Hello! As everyone else is giving it a go, we thought we'd better dip our toe in too.
We're here for all your natural history needs, especially where it intersects with culture, society and history 🌱📖🦋
We're here for all your natural history needs, especially where it intersects with culture, society and history 🌱📖🦋
December 3, 2024 at 7:31 PM
I hate #AprilFools . Institutions have the most marvellous ideas & then they abandon them again on 2nd April. Fools.
#HistNatHist
(Also ping @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social)
#HistNatHist
(Also ping @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social)
April 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I hate #AprilFools . Institutions have the most marvellous ideas & then they abandon them again on 2nd April. Fools.
#HistNatHist
(Also ping @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social)
#HistNatHist
(Also ping @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social)
Hurray! Congratulations.
@biodivlibrary.bsky.social is essential and will hopefully be saved.
#HistNatHist #NatHist
@biodivlibrary.bsky.social is essential and will hopefully be saved.
#HistNatHist #NatHist
💚 Thanks to our global BHL community, we reached our USD 50,000 #GiveBHLWings goal by 1 Jan 2026! These funds support BHL’s transition, staff, and infrastructure, keeping biodiversity knowledge open worldwide. Special thanks to our recurring donors. More updates soon. 🌍 📖 🧪 #BHLTransition
January 6, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Hurray! Congratulations.
@biodivlibrary.bsky.social is essential and will hopefully be saved.
#HistNatHist #NatHist
@biodivlibrary.bsky.social is essential and will hopefully be saved.
#HistNatHist #NatHist
Today we celebrate the incredible biodiversity of our planet – and the power of #OpenAccess to protect it. The Biodiversity Heritage Library makes over 62 million pages of biodiversity knowledge freely available to all. 🔗 biodiversitylibrary.org
#EarthDay #EarthDay2025 #Biodiversity #BHLib
#EarthDay #EarthDay2025 #Biodiversity #BHLib
April 22, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Join us for another semester of @collecol.bsky.social fun online.
#HistNatHist #HistSTM #collections #museums #EnvHist #EnvHum
#HistNatHist #HistSTM #collections #museums #EnvHist #EnvHum
@collecol.bsky.social is back! 🪲
We've put together a great seminar series - we hope you'll come along!
On 2 Oct 11am EDT/4pm GMT we're doing a reading club - Appadurai's "The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination".
All info ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
We've put together a great seminar series - we hope you'll come along!
On 2 Oct 11am EDT/4pm GMT we're doing a reading club - Appadurai's "The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination".
All info ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
Collection Ecologies | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
www.chstm.org
September 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Join us for another semester of @collecol.bsky.social fun online.
#HistNatHist #HistSTM #collections #museums #EnvHist #EnvHum
#HistNatHist #HistSTM #collections #museums #EnvHist #EnvHum
My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏
UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚🐵
US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🗃️🦋
UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚🐵
US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🗃️🦋
January 30, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Cat‘s out of the bag now. @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social & I will be the new co-editors of Archives of Natural History @sochistnathist.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social .
We’re taking over from the inimitable Anne Secord.
New submission system will be set up soon. Stay tuned.
#HistNatHist
We’re taking over from the inimitable Anne Secord.
New submission system will be set up soon. Stay tuned.
#HistNatHist
Looks like a great series! Would love to see some of these turned into articles for Archives of Natural History, which I and @dominikhhh.bsky.social have just taken over as co-editors.
January 24, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Cat‘s out of the bag now. @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social & I will be the new co-editors of Archives of Natural History @sochistnathist.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social .
We’re taking over from the inimitable Anne Secord.
New submission system will be set up soon. Stay tuned.
#HistNatHist
We’re taking over from the inimitable Anne Secord.
New submission system will be set up soon. Stay tuned.
#HistNatHist
🥁 Drum rolls needed!
Applications for the Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellowships are now OPEN!
We are so excited to offer this incredible opportunity!
Please, help us share the news!
2 online sandpits to meet #GLAM people @uniofcam.bsky.social
Info 👇
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
Applications for the Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellowships are now OPEN!
We are so excited to offer this incredible opportunity!
Please, help us share the news!
2 online sandpits to meet #GLAM people @uniofcam.bsky.social
Info 👇
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
March 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
So honoured to have been asked to join this amazing group of people on the board. Looking forward to supporting this wonderful initiative in any way I can.
