Post from Herbarium World on an 18th-century materia medica cabinet herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/c... @cuherb.bsky.social

Ce mardi 5 mai à 17h30, au séminaire "Muséums et enjeux contemporains" du @mnhn.fr, Mme Rebecca Machin discutera des biais de genre dans les collections d'histoire naturelle (et suggèrera des façons de les corriger) 🦍👨‍👧‍👧 @recherche.mnhn.fr museumenjeux.hypotheses.org/seance-5-la-...

Emmanuelle Saada - Histoires et colonisations Des récits de la conquête aux héritages postcoloniaux À paraître en mai chez Gallimard

La vie et l'œuvre de Jean Painlevé en un fil 🐙🐟

“At @nhm-london.bsky.social, we’ve been exploring what becomes possible when you unlock data from biodiversity literature” says Ben Hartley, sharing their work extracting extract traits using ML models at #BHLDay2026. 🌱🧪

On Wednesday 6 May, Decolonising Plant Knowledge is back with an exciting afternoon of talks exploring how the ‘decolonisation of plant knowledge’ is currently activated in different forms of plant conservation and regeneration. 🪴 🌿 Find out more and register to attend: https://bit.ly/4tLJzcx

JUNE in AMSTERDAM

Ainsi que les 100 ans d'une campagne de communication dans la presse qui s'est étendue sur toutes les années 1920 ! À quand une histoire de la couverture médiatique des revendications du personnel du Muséum ? 📰 (Le Petit Parisien, 1er septembre 1921)

Three PhD fellowship positions available with the ERC project OECOLOGIE: The German Sources of Ecology, Sorbonne. 1. History of ideas & digitial humanities 2. Humboldt, French-German Networks and the Emergence of Ecology 3. German Ecological Thought See: www.sorbonne-nouvelle.fr/recrutement-...

First sighting of paperback #NaturesMemory in the wild! 🤩 So, there's now a nice stack of signed copies in #Cambridge @waterstones.bsky.social!

Le déclin des insectes reste encore mal documenté. Pour combler ce vide, le projet Bugs Matter mise sur les sciences participatives : il suffit de télécharger l'application, de bien nettoyer sa plaque d'immatriculation puis de la photographier après le trajet. 🚗

Review of postdoc applications begins 4/30, please share the opportunity with anyone who might be interested. #SciComm #philsci 🧪

Not one but TWO new Illuminating Women Artists volumes are published today! ⭐️ Michaelina Wautier - by Katlijne Van der Stighelen ⭐️ Anne Vallayer-Coster - by Kelsey Brosnan www.lundhumphries.com/collections/...

Ce mardi 5 mai à 17h30, au séminaire "Muséums et enjeux contemporains" du @mnhn.fr, Mme Rebecca Machin discutera des biais de genre dans les collections d'histoire naturelle (et suggèrera des façons de les corriger) 🦍👨‍👧‍👧 @recherche.mnhn.fr museumenjeux.hypotheses.org/seance-5-la-...

Que perd la science et la recherche quand les femmes la quittent ? – Une sur trois:

📢Appel à communication 🥬 Women, Marine Science and Algae Collections: Framing Nineteenth-Century Marine Herbaria Conférence internationale, 8 octobre 2026, @mnhn.fr, Paris Date limite : 15 mai 2026 Plus d'info : shorturl.at/mpCjc @recherche.mnhn.fr @ehess.fr @cnrsshs.bsky.social

*Ulva linza*, *Sargassum montagnei*, and *Polysiphonia nigrescens* (1850) by Charles F. Durant, from Algae and Corallines of the Bay & Harbor of New York. Source: Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden / Biodiversity Heritage Library https://pdimagearchive.org/images/045f11a3-c2f5-4f54-a672-f6c6

Le mardi 7 avril à 17h30, dans le cadre du séminaire Muséums et enjeux contemporains au @mnhn.fr, Sandra Buratti-Hasan analysera l'inclusion de spécimens naturalistes dans l’exposition Bruno Liljefors, la nature sauvage (Petit Palais, 2024-2025) 🐇❄️ museumenjeux.hypotheses.org/seance-4-les...

@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...

Séminaire d'histoire et d'épistémologie de la préhistoire @recherche.mnhn.fr le mardi 20 janvier (en ligne, 17h00) avec Wolf Feuerhahn @cnrsshs.bsky.social @cak.ehess.fr : "Progrès : histoire d’un mot plutôt que d’une idée". Détail de la séance et lien de connexion ici : hnhp.mnhn.fr/fr/programme...

🚨We have a SUPER exciting announcement!🚨 Our next Summer Meeting will be at @zslofficial.bsky.social on the theme of The Zoological Society of London at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World 🥳 📅1-3 July 2026 🗺️Zoological Society of London Find out how to submit 👇🏻 shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...

If anyone out there works for a museum (anywhere in the world) that would like to have me give a similar talk about extinction & museums with a local twist, please contact me!

Le séminaire "Muséums et enjeux contemporains" reprend ce soir à 17h30 à @mnhn.fr : Samuel Cordier discutera l'intégration de l'histoire des collections aux parcours d'expositions à travers l'exemple du musée zoologique de Strasbourg 🐧 @recherche.mnhn.fr museumenjeux.hypotheses.org/seance-1-ins...

There are still a few weeks left to submit your proposals for our ECR Symposium next year! We'd love papers from across the field which speak to all aspects of the history of natural history by early career researchers! Find out how to submit 👇🏻

An engraved plate from my 1827 copy of Elements of Botany by Benjamin Smith Barton, one of the first professors of natural history in the U.S. & who built the largest collection of botanical specimens in the country. This was considered the first U.S. botany textbook. 🌱 🐡 📚💙

Getting ready for my course: Ecologies of Knowledge - @unimi (Historical Studies) #environmentalstudies #environmentalhistory #envhist #ConEnvHist #histsci #workshop #17thcenturystudies I will map the pre-history of ecological thinking in different fields #ecology #plantstudies #courses #history

Very happy that my article on the ackee tree in Jamaica is out! Thanks to @treeseeker.bsky.social and @planthums-uk.bsky.social for editing this excellent special issue. www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...

