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/
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?
Happy birthday to Wilhem Röntgen (1845-1923), the German physicist who discovered x-rays and earned the Nobel Prize for physics in 1901. I’ve depicted him in this thermochromic portrait at work, studying this mysterious, newly discovered, invisible form of light, based on a photograph of him in his lab, using a Crookes tube to produce x-rays. The form of the print mimics the nature of his discovery -
#MastoArt #linocut #sciart #Roentgen #physics #histstm #xrays #printmaking
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/
Lynn Margulis was born OTD in 1938. At 29, she published her theory that eukaryotes had evolved via endosymbiosis, after having it rejected by at least 15 other journals.
#HPBio #Complexity #HistSTM 
#EvoBio #WomeninSTEM
On the origin of mitosing cell...
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
![Removed the erroneous statement "Cuvier interpreted her remains, in accordance with his Darwinist interpretation of evolution" is not cited and is in fact a serious error. Darwin and Cuvier had very different views on the fixity of species, gradual change vs catastrophe, slaver[y] and race, etc. As is noted in the talk, Darwin comes decades after Cuvier and is in part a reaction against Cuvier's understanding of evolution. The phrase is misleading and not cited.](https://cdn.masto.host/sciencessocial/media_attachments/files/113/879/537/498/436/241/original/ff40b66173fd0d00.png "Removed the erroneous statement \"Cuvier interpreted her remains, in accordance with his Darwinist interpretation of evolution\" is not cited and is in fact a serious error. Darwin and Cuvier had very different views on the fixity of species, gradual change vs catastrophe, slaver[y] and race, etc. As is noted in the talk, Darwin comes decades after Cuvier and is in part a reaction against Cuvier's understanding of evolution. The phrase is misleading and not cited.")
My 2023 article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain,' published in Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, has now been made free to access! 
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
Author copies of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! So thrilled with the vision of University of California Press Art Director Lia Tjandra. Pub dat: Feb 4. Pre-order now! Pre-ordered copies are already reaching readers.
Good little regional history and history of medicine video about TB sanitaria in LA:
https://www.pbs.org/video/tuberculosis-the-forgotten-plague-o6gnxl/
"Squaring the Anti-Science, Pro-Technology Circle" https://markstoneman.com/2024/11/23/squaring-the-antiscience.html
#USpol #PublicHealth #HistKnow #histSTM
Happy Halloween! 
Same-sex sexual behaviours in bats were first documented in 1895.
Here's a more recent study: http://www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Same-sex-sexual-behaviour-in-bats,77304,0,2.html.
#Halloween #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #HistBio #STS #SciComm @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #QueerInSTEM #lgbtq #science #biology #zoology #animals #bats
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.
Trixie Worsley earned one of the first doctorates in computer science anywhere, & was supervised by Douglas Hartree and Alan Turing at Cambridge. 1/n
For the #Spacetober prompt history: my #linocut portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) & his model of the celestial spheres, or as we would say, the solar system. Copernicus is shown in green with a lily of the valley, the standard Renaissance symbol to indicate a medical doctor, since like most proto-scientists, or ‘philosophers’ (doctors of philosophy) he learned his astronomy incidentally,
#linocut #printmaking #Copernicus #astronomy #histstm #astronomer #sciart #solarSystem #MastoArt
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 45K times! 
Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 
#history #histodons @histodons #histsci #histbio #HistSTM #HSTM #STS @histstm #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #histsex #sex #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #Darwin
Wishing everyone a nice, relaxing weekend!
I've been writing about frog sex this week, so here's a lovely plate from German painter and naturalist August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof's sumptuous Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium ('The Natural History of Our Frogs,' 1758). 
#histSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #frogs
For the #SciArtSeptember prompt epilogue: Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 1673), 17th-century English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, writer, with her imaginary world from her strange sci-fi novel ‘The Blazing World’ from her epilogue to her ‘Observations upon Experimental Philosophy’. She’s an odd addition to my collection of scientists, … 1/n