@camglamresearch.bsky.social #GLAM #HistNatHist #Museums #Collections
@camglamresearch.bsky.social #GLAM #HistNatHist #Museums #Collections
Glad to see our own @dominikhhh.bsky.social named to the Advisory Board of the new Natural History Humanities initiative at the University of Cambridge! 🎉
Find out more about what they're doing, including postdoc/visiting fellowships & much more to come in future!
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
Find out more about what they're doing, including postdoc/visiting fellowships & much more to come in future!
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
Natural History Humanities - Collections Connections Communities
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk
February 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
So honoured to have been asked to join this amazing group of people on the board. Looking forward to supporting this wonderful initiative in any way I can.
@camglamresearch.bsky.social #GLAM #HistNatHist #Museums #Collections
@camglamresearch.bsky.social #GLAM #HistNatHist #Museums #Collections
Wonderful natural history records from April 1798 in Cambridge by Revett Sheppard, then a student at Caius College. Plants, birds and insects, including Field pennycress, Swallows, Mayflies and Dragonflies. MS Add. 9839/22/1 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social. #HistNatHist @camglamresearch.bsky.social 1/3
April 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The Pasqueflowers in my garden have been and gone before Easter this year, but I enjoyed finding out about the history of the Cambridgeshire flowers for this blogpost:
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/preserv... 📷 #photography @camglamresearch.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social #HistNatHist
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/preserv... 📷 #photography @camglamresearch.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social #HistNatHist
April 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The Pasqueflowers in my garden have been and gone before Easter this year, but I enjoyed finding out about the history of the Cambridgeshire flowers for this blogpost:
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/preserv... 📷 #photography @camglamresearch.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social #HistNatHist
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/preserv... 📷 #photography @camglamresearch.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social #HistNatHist
Had a fabulous time at #BSHS2025 @bshsnews.bsky.social . #HistSTM
So much on #museums , #collections , #envhist #HistNatHist . 😍
Great seeing friends & meeting new people. Esp. @camglamresearch.bsky.social
Thanks everyone for attending our @collecol.bsky.social roundtable. Join please:
So much on #museums , #collections , #envhist #HistNatHist . 😍
Great seeing friends & meeting new people. Esp. @camglamresearch.bsky.social
Thanks everyone for attending our @collecol.bsky.social roundtable. Join please:
Collection Ecologies | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
www.chstm.org
July 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Had a fabulous time at #BSHS2025 @bshsnews.bsky.social . #HistSTM
So much on #museums , #collections , #envhist #HistNatHist . 😍
Great seeing friends & meeting new people. Esp. @camglamresearch.bsky.social
Thanks everyone for attending our @collecol.bsky.social roundtable. Join please:
So much on #museums , #collections , #envhist #HistNatHist . 😍
Great seeing friends & meeting new people. Esp. @camglamresearch.bsky.social
Thanks everyone for attending our @collecol.bsky.social roundtable. Join please:
Are you an #ECR who incorporates #postcolonial #provenance research on #zoological #collections as a method into their historical scholarship?
Join @coloniallegacy.bsky.social in Hamburg for a workshop in March 2025. Rumour has it that yours truly will be there too. 😁
#HistNatHist
Please share.
Join @coloniallegacy.bsky.social in Hamburg for a workshop in March 2025. Rumour has it that yours truly will be there too. 😁
#HistNatHist
Please share.
CFP: Animals and Empire. Provenance Research as a Method for Global Histories
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152202
Hamburg, 20.03.2025-21.03.2025, Research Centre "Hamburgs (post-)colonial Legacy", Bewerbungsschluss: 19.01.2025
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152202
Hamburg, 20.03.2025-21.03.2025, Research Centre "Hamburgs (post-)colonial Legacy", Bewerbungsschluss: 19.01.2025
Animals and Empire. Provenance Research as a Method for Global Histories
www.hsozkult.de
December 20, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Are you an #ECR who incorporates #postcolonial #provenance research on #zoological #collections as a method into their historical scholarship?
Join @coloniallegacy.bsky.social in Hamburg for a workshop in March 2025. Rumour has it that yours truly will be there too. 😁
#HistNatHist
Please share.
Join @coloniallegacy.bsky.social in Hamburg for a workshop in March 2025. Rumour has it that yours truly will be there too. 😁
#HistNatHist
Please share.
