Une nouvelle parution au titre intriguant ! https://www.mqup.ca/fr/Books/H/Histoire-de-la-medecine

Such an amazing adaptation! It requires a lot of work per trap but is so incredibly effective that it's worth it for the spider https://www.newscientist.com/article/2531317-new-to-science-spider-builds-trap-that-flings-ants-into-the-air/

Carl Linnaeus: The Dragon Slayer. "In one of his autobiographies, Linnaeus describes his pride in his discovery of the fraud: “The dragon in Hamburg had fooled all curieusa in the world until Archiater Linnaeus arrived and found him made by art”. In another one of his autobiographies, he proudly […]

Les animaux géographiques une tradition cartographique encore vivante en Suisse :) https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/hidden-images-20161221 #animhist

#animhist https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116793524807754825

The fake Dodo at the Crystal Palace (1851): #histnat #museum #taxidermy https://archive.org/details/guidetogreatexhi00grea/page/176/mode/1up

Ophiocordyceps is iconic for its ability to infect ants and change their nervous system to force them to climb high, where the fungus can fruit and spread spores to infect more ants. Pleurocordyceps is a hyperparasitic fungus that eats Ophiocordyceps. It isn't […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz]

"The Struggle with the Quarry", originally shown at the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace in London in 1851. https://www.grosvenorprints.com/stock_detail.php?ref=31021 https://goldengrenades.com/the-tale-of-two-naturalists/ https://archive.org/details/guidetogreatexhi00grea/page/67/mode/1up

« In December 1837 it was reported in the Dover Telegraph that “the Museum would be open every Monday to all classes gratuitously. This arrangement began on Boxing Day and 1500 people attended in 5 days. They did no damage and the hall was so crowded that not all could sign the visitors book.”» […]

La baleine, miroir maritime de ... la panthère médiévale. "selon Barthélemy l’Anglais, [l'haleine de la baleine] a une odeur d’ambre. En Occident, la baleine est associée aux bonnes odeurs, elle attire les poissons par sa douce haleine pour les avaler, un peu à l’instar de la panthère des […]

A monumental slice of banded Marra Mamba Tiger Eye. Mt Brockman Station, Western Australia. From the early Proterozoic (circa 2.5 billion years ago) #bandediron https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/ancient-wonders-antiquities-natural-history/monumental-slice-banded-iron-tiger-eye-specimen-5/315574

The first intentionally built x-ray machine used 3 orders of magnitude more exposure than modern machine. (Scattering, and argentic film was hard to impress) ##histsci #histtech #histmed https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/10213

La clepshydre éléphant d'Ismail al-Jazari (XIIe siècle). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_clock #histsci

Rulers and Raptors: Falcons in Courtly Europe, 1600–1793, by Nadir Weber "By paying close attention to the birds’ life trajectories, Rulers and Raptors also shines a spotlight on a large network of agents, including rural bird catchers, bourgeois animal traders, and noble falconers at court who […]

Masques pour la correction du strabisme convergent. Gravures illustrant le traité "Ophthalmodouleia" de George Bartisch, 1583. https://archive.org/details/ophthalmodouleia00bart/page/n103/mode/1up #histmed #histtech

Masque pour la correction du strabisme

Rosalie de Constant, botaniste et illustratrice suisse, 1758-1834 : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalie_de_Constant https://dehautelutte.eprouvette-unil.ch/rosalie-de-constant/index.html #histnat #womenInSTEM

"The second star in the Big Dipper’s handle is actually two stars, Mizar and Alcor. Distinguishing the two with the naked eye has been used as a test of vision for hundreds of years." “Vidit Alcor, at non lunam plenam (Latin for ‘he saw Alcor, but not the full moon’), came to be a proverbial […]

Naming ceremony for a newly discribed spider species. #whatsInAName #Animhist cc @podittmar#WhatsInAName#animhistttps://www.npr.org/2026/06/14/nx-s1-5850326/in-oregon-a-newly-discovered-species-of-spider-got-its-own-name-and-naming-ceremony

La beauté végétale comme vous ne l'avez jamais vue... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/karl-blossfeldt-s-urformen-der-kunst-1928/ #artsci

Amis de jussieu, une piste ? https://ludosphere.fr/@Janvanhouten/116753117001239735

I got the data file my son took from our measurements yesterday. Rolling solid balls down an incline. Rather than teaching him how physics works and then testing it with some experiments, we are trying to create a sequence of experiments where we can find […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

Why laser crystals have "heads" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Yy4kuG_MP6w #mineralphysics

"As the supply of astronomical data exponentially increased, astronomers and mathematicians pioneered many of the first “computers”: human beings scribbling on paper. One early program employed teams of hairdressers put out of work by the execution of the aristocracy in the French Revolution to […]

Johanna Daniel, dénicheuse de trésors <3

#parution Pour une histoire globale des opiacés. https://academic.oup.com/book/62592 #histsci #histnat #histmed

Certains animaux liminaires sont plus problématiques que d'autres. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qyzvnjlxno

