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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The second essay in our newest Issue is by Henry Schmidt. Entitled "Making Problem Situations, from Psychology to Computing to Design" The paper exposes the history of one of the simplest forms of scientific framing: what is a problem in the laboratory? How do we define something as a problem?

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🚨New Issue Alert🚨Vol. 56 Is. 4 is out! The issue contains two amazing articles. The first, Allison Buser's article "Data Collection from the Periphery" examines the role of women in the early Smithsonian meteorology project.

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🚨New Issue Alert🚨 Volume 56 Issue 3 is out now with essays by Karin Nickelsen and David Kaiser, as well as a book review by John DiMoia. online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...

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Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

New Special Section Call for Proposals for @hsnatsci.bsky.social ! My co-editor Dominik Huenniger and I are seeking short essays (800-1000 words) on the theme of "Revisiting Classics and Major Influences." More below.

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The group review is one of our favorite forms of historical scholarship. Is there anything historians love more than reading a group of books and talking in depth about what they reveal about the state of the field? Maybe asking questions that aren't really questions at conferences! (more a comment)

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🚨New Issue Alert🚨Up first! Tony Adler's paper analyzing the way that humans have viewed giant squid. online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...

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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Thanks @aip.bsky.social for highlighting @hsnatsci.bsky.social's article on roads as scientific infrastructure. www.aip.org/history/arti...

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Article spotlight: Eun-Joo Ahn on the road to Mount Wilson Observatory

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Do historians focus too much on producing academic books? In her essay for our most recent volume @aileenfyfe.bsky.social her team's research project "Publishing the Philosophical Transactions: the social, cultural and economic history of a learned journal, 1665–2015"

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Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen @jessiewhchen.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Can historians benefit from creative works for historical research? In this @hsnatsci.bsky.social short piece, I share how I worked w/ different types of making to research and write my recent book on 17th-c. florilegia. Thank you @dominikhhh.bsky.social & @mbaldwin.bsky.social for the invitation!

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Practicing Early Modern History through (Re)Making Things

How can historians engage with hands-on research to better understand the embodied knowledge and sensorial experiences in historical practices? In what ways can creative works be implemented in order ...

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Have a long weekend and need a good read? How about Jacob Green's new article "Psychoactive Drugs and Moral Qualms: James McKeen Cattell’s Self Experiments with Cannabis, Chocolate, and Caffeine"? online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

🚨New Volume Alert🚨For the new year, why not read a special section on Historical Practice? Edited by @dominikhhh.bsky.social and @melissagiragrant.com this section contains eight essays on the practice of researching and writing the history of science. online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Recent history resonates with current public health conversations. Check out 2021's Essay section on Pandemic Subjects. Dora Vargha's short article "The Vaccine" says it all: "Vaccines are technologies of trust...and trust can fray at any point." online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Today is a great day to read Spencer Weart's paper on funding at Mauna Loa Observatory: doi.org/10.1525/hsps... From the #vault, it begins "Funding is obviously a necessity for scientific research, but the details of the funding of a given program have rarely been studied in detail."

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Money for Keeling: Monitoring CO2 levels

C.D. Keeling's measurements of the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere since 1957, tracking a rise that threatens global warming, form one of the most important scienti.c data sets ever cr...

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It's very easy to think that scientists are politically united. But the newest issue of HSNS is a close look at the politics of science. Vol 55 Issue 1 contains 11 short essays looking at the legacy of E.O. Wilson's Sociobiology at 50.

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

At the beginning of the semester, if questions of AI in academia are stressing you out, could I suggest reading through our most recent set of essays? online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Christoph Hoffmann's article in the most recent Issue of HSNS looks at an "instructive controversy"- the debate between Carl von Hess and Karl von Frisch regarding color vision in fish and bees.

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Good day to all our new followers! Here are two papers from our #archives on the intersections of science and national identity. A good way to think about how science has aided the politicization of race and culture over time.

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

Today is a great day to read "The Black Androids: A Chrestomathy" in the latest issue of HSNS. A Chrestomathy is a group of readings compiled to help a student learn a language. The authors of this essay use this framework to work through their study of black androids.

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

@histocean.bsky.social Check out ICHO member Penelope Hardy's essay on strategies for teaching deep sea exploration in the Upper Midwest in our new issue of HSNS. Find it here: online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

The essay section this issue is on pedagogy. Each short essay contains amazing strategies for introducing history of science, technology, and medicine in the classroom.

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

Our February Issue is out and it is choke full! 🚨Volume 54 Issue 1 🚨https://online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/54/1

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Vol. 3 Issue 5 is out! There are two articles and an essay in this volume. First up Georg Borg's article on Alfred Nier and the instrument revolution in geochemistry. They use Borg's career to support the idea that there were continuities in pre and post WWII chemistry and physics.

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

As we think about the place of history of science on the web (and celebrate our first official post here), let's look at a great paper from the archives. David K. Hecht's 2011 article about Rachel Carson, "nonscientific attributes were central in legitimating Carson as a public scientist."

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Hein Brookhuis @heinbrookhuis.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Transformed my @hsnatsci.bsky.social article on the Belgian MYRRHA reactor into a poster for the Nuclear Science Contest of the Belgian Nuclear Society. Happy to bring the HPS-perspective to a science contest!

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

We are just making the transit and Bsky -- so delighted to be here!! Thanks, Alisa, for helping to spread the word.

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