I'm a historian of Victorian science who obsesses over (among other odd things) men with muttonchops who obsessed over the sex lives of plants
East Lansing, MI
Joined April 2013
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Rich Bellon retweeted
James Croll, Scottish astronomer and climatologist who attempted to establish a relationship between changes in Earth's orbit and #ClimateChange (specifically #IceAges), is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
lindahall.org/about/news/sciโฆ
#histSTM #geology
Rich Bellon retweeted
I walk past this holding tank in the basement of @naturalsciences several times a week, but this is the first time anything has ever looked back at me.
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Iโm so excited about my new books!! Canโt wait to learn more about the life of Dr. Ernest Everett Just! mbl.edu/about/diversity-and-โฆ @MBLScience ๐คฉ๐จ๐พโ๐ฌ
Rich Bellon retweeted
Delighted to have received this today. Thank you so much to my co-editor, the amazing @eneswald1 who made this such a good experience. Also, @darwinsbulldog @Roland_Jackson Bernie Lightman, @ProfTyndall @AbbySCollier @UPittPress and many others
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First Edition, First Printing of Darwinโs Descent of Man. This copy is 1 of 2500 copies printed in Feb 1871. Descent sold out in 3 days, prompting John Murray to inform Darwin that โThe first Edition of your Book is exhaustedโ and a second printing is needed. #Darwin #HistSci
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UK contemporary sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow #WomensArt #Art #artistsontwitter
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My newest toy arrived just in time for Darwin Day (tomorrow), courtesy of @MatthewLFaerber and Exhibits Department colleagues @naturalsciences.
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One of the most wonderful books on the history of science that I've ever read. It tells a story of four friends - Babbage, Whewell, Jones and Herschel - who were deeply influenced by Francis Bacon and who changed the way science looks like.
amazon.com/Philosophical-Breโฆ
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โPaleontology can satisfy the most enthusiastic lover of the marvelous.โ Remembering Gideon Mantell โฆ#OnThisDay
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The paperback edition of my novel Termination Shock is on sale now wherever you get your books. The New York Times Book Review calls it โat once wildly imaginative and grounded.โ #terminationshock harpercollins.com/products/tโฆ
Rich Bellon retweeted
Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions launched OTD in 1872.
D believed that, just as our bodily form has evolved from our animal ancestors, so too has "the habit of expressing our feelings by certain movements"--in a word, our "emotions."
