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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks
@rossbrooks.co.uk
Historian. #histsci. #queerhistory. Working on my first book: Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life (Yale University Press, August 2026). Trekkie. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.
Annual New Year cocktails up the Shard with the brilliant @djberry.bsky.social. Then we went to see a wonderfully wintry production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe (actually the Globe's indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, so not *too* wintry!). Great day! #London 🍸🎭
January 3, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Lots of promising queer history books to look forward to in 2026. Here are just a few coming soon . . . 🌈📚🗃️

www.beacon.org/A-Black-Quee...

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-inh...

www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu...

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/

utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
January 1, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Did someone say 'boxing'?

'The Boxer' (1933) by Russian artist Konstantin Somov. 🥊🌈🎨

Happy Boxing Day!

#BoxingDay #Christmas #queer #lgbtq #art #arthistory #1930s 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I'll be looking out for Rudolph and her friends tonight! 🔴🦌🦌🛷🎁🎅

Same-sex sexual behaviours are well documented for reindeer, female and male. Read about it in Bruce Bagemihl's Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity (1999). #queer #lgbtq #science #nature #Christmas 🌈
December 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🐵 #queer 🌈 #science 🦋 #nature 🏳️‍⚧️ #PrideInSTEM 🐍 #Christmas2025 🎁
December 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
There have been some wonderful queer-themed books published this year which would make *FABULOUS* Christmas presents. Here are my top picks (history first, then science below) . . .

📚 #booksky 🌈🗃️ #lgbtqhistory 🏳️‍⚧️🎄 #queerhistory 🎁
December 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Just a fleeting visit to Manchester this time, but I was sure to say hello to Alan Turing . . . 🖥️🏳️‍🌈🍏

#lgbtqhistory #queerhistory
December 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
So happy being back in the great city of Manchester! 🌈🐝

Looking forward to chatting with Yuki and Tamsin at the Whitworth this evening . . .
December 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It's always a thrill returning to Oxford where I lived, studied, and worked for so long. I'm giving a talk at the stunning new Life and Mind Building . . . 🏳️‍🌈🐵🏳️‍⚧️🧬

#Oxford #QueerBiology #lgbtq @oxfordbiologylgbtq.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Two Minutes' Silence by Charles Spencelayh (1928)

#RemembranceDay #RemembranceDay2025 #LestWeForget #art 🗃️
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
@bsky.app now has over 40M users! 🦋💙

To celebrate, I thought I'd repost the cover image of The Science of Life (August 1929) from which the beautiful butterflies on my profile banner are taken. The central specimens are all gynandromorphs (simultaneously female and male). #histsci #queerhistory 🌈🗃️
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🦇🩸⚰️ Happy Halloween! 🧛🩸🦇

Same-sex sexual behaviours in bats were first documented in 1895! Here's a more recent study: www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Same-sex-sex...

#Halloween #HappyHalloween #histsci #histbio #STS #GLAM #queer #lgbtq #queernature #PrideInSTEM 🌈🗃️
October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Google 'Ross Brooks' and you'll find out what an amazing ice hockey goaltender I am . . . not! 🏒

Happy 88th birthday to Canadian sports legend Ross Brooks!
October 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
It's #WorldAnatomyDay, a good excuse to give a shout-out to Michael Sappol's brilliant 'Queer Anatomies: Aesthetics and Desire in the Anatomical Image, 1700-1900' (2024) and double take at some of the extraordinary images he discusses. 🤔 #queer #history #hstm #histmed @museumbums.bsky.social 🌈📚🗃️
October 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Series 7 of RuPaul's Drag Race UK starts tonight (BBC Three, 8:40pm)! I'll be cheering for 'Titan of Brighton' Tayris, who is truly fabulous. 👠🌈📺 #tv

Some Drag Race science: in 2020, a gorgeous species of Australian soldier fly was named after RuPaul - Opaluma rupaul! #PrideInSTEM #queer #science
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
ADVICE TO FRESHERS! 📚🎓🍺

Don't smoke.

From the University of Oxford's student mag The Isis, November 3, 1906. 🗃️ #students #freshers #uni
September 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Another shot, especially for @museumbums.bsky.social 👍🏛🍑🌈
September 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Wishing everyone a super weekend from UCL Main Library! 💫

Considering the thrilling research adventures that go on unnoticed in libraries everywhere, I'm well up for some suitably dramatic decor. @ucl.ac.uk leading the way here with John Flaxman's statue of St. Michael slaying Satan . . . 📚😈 #GLAM
September 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Sorry, Ethan. None of my library memberships will let me access it. 😞 It appears that the British Library has microform copies for 1919 . . .
September 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I'm going on a trip around the moon! 🌕🚀

Come with me . . .

Launch Your Name Around Moon in 2026 on NASA’s Artemis II Mission www.nasa.gov/news-release... #space
September 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Not everyone was impressed . . . #TheRedArrows
August 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Wishing everyone a lovely weekend from the Eastbourne International Airshow #Airbourne! ☀️🌊✈️

The Red Arrows scared the bejesus out of me during a visit to Norwich earlier this year, but I was ready for 'em today @djberry.bsky.social!

www.visiteastbourne.com/airshow #TheReds #SouthCoast #UK
August 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Fab weekend in the great city of Norwich, thanks to the brilliant @djberry.bsky.social and his partner.

We saw Yuki Kihara's Darwin in Paradise Camp exhibition @sainsburycentre.bsky.social, a vibrant celebration of Samoan faʻafāfine and natural diversity. Highly recommended!

#queer #art #pride 🌈🐠🏳️‍⚧️
July 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Wishing everyone a lovely weekend from England's sunny South Coast! ☀️🌊🍦

I'm *loving* my new Progress Pride frog pin! Well done and thank you @canopyrobin.com (efficient service too, with extra treats in the envelope - wonderful!). 🌈🐸🏳️‍⚧️

www.etsy.com/listing/4327... #queer #LGBTQ #Brighton
July 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I'm thoroughly enjoying 50 LGBTQ+ Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme @benpaites.bsky.social, especially the botanical and zoological content. Well done, Ben! 🦒🌸🦆

Makes for a great present . . . 🎅(sorry!)

www.amberley-books.com/50-lgbtq-fin... #LGBTQ #queer #pride #pridemonth #skybooks 🌈🗃️📚
June 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM