Nothing like a Mary Anning letter at the @theul.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social to close off a sunny #FossilFriday.

ARTICLE: Capturing colour on HMS Beagle: #CharlesDarwin and Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1821) ~ bit.ly/4tbsHL3 #HPS #histsci @bshsnews.bsky.social

Anyone else just absolutely love IEP meetings? /s #autismparent

New for @undark.org: "What I Learned from Teaching Darwin" "For Darwin at least, science was a conversation between humans and nature, more than it was an industry. I wish that were true today, for all of us." undark.org/2026/04/23/o...

I'm bowled over by the first endorsements my forthcoming book has received. Such brilliant authors - WOW! You will love it too . . . 🐟🌈📚 UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social #booksky #histsci #queerhistory 🗃️

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Transcription help: John Tyndall wrote this line at the bottom of a letter he rec'd in 1888: " [illegible word/s] praise, instead of criticism was bestowed upon the flames." #HPS #histsci #BlueSkyStorians #SkyStorians #AcademicSky

Transcription help: John Tyndall wrote this line at the bottom of a letter he rec'd in 1888: " [illegible word/s] praise, instead of criticism was bestowed upon the flames." #HPS #histsci #BlueSkyStorians #SkyStorians #AcademicSky

My obituary of the highly accomplished and brilliant Professor Hans-Dieter Sues (1956-2026) is now online, let me know if you want a pdf... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NICGG...

19-Apr: ☹️ On this day in 1882, Charles Darwin died, age 73. Here’s the sad story… friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar... #HistSci

Charles Darwin died OTD in 1882. Stories of a deathbed renunciation of his doubts about Christianity and recantation of his theory circulated widely (mostly in the US, predictably). They were, however, lies. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, next to John Herschel. 🧪🌱🐋 #HistSTM #Evobio #PhilSci

April 19, 1837, Richard Owen published the description of Toxodon based on a large fossil skull purchased by Charles Darwin in South America. Darwin paid 18 pence for it noting in his journal that it was "one of the strangest animals ever discovered" ...

Charles Darwin died on this day in 1882. All sorts of info regarding his funeral a week later at Westminster Abbey can be had at this page from @darwin-online.bsky.social: darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialInt...

Charles Darwin died #OTD in 1882. His son George wrote to John Tyndall 6 days later: "I hope you will have received the tickets for the Abbey... I am sure you sympathise with my Mother & her children." Tyndall arrived late to the funeral and wasn't able to sit among other friends of #CharlesDarwin.

I checked out Change is in the Air from my local library & wonder if this is the 1st depiction of John Tyndall in a children's book. Possibly also in Foote Was First! illus. by @amyjunebates.bsky.social. Footeprint is a novel-in-verse by @lindsayhmetcalf.bsky.social, not sure if any illustrations.

🎨 Colour, observation, and distance 🐦️ How did Charles Darwin describe colour in the field? In our newest BJHS issue, Joyce Dixon examines Darwin’s use of Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours during the Beagle voyage—and what it meant for scientific communication.

ARTICLE: Rereading Malthus: Darwin and the Historians, by Henry-James Meiring, in @isisjournal.bsky.social ~ bit.ly/3OKOICb #HPS #histsci #CharlesDarwin

Podcast in Spanish: El sofá de Darwin with Rodrigo Medel (@medel.bsky.social), which he began in January and is now up to 6 episodes: open.spotify.com/show/02Pw3uN... #HPS #histsci #CharlesDarwin

Episodio 6 del podcast “El sofá de Darwin.” Un podcast sobre la vida y obra del naturalista. Con comentarios sobre las contribuciones de otros naturalistas de la época. open.spotify.com/episode/5ZoC...

Just published yesterday: Making Science History: A Personal Perspective from Alamogordo to AI by Arnold Thackray (@amphilsociety.bsky.social/@pennpress.bsky.social): www.pennpress.org/978160618037... #HPS #histsci

SQUEE! #TransformingNight from @uwapress.uw.edu comes out three months from today*! #ArtificialLight #ALAN #LightPollution #Night #Darkness #LightJustice uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295... *As a former French historian, release date on Bastille Day cracks me up

Received in mail this new annotated edn. of The Descent of Man by #CharlesDarwin (@princetonupress.bsky.social) & I like this bit in the acknowledgments from Elizabeth Yale, about her children referring to "Mom's Darwinning" while she & coauthor James Costa were working on it. #histsci #HPS #books

We endorse Catherine McMullen for County Clerk in the November 3 general election. Also a former union member, McMullen has been vocally supportive of CCEA during her time as Clerk and believes the right to organize is vital in protecting workers’ rights.

