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🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2025-06-09

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! 🏳️‍🌈🐒

academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/ar

@histodons @histstm

Photograph of the statue of Charles Darwin in Shrewsbury viewed through progress pride flag-coloured filter.
🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2025-05-20

It's ! 🐝💛🍯🖤

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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Image of part of a page of The Zoologist (1845) featuring two images of a 'hermaphrodite' (gynandromorph) bee as viewed from above (left) and below (right).
🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2025-04-20

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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2 open pages (in black and white) from the March 1833 edition of the Sporting Magazine. The page on the left has an an image of a cockerel with the plumage of a hen. It's titled 'Hector, a Hen-Cock.'
🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2025-01-20

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! 🌈 🧬 🐦

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

@histstm @histodons

B&W photograph of Gregor Mendel viewed through Progress Pride flag filter.
🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2024-10-31

⚰️ Happy Halloween! 🧛

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

Here's a more recent study: italian-journal-of-mammalogy.i.

🦇🏳️‍🌈🦇

@histstm @histodons

Photograph of mounted great false vampire bat (Vampyrum spectrum) in the collections of the Cole Zoology Museum (University of Reading).
🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2024-10-21

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

Download away and share while you can . . .

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

@histstm @histodons

Image featuring flamingos promoting Open Access week at The Royal Society. A caption relates that all Royal Society journal content is free to access between 21 and 27 October 2024.
🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2024-10-07

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: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/ar 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🐒 :transgender: 🐟

@histodons @histstm

Photograph of the statue of Charles Darwin in Shrewsbury viewed through progress pride flag-coloured filter.
🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2024-10-04

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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Colour plate depicting two sets of copulating frogs and spawn from August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof's 1758 tract Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium.
🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2024-08-21

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!

🦞🏳️‍🌈🦌 :transgender: 🦚

It's free to read - please keep sharing: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/ar

@histstm @histodons

'Male-feathered Peahen' from A General Synopsis of Birds (1783) by English physician and ornithologist John Latham, a co-founder of the Linnean Society.
Aileen Fyfeaileenfyfe@mastodon.scot
2024-06-18

My co-authors and I are deeply honoured to be shortlisted in this group of inspiring books by wonderful authors! And delighted to see #BSHS supporting collaborative research (i.e. multi-author monographs)

A History of Scientific Journals: publishing at the Royal Society 1665-2015 (UCL Press, 2022, #openaccess ) is short-listed for the Pickstone Prize for the the best academic book (in English) in history of science, medicine and technology. #hstm #histsci #histodons

bshs.org.uk/bshs-pickstone-pri

Now @christinkallama@hcommonschristinkallama
2024-06-13

Karpf contrasts the claims for A.I. transformation (that it is a "general purpose technology") with the truly transformative effects of the and . The history of these technologies is powerful evidence that the context produces these transformations as much as the technology. In understanding how LLMs might be transformative, we need to understand not only the agents boosting them, but the powers putting them to use.

🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2024-06-10

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: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/ar 🐟🏳️‍🌈🐒🏳️‍⚧️🐞

@histodons @histstm

Photograph of the statue of Charles Darwin in Shrewsbury viewed through progress pride flag-coloured filter.
🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2024-05-27

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! 🌈🌳

euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3

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Drawing of two copulating male cockchafers. It's the first known pictorial representation of non-human same-sex copulation. Published in Henri Gadeau de Kerville, 'Perversion sexuelle chez des Coléoptères mâles,' Bulletin de la sociéte entomologique de France 4 (1896), 85-87.
🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2024-03-31

! 🌱☀️

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. 🥚🐥🐔

@histstm @histodons

Colour image of painting by Herbert Atkinson showing a cockerel with the plumage of a hen.
🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2024-03-22

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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Colour plate depicting four gynandromorph specimens (three butterflies/moths and a beetle) in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin by German entomologist Friedrich Klug in 1829. Ref: Friedrich Klug, ‘Bemerkungen bei Gelegenheit der Zergliederung eines Zwitters der Melitaea Didyma O. […] nebst Beschriebung der Zwitter in der Insektensammlung des Königlichen zoologischen Musei in Berlin,’ Verhandlungender Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1 (1829), 363-369.
🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2024-02-19

Just a reminder that, following the Royal Society event in Jan, my article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' has been made freely available until the end of Feb/LGBTQ+ History Month.

Download away while you can! 🧬🏳️‍🌈🐦

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

@histstm @histodons

Colour plate depicting gynandromorph bullfinch. From The Determination of Sex (1914) by English biologist Leonard Doncaster.
🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2024-02-12

'all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it'
- Charles Darwin to William Darwin Fox, 7 May 1855

Poor ol' Chas.

It's Darwin Day! 🌱🌈🐵

My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)' has been viewed over 33K times! Please keep sharing: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/ar

@histstm @histodons

Photograph of the statue of Charles Darwin in Shrewsbury viewed through progress pride flag-coloured filter.
🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2024-01-29

Today I'm writing about how sex selection emerged as one of the leading promises of 20th-c. biologists/eugenicists as they got to grips with sexological genetics. 😬

Ad for The Science of Life (by Julian Huxley, G. P. Wells, & H. G. Wells) in Popular Science Monthly (March 1931).

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Advertisement for The Science of Life in Popular Science Monthly (March 1931). It is titled 'Can we control the Sex of our babies?' and includes a photograph of the faces of two young children, a girl and a boy.
🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2024-01-24

Gynandromorph bordered white moth from Charles Barrett's Lepidoptera of the British Isles (1901). 🦋

At 11am (GMT) next Wednesday (31 Jan) I will be discussing my article 'Mendel's Closet' as part of the Royal Society history of science seminar series. 🏳️‍🌈 🧬

Details: cassyni.com/events/K7KB3CY521F

The article is currently free to read: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

@histstm @histodons

Colour drawing of gynandromorph bordered white moth.
🌈 Dr Ross Brooksrossb_oxford
2024-01-11

📢 At 11am (GMT) on Wednesday 31 January I will be discussing (online) my latest article, 'Mendel's Closet,' as part of the Royal Society history of science seminar series. 🧬🏳️‍🌈🐦

Details here: cassyni.com/events/K7KB3CY521F

Ahead of the event, the article has been made free to access from the Notes and Records website. 🥳 Download away!

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

@histstm @histodons

Colour plate depicting gynandromorph bullfinch. From The Determination of Sex (1914) by English biologist Doncaster. The specimen is placed between two others that exhibit typical male and typical female plumage.

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