Really enjoyed the insect display in the Natural History Gallery at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery today, and the focus on how insects were collected. #enthist
September 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Really enjoyed the insect display in the Natural History Gallery at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery today, and the focus on how insects were collected. #enthist
Eumerus litoralis (= Eumerus sabulonum) hoverfly, from John Curtis’s ‘British entomology’, vol. 16 (London, 1839). Lib.4.82.24 @theul.bsky.social #FlyDay #Diptera #hoverflies #EntHist
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Eumerus litoralis (= Eumerus sabulonum) hoverfly, from John Curtis’s ‘British entomology’, vol. 16 (London, 1839). Lib.4.82.24 @theul.bsky.social #FlyDay #Diptera #hoverflies #EntHist
🚨 Another @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM seminar this week! 🚨
We'll hear from Leah Malmut (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities) on 'Collecting Building Blocks for a Better Bee' 🐝
13 March at 12pm EDT/4pm GMT (note the European time change) ⏰
More info & Zoom link ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
We'll hear from Leah Malmut (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities) on 'Collecting Building Blocks for a Better Bee' 🐝
13 March at 12pm EDT/4pm GMT (note the European time change) ⏰
More info & Zoom link ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
Collection Ecologies | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
www.chstm.org
March 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hurray. Congratulations to Jeannie.
#EntHist is a winner!
#EntHist is a winner!
Some good news for a change: At the 2025 HSS awards ceremony tonight, one of our Insect Histories Focus authors Jeannie Shinozuka received the Phil Pauly Prize for the best first book on the history of science in the Americas. Check out Biotic Borders if y'all have a chance! 🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲
November 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Hurray. Congratulations to Jeannie.
#EntHist is a winner!
#EntHist is a winner!
Lovely to be able to talk to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social colleagues this week about our Natural History Humanities research initiative, including all things insect humanities. #EntHist
May 2, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Lovely to be able to talk to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social colleagues this week about our Natural History Humanities research initiative, including all things insect humanities. #EntHist
A great podcast in which @chrmeijer.bsky.social tells us more about her wonderful research project #BuggingBugs, also #earlymodern 🐜🦟🐛🧪🗃️. www.voxweb.nl/podcast/in-a...
In a Nutshell, s.2 e.2: Why Are We Afraid of Insects? with Charlotte Meijer - Vox magazine
In the Vox podcast In a Nutshell, hosts Jara Majerus and Antonia Leise take a deep dive into the university's most interesting, strange, and exciting research. Every two weeks, they invite Radboud res...
www.voxweb.nl
October 29, 2024 at 5:54 PM
I‘m so chuffed that this particular PhD studentship received funding & envious of the lucky person who will get to do the research.
Apply, folks!
#jobfairy
#EntHist
#collections
#HistSTM
#EnvHum
#NaturalHistoryHumanities
Apply, folks!
#jobfairy
#EntHist
#collections
#HistSTM
#EnvHum
#NaturalHistoryHumanities
Fully funded PhD studentship: ‘Recording nature and writing the self: time, entomology and the archive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’. Closes 3 May.
With Ruth Abbott, Staffan Müller-Wille, Ed Turner & me. @theul.bsky.social @zoologymuseum.bsky.social
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
With Ruth Abbott, Staffan Müller-Wille, Ed Turner & me. @theul.bsky.social @zoologymuseum.bsky.social
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk
March 10, 2026 at 9:06 PM
I‘m so chuffed that this particular PhD studentship received funding & envious of the lucky person who will get to do the research.
Apply, folks!
#jobfairy
#EntHist
#collections
#HistSTM
#EnvHum
#NaturalHistoryHumanities
Apply, folks!
#jobfairy
#EntHist
#collections
#HistSTM
#EnvHum
#NaturalHistoryHumanities
I am again thinking about bugs in #19thc and #18thc books & wish to share the buggy delights. So here is the title page for an 1867 reissue of Episodes of Insect Life, by Acheta Domestica (House Cricket)--pen name of author & illustrator L. M. Budgen. Look at the glee these dancing insects display!
