I need these for work. Book haul in London yesterday, for a new narrative nonfiction book idea. 1/ 🧵 #earlymodern #histsci 💙📚 🗃
An Excerpt: Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life - Yale University Press

While Charles Darwin's theories acknowledged the diversity and fluidity of sex in nature, he often framed queer and intersex traits as anomalies through the lens of his own social prejudices.

Yale University Press
Suave Morbida (@maitre-poulard.bsky.social)

Ordonnance de 1779 contre les châtreurs itinérants du Languedoc qui prétendent guérir les hernies inguinales chez les garçons par la castration 🧵1/5

Bluesky Social

#cfp Mineral Expertise: The Rules of Knowing Earthly Matter in the Early Modern World -- 4-6 February 2027 in Bologna.

Deadline for Submission: July 10th 2026

https://scarce.univie.ac.at/news/singleview/news/call-for-papers-mineral-expertise-the-rules-of-knowing-earthly-matter-in-the-early-modern-world/

#histsci #miningHistory

Call for Papers: Mineral Expertise: The Rules of Knowing Earthly Matter in the Early Modern World

February 04-06, 2027 SCARCE Workshop University of Bologna Deadline for Submission: July 10th 2026

#JobKlaxon: 3-year postdoc position at Manchester Metropolitan University

Application deadline: 29th June 2026

Manchester Metropolitan University is seeking to recruit a postdoctoral Research Associate in History (full-time, 3 years) to join the team for Dr Francesca Mackenney's Leverhulme-funded project, ‘‘The Making of Natural History, 1797 - Present'

#envhist #histsci #naturalhistory #envhum

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU994/research-associate-the-making-of-natural-history-1797-present

Research Associate: 'The Making of Natural History, 1797 - Present' at Manchester Metropolitan University

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

Jobs.ac.uk
The optician; John Dolland, who first successfully produced and marketed achromatic lenses, was born 10 June 1706 #histsci #histtech
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/taking-the-colour-out-of-light/
Taking the colour out of light.

The early history of telescopic astronomy was plagued by the imperfections of the lenses used to construct the telescopes. These imperfections were of two types, those resulting from the physical d…

The Renaissance Mathematicus
Do you know of any case of disease transmitted to a surgeon during a surgery or an autopsy (human or animal)?
I have a few examples already that I will list here, but I would welcome others.
#histsci #histmed #disease #contagion
Ce n'est pas tous les jours qu'on voit un volcan naître sous ses yeux !
Dès le premier jour, il passe de simple fissure dans le sol à un cône de 30 mètres de haut...
Un fil superbement illustré sur la folle histoire du Paricutin :
https://bsky.app/profile/maitre-poulard.bsky.social/post/3mns3xuhce72l
#histsci #histnat #geology #volcan #vulcanology
Suave Morbida (@maitre-poulard.bsky.social)

L'histoire est connue, les photos restent extraordinaires. Là, c'est Dionisio Pulido, un paysan tarasque du Michoacán. Le 20 février 1943, alors qu'il travaille au champ, une fissure s'ouvre brutalement dans le sol. De la fumée s'échappe, accompagnée d'une forte odeur de soufre. (1/n)

Bluesky Social