please allow us to share one our all time fave bits of Crystal Palace Dinosaur art: “Jurassic Park 1854”, by the amazing @jedtaylorartist.bsky.social back then, Richard Owen wrote that Megolasaurus “probably waged a deadly war against its less destructively endowed congeners and contemporaries”

Sir Roland Jackson 9th Bart (1954-2026) It is with great sadness that we report the sudden and unexpected death of Roland Jackson whilst climbing on Helvellyn on 10 January 2026. https://bit.ly/4jK8CbC

#OTD in 1832, #CharlesDarwin tried his first banana! He didn't like it very much. As a side note, the HMS Beagle made its first stop on its 5 year survey voyage, making port at the islands of Cape Verde. But it's really all about the fruit adventure.

Sad to learn that fellow Tyndall correspondence editor Sir Roland Jackson (@rolandjackson.bsky.social), also Tyndall biographer and author of the recent Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State, among MUCH else, has passed away. upittpress.org/authors/rola... #HPS #histsci

My first read of 2026: The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline by Gillen D'Arcy Wood (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025): bit.ly/49sMNZh #HPS #histsci #environment #oceans #books #sciencebooks

Books read in 2025: Born of Fire and Rain; Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace; Ocean: Earth's Last Wilderness; Turning to Stone; Is A River Alive? (@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social); and One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad.

“That just as it has always been possible to look away, it is always possible to stop looking away. None of this evil was ever necessary. Some carriages are gilded and others lacquered in blood, but the same engine pulls us all.” —Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

FYI, drop "the" from before HMS; you would not say "the His/Her Majesty's Ship," right?

25-Dec: On this day in 1833, the crew of HMS Beagle held their own ‘Olympic Games’ at Port Desire in Patagonia. Here’s the story… friendsofdarwin.com/articles/hms... #HistSci

#NCAR is a beautiful place and a national treasure. I had the chance to visit the NCAR Mesa Lab last summer, and their exhibits (free and public) are the coolest and most informative ones I’ve seen on atmospheric and climate science. (1/3)

JUST IN: Betty Reid Soskin, the beloved former park ranger with the National Park Service, has passed away at 104.

"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders." - Charles Darwin I know how you felt, Charles; I know how you felt. www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwins-bad-...

Caricature of Charles Darwin from Vanity Fair magazine https://www.wikiart.org/en/james-tissot/caricature-of-charles-darwin-from-vanity-fair-magazine

My new book, THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY goes on sale TODAY! It is a NEW argument about TRUMAN AND THE ATOMIC BOMB, from Hiroshima through the Korean War, from HarperCollins. alexwellerstein.com/writing/book...

Teaser trailer for Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day, out on June 12, 2026: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFe6...

I am distraught. Every one of these Rob Reiner films is really important to me. This Is Spinal Tap The Sure Thing Stand by Me The Princess Bride When Harry Met Sally Misery A Few Good Men The American President

A pleasant walk today at Tualatin Hills Nature Park in Beaverton, Oregon. #naturewalk #naturerx #vitaminN

The latest webinar in our series, Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations, is now available to watch on YouTube. This webinar focuses on science and nonreligion, and features Renny Thomas, Stephen Weldon, Bernard Lightman, and Lauren Strumos. Watch here: youtu.be/DuuLLPZb4ls

Janet Browne Hon MRIA, Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus @harvard.edu visited the Academy this week and signed the Members’ Roll Book. Professor Browne was elected Hon MRIA in November 2019.

We take things like paper for granted these days, but as is highlighted in this article from Darwin Online about the publication of Charles and Emma Darwin's address book, mass produced paper and notebooks were quite a new thing in Darwin's day. darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialInt...

Now on Bluesky: @darwin-online.bsky.social. Give 'em a follow! #HPS #histsci

I found a life-changing treasure at Bluestem Books in Lincoln today: A first edition, first printing of "Silent Spring" signed by Rachel Carson!Her writing and advocacy for the environment has always guided me. And now to have such a rare artifact in my personal library is a powerful gift.

