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rossbrooks.co.uk
#Darwin #histsci #histbio 🗃️
qubhistory.bsky.social History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · Jan 15
The Science and Culture Research Group warmly invite you to join us for the hybrid launch of Peter Bowler’s new book 'Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present' (CUP)

22 Jan 3-5pm, Irish Studies Seminar Room, 01/003, 27 University Square, QUB.
January 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
rossbrooks.co.uk
#histsci #histbio #STS 🗃️
confronteugenics.bsky.social Confront-Eugenics @confronteugenics.bsky.social · Nov 19
The flipbook of the travelling exhibition on the legacies of eugenics designed by Szabolcs Máthé and Prof Marius Turda.
confront-eugenics.org/2024/11/19/w...
November 21, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Finally ! My book on metaphysics/biology soon out
And open access #philsci #kant #histbio #organism

www.routledge.com/When-Metaphy...
March 8, 2026 at 9:22 AM
rossbrooks.co.uk
#histsci #histbio 🗃️
edwinrose.bsky.social Edwin Rose @edwinrose.bsky.social · Nov 11
Delighted to say that my book now has a cover! Due to be published on 18 March 2025 (USA) and 13 May 2025 (worldwide).
November 11, 2024 at 6:52 PM
emilyherring.bsky.social
I've added many excellent #histbio #philbio #histmed #philmed people!
emilyherring.bsky.social Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · Nov 23
I'm trying to put together a history and philosophy of biology and medicine starter pack! Let me know who to add, including if that is you!
go.bsky.app/UCbEmtj
November 24, 2024 at 10:11 AM
historyclippings.bsky.social
18th-century manual on birds, with loads of colored plates.

#c18th 🗃️ 🧪 🪶 #histbio

Google Books
www.google.co.uk/boo...
January 19, 2024 at 5:00 PM
I’m glad to share my new book on organisms, biology and Kant:

When Metaphysics meets Biology. Kantian approaches to Concept of Organism. (Routledge)

The book is open access so you can download the pdf, read, share

#philsci #evobio #philbio #histbio #kant

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
April 21, 2026 at 2:20 PM
yavannakemi.bsky.social
#HistBio and #HistMed people: You can still send your abstracts for FoGeL 2025! 🐋🌱
yavannakemi.bsky.social Vera Straetmanns @yavannakemi.bsky.social · May 23
🌱 Call for Contributions – FoGeL 2025: Plant-based 🌿
📍 Dresden | 🗓️ Sept 23, 2025
One day before the annual meeting of the @gwmt.bsky.social, we're looking at #plants in the history of the life sciences
Submit your idea by June 15 to vera.straetmanns[at]rub.de - in German or English.
#HistSci #HPBio
Poster for FoGeL 2025, saying: "FoGel 2025 - Plant-based 23. SEPTEMBER 2025 / DRESDEN BEITRAGSVORSCHLÄGE BIS 15. JUNI 2025 AN: VERA.STRAETMANNS@RUB.DE" Explanation about FoGeL 2025: "Im Vorfeld der diesjährigen Tagung der GWMT in Dresden findet am 23.9.2025 erneut das Forum Geschichte der Lebenswissenschaften (FoGeL) statt. In diesem Jahr wollen wir bewusst einen Kontrapunkt zum tierzentrierten Thema der Haupttagung setzen – aus der pflanzlichen Perspektive. Was passiert, wenn wir die Geschichte der Lebenswissenschaften plant-based denken? Welche Rolle spielten und spielen Pflanzen – als Erkenntnisobjekte, als Modellorganismen, als Gegenstände technischer Aneignung oder ästhetischer Projektionen? Welche historischen Akteur*innen, Praktiken, Orte, Bilder oder Konzepte rücken durch diese Perspektive ins Zentrum? Wir suchen Beiträge (ca. 10 Minuten), die aus laufenden Projekten heraus eine Frage aufwerfen oder einen Aspekt zur Diskussion stellen. Besonders willkommen sind experimentelle Formate, unfertige Gedanken, methodische Herausforderungen oder knifflige Quellenfunde – all das, was im klassischen Vortrag oft keinen Platz findet. Bewerbungen (max. 200 Wörter Abstract + 1–2 Sätze zur eigenen Person) bitte bis 15. Juni 2025 an vera.straetmanns@rub.de."
June 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
duhe.bsky.social
A must read (but dense) book by a dear colleague. #histbio #philbio
hoposjournal.bsky.social The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · Sep 19
Revival of Lamarckism in #HOPOS!

Now that we have your attention: In our latest issue Maurizio Meloni reviews Snait B. Gissis's _Lamarckism and the Emergence of ‘Scientific’ Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France_.
Readable text available at link in post White red and blue book cover
September 19, 2025 at 7:05 AM
hworliczek.bsky.social
A fantastic opportunity in Berlin at the MPIWG
#histsci #histmed #histstm #hps #sts #histbio #envhum
mpiwg.bsky.social Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · Dec 20
New "First Research Article” fellowships 🤩
Graduate students based at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions are invited to apply to Dept. "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" or "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life."

🗓️ Deadline: Feb 16, 2024
🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4

#HistSci #ResearchOpportunities
Top right: MPIWG Summer Publications Slam held in the institute's library (2024). Photo: Marvin Müller. Bottom right: Exterior view of the MPIWG building with its three-story architecture and the institute's library located in the lower level.
December 20, 2024 at 12:43 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Welcome to Bluesky, @ishpssb.bsky.social!

(Boosting the signal for #histSTM friends, especially those interested in the history & philosophy of #biology...)