Final ms ready for submission:

Make Artemis II trend again #Artemis #ArtemisII www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

Seeking an article/letter from Tyndall titled "Open Council" in newspaper the "Union" for 1888, with quote, or similar, from Carlyle: "The minister wild enough or wicked enough to propose to sever Ireland from England deserves to have his head brought to the block."

From @wbur.org yesterday: Helicopter vs. #FreeRangeParenting: What are the benefits of unsupervised play? (w/ @simonlewsen.bsky.social) www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2... [we need more #ChildrenAtNaturePlay: www.facebook.com/SlowChildren... ]

My book Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums (U Chicago Press, 2025) is a journey through natural history museums worldwide to come face-to-face with extinct animals. Filled with beautiful color photos. Can buy from any bookstore for only $20! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

This morning, thank insects and John Lubbock, banker and parliamentarian who, at 8 years old, was a neighbour and protege of Charles Darwin. As an MP Lubbock needed more time to do what he loved most, study insects, so he proposed the Bank Holidays Act of 1871.

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Not a real Charles Darwin quote, - right, @nickjmatzke.bsky.social?

This time tomorrow I’ll be at @sogorg.bsky.social getting ready to give my talk on Charles Darwin. It’s not one I get asked to do very often but it’s one of my favourites and it’s always fun to present! Lots of great Darwin/Wedgwood family stories to share from the archives… #TheDescentOfDarwin

I'm getting nauseous from pingponging between joy and wonder at the Artemis mission and rage and horror at the threats of a leader who is clearly too unhinged and unstable to be in a position of power, but whose party continues propping him up because they love power more than reason or humanity

Today should be about the glorious photos coming from Artemis II, the astonishing set of today's new book releases, the tender green glimmer of spring, and the infinite wonder of getting to live on this wet, blue planet. And yet.

Picked up a some science #books thru local free group on FB. Included Stephen Jay Gould's Wonderful Life & inside: a newspaper clipping & 2 tickets for Gould's lecture in Portland, 6/3/1993. Not long after that date is when my grandfather introduced to me Gould's monthly column "This View of Life."

"A whole civilization will die tonight," but.... "God Bless the Great People of Iran!" WTF?!?!

Latest #Artemis image to drop is my newest favourite! "A New View of the Moon" ICONIC! 🔭🧪 📷: NASA images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Join @davelifelines.bsky.social for Charles Darwin: A Life in the Archives, exploring Charles Darwin through original records, revealing fresh insights + what archives can offer your own research. 9 April 2026, 3.30-4.30 Attend in person (London) or online. Book: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/2...

Artemis II today.

Just absolutely losing it about the Carroll crater. The Artemis crew set the record for the farthest we have ever been from Earth, and in that celestial moment, they chose to be humans. The best of us.

The Artemis II crew just named a crater “Carroll” after Reid Wiseman’s wife Carroll, who was a nurse and died May 17, 2020 at the age of 46 after a five-year battle with cancer. The two of them are pictured here with their two daughters Ellie and Katherine.

Minutes after breaking the record for farthest distance any humans have been from the Earth (just 10 min. ago), #Artemis 2 astronauts gave a moment to remember the wife of Commander Reid Wiseman, Carroll, who died in 2020. Here he is w/ their two teenage daughters just before launch day.😭 #NASA

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Next week, Apr 9 at 7:00pm CDT, @prairielights.com welcomes Elizabeth Yale and James Costa, co-editors of The Descent of Man. They'll discuss their book, the first annotated edition of Darwin’s shocking work that continues to generate controversy today, at this free, in-person event: buff.ly/1IWRMau

What do you think of earth worms? And did you know that Charles Darwin was so passionate about them that he used to play music for them? Listen to Janet Browne (author of the forthcoming Darwin, publishing 6/2) on the newest episode of CBC Ideas:

My therapist had no idea that today these four astronauts will be launching to fly to the moon and back. Anyone else have the sense that LOTS of people just don't know that this is happening today? #Artemis [Image: #NASA]

For no particular reason, I'm enjoying these two movie scenes today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP_P... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fubp... #Artemis #NASA

ARTICLE: Darwin’s scientific gardener: John Scott, the ‘physiological test’ and the importance of character in Victorian science ~ bit.ly/4rZsI4d #HPS #histsci

Honoured to be associated with this eminent bunch of scholars for the special issue Darwin Down Under: Australasian Perspectives on Darwin Studies, now complete with an excellent introduction by Ian Hesketh. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/stud...