Social climbing with Charles Darwin? Take a fascinating look into Darwin's address book and see who he was rubbing elbows with - from tobacconists to tutors, and beyond! https://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_Darwins_Address_Book.html

03-Dec: On this day in 1831, Charles Darwin spent his first night aboard HMS Beagle as she lay at anchor in Barnet Pool, Plymouth. More here… friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar... #HistSci

The latest episode of Rare Earth is about Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and evolution. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

"So that I have 6 weeks more to enjoy geologizing over these curious mountains" Charles Darwin in a letter dated to April 18, 1835, over his field-trip in the Chilean Andes ⛰️ www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Can anyone recommend a good and reliable text on mineral classification from Mohs to the present day? #philsky #philsci

Volume 10 (yes 10!!!) of our book series “Emergence of Natural History” @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-history.bsky.social is out #OpenAccess : @dvantrijp.bsky.social ‘s fascinating history of #fish studies / #Ichthyology Congratulations, Didi! #HistNatHist #HistSTM brill.com/display/titl...

New and recent Darwin and evolution books ~ thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/n... #HPS #histsci

darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialInt... #Darwin’sAddressBook has been digitized. Nice notations & media included in this & other interesting aspects of the life & work of #CharlesDarwin from #darwinonline.org

The world of natural history #museums is a surprisingly strange one. What goes on behind the scenes? Why do they mostly display the same things? Where did they get all their stuff? How do they help save the world? Have a watch of my talk about my book, #NaturesMemory here!👇

Love how rough-skinned newts blend into the fallen fall foliage so well. Daughter spotted this one when she was crouched down collecting worm poop. Yes, worm poop! 🪱 💩

One of the incredible treasures we saw last week at the @nhm-london.bsky.social were some of Charles Darwin's actual pigeons - ones that factored into his formulation of Natural Selection, published in Origin of Species 166 years ago today. @tetrameryx.bsky.social

Last year's design was a real hit, too! Send season’s greetings to your friends and family with Charles Darwin and his mischievous Christmas birds 🪿🎄 We have 14 different humanist designs available to buy. All proceeds go to fund our work for a kinder, more rational society. 👇

See reply below for the link to the recording #histsci Science and Religion from the Ground Up

The foreword by Janet Browne and Michael Neve made a strong impression on me.

In the mail today: a copy of Gillen D'Arcy Wood's "The Wake of HMS Challenger" (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025) that I won for attending a webinar from the Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science, which is now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4c...

#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's landmark book 'On the Origin of Species' was first published. The work is one of the foundations of evolutionary biology, and one of the most important scientific works of the 19th century. #HistoryOfScience

📖 Exciting reading for today, the anniversary of the publication of On The Origin Of Species: The Darwin Online project has just released Darwin's address book, filled with unique insights not found anywhere else. It has been transcribed and is now readable at the link below! buff.ly/uqYc9IL

For this 166th anniv. of the publication of On the Origin of Species (1859), what was the 1st book you read about Charles Darwin? Mine: Charles Darwin: The Making of a Scientist by Roy A. Gallant (1972), c. 1995, when reading books abt dinosaurs (thanks, Jurassic Park) led me to books abt evolution.

I got to hold first edition Linnaeus and first edition Darwin today, nbd. (Both jewels of the @mobotgarden.bsky.social library.)

Darwin’s publisher, John Murray, was usually quite generous about paying for maps, plates, and in-text images for D’s books, and D attended closely to his illustrations, so it’s surprising that the Origin featured only 1, a diagrammatic model of change through time. 🌱🐋🧪 #histSTM #evobio 🐡

Some of the most important words ever written: 'Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.' – Charles Darwin, 'On the Origin of Species'. It was published #OnThisDay 1859.

#OTD in 1859 'On the Origin of Species' was published. We have a few different editions in the library @thembauk.bsky.social but we are privileged to be custodians of an early edition gifted to (a mystery) someone by Charles #Darwin himself 📖BS.15/D

On the Origin of Species: landmark work published #OTD 1859 by Charles Darwin, influential English naturalist, geologist and pioneer of evolutionary theory. Portrait 1830’s by George Richmond Bodleian Library @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @tomgauld.bsky.social | @newscientist.com

On 24 November 1639 the British astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree became the first observers to record a transit of Venus. #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/a...

Darwin's groundbreaking On the Origin of Species appeared #OTD in 1859 -- even though Darwin's publisher, John Murray, didn't accept evolution. A while back I wrote about their turbulent relationship, for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu... #science #history #histsci

24-Nov: On this day in 1859 was published Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species‘. As revolutionary science books go, it’s a damn fine read. Here’s my retrospective review: friendsofdarwin.com/reviews/book... #histsci