Donald Luke Opitz

historian, editor, educator | scholar of cannabis, gender, queerness, sexuality, and technosciences

[Donald Luke Opitz @dlopitz]

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[Donald Luke Opitz @dlopitz]

Our latest issue of Endeavour is out! The open access cover story offers a compelling demonstration of the power of open source intelligence techniques for recovering “hidden” historical figures in science. Check it out! ⁦⁦@Els_SocialScien⁩ https://t.co/H0L2aJWtlb

[Donald Luke Opitz @dlopitz]

About last summer! It was fun and educational to join entomological friends to discuss past and present lepidoptery by women during “Insect Week.” Here’s the just-released recording! #insectweek #butterflyconservation #womeninscience https://t.co/pGIuFsIpRr

[Donald Luke Opitz @dlopitz]

Endeavour, an ⁦@Els_SocialScien⁩ journal, is pleased to offer a month’s free promotional access to issue 42(2) in recognition of #hss24 and the centenary of @hssonline - check it out! 🪅 https://t.co/4CNRSytPKt

[Donald Luke Opitz @dlopitz]

Excited for our forthcoming issue of Endeavour! On a somber note, I felt compelled to write on care and scholarship in times of war for the editorial: https://t.co/2AtYNfHssU

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Call for abstracts open! @ISHPSSB

[Donald Luke Opitz @dlopitz]

Revision to the ‘Small Heath’ id: more likely a Meadow Brown!

[Donald Luke Opitz @dlopitz]

A hike from Whittingehame to Traprain Law, with visits from the Garden Grass Veneer, Ringlet, Small Heath & Red Admiral, inspire my imagination of naturalist Alice Balfour’s mothing here a century ago and appreciation for today’s lepidopterists who record here today #MothsMatter

[Donald Luke Opitz @dlopitz]

I’ve caught the bug! Moth trapping and recording fun with a local expert who follows in the footsteps of Alice Balfour #mothsmatter

[NMS Learning & Engagement @NMSEngage]

Join us on 29th June to celebrate the past, present and future of Women in Entomology at a fascinating panel discussion with @AshWhiffin @kattyponder @dlopitz as part of @insectweek book here: https://t.co/QzGW0tGEFW #WomenInSTEM

[Katty Baird @kattyponder]

INSECT WEEK at @NtlMuseumsScot Join us!

We're celebrating the amazing world of MOTHS and the important contribuions from women entomologists of the past, present & future.
Including hands-on fun, a live panel discussion, moth trapping and more!

Details: https://t.co/zv24FYDe9X

[Natural Sciences NMS @NatSciNMS]

We're hosting an exciting selection of events next month for @InsectWeek 2024! Come and join us to celebrate the 'Little things that run the word'... 🐛🦋

➡️ https://t.co/nhTqKI7SK3

#MothsMatter #InsectWeek

[Donald Luke Opitz @dlopitz]

Excited to be with ⁦@AshWhiffin⁩ ⁦@kattyponder⁩ to highlight women lepidopterists during Insect Week! With support of ⁦@NtlMuseumsScot⁩ ⁦@savebutterflies⁩ ⁦@BSHSOutreach Love cross-disciplinary collaborations!⁩ Join us! https://t.co/fJnpKsuqa6

[Donald Luke Opitz @dlopitz]

Endeavour’s latest issue is out! Featuring the guest-edited collection, Specialists with spirit: Re-enchanting the vocation of science https://t.co/cTFmxQsKJX

[Donald Luke Opitz @dlopitz]

Latest in the Women, Gender & Sexuality Topical Collection of Journal of the History of Biology: a fine paper on Havelock Ellis’s post-Darwinian sexology by ⁦⁦@TheOneDrJ⁩ https://t.co/0btB2djyCd

[Donald Luke Opitz @dlopitz]

@ProfTyndall "Louisa and I have renewed our marriage contract for a thousand years. She wished to make it a million, but I thought it just possible that I might be tired of her at the end of a thousand, so refused to extend the time." (Tyndall to Hirst, 18 July 1878)

[Sarah Pickman (is also on Bluesky) @sarahmpicks]

Excited to share that I'm joining the editorial board of the history & philosophy of science journal Endeavour as Associate Editor. I'm thrilled to be working with @dlopitz and Claudia Cristalli. (1/2)

[Donald Luke Opitz @dlopitz]

Endeavour’s latest is out, featuring the groundbreaking collection on “Calculating Couples” skillfully guest-edited by David E. Dunning and Brigette Stenhouse (@FidgeyB) https://t.co/7W88Nhclp8

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Intoxicating perspective on science historiography in the pub by @NathanProbably just published in Endeavour https://t.co/tN6GO1186D

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@NathanProbably @sarahmpicks @Feanan Congratulations Nathan on a fine piece! Lovely to work with you. There’s a book to be written here 😉