WOW! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871),' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 50K times!

I'm working hard on the book. For more about that, watch this space!

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648

#history #histodons @histodons #histsci #histbio #HistSTM #HSTM #STS @histstm #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia 'pride #pridemonth #queerhistory #histsex #sex #biology #nature #naturalhistory #science #animals #Darwin

It's #WorldBeeDay!

This gorgeous gynandromorph potter flower bee is described in a 1845 article in The Zoologist by English entomologist Frederick Smith. It's pictured from above (left) and below (right).

#HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio #STS @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #animals #bees #science #naturalhistory

Happy birthday to British #engineer, #mathematician, #physicist & #inventor Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923). I’ve shown her in my #linocut with a diagram of the dividers from her 1st of 26 (!) patents, one of her diagrams about the origin & growth of ripple marks & one of her diagrams of an electric arc lamp (a subject on which she literally wrote the textbook).⁠
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Born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was the 3rd of 8 children

Happy birthday to #mathematician Felix Klein (1849-1925). This is a hand-carved and hand-printed image of the famous mathematical object, the Klein bottle, printed in a gradient of pale yellow-green to darker blue-green on paper 8” by 8” (20.3 cm by 20.3 cm). First described by mathematician Felix Klein in 1882, this object has a single surface, rather like a 3D version of a Möbius strip.
#linocut #sciart #printmaking #mathart #FelixKlein #histstm #mathematics #maths #reliefPrint #MastoArt

Happy Easter to all who celebrate!

No cute lambs or bunnies in my files, I'm afraid. I do, however, have a *lot* of queer chickens. This is Hector, a 'hen-cock' pictured in the Sporting Magazine in March 1833 and mentioned by Charles Darwin in his 1868 book The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication!

#Easter #HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio #STS @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #animals #birds #science #naturalhistory #art

Der japanische Mediziner & Anthropologe Buntaro Adachi starb heute vor 80 Jahren. Er untersuchte als erster Zusammenhänge von Ohrenschmalzkonsistenz & Achselschweißgeruch – kein Aprilscherz! Was dies mit "Rassenphysiologie" zu tun hat, erklärt:

Julia Gebke, Achselschweiß und Ohrenschmalz: #Medizin und #Anthropologie zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, #WerkstattGeschichte 87/2023, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-87-julia-gebke/

@histodons @historikerinnen @anthropology

Unser neues Heft #WerkstattGeschichte 91 "körpermaße" ist erschienen!
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Im Thementeil, hg. v. Cornelia Aust, geht es diesmal um das Vermessen & Vergleichen von Körpermerkmalen v.a. im 18./19. Jh. Wie trug dies dazu bei, geschlechtsspezifische & rassistische Differenz herzustellen und so Körpereigenschaften zu essenzialisieren?

https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/koerpermasse/

@histodons @historikerinnen

Heute vor 5 Jahren begann in Deutschland der 1. #Corona-#Lockdown. Wie #Museen damit umgegangen sind, welche Sammlungs- und digitalen Aktivitäten sie z.B. entfaltet haben, hat seinerzeit unsere #Expokritik-Redaktion beobachtet:

Sebastian Kühn, Andreas Ludwig, Pavla Šimková & Lotte Thaa, Corona im #Museum, #WerkstattGeschichte 84/2021, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/monogamie/

@museum @histodons @historikerinnen @archivistodon @histstm

It’s #BlackHistoryMonth so it’s a good time to celebrate the extraordinary mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics and played a pivotal role in the success of

Did my first Wikipedia edit and it was to correct a serious error in the entry for Sarah Baartman. A lesson for me that those interested in #HistSTM should do occasionai checks to Wikipedia pages.
#HistSTM #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Baartman&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Baartman

My 2023 Notes and Records article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' is free to read this #OpenAccess week!

Download away and share while you can . . .

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #HistBio #STS #SciComm @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #QueerInSTEM #lgbtq #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

Happy birthday to trailblazing #programmer & #computer scientist, Beatrice “Trixie” Worsley (1921-1972). My #linocut shows Worsley seated at the first computer in Canada, the FERUT (which she named) & a flow diagram of one of her programs.⁠
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Trixie Worsley earned one of the first doctorates in computer science anywhere, & was supervised by Douglas Hartree and Alan Turing at Cambridge. 1/n

When #physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) explained #nuclear #fission she understood nothing was “lost” (today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt) despite the missing mass after the reaction. She worked with chemists Hahn & Straßmann in 30s Berlin, investigating elements beyond uranium. They found bombarding nuclei of U-235 with neutrons actually triggered it to fission, or break, into 2 nuclei of roughly half the size & some free neutrons! 1/n
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histstm #womenInSTEM ⁠

Busy but fruitful conference. I have no time for live tooting session reports. Instead I enjoy the exciting presentations.

I wonder... is there someone else out there in fediverse at the #t2m conference in #Leipzig?

Haven't been here in a while. (Well, I have, but sporadically.) There has been life... and an exciting "exchange" semester to TU Dresden's @IfG_TUD. Hope I can be round here a little more often. Soon fully back to @histKIT.

Perhaps, I even find time to write a little on my research on children's mobility history and tooting from #t2m conference next week.

Are you still here, @histodons?
#childrensmobility #histodons #histstm

For #sciartSeptember prompt royal: Queen Seondeok of Silla (c. 595 ~ 610 - 647), 27th ruler of 1 of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 632-647, who brought about a renaissance in culture & science & built the Cheomseongdae moon & star-gazing observatory.

Known for her intelligence, wisdom & benevolence, stories survive of her curiosity & cleverness even as a child. When her father the King was gifted peony seeds 1/n

Happy birthday to mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics and played a pivotal role in the success of the US crewed spaceflights from the beginning.1/n
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInStEM #BlackInSTEM #histstm #NASA #MastoArt #mathematician #physics #space

Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 and as an emeritus fellow afterwards. She was the first woman to win the Turing Prize.

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A nice review of #OilBeach has come in from Choice (American Library Association):

"harbors are regions of complex and global interactions between humans and their environment, complicating #biodiversity #conservation and restoration efforts... Highly recommended."

#Shipping #EnvHist @sts #STS @geography @commodon #Commodon #HistSTM #oil #energy #pollution #ClimateCrisis #ToxicLA #CounterPort @bookstodon

Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), #chemist & x-ray #crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to #carbon & #virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠
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Watson’s bio lead some to (inaccurately) joke, "What did Watson and Crick discover?" "Rosalind Franklin's notes." While it’s important that …

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