I'm looking for colleagues in the UK, #HistSTM, #HistMed, or #STS who work in institutional settings where they find it is difficult to place them in the right Unit of Assessment for REF2029. DM if that's you?

A reminder that @[email protected] celebrates its bicentenary this year. Are there #histSTM events? In Simon Armitage's poem, the Moon is a Maintainer, implying ZSL is (or at least its zoo keepers are), but the question is open for humans www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

‘The Moon and The Zoo’: Simon ...

Darwin’s last publication was about sexual, not natural, selection: “After having carefully weighed to the best of my ability the various arguments which have been advanced against the principle of sexual selection, I remain firmly convinced of its truth." 🦋🦫🧪🌱🐋 #HistSTM #Evobio #PhilSci

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Darwin, C. R. 1882. Preliminar...

Charles Darwin died OTD in 1882. Stories of a deathbed renunciation of his doubts about Christianity and recantation of his theory circulated widely (mostly in the US, predictably). They were, however, lies. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, next to John Herschel. 🧪🌱🐋 #HistSTM #Evobio #PhilSci

I was amused by Darwin's comments: "I have been a good deal interested in Millar, but ... I rather wish the scenic descriptions were shorter, & that there was a little less geologic eloquence." Though he expressed his "very great pleasure" in reading Millar's works in a letter to him. #histSTM

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I took the (budding earth scientist) 18yo to the Hugh Millar Birthplace Museum #histSTM

This looks great, and of #histtech #histSTM interest - out today

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I've written a post on our 1000-year-old astrolabe, and have included details of the places/latitudes of the plates and the stars on the rete. (I do not read Arabic, sadly, so have drawn on previous transcriptions - if there are errors, do let me know!) www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat... #histSTM 📜

A 1000-year-old star catcher |...