Surprise publication day! Earlier than anticipated, you can now read my #firstbook (digital version in #openaccess) or order a printed copy through the link. Official announcement and info on book presentation event coming soon!
brill.com/display/titl...
#NatHist, #HistNatHist, #flowers
brill.com/display/titl...
#NatHist, #HistNatHist, #flowers
Everlasting Flowers between the Pages
"Everlasting Flowers between the Pages" published on 28 Aug 2025 by Brill.
brill.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Surprise publication day! Earlier than anticipated, you can now read my #firstbook (digital version in #openaccess) or order a printed copy through the link. Official announcement and info on book presentation event coming soon!
brill.com/display/titl...
#NatHist, #HistNatHist, #flowers
brill.com/display/titl...
#NatHist, #HistNatHist, #flowers
Wish I could be in Cambridge for this. You all should definitely go.
#HistNatHist #Collections #Interdisciplinarity
#HistNatHist #Collections #Interdisciplinarity
📅 If you are in Cambridge on the 26 February, 5-7pm, join us for our termly Keynote on the exciting topic of 'Tapping Natural History Collections for Interdisciplinary Research' by Yota Batsaki @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social
Plants, animals and rocks can tell us more than what we might think!🪷🦎🪨📖👇
Plants, animals and rocks can tell us more than what we might think!🪷🦎🪨📖👇
Join us for our termly Keynote Lecture!
Launching our Natural History Humanities with a lecture from Yota Batsaki @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social:
Tapping Natural History Collections for Interdisciplinary Research: Perspectives from the Plant Humanities
Register below 👇
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
Launching our Natural History Humanities with a lecture from Yota Batsaki @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social:
Tapping Natural History Collections for Interdisciplinary Research: Perspectives from the Plant Humanities
Register below 👇
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
February 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Wish I could be in Cambridge for this. You all should definitely go.
#HistNatHist #Collections #Interdisciplinarity
#HistNatHist #Collections #Interdisciplinarity
Volume 10 (yes 10!!!) of our book series “Emergence of Natural History” @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-history.bsky.social is out #OpenAccess : @dvantrijp.bsky.social ‘s fascinating history of #fish studies / #Ichthyology
Congratulations, Didi!
#HistNatHist #HistSTM
brill.com/display/titl...
Congratulations, Didi!
#HistNatHist #HistSTM
brill.com/display/titl...
brill.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Volume 10 (yes 10!!!) of our book series “Emergence of Natural History” @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-history.bsky.social is out #OpenAccess : @dvantrijp.bsky.social ‘s fascinating history of #fish studies / #Ichthyology
Congratulations, Didi!
#HistNatHist #HistSTM
brill.com/display/titl...
Congratulations, Didi!
#HistNatHist #HistSTM
brill.com/display/titl...
It’s getting real. Just signed up as a guest editor for a special issue of a fab journal. The wonderful @nickytheprof.bsky.social & I will work with a lovely group of people to tell you all about @collecol.bsky.social soonish.
#HistNatHist #Collections #EnvHist #Museums #HistSTM 📗🗃️🏛️📜🧪🌿🪲
#HistNatHist #Collections #EnvHist #Museums #HistSTM 📗🗃️🏛️📜🧪🌿🪲
December 11, 2024 at 8:57 AM
It’s getting real. Just signed up as a guest editor for a special issue of a fab journal. The wonderful @nickytheprof.bsky.social & I will work with a lovely group of people to tell you all about @collecol.bsky.social soonish.
#HistNatHist #Collections #EnvHist #Museums #HistSTM 📗🗃️🏛️📜🧪🌿🪲
#HistNatHist #Collections #EnvHist #Museums #HistSTM 📗🗃️🏛️📜🧪🌿🪲
I feel there needs to be a collab with @museumbums.bsky.social and a new #museum social media sensation : #MuseumBoner 😇 😆
#SorryNotSorry
#HistNatHist
#NatHist
#SorryNotSorry
#HistNatHist
#NatHist
When it comes to certain parts of anatomy, #museums have been deliberately teaching people the wrong thing.
Most #mammals have a bone in their penis but natural history museums usually remove them from display, as I told @iflscience.com (& wrote in #NaturesMemory):
www.iflscience.com/where-have-a...
