Longtemps considérée comme une pollution moderne liée aux activités humaines, l’exposition au plomb serait en réalité antérieure à l'âge du fer. Une nouvelle étude montre que les hominidés fossiles, qui incluent la lignée humaine et les primates, y sont exposés depuis au moins 2 millions d’années. ⬇️

🔴 Excellente tribune de la présidente de l' @aphg.bsky.social @jalazard.bsky.social dans Le Monde hier: "Enseigner l'histoire de France aujourd'hui c'est mieux équiper les élèves face aux discours simplistes ou haineux" www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Comment construire une vérité scientifique ? @ericlagadec.bsky.social répond aux questions d'Emma Flacard dans @le1hebdo.bsky.social ✨

It also made me look again at the Shah Abbas astrolabe in Oxford, from the first year of his rule, and therefore shortly before this astrologically overdetermined event.

Tis the season to make plans to reclaim and cherish your book-life balance! See my 10-step handout “How to Read a Book” @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social #skystorians #gradstudents #howtoreadabook #bibliophiles #selfcare commonplace.online/article/how-...

La chaleur est un risque pour la santé x2 recours soins d’urgence personnes >75 ans (hyponatrénie, déshydradation), dont 3/4 => hospitalisations augmentation recours pour <15 ans et 15-44 ans (2/3, hyperthermie, 20 à 30% => hospitalisations) www.santepubliquefrance.fr/determinants...

Merci de diffuser si vous connaissez des gens dans le 20eme 🙂 Expérience participative #ANR @egout.bsky.social

Aujourd'hui dans le podcast Paroles d'histoire, je reçois l'historienne Marion Aballéa pour sa passionnante synthèse sur l'histoire du sida ; retour sur les tragiques années du début de la pandémie comme sur les mobilisations massives qui ont suivi. Bonne écoute ! parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/20...

THIS WEEK!! Climates of Empire: Environmental Historians in Conversation with Climate Change Researchers Centre for World Environmental History - More Information: www.sussex.ac.uk/cweh/newsand...

🌺 Un pénis de titan, fleur gigantesque endémique de l’île de Sumatra en Indonésie, s’apprête à fleurir dans le jardin botanique Jean-Marie-Pelt, en Lorraine. L’événement, attendu dans les prochaines heures, est rarissime et guetté par nombre d’amateurs d’horticulture. ➡️ bit.ly/4l7hkju

On commence! Kicking off the Paris training week in global history of astronomy at @labnf.bsky.social with Matthieu Husson and Alexandre Tur @tur-alexandre.bsky.social. More at eida.hypotheses.org/seminars-2/t...

L’historien Pierre Nora est mort

🎥 Live streamed lecture! 🎥 Don't miss Professor Andrew Curran (Wesleyan University) on the topic ‘Buffon and the Degenerated Human’, 29 May 2025, 9.30am (UK time). More info and link to the stream on our website: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/live-s...

Happy 226th birthday Mary Anning! (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) #MaryAnningfilm #soon world première at @annecyfestival.bsky.social

Magdalen historian and Calleva Centre Postdoc Michelle Pfeffer has a new piece in The Conversation on the dangerous history of predicting papal deaths—astrologers, politics, and prophecy gone wrong. Read it here 👉 theconversation.com/the-dangerou...

Les 3 et 4 juin 2025, un très beau colloque en perspective sur le processus de "mise en gouvernement" de l'environnement, organisé par Christophe Bonneuil et @arthurdelacquis.bsky.social 👌🗓👇

Happy to share the news that I have won the Young Researcher Fellowship - with a 3-year research project to enlarge the focus of my MSCA and explore aspects that were not within that project The title is: Constructing the Environment: A History of Botanical Knowledge before 1800 #ConEnvHist

Plenary with the authors of an #HistSci classic, and the first time, apparently, that the chair, John Tresch, sees Stephen Shapin and Simon Schaffer in the same room.

I remember being interviewed for a job at Newcastle where I faced this question after my presentation: "Do historians of science have conferences and societies and stuff? 'Cos, I mean, you hear tell of historians of science, but you never actually meet one".

In the lead up to the launch of Season 5, we have re-released some of the most popular episodes from our collection for your listening pleasure. Make sure you've had a listen! Or a re-listen, like @schizosemia.bsky.social #hps #histsci #philsci #sts 🧪

Here’s a super cool article by @philipcball.bsky.social about this painting! www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/hidd...

I’m so excited to reveal the cover of Galileo’s Fame! The @upittpress.bsky.social has done an amazing job with the design, showcasing a stunning seventeenth-century depiction of the goddess Fama. I can’t wait to hold the book in my hands in just a few months.

1 May 1831: Oxford geologist William Buckland writes to Henry De la Beche that #MaryAnning 'has found a small & very perfect Ichthyosaurus...the best she says she has ever seen' and was asking £40. Her waiting list for ichthyosaur specimens included collectors Beriah Botfield and William D. Saull.

Orazio Grassi, Jesuit mathematician and astronomer (and foe of Galileo), is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay. Really pleased that Bill featured two of our recent-ish acquisitions in this SOTD: #histSTM #histastro #galileo #OnThisDay 🗃️📜⚙️🔭 www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...

