WOW! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871),' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 50K times!

I'm working hard on the book. For more about that, watch this space!

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648

#history #histodons @histodons #histsci #histbio #HistSTM #HSTM #STS @histstm #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia 'pride #pridemonth #queerhistory #histsex #sex #biology #nature #naturalhistory #science #animals #Darwin

It's #WorldBeeDay!

This gorgeous gynandromorph potter flower bee is described in a 1845 article in The Zoologist by English entomologist Frederick Smith. It's pictured from above (left) and below (right).

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Happy Easter to all who celebrate!

No cute lambs or bunnies in my files, I'm afraid. I do, however, have a *lot* of queer chickens. This is Hector, a 'hen-cock' pictured in the Sporting Magazine in March 1833 and mentioned by Charles Darwin in his 1868 book The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication!

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My 2023 article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain,' published in Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, has now been made free to access!

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036

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Happy Halloween!

Same-sex sexual behaviours in bats were first documented in 1895.

Here's a more recent study: http://www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Same-sex-sexual-behaviour-in-bats,77304,0,2.html.

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My 2023 Notes and Records article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' is free to read this #OpenAccess week!

Download away and share while you can . . .

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036

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Wow! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871),' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 45K times!

Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648

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Wishing everyone a nice, relaxing weekend!

I've been writing about frog sex this week, so here's a lovely plate from German painter and naturalist August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof's sumptuous Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium ('The Natural History of Our Frogs,' 1758).

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My 2022 article 'Bounds of Diversity: Queer Zoology in Europe from Aristotle to John Hunter,' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 25K times!

It's free to read #OpenAccess - please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/195/1/1/6568055

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Whoop, whoop! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)' has now been viewed over 40K times!

Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648

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I mustn't let May go by without a nod to my 2009 article on the discovery, during the 19th century, of same-sex copulation among Maybugs (also known as Maybeetles, cockchafers, doodlebugs). Do look out for them at it in your garden!

https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/E0260954108000703

#history #histodons @histodons #HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio @histstm #sex #histsex #science #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #animals #beetles #maybugs #queer #lgbtq #pride #QueerInSTEM

#HappyEaster!

No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. I do, however, have a *lot* of queer chickens. This is a painting of a hen-cock (c. 1900), a prize fighter, by English artist Herbert Atkinson.

#Easter #HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio #STS @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #animals #biology #science #naturalhistory #chickens #art

I hope everyone has a relaxing weekend!

Lovely colour plate depicting gynandromorph specimens in the collections of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Produced by German entomologist Friedrich Klug in 1829.

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#ish2023 is on! You should follow if you are into #philbio , #histbio and anything in the vicinity.

Finalizing the proofs of my Darwin and Darwinism handbook essay I came across this paper that I haven't read before. It is quite interesting.

Desmond, Adrian. 1984. “Robert E. Grant: The Social Predicament of a Pre-Darwinian Transmutationist.” Journal of the History of Biology 17 (2): 189–223. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00143732.

New paper in ISIS: "Biometry against Fascism: Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology" #Hsci #histbio
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/723686

A "for the record" paper for evolutionary biologists:

tl;dr: cite the 1964 paper, not the 1973 for "nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution"

On Citing Dobzhansky about the Significance of Evolution to Biology https://academic.oup.com/iob/article/5/1/obac047/6807413?searchresult=1

The call for papers for ISHPSSB has been extended until February 15. #histsci #histbio #philsci #philbio

https://site.pheedloop.com/event/ISHPSSB2023/home/

The call for papers for the Eighth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS). #histbio #histsci

https://hisress.org/cfp/

I wrote a new blog post on South Carolina's proposal to ban the teaching of race as a social construct. Give it a read! #racism #histbio #philbio #genetics

https://altrightorigins.com/