Most #mammals have a bone in their penis but natural history museums usually remove them from display, as I told @iflscience.com (& wrote in #NaturesMemory):
www.iflscience.com/where-have-a...
The Surprising (And Very Unscientific) Reason Why Penis Bones Are So Rare In Natural History Museums
#NotAllMuseums (but a lot of them) seem have to banished the penis bone. Why?
www.iflscience.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I feel there needs to be a collab with @museumbums.bsky.social and a new #museum social media sensation : #MuseumBoner 😇 😆
#SorryNotSorry
#HistNatHist
#NatHist
#SorryNotSorry
#HistNatHist
#NatHist
Wonderful natural history records from April 1798 in Cambridge by Revett Sheppard, then a student at Caius College. Plants, birds and insects, including Field pennycress, Swallows, Mayflies and Dragonflies. MS Add. 9839/22/1 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social. #HistNatHist @camglamresearch.bsky.social 1/3
April 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Wonderful natural history records from April 1798 in Cambridge by Revett Sheppard, then a student at Caius College. Plants, birds and insects, including Field pennycress, Swallows, Mayflies and Dragonflies. MS Add. 9839/22/1 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social. #HistNatHist @camglamresearch.bsky.social 1/3
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
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 📗🗃️🖼️
Hurray, one of my favourite libraries/archives is here!
#HistNatHist
#HistNatHist
Hello @bsky.app we have joined the family! 👋
Watch this space....
In the meantime, how about we continue the blue theme with photographs of British Algae: cyanotype impressions by Anna Atkins (1799 - 1871). View all of them via our #DigitisedCollections
nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/co...
Watch this space....
In the meantime, how about we continue the blue theme with photographs of British Algae: cyanotype impressions by Anna Atkins (1799 - 1871). View all of them via our #DigitisedCollections
nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/co...
November 22, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Hurray, one of my favourite libraries/archives is here!
#HistNatHist
#HistNatHist
I guess I’ve been at worse conference venues.
#VillaVigoni
Looking forward to discussing #NatHist #digitisation #HistNatHist #museums with dear colleagues from Berlin, Paris, Strasbourg, Padova, Firenze & guests from the UK & the Netherlands. #Europe
#VillaVigoni
Looking forward to discussing #NatHist #digitisation #HistNatHist #museums with dear colleagues from Berlin, Paris, Strasbourg, Padova, Firenze & guests from the UK & the Netherlands. #Europe
July 24, 2024 at 7:35 AM
I guess I’ve been at worse conference venues.
#VillaVigoni
Looking forward to discussing #NatHist #digitisation #HistNatHist #museums with dear colleagues from Berlin, Paris, Strasbourg, Padova, Firenze & guests from the UK & the Netherlands. #Europe
#VillaVigoni
Looking forward to discussing #NatHist #digitisation #HistNatHist #museums with dear colleagues from Berlin, Paris, Strasbourg, Padova, Firenze & guests from the UK & the Netherlands. #Europe
Volume 9 of Emergence of Natural History is here.
It’s open access, brilliant and beautiful.
#HistNatHist
It’s open access, brilliant and beautiful.
#HistNatHist
Printed copies of Everlasting Flowers are gorgeous! But the digital version is #openaccess for anyone to read: brill.com/display/titl....
A book presentation takes place at the KB in The Hague on 3 December. You are warmly invited! To register: tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/D...
Please share!
A book presentation takes place at the KB in The Hague on 3 December. You are warmly invited! To register: tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/D...
Please share!
September 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Volume 9 of Emergence of Natural History is here.
It’s open access, brilliant and beautiful.
#HistNatHist
It’s open access, brilliant and beautiful.
#HistNatHist
New @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM working group seminar on 11 April at 8am EDT/1pm CET! 🪲
@dominikhhh.bsky.social, Karina Lucas Silva-Brandão, Christian Reiß & Xiaoya Zhan will present “Reevaluating Insects as Archives – Collection Ecologies as Multidisciplinary & Multipractice Conversation /1 🦋🐞
@dominikhhh.bsky.social, Karina Lucas Silva-Brandão, Christian Reiß & Xiaoya Zhan will present “Reevaluating Insects as Archives – Collection Ecologies as Multidisciplinary & Multipractice Conversation /1 🦋🐞
April 8, 2024 at 3:26 PM