Michael D. Barton
@darwinsbulldog
Historian & Darwin aficionado. Editor, John Tyndall Correspondence Project. Father & advocate for connecting children to nature (natureplaysign.com). He/him/his. Portland, OR.
Anyone else have a gourd with a portrait of #CharlesDarwin painted on on it? No, just me? [this was a gift in 2017 from artist Jan Nadine in Oklahoma: hungryhollerjan.com @hungryholler on Instagram]
This year I've gotten back into listening to movie soundtracks on CD, and have been having fun going to thrift stores, record stores, library used bookstores, yard sales, Facebook marketplace, etc. Even more fun listening to them!
Two new articles about #CharlesDarwin’s studies of plant movement: thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/t... #HPS #histsci @hsnatsci.bsky.social
Janet Browne's new condensed and updated single volume biography of #CharlesDarwin is out today, from @princetonupress.bsky.social. Time to get reading! #HPS #histsci #Darwin #books #evolution
Yesterday I finished rereading Janet Browne's two volume biography of #CharlesDarwin, published in 1995 and 2002. Now ready to check out the new, condensed, single-volume edition being published by @princetonupress.bsky.social at the end of this month. #HPS #histsci #books
Charles Darwin Has a Posse (via @colinpurrington.bsky.social)
I wish searches here for "John Tyndall" brought up more posts about the C19th scientist rather than the C20th fascist. Photo: portrait of Tyndall included in 20 Aug. 1874 issue of @nature.com (the week of his infamous "Belfast Address" at meeting of BAAS/@britsciassoc.bsky.social). #HPS #histsci
Election Day! Spent two hours today as a public observer at the Clackamas County Elections Office in Oregon City, learning how the ballot are processed. Pretty streamlined with dedicated workers!
Due out this October from @upittpress.bsky.social: Commemorating Darwin: Scientific Memory and the Politics of Evolution, ed. by Joel Barnes & Ian Hesketh, Afterword by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis upittpress.org/books/978082... #HPS #histsci #CharlesDarwin #evolution #books
Now on to Volume 2 of Janet Browne's biography of #CharlesDarwin! #books #evolution #HPS #histsci @princetonupress.bsky.social
Anyone else just absolutely love IEP meetings? /s #autismparent
Transcription help: John Tyndall wrote this line at the bottom of a letter he rec'd in 1888: " [illegible word/s] praise, instead of criticism was bestowed upon the flames." #HPS #histsci #BlueSkyStorians #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
Charles Darwin died on this day in 1882. All sorts of info regarding his funeral a week later at Westminster Abbey can be had at this page from @darwin-online.bsky.social: darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialInt...
Charles Darwin died #OTD in 1882. His son George wrote to John Tyndall 6 days later: "I hope you will have received the tickets for the Abbey... I am sure you sympathise with my Mother & her children." Tyndall arrived late to the funeral and wasn't able to sit among other friends of #CharlesDarwin.
I checked out Change is in the Air from my local library & wonder if this is the 1st depiction of John Tyndall in a children's book. Possibly also in Foote Was First! illus. by @amyjunebates.bsky.social. Footeprint is a novel-in-verse by @lindsayhmetcalf.bsky.social, not sure if any illustrations.
Just published yesterday: Making Science History: A Personal Perspective from Alamogordo to AI by Arnold Thackray (@amphilsociety.bsky.social/@pennpress.bsky.social): www.pennpress.org/978160618037... #HPS #histsci
Received in mail this new annotated edn. of The Descent of Man by #CharlesDarwin (@princetonupress.bsky.social) & I like this bit in the acknowledgments from Elizabeth Yale, about her children referring to "Mom's Darwinning" while she & coauthor James Costa were working on it. #histsci #HPS #books
Picked up a some science #books thru local free group on FB. Included Stephen Jay Gould's Wonderful Life & inside: a newspaper clipping & 2 tickets for Gould's lecture in Portland, 6/3/1993. Not long after that date is when my grandfather introduced to me Gould's monthly column "This View of Life."
VIDEO: #DarwinDay Lecture w/ Paul Brinkman for @ncbg.bsky.social - “Damned beastly devilment”: Charles Darwin’s dalliance with vertebrate #fossils ~ bit.ly/4dHabG8 #histsci #HPS #paleontology #evolution
I will look differently now at all the Chuck Norris "United We Stand" signs around Clackamas County, which always sit adjacent to MAGA candidate signs during election seasons.