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Things that have come up during today's check-in meetings w/LHL virtual fellows:
1) Fantômas, the villainous French criminal mastermind
2) The possibility of using @improbresearch to teach undergrads about #scicomm
3) The Underpants Gnomes from #SouthPark
Andreas Cellarius, the German/Dutch cartographer responsible for one of the most beautiful #astronomy books ever published (Harmonia Macrocosmica, 1661), is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
https://t.co/aOw7w6De15
#histSTM #sciart #histastro #astronomy
Umberto Boccioni, an Italian painter & sculptor who reflected on technological themes as a member of the Futurist movement, is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
https://t.co/6xLcJclY1R
#histSTM #ArtHistory #Futurism
Two portraits of Max the #Orangutan, a long-time resident of the Paris menagerie, memorialized by French zoologist--& @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay--Alphonse Milne-Edwards.
https://t.co/6hS3FQovVV
#histSTM #zoology #sciart
Charles Atwood Kofoid, marine invertebrate zoologist who helped establish @Scripps_Ocean, is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
Kofoid was also a rare book collector & designed an incredible personal bookplate featuring various sea creatures!
https://t.co/W5ND0ao2zl
#histSTM
Johann Friedrich Esper, German physician & paleontologist who discovered the bones of an extinct species of cave bear (Ursus spelaeus, whose jaw is shown below) in a Bavarian cave, is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
https://t.co/xNGT0QMNGU
#histSTM #paleontology #fossils
Denis Diderot, French philosophe & editor of the Encyclopédie, is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay!
https://t.co/k3gt0Z7WCf
#histSTM #Enlightenment
#ICYMI: Today's #GoogleDoodle honors biologist & oceanographer María de los Ángeles Alvariño González, who was born #OnThisDay in 1916. She conducted research @WHOI & @NOAAFisheries & discovered 22 new marine organisms!
More info: https://t.co/A3HvFR4883
#histSTM #WomenInSTEM
Arnout Vosmaer, Dutch naturalist who supervised the menagerie of King William IV, is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
https://t.co/Z1jfIDDq9z
#histSTM #sciart #NatHist