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Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chemist</span></a> &amp; x-ray <a href="https://spore.social/tags/crystallographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crystallographer</span></a> whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DNA</span></a>, made important contributions to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carbon</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://spore.social/tags/virus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>virus</span></a> research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠<br>⁠<br>Watson’s bio lead some to (inaccurately) joke, “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.” 🧵</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histstm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histstm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a>⁠</p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Some of his findings are subtly alluded to in the layout of the pea flowers, like a Punnett square depicting a cross between two pea plants heterozygous for purple and white blossoms.<br>⁠<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/GregorMendel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GregorMendel</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histstm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histstm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>botany</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genetics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/reliefPrint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reliefPrint</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaker</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/washi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>washi</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/peaplant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>peaplant</span></a> </p><p>*He had initially set out to study the rules determining plant hybrids but was able to later reinterpret his data to look at heredity with a species.<br>🧵2/3</p>
Bruno J. Strasser<p>Our book is out! The surprising history of masks worn by plague doctors, factory workers, trench soldier, hospital nurses, and the rest of us.</p><p><a href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300276039/the-mask/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030</span><span class="invisible">0276039/the-mask/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/histmed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histmed</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/histSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histSTM</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronomer</span></a> Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. My portrait of Leavitt is printed in silvery lavender ink on Japanese kozo (or mulberry paper). Behind her is a line showing stellar luminosity (capital L with subscript sun-symbol, a circle with a dot) as a function of time (t). She is printed over constellations in gold (Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Draco, 🧵</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histstm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histstm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/constellation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>constellation</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastoArt</span></a></p>
B. Ricardo Brown, PhD<p>Most Handsome and Best<br>David Todd<br>review of Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens<br>by William Max Nelson<br> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSTM</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/david-todd/most-handsome-and-best" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/da</span><span class="invisible">vid-todd/most-handsome-and-best</span></a></p>
B. Ricardo Brown, PhD<p>CALL FOR SUPPORT: Secure the Future of BHL<br>This Call for Support follows the Smithsonian Institution’s decision to conclude its long-standing role as BHL’s host on 1 January 2026.<br> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSTM</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecology</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/EnvHist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvHist</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/NatHist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NatHist</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/EnvironmentalStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalStudies</span></a> <br><a href="https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">about.biodiversitylibrary.org/</span><span class="invisible">call-for-support/</span></a></p>
B. Ricardo Brown, PhD<p>Darwin Online has "A never before published recollection by his eldest child William ...It is particularly affectionate, tender and moving- giving a powerful sense of <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/CharlesDarwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharlesDarwin</span></a> as a person at home with his family" <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSTM</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a><br>William Erasmus Darwin. 1884.01.15. Memoranda as to Father. CUL-DAR210.5.36<br>"Jan 15: 1884<br>I like to think of Father in all ways I can so as to keep the image of him before me to the end of my life" <a href="https://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=CUL-DAR210.5.36&amp;viewtype=side&amp;pageseq=1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">darwin-online.org.uk/content/f</span><span class="invisible">rameset?itemID=CUL-DAR210.5.36&amp;viewtype=side&amp;pageseq=1</span></a><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EtuN9mktZ/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">facebook.com/share/p/1EtuN9mkt</span><span class="invisible">Z/</span></a></p>
WerkstattGeschichte<p>🧵 2/6<br>Aktuelles Heft:<br><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/WerkstattGeschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WerkstattGeschichte</span></a> 91 "körpermaße"</p><p>Im Thementeil, hg. v. @connyaust.bsky.social‬, geht es darum, wie Vorstellung, Wahrnehmung &amp; Vermessung von Körpern v.a. im 18./19. Jh. dazu beitrugen, geschlechtsspezifische &amp; rassistische Differenzkategorien herzustellen &amp; Körpereigenschaften zu essenzialisieren?</p><p>▶ <a href="https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/koerpermasse/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_au</span><span class="invisible">sgaben/koerpermasse/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/historikerinnen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>historikerinnen</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/K%C3%B6rpergeschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Körpergeschichte</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/BodyHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BodyHistory</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Wissenschaftsgeschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wissenschaftsgeschichte</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/histmed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histmed</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/histSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histSTM</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/GenderHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenderHistory</span></a></p>
Sara Pritchard<p>🎉 Happy news! It's official. I have a contract for my forthcoming book, Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution (current title) with @uwapress.bsky.social (2026). 🌌🌃💡</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/lightpollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lightpollution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ALAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALAN</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/darkness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>darkness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/night" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>night</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/envhist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>envhist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/envhum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>envhum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/histtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histtech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/histSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histSTM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/sts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sts</span></a></p>
B. Ricardo Brown, PhD<p>Naturalist Rudy Mancke Collections<br>Rudy Mancke, a beloved figure in <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/SouthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthCarolina</span></a> ... as the host of NatureScene and SC Public Radio’s NatureNotes"<br> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/EnvHist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvHist</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/NatHist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NatHist</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSTM</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.knowitall.org/collections/rudy-mancke-collection" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">knowitall.org/collections/rudy</span><span class="invisible">-mancke-collection</span></a></p>
