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rhiggitt.bsky.social
Look out for this later #histSTM
(And on Franklin, about whom lots of myths are circulating today, read this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...)
November 8, 2025 at 6:53 AM
gregpriest.bsky.social
Conrad Hal Waddington was born OTD in 1905.

His “epigenetic landscape” is a diagrammatic representation of the constraints influencing embryonic development.

On his 50th birthday, his colleagues gave him a pinball machine on the model of the epigenetic landscape.

🧪 🦫🦋 🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci #evobio
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
karlgalle.bsky.social
Opening for a tenure-track assistant professor in the history of science, with a preferred focus on water issues: 👇 #HistSTM
h-net-job-guide.bsky.social H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 3d
New job:

Professor of History

University of Wisconsin - Madison

jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Slightly surprised that I heard about this investigation of mathematicians & blackboards from someone other than @mbarany.com.

(Although in fairness, this @sciam.bsky.social piece--and the @pnas.org article it discusses--are more focused on #CogSci than #MathHistory...)

#histSTM #psychology 🗃️📜
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Happy birthday to the only two women with elements named after them on the periodic table: #MarieCurie & #LiseMeitner.

As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day!

#histSTM #chemistry #physics
#OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩‍🔬🗃️📜
The squares for Curium and Meitnerium from periodictable.com, featuring portraits of their respective namesakes, are presented above a caption "Only two women have chemical elements named after them. Both were born on November 7th." (I'm aware that there was some ambiguity surrounding Lise Meitner's birthday, but Ruth Lewin Sime's biography notes that Meitner celebrated the occasion on November 7.)
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
gregpriest.bsky.social
OTD in 1880, Charles Darwin published The Power of Movement in Plants. D believed that plants are active agents in the world: “A radicle may be compared with a burrowing animal such as a mole, which wishes to penetrate perpendicularly down into the ground.”

🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫
Cover, title page, and page of figures from the book.
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
gregpriest.bsky.social
Because plants move so slowly relative to human time scales, Darwin developed a diagrammatic system to make their movements more easily perspicuous to us.

Below is a cartoon of the apparatus, and one of Darwin’s diagrams.

🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫
Apparatus diagram drawn by Keith Roberts, from Darwin and his Flowers by Mea Allen (1977). Movement diagram from Darwin Online.
November 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
sshmedicine.bsky.social
Day 1 of @milwelfhist.bsky.social event 'War, Trauma and Emotional Injury', supported by a SSHM/Wellcome Network Grant Award.
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
milwelfhist.bsky.social Military Welfare History Network @milwelfhist.bsky.social · 4d
Today is day 1 of the second of our @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded events series, hosted both at @unibirmingham.bsky.social in 2025 and online in 2026. With 'trauma' and its associated medical impacts as our theme, we expect interesting papers and stimulating discussions #milwelfhist
November 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
chanda.blacksky.app
The academic community I miss most from Twitter is #STS/#HistSTM twitter. Absolutely life-altering group of people and discourses for me.
November 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
"I slipped, hit my head on the edge of the sink. And when I came to, I had a revelation. A vision. A picture in my head. A picture of this. This is what makes time travel possible."

70 years ago today, Dr. Emmett Brown invented the flux capacitor!

#BackToTheFuture #OnThisDay #histSTM #histsci
Here's a red letter date in the history of science, November 5th 1955...
YouTube video by shihjayang
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November 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
rhiggitt.bsky.social
"a magisterial new biography" - congrats @matthewcobb.bsky.social! #histSTM
November 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
rhiggitt.bsky.social
A story of verdigris in your bonbons, German chemist Frederick Accum at the Royal Institution and an interesting little twist at the end #histSTM
annamthane.bsky.social Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social · 7d
Caution: Poisonous Candy! - A Consultant Chemical Analyst's fight for food safety in Regency London: regency-explorer.net/comfits/
3 pics: a bowl of sugar plums, Frederick Accum with chemistry apperatus, copper pans in a historical kitchen
November 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
bhgross144.bsky.social
"How and why do new techniques of economic reasoning...take hold in certain historical moments?"

Today's #histSTM lunchtime read: @calculatedvalues.bsky.social's award-winning article on mathematical tables & financial calculation in early modern England.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Fig. 2. Table “i” and accompanying text from Acroyd’s Tables of Leasses and Interest, sig. A3r. Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library, Canterbury, United Kingdom (reference: W/P-5-36). Reproduced courtesy of the Chapter of Canterbury.
November 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Boosting the signal for any #histsci & #histSTM friends with an interest in #PublicHistory or #EnvironmentalHumanities!
greenhouseuis.net Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 10d
The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.

Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!

Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Poster for Masters in Public Environmental Humanities. Our 2-year masters program in beautiful Stavanger, Norway, invites you to study today's environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history. Key aspects: • Combine critical thinking with hands-on engagement • Work across humanities fields • Put learning into action through an internship • Taught entirely in English • Free tuition for students from EU/EEA/Switzerland and affordable for others If you believe community-engaged humanities can help build a more sustainable future, this is the place to start. GET MORE INFO & APPLY FOR FALL 2026 Questions? Email PEH@uis.no
November 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
eastasiascitech.bsky.social
How did socialist projects of making antibiotics and building atom bombs amount to the primitive accumulation of "scientific capital" in the People's Republic?

🗓️ Tuesday, November 11
🕥 10:30–11:45 am Eastern Time
📍 Over Zoom

Register: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia

#histstm #histsci #sts 🧪
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
unfinishedlines.club
it's sort of wild that one of founding figures of alcohol/ism science spent his early years studying banana disease for the United Fruit Company after he had to flee Hungary for extralegal currency exchange

e.m. jellinek also coined 'the placebo effect'

#histsci #histSTM
November 6, 2025 at 1:19 AM
gregpriest.bsky.social
OTD in 1977 Carl Woese and George Fox redrew the tree of life. They proposed a third “urkingdom”—the “archaebacteria”—in addition to eukaryotes and bacteria. Woese later called this taxon “Archea.”

AFAIK, he didn’t publish his famous tree diagram until the late 80s.

🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM 🗃️🧠 #evobio 🐡
Woese’s phylogenetic tree of life diagram.
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
historiamagoria.bsky.social
Today marks the first day of the annual @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraising drive! NiCHE 100% made me the scholar I am today, and I'm not alone. All donations, big and small, help the network do great things: fnd.us/niche2025?re... #EnvHist #HistSTM #CdnHist
Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign
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November 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
wombatscholar.bsky.social
Available March 2026 from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social, but pre-order possible. The real editing has been done by Charlotte Greenhalgh and @clarecorbould.bsky.social
#histsci #histstm #STS
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
The Social Survey in Global Perspective, 1900-2020s | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
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November 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
bhgross144.bsky.social
#ICYMI: Tonight at 7 PM, ET (6 PM, CT), @zephoria.bsky.social & Cory Doctorow discuss the #enshittification 💩 of the Internet on a special live edition of @leev.bsky.social's Peoples & Things podcast!

#histSTM #histsci #histtech #STS 🗃️📜
leev.bsky.social Lee Vinsel @leev.bsky.social · 11d
Join us on Monday November 3 at 7pm ET for a Peoples & Things livestream featuring Cory Doctorow @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy on his book, _Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It_, with special guest host @zephoria.bsky.social!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjFv...
November 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
lahistory.bsky.social
On October 29, 1969, computer scientists at #UCLA (in 3420 Boelter Hall) sent the first Internet message to a team at Stanford. See a handful of images about that #Internethistory courtesy of @uclasamueli.bsky.social -> samueli.ucla.edu/internet50-p... #histstm #ARPANET
uclalibrary.bsky.social UCLA Library @uclalibrary.bsky.social · 12d
The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐

Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...

@uclasamueli.bsky.social
How This Contraption at UCLA Sent the First DM
At UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock reveals proof of when the internet was born.
www.pbssocal.org
October 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
rhiggitt.bsky.social
One was boosted by military and Cold War interests and the other (on Naomi Oreskes's reading) was delayed by them. #histSTM
October 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
alexandreklein.bsky.social
(Call for applications) PhD in History and philosophy of science and medicine histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/10/doct... #histSTM
October 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
"For scholars everywhere, [her] research laid the bedrock for comprehensive, gendered studies of the history of women scientists within national contexts."

Today's #histSTM & #WomenInSTEM lunch read: @donluke.bsky.social reflects on Margaret Rossiter's contributions to #histsci for @aip.bsky.social
In memoriam: Margaret Walsh Rossiter, pathbreaker in “writing women into science”
AIP History Weekly Edition: October 24, 2025
www.aip.org
October 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
kmcdono.bsky.social
Registration now open for the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental Digital Humanities seminar on 12 Nov at 12pm (UK time) with @ehameeteman.bsky.social!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin...

#envhist #envhum #skystorians #histstm
October 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM