Happy Monday! 🌵 We're glad to say that this rescheduled Reading Club session is happening this week! Join us on 6 November to discuss Appadurai's article, a fantastically rich piece to raise questions connecting museums & collections, coloniality & the global/planetary, & the age of Anthropocene ✨

Looks like a great reading group for those interested in natural history + history of collections! 🏛️🌿🦓

Happy Monday! 🌵 We're glad to say that this rescheduled Reading Club session is happening this week! Join us on 6 November to discuss Appadurai's article, a fantastically rich piece to raise questions connecting museums & collections, coloniality & the global/planetary, & the age of Anthropocene ✨

🚨🚨 This is a quick notice to let you all know that we have had to cancel this session! But, we have moved it to 6 November! We hope you'll join us then! ✨🪴

Join us for another semester of @collecol.bsky.social fun online. #HistNatHist #HistSTM #collections #museums #EnvHist #EnvHum

@collecol.bsky.social is back! 🪲 We've put together a great seminar series - we hope you'll come along! On 2 Oct 11am EDT/4pm GMT we're doing a reading club - Appadurai's "The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination". All info ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...

What a great roundtable! @collecol.bsky.social!

Had a fabulous time at #BSHS2025 @bshsnews.bsky.social . #HistSTM So much on #museums , #collections , #envhist #HistNatHist . 😍 Great seeing friends & meeting new people. Esp. @camglamresearch.bsky.social Thanks everyone for attending our @collecol.bsky.social roundtable. Join please:

Greatly looking forward to #BSHS2025 and esp. our @collecol.bsky.social roundtable on Wednesday, 11.30 am. Already very happy about the accommodation because I get to walk past this gorgeous #ceramics art work by one of my favourite artists. Thanks @bshsnews.bsky.social 😍 #DuncanGrant #HistSTM

‼️ Don't forget! We'd love to have you join us tomorrow to help workshop ideas for our @collecol.bsky.social special issue! We want to hear from friends & those interested in/who work with natural history/museum collections 🌿 #envhum #envhist #nathist #histsci #collections #museums

‼️ Don't forget! We'd love to have you join us tomorrow to help workshop ideas for our @collecol.bsky.social special issue! We want to hear from friends & those interested in/who work with natural history/museum collections 🌿 #envhum #envhist #nathist #histsci #collections #museums

Join us & let‘s workshop together! #envhum #collections #museum

🚨 Don't miss our final CHSTM seminar of the academic year! 12 June at 12pm EST/5pm BST ✨ @dominikhhh.bsky.social & @nickytheprof.bsky.social will be workshopping our forthcoming special issue with Endeavour! 🪲 Sign up to get all your @collecol.bsky.social info! www.chstm.org/group/collec...

Where does our food come from and is it safe? My article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science explores the history of plant #genetics and concerns over #food in the BSE crisis and #GMO controversy: doi.org/10.1093/acre... #histSTM #envhist #aghist #EnvSci

Starting shortly. I was so much looking forward to @nathanbossoh.bsky.social ‘s presentation but I can’t attend after all. 😩 one of those days . 🙄 Don’t be like me !

Our own @arnoldke.bsky.social will host a workshop at this event on how to work with + read natural history specimens with colleagues at the Liverpool World Museum! 🪲 Information on schedule, bursaries, & sign-up available in the link below ⬇️🌿

Don't forget ⬇️ In just a few hours! ⏰ Join us today to hear from @nathanbossoh.bsky.social on three core themes of access, exploitation, & curation as a way of opening further dialogue on the role of museums in the creation (& curation) of new botanical futures. We look forward to seeing you! ✨🌿

🚨 @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM seminar on 10 April @ 12pm EDT/5pm BST! ✨ Dr @nathanbossoh.bsky.social will discuss 'Imperial Exploitation, & the Curation of New Botanical Futures' & his co-curated exhibition at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social. We hope you'll join us! ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...

🚨 Another @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM seminar this week! 🚨 We'll hear from Leah Malmut (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities) on 'Collecting Building Blocks for a Better Bee' 🐝 13 March at 12pm EDT/4pm GMT (note the European time change) ⏰ More info & Zoom link ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...

#Collections & #enthist & #envhist. Hurray! Join us on 13 March!

🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Do you like bees? Then mark down your calendar for @collecol.bsky.social 's next meeting this coming Thursday! 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

🚨 Another @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM seminar this week! 🚨 We'll hear from Leah Malmut (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities) on 'Collecting Building Blocks for a Better Bee' 🐝 13 March at 12pm EDT/4pm GMT (note the European time change) ⏰ More info & Zoom link ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...

Spring program for the Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series. The first seminar is by the wonderful @nickytheprof.bsky.social on Wed 26 Feb, 3-4 pm C.E.T: The Land of True Britons: Edward Lhwyd's Survey of Wales.

