Exclusive: Zohran Mamdani reacts to Eric Adams dropping out of the New York mayoral race. "I think it's very much the same race," he says, criticizing attempts by President Trump and other outsiders to affect the election. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/28/zohran_mamdani_eric_adams_nyc_mayoral

Every time Eric Adams is in the news, I think about this response he gave to the question of what the best concert he ever attended was.

The Haters won. But the Table of Success is forever. tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com

🔆Good morning! Dedication to work is to be admired, provided the work itself is of value, but the more of a day’s hours you devote to it, the likelier returns diminish. Why You Should Only Work 3–4 Hours a Day, Like Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf & Adam Smith 🧪 www.openculture.com/2025/09/why-...

chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the last featuring blow at events

When cave science emerged in the early 20th century, early speleological communities became entangled in right-wing nationalism. Cave explorers became nationalist symbols, as "conquerors" of an underground world. #histsci 🗃️ daily.jstor.org/underground-...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Historians have debated if Carl Linnaeus was bad at drawing, and how much he valued illustration. But Linnaeus used illustration and visual thinking at every stage in his career, even if some of his own sketches were a little... rough-and-ready. daily.jstor.org/was-carl-lin... #histsci #biology 🗃️

“The insect populations were found to have declined by an average 6.6% annually — a 72.4% drop over the 20-year period.” 🌎 🪲 🪳 🧪

The BirdCast forecast map shows migration is very active tonight along the Mississippi and Atlantic Flyways. How? BirdCast analyzes data from weather radars to separate bird migration from other activity: non-biological (rain, hurricanes, etc.) and other biological (bats, insects).

15-Sep: On this day in 1832, Charles Darwin’s legendary powers of observation temporarily let him down while travelling with gauchos in Patagonia, when he failed to realise the people wearing chaps weren’t all chaps… #HistSci

On this date 190 years ago, Charles Darwin arrived at the Galapagos Islands, where he watched the tortoises, flung a few iguanas into the sea, and collected some birds that he couldn't yet identify: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #HistSTM

Le colloque infoclio.ch 2025 explore les antécédents intellectuels et techniques de la notion d’Open Science et discute des enjeux pratiques de sa mise en œuvre dans les sciences humaines et sociales. Le 21 novembre 2025 à Berne. Programme et inscription: www.infoclio.ch/fr/programme...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Too bad Beesly and Marx never wrote anything together. I would be fascinated to see how sociology would have played out with a Positivist-Marxist synthesis approved by Marx.

Ibn Khaldun(27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406/ 732–808 AH)the profound historian who,centuries before the emergence of modern sociology, grasped the cyclical nature of civilizations.A forerunner of historical philosophy, the Maghribi sage unveiled the inner rhythms of rise and decline.

Book review: The history of science in Islamicate culture #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/t...

The maniacal, scribbling gnomes in the cellar of Ball Mansions have tossed of another tome: Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science And it’s gorgeous! #histsci

New Hood Politics w/ @prophiphop.bsky.social 🐍 This week was.. dark. The Supreme Court says racial profiling is okay, a women was stabbed on a train and a school was shot up within minutes of Charle Kirk being murdered. www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

Jakob von Uexküll was born OTD in 1864. Each animal inhabits its own individual "umwelt," comprising only those aspects of the world that are relevant to its survival and flourishing. 🌱🐋🦫🦋 #HistSTM #evolbio #philsci #psychsky 🧪

08-Sep: On this day in 1832, Charles Darwin observed gauchos using bolas. He later tried them out for himself, managing to ensnare his own horse in the process. #HistSci

The complete itinerary of Darwin's life, adapted from Darwin: A Companion (2021), has been added to Darwin Online: darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialInt... #histsci #HPS

#histSTM - can anyone reccommend historically focused work on genetic privacy/tissue ownership & similar since the 1990s in *Europe* (excl UK) for teaching with? looking for European "Alder Hey" moments, responses to ancestry testing or similar stuff & their historical analysis, any leads? 🗃️

OTD in 1854, Charles Darwin began sorting his notes in preparation for writing a treatise with the working title “Natural Selection.” He would never publish the book, instead publishing a short “abstract”—titled “On the Origin of Species”—in 1859. 🐋🌱 #HistSTM #evolbio 🧪

When writing something based on this translation it took me quite a while, and advice from a French speaking friend, to realise that only the first part is by De Candolle, and that he hated this edition because Sprengel misunderstood or directly revised his work. Receipts upon request.

Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, W. H. (William Home) Lizars, and Thomas Carnegy. 1821. Elements of the Philosophy of Plants : Containing the Principles of Scientific Botany, Nomenclature, Theory of Classification, .... #HistSTM #HistSci archive.org/details/elem...

Field Bindweed Convolvulus arvensis #FtTryonParkNYCbiodiversity #NYC #WaHi www.inaturalist.org/observations... via Fort Tryon Park: #Biodiversity and Ecology #iNaturalist Project. www.inaturalist.org/projects/for...

William Lawrence. 1819. Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man: Delivered at the Royal College ... Callow. #HistSTM #HistSci www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/185933 archive.org/details/lect...

Butler, Samuel A. 1818. A Sketch of Modern and Ancient Geography for the Use of Schools. #HistSTM #HistSci #geography archive.org/details/Butl...

"In England all the boasting and flag-wagging, the "Rule Britannia" stuff, is done by small minorities. The patriotism of the common people is not vocal or even conscious." (George Orwell - "England Your England" (1941)

Fund Managers explore what ecology #acoustics can do for them. An in-depth article of research conducted recently in Malaysia 🌍 #Biodiversity #Ecology #Sound #Nature #EcologicalRecording #EcologicalResearch impact-investor.com/in-depth-usi...

This talk moves beyond my earlier work on #Plague in Africa (journals.openedition.org/afriques/2125), & brings the story up-to-date. What do we know about how this Eurasian disease reached Africa? How many times has it done so? What are the implications of this long, deep history for #histmed?

In the summer of 1776, famed portraitist Charles Willson Peale created his most political painting imploring the American public and members of Congress to “Inoculate Before It Is Too Late.” Soon Washington changed his mind and ordered the inoculation of the army. We need that public effort again.

Millar, James. 1818. A Guide to Botany, or, A Familiar Illustration of the Principles of the Linnaean Classification. #HistSTM #HistSci #Botany archive.org/details/guid...

Macloc, J., and Benjamin Mayo. 1818. New, Complete and Universal Natural History of All the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects in the Known World : Illustrative of Their Natures, Manners, Dispositions, Habits, &c. #HistSTM #HistSci archive.org/details/newc...

Johnson, Adayshia (2022). “Ibn Khaldun’s Views on Race: Influences by Early Life/Childhood, Climate, Geography, and Geographic Segmentation.” The Macksey Journal: Volume 3, Article 95. #HistSTM #HistSci #Sociology mackseyjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/5565...

Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins, “The End of Natural History?,” Capitalism Nature Socialism 7, no. 1, (1996): 95–98. #HistSTM #HistSci www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Ferruginous Carpenter Ant Camponotus chromaiodes (feasting on excretions from Spotted Lanternflys on the Tree Of Heaven a couple of feet away) #FtTryonParkNYCbiodiversity #NYC #WaHi www.inaturalist.org/observations... via Fort Tryon Park: #Biodiversity and Ecology #iNaturalist Project.

Bernard Lightman, “The ‘History’ of Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Huxley, Spencer and the ‘End’ of Natural History,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: 58 (2016): 17–23. #HistSTM #HistSci doi.org/10.1016/j.sh...

Lavater, Johann Caspar. 1817. "Resemblance between Man and the Monkey" from The pocket Lavater, or, The science of physiognomy: to which is added, an inquiry into the analogy existing between brute and human physiognomy, from the Italian of Porta #HistSTM #HistSci archive.org/details/2561...

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

In just three days, the IDG destroyed 10,000 olive trees in Al Mughayyir village, in the occupied West Bank. Some of the trees were over 500 years-old. Art by Silman Mansour

Brian Eno And The Ambient Series, 1978-82 in STYLUS September 27, 2004 moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_styl...

Brian Eno: Over Fire Island - from his 1975 album, Another Green World; drums by Phil Collins; fretless bass by Percy Jones www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9CE...

Deeper than you think

sonic-anthropology.mixlr.com/collections/... #sonic #anthropology #radio #SonicAnthropology #SonicAnthropologyRadio

Hi #ESEH2025 peeps, hope you all arrived well in lovely Uppsala & enjoyed the first day. Shameless plug here for our „Emergence of Natural History“ book series @dgb-history.bsky.social . Some great new books also addressing #EnvHist. Please say hi if you are interested in publishing with us.

‪ From the Ghislaine Maxwell interview re: RFK,Jr? - "IF YOU MET EPSTEIN, THERE IS NO WAY THAT THIS CAST OF CHARACTERS OF WHICH IS EXTRAORDINARY, SOME COULD BE IN YOUR CABINET THAT YOU VALUE AS YOUR COWORKERS AND YOU KNOW, WOULD BE WITH HIM IF HE WAS A CREEP OR...