Première session du colloque international "Études de provenances des collections de sciences naturelles et humaines : Muséologie et histoire pour le temps présent" @mnhn.fr où l'on parle objets africains, insectes, restes humains, géologie et même assassinat du général Kléber

Exciting news! Bookings for the conference we are organising with National Gallery are now live! www.mghg.info/forthcoming-... Join us on 26-27 September to learn about the histories behind museum creation. In person or online. Booking link available on our website/ National Gallery.

BSHS Hughes Prize 2025 Winner 🎉 Congratulations to Renée Bergland as the winner of the BSHS Hughes Prize 2025 for "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" A brilliant book opening 19th-c histSTEM to a broader public📖✨ www.bshs.org.uk/the-winner-o...

I'll be speaking at the Plants on Paper exhibit opening reception on Oct. 3 from 3-5PM - let me know if you'd like an invite! We'll look at some gorgeous botanical illustrations, herbarium specimens, cyanotypes, and other 19thC plant-based objects, many of them produced by women. 🌸

And if you're in the area, check out the exhibit Plants on Paper: Artists' Engagement with the Green World at Yale's Arts Library, which is beautiful and rich (checklist + bibliography linked on the website). Open until 11/2. guides.library.yale.edu/artsAreaExhi...

Le programme 2025-2026 du séminaire 'Muséum, objet d'histoire' est en ligne. Centré sur l'histoire du @mnhn.fr il rend aussi compte de l’actualité en histoire des sciences sur et autour des institutions savantes naturalistes @recherche.mnhn.fr objethistoire.hypotheses.org

Romane Le Roux, @adelechevalier.bsky.social et moi-même y présenterons une communication sur la création de la galerie de minéralogie, de géologie et de botanique du Muséum à la fin des années 1830 ! Un dépouillement d'archives à six mains pour mieux comprendre la répartition des collections 🏛️🪨🌿📚

Open (free) access recent edited book with chapter on human-tree relations in a graphic novel, as well as other mentions of plants - Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: Multidisciplinary Entanglements www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

"Le saviez-vous ?" édition cryptogamie 🍄 Dessins de Michelle Bory pour le Salon du Champignon du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 1967.

In yesterday's Museums: Power & Politics class I asked students what they collect (thanks to @alexzivkovic.bsky.social)! Their answers were similarly sweet and really helped me get to know them. My answer: I keep a little cabinet of curiosities at home filled with mosses, rocks, minerals, etc...

The dissertation! 150 pages of prairie, history, & more pawpaws than you'd expect. I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now. Check it out in pdf form: drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...

Preorder now!! Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums Coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in October 2025. Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures of dead things. It’s beautiful! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I use BHL every single day in my research and teaching. I could not write my books or articles without it, I don't know what my students would do without it, and I would have to radically rethink my career without it. This is more critical with funding cuts. Please, please someone support BHL.

Happy to share the news that I have won the Young Researcher Fellowship - with a 3-year research project to enlarge the focus of my MSCA and explore aspects that were not within that project The title is: Constructing the Environment: A History of Botanical Knowledge before 1800 #ConEnvHist

« Vivre et penser le temps dans les Amériques », c’est cette semaine au Campus Condorcet ! 🕰️ 🌎

" Collections et armées " Le séminaire des collections de Science de la Terre et de l'Univers du @mnhn.fr @recherche.mnhn.fr 📅 Jeudi 12 juin 2025 📍 Amphithéâtre de Paléontologie du MNHN, 2 rue Buffon 75005 Paris ⏰ 10h00 - 12h15 • 14h00 - 17h15 ➡️ paleo.mnhn.fr/sites/cr2p/f...

🦍 What are the magic tricks behind a perfect diorama? 🪄What are natural history #museums' trade secrets? ☘️Why are plants and insects so poortly represented in these museums?🐝 I had a great time on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chatting about #NaturesMemory. 🔊Listen: newbooksnetwork.com/natures-memory

Alerte ! Les résultats d'un projet remarquable mené par une équipe d'archivistes sur les réseaux de femmes archéologues aux XIXe et début du XXe siècles sont enfin en ligne. Need la même chose pour les archéologues francophones. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/47f5...

6ème séance du séminaire "Muséums et enjeux contemporains" demain à 17h30 à @mnhn.fr : @p-stewens.bsky.social examinera la façon dont les réflexions sur les restitutions muséales s'appliquent aux collections naturalistes 🦕🐚🪴 @recherche.mnhn.fr museumenjeux.hypotheses.org/477

Passionate about #restitution? Curious about what it means for natural history #museums? Then this event is for you! I'll be speaking at the @mnhn.fr on 3 June 2025 about this very issue - and you can join my hybrid lecture from anywhere! More info: paul-stewens.com/news/lecture...

From about 1814 to 1820 Jane Talbot and several members of her extended family developed a particular interest in mosses, learning about them via books, microscopes, correspondence and being out in the field. My new article is open access in BJHS dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000... #BookHistory #bryology

www.ortomuseobot.sma.unipi.it/iacs500-symp... 📣 Happy to be a keynote at the 500th anniversary of #AndreaCesalpino in Pisa -🌿I will provide some historical insights at a very nice conference on botanical systematics #histsci #plantstudies🌳 the history of plants matters in today's science🌱 Program⤵️