Three postdoctoral positions available on a fantastic-looking project (based in Lyon), looking at the history of the earth sciences in the Caucasus and central Asia, 1880 to 2000: larhra.fr/programmes-e...
ENVIROSHIFT - Shifting perspectives on environmental change: A History of the Earth Sciences in Central Asia and the Caucasus, 1880-2000 - LARHRA
ERC Strating Grant Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme (Grant Agreement No. 101222577) RECRUITEMENT Applications are now open ENVIROSHIFT ...
larhra.fr
July 20, 2026 at 2:34 PM
#histgeo ⚛️
A post on @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social blog to mark the 250th anniversary this month of Nevil Maskelyne's announcement of the initial results of the Schiehallion experiment, to measure the density of the Earth www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat... #histsci
How to weigh the world with a mountain and a clock | NMS
An 18th century clock in our collection looks very grand, but it wasn't designed to stand in a hallway. It was used to help measure the weight of the Earth
www.nms.ac.uk
July 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
#histgeo ⚛️
Nominations are now open for the 2026 @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Agnes Mary Clerke Medal for Historical Research in astronomy or geophysics! Deadline 31 July 2025 #histsci
Details and link to the nomination form are here:
ras.ac.uk/awards-and-g.... Let me know if you have questions or need support
Details and link to the nomination form are here:
ras.ac.uk/awards-and-g.... Let me know if you have questions or need support
Agnes Mary Clerke Medal for Historical Research (A/G)
The Agnes Mary Clerke Medal for Historical Research in Astronomy or Geophysics is awarded every three years to an individual who has achieved outstanding
personal re...
ras.ac.uk
May 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It’s been a year to the day since defending my PhD thesis. I’ve returned to works that inspired my research on Earth histories in the early modern Low Countries. Here’s thread of some publications I’m indebted to.
November 29, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Adding some new tags to Bsky #hpgeo #phigeo #histgeo (in hopes there will be a History & Philosophy of Geosciences feed some day...)
Aja Watkins and I gave a brief talk on why there should be a philosophy of the geosciences at UMinnesota. Even if geosciences draw eclectically on methods and theories from physics, biology, chemistry, ..., they face similar problems in measurement, modeling, and causal inference #philsci #philsci
Miguel Ohnesorge (U Cambridge)&Aja Watkins (UW Madison):The Future of Philosophy of the Geosciences
YouTube video by MN Center for Philosophy of Science
youtu.be
November 25, 2024 at 2:06 PM
March 27, 1964, Alaska is hit by one of the strongest earthquakes experienced in modern times - a Mw 8.3 to 9.2. As it hit a relatively remote and sparsely inhabited area the quake and following tsunami killed "only" 131 people
www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/0...
www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/0...
March 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Here's 3 more posts in the Pioneering Women in Earth Sci series:
Mary Austin Holley (1784–1846) www.geological-digressions.com/mary-austin-...
Mary Emilie Holmes (1850-1906) www.geological-digressions.com/mary-emilie-...
Inge Lehmann (1888-1993) www.geological-digressions.com/inge-lehmann...
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Mary Austin Holley (1784–1846) www.geological-digressions.com/mary-austin-...
Mary Emilie Holmes (1850-1906) www.geological-digressions.com/mary-emilie-...
Inge Lehmann (1888-1993) www.geological-digressions.com/inge-lehmann...
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Mary Austin Holley (1784–1846)
Mary Austin Holley was a prolific recorder of the culture, history, geography and geology of early 19th C Texas, the first in written English
www.geological-digressions.com
March 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
🚨𝗝𝗢𝗕 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧 🚨1 PhD position for 3 years in the research project “Mining Frontiers in the Kingdom of Hungary (16th-18th Century)” at the German Mining Museum Bochum: Leibniz Research Museum for Georesources. karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/0...
December 5, 2024 at 11:37 AM
He was an amazing geologist, the report he wrote on mapping the Yukon/NWT in the late 1880s is astounding. Estimated the age of the White River Ash within a 100 years of its actual age based on logic and stratigraphy. No radiometric dating! Epic field work, recorded oral histories, disabled.
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George Dawson was stricken with a disease as a child that left him with a deformed back and stunted growth.
This didn't stop him from becoming one of Canada's greatest surveyors who mapped the west, the Yukon and the 49th Parallel.
This is the story of The Little Giant.
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This didn't stop him from becoming one of Canada's greatest surveyors who mapped the west, the Yukon and the 49th Parallel.
This is the story of The Little Giant.
🧵1/14
April 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The #Amsterdam Time Machine - new and developing public research tool about the history of Amsterdam, its geography, streets, people, and more. Launched by @uvahumanities.bsky.social and digital colleagues, in this, Amsterdam's 750th birthday year🥳
#UrbanHist #HistGeo #DutchHist #SocialHist 🗃️
#UrbanHist #HistGeo #DutchHist #SocialHist 🗃️
Amsterdam Time Machine
Navigeer door het verleden van Amsterdam
uva.shorthandstories.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The #Amsterdam Time Machine - new and developing public research tool about the history of Amsterdam, its geography, streets, people, and more. Launched by @uvahumanities.bsky.social and digital colleagues, in this, Amsterdam's 750th birthday year🥳
#UrbanHist #HistGeo #DutchHist #SocialHist 🗃️
#UrbanHist #HistGeo #DutchHist #SocialHist 🗃️
📌 Lu sur la page Éduscol #HDA : « Des ressources en histoire et en histoire des arts sur les expositions universelles à Paris »
☑ Lien avec les programmes
☑ Ressources pédagogiques et documentaires
👉 https://swll.to/5XkQgx
@histgeo-edu-num.bsky.social
☑ Lien avec les programmes
☑ Ressources pédagogiques et documentaires
👉 https://swll.to/5XkQgx
@histgeo-edu-num.bsky.social
June 8, 2026 at 9:34 AM
📌 Lu sur la page Éduscol #HDA : « Des ressources en histoire et en histoire des arts sur les expositions universelles à Paris »
☑ Lien avec les programmes
☑ Ressources pédagogiques et documentaires
👉 https://swll.to/5XkQgx
@histgeo-edu-num.bsky.social
☑ Lien avec les programmes
☑ Ressources pédagogiques et documentaires
👉 https://swll.to/5XkQgx
@histgeo-edu-num.bsky.social
March 14, 1835, Charles Darwin sets off on an expedition to the Andes, where he collects fossils and sketches geology ✏️
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
March 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Silvia Figueirôa has the most recent article in a series of short histories of geology, sponsored by the international group of historians of geology. Read her piece, then take a look back at the series. #histsci #histgeo
The International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO)
Silvia Figueirôa SURVEYING THE BRAZILIAN TERRITORY: THE FIRST GEOLOGICAL SURVEY IN BRAZIL (1875-1878)
inhigeo.org/anniversaries/
Silvia Figueirôa SURVEYING THE BRAZILIAN TERRITORY: THE FIRST GEOLOGICAL SURVEY IN BRAZIL (1875-1878)
inhigeo.org/anniversaries/
ANNIVERSARIES
The INHIGEO Anniversary series of concise and popular papers on diverse aspects of the History of the Geological Sciences is published online in the IUGS E-Bulletin. At the invitatio…
inhigeo.org
May 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Is there a downside on Bluesky to fine tuning tags like #histsci, eg #histgeo or #histastro? I would personally use these WITH #histsci if I did. Thoughts?
September 3, 2023 at 3:52 PM
Is there a downside on Bluesky to fine tuning tags like #histsci, eg #histgeo or #histastro? I would personally use these WITH #histsci if I did. Thoughts?
📌 Lu sur la page @histgeo-edu-num.bsky.social : « Enseigner la ville médiévale avec le numérique »
☑ Usages et ancrage dans les programmes
☑ #Ress_Num et scénarios pédagogiques #Édubase
👉https://swll.to/8GhMKw9
☑ Usages et ancrage dans les programmes
☑ #Ress_Num et scénarios pédagogiques #Édubase
👉https://swll.to/8GhMKw9
February 24, 2026 at 10:34 AM
📌 Lu sur la page @histgeo-edu-num.bsky.social : « Enseigner la ville médiévale avec le numérique »
☑ Usages et ancrage dans les programmes
☑ #Ress_Num et scénarios pédagogiques #Édubase
👉https://swll.to/8GhMKw9
☑ Usages et ancrage dans les programmes
☑ #Ress_Num et scénarios pédagogiques #Édubase
👉https://swll.to/8GhMKw9
I have "finished" my remote presentation for the Internat'l Congress in History of Science in New Zealand, but cannot record it to submit. I think my program is faulty. I'll try recording on an older computer. Love the modern age. The talk is on the geological field work of John Herschel. #histgeo
June 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I have "finished" my remote presentation for the Internat'l Congress in History of Science in New Zealand, but cannot record it to submit. I think my program is faulty. I'll try recording on an older computer. Love the modern age. The talk is on the geological field work of John Herschel. #histgeo
Charles S Fletcher (1896-1970) biography now published in December issue of GSA Today. A fourth generation African Nova Scotian who became a key man in Harvard Mining Geology lab. #histgeo ⚒️ Available at:
doi.org/10.1130/GSAT...
doi.org/10.1130/GSAT...
December 3, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Charles S Fletcher (1896-1970) biography now published in December issue of GSA Today. A fourth generation African Nova Scotian who became a key man in Harvard Mining Geology lab. #histgeo ⚒️ Available at:
doi.org/10.1130/GSAT...
doi.org/10.1130/GSAT...
📌 Lu sur la page @histgeo-edu-num.bsky.social : « Vasco de Gama et les expéditions maritimes des Européens à partir du XVe siècle pour aborder la découverte de nouvelles terres » :
☑ Lien avec les programmes
☑ Ressources documentaires et pédagogiques
👉 https://swll.to/JHlgtb
☑ Lien avec les programmes
☑ Ressources documentaires et pédagogiques
👉 https://swll.to/JHlgtb
January 19, 2026 at 10:34 AM
📌 Lu sur la page @histgeo-edu-num.bsky.social : « Vasco de Gama et les expéditions maritimes des Européens à partir du XVe siècle pour aborder la découverte de nouvelles terres » :
☑ Lien avec les programmes
☑ Ressources documentaires et pédagogiques
👉 https://swll.to/JHlgtb
☑ Lien avec les programmes
☑ Ressources documentaires et pédagogiques
👉 https://swll.to/JHlgtb
📌 Lu sur la page @histgeo-edu-num.bsky.social : « Enseigner les recompositions du lien social avec le numérique »
☑ Une sélection de ressources pour travailler en #EMC les recompositions du lien social en mettant l’accent sur les inégalités économiques et sociales
👉https://swll.to/qAsgRy
☑ Une sélection de ressources pour travailler en #EMC les recompositions du lien social en mettant l’accent sur les inégalités économiques et sociales
👉https://swll.to/qAsgRy
May 18, 2026 at 9:34 AM
📌 Lu sur la page @histgeo-edu-num.bsky.social : « Enseigner les recompositions du lien social avec le numérique »
☑ Une sélection de ressources pour travailler en #EMC les recompositions du lien social en mettant l’accent sur les inégalités économiques et sociales
👉https://swll.to/qAsgRy
☑ Une sélection de ressources pour travailler en #EMC les recompositions du lien social en mettant l’accent sur les inégalités économiques et sociales
👉https://swll.to/qAsgRy
📌 Trois séquences inspirantes sur la page @Eduscol consacrée à #Édubase :
✅️ Créer un croquis collaboratif à partir d’un texte en @histgeo-edu-num.bsky.social
✅️ Lutter contre les fausses nouvelles en langues vivantes
✅️ S’initier au codage binaire en mathématiques
👉https://swll.to/b3W9rp
✅️ Créer un croquis collaboratif à partir d’un texte en @histgeo-edu-num.bsky.social
✅️ Lutter contre les fausses nouvelles en langues vivantes
✅️ S’initier au codage binaire en mathématiques
👉https://swll.to/b3W9rp
September 4, 2026 at 9:34 AM
📌 Trois séquences inspirantes sur la page @Eduscol consacrée à #Édubase :
✅️ Créer un croquis collaboratif à partir d’un texte en @histgeo-edu-num.bsky.social
✅️ Lutter contre les fausses nouvelles en langues vivantes
✅️ S’initier au codage binaire en mathématiques
👉https://swll.to/b3W9rp
✅️ Créer un croquis collaboratif à partir d’un texte en @histgeo-edu-num.bsky.social
✅️ Lutter contre les fausses nouvelles en langues vivantes
✅️ S’initier au codage binaire en mathématiques
👉https://swll.to/b3W9rp
Check out the new H-Environment Roundtable Review on Hanne Nielsen's excellent book on the cultural history of #Antarctica! #envhist #envhum #histgeo
networks.h-net.org/nielsen-bran...
networks.h-net.org/nielsen-bran...
networks.h-net.org
September 1, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Check out the new H-Environment Roundtable Review on Hanne Nielsen's excellent book on the cultural history of #Antarctica! #envhist #envhum #histgeo
networks.h-net.org/nielsen-bran...
networks.h-net.org/nielsen-bran...
Capping off a wonderful, whirlwind geological tour with another important place for #HPS #histsci #histgeo Siccar Point. Thank you @scottishgeologist.bsky.social & @federicabocchi.bsky.social for an educational & fun geoadventure to remember. 🧡 ⚒️ 🏴
June 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Capping off a wonderful, whirlwind geological tour with another important place for #HPS #histsci #histgeo Siccar Point. Thank you @scottishgeologist.bsky.social & @federicabocchi.bsky.social for an educational & fun geoadventure to remember. 🧡 ⚒️ 🏴
The Mary C Rabbit Award of the Geological Society of America has been awarded to historian of geology Silvia Figueirôa, Uni Campinus, Brazil #histgeo agencia.fapesp.br/professora-d...
Professora da Unicamp recebe prêmio internacional na área de história e filosofia das geociências
Silvia Figueirôa foi homenageada com o Mary C. Rabbitt History and Philosophy of Geology Award por sua atuação na pesquisa e no ensino ao longo de quatro décadas
agencia.fapesp.br
November 19, 2024 at 9:17 PM
The Mary C Rabbit Award of the Geological Society of America has been awarded to historian of geology Silvia Figueirôa, Uni Campinus, Brazil #histgeo agencia.fapesp.br/professora-d...