![Text readers: Episodes of Insect Life (the I and the L are fancy initial letters) by Acheta Domestica, M. E. S. Edited and Revised By the Rev. J. G. Wood M. A., F.L.S. London: Bell and Daldy York Street, Convent Garden, and 186 Fleet Street, 1867. Below the title page illustration is an epigraph from "Spencer" [sic] : "So issue forth the seasons." We see hand in hand 4 hand-colored bugs dancing against a background of black and white flowers: the female bugs are moths, with their wings forming wonderful hoop skirts. Each holds hands with some crickets, I think, one wearing a cap. One female bug has a sheaf of wheat under her arm.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3wbzkjwj6kfuykyeg5guxwjh/bafkreiab2nebbyfhsylhqv34vkq5spnh4tlutjhmrqk4k2hdbmyjzvfwuq)
November 22, 2023 at 7:39 PM
Male and female Scorpionflies. From James Barbut’s ‘The genera insectorum of Linnæus …’ (London, 1781). S391.b.78.13 @theul.bsky.social #EntHist #Diptera
November 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Male and female Scorpionflies. From James Barbut’s ‘The genera insectorum of Linnæus …’ (London, 1781). S391.b.78.13 @theul.bsky.social #EntHist #Diptera
Hoverfly resurrection. 21 September 1901, @theul.bsky.social Librarian and dipterist Francis Jenkinson recovers a Marmalade hoverfly from a spider’s web, “tightly wound up … which being unwound came to life again in a pill-box by the evening.” #enthist #Diptera #Hoverflies
September 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Hoverfly resurrection. 21 September 1901, @theul.bsky.social Librarian and dipterist Francis Jenkinson recovers a Marmalade hoverfly from a spider’s web, “tightly wound up … which being unwound came to life again in a pill-box by the evening.” #enthist #Diptera #Hoverflies
Oooh. #enthist is really taking off these days! Hurray.
Very excited that the edited volume, Human-Bug Encounters in Multispecies Networks is now available online! A massive thanks to Laura Hollsten, Otto Latva, Sanna Lillbroända-Annala, Suvi Rytty, and Tuomas Räsänen for bringing such a fascinating group together.
brill.com/display/book...
brill.com/display/book...
brill.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Oooh. #enthist is really taking off these days! Hurray.
#enthist 🦟
Hello friends and new followers, 'Decolonize Mosquitoes' . My recent article has been published at the History Workshop Journal. @historywo.bsky.social It proposes a conversation between environmetal history, history of science, and decolonizing methods.
academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...
academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...
Decolonize Mosquitoes: Invisible Labour, Dissent and the Re-colonial in South Asia
The minuscule, a narrow gate, opens up an entire world.1
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February 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
#enthist 🦟
We really have to get #EntHist trending again, like in the olden days of the sadly unusable platform that shall not be mentioned.
It was standing room only at our @camglamresearch.bsky.social #BSHS2025 Roundtable this morning. All of our speakers were amazing, but Isabelle Charmantier gave us Reindeer warble flies @linneansociety.bsky.social and I was like 😍😍😍.
July 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We really have to get #EntHist trending again, like in the olden days of the sadly unusable platform that shall not be mentioned.
Interesting to find some nature printed butterflies @theul.bsky.social yesterday (‘lepidochromes’). The butterflies were pressed on prepared paper, which was folded, allowing the scales to transfer to create mirror images of both sides of the insects’ wings. 1/2 #enthist @camglamresearch.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Interesting to find some nature printed butterflies @theul.bsky.social yesterday (‘lepidochromes’). The butterflies were pressed on prepared paper, which was folded, allowing the scales to transfer to create mirror images of both sides of the insects’ wings. 1/2 #enthist @camglamresearch.bsky.social
Can’t believe I haven’t announced this here, yet: Out now: volume 7 of our @degruyterbrill.bsky.social book series Emergence of Natural History.