Contre l'automédication, 1812. (Des Erreurs populaires relatives à la médecine, par Anthelme Richerand) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6228909j/f11.item

O_O' #histmed #histsci https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h4tiqxlaess3yxdmrwhqqdwh/post/3mnwqtetif32f

Une autre girafe malheureuse : "Venue de Nubie, une région au sud de l’Égypte, « elle a été débarquée à Marseille et elle est venue à pied jusqu’à Toulouse. Elle faisait partie d’une ménagerie itinérante qui était à l’époque dans le quartier Saint-Sernin." Étant arrivée en hiver dans la Ville […]

Le Pèere-Lachaise a ses renards, le grand cimetière central de Vienne a ses... grands hamsters sauvages, une espèce menacée d'extinction qui y a trouvé un havre de paix : https://youtu.be/rkZ6gzyg7yY #urbanature #cohabitation #animhist

"The giraffe suffered badly from injuries sustained on the long journey from deepest Africa to Windsor. In the months before her death she was unable to stand and a giant frame with a sling was constructed to hoist her up." #animhist #histnat […] [Original post on social.sciences.re]

Ce n'est pas tous les jour qu'on voit un volcan se former sous ses yeux ! Dès le premier jour, il passe de fissure à cône de 30 mètre de haut... Un fil superbement illustré sur la folle histoire du Paricutin :

RE: https://social.sciences.re/@Lignedescience/116714578644994454 @podittmar :)

Sic nos, non nobis... https://archive.org/details/gabrielisrollenh00roll/page/n209/mode/2up #animhist

"Toutes les eclipses de soleil sont faistes par iour et de lune par nuit" Compost et kalendrier des bergiers, imprimé, 1493 https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/iiif/82970/canvas/canvas-1410897/view #astro #histsci "#histciel (vue 54, folio 17)

"un pokal, grand gobelet muni d’un couvercle, réalisés dans les années 1660 par l’artiste danois Jacob Jensen Nordmand. Cet ancien marin norvégien, qui avait appris à sculpter l’ivoire lors de ses voyages à bord de navires hollandais avant de s’établir à […] [Original post on social.sciences.re]

Sainte fFore prêchant aux animaux sauvages, XVe siècle. Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, ms bav pal lat 1726, fol 49r. https://faidutti.com/blog/licornes/2021/05/18/les-saints-orphee-et-les-licornes/

Medieval Birdwatcher's Guide, A very funny tribute to medieval bestiaries :) https://www.instagram.com/p/DWCx8wzk7Z9/?img_index=2 #atysci #histsci #histnat

@podittmar Je savais que ça existait depuis un moment dans le polo (pour des raison spécifiques à ce sport) mais pas à ce point https://dusty.ninja/@bryan/statuses/01KTJ07EWDE01H834HX9130450

#til #polo is now dominated by cloned horses. Once a good horse is found can basically be ordered up as a specific model. #clone the #horse on demand... Another bonus? #crispr can be used to do edits. One example is "inserting a DNA sequence known as SINE into the control sequences of the […]

@Lignedescience I wonder what they could do to fix the false copyright claim that sometimes happen with the same paintings… https://meinamsterdam.nl/retrospective-vermeer-droit-auteur/ (sorry in french) #art #collections #museum #openmuseum #rijksmuseum #louvre

« [J]e promenais mon œil dans ce paysage, faisant précautionneusement mouvoir la pierre entre mes doigts, perdant parfois la netteté, la retrouvant quelques instants plus tard par tâtonnement. J’étais fascinée par l’expérience visuelle que j’étais en train de faire. Dans ce tout petit caillou de […]

Il y a presque un siècle, deux scientifiques entêtées réussirent à produire le premier vaccin pour la coqueluche. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/unsung-heroes-ended-deadly-plague-180979547/ #histsci #histmed #womenInSTEM

The oldest surviving successful aerial photograph, shot in October 1860 from a hot-air balloon: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/06/05/perspective-26/ #histtech #carto #maps

The hidden beauty of tiny seeds. #histnat #artsci #sciart https://www.instagram.com/p/DU0jU6EjYru/

The Yellow Milkmaid Syndrome. "The Milkmaid’, one of Johannes Vermeer's most famous pieces, depicts a scene of a woman quietly pouring milk into a bowl. During a survey the Rijksmuseum discovered that there were over 10,000 copies of the image on the […] [Original post on social.sciences.re]

En attendant, j'écoute ce colloque organisé entre autres par Thierry Buquet (of giraffe fame) où j'apprends plein de choses...

RE: https://social.sciences.re/@Lignedescience/115682772166636678 C'est tout à l'heure ! N'hésitez pas à vous connecter pour m'écouter parler des joies et chausse-trappes de la transversalité et des barrières très franchissables entre sciences « dures » et SHS. L'objectif est d'intéresser un […]

Planches d'animaux plus ou moins exotiques... Saurez-vous trouver l'intrus ? https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/03919/public_mistral_joconde_fr_ACTION_CHERCHER_FIELD_1_REF_VALUE_1_5002E002087 #animhist