Delighted to announce that I have been elected to the board of trustees for Gilbert White’s House & Gardens @gilbertwhites.bsky.social ! #Trusteeship #GilbertWhite #NewRole #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #MuseumLife

A great new paper about pros/cons of collecting insects with K-12 kids! Also, yay open access 😀🪲 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Society currently invites applications for its David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People. The Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj Closing date: Friday 6 March 2026 #Skystorians

New article out today with @andy4040.bsky.social on the Liebig Trading Cards in the collection for the #BritishNaturalistsAssociation Country-Side Magazine #TradingCards #NaturalHistory #Ephemera #NewArticleAlert❗️

A conference report for our exhilarating 'Curious Collections' day at the Natural History Museum (@nhm-london.bsky.social) curioustravellers.ac.uk/conference-r...

Teaching today in the @morethanadodo.bsky.social seminar room, what better place to teach about natural history & natural history collecting to history undergrads for my first ever class for @ox.ac.uk history faculty! Huge thanks as always to @andy4040.bsky.social for the extra specimen loans!

I had no chance to post about Friday’s fantastic Curious Collections conference for @curioustravellers.bsky.social, but suffice to say these chairs were full as we welcomed nearly 60 guests to @nhm-london.bsky.social for a packed programme on Thomas Pennant and the work (and future🤞) of the project.

Come meet us (@stephholtnh.bsky.social included!) at the Natural History museum next month for specimens, travels, and digital humanities!

Back to history today and a lecture for the Oxford History Faculty Environmental Humanities group on @curioustravellers.bsky.social and our Curious Minds: Thomas Pennant and Gilbert White exhibition. #HistoricalResearch #DigitalHumanities #ThomasPennanr #GilbertWhite @ox.ac.uk

Yesterdays launch of the 61st Wildlife Photographer of the Year was excellent - I ran a science station on bats celebrating one of the best bat photos I’ve seen, chatting to our guests about bats, photography, and @nhm-london.bsky.social science 🦇 #WPY61

So busy at the Journeys Of Curiosity conference in Liverpool today that this was the only photo I took! But we had excellent talks covering Wales, the Himalayas, Egypt, Brazil discovering natural history, archaeology, and teacher training…you’ll have to take my word for it though! 🤦‍♀️

📣Calling all new research students in history & historical subjects. Do you want to learn how the IHR can help you during your studies? Join us on the 8 October to find out more. @royalhistsoc.org @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @historyandpolicy.bsky.social @chppc.bsky.social bit.ly/41UPOyG

We are looking for an Environmental Trustee to join our board. 🌱 For full details follow the link: gilbertwhiteshouse.org.uk/opportunities/

150 years ago today, the last known Rodrigues parakeet died. It - and one other specimen - is now in @zoologymuseum.bsky.social: the only physical evidence the species ever existed. I wrote about them & the importance of #museums in our knowledge of #extinction: theconversation.com/the-rodrigue...

Excellent day speaking in The New Dark Aesthetic: The Bats Project at Orleans House Gallery. Nestor Pestana has drawn together such an inspiring project combining art & science for bat conservation, it’s a joy to be a part of it!🦇🦇🦇 #ArtAndScience #ArtOfNature #ArtInConservation

Myself, the amazing Nestor Pestana, and others are doing this event on Saturday at Orleans House Gallery combining the art, science, and mythology of bats! Come along and join in the conversation! #Bats #ArtAndScience www.orleanshousegallery.org/events/19055...

And just like that our exhibition Curious Minds: Thomas Pennant and Gilbert White is over 🥲. I’ve loved the whole process of exhibition design, installation, and events, and I’m so proud of what we created for @curioustravellers.bsky.social

Panel 2 begins! Here is @stephholtnh.bsky.social, explaining the differences and similarities between the real letters between Thomas Pennant and Gilbert White, and the edited and polished versions that make up so much of White's classic 'Natural History of Selborne'

"fossil fish, a collection of graptolites, trilobites, a bear jaw..." In our new research blog, @stephholtnh.bsky.social gives us a rare hands-on look at Thomas Pennant's specimens in the British Museum curioustravellers.ac.uk/enlightening...

It’s been a beautiful day here in Selborne, and we’re set up and ready to go for the Gilbert White and His Contexts conference! gilbertwhite.org.uk #GilbertWhiteConference #GilbertWhite #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoricalResearch

On Thursday I got to view parts of the Du Bois herbarium at @ox.ac.uk. An incredible collection, and, although disbound and reordered in the 19th, fascinating examples of 17thC. herbaria and pre-Linnean nomenclature! #Herbarium #17thCentury #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoricalResearch

Places are booking up for our conference Gilbert White and His Contexts (3-5th June)! gilbertwhite.org.uk @bshsnews.bsky.social @sochistnathist.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @gilbertwhites.bsky.social @gilbertwhite.bsky.social @curioustravellers.bsky.social

It’s my Transfer of Status interview today (essential part of my DPhil progression). Re-reading my emotional support copy of the Natural History of Selborne over a cuppa, wish me luck!

Day 2 of #NatSCA2025 @natsca.bsky.social is up and running! I’m speaking later on behalf of @curioustravellers.bsky.social and the @nhm-london.bsky.social Thomas Pennant Collections #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #NaturalHistoryMuseums

Charles Darwin is best known for his work on evolution. But he was a prolific scientist who studied much more. Now, over 20,000 of Darwin's letters, books and publications have been recognised as a UNESCO heritage. Find out what this means 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

🦇 Whether you've just discovered you have a bat roost, have had a known bat roost for a while or are just curious about what having bats means this page is for you: buff.ly/hB0v79Y . It's designed to help answer your questions and offer advice and support.

Vote for us! Our amazing Naturally Curious course is up for a Webby Award, but is currently in second place! #WebbyAward #NaturallyCurious vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

Our exhibition catalogue is for Curious Minds: Thomas Pennant and Gilbert White is beautiful! Pop over to my Instagram for a quick flick through! Copies are available to buy when you visit the exhibition 😁 @curioustravellers.bsky.social @gilbertwhites.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DIQ7Wxb...

How yesterday started vs how it finished! Yesterday we installed the Curious Minds: Thomas Pennant and Gilbert White exhibition from the @curioustravellers.bsky.social project at @gilbertwhites.bsky.social. It looks amazing and is on until 22nd June, do come and visit! #HistoryOfNaturalHistory

Our exhibition Curious Minds: Thomas Pennant and Gilbert White launches on the 8th April at @gilbertwhites.bsky.social! We’re delighted that the exhibition will feature objects and images loaned by many organisations (see comments!) Book your place at the launch at [email protected]

Reminder that our exhibition Curious Minds: Thomas Pennant and Gilbert White is launching soon! Do come and join us! @bsecs.bsky.social @bshsnews.bsky.social @sochistnathist.bsky.social @gilbertwhite.bsky.social @brycchancarey.bsky.social

Just published in Notes and Records, a paper about Newton's beer mug! Take a look at the wooden flagon that Newton is on record as giving to his Trinity College, Cambridge chamber-fellow, John Wickins, which survives intact: youtu.be/j6mk2NYnIRQ #notesandrecords #histsci

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

This little volume in the @orieloxford.bsky.social archives contains Gilbert White’s accounts for his bachelors and masters degrees. Notes like these provide a fascinating insight into the day to day life of a person, and how they change 🎓📝🧾🍷🍓🍋📚🐴🐶 #HistoricalResearch #HistoryOfNaturalHistory

Ernst Haeckel, German biologist, philosopher & artist, was born on #OTD in 1834. ”Kunstformen der Natur” (Art forms of Nature) was his master work. master work #sciart #histsci wp.me/p3ihHu-1fa

Your donations enable us to continue discovering more about bats, take action to protect them, educate people about bats and their environment along with enabling more people to get involved in bat conservation. Every donation makes a difference: https://buff.ly/3fyG3uW

Look at this amazing cartoon sketched while I was filming an interview with the Royal College of Art!

Yesterday was my first Oriel Talks session as convenor for the MCR. We had 2 great talks from Orielenses researching at CERN, absolutely fascinating! Our next is on the 26th! @orieloxford.bsky.social

Today is #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #IDWGS2025. I get to work with many amazing women in #science & #HistSci I’m on my research today though, so here are some of the women in #GilbertWhite’s life: gilbertwhiteshouse.org.uk/women-gilber... #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoricalResearch

For #WomeninScienceDay, here's a listicle of women linked to @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social collections and stories #histstm www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...

This week's #BookOfTheWeek is one rather close to my nerdy little heart as it's all about notebooks! As an essential tool for both a naturalist and a researcher, I've usualy got at least one somewhere about my person. uk.bookshop.org/a/14242/9780...

On Friday during a tour for @ox.ac.uk #HistoryOfMedicineScienceAndTechnology masters students we were shown what I think is the oldest herbarium in @nhm-london.bsky.social. Dating from 1603, the state of preservation is incredible! #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoryOfBotany

📢 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS 📢 [Please Share Widely!] Picturing Pennant is a new crowdsourcing project to "tag" the illustrations in Thomas Pennant's eighteenth-century Tours of Wales and Scotland. Can you help us identify the places, people, and much more in these wonderful illustrated volumes?

Botanist and entomologist Georg Dionysius Ehret was born #OTD in 1708. Born in Germany, Ehret collaborated with many scientists across Europe, including Linnaeus and Sloane, and produced hundreds of botanical illustrations 🌱🌷🌴 The genus of flowering plants Ehretia was named in his honour 🌿

If you're an early-career researcher outside the UK and want to come work with my at the @nhm-london.bsky.social node of @adriftlab.bsky.social, consider applying for the Royal Society's Newton Fellowships! Deadline 17 March. Get in touch! royalsociety.org/grants/newto... #ornithology

Unable to get tickets to our event The Jurassic Highway? Don't worry! Hear from researchers who recently uncovered over 200 fossil footprints in a quarry in Oxfordshire, that form the largest known dinosaur trackways site in the UK. This event will be live streamed on YouTube: youtu.be/qYB0f5GS0cE

Don't forget... The Call for Proposals deadline for the Gilbert White and his Contexts conference is next Monday, 3 February. The conference is in June at White's own house in Selborne, Hampshire. Find out more and submit your proposal on the conference website! gilbertwhite.org.uk

The video of the UK Moth Recorders meeting is now available, grab yourself a brew and watch it here - https://buff.ly/3PTy9RB There are talks on day flying moths and fascinating research into why flying insects are drawn to and circle lights, and what we can do about it #UKMRM

We have our Postgrad Researcher Symposium today, great to see @edwinrose.bsky.social speaking on his work in the @NHM collections & archives, including on @curioustravellers.bsky.social @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social

we've done positivity, now time to feed the part of your soul that lives in a hut on chicken legs in the deep forest punishing the arrogance of man 1 like = 1 curse