Call for submissions from @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social - plants! edgeeffects.net/botanical-im...

Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair invites you to an online session on Black Studies in Europe. The three editors discuss their recently published anthology. Friday, 13th February 5.30 pm (Paris time). Online. Registration link👇🏽 undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com/next-event/ Spread the word.

Moss hunting in the rain at Brede in Sussex. The first thing Graeme said to me was "I've come bryologising by mistake" #bryology #bryophytes @bbsbryology.bsky.social

TOMORROW! Please join us for More-than-Human Curation, 2nd in our More-than-Human/ities seminar series w/ York University, Toronto Come explore how art & wildlife interact in museum settings & curatorship🦣🌾 Wed 4 Feb 17:45–19:15 Register here yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1ON4d36KQQWSXZUwX10Nuw

The research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories. Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo... #envhist #envhum

Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians

I'm joining Dr Brooke Newman at Waterstones Gower Street on Friday evening for the UK launch of her new book, 'The Crown’s Silence'. The Monarchy’s leading role in the enslavement and colonisation of African people is really important history that needs to be much more widely understood. Join us 👇🏾

A few pictures from yesterday's bryology field meeting to Sullington, on the South Downs in Sussex. A Saxon church, with Orthotrichum anomalum and Neckera smithii on the gravestones, and Seligeria calycina on chalk @bbsbryology.bsky.social #bryology #bryophytes

Happy 50th birthday, HWJ! Being a member of the History Workshop collective has shaped the kind of historian I am (& want to be). I'm so proud to have helped edit this 100th issue of History Workshop Journal, which includes reflections on History Workshop for these turbulent times; on HW's past;...

What a cracker! Orthotrichum anomalum, Anomalous Bristle-Moss on a tomb stone in the graveyard of St Mary's Sullington West Sussex. Identified by @trichocolea.bsky.social on another excellent British Bryology Society South East Group field meeting. I learn such a lot from these meetings.

Abstract submissions for our 2026 meeting in Montpellier are now OPEN! ethnobotany.org/home/meeting...

If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Seminar on colonial instructinons by Yunting Gu 28th of Jan, 3-4, CET (Zoom): Disputing the lacquer tree: Visual Evidence and Global Knowledge in the Early Modern World. Zoom link: [email protected], Welcome! instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/yunti... #skystorians #envhist #museums

PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate. Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT. Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

NEW for 2026 at London International Palaeography Summer School we have a course on Unlocking Islamic Literary Heritage. You need some Arabic for this one. 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

Exhibition | Gardens of Enlightenment, 1750–1800 enfilade18thc.com/2026/01/04/e... #C18th #garden #enlightenment #earlymodern

How to get into nature.

"In a sequel to her influential 'Library as Infrastructure', contributing writer Shannon Mattern delves into the organizing force of libraries at a time when public knowledge is under attack." placesjournal.org/article/extr... @shannonmattern.bsky.social

Our latest PhD Placement opportunities - come and work at the British Library for 3-6 months to develop your research and professional skills. 8 projects available, deadline for applications 27 February. www.bl.uk/services/res...

Delightful moment in Frederic Madden's journal, describing a cold day in London 200 years ago today madden1826.com/15-january/ @madden1826.bsky.social

I would pick a paragraph to screenshot and amplify. But every paragraph is a gem, about a gem of a human. Talk about PhD research having an impact. Not sure where on ORCID you'd enter 'confession under torture which contained intel for bombers naively read out in full by a regime judge'.

Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu. A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies. Sign up to attend! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

Catoscopium nigritum from "Barrie Sands" in south Wales collected by Edward Morell Holmes probably in the 1890s. In the moss collection of Henry Guermonprez at @portsmouthnh.bsky.social @bbsbryology.bsky.social #bryophytes

One month to go… UCL turns 200! 🎉 On 11 February, we kick off #UCL200 – a year of celebrations marking our radical founding in 1826 as London’s first university, open to all. Expect parties, exhibitions, student festivals, art, books, performances, and more. Get ready! @uclspeccoll.bsky.social#UCL200

New network: The Eighteenth Century Ecologies Network, based at the University of York (@cecs-york.bsky.social) More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6273

Congratulations to Dr Margaret Bradshaw, who has done more than anyone to promote understanding and conservation of Upper Teesdale's unique arctic-alpine flora. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#MedievalSky #histSTM #histmed CFP: “The Science of Natural Properties: Knowledge, Transmission, and Practice (6th – 15th century)” (Bologna, June 17-19, 2026). Transportation to Bologna is covered for speakers of accepted papers. Deadline: 15 Jan 2026. www.academia.edu/145294551/Ca...

