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The Inquisitive Biologist

This week's #NewBooks at the library: I was chuffed to now also find an affordable copy of #Dinosaurs: Past and Present, Volume 2! Second, The Art and Making of #Arcane: League of Legends. Loved the series and thought to myself "if they publish a book with artwork...". And more #Buffon. There aren't many biographies on him - this 1972 classic is one of two on my wishlist. #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Palaeoart #Biography #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. On the left, standing up, Dinosaurs: Past and Present, Volume 2, showing a drawing of a small dinosaur in front of a large rock with a storm blowing fragments of ferns across the setting. The picture mostly orangey-ochre-coloured. In the middle, lying down, The Art and Making of #Arcane: League of Legends, showing a drawing a of a girl with long braids and stompy boots sitting on a turned-around chair, facing the viewer. She is holding a steampunk gun and wings extend from the chair to both sides. The cover is hot pink with white graffiti surrounding her. On the right, standing up, Buffon, showing a plain dark-red cover with the title and author names in gilded lettering sitting over a small,stylised drawing of globe over which a winged horse jumps. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.
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The Inquisitive Biologist

New review: How is the living world organized and classified? Encyclopaedic in scope yet compelling to read, the deeply researched Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains is an 851-page behemoth that surveys 26 centuries of our changing understanding.

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#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Classification #Genetics #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Microbiology #Phylogenetics #ScalaNaturae #Taxonomy #Zoophyta @bookstodon

The Inquisitive Biologist · Book review – Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains: The History of High-Level Biological ClassificationHow is the living world organized and classified? Encyclopaedic in scope yet compelling to read, the deeply researched Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains is an 851-page behemoth that surveys 26 centu…
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Oliver Brendel

Hello, thanks to everybody who has welcomed me so warmly. Many of you were curious about my research. Perhaps look at this paper (OA) :
link.springer.com/article/10.1
and which follows the understanding of the relationship between plant growth and water consumption from the old Greek philosophers, through the middle ages, the age of enlightenment to the use of modern measurement techniques.
So it’s about #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #PhilosophyOfScience #PlantEcoPhysiology

SpringerLinkThe relationship between plant growth and water consumption: a history from the classical four elements to modern stable isotopes - Annals of Forest ScienceKey message The history of the relationship between plant growth and water consumption is retraced by following the progression of scientific thought through the centuries: from a purely philosophical question, to conceptual and methodological developments, towards a research interest in plant functioning and the interaction with the environment. Context The relationship between plant growth and water consumption has for a long time occupied the minds of philosophers and natural scientists. The ratio between biomass accumulation and water consumption is known as water use efficiency and is widely relevant today in fields as diverse as plant improvement, forest ecology and climate change. Defined at scales varying from single leaf physiology to whole plants, it shows how botanical investigations changed through time, generally in tandem with developing disciplines and improving methods. The history started as a purely philosophical question by Greek philosophers of how plants grow, progressed through thought and actual experiments, towards an interest in the functioning of plants and the relationship to the environment. Aims This article retraces this history by following the progression of scientific questions posed through the centuries, and presents not only the main methodological and conceptual developments on biomass growth and transpiration but also the development of the carbon isotopic method of estimation. The history of research on photosynthesis is only touched briefly, but the development of research on transpiration and stomatal conductance is presented with more detail. Conclusion Research on water use efficiency, following a path from the whole plant to leaf-level functioning, was strongly involved in the historical development of the discipline of plant ecophysiology and is still a very active research field across nearly all levels of botanical research.
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Sally Strange

Esther Richards Applin was the first person to propose that geological stratigraphy could be read using the fossilized remains of protozoa called Foraminiferida. Naturally, being a woman, she was derided before her insight gave rise to a whole new field in geology, and credit was later shifted from her and her female colleagues to a group of men.

#ScienceHistory #HistoryOfGeology #WomenInSTEM #science #geology

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This post blatantly stolen from the "History of Geology" account on mstdn.social, who responds with irrational anger to requests for accessibility and descriptive text.

Black and white photo of a white woman who appears to be in her late 40s or early 50s. She has dark hair that's pulled back, serious, hooded eyes, and a slight smile.
A bunch of tiny fossilized imprints of Foraminiferida. They have various shapes, including round, nautilus, cowrie, and star pattern
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The Inquisitive Biologist

New review: Celebrating the intellectual legacy of Stephen Jay Gould, Macroevolutionaries is an entertaining and intriguing collection of essays by two of his close friends and colleagues.

inquisitivebiologist.com/2024/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Evolution #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Scicomm @bookstodon

The Inquisitive Biologist · Book review – Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay GouldCelebrating the intellectual legacy of Stephen Jay Gould, Macroevolutionaries is an entertaining and intriguing collection of essays by two of his close friends and colleagues.
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Estimating the Size of a Single Molecule
How Ben Franklin and Lord Rayleigh used little more than oil and water to calculate a molecule's size
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Clever!
* Rayleigh meas. 0.81 mg oil; placed on known area of water
* divided volume of oil by area it covered
* assumed oil formed single layer of molecules: monolayer
* thickness of the oil film = length of one oil molecule

Estimating the Size of a Single Molecule How Ben Franklin and Lord Rayleigh used little more than oil and water to calculate a molecule's size https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41629475 Clever! * Rayleigh meas. 0.81 mg oil; placed on known area of water * divided volume of oil by area it covered * assumed oil formed single layer of molecules: monolayer * thickness of the oil film = length of one oil molecule #physics #ScienceHistory #BenFranklin #LordRayleigh
Estimating the Size of a Single Molecule How Ben Franklin and Lord Rayleigh used little more than oil and water to calculate a molecule's size https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41629475 Clever! * Rayleigh meas. 0.81 mg oil; placed on known area of water * divided volume of oil by area it covered * assumed oil formed single layer of molecules: monolayer * thickness of the oil film = length of one oil molecule #physics #ScienceHistory #BenFranklin #LordRayleigh
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