Mastodawn

It's #Easter Sunday! 🌱

No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. But I do have a *lot* of queer chickens. 🥚🏳️‍🌈🐤 🐔

Here's a domestic hen with male plumage, described in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society in 1821.

#HappyEaster #history #histbio #histsci #histstm #sts #science #biology #nature #birds #animals @[email protected] @histodons @histodon @histstm @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

Ehud Feb 22

academic.oup.com/genetics/adv... #histbio #hps

Reflections on the Human Genom...

Fabienne Gallaire Jan 28

Au Théâtre La Reine Blanche (merveilleusement sous-titré "Scène des Arts et des Sciences"), une pièce en l'honneur de Marthe Gauthier, grande généticienne et vraie découvreuse de la trisomie 21.
#womenInSTEM #Histsci #histbio #histmed #theatre #paris
https://www.reineblanche.com/calendrier/theatre/la-decouvreuse-oubliee

Abie Jan 8

Petite histoire du pouvoir de résolution des microscopes
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pouvoir_de_r%C3%A9solution
Dans ce papier très cool
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-golden-age-of-vaccine-development/
#histtech #histsci #histbio

Abie Jan 8

Il y a trois quarts de siècle, David Rogers filmait la course folle d'une bactérie poursuivie par un neutrophile :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_xh-bkiv_c #histsci #histbio #histtech

Crawling Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium

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Fabienne Gallaire Dec 17

To history of science scholars that may be around: Do you happen to have any good refs on the history of chromosome linkage mapping, map units, the definition of the centiMorgan and so on?
#histsci #histbio #genetics #biology #historyofscience #haldane

🌈 Dr Ross Brooks Oct 21

My 2023 Notes and Records article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' is free to read this #OpenAccess week! 🌈🧬

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036

Download and share while you can . . .

#OAweek #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #HistBio #STS #SciComm @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #QueerInSTEM #lgbtq #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

John S. Wilkins Oct 14

The "habits" of plants appear to have been the traits of plants that adapt to their circumstances and environment. A nineteenth century piece of botanical terminology I previously didn't know. #histsci #histbio #taxonomy

Ehud Sep 19, 2025

A must read (but dense) book by a dear colleague. #histbio #philbio

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nurntdrn5de5xveeympxefzk/post/3lz6cae55ij2c

Ehud Sep 8, 2025

Wow wow wow. Excellent thread and irresistible #histbio lore.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fnlnkjkaepdaxomf7u5jiaxm/post/3lyd75dty5s2y