#phrenology
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #phrenology from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-17 07:14 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-17 07:14 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-17 07:14 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~23670 hours).
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Hand lettered sign in shop window in New Orleans for Phrenology (pseudo-science of "reading" the bumps on one's head). 1936, photo by Peter Sekaer. "SHE SPEKS SERVEL LANGUES" Presumably fluent in both Upper and Lower Servel. #NewOrleans #NO
@amiserabilist @adhdeanasl Are we not factoring in bumps on the head anymore? 🙄 #Phrenology #PseudoScience
🇬🇧 💀 **How the racist study of skulls gripped Victorian Britain’s scientists** "_In research for my forthcoming book on skull collections, I’ve found that Cambridge’s cranial register includes a skull sent from a former student stationed
What “phrenology” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaphrenology
- nounThe science, now generally discredited, which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.
Phrenology is a pseudoscience that involves the measurement of bumps on the skull to predict mental traits. It is based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions or modules. It was said that the brain was composed of different muscles, so those that were used more often were bigger, resulting in the different skull shapes. This provided reasoning for the common presence of bumps on the skull in different locations. The
“Phrenology” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#phrenology across platforms
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