Super dress match met Trude Dijkstra vanavond bij #avondwm, de Avond van wetenschap & maatschappij waar we als tafelwetenschappers een stelling mochten inbrengen en bespreken met fantastische tafelgenoten. #boekwetenschap & #wetenschapsgeschiedenis

Venice this week! For the opening of the exhibition “Diagrams, a project by AMO/OMA” at the Fondazione Prada, Ca’Corner. It has been fantastic to play a small role in this project and it is even better to now see the whole show in reality, and amazing to speak to all the people involved

This is a project I have been working on for several month and I am very excited that the exhibition “Diagrams. A Project by AMO/OMA” will open soon —> 10 May at Ca’ Corner, Fondazione Prada, Venice

This week I have the honour of taking care of the Bluesky account @historicivertellen.bsky.social, where I well show you a bit more about my work (week). All in Dutch!

The amazing #drawing course “Drawing Rome” will run again, taught by artist and architect David Dernie. It’s an amazing way to learn to see, observe and draw (and to explore #Rome) for beginners as well as experienced people.

📐📏 French mathematic Jean Du Breuil (1602–1670) explains how scale impacts our perception. The Max Planck Research Group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions, led by @sietskefransen.bsky.social, examines how science is depicted in our rare book collection: rarebooks.biblhertz.it/visuali.../v...

Today! Exciting seminar about #materiality and #visualizations of the #sky with Omar Nasim and Nicholas Robbins. Taking place 14:00-16:00 @bhmpi.bsky.social and also online. Please join us! www.biblhertz.it/events/41036... 🗃️🔭🧪🎨

Joachim Sandrart presents two legends about the invention of drawing. More in the online exhibition of our rare books curated by the Max Planck Research Group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions” @sietskefransen.bsky.social @ariellaminden.bsky.social 🔗: rarebooks.biblhertz.it/visualizing_...

Wonderful opportunity to undertake a 4-year fully funded PhD at UoAmsterdam for a project on Food Protest in Early Modern Northern Italy working with the fantastic @maartjevg.bsky.social werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

Less than a week to apply for predoc and postdoc fellowships in my group. Come and join us! Deadline March 3rd. @bhmpi.bsky.social www.biblhertz.it/de/opportuni...

Here is a link to an online exhibit my team curated out of the amazing rare books collection of the @bhmpi.bsky.social. All books are also fully digitized and freely available to study! 🗃️ #earlymodern #science #art

Very pleased this came out! I investigate epistemic values of texts, images, and objects in seventeenth-century microscopy. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Final call for fellows in my group, please apply if you want to be part of the team!

Happy #paper day with the research group, visiting the Museo della carta e della filigrana in #Fabriano. Learning about the history of paper (making) and doing it ourselves! @bhmpi.bsky.social #visualizingscience

To whom it may concern:

This is such an amazing course! I did it in the summer and loved it! Learned so much about drawing, Rome, and looking and observing. I’d recommend it to everyone!

The Whipple Museum are recruiting for a Collections Assistant - offered for 5 years, fixed term due to funding. Wonderful collections and a brilliant team, this is a really excellent role for someone! #museumjobs 📜 #histsci www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49320/

My home institution is now also here, please follow! Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social #art #earlymodern 🗃️ and so much more!

spread the word / vertel het rond: Looking for 2 enthusiastic book- and/or art historians to come join the team of the NWO OC Research Project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks (1550-1700) www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

We had had a great #VisionLab with the VisualizingtheUnknown team @ubleiden.bsky.social today! They even had a drawing by Anthony van Leeuwenhoek himself 🔬!

Perfect research day @ubleiden.bsky.social !!

A great podcast in which @chrmeijer.bsky.social tells us more about her wonderful research project #BuggingBugs, also #earlymodern 🐜🦟🐛🧪🗃️. www.voxweb.nl/podcast/in-a...

Heel leuk initiatief!

5 days left to apply…👇

Here's a starter pack for those interested in medieval and early modern #art 🎨 Let me know if I've missed/forgotten someone, or if you want me to remove you from the list. I hope this is helpful! #medievalsky #earlymodern #histsci #skystorians #arthistory 🗃️ 🏛️ go.bsky.app/PtdynT4

Hello new followers! I am an historian of #earlymodern science and art and I run a research group on Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, and am co-I of Visualizing the Unknown. Interested in everything from visual culture of🔬to observing by drawing. 🗃️🧪🎨

Historians near Rome! I'm looking to find a researcher willing to dig about in the Doria Pamphilj archives on my behalf (paid of course) Wildly long shot but putting it out there 🙏 🗃️

#job! #earlymodern #history #science 2-year postdoctoral position in our project Visualizing the Unknown. Postdoc will be based @Huygens Amsterdam with option to go to Cambridge UK for 6 months! #materiality #visualculture #microscopy🔬Deadline 30/09/24. vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...

In less then a week! #earlymodern #skystorians 🗃️🧪

Almost 5 years of Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions the Bibliotheca Hertziana means a big event! 22-24 May, a conference with almost everyone who is or was a fellow, 8 fantastic respondents and as many amazing chairs. In person and online. Program 👇 www.biblhertz.it/3507351/visu...

Search for new Director of Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Candidate should have a strong record of innovative research in #histsci & leadership skills for staff of 150. Send nominations, including self-nominations, to [email protected] by 27 May 2024. #HPS 🗃 #HistSTM

The first lice photographed through a microscope?? 1874/1875, now in the @rijksmuseum exhibition on Art in the Making.

Applications are invited for @bshsnews.bsky.social Outreach & Engagement project grants (up to £500). Deadline 16 Feb #histsci 📜🗃️ www.bshs.org.uk/grants/outre...

Today is Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's birthday (b. 1632)! To celebrate, photographer Wim van Egmond has made a video of MicroLab1, observing bees through 17thC microscopes from Rijksmuseum Boerhaave. visualizingtheunknown.com/microlab1/ (see bottom of the page). Enjoy!

The Scientific Instrument Society (SIS) awards small grants, up to £750, for research on the history of scientific instruments Applications for 2024 SIS Grants Scheme are now open; deadline for applications is 1200 GMT on Friday 5 Jan 2024 #histsci #histtech scientificinstrumentsociety.org/grants/

One more day to apply for a predoctoral (=PhD) fellowship in my research group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome during the year 2024 (for 6 or 12 months). Please apply! #earlymodern 🗃️#hoart #histsci #visualculture www.biblhertz.it/3406187/2308...

Hello everyone, looking forward to engaging with this community! I am an historian of #earlymodern science and art, interested in communication techniques in word and image of (new) knowledge. Also interested in translation, microscopy, drawing as observation, and modern visualization in science 🗃️