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Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine!
History and Medicine – Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure – McMaster University
Apply by March 31st
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#envhist #histmed #climhist #cdnhist
The Florentine navigator Amerigo Vespucci, after whom Waldseemüller and Ringmann erroneously named America, was born 9 March 1451 #histsci
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The Frisian amateur astronomer David Fabricius, the first to establish by observation the existence of a variable star, Mira, was born 9 March 1596 #histsci
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Some personal memories evoked by the death of Country Joe McDonald
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#openaccess until March 20: a book on Theophrastus on First Principles
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#philsky
A week left to reply for this fantastic role. Closes 15 March
The Florentine navigator Amerigo Vespucci, after whom Waldseemüller and Ringmann erroneously named America, was born 9 March 1451 #histsci
thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/09/05/t...
The Frisian amateur astronomer David Fabricius, the first to establish by observation the existence of a variable star, Mira, was born 9 March 1596 #histsci
thonyc.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/t...
“The whole Solar System is here represented, the comparitive Distances and Magnitude of every Planet & their Satellites, and all their true Motions made by turning a small crank in the manner a Man turns a Grind stone..."
More info: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/rittenh...
#histSTM #histsci #astronomy
De 'Copernicus' van Tresoar heeft de aantekeningen van Gemma Frisius (1508-1555). Het is een van de belangrijkste boeken in Nederland.
Nu te zien naar een exemplaar dat zwaar gecensureerd is, bij Teylers in Haarlem.
Country Joe McDonald holding a guitar in 1981. A card reads: "1942-2026: Country Joe McDonald, Artist Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84. Photo by United Archives, via Getty Images."
Country Joe McDonald, one of the starring acts at Woodstock whose satirical anti-Vietnam War song “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” became an anthem, died on Saturday. He was 84. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...
Pixelated black and white Voyager photo of Io, showing a plume from a volcanic eruption.
Voyager 1 captured the first evidence of an extraterrestrial volcanic eruption #OTD in 1979, on Jupiter's moon Io.
The plume in this image was discovered by astronomer Linda A. Morabito, working as a JPL engineer at the time, and announced a few days later. 🔭 🧪 👩🔬
Image: NASA/JPL
Part of a page of a medieval manuscript that had a hole cut into it. Underneath it is a restoration of a large decorated B, which would have been in this place, and which was restored by Eliza. The letter emulates the medieval style of script, but the image inside it is in a late 18th century style, showing a verdant tree standing against a green bucolic landscape.
In the 1790s a London woman named Eliza Denyer developed a modest reputation as a restorer of medieval manuscripts. She was forgotten by scholars and, in one case, her restorations were deliberately replaced by a man’s. I recovered her story & tracked all her known work here: tinyurl.com/2ktztx2e
Johannes Kepler first discovered his third law on 8 March 1618 #histsci
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Here's one we made earlier for #IWD - 8 women in Scotland who shaped #histSTM
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From Dalton's wooden spheres to quantum clouds of probability, the concept of atomic size has evolved dramatically. Phil Ball probes the questions that remain unanswered.
I did this over on the other place so I've lost it now, but:
dogshit = bad, terrible
bullshit = lies
horseshit = lies but not so malicious
batshit, apeshit = crazy
chickenshit = coward
flyshit - very small
what other types of specific animal shit are there?
Johannes Kepler first discovered his third law on 8 March 1618 #histsci
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Watch in the shape of a cross, late 17th century (Rijksmuseum)
"Many biographies use a singular life as a kaleidoscope to refract a historical period and view its patterns. Cobb’s biography does something different."
Angela Creager reviews Matthew Cobb’s new book: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/francis-crick-james-watson-double-helix-dna-biography
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
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I was at London Zoo years ago and the vicuna made a noise at me. Feeling clever, I repeated it back; it said the same thing, so I said again. Then it spat me right in the eyes.* It was saying “You lookin’ at me?” and I was unwittingly saying that back.
* An unnoticed sign said “this animal spits”.
And it really was good fun!
Join our "Ships & Seafaring 1500–1800" series Monday 9 March, 1pm CET, for a book presentation by @csschmitt.bsky.social (Cornell): "The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean". Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
#earlymodern #History
The media outlet GB News It was reported this week that the channel, which employs several Reform UK politicians – (including Nigel Farage to the tune of around £400,000 a year) lost in the year to May 2025 Its total losses since launch in 2021 now stand at £131m
What is the price of influence on the right?
The media
'GB News is a vast, monstrous spectre looming over British politics – a relentless content machine that has executed Steve Bannon’s ploy of “flooding the zone with shit”.' says Sam Bright
(2/6)
DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."
But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."
