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Cover of the Penguin Classics edition of Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle"

The foreword by Janet Browne and Michael Neve made a strong impression on me.

In the mail today: a copy of Gillen D'Arcy Wood's "The Wake of HMS Challenger" (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025) that I won for attending a webinar from the Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science, which is now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4c...

#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's landmark book 'On the Origin of Species' was first published. The work is one of the foundations of evolutionary biology, and one of the most important scientific works of the 19th century. #HistoryOfScience

📖 Exciting reading for today, the anniversary of the publication of On The Origin Of Species:

The Darwin Online project has just released Darwin's address book, filled with unique insights not found anywhere else. It has been transcribed and is now readable at the link below!

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For this 166th anniv. of the publication of On the Origin of Species (1859), what was the 1st book you read about Charles Darwin? Mine: Charles Darwin: The Making of a Scientist by Roy A. Gallant (1972), c. 1995, when reading books abt dinosaurs (thanks, Jurassic Park) led me to books abt evolution.

Me holding a book open to the front page of Origin of Species

Me holding a book open to the front page of Species Plantarum.

I got to hold first edition Linnaeus and first edition Darwin today, nbd.

(Both jewels of the @mobotgarden.bsky.social library.)

Darwin’s publisher, John Murray, was usually quite generous about paying for maps, plates, and in-text images for D’s books, and D attended closely to his illustrations, so it’s surprising that the Origin featured only 1, a diagrammatic model of change through time.

🌱🐋🧪 #histSTM #evobio 🐡

‘Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.’ Charles Darwin Naturalist and humanist

Some of the most important words ever written: 'Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.' – Charles Darwin, 'On the Origin of Species'. It was published #OnThisDay 1859.

A colour photograph of the title page of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. The top right corner of the page has been torn out, and underneath is handwritten from the author 1860

#OTD in 1859 'On the Origin of Species' was published. We have a few different editions in the library @thembauk.bsky.social but we are privileged to be custodians of an early edition gifted to (a mystery) someone by Charles #Darwin himself

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On the Origin of Species: landmark work published #OTD 1859 by Charles Darwin, influential English naturalist, geologist and pioneer of evolutionary theory.
Portrait 1830’s by George Richmond
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An important anniversary in the history of science. The 24th of November is a very significant date in the history of science. On this date an event took place that would contribute to a major change in the way humanity viewed the world and its plac…

On 24 November 1639 the British astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree became the first observers to record a transit of Venus. #histsci
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Charles Darwin's Publisher Didn't Believe in Evolution, but Sold His Revolutionary Book Anyway The famed naturalist and conservative stalwart John Murray III formed an unlikely alliance in popularizing a radical idea

Darwin's groundbreaking On the Origin of Species appeared #OTD in 1859 -- even though Darwin's publisher, John Murray, didn't accept evolution. A while back I wrote about their turbulent relationship, for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu... #science #history #histsci

Book review: ‘On the Origin of Species’ by Charles Darwin (1st ed., 1859) …or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

24-Nov: On this day in 1859 was published Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species‘. As revolutionary science books go, it’s a damn fine read. Here’s my retrospective review: friendsofdarwin.com/reviews/book... #histsci

I can’t quite believe it’s been 16 years since we celebrated Origin’s 150th anniversary (and Darwin’s 200th birthday). One of these days I’ll make time to write about how my perspective has evolved since then (ba dum tsk), particularly around colonialism and the “great man of science” model.

BREAKING:

Sen. Elissa Slotkin says police responded to her home tonight in response to a bomb threat. Slotkin wasn't at home at the time.

This is two days after Trump said Slotkin and other Democrats committed "seditious conspiracy, punishable by death."

The story of the captives transported on the HMS Beagle with Darwin | Aeon Videos An animated interpretation of the story of the Indigenous people kidnapped from Tierra del Fuego and brought to England in 1830

This short from the Swiss animator Georges Schwizgebel titled ‘Darwin’s Notebook’ envisions the encounter of Charles Darwin with three Indigenous people on the Beagle, who were travelling back to their homelands in Terra del Fuego after being kidnapped to England in 1830

Great video from @pbseons.bsky.social about Darwin and his work on barnacles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=plYu...

#histsci #HPS

Great video from @pbseons.bsky.social about Darwin's earthworm studies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEkb...

#histsci #HPS

YouTube video by PBS Eons Darwin's Unexpected Final Obsession

Great video from @pbseons.bsky.social about Darwin's earthworm studies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEkb...

Visited the @universitypress.cambridge.org bookshop in 2009 during the Darwin Bicentenary!

Visited in 2009 during the Darwin Bicentenary!

A shiny metal tube. Black plastic threads at the bottom. A metal tab can be pressed in to suck up ink.

Hey fountain pen people. I have a Parker 75 pen of my dad’s, and it includes this metal jobby with a squeezable part that I think is meant to let you use ink from a bottle. I can’t figure how to use it. Any tips? I don’t see where the threads match the pen.

ARTICLE: “The Apostle of the Monkey Ancestral Business”: Darwinism and Black Newspapers as Counterpublics, 1859–1929 In the journal Isis: “The Apostle of the Monkey Ancestral Business”: Darwinism and Black Newspapers as Counterpublics, 1859–1929 Matthew W. Hughey Abstract After Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of S…

ARTICLE: “The Apostle of the Monkey Ancestral Business”: Darwinism and Black Newspapers as Counterpublics, 1859–1929 ~ bit.ly/3JV5MmG #HPS #histsci

Ragebaiter in Threads: If your an atheist explain Heaven and Hell! You can't

I can!

Heaven: A story to convince you to accept your shitty life with the promise of a better one

Hell: A story to threaten you into accepting your shitty life with the promise of a worse one

The American Revolution Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States.

You should be able to view all 6 episodes for free here: www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...

Ken Burns, Contingency, and the Question of Whether a New Consensus View of the American Revolution is Possible A few thoughts about Episode 1 of The American Revolution.

A few thoughts about Episode 1 of Ken Burns's new documentary about the American Revolution. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

I watched Ken Burns' new documentary and it was great but the part I loved the most was the part at the end after the credits where they say the American Revolution was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and viewers like you.

Just started watching the new Ken Burns
series about the #AmericanRevolution on PBS. Looking forward to the episode where the Continental Army takes over the airports. #TrumpIsAMoron

Yikes! Sorry