Want to start doing soil animal macrophotography? Or fancy a rare glimpse into mine and @mesofauna.bsky.social's minds? An article has just dropped in @soilorganismsj.bsky.social, showcasing mine and Andy's love for documenting soil biodiversity! 🧪🪱 Open Access: soil-organisms.org/SO/article/v...

Visit to “Dangerous books: 500 years of science under fire” exhibition at the Teyler’s museum. Two highlights for me: - I had no idea Gesner’s Historiae Animalium was on the Index of Forbidden Books! - The censured Copernicus De revolutionibus was as redacted as recent email releases. #museums2026

The moss Hookeria lucens under a Birch on the edge of iron-rich bog in Ashdown Forest in Sussex today #bryology @bbsbryology.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

yes!! there’s so much good stuff in here. I was pleased to write about the elephant dissection that has haunted me for a decade

Now on the GHIL #podcast! Listen to our lecture in cooperation with @royalhistsoc.org given by Vinita Damodaran (@sussex.ac.uk#podcast! on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire'. 🌏 1/5

Are you still looking for a nice activity to escape the unpredictable April weather? Then you will certainly find something to your liking in the Plants of Plantin exhibition at Museum Plantin-Moretus. #plantenvanplantijn #museumplantinmoretus

I’m leading this London Rare Book School course on the history of collecting. Ideal for anyone interested in studying the history of libraries and how and why books have survived. We’ll be looking at why special collections are special. 22-26 June. #bookHistory👇📚📖 ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

This is hilarious

Chlorociboria sp. stained wood - yesterday in Views Wood, Buxted - was high prized by weald cabinet makers, as they used it to make the green-blue inlays of Tunbridge Ware, made in Tunbridge Wells (High Weald) stock pboto)

FREE creative workshops in Kew Gardens Archives, for participants of Asian, African and Caribbean heritage. Explore records about fruit, forestry and plant collection - plus the chance to co-curate an exhibition! Apply by 12/4/26 here forms.office.com/e/mdVXh3icAZ #archives #PublicEngagement

Digitisation as archival intermediary: Quantifying and qualifying Greta B. Stevenson's mycological collector networks 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... by Kreuzer et al. #PlantScience Image credit: Photography (CK) courtesy Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Join us online on Monday 23 March for @brycchancarey.bsky.social discussing The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 (Yale UP 2024) in @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk series. Starts 4pm CET, 3pm GMT, 10am EST newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #ecocrit

Chanced upon a little Wood Mouse on the path while having a walk today

We’re excited to share our seminar line-up for Women in Natural History Museums & Collections. Please join us and help circulate! First out: Wednesday 6 May – 15:00–16:00 (CET) Luisa Kapp (Senckenberg Nature Research) “Everywhere and Nowhere: Women in the Making of Natural History” 🧵#histsci #HPS

Birch consumed by Beech, Ashdown Forest, Sussex #wildflowerhour

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/...

"Wild-sea Holley by ye passage as you goe from portsmouth into Cornwall" collected by William Paine, 1737, from @cuherb.bsky.social. Now, this is in fact from Plymouth, and in modern parlance it is Eryngium campestre @jillwhitelock.bsky.social @timpurches.bsky.social 1/3

Here's an awesome natural history humanities PhD opportunity, working with Cambridge University Library & our insect & archive collections here at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, exploring the links between entomology, life writing & environmental change. Please share! www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius. #Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork

35mm projector in action at the Atrium in East Grinstead, Sussex. #filmHistory #technology

Enjoyed Frederic Madden's account of his journey from London to Fakenham, and then Holkham. 1 March 1826. Quite a trek, and then the archive... madden1826.com/1-march/ @madden1826.bsky.social

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

Working with criminal justice records Wed, 25 March | 13:00 GMT | Online 🎤 Charlotte Smith, The National Archives 🎤 Dr Jessamy Carlson, The National Archives 🎤 Miles Wright, The Law Commission of England and Wales Reserve your spot here: shorturl.at/KlsVm

This #MapMonday we have even #MoreMaps for you! 🗺️✨ We've georeferenced the 1,329 first edition Six-inch maps of England and Wales we added in November. Now you can use a special toggle button in our viewers to compare these maps side-by-side. Explore the new tool > maps.nls.uk/additions/#194

More from this incredible manuscript.

Went to see Kurt Weill's Mahagonny at ENO last night. I knew what we were in for, as I was in a production by Bristol University Operatic Society when I was an undergraduate in 1985. It is a remarkable work. And I am in 3 of these pictures...

Great film, though I didn't see the echoes of Night of the Hunter...

We're trialling something new this year at the BSBI - an activity designed to support absolute beginner botanists with identifying *and* recording their first ever 100 plants in 2026 🌿 If you know anyone that might like to take part then please spread the word: bsbi.org/take-part/ac...

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...