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October 17, 2026 at 3:40 AM
rossbrooks.co.uk
Looking forward to this . . . 🌈🦋🗃️

#histbio #histsci #Darwin #queer #queerhistory
roto-rub.bsky.social RUB History & Philosophy of Science @roto-rub.bsky.social · Oct 6
New semester, new lecture series! This time with the fantastic @federicabocchi.bsky.social, @rossbrooks.co.uk, @drandyflack.bsky.social and others. Join us online on Mondays at 4pm (CET). Just click here to register: www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/...
#HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci
Poster for the RUB Lecture Series of the Chair of History and Philosophy of Science. Find all talks here: https://www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/i/wtwg/colloquium/hpls.html.de We also have additional reading group meetings on 19 October, 30 November and 18 January. To participate, just write an e-mail to jan.baedke[at]rub.de
October 6, 2026 at 3:17 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Or to put it in terms that the kids will understand...

(Is this the first time this meme has been deployed in a history of biology context? Probably not, but it still made me chuckle!)

#histbio #Photograph51 #Photograph49 🧬
A "Drakeposting" meme featuring Photographs 51 and 49. You know...for the kids!
October 5, 2026 at 7:50 PM
rossbrooks.co.uk
Beautiful plate, grim subject: parasitic castration of bees by Stylops, a genus of twisted-wing parasites. It accompanies French zoologist Jean Pérez's 1886 description of the phenomenon. 🐝🗃️

Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library

#histbio #histsci #hstm #sts #nature #bees @biodivlibrary.bsky.social
Colour plate with 18 separate figures depicting different stages of parasitic castration of various Andrena bees by Stylops, a genus of obligately endoparasitic insects. Top left: an uninfected male Andrena trimmerana. Top right: an infected male Andrena trimmerana exhibiting external characteristics of a female.
October 1, 2026 at 10:09 AM
bhgross144.bsky.social
This afternoon’s #histSTM hammock read: Jessica Riskin’s new biography of Lamarck!

Listen to Riskin discuss her writing process in this @draftingthepast.bsky.social interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdrh...

#histSTM #histbio #booksky 📚🗃️📜
August 19, 2026 at 7:48 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
kris-inwood.bsky.social
Important new paper by @ericbschneider.bsky.social reviews changes in growth of the human body over the past 150 years, puts the recent decline in child stunting in historical perspective, focus on the "Indian enigma"
#econsky #histbio #Indiasky #evobio #history #demography
doi.org/10.1111/joes...
October 20, 2023 at 4:17 PM
kingtekkers.bsky.social
Honda highlights how Kumagusu foregrounded “wisdom-knowledge” (“science required for society to civilise”), which had to reflect key principles about human flourishing, knowing, and immersion in nature #ISHPSSB2025 #hps #philbio #histbio
July 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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
kingtekkers.bsky.social
Friday fun… (prepping for a work-in-progress at @hpsleeds.bsky.social on Tuesday!) #hps #histsci #histbio hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/wip...
A cover of “Cowan and Steel’s Manual for the Identification of Medical Bacteria”, in blue with white and black writing, and a small circle containing microbe-like structures.
March 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
jennifermach.bsky.social
Tagging for the #histbio feed! Thanks for the great 🧵
October 26, 2023 at 2:35 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
It is a pleasure to see Charles Darwin's original signature in the Charter Book of Fellows of the Royal Society of London, signed in January 1839 (two years after his return from the Beagle voyage)

🧪🌿💚 #evolution #ecoevo #histbio #histsci #bookhistory
Page of Charter Book of Fellows of the Royal Society of London showing the signature of Charles Darwin and others
April 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
"it strikes me that the power or capability of getting rich is in an inverse proportion to a man’s reflective powers & in direct proportion to his impudence. It is good to be rich, but not to get rich or to try to get rich" AR Wallace 1895 www.nhm.ac.uk/research-cur...

🧪🌍📈📉#histbio #ecoevo #BehSci
jgpausas.bsky.social juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Nov 13
Do you know that AR Wallace, after 4+ years of sampling in the Amazon, lost most of his collections, notes & sketches when the ship going back to London caught on fire?
What a massive loss for science at that time!

wallaceletters.myspecies.info/content/%E2%...

🧪🌿💚🌍📗#histbio biodiversity #ecoevo
“My collections however were in the hold and were irrevocably lost. And now I begin to think, that almost all the reward of my four years of privation and danger were lost. What I had hitherto sent home had little more than paid my expenses and what I had in the “Helen” I calculated would realise near £500 [around £30,000 in today’s money]. But even all this might have gone with little regret had not far the richest part of my own private collection gone also. All my private collection of insects and birds since I left Pará was with me, and contained hundreds of new and beautiful species which would have rendered (I had fondly hoped) my cabinet, as far regards American species, one of the finest in Europe” - AR Wallace
November 27, 2023 at 11:34 AM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Do you know that AR Wallace, after 4+ years of sampling in the Amazon, lost most of his collections, notes & sketches when the ship going back to London caught on fire?
What a massive loss for science at that time!

wallaceletters.myspecies.info/content/%E2%...

