🌈 Dr Ross Brooks

DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE is now published in the UK, Canada, and the US! 🏳️‍🌈📚🦋🗃️ Every recommendation helps get this extraordinary history into more hands, so please ask your favourite libraries and bookstores to stock it. Thank you! 🙏 #booksky #reading #libraries #histsci #queerhistory

The NACBS is delighted to announce two new fellowships along with a new grants funding scheme as part of our efforts to preserve and expand British Studies scholarship. More info on the fellowships and grants can be found here: www.nacbs.org/news/new-fel...

It's coming up to tour time again! I can't wait to share more LGBTQIA+ history with you! 🗺️ V&A 🗓️ Saturday 31 October ⏱️ 4pm-5pm 📗 No, just show up! 💰 FREE 📍Meet under the blue and green chandelier Each tour is different as we explore the collection in new ways. If you come along, please say hi!

Come down to the Edinburgh Radical Book Fair 2026 next weekend for a Sunday-afternoon celebration of the wondrous world of queer ecology! feat. @jennychambles.bsky.social Sunday 8th November, 3.30-4.45PM @lighthousebks.bsky.social Tickets: lighthousebookshop.com/events/natur... #booksky

For spooky season, here's one of my favorite scientific illustrations: this goofy bat by Carl Linnaeus. #histsci 🗃️ #SciArt

November 18 - We will be at Queen Mary to celebrate #LGBTQSTEMDay! Free tickets: link.outsavvy.com/lgbtqstemday26 feat: @jazzywildheart.bsky.social @joshlukedavis.com

It's inevitable that it will all collapse sooner or later, but it's sad every time a bit goes. Such an iconic part of Brighton's seafront. 🌊 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #Brighton #Sussex #SouthCoast

Just a reminder that I'll be talking about 'Darwin's Queer Theory' at Oxford's Museum of Natural History in two weeks' time. I'll be signing copies of QUEER ORIGINS, too. I'd love to see you there . . . 🌈📚🦋🗃️ #histsci #sts #queerhistory #Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social

Bristol-based We The Curious science centre worked with a PhD researcher in post colonial linguistics to produce a guide for astronomy, and STEM more broadly, engagement: Decolonising Your Planetarium www.wethecurious.org/news-blog/de... (link to the full PDF guide at the bottom) #scicomm📜🔭

'A Cambridge study found that of the 86 scientists named by UK exam boards, the English chemist [Rosalind Franklin], whose work in the 1950s helped reveal the structure of DNA, was the only woman.'

Professor Marius Turda in conversation with Professor Dan Stone. The Wiener Holocaust Library, London Thursday, October 29 • 6:30 PM - 8 PM eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk-... @ceu-press.bsky.social

Humanist campaigning against so-called conversion therapy has gone on display, showing decades of political inaction on banning it. Conversion practices, ‘conversion therapy’ or colloquially ‘praying the gay away’, are harmful practices aimed at changing who LGBT+ people are or who they love.

Mark your calendars NACBS is heading to London! The Call for Papers for #nacbs2027 is out now. We will be meeting at Senate House on July 13-16, hosted by @ihr.bsky.social The submission website will open on December 1 and close on January 8. Join us in London! www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...

It’s Green Libraries week! The Bodleian is many things to many people; a world-leading University library, an exhibition centre, even a wedding venue! But across all our services we strive to ensure we protect our planet as well as we protect our books... (1/2) Photo: Brianna Cornock.

Please join us on Thursday at 6pm for our panel on New Approaches to the History of Sexuality! In person in 27 University Square @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social or online (register below) @tomhulme.bsky.social @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social www.ticketsource.com/ulster-socie...

I'll be giving a talk about my book "Belfastmen" at the University of Cambridge's Modern British History seminar next Thursday (29th Oct) - hope to see some friendly faces there! www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

I am pleased to share this article written with Marc Feldman that reviews the history of scientific racism and biological race realism, through the lens of two recent books: Hochman’s The Race Illusion and Lorusso & Winther’s Remapping Race in a Global Context. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Forthcoming book cover (out in early 2027 with Bloomsbury). It will feature a microhistory of the fascinating trial of Antonio/Vitoria, plus an edition of the original 1556-7 Portuguese trial document and an English translation.

Yes, October is LGBTQ+ History Month in Canada and the US! I'm delighted that QUEER ORIGINS is included here, among some truly awesome titles. 2026 has been a great year for queer history. 🌈📚🗃️✨ #books #booksky #reading #queerhistory #histsex #LGBTQHistoryMonth

My article "Disability and Queer Fiction" is now out in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. It reads Radclyffe Hall and Truman Capote on sexual inversion and the queer-crip body, and on queer fiction's unspoken ableism. doi.org/10.1093/9780... #DisabilityStudies #Queerlit #acwri

I’m really delighted that Teaching Gender has received the WHN/WHAI prize, and to share it with the wonderful @sarahcrook.bsky.social!

Really super piece . . . 🌈🐘 'Like elephants moving through a broken-up forest, many queer people grow up in communities where acceptance comes in patches: open with a few people, guarded with most.' news.climate.columbia.edu/2026/10/14/f... #queer #ecology #queerecology @climate.columbia.edu

Eye Spy with my little...iNaturalist? A paper from our Zoological Journal was recently featured on nature video! Using citizen science data from iNaturalist, researchers uncovered the evolution of parental guarding behaviour in harvestmen (AKA Daddy Long Legs)! Watch it here: buff.ly/osZ8MPR! 🧪

📢IRISH QUEER HISTORY KLAXON📢 newly published article by Tom Ward www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm now quite a ways into DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE @rossbrooks.co.uk Really enjoying it. We've come through a wave of "penguins can be gay!" writing that has left many young people excited about queer biology, but with few real weapons to face the world about it. This book will help!!

Our Institute’s Colloquium Program 2026–27 is now available online! This year, we will look at “Histories of Science That Lie Beneath” 🔍 📍 MPIWG 🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check https://bit.ly/4hLkRp6 #HistSci #SciComm #EventSeries

Delighted to see the final cover of Queer Under Siege, out May 2027 with Temple University Press. Its bold colours and protest image evoke queer repression and resistance since the 1950s to struggles for freedom today. Thank you, Temple UP!

Looking forward to the publication of my second book next month that examines the legacies of women’s suffrage for education and youth activism for women’s rights in the 1920s and 1930s! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/daughters-... 🗃️ #history #suffrage #womensstudies #academicsky @lwv.org #alicepaul

Today is bookshop day. Go out and support your favourite bookshop. While you're there: pick up a copy of @ajwestauthor.bsky.social How Queer Bookshops Changed the World. It's an important read about spaces that literally changed the world.

Very honoured to have an essay appearing in the forthcoming Simeon Solomon exhibiton catalogue (exhib at the Delware Art Museum, Wilmington, USA, March 2027) - you can preorder the catalogue from Yale University Press here: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

It's #WorldOctopusDay! Here's an 1861 clipping from the London Illustrated Times of 'A Marine Monster Discovered Near Teneriffe'. From the description, it's likely that this was a giant squid rather than an octopus, but it's described as a 'giant polypus' by the crew.

Got several very cool events coming up! This Sunday I'm doing A Brief Queer History Of The Whole Universe with @wearequeerwell.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/queer...

Happy to see this doc get a screening at The Revue, the Minnow team are lovely folks #Toronto Understanding Myself as an Amphibian - A Queer Ecology documentary by May Matchim, presented by Minnow Magazine www.eventbrite.ca/e/screening-...

"Ich sehe den mir verliehenen Bundesverdienstorden als Auszeichnung für die Arbeit der gesamten Hamburger queeren Community": Der Historiker Gottfried Lorenz wurde am Dienstagabend im Hamburger Rathaus geehrt

Whoop, whoop — discount AND free shipping! 🤩🌈📚🦋🗃️✨ uk.bookshop.org/p/books/darw... #books #booksky #histsci #sts #Darwin #histsex #queerhistory

Looking forward to this . . . 🌈🦋🗃️ #histbio #histsci #Darwin #queer #queerhistory

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

Pride in STEM's Small Grants scheme is open! The theme this year is “Empowering Queer People With STEM”. The deadline is October 31, and it is for projects exclusively in the United Kingdom! prideinstem.org/2026/10/01/s...

Eyes on the sky tonight!! It's Saturn's 'Time To Shine' But Not A Once In 500 Years Event This Time www.theastroholic.co.uk/its-saturns-...

Another strong performance from Bethany and Nancy! A super choice for movie week. #Strictly 🏳️‍🌈💃💃✨ www.youtube.com/watch?v=axEY... #tv #dance

'History and Archives in Practice' 2027: calls for panels now invited for our annual meeting of historians and archivists, with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA. Closing date: 16 October HAP27 focuses on connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy and applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians

The new edition of A Practical Guide to Studying History is out, just in time for anyone starting a history degree. Want to see my material on trans history? Check out 'Identities' in the Activities and Annotated Bibliography sections. www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/a-practical-... 🌈🎓

So good to see QUEER ORIGINS in my local public library! I love spotting the different ways that bookshops and libraries categorise the book. Some put it in their science section, others history, others (as here) LGBTQ. All are correct! 🌈📚🦋🗃️ #books #booksky #reading #histsci @yalebooks.bsky.social