#HistoryOfScience
🆕 We have some great news:
the journals #Aniki: Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento and #HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, both published with the support of the IHC, have been accepted for indexing by the #Scopus platform! 🥳🎊
👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/aniki-host-scopus/
@histodons
@filmstudies
@historyofmedicine
#Histodons #OpenAccess #SciHist #FilmStudies #TechHistory #MedHist #HistoryOfScience #MovingImages #HistoryOfMedicine #HistoryOfTechnology
This was a shockingly well-done episode on the #historyOfScience . My only complaint is that the summary of Kuhn is pretty misleading (but I don't know if I could've done better without making things too complex to tell the story). Bravo.
Unexplainable: Does garlic break magnets?
Episode webpage: https://www.vox.com/unexplainable
Nice infographic from Compound Interest.
If you want a deeper dive into the history of all of this I recommend "Kathy Loves Physics & History" (https://www.youtube.com/@KathyLovesPhysics); her videos are really quite informative.
📖 Sara Albuquerque and Ana Cristina Martins contributed to the book "Women in the History of Science", edited by Hannah Wills et al.
The IHC researchers wrote chapters on women travellers in Africa in the 19th century and Portuguese archaeologists, respectively.
🔓 The book is available in #OpenAccess: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/211143
@histodons
@archaeodons
#NewBooks #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons #Archaeodons #HistoryOfScience #SciHistory
Out with Parergon, Guy Geltner, "Ecological Impacts and Environmental Perceptions of Mining in Europe, 1200-1550: Preliminary Notes".
Article here: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/article/905418
AAM here: https://osf.io/preprints/bodoarxiv/rkduw/
#environment #envhist #history #historyofscience #mining #mininghistory #ecology #preindustrial
#books #history #BritishHistory
i was researching how breadfruit trees were moved around the world by colonials and came across this quote on the wikipedia entry for william bligh: "In order to win a premium offered by the Royal Society, he first sailed to Tahiti to obtain breadfruit trees"
it's not the first time i've seen references to royal society competitions/prizes/quests and i'd like to learn more about this subject.
but the histories of the royal society that i've come across so far have been in that sort of "heroic colonial"/"great man" mode.
i'm looking for something that's more along the lines of "what role did the royal society have to play in the movement of plants and other organisms?" it seems like they were putting out these "challenges" for "explorers", but that's where my knowledge ends.
i'd also be happy to read a book that's about the role of the royal society in empire-building & colonialism in general.
thank you in advance!
i'm tagging a bunch of stuff in the hopes that someone might be able to direct me: #STS #ScienceStudies #HistoryOfScience #CulturalAnthropology #plants #colonialism #SaturdayLibrarian #AskALibrarian #BotanyHistory #ColonialHistory #HistoryOfEmpire #CulturalStudies
New review: A wide-ranging and serious intellectual history, The Age of Mammals shows that you cannot understand the history of palaeontology without considering mammals.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #FossilFriday #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Mammals #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm @bookstodon @ChrisManias @finnarne @royalsociety
Right, *cracks knuckles*, book read, some reference material at hand – let's get started @ChrisManias @finnarne
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Mammals #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm
McGhee, G.R. Revisiting Edward D. Cope’s “The Relation of Animal Motion to Animal Evolution” (1878). Biol Theory (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-023-00443-3
The First Photo Taken From Space
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https://spacecenter.org/first-photo-taken-from-space/ <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #history #V2 #rocket #military #militaryhistory #firstphoto #space #imagery #WhiteSandsMissileRange #science #atmosphere #usecase #appliedscience #historyofscience #history #historyfacts #photography
CfP: International Congress of Medieval Studies Congress hosting panels and presentations on: Hospitals Holistically: A Wide View of Hospitals and Caregiving in the Middle Ages (ICMS 2024). Deadline is 15 September.