"Insects and Colors between Art and Natural History" ed. by Dr. V.E. Mandrij & Giulia Simonini. #OA #EntHist #ArtHist #HistSTM #HistNatHist 📗🗃️🖼️
"Insects and Colors between Art and Natural History" ed. by Dr. V.E. Mandrij & Giulia Simonini. #OA #EntHist #ArtHist #HistSTM #HistNatHist 📗🗃️🖼️
Insects and Colors between Art and Natural History
"Insects and Colors between Art and Natural History" published on 28 Oct 2024 by Brill.
doi.org
December 4, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Can’t believe I haven’t announced this here, yet: Out now: volume 7 of our @degruyterbrill.bsky.social book series Emergence of Natural History.
"Insects and Colors between Art and Natural History" ed. by Dr. V.E. Mandrij & Giulia Simonini. #OA #EntHist #ArtHist #HistSTM #HistNatHist 📗🗃️🖼️
"Insects and Colors between Art and Natural History" ed. by Dr. V.E. Mandrij & Giulia Simonini. #OA #EntHist #ArtHist #HistSTM #HistNatHist 📗🗃️🖼️
This will be so good. Join us, please. #enthist #envhist #collecting #enslavement #museums #ecology #HistNatHist
We're looking forward to our next CHSTM seminar w/with Kathleen S. Murphy (Cal Poly)!
Join us 14 March at 12pm EDT/5pm CET to hear about her new book "Captivity's Collections: Science, Natural History, & the British Transatlantic Slave Trade" (@uncpress.bsky.social).
www.chstm.org/content/coll...
Join us 14 March at 12pm EDT/5pm CET to hear about her new book "Captivity's Collections: Science, Natural History, & the British Transatlantic Slave Trade" (@uncpress.bsky.social).
www.chstm.org/content/coll...
March 12, 2024 at 12:54 PM
This will be so good. Join us, please. #enthist #envhist #collecting #enslavement #museums #ecology #HistNatHist
It’s here! The wonderful @lisaonaga.bsky.social and I & an amazing group of contributors put together a Focus section on insects (& other tiny beings) in the History of Science.
It’s #OpenAccess too & another @collecol.bsky.social endeavour in print. #enthist #HistSTM 📗📜🗃️🏛️🧪
It’s #OpenAccess too & another @collecol.bsky.social endeavour in print. #enthist #HistSTM 📗📜🗃️🏛️🧪
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
www.journals.uchicago.edu
February 27, 2024 at 8:59 AM
It’s here! The wonderful @lisaonaga.bsky.social and I & an amazing group of contributors put together a Focus section on insects (& other tiny beings) in the History of Science.
It’s #OpenAccess too & another @collecol.bsky.social endeavour in print. #enthist #HistSTM 📗📜🗃️🏛️🧪
It’s #OpenAccess too & another @collecol.bsky.social endeavour in print. #enthist #HistSTM 📗📜🗃️🏛️🧪
Excited to find drawings of moths by FW Frohawk (1861-1946) in the archive of biologist William Bateson @theul.bsky.social.
They’re catalogued as ‘27 drawings of Milan Leps’, but think this should be ‘Melan[istic] Leps’? Do they look right for showing melanism, #TeamMoth? MS Add. 8634/J.3 #EntHist
They’re catalogued as ‘27 drawings of Milan Leps’, but think this should be ‘Melan[istic] Leps’? Do they look right for showing melanism, #TeamMoth? MS Add. 8634/J.3 #EntHist
![Montage showing coloured illustrations of moths and the envelope in which they’re kept. There is blue handwriting on the envelope, which might read: ‘Frohawk’s drawings [o]f Melan[istic] Leps’.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:spsmiagur74jvkmhduvkmki6/bafkreif2nqrqp7234ghv6gzn7avjaq5qdirknvp6su4octwkbkp5mjd6ry)
October 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Excited to find drawings of moths by FW Frohawk (1861-1946) in the archive of biologist William Bateson @theul.bsky.social.
