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Alexander Stoeger

@astoeger.bsky.social

Historian of Science, Postdoc at Saarland University, currently working on scientific journals and 19th-century museum history and colonialism - also web designer and comms officers of the @BSHSNews (he/him)

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Alexander Stoeger@astoeger.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My essay review on three new and intriguing edited volumes on history of science and knowledge and urban spaces was just published by BJHS @bshsnews.bsky.social Check it out 🔓 and have a look at the books, too - it was a pleassure to read them! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Science and the city: reviewing Naples, London and Lisbon | The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Core

Science and the city: reviewing Naples, London and Lisbon

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Alexander Stoeger@astoeger.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My new chapter on scholarly dogmatism just got published! It's featured on Brill's Kudos showroom. Check it out if you are interested in silly accusations of dogmatism from antiquity to the present and the striking question of why this weird scholarly vice persists 📜🧐🤬 link.growkudos.com/1beqe51ozr4

Bad scientists - Why have scientists accused each other of dogmatism since antiquity?

What does it mean to call someone dogmatic — and why has that accusation survived for over two thousand years? This article explores how the charge of dogmatism, from ancient philosophy to modern scie...

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks@rossbrooks.co.uk · 10mo ago

Insightful new article by Stefan Bernhardt-Radu in the Journal of the History of Biology about Julian Huxley's biological views. 🧬🗃️ #openaccess link.springer.com/article/10.1... #histbio #hpbio #philbio #histsci #hps @hpsleeds.bsky.social

“Helping to Bridge the Gap Between Genetics and Development:ˮ Julian Huxley, Early 20th Century Oxford Biology, and the Epigenetic Origins of Animal Characters - Journal of the History of Biology

Julian Huxley is remembered as the author of his landmark 1942 Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. Nowadays, however, he is criticized for having reduced biology to the selection of genes. Some have nevertheless suggested that Huxley’s biological views were more expansive—including rather than excluding issues regarding development or environment. In this paper, using hitherto unexamined sources, I show that Huxley’s developmental understanding of animal characters was rooted in his education at Oxford in the early 20th century. From embryologically and physiologically trained Oxford teachers, he learned to see characters as things that could not be predicted from the cell’s physico-chemical properties. Characters arose anew through dynamic interactions between parts. Huxley and his teachers labeled these as “epigenetic” processes that integrated multiple cross-pollinating causes such as heredity and development. After briefly exploring Huxley’s understanding of character development, I show how we can get to grips with Huxley’s biological views by exploring the context of his education at Oxford from 1906 to 1909. I then show how Huxley received and used these ideas, before I illustrate how they played an important role in his academic and socio-political work.

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Lucy Jane Santos@lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · last yr.

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Hand holding a copy of Chain Reactions A Hopeful History of Uranium. The book has lots of colourful tabs showing wear the reader has marked sections.