I’m very happy to announce that I’ve been awarded an IRFD Starting Grant for the project “Sovereign Flowers: Flora Danica and the Emergence of the National Flora, 1750–1900.” Hooray! The project allows me to build a small research group of a PhD student and a postdoc at Aarhus University (@au.dk).

Fascinating presentation about “Bee-keeping, plant breeding, and early 18th C flower ecology” by @cberiksen.bsky.social at ISIH 2025: “Women, Men, and other Animals” in Aarhus. @isih-blueskye.bsky.social

I'm very happy to see my piece on insect pollination published on the awesome Journal of the History of Ideas blog.

When you open an old notebook in the archive and there is a snake (skin): @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 🗃️💙📚

Funded PhD Studentship @UCL History and @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on project titled 'Translating Monstrosity: Constructions of Difference in #earlymodern England and France'. Deadline Jan 31st 2025. Project & application info: www.ucl.ac.uk/history/oppo.... #histmed #histsci #HSTM #bookhistory

It’s that time of year again.

Scroll through their thread. This is like an episode from A.S. Byatt’s novel _Possession_. Adventures in research! 🗃️ 💙 📚

Xinyi has written a wonderful thread about our collaborative research on Margery Power peppered with pictures from our many archival trips. So many good memories!

We made another thing! Here is a pretty great 'HPS Starter Pack' so you too can follow all the awesome history, philosophy and social studies of science (and #metasci #histSTM #philsci #philsky #hps #histsci 🧪) accounts on Bluesky. Please share widely #academicsky :)

After flowers, the next section of "Sleeping Beauties" focused on insects in fashion. To introduce the topic, they had the oldest item of the exhibit, this 1615-20 British waistcoat. It has embroidered flowers, birds, and insects with taxonomical accuracy, representing an English garden.

Proofs have arrived. We’re all set to launch the next wave of Grew scholarship.

Current writing mood: "There are some Erratas in the Book, but the writer says he is too lazie to give you a Note of them" (1676) Show me a writer who cannot relate... 🗃️

#CallForPapers: The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade (5-7 November 2025, Antwerp). #Bookhistory #HerBook #WomensHistory #Herstory museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/wome...

Entirely new on this thing. Is there a history of science starter pack? I missed those conversations after X turned into utter garbage.