They’re catalogued as ‘27 drawings of Milan Leps’, but think this should be ‘Melan[istic] Leps’? Do they look right for showing melanism, #TeamMoth? MS Add. 8634/J.3 #EntHist
They’re catalogued as ‘27 drawings of Milan Leps’, but think this should be ‘Melan[istic] Leps’? Do they look right for showing melanism, #TeamMoth? MS Add. 8634/J.3 #EntHist
‘Gordius’, by Sir Thomas Gage (1781-1820) of Hengrave Hall, Suffolk, from an unfinished work on European butterflies. Gage had access to the collection of 'Mr. Mathais Professor of Sculpture at Dresden then residing at Rome'. MS Hengrave 62 @theul.bsky.social #EntHist
February 14, 2026 at 9:34 AM
‘Gordius’, by Sir Thomas Gage (1781-1820) of Hengrave Hall, Suffolk, from an unfinished work on European butterflies. Gage had access to the collection of 'Mr. Mathais Professor of Sculpture at Dresden then residing at Rome'. MS Hengrave 62 @theul.bsky.social #EntHist
Thank you, @lisaonaga.bsky.social & everyone involved for such a joyful & transformative collaboration. 🙏🏻
#Enthist #HistSTM #collections #museums #HistNatHist
#Enthist #HistSTM #collections #museums #HistNatHist
Fantastic to see the hard copy of @isisjournal.bsky.social! The Magnifying Insect Histories Focus reflects on the methodological purchase of thinking about 🪲🐝🐛🦂🦟🐜🦋 for doing history of science. Thank U authors + @dominikhhh.bsky.social & Dear editors: your visions enabled us to reach new heights 🙏
April 22, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Thank you, @lisaonaga.bsky.social & everyone involved for such a joyful & transformative collaboration. 🙏🏻
#Enthist #HistSTM #collections #museums #HistNatHist
#Enthist #HistSTM #collections #museums #HistNatHist
I have a website! You can find more about my research and "output" (both academic and for a general public) here: charlottemeijer.com/publications... 🪲 #enthist #envhist #earlymodern
November 19, 2024 at 1:54 PM
I have a website! You can find more about my research and "output" (both academic and for a general public) here: charlottemeijer.com/publications... 🪲 #enthist #envhist #earlymodern
Today on the blog: an existing discovery by Michele Pflug of another book owned by Katherine Blount. Our picture of her library is becoming more complex. This time a book on insects: buff.ly/4auMcWi #HerBook #EarlyModern #C17 #C18
Johannes Goedaert’s Of Insects, Translated into English by Martin Lister
By Michele D. Pflug On December 28, 1702, the English gentlewoman Eleanor Glanville crafted a list of observations on insects. She referenced figures from a printed book to aid her descriptions: Johan...
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April 15, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Join us tomorrow (Mon 11 March) for Greenhouse #envhum book talk with Samuel Dolbee, Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East.
16:00 in Norway. Daylight savings in US & Europe different so times are 11am Eastern/10am Central/etc.
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16:00 in Norway. Daylight savings in US & Europe different so times are 11am Eastern/10am Central/etc.
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
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March 10, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Women in Entomology at National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh 29 June. Conversation with women entomologists, a moth recorder and historian of science Don Optiz on amateur naturalist Alice Blanche Balfour (1850-1936) www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions-... #envhist #enthist #histsci #moths #collections 📜
Insect Week: Women in Entomology
Discover a diverse programme of exhibitions and events across National Museums Scotland's four museums.
www.nms.ac.uk
June 10, 2024 at 9:48 AM
Women in Entomology at National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh 29 June. Conversation with women entomologists, a moth recorder and historian of science Don Optiz on amateur naturalist Alice Blanche Balfour (1850-1936) www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions-... #envhist #enthist #histsci #moths #collections 📜