@petervale.bsky.social & I are looking for scholars interested in contributing to an upcoming workshop/special issue on aeromobility and 20th science & tech. How aircraft changed scientific practice, use in experiments, air travel as foundation for academic collaboration, etc. Please share!

Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller. Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch. No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2 🗃️🧪

spontaneous generation : ) #histscie aeon.co/essays/life-...

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews. #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #FungiFriends #MycoBookClub

One of the oldest mushrooms!

I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh. (If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)

5 pppppost-doc positions in the history of medicine at Edinburgh www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org

Call for Proposals: 2026 Joint Meeting of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) and History of Science Society (HSS), Scotland, 13-16 July 2026 Link to the full Call For Proposals is available here<hssonline.org/page/2...>

Needless (?) to say, universities have been around for centuries without management officers www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

The new history of theriac (since Watson's 1966) is out there in the world, on its own. At last, out of my thoughts. I am so happy! #histmed #histscie #earlymodern #histpharma #pharma

Call for 3 Post-docs in Pisa www.santannapisa.it/en/assegni-d...

For fungi pics: mico-photo-contest @ Italian Mushrooms Festival in Capo di Ponte (BS) next September. Check it out! #fungi #Fungifriends #fungilovers micocosmofestival.net/concorso-fot...

I just learned about a great project on early modern How-to-Books howtobook.eu books that are a call to action! #earlymodern

15th-century LBM, aren't they lovely? #fungifriends #earlymodern #histmed #histscie

It's real!! Spot The State Drug. What was theriac anyway? #earlymodern #histmed

A reminder about the long #16thC starter pack. If you are a scholar of #EarlyModern history who should be on this list and isn't, let me know! There are still a dozen or so spots left ☺️ Also, don't forget that feeds are your friends. Check out #16thC, #17thC , #18thC, etc. #skystorians

Questa vignetta, trovata in rete, dovrebbe avere più di 80 anni eppure ancora attuale purtroppo

Attention scholars of the Renaissance, and particularly those in #histmed #histsci! As the Medicine & Science “Discipline Rep” for the RSA, I have the opportunity to sponsor up to 4 panels at next year’s conference. CFPs are up on the RSA’s site, but I’m posting details below!

Happy #TaxonomistAppreciationDay! 🍄🦠🐞🌿 A massive thank you to everyone contributing to the accumulation of taxonomic and naturalist knowledge. Your contribution is truly invaluable — #taxonomy is the foundation upon which all our #biodiversity knowledge rests. Let's never forget that!

Truffles from a 16th-century pocket book for recognizing plants. Just in case you stumble upon them! #fungifriends #histmed #histscie

Gary’s uncanny ability to gain the attention of bartenders and taxi drivers made him very popular among his group of friends - 13th century, The Percy Hours - made in York, British Library, Add. MD 70000, f. 9r

"I am the mason and you the architect". Wrote physician Bartolomeo Maranta to apothecary Ferrante Imperato. Maranta authored THE European bestseller on making theriac, published posthumus (1572) and immediately translated in Latin #histmed more on theriac #statedrug

#fungifriends Early image of Laricifomes officinalis in 16th cent. German herbal #histscie #histmed

Three tenure-track positions open in the history of science and technology (also Europeam studies) at Texas State University

Otto Marseus Shrieck, died OTD 1678. Painted mushrooms. Now honestly, that's a pretty neat trick, mushrooms into art.

Reminder 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐘 𝐌𝐎𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐍 𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐬? 𝐓𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin... #CSMBR #medicalhistory #earlymodernbritain

Next Early Modern Lab at NTU - organized by Dana Jalobeanu - features Gideon Manning on visualizing nature with text and image #visualizingknowledge #visualizingscience #illustrations #17thcentury

@rrtrilling.bsky.social is one of a couple of folks I know who found that academia dot edu plagiarized their work to create a podcast. I deleted my pubs from this site some time ago but left the title listings in place. Seems like it's time to delete my account entirely. 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #academicsky

"If you think technology is going to solve your problems, you don't understand technology, and you don't understand your problems." (Laurie Anderson)

For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

Hot off the press and on my desk! Looking forward to reading this wonderful work edited by @fabribald.bsky.social

Claudia Addabbo on the histories of the Forti's Algarium with more than 40.000 specimens

All about algae today! Wiebe Kooistra talking about a forest of Laminaria at the Orto Botanico in Padua

Kathleen Drew Baker discovered the cycle of algae today used for sushi

Coral from the Bosphorus with delightful "tartarine crust"

I don’t know which academic needs to hear this but yes you should absolutely email other academics just to tell them you enjoyed their article/book/chapter. Just do it. Don’t overthink it. Hello So-and-so, just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed ‘Title’. Hope you’re well. Best, You. Done.

The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration. We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.

I am looking forward to this workshop on early modern botanical gardens in Padua (where else?). Come join us!

À lire dans le dernier numéro des #Annales 'Les Juifs et l’argent dans l’imaginaire chrétien et la pensée économique' par Jean-François Chauvard (@ihmc.bsky.social) L'introduction au forum sur 'Juifs et capitalisme' par Francesca Trivellato 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My friend and colleague @bolman.bsky.social’s book “Lab Dog” on beagles in modern scientific research is out now; this dog and #histstm aficionado for one can’t wait to read #histstm press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

No Christ as apothecary in the Italian tradition , this is a Northern thing. I've always wondered why🤔

Pomegranates, shell, and a stag beetle because everybody had to do one of those. By Maria Sibylla Merian, whose day is today.

Exhibit of theriac in Hanau from 1693. Hundreds of ingredients and a checkered tile floor

A clever talk by Daston on the history of the history of science. youtu.be/SDzVaBj492s

if I didn't see this was written in 1941, i would have assumed it was written today Who Goes Nazi? By Dorothy Thompson harpers.org/archive/1941...

After years of work, the AIHP has launched its new digital collections. See aihp.org/aihp-launche... to get a historical fix. #library #archive #collections

The Medical History Library at Yale is one of my favorite places with SO much amazing material (way beyond "medicine') - there are a couple of travel / research grants available to visit, due late-April. Come read in a beautiful place! library.medicine.yale.edu/historical/r...