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English 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

Rebekah Higgitt 16h ago

TIL from the replies to this - there's a German novel and film about Humboldt and Gauss! (Former has been translated into English, so I have been remiss.) #histSTM

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks 21h ago

Read an excerpt from my forthcoming book, DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE . . . 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

Just posted on Yale University Press's website: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2026/06/10/an-excerpt-darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/

#book #books #history #science #biology #nature #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @histodons @histodon @histsci @histstm #sex #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #pride #PrideMonth

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

Rebekah Higgitt 2d ago

#histSTM #ESHS-HSS

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Greg Priest 3d ago

On the role that diagramming played in Crick and Watson’s contributions to the structure of DNA--and on diagrams as epistemic tools in science and math more generally--see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (paywall). 🌱🐋🧪🐡 #EvoBio #HistSTM

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Tools of Reason: The Practice ...

Greg Priest 3d ago

Francis Crick was born OTD in 1916. We've all seen the DNA diagram that appeared in Crick and Watson’s Nature paper (left), but have you seen his sketch (right), from which his wife Odile made the published version? 🌱🐋🧪🐡 #EvoBio #HistSTM

Rebekah Higgitt 3d ago

Some #histSTM on Radio 4 this morning with 18thC naturalist Georg Forster

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks 4d ago

Happy #PrideMonth! 🌈

Here's a lovely western capercaillie described by Swedish zoologist Sven Nilsson in 1832 as a female that had developed male-typical plumage. 🐦

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Rebekah Higgitt 6d ago

Great #histSTM story this - Cold War and whales, different kinds of knowledge and different kinds of attention, as well as ranging scales, spaces and geographies. Naval personnel were (secretly) expert in ignoring whale-shaped background noise.

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Greg Priest 6d ago

My blog post on Darwin’s reimagining of sympathy is here: https://www.jhiblog.org/2017/11/13/what-if-humans-were-raised-like-bees-charles-darwin-and-the-evolution-of-morality/ My article on the same (paywall) here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/676147/pdf 🐋🌱🦋🦫🧠🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci #Evobio

What if Humans Were Raised Lik...

What if Humans Were Raised Like Bees? Charles Darwin and the Evolution of Morality

By Greg Priest Read the full companion article in this quarter’s Journal of the History of Ideas. A new biography of Charles Darwin is coming out. Styled as a “radical reappraisal,” the book, by A.N. Wilson, condemns Darwin, accusing him... Continue Reading →

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