Sara Pritchard
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDNaturalist Rudy Mancke Collections
Rudy Mancke, a beloved figure in #SouthCarolina ... as the host of NatureScene and SC Public Radio’s NatureNotes"
#EnvHist #NatHist #Biodiversity #HistSTM #HistSci
https://www.knowitall.org/collections/rudy-mancke-collection
Greg PriestEnglish landscape painter John Constable was born OTD in 1776.
"Painting is a science and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not a landscape be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but experiments."
🧪🐋🌱🐡#philsci #HistSTM
🌈 Dr Ross BrooksWOW! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871),' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 50K times!
I'm working hard on the book. For more about that, watch this space! 🏳️🌈🐒
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648
#history #histodons @histodons #histsci #histbio #HistSTM #HSTM #STS @histstm #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #pride #pridemonth #queerhistory #histsex #sex #biology #nature #naturalhistory #science #animals #Darwin
Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism
#HistSTM #HistSci
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/07/harvard-steven-pinker-aporia-podcast
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/07/harvard-steven-pinker-aporia-podcast
Skulls once subject to racist study in Germany are laid to rest in New Orleans
"Researchers presume many of the 19 people had been enslaved, later moved freely after the Civil War, and eventually fell ill or were institutionalized in asylums before landing at Charity Hospital in New Orleans"
#HistSTM #HistSci #Slavery #CivilWar #Reconstruction
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/31/nx-s1-5419003/skulls-taken-to-germany-for-racist-study-are-laid-to-rest-in-new-orleans
"Researchers presume many of the 19 people had been enslaved, later moved freely after the Civil War, and eventually fell ill or were institutionalized in asylums before landing at Charity Hospital in New Orleans"
#HistSTM #HistSci #Slavery #CivilWar #Reconstruction
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/31/nx-s1-5419003/skulls-taken-to-germany-for-racist-study-are-laid-to-rest-in-new-orleans
Skulls of 19 Black Americans Return to New Orleans After 150 Years in Germany
#HistSTM #HistSci
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/black-americans-skulls-new-orleans-memorial-service.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/black-americans-skulls-new-orleans-memorial-service.html
At long last, my PhD dissertation—Charles Darwin’s Science of History—has been filed and approved. I graduate shortly.
The abstract is below.
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Richard Levins was born OTD in 1930.
We treat a problem with multiple models, each with different simplifications but with a common biological basis.
If we get similar results we have “a robust theorem…. Hence our truth is the intersection of independent lies.”
🐋🌱🦫🦋🧪 #EvoBio #PhilSci #HistSTM