#histbio #histmed
#philsci #philbio 🗃️🧬
ishpssb.bsky.social ISHPSSB @ishpssb.bsky.social · Sep 7
We’re excited to launch the official BlueSky profile of ISHPSSB! Founded in 1998, we connect researchers in philosophy, history, and social studies of biology and medicine worldwide. Follow us for updates and events! #PhilosophyOfBiology, #HistoryOfScience, #STS, #Biology, #Medicine
September 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
marshall0i.bsky.social
#philbio #histbio
April 22, 2024 at 3:31 AM
rossbrooks.co.uk
It's #DarwinDay! 🌱🌈🐵

'Every man & woman is hermaphrodite'
Charles Darwin (1838)

Peak into 'Darwin's Closet' with my 2021 article @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social @linneansociety.bsky.social:

academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

#Darwin #histsci #histbio #STS #queer #LGBTplusHM #QueerInSTEM #science 🗃️
Photograph of the statue of Charles Darwin in Shrewsbury viewed through progress pride flag-coloured filter.
February 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
rossbrooks.co.uk
Just published, looks fab . . .

The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900-1935 by Jim Endersby @uchicagopress.bsky.social.

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #histsci #histbio #STS #BookSky #X-Men 🗃️
Front cover of The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900-1935 by Jim Endersby
January 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
duhe.bsky.social
Clearly the best way to understand Mayr... #histbio
gregpriest.bsky.social Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · Jul 5
Ernst Mayr was born OTD in 1904.

“Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.”

🧠🗃️🌱🐋🦋🦫🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci
Caricature of Mayr by David Levine for the New York Review of Books.
July 5, 2026 at 7:25 PM
rossbrooks.co.uk
My 2023 article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain,' published in Notes and Records, has now been made free to access! @royalsocietypublishing.org. 🧬🏳️‍🌈🐦

#histsci #histbio #STS #LGBTQ #queerhistory 🗃️

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
B&W photograph of Gregor Mendel viewed through Progress Pride flag filter.
January 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
kingtekkers.bsky.social
If you are a multi species enthusiast, see here! #ISHPSSB2025 #histbio #histsci #HPS
carsoncenter.bsky.social Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · Dec 16
We have a new thematic collection for our online journal 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 titled "Multispecies Intellectual History." In collaboration with Eiko Honda, we now welcome submissions defying the limits of intellectual history. Learn more here: www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/coll...

#EnvHist #EnvHum
July 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
roto-rub.bsky.social
Really?
#hpbio, #histbio, #philbio
philipncohen.com Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Mar 28
The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
alisabokulich.bsky.social
#histsci #histbio #envhum 📗
October 18, 2023 at 7:00 PM
rossbrooks.co.uk
Grab it while you can! Definitely one for collectors of all things Queer Darwin* . . .

* An admittedly small, but growing, community.

#histbio #histsci #sts #histsex #queerhistory 🌈🦋🗃️
historytoday.com History Today @historytoday.com · Aug 17
The August issue of History Today leaves shelves this week.

Featuring: Caesar and Cicero, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles Darwin on gender, Brazil’s free press, and more.

Find out what else is inside and order it directly from our store at www.historytoday.com/magazine
August 17, 2026 at 2:37 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Exciting news from my colleagues @sciencehistory.org! This archive documents the early history of #MolecularBiology & efforts to determine the structure of #DNA.

@matthewcobb.bsky.social provides an overview of its contents & significance in the thread below.

#histSTM #histsci #histbio #Molbio 🗃️📜🧬
matthewcobb.bsky.social Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · Sep 8
News in the history of molecular biology. The Science History Institute in Philadelphia has acquired a huge archive of correspondence and other scientific material from the pioneers of molecular biology (Franklin, Klug, Perutz, Delbrück etc, with items from Crick and Watson, too). 1/n
History of Molecular Biology Collection
This unparalleled collection includes Rosalind Franklin's historic 'Photo 51,' which revealed the double-helix structure of DNA.
www.sciencehistory.org
September 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
rossbrooks.co.uk
My 2023 Notes and Records article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' is free to read this #OpenAccess week! 🌈🧬

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Download and share while you can . . . #histbio #histsci #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #OAweek 🗃
royalsocietypublishing.org Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Oct 20
We are pleased to announce that throughout Open Access Week, from 20 – 26 October, all Royal Society journal content is freely available. Explore our journals here: royalsociety.org/Journals/ #OAWeek #OAWeek25
October 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
rossbrooks.co.uk
I'm looking forward to returning to Oxford Brookes University (where I did my BA, MA, and PhD!) on 3rd October for this inspired event marking the 40th anniversary of Dan Kevles' landmark work 'In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity.' All welcome.

#histsci #histbio #STS 🗃️
August 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
gregoryrupik.bsky.social
Join us for this great conference on the legacies of Lewontin and Dialectical Biology! 🌱🐋 #philbio #evolution #histbio
gregoryrupik.bsky.social Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · Sep 19
An awesome hybrid conference on the legacies of Richard Lewontin is coming to Toronto. Elliott Sober is the keynote! "Dialectical Biology Today" runs from October 10-12. Learn more and register below! #philbio 🐋🌱
@ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...
September 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
gregoryrupik.bsky.social
Ishkabibble is officially on Bluesky! Give it a follow! #philbio #histbio 🐋🌱
ishpssb.bsky.social ISHPSSB @ishpssb.bsky.social · Sep 7
We’re excited to launch the official BlueSky profile of ISHPSSB! Founded in 1998, we connect researchers in philosophy, history, and social studies of biology and medicine worldwide. Follow us for updates and events! #PhilosophyOfBiology, #HistoryOfScience, #STS, #Biology, #Medicine
September 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM