-known #whaleSong recording provides new insight into #ocean #sounds
Recording of #humpback #whale from 1949 could also provide new understanding of how the huge animals communicate

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/16/oldest-known-whale-song-recording-ocean-sounds

#science #ecology #soundscapeEcology #marineBiology #historyOfScience

Oldest-known whale song recording provides new insight into ocean sounds

Recording of humpback whale from 1949 could also provide new understanding of how the huge animals communicate

The Guardian

IHC Mar 17

📯 O projecto #KnowAfrica vai integrar mais uma pessoa na sua equipa através da atribuição de uma Bolsa de Investigação para Licenciado/a.

📆 O concurso está aberto até 24 de Março.

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/bil-knowafrica-2026/

#Histodons #FediHire #HistoryJobs #Colonialism #Século19 #19thCentury #Africa #HistoryOfScience #HistóriaDaCiência #DigitalHumanities #HumanidadesDigitais #BolsaDeInvestigação

Valdeloire Mar 14

Альберт Ейнштейн
https://buymeacoffee.com/valdeloir/kazuluxahu

#АльбертЕйнштейн #історіянауки #теоріявідносності #фізика #вчені
#AlbertEinstein #HistoryOfScience #TheoryOfRelativity #Physics #Scientists

Daniel Pomarède Mar 13

From the AIP History Weekly Newsletter:

Article spotlight: Eun-Joo Ahn on the road to Mount Wilson Observatory

by Rebecca Charbonneau, American Institute of Physics

https://www.aip.org/history/article-spotlight-eun-joo-ahn-mount-wilson

#AIP #History #MountWilson #observatory #MountWilsonObservatory #California #science #HistoryOfScience #Astrodon

Article spotlight: Eun-Joo Ahn on the road to Mount Wilson Observatory

AIP History Weekly Edition: March 13, 2026

AIP

IHC Mar 10

Amanhã, 11 de Março, o projecto #KnowAfrica vai sair da universidade para ir até à Biblioteca Pública de Évora, onde Sara Albuquerque e Anderson Antunes vão apresentar uma palestra integrada no ciclo "Ciência na Biblioteca".

Começa às 17h, com entrada livre.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/knowafrica-bpe/

#Histodons #Colonialism #AfricanVoices #ScientificExpeditions #ColonialAfrica #HistoryOfScience #Naturalists #Colonialismo #HistóriaDaCiência #ExpediçõesCientíficas #SciComm

Craig Aaen-Stockdale Mar 10

I’m bored in a hospital so naturally became curious about why the #biohazard symbol is so… well, satanic and terrifying. I came across this article that explains that, when designing it, they were actually aiming for “something memorable and meaningless.” Enjoy.

#HistoryOfScience

https://www.sciencehistory.org/collections/blog/the-biohazard-warning-symbol/

The Biohazard Warning Symbol

In pursuit of something memorable and meaningless.

Science History Institute

Hack in Days of Future Past Mar 9

Absolutely genius : a brilliant experiment recreating the original experiment of Bell for the first telephone communication, based directly on Bell’s 1876 writings and using period-appropriate tools. It’s fascinating to see how the experimentation follows Bell’s own notes and reveals the progression of the scientist’s thinking step by step in his notebooks. Bravo to the @connections for this formidable initiative. Watch the video — super cool! 👌 Can’t wait for part 2 with the skin-tension system in the second device presented! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6irxbKpKzo #HistoryOfTechnology #HistoryOfScience
#ExperimentalScience #RetroTech #TechHeritage #SciComm #Engineering