Happy birthday to British #engineer, #mathematician, #physicist & #inventor Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923). I’ve shown her in my #linocut with a diagram of the dividers from her 1st of 26 (!) patents, one of her diagrams about the origin & growth of ripple marks & one of her diagrams of an electric arc lamp (a subject on which she literally wrote the textbook).
Born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was the 3rd of 8 children 
Happy birthday to #mathematician Felix Klein (1849-1925). This is a hand-carved and hand-printed image of the famous mathematical object, the Klein bottle, printed in a gradient of pale yellow-green to darker blue-green on paper 8” by 8” (20.3 cm by 20.3 cm). First described by mathematician Felix Klein in 1882, this object has a single surface, rather like a 3D version of a Möbius strip.
#linocut #sciart #printmaking #mathart #FelixKlein #histstm #mathematics #maths #reliefPrint #MastoArt
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!
#Easter #HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio #STS @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #animals #birds #science #naturalhistory #art
Can anyone point me to good secondary literature on the history of representations of "Nature" as female?
I'm particularly interested in 19th century British thinking, but I'd welcome any more general surveys as well.
#HistSTM #WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky
Happy birthday to Canadian 
geneticist Irene Ayako Uchida (1917-2013)! In my #linocut Uchida is shown surrounded by chromosones, with anomalies (shown with pink arrows) due to radiation exposure, based on one of her research papers. A strand of DNA is hidden in the image (as her watchband).
Uchida didn’t set out to be a scientist. She was studying English literature at UBC, before she was interned 1/n
#printmaking #sciart #genetics #cytology #DNA #histstm #WomenInSTEM #chromosomes
Brazil fights Harvard to reclaim African rebel’s skull after 190 years #HistSTM #HistSci
#Slavery
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/05/brazil-harvard-african-rebels-skull-190-years
Scientists review Arabic manuscript containing lost works of Apollonius and shed light on Islamic scientific tradition #HistSTM #HistSci
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-scientists-arabic-manuscript-lost-apollonius.html
Darwin Online: "Caricatures of Evolution"
"This unprecedented 700-page catalogue of over 1,400 caricatures and satirical illustrations regarding Darwin and evolution transforms our knowledge of the surprisingly vast extent of Darwin's impact on visual culture from 1860-1939" #CharlesDarwin #HistSTM #HistSci
https://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_Caricatures_of_Evolution.html
Der japanische Mediziner & Anthropologe Buntaro Adachi starb heute vor 80 Jahren. Er untersuchte als erster Zusammenhänge von Ohrenschmalzkonsistenz & Achselschweißgeruch – kein Aprilscherz! Was dies mit "Rassenphysiologie" zu tun hat, erklärt:
Julia Gebke, Achselschweiß und Ohrenschmalz: #Medizin und #Anthropologie zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, #WerkstattGeschichte 87/2023, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-87-julia-gebke/
Unser neues Heft #WerkstattGeschichte 91 "körpermaße" ist erschienen! 1/
Im Thementeil, hg. v. Cornelia Aust, geht es diesmal um das Vermessen & Vergleichen von Körpermerkmalen v.a. im 18./19. Jh. Wie trug dies dazu bei, geschlechtsspezifische & rassistische Differenz herzustellen und so Körpereigenschaften zu essenzialisieren?
Heute vor 5 Jahren begann in Deutschland der 1. #Corona-#Lockdown. Wie #Museen damit umgegangen sind, welche Sammlungs- und digitalen Aktivitäten sie z.B. entfaltet haben, hat seinerzeit unsere #Expokritik-Redaktion beobachtet:
Sebastian Kühn, Andreas Ludwig, Pavla Šimková & Lotte Thaa, Corona im #Museum, #WerkstattGeschichte 84/2021, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/monogamie/
Lynn Margulis was born OTD in 1938. At 29, she published her theory that eukaryotes had evolved via endosymbiosis, after having it rejected by at least 15 other journals.
#HPBio #Complexity #HistSTM #EvoBio #WomeninSTEM
On the origin of mitosing cell...
What wasn’t discussed at Asilomar. Fab, by my @official-uom.bsky.social colleague @matthewcobb.bsky.social #histstm www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Money and murder: the dark sid...
Darwin, Slavery, the HMS Black Joke, and Seaman Morgan.
In honor of the birthday of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln.
#HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin #DarwinDay #Slavery
https://until-darwin.blogspot.com/2014/02/darwin-slavery-hms-black-joke-and.html
It’s #BlackHistoryMonth so it’s a good time to celebrate the extraordinary mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics and played a pivotal role in the success of
Julia Jorati, Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford University Press, 2024, 338pp., $39.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780197659243.
Reviewed by Peter K. J. Park, University of Texas at Dallas
#HistSTM #Slavery
https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/slavery-and-race-philosophical-debates-in-the-eighteenth-century/
Rooting out racial prejudices
A data-driven portrait of racism exposes the persistent reality of racial biases
"...is almost entirely about racial biases rather than systemic structures of power"
#HistSTM #sociology
https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-2357/full
Poem of the week: The Hottentot Venus Hails Botticelli’s on the High Seas by Dzifa Benson
#HistSTM
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/21/poem-of-the-week-the-hottentot-venus-hails-botticellis-on-the-high-seas-by-dzifa-benson
Did my first Wikipedia edit and it was to correct a serious error in the entry for Sarah Baartman. A lesson for me that those interested in #HistSTM should do occasionai checks to Wikipedia pages.
#HistSTM #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Baartman&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Baartman
![Removed the erroneous statement "Cuvier interpreted her remains, in accordance with his Darwinist interpretation of evolution" is not cited and is in fact a serious error. Darwin and Cuvier had very different views on the fixity of species, gradual change vs catastrophe, slaver[y] and race, etc. As is noted in the talk, Darwin comes decades after Cuvier and is in part a reaction against Cuvier's understanding of evolution. The phrase is misleading and not cited.](https://cdn.masto.host/sciencessocial/media_attachments/files/113/879/537/498/436/241/original/ff40b66173fd0d00.png "Removed the erroneous statement \"Cuvier interpreted her remains, in accordance with his Darwinist interpretation of evolution\" is not cited and is in fact a serious error. Darwin and Cuvier had very different views on the fixity of species, gradual change vs catastrophe, slaver[y] and race, etc. As is noted in the talk, Darwin comes decades after Cuvier and is in part a reaction against Cuvier's understanding of evolution. The phrase is misleading and not cited.")
How Stephen Jay Gould Fought the Science Culture Wars
By Myrna Perez
"the history of this late 1970s moment reveals that neither Gould nor feminist scientists saw their criticisms of sociobiology as anti-science. In fact, they understood the debate to be a conversation within the scientific community about the evidence for a new model within evolutionary science."
#HistSTM #CharlesDarwin #Gender #Feminism #sociology
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/stephen-jay-gould-sociobiology-gender
Dr Ross Brooks 
