Quintino Lopes was invited by the European Research Council to act as an expert reviewer in the ERC Consolidator Grants 2025 competition. For the IHC researcher, ‘this invitation is a manifestation of the international projection and recognition of the research produced by the IHC.’

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/quintino-lopes-erc-reviewer/

What is the basis of the claim that "everything was invented in Israel"?
#inventions #innovation #newideas #history #engineering #historyofscience #historyofengineering #israel #israelis

From EAZ-archives: The report on the second symposium on Stone Age nomenclature in Vienna (12–16 October 1965), during which the researchers attempted elaborate a uniform terminology for Palaeo- and Mesolithic stone tools for German-language publications.
#StoneAge #HistoryofScience #Archaeology #EAZ #EAZArchives
Toepfer, Volker. 1968. “Third Symposium for Stone Age Nomenclature in Halle/S. 1967”. EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift 9 (2): 190-91. https://doi.org/10.54799/NTXL7168

While researching how errors by calculations with slide-rules were handled I found a book from 1937:

"Physikalisches Praktikum -
Eine Sammlung von Übungsaufgaben für die physikalismen Übungen an Universitäten und Hochschulen" by W. H. WestphaI, TH Berlin.

It's a pearl that has all but disappeared from the curriculum of teachers of physics. The only citation I found was from Japan. Sometimes understanding German is an asset.

#physics #education #historyofscience

https://libarch.nmu.org.ua/bitstream/handle/GenofondUA/17263/9c48fe642aad05163041448f62e94669.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Alice Stewart: The woman who knew too much
https://youtu.be/proyrn2AAMA

#HistoryOfMedicine #HistoryOfScience
#medicine #health #science

Na tarde de 26 de Setembro, estaremos a afinar os últimos pormenores (e instrumentos) para mais uma Noite Europeia dos Investigadores da Universidade de Évora!

Estas são as quatro actividades que preparamos para vocês. Basta aparecer na Praça 1º de Maio (Mercado Municipal), em Évora.

#Histodons #NEI2025 #NoiteEuropeiaDosInvestugadores
#EuropeanResearchersNight #Évora #HistoryInThePublicSphere #HistóriaNaEsferaPública #SciComm #HistoryOfScience #ColonialExpeditions #Phonetics #Botany

Cosmography archives

The Century Survey: A Deeper Slice of the Universe (1997)

by Margaret Geller and co-authors
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997AJ....114.2205G/abstract

256 years ago today #AlexanderVonHumboldt was born. The Invention of Nature is a delightful biography that paints a lively portrait of this ever-restless polymath, showing he was a force of nature.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/02/11/book-review-the-invention-of-nature-the-adventures-of-alexander-von-humboldt-the-lost-hero-of-science/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Biography #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm @andrea_wulf

90 segundos para o Anderson Antunes nos contar (quase) tudo sobre o projecto KNOW.AFRICA, cuja equipa está a estudar o papel dos habitantes e agentes locais no conhecimento adquirido em expedições científicas portuguesas a África no século XIX.

https://www.90segundosdeciencia.pt/episodes/ep-2069-anderson-antunes/

What an amazing conclusion of the IMPRS retreat today! The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science welcomed us for a brief but intense visit, and young solar system researchers got to discuss with researchers studying the history of solar eclipse excursions and other intriguing topics. Thank you for having us!

This week's #NewBooks at the library: I found a good deal on a copy of River Planet: #Rivers from Deep Time to the Modern Crisis from Dunedin Academic Press, adopted a damaged copy of #WilliamWhewell: Victorian Polymath from the University of Pittsburgh Press, and bought an ex-library copy of The History of Geoconservation, published by the Geological Society.

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Geology #Earthsciences #Hydrology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci @bookstodon

Human evolution was never linear .

It’s a story of branching paths, shared DNA, and entwined destinies that shaped who we are today.

#Brewminate #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #HistoryOfScience

https://brewminate.com/minds-entwined-the-branching-paths-of-human-evolution/

From Brodmann’s cellular grids to today’s neural networks , the cartography of the brain has always been about more than science — it’s about how we imagine thought itself.

#Brewminate #Neuroscience #AI #HistoryOfScience

https://brewminate.com/brodmanns-grids-to-neural-networks-the-historical-cartography-of-the-brain/

This week's #NewBooks at the library: I adopted a damaged copy of Roger F. Pasquier's #Birds at Rest (@princetonupress), bought an original copy of Nora Barlow's 1958 The Autobiography of #CharlesDarwin at a very fair price on eBay, and found a great deal on Stefano Mancuso's Planting Our World.

#Books #Scicomm #Ornithology #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Botany #Plants #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Which scientists crossed the boundary between “high science” and “the trades,” taking time to teach workers, artisans, and apprentices directly?

Scientists who collapsed the scientist–craftsman gap: those who refused to stay at the abstract/theoretical level and instead taught, worked with, or learned from tradespeople and artisans.

What happens when a young scholar’s career is shaped – and cut short – by war and ideology? Heinz Gau’s brief academic journey is an example of how the intersection of science and politics can influence researchers' career path.
#HistoryOfScience #WWIIHistory #Archaeology #EAZ #EAZArchives
Rauchfuß, Björn. 2013. “Heinz Gau – A Greifswald Prehistorian in National Socialist Germany”. EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift 54 (1/2): 5-28 (in German)
https://doi.org/10.54799/YJLC3139

Hey #histodons, wondering if there are any folks who have found use in getting green revolution and big science ideas to talk to eachother? #HistoryOfScience #Envhist