After 1830, the ideas from here were elevated to sampling in the social world, and taken up in the social sciences. Adolphe Quitelet, a rather unsuccessful astronomer wanting to make a name for himself, used these ideas and started the fields of anthropometry, and criminology (he called them “social physics”). His first application was the distribution of height and weight of people (and BMI) from which he derived the “average man”. However, Quitelet saw the “average man” as the ideal and unlike the “regression to the mean” that the eugenicists took up. Quitelet’s student was Pierre Verhulst who developed the logistic function for human population growth, thus resurrecting the Malthusian worldview (demography is still plagued by this). Then Darwin came along with the theory of evolution by natural selection. The combination of all these primed Galton to do the same for the evolution of humans and envision a “scientific theory of race”. What was a field that began in earnest to describe our ignorance of the world in lieu of a theory got elevated into a anti-normative (judgmental) theory and has remained problematic ever since.
And thus we have, “Lies, damned lies, and Statistics”.
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#Statistics #HistoryOfStatistics #Science #Eugenics #HistoryOfScience #SocialSciences #Racism
So what was the bifurcation?
Prior to the 1830s, statistics was what mathematicians and scientists were engaged in, in the natural sciences (physics and in particular astronomy); trying to overcome their uncertainty in measurements, missing data and errors. One strain included everyone from Newton, to Laplace, to Euler, to Mayer, until Legendre came up with the linear least squares (and regression) which Gauss and Markov formalized. Parallely, ideas on distributions were derived from probability (from Fermat, Pascal onwards) that culminated with Gauss, and Chebyshev in the central limit theorem. This is the worthwhile side that should be continued. It then led to studying ensembles, i.e., statistical mechanics (to understand thermodynamics), the theory of probability and statistics, markov process etc.,
We can call this branch as normative/descriptive statistics and thus a necessary step in trying to formalize our ignorance of the world from empirical data until we can formulate a better theory.
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#Statistics #HistoryOfStatistics #Science #Eugenics #HistoryOfScience #SocialSciences #Racism
It was after Galton in the late 19th century that "bionomics" became the hot field of study. Galton's work mesmerized Pearson and Fisher. Pearson and Fisher were the ones who made it "scientific". However, before Pearson, and Fisher, there were several people working along the path that Galton laid. An example: David Starr Jordan, an ichthyologist, the first President of Stanford University who made it his primary program (after moving from Indiana University to Stanford). He defined bionomics as follows: "the philosophy of Biology, beginning with the laws of organic life and leading up to Eugenics and Ethics."
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#Statistics #HistoryOfStatistics #Science #Eugenics #HistoryOfScience #SocialSciences #Racism
Here's a thread on what the article didn't fully cover:
The history of statistical thinking has a very clear bifurcation after the 1830s into two separate streams. If we understand this historical cleft, we can clearly see that there is still one side worthy of pursuing (details below), and the other with its loudest propagandist in Galton that later reached fruition in Pearson, and Fisher (all outright eugenicists). Sadly, this later part is what we have adopted to quantify “rigorously” whether our results are significant.
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#Statistics #HistoryOfStatistics #Science #Eugenics #HistoryOfScience #SocialSciences #Racism
McDonald, D., Hunt, L. B. (1982). A History of Platinum and Its Allied Metals. United Kingdom: Johnson Matthey. https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/A_History_of_Platinum_and_its_Allied_Met/xriMAgAAQBAJ #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Platinum #History #Science #HistSci #HistoryOfScience #STEM #Chemistry #Technology #Engineering @science @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (47)
If you haven't seen it, there is a Legacies of Eugenics exhibit available online and in-person in the basement of Countway Library at Harvard Medical School:
https://confront-eugenics.org/exhibitions/we-are-not-alone-legacies-of-eugenics/
Sobering; It's worth reflecting on the role scientific establishments had in propping up eugenics and racial hierarchy for far too long.
If you are interested in the history of science you might enjoy these videos...
Charles Henry Turner’s insights into animal behavior were a century ahead of their time -
Researchers are rediscovering the forgotten legacy of a pioneering Black scientist who conducted trailblazing research on the cognitive traits of bees, spiders and more.
