It is a pleasure to see Charles Darwin's original signature in the Charter Book of Fellows of the Royal Society of London, signed in January 1839 (two years after his return from the Beagle voyage)

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Happy Easter to all who celebrate! 🌱

No cute lambs or bunnies in my files, I'm afraid. I do, however, have a *lot* of queer chickens. This is Hector, a 'hen-cock' pictured in the Sporting Magazine in March 1833 and mentioned by Charles Darwin in his 1868 book The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication!

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My 2023 article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain,' published in Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, has now been made free to access! 🌈 🧬 🐦

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

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⚰️ Happy Halloween! 🧛

Same-sex sexual behaviours in bats were first documented in 1895.

Here's a more recent study: http://www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Same-sex-sexual-behaviour-in-bats,77304,0,2.html.

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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! 🌈🧬

Download away and share while you can . . .

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Wow! 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 45K times! 😲

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Wishing everyone a nice, relaxing weekend!✨

I've been writing about frog sex this week, so here's a lovely plate from German painter and naturalist August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof's sumptuous Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium ('The Natural History of Our Frogs,' 1758). 🐸 🐸

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My 2022 article 'Bounds of Diversity: Queer Zoology in Europe from Aristotle to John Hunter,' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 25K times!

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Whoop, whoop! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)' has now been viewed over 40K times! 😲

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