. Oxford's LGBTQ+ history (https://queeroxford.info/) 🏛️. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE, forthcoming from Yale University Press 📚. Now living on England's South Coast (close to Brighton) ⛵. Trekkie 🖖. Classical music 🎵. Mainly on Bluesky (@rossbrooks.co.uk). Agent: https://www.philippasitters.co.uk/.| Pronouns | he/him |
| Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of the Descent of Man (1871) | https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 |
| Bounds of Diversity: Queer Zoology in Europe from Aristotle to John Hunter | https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/195/1/1/6568055 |
| Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036 |
Wonderful coverage from ABC News Live . . . 🌈 🐠 📺 🦒
Elliot Page on nature doc ‘Second Nature’: ‘Queerness is part of the natural world’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6n0-70Z9-8
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I'm bowled over by the first endorsements my forthcoming book has received. Such brilliant authors - WOW!
You will love it too . . .
UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️🌈 📚️ 🐵
US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 📚 🦋
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Trailblazing artist Yuki Kihara's inspirational, and evolving, exhibition Darwin in Paradise Camp is partly informed by my research. After being shown in the UK (Norwich and Manchester) it will next be exhibited at Wereldmuseum Leiden (from 7 May). I'm looking forward to seeing it there later this year . . .
🌊🏳️⚧️🐠🌈🌴
https://leiden.wereldmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/yuki-kihara-darwin-paradise-camp
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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
Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 👩🔬💜
Working on my forthcoming book, finding out about English suffragist and naturalist Lydia Ernestine Becker was a revelation. In 1869, she made an inclusive, science-based case for women's rights. Just awesome! 🤩
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It's World Book Day (UK & Ireland)! 🌍📚🤩
For young people brandishing book tokens today, there are some marvellous queer-themed science and nature books out there . . . 🏳️🌈 🦆 🦋
#WorldBookDay #WorldBookDay2026 #LoveLibraries #QueerInSTEM #lgbt #lgbtqia #queer #nature #science #books
Happy #ValentinesDay! 🐌❤️🐌
Delightful, if fanciful, depiction of garden snails exchanging love darts. By English artist Frederick Polydore Nodder and published in the Naturalist’s Miscellany in 1790. [The darts don’t propel through the air as the image depicts but are fired on contact.]
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'all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it'
- Charles Darwin, 7 May 1855
Poor ol' Chas.
It's #DarwinDay! 🦋🐵🐟
Here's an unsung hero in Darwin's queer menagerie, Serranus cabrilla. It proved that vertebrate species could be hermaphrodite. That made Chas happy!
This lovely fish will have a starring role in my book . . . 🏳️🌈 📚
https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/
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Btw, my gorgeous cover star is a gynandromorph gypsy moth, female on its left side, male on the right. It was caught in Berlin in July 1864 and pictured by German entomologist Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg in 1877. It makes more than one appearance in my book!
UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️🌈 📚️ 🐵
US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 📜 🦋
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My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August in the UK and 8 September in the US.
Please help spread the word! 🙏
UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️🌈 📚 🐵
US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 📜 🦋
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