#HistSTM #HistoryOfScience #HistSci #Biodiversity #BlackMastodon
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2023/rediscovering-legacy-charles-henry-turner
Did you know that NASA discovered life on Earth back in 1990?
https://planetpailly.com/2023/08/09/that-time-nasa-discovered-life-on-earth/
Benoit de Maillet, a French diplomat, got it right in ~1720:
"... from those which creep in the Sea, arose our terrestrial Animals, which have neither a Disposition to fly, nor the Art of raising themselves above the Earth ?”
Alas, de Maillet got much else wrong. But still, he's an interesting historical figure.
#paleontology #historyofscience #fossils #tetrapods #evolution
If you're already a reader of Maura Flannery's superb "Herbarium World" blog, then you'll very likely be delighted to learn of her new book "In the Herbarium" from @yalepress. (And if you have not yet discovered her blog, then this note brings you two new sources of natural history knowledge to explore.)
You can find "Herbarium World" at https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com.
#ESA2023 #bookstodon #plants #historyofscience #botany #ecology
De Sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period: The Authors of the Commentaries. (2020). Germany: Springer International Publishing. https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/De_Sphaera_of_Johannes_de_Sacrobosco_in/IADMDwAAQBAJ #EarlyModern #History #Histodon #Histodons #Astronomy #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Science #Histsci #HistoryOfScience #STEM #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Ebook #Ebooks @earlymodern @science @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (32)
Not sure if I've shared this before at some point (if so, sorry for reposting) but this video sat in my browser tabs for about a year now and waited to be watched. Finally took the time today and highly recommend it for an entertaining hour of #HistoryOfScience. :)
Stuart #Firestein on #Ignorance, #Failure, #Uncertainty, and the #Optimism of #Science"
Roelli, P. (2021). Latin as the Language of Science and Learning. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110745832 #OpenAccess #OA #Linguistics #ClassicalStudies #AncientNearEast #Greek #Language #Learning #Literature #History #Latin #Science
#HistoryOfScience #Histsci
#Histodon #Histodons #Academia #Academic #Academics #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @linguistics @histodon @histodons
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The Pennsylvania coin is the second of four to be released this year. It features the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh in the early 1950s. At the time, polio was a devastating disease that disproportionally affected children and young adults and left many paralyzed and unable to walk.
#Vaccine #Historyofmedicine #Historyofscience #publichealth #infectiousdiseases #infectiousdisease #virus
Girolamo Fracastoro, who gave Syphilis its name, died 6 August 1553, (date of birth unknown!) #HistoryOfMedicine #HistoryOfAstronomy #HistoryOfScience
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/syphilis-and-comets/
Italian, Renaissance physician and astronomer, Girolamo Fracastoro, who gave Syphilis its name, died 6 August 1553, (date of birth unknown!) #HistoryOfMedicine #HistoryOfAstronomy #HistoryOfScience
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/syphilis-and-comets/
Astronomers use the Julian Day Count as a unified dating system for astronomical events, it has its roots in the work of the Renaissance polymath Joseph Justus Scaliger born 5 August 1540 #HistoryOfAstronomy #HistoryOfScience
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/counting-the-days/?fbclid=IwAR0PBMhaYv7ZanT70kAh5tTLNjm83EE8nfgsvJMamiePuiOEEDmCDdXxveQ
Astronomers use the Julian Day Count as a unified dating system for astronomical events, it has its roots in the work of the Renaissance polymath Joseph Justus Scaliger born 5 August 1540 #HistoryOfAstronomy #HistoryOfScience
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/counting-the-days/
@go_shrumm Worth having a look at here as well, I think, if you haven't already come across it, is Lorraine Daston's "Against Nature", which is the trifecta of short, clear, and weighty.
*Highly* recommend.
https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4307/Against-Nature
#nature #PhilosophicalAnthropology #HistoryOfScience
(Though apologies, I'm not really an expert here.)
