Hi, new followers! This fab trailer for a live online @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social book event summarizes HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, just out from @ucpress.bsky.social. 1/n #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgbG...

MONSTERS with Surekha Davies

Next week teaching: van Gelder’s lovely 1995 paper in #philAI (and dynamical systems approach more generally). Bayes and Monty Hall in #philsci 2, and what characterizes #histsci relative to related fields in methods seminar. Yes, I know I’m buried with teaching this term. Helping out my colleagues

#Agenda 1er mai, 9h-17h : Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century,
Free and Online One-Day Interdisciplinary Workshop http://histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/04/contagion-et-contamination-au-xixe.html
#histsci #histlitt #histmed

#NYC folks: I'm doing a workshop on history writing for broader audiences at NYU on Tues 8 Apr 2-3:15pm. My NYU book talk, HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, is that evening. Please RSVP! 1/n as.nyu.edu/research-cen... #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

New substack--guest post on race and science #science #blacksky #blackinstem #medsky #histsci #HPBio #evolbio

https://open.substack.com/pub/sterlinga/p/this-is-what-the-new-york-times-doesnt?r=1smcrn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Join me talking about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY @ucpress.bsky.social with BITE author @billschuttauthor.bsky.social on @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social live show! 1/n #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgbG...

MONSTERS with Surekha Davies

"Autrefois adossée au pouvoir de vie et de mort du souverain, l’expérimentation s’est banalisée dans les hospices des enfants trouvés. Ces derniers servirent à la fois de terrain d’expérimentation et de moyen de production : pour conserver et transmettre le virus protecteur, les médecins durent organiser des chaînes vaccinales. Tout au long du XIXe siècle, les enfants trouvés en constituèrent les maillons indispensables."
#histsci #histmed
https://www.medecinesciences.org/en/articles/medsci/full_html/2016/06/medsci20163205p509/medsci20163205p509.html

Delighted to be talking about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, from @ucpress.bsky.social, with @k8lister.bsky.social at @histfest.bsky.social at @britishlibrary.bsky.social on Sun. April 27! Also streamable online. #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #artsky #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH

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Factors contributing to the changes in the role, status and nature of mathematics in the 16th century #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-xli/

Jesuit astronomer, mathematician and physicist, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, who first investigated optical diffraction and published it posthumously in his Physico mathesis de lumine, coloribus, et iride, aliisque annexis libri duo in 1665, was born 2 April 1618. #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/refraction-refrangibility-diffraction-or-inflexion/

01-Apr: (This is not a trick!) On this day in 1832, Charles Darwin fell for a pretty pathetic April Fools’ Day trick courtesy of his HMS Beagle shipmates… #HistSci
http://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/april-fools-hms-beagle/

A public lecture on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY at New York University and a book conversation with @tamaraw.bsky.social and @elicumings.bsky.social at Columbia, Tues 8 and Weds 9 evenings in #NewYork! 1/n #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #artsky #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH

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Unser neues Heft #WerkstattGeschichte 91 "körpermaße" ist erschienen!
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Im Thementeil, hg. v. Cornelia Aust, geht es diesmal um das Vermessen & Vergleichen von Körpermerkmalen v.a. im 18./19. Jh. Wie trug dies dazu bei, geschlechtsspezifische & rassistische Differenz herzustellen und so Körpereigenschaften zu essenzialisieren?

https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/koerpermasse/

@histodons @historikerinnen

Joanne Simpson (1923-2010)
1st woman in the U.S. to earn a #meteorology PhD
#pilot

her research & models revolutionized our understanding of #clouds & #hurricanes, helping to shape modern #weather forecasting

Photograph: Dr. Joanne Simpson (1923–2010) pores over reams of images of tropical clouds filmed during flights across the tropical Pacific. courtesy Schlesinger Library

I talked with Jackson van Uden about how monsters patrol boundaries; positive, negative, and neutral monsters; and monster-making in the age of European exploration. #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH #maps podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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#Chicago folks: you can view a physical copy of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY and its tomato-red cover with silvery mirror design, & #SFF monsters at the #NewberryLibrary bookstore! Thanks @pdtoler.bsky.social! #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH #maps

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Public book talk in New Orleans, Monday March 31st, 5-6pm, on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY. Stone Auditorium (Woldenberg Hall, Rm. 210). 1/n #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH events.tulane.edu/content/publ...

HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is at #AmherstBooks. #NewEngland folks, get signed copies here while stocks last! @umassamherst.bsky.social @hampshirecollege.bsky.social #SmithCollege #MountHolyoke #AmherstCollege #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

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Wrote a newsletter on the first part of the HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY book tour. Also: podcast episodes, free book excerpts and interviews, and the audiobook, out May 13! #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

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