149 years ago today, #HMSChallenger returned to Spithead from a scientific expedition that birthed the discipline of #Oceanography, but what did they find? Read more about this in Full Fathom 5000, an engaging book that focuses on the many animals the expedition found in the deep sea.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2024/07/30/book-review-full-fathom-5000-the-expedition-of-hms-challenger-and-the-strange-animals-it-found-in-the-deep-sea/

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Book review – Full Fathom 5000: The Expedition of HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea

Focusing on the many animals it found in the deep sea, Full Fathom 5000 provides a novel perspective on the legendary Challenger expedition, all the while treating you to engaging vignettes on scie…

The Inquisitive Biologist

318 years ago today #CarlLinnaeus was born. 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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Book review – The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus

This scholarly biography provides a full immersion in the life of Linnaeus, revealing the polymath behind his reputation as the father of taxonomy.

The Inquisitive Biologist

Very interesting podcast about universals as an idea in American linguistics in the mid-20th century (27 mins.) @hiphilangsci
https://hiphilangsci.net/2024/12/01/podcast-episode-43/

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Podcast episode 43: Judy Kaplan on universals

In this interview, we talk to Judy Kaplan about universals in American linguistics of the mid-20th century.

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences

The Electron Microscope’s Canadian Link

Physicist Eli Burton and his University of Toronto team developed one of North America’s first electron microscopes in 1938, revolutionizing our ability to see the microscopic world. 🔬

🇨🇦 #Canada #ScienceHistory #Microscopy

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/eli-franklin-burton

Today we wrap up the 2025 #Opioid #Archive virtual national symposium! Join us at 12-2:30pm EDT with a panel on Histories and Stories of the Opioid Epidemic with David Herzberg, Domenic Esposito and Alexis Pleus. Registration info here: https://oida-resources.jhu.edu/oida-national-symposium-2025/ #History #HistMed #ScienceHistory #Art #Advocacy
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The Electron Microscope’s Canadian Link

Physicist Eli Burton and his University of Toronto team developed one of North America’s first electron microscopes in 1938, revolutionizing our ability to see the microscopic world. 🔬

🇨🇦 #Canada #ScienceHistory #Microscopy

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/eli-franklin-burton

166 years ago today, the world lost #AlexanderVonHumboldt. This admirably concise biography offers a factual and nuanced picture of his life and work, and critically interrogates previous portrayals.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/02/11/book-review-alexander-von-humboldt-a-concise-biography/

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Book review – Alexander von Humboldt: A Concise Biography

This admirably concise biography offers a factual and nuanced picture of Humboldt’s life and work, and critically interrogates previous portrayals.

The Inquisitive Biologist
🧪 Did you know a 1975 meeting in California laid the groundwork for biotech's safety standards? Local regulations created certainty, enabling the industry's massive growth. What's next for biotech innovation? 🌱 #Biotech #ScienceHistory https://phys.org/news/2025-04-local-certainty-safety-principles-enabled.html
How local regulations helped create certainty and safety principles that enabled biotech's massive growth

It's considered a scientific landmark: A 1975 meeting at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California, shaped a new safety regime for recombinant DNA, ensuring that researchers would apply caution to gene splicing. Those ideas have been so useful that in the decades since, when new topics in scientific safety arise, there are still calls for Asilomar-type conferences to craft good ground rules.

Phys.org

This week's #NewBooks at the library: A second-hand copy of an original 1961 hardback of Arthur O. Lovejoy's The Great Chain of Being from Harvard University Press, a review copy of The Lives of #Bats from @princetonupress @princetonnature, and a second-hand copy of @matthewcobb's The Genetic Age: Out Perilous Quest to Edit Life from Profile Books.

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