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks<p>WOW! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871),' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 50K times!</p><p>I'm working hard on the book. For more about that, watch this space! 🏳️‍🌈🐒</p><p><a href="https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/ar</span><span class="invisible">ticle/191/2/323/6075648</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/histbio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histbio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSTM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HSTM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/STS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STS</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histstm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histstm</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QueerInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QueerInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtq</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lgbtqia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtqia</span></a> 'pride <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pridemonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pridemonth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queerhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>queerhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/histsex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histsex</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sex</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/naturalhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>naturalhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Darwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Darwin</span></a></p>
B. Ricardo Brown, PhD<p>Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism<br> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSTM</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/07/harvard-steven-pinker-aporia-podcast" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/science/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">un/07/harvard-steven-pinker-aporia-podcast</span></a></p>
B. Ricardo Brown, PhD<p>Skulls once subject to racist study in Germany are laid to rest in New Orleans<br>"Researchers presume many of the 19 people had been enslaved, later moved freely after the Civil War, and eventually fell ill or were institutionalized in asylums before landing at Charity Hospital in New Orleans"<br> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSTM</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Reconstruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reconstruction</span></a><br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/05/31/nx-s1-5419003/skulls-taken-to-germany-for-racist-study-are-laid-to-rest-in-new-orleans" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/05/31/nx-s1-54190</span><span class="invisible">03/skulls-taken-to-germany-for-racist-study-are-laid-to-rest-in-new-orleans</span></a></p>
B. Ricardo Brown, PhD<p>Skulls of 19 Black Americans Return to New Orleans After 150 Years in Germany <br> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSTM</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/black-americans-skulls-new-orleans-memorial-service.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/blac</span><span class="invisible">k-americans-skulls-new-orleans-memorial-service.html</span></a></p>
Fer Castano<p>Mary Anning, ‘the greatest fossilist the world ever knew’, was born on Lyme Regis <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> in 1799 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/womeninSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womeninSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/histSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histSTM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palaeontology</span></a><br><a href="https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/mary-anning-and-the-hunt-of-primeval-monsters/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">paleonerdish.wordpress.com/201</span><span class="invisible">7/03/10/mary-anning-and-the-hunt-of-primeval-monsters/</span></a></p>
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks<p>It's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WorldBeeDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldBeeDay</span></a>! 🐝💛🍯🖤</p><p>This gorgeous gynandromorph potter flower bee is described in a 1845 article in The Zoologist by English entomologist Frederick Smith. It's pictured from above (left) and below (right).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSTM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HSTM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/histbio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histbio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/STS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STS</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histstm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histstm</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/histsex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histsex</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sex</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queerhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>queerhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtq</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bees</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/naturalhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>naturalhistory</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to Danish <a href="https://spore.social/tags/seismologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seismologist</span></a> Inge Lehmann (1888 – 1993) who demonstrated that the Earth’s core is not a single molten sphere, but contained an inner solid core, in ‘36. She was a pioneer <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womanInScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womanInScience</span></a>, a brilliant seismologist &amp; lived to be 105.⁠<br>⁠<br>As she first postulated, the <a href="https://spore.social/tags/earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>earth</span></a> has roughly 3 equal concentric sections: mantle, liquid outer core &amp; solid inner core. The crust, on which we live is merely 🧵1/n</p><p> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/geophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geophysics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histstm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histstm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/seismology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seismology</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a></p>
B. Ricardo Brown, PhD<p>"Race isn’t a ‘biological reality,’ contrary to recent political claims − here’s how scientific consensus on race developed in the 20th century" <br> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSTM</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/USslavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USslavery</span></a> <br><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sociology</span></a>https://theconversation.com/race-isnt-a-biological-reality-contrary-to-recent-political-claims-heres-how-scientific-consensus-on-race-developed-in-the-20th-century-253504</p>
B. Ricardo Brown, PhD<p>The Sad Story of Darwin’s Self-Procleimed “Stupidest” Child<br>"Leonard Darwin had a lot to live up to. He was the son of the legendary Charles, and several siblings proved to be brilliant scientists as well...In his fifties, he pronounced his life a “failure.” But in his sixties, he finally found his calling—the dark pseudoscience of eugenics, a field he embraced in part to prove that he wasn’t the failure he imagined"<br> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSTM</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/CharlesDarwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharlesDarwin</span></a><br><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sad-story-of-darwins-self-procleimed-stupidest-child/id1506994358?i=1000704454195" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/</span><span class="invisible">the-sad-story-of-darwins-self-procleimed-stupidest-child/id1506994358?i=1000704454195</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to British <a href="https://spore.social/tags/engineer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineer</span></a>, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a>, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physicist</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://spore.social/tags/inventor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inventor</span></a> Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923). I’ve shown her in my <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> with a diagram of the dividers from her 1st of 26 (!) patents, one of her diagrams about the origin &amp; growth of ripple marks &amp; one of her diagrams of an electric arc lamp (a subject on which she literally wrote the textbook).⁠<br>⁠<br>Born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was the 3rd of 8 children 🧵</p><p> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histstm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histstm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/suffragette" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>suffragette</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
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