Looking for ideas on this one again...

We need an #XMen style movie or TV series, #XClub , about a group of 9 scientists using their uncanny gifts to protect a world against religious orthodoxy. #histsci

At the end of a busy day for HSTM Network conference in Carlow College , Juliana Adelman introduces @diarmidfinnegan ‘s fascinating keynote on John Tyndall’s infamous Belfast address, 150 years after it happened.

All due respect, and with thanks, but ... it's wrong to say Wallace 'figured it all out,' and dismiss Darwin. I do neither in 'The Song of the Dodo.' See my other book on those events, 'The Reluctant Mr Darwin.'

More #TranscriptionTroubles . From an 1854 letter from John Tyndall to George Gabriel Stokes: 'The magnets are [XXXX] & the heavy glass ready so you may test both to your hearts content.' #histsci

It's UK pub day for DISPERSALS! It's my first at my new home with Simon Prosser and I'm so thrilled with it. Many thanks to all who made this book possible - and to Josie Staveley Taylor for the utterly gorgeous cyanotype cover. Order your copy here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/disper…

We are so excited to have Diarmid Finnegan give our welcome keynote speech!
📍Cobden Hall
🕐7pm
All Welcome 🤗

Darwin was also subject to scientific survey in his lifetime. As part of a wider survey into alcohol or tobacco, Darwin replied, “I drink 1 glass of wine daily and believe I should be better without any… I have taken snuff all my life and regret that I ever acquired the habit.”

Join us on Thursday 2nd May for Emma Darwin's 216th Birthday. Come along to one of our presentations, Emma Darwin: A life in pictures. Don't forget to visit our lovely tearoom and try out Emma Darwin's very own Scotch cake recipe. We look forward to welcoming you then.

Need help deciphering a word (or words) in an 1876 John Tyndall letter; he is referring to his newlywed, Louisa: 'She is strong, tender, loving, [XXXX]—and the more I know of her the more profoundly does she make me feel her excellence'. Any ideas? #histsci #TranscriptionTroubles

A review of James T. Costa's biography of Alfred Russel Wallace in the journal Metascience, by Marion C. Thomas: tinyurl.com/27ogjs73 #histsci

How a little-known clergyman studying worms by candlelight in the 1700s inspired Charles Darwin – but didn’t get the credit he deserved: tinyurl.com/23t9e4a3 #histsci

A new article from The University of Central Lancashire - UCLan academic Kevin Butt looks at how #earthworms helped to inspire #CharlesDarwin .

How a little-known clergyman studying worms by candlelight in the 1700s inspired Charles Darwin theconversation.com/how-a-little-k… via The Conversation

A review of James T. Costa's biography of Alfred Russel Wallace in the British Journal for the History of Science, by Rich Bellon: tinyurl.com/2dzg76pj #histsci

Four random pieces of nostalgic palaeoart!

Jim Robin's Corythosaurus and Tyrannosaurus
Kazuhiko Sano's Brachiosaurus
Todd Marshall's Zuniceratops
Douglas Henderson's Dilophosaurus and coelophysoids

Charles Darwin died 142 years ago today 😥. On a happier note, the 20th edition of my FREE Friends of Charles Darwin newsletter went out today.
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Philosopher & thinker on Darwin, Daniel Dennett died today (same day as Darwin). When in Cambridge, England for a conf. in 7/2009 (during Darwin bicentennial), Dr. Karen James & I came upon Daniel Dennett in King's College. He obliged for a photo, wearing a Darwin pin on his jacket.

9 yrs ago today: meeting 'Dr. Scott' of PBS KIDS Dinosaur Train (for 2nd time) at Children & Nature Network's conf. in Vancouver, BC. Check out new Paleo Nerds w/ Scott D. Sampson: tinyurl.com/2bbbzb28 “Remember, get outside, get into nature, and make your own discoveries!”

'So that I have 6 weeks more to enjoy geologizing over these curious mountains' Charles #Darwin in a letter dated to April 18, 1835 on his field-trip in the Chilean Andes ⛰️ ⚒️
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Charles Darwin died #onthisday in 1882.

Developing a passion for natural history during his time at Cambridge University, his most famous work was 'The Origin of Species by natural selection' in 1859.

He is buried in the Abbey's nave.

Discover more: westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemor…