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A Slippery History of Controlling Ice in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin
To protect power projects and navigation, engineers used scale models and modified infrastructure to manage disruptive frazil river ice.
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Privileged to be able to show Jane Cooper around this morning. As Managing Director of Access and Inclusion UK, it also turns out she's a bit of a #histmed geek! We look forward to making small, effective changes in the Museum for all our visitors.
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17 July 1894: the Catholic priest, mathematician & cosmologist Georges Lemaître was born. 🔭⚛️🧪
"Scientific progress is the discovery of a more and more comprehensive simplicity... The previous successes... give us confidence...that the universe is cognizable."
— Georges Lemaître
#histsci
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"The first studies of frazil ice anywhere seem to have taken place in the St. Lawrence River near Montreal in the middle of the nineteenth century." - @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2018/03/20/a...
#envhist #cdnhist #histsci #envirotech
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Warren Weaver, the mathematician & administrator who coined the term "molecular biology," was born #OnThisDay in 1894.
Weaver was also a #LewisCarroll fan & owned many translations of the #Alice books. Today researchers can consult his collection @ransomcenter.bsky.social.
#booksky #histSTM 📚📜🗃️
![Lewis Carroll. Alice nel paese delle meraviglie / Lewis Carrol [sic] ; traduzione di Orio Vergani ; illustrazioni di H.Z. Tobel (Bologna: Edizioni C.E.L.I.: 1956). Harry Ransom Center. Lewis Carroll Collection of Warren Weaver. PR 4611 A716 1956 WEA.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gctqfxnif4zrn7rw76gnzzcu/bafkreiavxkqfowyblmvynbm3vol5ldoqtbrjyje6hrlpc5sxzc4luvzcpy)
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The #histsci excitement in Edinburgh has drawn to a close, but the #SHOT2026 call for papers is open until Mon., Jul. 20! The theme of this year's meeting is "Technology, Politics & Policy."
Read more & submit an abstract: www.historyoftechnology.o….
#HSS2026 #ESHS-HSS #histtech 🗃️⚙️
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Ali G: Technology, what is that all about?
Alt: Ali G: Technology, what is that all about?
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Great to see so many MWHN Members listed in this wonderful book! Including Jessica Adler discussing US military healthcare and @johnmkinder.bsky.social discussing disabled veterans #milwelfhist #histmed #disability
Andrew J. Huebner@andrewhuebner.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... So our Cambridge History of War and Society is out and available! My co-editor Jennifer Keene and I are so appreciative of all our authors—see list in the image. We’re very proud of this volume and it’s because of all the incredible scholars who contributed.
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As the last member of our group, @yavannakemi.bsky.social gave a talk on Agnes Arber at the HSS/ESHS meeting yesterday in a great session about unorthodox women in modern biological research.
#HistSci #HPBio
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7/17/1957 — b. Wendy Freedman, #Canadian astronomer, astrophysicist, author, professor. Observational cosmologist; director of the Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, CA + Las Campanas, Chile; professor of #astronomy + #astrophysics, U of Chicago #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #SciSky #HistSci
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Shobita Parthasarathy@shobitap.org
I am thrilled to announce the 1st Michigan Science & Tech Policy fellowship! We're looking for someone w/AI expertise & policy interests, to work in the MI Dept of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. App deadline Aug 9. Learn about the MiST fellowships: stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/fellowships/...
careers.umich.edu
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Five challenges. Thirty-one years. Four yachts, the last one sailed at eighty-two. He never won a single race for the America's Cup, yet smiled at every dock. Meet Sir Thomas Lipton, tea tycoon and the world's best loser.
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#HistSci #history #SciComm
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#Skystorians I have a question on behalf of a German undergrad, who is looking for an Erasmus/Exchange program in the history of technology.
I can only think of my bachelors program at Maastricht University (though that was more STS than history of technology proper).
Any suggestions? #HistSTM
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Today’s Find: “The Story of Dr. Wassell” a 1944 film based on the James Hilton novel about a missionary doctor who enters the US Navy in WWII. Played by Gary Cooper tinyurl.com/2crxuc5m #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
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1841 July 17: First issue of the English humor magazine "Punch" appeared. Beginning in 1847 early targets were ether & chloroform inhalation tinyurl.com/ybtf8r23 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
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Btw, you can use a conference code to buy my book @yalebooks.bsky.social with a corking 30% discount (and free postage in the UK) until the end of August: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780…. #books #booksky #histsci #queerhistory 🌈📚🗃️
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Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life - Yale University Press London
A revelatory history of sex, gender, and science from Linnaeus to DarwinWhat did Darwin and Linnaeus really think about sex? In print, their descriptions of ...
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Historian of food processing and food systems shakes head. (Specializes in lettuce, peas, and others) Where else would it come from other than water, but the bigger issue is the processing system. #foodhist #envhist #histtech
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
This piece by @drjudystone.bsky.social is an *exceptional* look at the root causes of Cyclospora outbreaks, including a discussion of how migrant workers are treated and the consequences of that behavior.
www.forbes.com
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*Hands-on* approaches to instruments & then I get an email like this. Good lord, where do I even begin? 💀
"your work with historical objects, craft practices, and manuscript evidence seems well aligned with AI-supported qualitative analysis."
No. Just no.
#SkyStorians #AcademicChatter #HistSTM 🗃️
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#CfA: Dept. “Knowledge Systems and Collective Life” is looking to hire a new Student Assistant to support
📚 the department’s research activities
🖍️ the management and annotation of research materials
📋 the organization of scholarly events
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 21, 2026
🔗 tinyurl.com/mu5tend3
#HistSci
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A great final session at #hss-eshs on eclipse expeditions.
From visualising eclipses, tacit skills in stabilising instruments, to women dairy maids, and thoughts on future historical work. #histsci
@hugomsoares.bsky.social
Rebecka Mähring
Toner Stevenson
Deborah Kent
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Collection Spotlight🔦 Radium Water Crock
This water crock from the 1920s was lined with radium. The crock was promoted to benefit your health. However, the effects of heavy metals and radium quickly pulled these from the stores.
#histmed #radium #museumofhealthcare
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Happy birthday to amateur pioneering American scientist, inventor & women’s rights advocate Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888) 👩🏼🔬🧪🐡 #histsci who did the earliest experiments to show the insulating effect of certain gases &correctly concluded that increasing carbon dioxide levels would affect atmospheric
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