I've been really appreciative of all of the great "untold" stories that have been bubbling up into public consciousness since the release of #Oppenheimer
Such a great opportunity to revist the history of science/tech and kinda dispel, or dilute, the myth of there being a singular "great man of history".
So, it's been very cool to learn about Naomi Livesay. So many "new" stories to add to our collective history.
Plato didn't really contribute very much to the history of science
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/08/02/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-iii/
#HistoryOfScience
That time an Air Force sergeant spotted pulsars months before astronomers - Enlarge / Pulsars are spinning neutron stars, the relics of massive sta... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1958018 #historyofscience #astronomy #science #physics #pulsars #radar
Ars Technica: That time an Air Force sergeant spotted pulsars months before astronomers https://arstechnica.com/?p=1958018 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #historyofscience #astronomy #Science #Physics #pulsars #science #radar
Anna Atkins: pioneering botanical #photographer who captured #algae and #ferns in ghostly blue images https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02446-3 #SciArt #WomenInScience #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfPhotography #Photography #Botany #Plants
"A compilation of 550 original plates reveals the dedicated work of the nineteenth-century woman who was the first to publish a book with #cyanotypes of specimens."
Who were the first proponents of the water-to-land transition of vertebrates? Did the idea that tetrapods originate from fish precede the discovery of transition fossils? Were the discussions on land-to-water (e.g. ichthyosaurs origin) and water-to-land transitions contemporary?
I’m trying to place some late 18th/early 19th century science writing into context, but have no background in the history of science.
#paleontology #historyofscience #fossils #tetrapods #evolution
The Gaia quartet concludes! A challenging but satisfying book, The Gaia Hypothesis is a rigorous analysis of its historical precursors and a piercing character study of Lovelock, explaining why Gaia was rejected by scientists but embraced by the public.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Gaia #GaiaHypothesis #JamesLovelock #Ecology #EarthSciences #Philosophy #HistoryOfScience @bookstodon
"Idealer Schnitt durch die Erdrinde (Ideal cut through the earth's crust)"
Wood engraving printed in color c. 1900.
#geology #stratigraphy #volcanoes #ScientificIllustration #HistoryOfScience
"Raman’s almost painterly obsession with the nature of light and colour would lead to other discoveries, and in 1930 won him the early accolade of the Nobel Prize for Physics, the first time the prize had been awarded to a non-Western scientist."
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/raman-sea/?utm_source=newsletter
A multilingual, etymological Periodic Table https://www.vanderkrogt.net/elements/ptable.php
An inspiring story about rediscovering the pioneering work of Eunice Foote on the solar heating of #CO2, before anyone else! Being a woman and hence not admitted into science, she had to send an alibi male colleague to present her findings at a conference. Yet, she published the first paper on the topic.
#climatescience #historyofscience
1/ What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Our peer-reviewed open-access paper is now published:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ina.13070
2/ Soon after COVID-19 pandemic started, it was clear to many scientists (inc. those who understand aerosols) that AIRBORNE trans. was an important contributor
E.g. as soon as we talked to the Skagit choir, it was obvious that was airborne-dominated:
https://doi.org/10.1111/ina.12751
3/ However, major public health organizations such as @WHO and @CDCgov were in complete denial, saying that airborne transmission was MISINFORMATION!
(Disgracefully, @WHO has not deleted this tweet or clearly stated that it was an ENORMOUS error)
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#COVIDisAirborne #historyofscience #bioscience #CovidIsntOver
Long thread at Thread Reader App. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1562112453948755974.html
CFA: Widening the Geosciences: A Historical & Philosophical Perspective" AGU Fall Meeting 2023 (https://www.agu.org/fall-meeting).Submit abstract by August 2, 2023: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/prelim.cgi/Session/185687
For more info: Dr. JJ Dong junjiedong@g.harvard.edu
#historyofscience #philosophyofscience #geoscience @philgeo
Balzan PhD and Postdoc positions in “Historical and philosophical aspects of solving the two-body problem in General Relativity” offered by @mpi_grav Potsdam, the Lichtenberg Group for History and Philosophy of Physics at the University of Bonn, and the Max Planck Research Group “Final Theory Program” at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science.
