Cosmography archives
The Century Survey: A Deeper Slice of the Universe (1997)
by Margaret Geller and co-authors
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997AJ....114.2205G/abstract
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256 years ago today #AlexanderVonHumboldt was born. The Invention of Nature is a delightful biography that paints a lively portrait of this ever-restless polymath, showing he was a force of nature.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/02/11/book-review-the-invention-of-nature-the-adventures-of-alexander-von-humboldt-the-lost-hero-of-science/
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Biography #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm @andrea_wulf
The Inquisitive Biologist · Book review – The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of ScienceThe Invention of Nature is a delightful biography that paints a lively portrait of this ever-restless polymath, showing he was a force of nature.
What an amazing conclusion of the IMPRS retreat today! The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science welcomed us for a brief but intense visit, and young solar system researchers got to discuss with researchers studying the history of solar eclipse excursions and other intriguing topics. Thank you for having us!
This week's #NewBooks at the library: I found a good deal on a copy of River Planet: #Rivers from Deep Time to the Modern Crisis from Dunedin Academic Press, adopted a damaged copy of #WilliamWhewell: Victorian Polymath from the University of Pittsburgh Press, and bought an ex-library copy of The History of Geoconservation, published by the Geological Society.
#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Geology #Earthsciences #Hydrology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci @bookstodon
Human evolution was never linear 
.
It’s a story of branching paths, shared DNA, and entwined destinies that shaped who we are today.
#Brewminate #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #HistoryOfScience
https://brewminate.com/minds-entwined-the-branching-paths-of-human-evolution/
Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas · Human Evolution and the BrainExplore how the human brain evolved and why human evolution followed a complex, branching path rather than a straight line.
From Brodmann’s cellular grids 
to today’s neural networks 
, the cartography of the brain has always been about more than science — it’s about how we imagine thought itself.
#Brewminate #Neuroscience #AI #HistoryOfScience
https://brewminate.com/brodmanns-grids-to-neural-networks-the-historical-cartography-of-the-brain/
Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas · History of Brain MappingTrace the history of brain mapping from Brodmann’s areas to modern neuroimaging and AI, exploring a century of scientific discovery.
Which scientists crossed the boundary between “high science” and “the trades,” taking time to teach workers, artisans, and apprentices directly?
Scientists who collapsed the scientist–craftsman gap: those who refused to stay at the abstract/theoretical level and instead taught, worked with, or learned from tradespeople and artisans.
This week's #NewBooks at the library: Three very different books. I won a copy of #Fantasy Miniatures at auction. I adopted a damaged copy of #ForensicEntomology. And I bought a second-hand copy of Volume 1 of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin.
#Warhammer #Wargaming #GamesWorkshop #Insects #Entomology #Evolution #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon
ENTERTAINING, IMPRESSIVELY COMPREHENSIVE history of humanity’s long and confused journey to the discovery of germ theory is a work of popular science with all the propulsive energy of a mystery novel, even though we know the ending. A MINUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/so-very-small-thomas-levenson/1146072181?ean=9780593242735
Barnes & NobleSo Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease|Hardcover“An elegant, wide-ranging history” (The New York Review of Books) of the centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease thatreveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about...
my #bookreview of The elements of #MarieCurie is out now in C&I: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-radiant-legacy.html #HistoryOfScience #biography #women #womeninSTEM
proseandpassion.blogspot.coma radiant legacyI quite enjoyed learning about all the alumnae of Marie Curie's lab by reading: The elements of Marie Curie Dava Sobel Fourth Estate 2024 ...
It's often said that journal publishing is still using 17th-century technology, but I think that's unfair. After all, they didn't have DOIs in the 1600s.
Martian Memories
Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/advances-in-nasa-imaging-changed-how-world-sees-mars
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees MarsSixty years ago, NASA’s Mariner 4 captured groundbreaking views of the Red Planet, leading to a steady stream of advances in the cameras used to study other worlds.
This blog has been a very long time in the making. Last summer I visited the Niels Bohr Library and Archives of the American Institute of Physics. That visit turned into an interview (Allison Rein interviewed me). Very excited to share this. I hope it will help a few more people find their way to our catalogue as well! https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/inside-the-international-atomic-energy-agency-archives-unit #arhives #digipres #historyofscience #physics #nuclearphysics
AIP · Inside the International Atomic Energy Agency Archives UnitAn Interview with Archivist, Elizabeth Kata
Sic transit gloria mundi and the Unapologetic Vatican in the Shapley Supercluster: a recap on cosmic flows by Avi Loeb
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-unapologetic-vatican-in-the-shapley-supercluster-cc8e5023c305
Medium · The Unapologetic Vatican in the Shapley Supercluster
100 Jahre Quantenmechanik 
"Ich hatte das Gefühl, durch die Oberfläche der atomaren Erscheinungen hindurch auf einen tief darunter liegenden Grund von merkwürdiger innerer Schönheit zu schauen, und es wurde mir fast schwindlig bei dem Gedanken ..."
Werner #Heisenberg in: Der Teil und das Ganze (1969)
#Quantenmechanik #Physikgeschichte #Atomphysik #HelgolandMoment
#QuantumMechanics #HistoryOfScience #AtomicPhysics #Science #HelgolandMoment
DER STANDARD · Werner Heisenberg: Der Außenseiter, dem die Neuordnung der Physik gelangTrotz Selbstzweifeln und teils schlechter Noten trug er die Hoffnungen einer krisengeschüttelten Physik auf seinen Schultern. Im Juni 1925 gelang ihm der Durchbruch
Now online: Videos from the workshop "Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science",
April 2-4, 2025, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5rAX6ywmP7O_nT99Osd74uino78BJMVT
CEA: Une histoire spatiale qui commence en 1959
Pour traquer les poussières radioactives liées aux essais nucléaires, le CEA embarque un compteur Geiger dans un missile. À 100 km d’altitude, surprise : des rayons gamma viennent d’au-dessus. C’est le début de l’astrophysique au CEA.
CEA/D. Baclet/C. Jehanno/J.Labeyrie
https://www.cea.fr/Pages/actualites/sciences-de-la-matiere/aventure-astrophysique.aspx
my #BookReview of The Green Ages: #Medieval #Innovations in #Sustainability by Annette Kehnel is in the May issue of C&I: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/05/three-book-reviews.html #science #HistoryOfScience #environment #ecology
proseandpassion.blogspot.comthree book reviews I managed to lose track of my book reviews published in C&I, so here's three of them in a row. Chronologically backwards, because the more ...
Last week, our students learned how to conduct a proper evaluation for an NLP experiment. To this end, we introduced a small textcorpus with sentences about Joseph Fourier, who counts as one of the discoverers of the greenhouse effect, responsible for global warming.
#ise2025 #nlp #lecture #climatechange #globalwarming #historyofscience #climate @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @tabea @enorouzi @sourisnumerique
Last leg on our brief history of NLP (so far) is the advent of large language models with GPT-3 in 2020 and the introduction of learning from the prompt (aka few-shot learning).
T. B. Brown et al. (2020). Language models are few-shot learners. NIPS'20
https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2020/file/1457c0d6bfcb4967418bfb8ac142f64a-Paper.pdf
#llms #gpt #AI #nlp #historyofscience @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @tabea @enorouzi @sourisnumerique #ise2025