Whipple Library Alphabet

The wonderful Whipple Alphabet is nearing its end: look back at all of the posts so far here.

As they say, this is a:

series of 26 mini blog posts featuring items from the Whipple Library’s special collections which will be published weekly throughout 2016. The series will showcase some of the variety and breadth of our collections by selecting notable authors, topics and associations in a roll call of examples spanning the alphabet. Members of the Library staff team have selected from a range of favourite, representative and more unusual items to write about and will be sharing their thoughts each week via the Whipple Library Books Blog. Follow our progress over at https://whipplelib.wordpress.com/ or via Twitter (@hpslib) by searching for the hashtag #whippleAZ.

Blog posts - Animals in Literature and History

Group members might be interested in this ongoing series of blog posts on Animals in Literature and History, featuring everything from sporting cats to medieval wolves, via eighteenth-century sharks.

Blog post - Dinosaurs, Evolution and Faith

Group members might be interested in this blog post by Richard Fallon on Henry Neville Hutchinson.

The Essex Serpent - blog post on Neo-Victorian Review

‘The Flying Serpent; or, Strange News Out of Essex’, 1669 (British Library).

Members of the group might be interested in this blog post on 'Mythic monsters, living fossils and liminal spaces' in Sarah Perry's recent novel The Essex Serpent. Also see a British Library blog post by Sarah Perry here.

Science and Literature - online blogs and resources

As we begin a new academic year, here's a reminder of some of the invaluable blogs and resources available online for those interested in all things science and literature:

BSLS book reviews
The fantastic archive of reviews by members of the British Society for Literature and Science is an excellent means of keeping up with recent publications and also a superb starting-point for new research topics. See it here.

ConSciCom
Updates from the Constructing Scientific Communities team can be found on their blog here, including details of events and current research projects. Recent postings include songs about vaccination, and a sketchnote of a recent seminar.

Journal of Literature and Science
It's always worth looking at what's being published in this journal, but especially interesting are its reviews of academic articles where scholars comment on recent work in the field.

SciFiMedHums
The blog of the Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities project is here: of particular interest is their call for contributions to an online bibliography of sources in the area.

The H word
The Guardian blog run by Vanessa Heggie and Rebekah Higgitt often includes posts relevant to sci-lit scholars; for instance, its recent post on spider silk.

Twitter
Follow the #scilit or #litsci hashtags for updates from conferences, research-in-progress, and more.

Unsettling Scientific Stories
'Blogging the history of the future', as their tagline has it, which includes reading lists, analysis, project updates, and radioactive discoveries.

Whewell's Gazette
If you haven't already subscribed to Thony Christie's excellent weekly digest of all things history of science, technology, medicine, and more, then do so immediately! Many items of sci-lit interest are included each week, including information about plays, films, and exhibitions.

Article - The Rhetoric of Quantum Mechanics

Fascinating article by Kanta Dihal on her PhD research online here: lots of references to Science and Literature Reading Group favourites!

Article - Bodies electric

Post by Iwan Rhys Morus up at Aeon here.

Chemistry World article - on telling stories in science

A brief discussion of narratives and science (as well as links to further readings on the subject) is here.

The Way of the Panda

Henry Nicholls is blogging about his new book at The Way of the Panda. He says:

The way of the panda is the subtitle for my next book, which will cover the 140-year journey the panda has taken from complete obscurity to the most celebrated zoological entity on the planet. So I'll be posting about what it's like to research and write a popular science book, there should be lots of fascinating panda-related facts and plenty of reflections on the conservation movement more generally.

Emma Darwin's blog

'Emma Darwin' will be blogging here until 23rd February...

Transcribing Tyndall

I've just come across the following blog, linked to the Tyndall Correspondence Project initiated by Bernard Lightman at York University in Toronto, which might be of interest to Science and Literature members!