ℹ️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1048741/balzan-phd-and-postdoc-positions
Some #statistics and #historyOfScience folks may find this scan I just uploaded to the archive of interest. Obviously from the relatively early days of working stuff out.
1907: "A Statistical Study of Literary Merit" by Frederic Lyman Wells.
https://archive.org/details/statistical_study_of_literary_merit
The cervical screening test, or 'pap smear' was developed thanks to a lab technician called Mary Papanicolaou, who had a vaginally swab taken every day for 29 years to advance research in this area.
Mary worked as a lab technician at Cornell University for many years but was never paid because she was a woman
#HistoryOfScience #WomensHistory
Balzan PhD and Postdoc positions in “Historical and philosophical aspects of solving the two-body problem in General Relativity” offered by @mpi_grav Potsdam, the Lichtenberg Group for History and Philosophy of Physics at the University of Bonn, and the Max Planck Research Group “Final Theory Program” at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science.
ℹ️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1048741/balzan-phd-and-postdoc-positions
Balzan PhD and Postdoc positions in “Historical and philosophical aspects of solving the two-body problem in General Relativity” offered by @mpi_grav Potsdam, the Lichtenberg Group for History and Philosophy of Physics at the University of Bonn, and the Max Planck Research Group “Final Theory Program” at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science.
ℹ️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1048741/balzan-phd-and-postdoc-positions
Balzan PhD and Postdoc positions in “Historical and philosophical aspects of solving the two-body problem in General Relativity” offered by @mpi_grav Potsdam, the Lichtenberg Group for History and Philosophy of Physics at the University of Bonn, and the Max Planck Research Group “Final Theory Program” at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science.
ℹ️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1048741/balzan-phd-and-postdoc-positions
Balzan PhD and Postdoc positions in “Historical and philosophical aspects of solving the two-body problem in General Relativity” offered by @mpi_grav Potsdam, the Lichtenberg Group for History and Philosophy of Physics at the University of Bonn, and the Max Planck Research Group “Final Theory Program” at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science.
ℹ️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1048741/balzan-phd-and-postdoc-positions
Balzan PhD and Postdoc positions in “Historical and philosophical aspects of solving the two-body problem in General Relativity” offered by @mpi_grav Potsdam, the Lichtenberg Group for History and Philosophy of Physics at the University of Bonn, and the Max Planck Research Group “Final Theory Program” at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science.
ℹ️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1048741/balzan-phd-and-postdoc-positions
'My normative lesson is, “Heed Marginalized People.” Fundamentally and foundationally. And, like, don’t include them necessarily in your training data, but include them in the questions that you ask at the outset, and who you think to ask about what you ought to do.
[…]
So to ask that question, “Who have we not thought about; whose harms, whose needs, whose voice has been, perhaps speaking, but unheeded, for a very long time? And how do we ensure that the things that they have called out as potential sites of failure, don’t go unremarked, don’t go unaddressed.'
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, @Wolven https://afutureworththinkingabout.com/?p=5442 #ableism #algorithms #bias #biotech #ethics #disability #facialRecognition #feminisms #Google #homophobia #machineLearning #misogyny #neurodiversity #phenomenology #racism #science #neutrality #sexism #cognition #surveillance #dataDon @ethics @dataGovernance @data #historyOfScience
Got a new scientist block to carve… again. I realized that chemistry trailblazer Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (20 January 1758 – 10 February 1836) was the only of my #womenInSTEM series who only appears with her husband, Antoine Lavoisier (26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794), and not alone.
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histstm #chemistry #chemist #MastoArt #historyOfScience #wip #carving
#Rationalism is a philosophical position or view that #reason is the source of knowledge.
Vernon J. #Bourke wrote that rationalism is defined as a methodology or a theory "in which the criterion of #truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive."