Join us on Monday (18.00-19.00) for Marie Mianowski's seminar: Tracing Sarah Mary Fitton (1795–1874). Marie will be discussing her research on Fitton, an Irish born botanist, discussing both individual hurdles she faced & systemic difficulties that were typical for women scientists in the 19th c

New paper re-up! It covers: - how natural history & world cultures #museums can learn from each other. - examples of questions natural history museums can ask when researching legacies of colonialism in their collections. - a discussion about repatriation. - environmental legacies of #colonialism 👇

So honoured to have been asked to join this amazing group of people on the board. Looking forward to supporting this wonderful initiative in any way I can. @camglamresearch.bsky.social #GLAM #HistNatHist #Museums #Collections

Glad to see our own @dominikhhh.bsky.social named to the Advisory Board of the new Natural History Humanities initiative at the University of Cambridge! 🎉 Find out more about what they're doing, including postdoc/visiting fellowships & much more to come in future! www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

NOW !

Join us tomorrow! ✨

🚨 CFP!! Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis @nichecanada.bsky.social Our own Nuala Caomhánach will expand on our great #envhist CHSTM seminar where we shared funny memes relating to #collections & climate change. Deadline 1 March: niche-canada.org/2025/02/06/c...

🚨 Don't forget! Tomorrow is our @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM seminar series at 12pm EST/5pm GMT with Andrew Watson, (Uni Saskatchewan). As an executive team member of @nichecanada.bsky.social, he'll discuss their work, #envhist & natural history #collections 🪲 Join us! www.chstm.org/group/collec...

Are you a 💖museum /collection💖 enthusiast? Then check out this ✨new✨ seminar, set up by wonderful museum / collection enthusiasts just like you! Next meeting has @jackdashby.bsky.social in it! 🤩 Paging @collecol.bsky.social (might be of interest!) #envhist #collecol #histsci #collections

Look @draflint.bsky.social more fish/humans. What a coincidence this was posted on the same day as your fabulous @collecol.bsky.social talk!

Which also led to discussing emotions/reactions to bodies displayed - how mecreatures raise a range of similar questions as human remains and animals reg. curiosity, disgust, displayability. Raised question of acceptability of displaying bodies across typologies 🧜‍♂️🐝💀🌿 #collections #histsci #envhist

This was fabulous! #collections #envhum #CreativePractice

Fantastic seminar yesterday on 'Exploring the History, Meaning & Materiality of a Museum Mercreature'. We met 'Dave' & learned how to incorporate creative practices into research to understand the mercreature's different 'environments'. #collections #museums #histsci #histknow #envhum #envhist

Come join us, NOW ! #Histsci #envhist #CollEcol

‼️ Don't forget! Join us today to hear about a strange museum tale, told by @draflint.bsky.social & Rose Ferraby! All the info you need is below. We look forward to seeing you! 🧜‍♀️ #collections #museums #histsci #histstm #histknow #envhum #envhist

Come and join Rose Ferraby and me tomorrow as we explore how we've used interdisciplinary and creative methods to understand the materiality and meaning of an intriguing merman artefact (currently on display in the Great North Museum) 👇

Come join next Thursday! Venez jeudi ! 🧜‍♀️🧜 #histsci #envhist

The German Maritime Museum invites applications for 3-9 month-long fellowships to work on interdisciplinary object-based research focussing on the cultural & political significance of the relationship between humans and the sea. Deadline 31 January 2025. More info: www.museumsbund.de/stellenangeb...

If other Indigenous researchers are working on how to bring colonial collections/samples into community-based research in a good way, we'd love to hear from you. This is in early stages.

Join us this Thursday, you fabulous creatures! #envhist #collections #museums #envhum #HistOcean #MerCreatures

🚨 We're back for the @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM seminar on 9 Jan at 12pm EST/5pm GMT! #envhist #envhum ✨ @draflint.bsky.social & Rose Ferraby: 'Fish Out of Water: Exploring the History, Meaning & Materiality of a Museum Mercreature' 🧜‍♀️ Join us by signing up here ➡️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...

Are you in touch with: wissenschaftliche-sammlungen.de/de/ ? Also many of our @collecol.bsky.social members look into coloniality of university collections. Looking forward to learn more about the project in due course.

It’s getting real. Just signed up as a guest editor for a special issue of a fab journal. The wonderful @nickytheprof.bsky.social & I will work with a lovely group of people to tell you all about @collecol.bsky.social soonish. #HistNatHist #Collections #EnvHist #Museums #HistSTM 📗🗃️🏛️📜🧪🌿🪲

Oooh this is interesting. We do need humanities perspectives in this emerging field too. We discussed this recently in our @collecol.bsky.social piece in our Magnifying Insect Histories Focus of @isisjournal.bsky.social #HistNatHist #collections #museomics

What better way to do my 1st post than announcing this (hot off the press) publication on the state of the (future) field of the history of collecting with partners in crime @suryabowyer.com @libertypaterson.bsky.social & Niti Acharya. It’s also open access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Don't miss our next @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM seminar on 14 November, 12pm EST/6pm CET! #envhist #collections @arnoldke.bsky.social will discuss new research entitled 'The Will of Welwitsch: Botanical Collections and Ownership in the Late Nineteenth Century' ✨ Link ➡️ chstm.org/content/coll...

Don't miss our next @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM seminar on 14 November, 12pm EST/6pm CET! #envhist #collections @arnoldke.bsky.social will discuss new research entitled 'The Will of Welwitsch: Botanical Collections and Ownership in the Late Nineteenth Century' ✨ Link ➡️ chstm.org/content/coll...