Zonal world map, dividing the earth into horizontal climatic zones, first half of the eleventh century. Ancient thinkers believed that the climate in each zone influenced the physical, intellectual, and moral characteristics of its inhabitants and that ... 4/n

BOOK EVENT 2, MAY 15 NYC Through Science to Justice: On the Legacy of Magnus Hirschfeld; Book Launch & Panel Discussion | Authors Daniel Brook & Brandy Schillace in conversation with Noah Isenberg RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/through-sc... #LGBTQ #trans #transgender #books #bookevent #author 🧪🗃️

Fantastic program now out for #HPS conference "Decoding Our Planet: The Making of Geophysics", bringing together scholars from history of science, #geophysics, & philosophy of science to explore how modern geophysics took shape in #19thC & 20thC, at the Royal Institution in London 12 May

Lundi 28 avril (15:30), à la @mshparisnord.bsky.social @campuscondorcet.bsky.social, j'aurai le plaisir de discuter sur la construction comme victimes des agriculteurs usagers de pesticides, avec Jean-Noël Jouzel et Giovanni Prete, auteurs. Bienvenu.es à la MSH Paris-Nord, salle 401.

"Vous n'êtes pas encore d'âge à aller seule aux bibliothèques publiques", dit cet homme à Sophie Ulliac, écrivaine de 37 ans... Les lectures féminines au XIXe siècle entre contrôle paternaliste et émancipation, c'est demain dans Paroles d'histoire

Nice to find you here, especially like this :) Love your work, I reviewed your book about pigs! fakehistoryhunter.net/2024/08/05/b...

A simplified procedure has been implemented at @brgm.fr - french geological survey - for scientists impeded by political contrainsts and considering working in France Topics: risks (incl. coastal risks and climate change, groundwater, geosciences for the energy transition...). pulse.ly/ronygwpxey

HPS scholars - What do we think of the term 'convergent evidence instead of 'scientific consensus'?? Very interesting editorial from friend of the pod @holdenthorp.bsky.social #hps #philsci #histsci

Phenomenal thread:

Un podcast de @columbiauniversity.bsky.social pour dire la permanence de la pollution au plomb et ses implications pour la santé globale. Dialogue Histoire-Géochimie : urls.fr/bfLx2c @chs-umr8058.bsky.social @annesouyris.bsky.social @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social @nbroyer.bsky.social @afvs.bsky.social

Indoor Air Quality in French Schools - a conference to be held in Paris on June 20, 2025, with the participation of elected representatives, scientists, civil society organizations, @who.int etc. An important date for facilitating exchanges between numerous stakeholders.

Très heureuse de faire partie du Conseil scientifique et citoyen pour élaborer des politiques de santé environnementale en concertation entre chercheurs, associations et politiques. A l’heure de la remise en cause de la science un peu partout, c’est rassérénant !

Guerre de Religion et changement climatique : c’est ce mardi 11 mars à l’Imera de Marseille. Venez nombreuses et nombreux ! Une journée d’études organisée par Brian Sandberg et Jérémie Foa. Programme : www.imera.fr/agenda/guerr...

See the whole thread for stories of women and (history of) astronomy for #IWD2025 - but nota bene historians of science: nominations sought for the 2026 RAS prize for historical research #histsci

Happy International Women’s Day! 👩🏾‍🔬👩🏼‍🚀👩🏻‍🔧 To mark #IWD2025, the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social is celebrating some of the women who helped shape the history of astronomy. Follow this thread to find out more… ⤵️

Défendons les sciences face aux nouveaux obscurantismes 1/... www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

💯 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

1/5 NEWS: Alongside editors, Inal Onur (U Vienna) and Ramya Swayamprakash (Michigan State) I’ll be working as an EDITOR for a new, online journal, tentatively titled, GERMINATE: Environmental History Review, a publication of the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH).

#OnThisDay in 1787, astronomers William and Caroline Herschel discovered the first two moons of Uranus, Titania and Oberon. Uranus has 27 known satellites, most of which are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.

Practically puuuuuurfect in everyway especially their fabulous face! This furry feline was first described in 1776 by someone called Peter …. #WhoseTailIsItAnyway #WTIIA #SpecialCollections

Marc Bloch et l’histoire au Panthéon @franceculture.fr L’histoire est une science qui provoque parfois de virulents échanges, mais elle n’est pas une opinion, elle n’est pas une accumulation de contre-vérités qui arrangent une carrière, une posture www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Universelle et solidaire, histoire de la Sécurité sociale ! Hôpital & Charité Secours mutuel La Sécu voit le jour (heureux !) "Trou de la Sécu" ? Histoire à creuser Le Cours de l'histoire tous les jours en direct à 9h @franceculture.bsky.social @radiofrance.fr www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Hello @bsky.app we have joined the family! 👋 Watch this space.... In the meantime, how about we continue the blue theme with photographs of British Algae: cyanotype impressions by Anna Atkins (1799 - 1871). View all of them via our #DigitisedCollections nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/co...