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#quotes #philosophy #epistemology #patriarchy #whiteness #agnotology #historyOfScience #intelligence #factChecking #knowledge #publicOpinion #learning #sociology #wordsMatter #hashtags @psychology #TESCREAL
Balzan PhD and Postdoc positions in “Historical and philosophical aspects of solving the two-body problem in General Relativity” offered by @mpi_grav Potsdam, the Lichtenberg Group for History and Philosophy of Physics at the University of Bonn, and the Max Planck Research Group “Final Theory Program” at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science.
ℹ️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1048741/balzan-phd-and-postdoc-positions
As far as botany goes, I found "Colonial Botany," edited by Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan. It looks quite fascinating. And it's not North American-centric!
"The editors of this very useful collection of essays boldly state that it is their thesis that 'early modern botany both facilitated and profited from colonisation and long distance trade and that the development of botany and Europe's commercial and territorial expansion are closely associated developments'. They are to be congratulated on striving to bring the science of botany from its perceived isolation as the history of taxonomy into its widest context of the culture, politics and economics of the early modern world."
John Hughlings Jackson's idea of a weighted ordinal representation.
Ohhh, Rest In Probability Ian Hacking, who passed away yesterday aged 87 - one of the absolute best historian/philosophers of probability, statistics, mental illness and of science in general, his new Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Edition of Thomas Kuhn's classic The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is especially worth reading.
#STS
#HistoryOfScience
#SocialConstruction
#ThomasKuhn
#Philosophy
» Every man can, if he so desires, become the sculptor of his own brain «
― Santiago Ramón y Cajal
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/the-scientist-who-drew-brains-and-then-a-nobel-prize
#neuroscience #cajal #botd #historyOfScience #neurodon
#cajalDay #RamonyCajal
#cognitiveNeuroscience
#PhilosophyOfMind
#SystemsNeuroscience
@neuroscience @cognition
Our #SaturdayReading recommendation today is a book chapter about the history of gravitational-wave research in the @maxplanckgesellschaft, the GEO600 detector, and our institute, written by colleagues from MPIWG.
Important article that sets the record straight on Rosalind Franklin's role in the discovery of DNA as a double helix -- with significant new findings.
#WomenInScience #DNA #DoubleHelix #HistoryofScience #RosalindFranklin
The #AAAS #scienceandreligiondialogue has released a new film entitled "Science as mastery: a story about race and power"
It explores the intersection of the history of race, religion, and science as it relates to social structures and civil movements.
Its free and you can use it in the classroom. Some great scholars show up in the film
#race #historyofrace #historyofscience
https://sciencereligiondialogue.org/resources/science-as-mastery-a-story-about-race-power/
I really love the technical details that come with aerial photographs. The clock, the altimeter, the (not always) level.
#photography #AerialPhotography #histodons #history #HistoryOfScience
Hi, new instance means #introduction.
I am #nonbinary and #disabled, looking to interact with the #lgbtq community on mastodon and hopefully make some new friends. Professionally, I'm a computational #epidemiologist, #biostatistician and #network scientist.
I spend most of my free time reading #books, especially on the #HistoryofScience and #PhilosophyofScience, mostly medicine and public health. I also like #games, #movies, and #TV, currently consuming what's in my bio.
These books look important.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-not-to-tell-the-history-of-science/
Too little, too late? Well it comes late but it is never TOO late. & it is pretty little. So do more to make sure it is not too late!
Geneticist Sarah Tishkoff: “I didn’t realize the extent 2 which" well-respected geneticists "believed in eugenic ideology,” Really?!! 🤨 🤨 #Geneticists support of #eugenics isn't new news. How about as a 1st step post apology: every PhD candidate required 2 take a course in the #HistoryofAmericanBiology?
#HistoryofScience
https://www.science.org/content/article/human-geneticists-apologize-past-involvement-eugenics-scientific-racism#:~:text=The%20American%20Society%20of%20Human,in%20the%20field%20of%20genetics.
