(Call for applications) Assistant Professor, Medieval or Early Modern History of Science, Technology, and/or Medicine at Rice University histoiresante.blogspot.com/2024/09/post...#histSTM

Looking forward to hearing Emily O'Gorman and Taylor Coyne talking about more-than-human histories on October 16. I merely sit back and chair. #histSTM#envhist#skyhistorians

History Now: More than human histories

Taylor Coyne and Emily O’Gorman discuss the ways that the more-than-human world has shaped histories.

OTD in 1838, Charles Darwin read Malthus’s Principles of Population “for amusement.” The idea of a “war of nature” was venerable, but D realized that such a war would tend to remove deleterious variations from populations. Natural selection would necessarily follow. 🌱🐋🧪#HistSTM #philsci 📈📉#evolbio

The British Society for the History of Medicine 2024 Webinar and Poynter Lecture is free and open to all interested in the history of medicine! 🗓️Monday 28 October Webinar starts at 5:00pm followed by Poynter Lecture at 7:00pm (UK time) #histmed#histSTM

2024 BSHM Webinar and Poynter Lecture - British Society for the History of Medicine

2024 BSHM Webinar and Poynter Lecture   The 2024 BSHM Webinar will begin at 5pm (UK) on Monday 28 October 2024 with contributions from three invited speakers.   Inside the Medical World of Stalin’s Gu...

François-Jules Pictet, a Swiss zoologist and paleontologist, was born #OnThisDay#fossilswww.lindahall.org/about/news/s...#histSTM#FossilFriday#paleontology 🗃️📜

#histSTM query - please help my addled brain; I am sure I had read an article on heat acclimatisaton studies and mining in (South) Africa but either I've hallucinated it or tagged it really badly on zotero because I cannot find it any more. Any ideas?

Reposting this 2-year postdoc announcement, with clarification that visa sponsorship may be available if needed - so not limited to Australians and Kiwis. Looking for medical anthropologists, STSers, or the like, to work with me and @sonjavw.bsky.social#anthro#STS#histSTM

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Full time, 24-month fixed-term position Contribute to world-class research in health social sciences Base Salary Level A1-B2 $86,584 - $127,433 + 17% superannuation About the opportunity The School of...

The massive release of radionuclides into the ecosystem from nuclear weapon testing put "radioactive tracers" into the Earth's systems, allowing us to track and understand their dynamics. I have a chapter on this in my recent book. #NukeSky#HistSTMeos.org/research-spo...

Radioactive Isotopes Trace Hidden Arctic Currents - Eos

Tracing anthropogenic radionuclides shows researchers how water from the Atlantic flows into and mingles with Arctic currents.

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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962. “[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” 🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci#philsky#WomeninSTEM