🧪🌿💚🌍📗#histbio biodiversity #ecoevo
“My collections however were in the hold and were irrevocably lost. And now I begin to think, that almost all the reward of my four years of privation and danger were lost. What I had hitherto sent home had little more than paid my expenses and what I had in the “Helen” I calculated would realise near £500 [around £30,000 in today’s money]. But even all this might have gone with little regret had not far the richest part of my own private collection gone also. All my private collection of insects and birds since I left Pará was with me, and contained hundreds of new and beautiful species which would have rendered (I had fondly hoped) my cabinet, as far regards American species, one of the finest in Europe” - AR Wallace
November 13, 2023 at 7:35 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Who was the first researcher that looked at fire as an evolutionary process? (hint: it wasn't Darwin, sorry)

Evolutionary fire ecology: an historical account & future directions
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... | #BioScience
🧪🌾🪴🔥🌍📗#histsci #histbio #history #evolution biodiversity wildfire
Two of the manzanitas from Jepson (1916): Arctostaphylos glandulosa (left) and Arctostaphylos nummularia (right). The former is an obligate resprouter (note the basal burl) and the latter is an obligate seeder (note the even-aged cohort). Manzanitas were among the first plants that made scientists think about the role of fire in plant evolution (Jepson 1922).
November 10, 2023 at 9:28 PM
muratgulsacan.com
I remember reading somewhere the centrality of the concept of adaptation in evolutionary theory is due to its British-ness. At the time it made a lot of sense to me, however, I can't remember the source. Anyone remember something like that? #PhilBio #HistBio
November 28, 2024 at 12:00 PM
ceciliaflocco.bsky.social
Recalling #histbio / agricultural science

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somssich.bsky.social Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · Jan 2
1/19 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 #𝗟𝘆𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗸𝗼𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮: During the years of famine in the mid-to-late 1920s in Russia, Russian agricultural scientists were pressured to produce new crop varieties. Trofim Lysenko was the Scientist who jumped at the chance and made the biggest promises. #Pseudoscience #Propaganda
January 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
lignedescience.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy
Dommage, encore un colloque passionnant que je découvre au dernier moment : ça commence mercredi 20, soit après-demain)...
Je me console avec le livret des abstracts (où manque mystérieusement la première journée).
#paris #agenda #histsci #Histbio […]

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Les territoires de la génétique : nouvelles perspectives Colloque Mercredi, 20 mai 2026 Amphithéâtre Pierre-Gilles de Gennes - Bâtiment Condorcet
May 18, 2026 at 11:35 AM
lignedescience.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy
Au Théâtre La Reine Blanche (merveilleusement sous-titré "Scène des Arts et des Sciences"), une pièce en l'honneur de Marthe Gauthier, grande généticienne et vraie découvreuse de la trisomie 21.
#womenInSTEM #histsci #Histbio #histmed #theatre #paris […]

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Affiche dans le métro. jusqu'au 29 mars titre : la découvreuse oubliée Illustrée d'un portrait de la comédienne, une élégante dame âgée, cheveux ondulés au carré
January 28, 2026 at 11:12 AM
lignedescience.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy
To history of science scholars that may be around: Do you happen to have any good refs on the history of chromosome linkage mapping, map units, the definition of the centiMorgan and so on?
#histsci #Histbio #genetics #biology #historyofscience #haldane
December 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
devoevomed.bsky.social
#hpbio, #histbio, #philbio, 🐋🌱, 🌱🐋 friends, anyone know of an artistic/historical study of the changing placements of the Owen/Darwin/Huxley statues in the @nhm-london.bsky.social @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social? 1/2
January 20, 2026 at 1:32 AM
devoevomed.bsky.social
Help me #hpbio, #histbio, #philbio you're my only hope! I'm lecturing about propaganda and shifting views of evolution in my #DevoEvo class as told by Darwin-Huxley-Owen statues in the @nhm-london.bsky.social, anyone have the time-lapse video referenced here 🐋🌱

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Darwin's Revenge
Statues of two 19th-century rivals battle it out in London's Natural History Museum
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/09/darwins-revenge/306920/🐋🌱
September 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
devoevomed.bsky.social
Hey #histbio & #philbio friends, I haven't read "Naval Timber and Arboriculture," how well worked out was Patrick Matthew's theory of evolution? 🐋🌱
September 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
devoevomed.bsky.social
Maybe someone in the #hpbio, #histbio, #philbio 🐋🌱 community knows?
November 23, 2024 at 6:35 PM