"Both the word and the narrative that came along with it stuck, but “this story,” historian James Poskett declares at the start of his book Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science, “is a myth.” The idea that science is the product of a small number of men living in half a dozen European cities, as they dared to question the knowledge they were handed down, is a “convenient fiction”"
"In 2009, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, then a top executive at the biotechnology company #Genentech, was the primary author of a #scientific paper published in the prestigious journal Nature that claimed to have found the potential cause for brain degeneration in #Alzheimer’s patients.
[…] Neither a correction nor a retraction was issued, and the paper stands to this day."
Impressive investigation by #TheoBaker: https://stanforddaily.com/2023/02/17/internal-review-found-falsified-data-in-stanford-presidents-alzheimers-research-colleagues-allege/ #medicines #authorship #science #historyOfScience #ethics 🧶
Some brief thoughts on how I, as a historian of science, became a book historian & a review of Dennis Duncan's Index, A History of the
#historyofscience #bookhistory #bookreview
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/finding-things-in-books/
First I've heard of this - when Percival Lowell observed the "canals" on Mars he *might* actually have been observing the blood vessels in his own retina, overlaid on Mars, because of the specific optical setup he was using on the telescope. https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/venus-spokes-an-explanation-at-last/
On January 6, 1912, German geologist Alfred Wegener presented his theory of continental drift for the first time in public at a meeting of the Geological Society (‘Geologische Vereinigung’) at Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.
http://scihi.org/alfred-wegener-continental-drift/
#geology #geophysics #continentaldrift #historyofscience #otd
Does anyone have good recommendations for things to read about:
(1) attacks on scientific funding and research fron pro-life groups opposing use of embryonic stem cells?
(2) attacks on federal funding of science as a tactic deployed by climate change deniers? AIDS denialists?
Moved from mstdn.science to struct.bio
#Biophysics #virology #structuralbiology #strucbio #cellbio #art #studioarts #physics #metaphysics #philosophy #philosophyofscience #historyofscience #horselife #ranchlife #equestrian #outdoors #openscience #opensource #girldad #motorcycles #motorcycletouring #blueridge
Graduate student at UVA. Structural Virology of HIV. Looking for post doc positions in the next year. Google me and PM me to talk any of the above hashtags. Always looking for hikes
On December 21, 1792, American mechanical engineer James Rumsey passed away. He is chiefly known for exhibiting a boat propelled by machinery in 1787 on the Potomac River at Shepherdstown in present-day West Virginia before a crowd of local notables.
http://scihi.org/james-rumseys-steam-boat/
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Happy Birthday to English mathematician Ada Lovelace, born in London #OnThisDay in 1815. Lovelace, the only child of Lord and Lady Byron, is often called the first computer programmer for her machine algorithm written in the 1840s to be carried out by Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine (which existed only on paper at the time).
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I do not understand the Mastadoon yet, but I'm here, and it seems like folks are doing #introductions? I'm a #historian of modern #southasia working at the intersections of #labourhistory #historyofscience and #islamicstudies .
My book project is study of Muslim artisan communities in late nineteenth and early twentieth century north #India, focused on #artisan assertions of religious traditions for their trades and technologies in the context of colonial capitalism.
I hold a #PhD in history from #IndianaUniversity, am currently a #postdoc at #Princeton Society of Fellows, and from Jan. 2023 will be a Lecturer in South Asian History at #Brunel University in #London.
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Marie Curie's notebooks, which are radioactive and must be stored in a lead-lined box in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Curie’s corpse is also radioactive. Her coffin is lined in an inch of lead. Both will remain radioactive for 1,500+ years.
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On December 1, 1947, English mathematician G. H. Hardy passed away. Hardy is known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis, but also for his 1940 essay on the aesthetics of mathematics, A Mathematician’s Apology, and for mentoring the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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Elaine Diacumakos (1930-1984) developed the technique of physical microinjection for inserting #cloned #genes into the #nuclei of mammalian cells with French Anderson around 1979-1980.
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Exploring the fascinating lives and brilliant contributions of Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Richard Feynman, John Wheeler, Wolfgang Pauli, George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and many others.
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