Networking collections is a bit of a theme in the work I have contributed to in recent years: A Family Moss Craze: Learning, Reading and Skill Development in a Botanical and Domestic Network in Early Nineteenth-Century England and Wales’, BJHS, published online 2025, dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000....

The life of Frederic Madden, in his words, 200 years after the events described. Transcribed from his journal by students @ies-sas.bsky.social. Released daily in 2026.👇 madden1826.com

Just found this wonderful photo of my grandfather, his sister and her young son (in the pushchair) in Brighton in about 1920

A nice sandrock site in Sussex, abouot ten minutes' drive from the house, with Leucobyrum juniperoideum on the rocks, and L. albidum on the Sweet Chestnut stumps #bryology

Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org ********************************* Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr

"Old Cree recordings inspire new podcast: Lenny Carpenter’s podcast Apisheesh sparked by his grandfather's stories"

it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set

If you are a Londoner or are interested in it this is a lovely updated @londonist.com map of Anglo Saxon London to browse londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...

In this new paper, Chris Preston reports results from a monthly recording of vascular plants in flower in the street flora of Cambridge. This could provide some useful seasonal context for the @bsbibotany.bsky.social #NewYearPlantHunt? www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... @bsbiscience.bsky.social

Found this the other day At the BL. Wonderful little paper instrument.

Do you enjoy my periodic rantings on Isaac Newton's alchemical citations? If so, take a look at my shiny new article on our improved #TEI encoding system of Newton's citations & what we can learn from some preliminary analyses of the data! #BookHistory #histsci (tldr in 🧵) doi.org/10.14434/tc....

“Lichens of Britain & Ireland” by Rebecca Yahr and Frances Stoakley is finally available for purchase. This has been a much needed ID guide for beginners to intermediates and the publication is finally here!! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/lichens-o... #bloomsbury #lichens

What has over 61,000 records, and over 218,000 images? Why it's the new home for our digitised collections, Linnean Online. The new platform is part of our work to share our scientifically and historically significant collections with the world. Find out more about the project at buff.ly/Uk2mDRV

An occasion where the substrate is rarer than the moss. Bryum capillare and Rhynchostegium confertum on a rural Sussex phone box #bryophytes

So, what do we do with the #NewYearPlantHunt data that 1000s of #BSBImembers & supporters have collected over the past decade? 1 example: we joined forces with @metoffice.gov.uk to investigate correlations between rising temperatures & your plant records. Initial results: bsbi.org/about/news/l...

🚨 History buffs of the Holy Roman Empire: We built an app to visualize rulers' itineraries between 919 and 1519 based on the Regesta Imperii. Thank you @albertwendsjo.bsky.social for all the help! Explore here: carlmc.shinyapps.io/hre-itinerar... Please let us know of any issues and feedback!

SSHM invites submissions to its 2025/6 Roy Porter Essay Prize for the best original and unpublished essay in #histmed 🏆£500 first prize Open to all students (registered at the deadline for entries or were awarded their degree in 2025). For the entry form and rules and eligibility see👇 #histmed

Very happy to introduce a new tool, BookReconciler! You can take spreadsheets with book data and add subject headings, descriptions, ISBNs, HathiTrust IDs, & more. You can also cluster editions & variations of the same "Work." Led by @thisismattmiller.com and supported by @post45data.bsky.social.

A THREAD, which I am calling 'Some Of The Many Reasons Lichen And Moss Are Fucking Brilliant'. 1. They make public seating super comfy. bsky.app/profile/dj-a...

Booking for the first @royalhistsoc.org Lectures of 2026 is now available: bit.ly/48N0CCY > Charles West on 'Queens & the Making of Medieval Europe’ > Vinita Damodaran on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire' > David Stack on 'Well-being: a Historian's Perspective' #Skystorians

Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past is now available as individual (free to download) chapters from JSTOR (no subscription needed). The first set of chapters deal with historical perspectives and the second set with pedagogical perspectives. 1/2

For World Aids Day, 1 December, I’ve co-curated a new highlights gallery exploring @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy state records collection related to the HIV and AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s. To access it: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

This is the first known photograph of a snowman. It was taken in Swansea, Wales, in 1853 by Victorian photography pioneer Mary Dillwyn. 📷 National Library of Wales - Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru #christmas #snow