Hey you. Wanna apply for a fellowship on collections? the AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural & heritage institutions are open! The Natural History Museum priorities are below. If you wanna talk birds, hit me up. Collectors, colonialism, Canada, Australia & more www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Today is Sextidi the 26th of Fructidor in the year 233. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate bitter orange.#JacobinDay More information on bitter orange

I'm very excited to learn that my book The Unnatural Trade is one of the final seven candidates for the 2025 Society for the History of Natural History Book Prize (The Thackray Medal). My thanks to the @sochistnathist.bsky.social readers! You can see the full list at >> shnh.org.uk/news/announc...

🌿 Freshly released! "A Year with Gilbert White" by Jenny Uglow brings to life the observer of nature whose "Natural History of Selborne" has enchanted readers for centuries. tinyurl.com/5n7axwdy #NewBook #GilbertWhite @faberbooks.bsky.social @sochistnathist.bsky.social @gilbertwhites.bsky.social

📢 Call for Papers! 📢 We're excited to announce that in 2026 we will again be hosting an Early Career Researcher Symposium, and that this time it will be a partnership with @linneansociety.bsky.social!🙌🏻 We'd love to hear from all ECRs, so find how to submit a proposal 👇🏻 shnh.org.uk/news/cfp-ear...

As summer comes to a close, we're looking back over a wonderfully successful season! In June, we welcomed folk to Glasgow to celebrate The Sense of Nature. It was a fantastic meeting filled with amazing people 🥰 You can read a report on it by Josephine Koopman here 👇🏻 shnh.org.uk/the-sense-of...

On Sept 1, Australia celebrates the 1st day of spring with #NationalWattleDay! This beautiful wattle, Acacia prominens (Golden Rain Wattle), is from Curtis's Botanical Magazine (1836) contributed to #BHLib by @mobotgarden.bsky.social biodiversitylibrary.org/page/466265 #FlowersInTheLibrary #ILoveBHL

Agaricus arvensis by Hans Walty - Swiss National Library, GS-WALTY-A-1-82 #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CH...

As summer comes to a close, we're looking back over a wonderfully successful season! In June, we welcomed folk to Glasgow to celebrate The Sense of Nature. It was a fantastic meeting filled with amazing people 🥰 You can read a report on it by Josephine Koopman here 👇🏻 shnh.org.uk/the-sense-of...

24-Aug: On this day in 1831, Charles Darwin’s great friend and mentor John Stevens Henslow wrote what turned out to be one of the most important letters in the history of science… #HistSci friendsofdarwin.com/articles/hen...

We’re pleased to see BBC History Extra adapt another ‘Environment and History’ article for a wider audience. "Winston and the platypus: how a bizarre WW2 diplomacy mission to influence Churchill ended in death and tragedy": www.historyextra.com/period/secon... #envhist #platypus #churchill #wwii

Botanical art by Pierre-Joseph Redouté for 'Choix des plus belles fleurs prises dans différentes familles du règne végétal et de quelques branches des plus beaux fruits.' Published in Paris from 1827-1832. Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections. #rarebook #sciart #naturalhistory

🐸 Bilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Amphibien in ihren sämmtlichen Hauptformen Wien: Kaiserl. Koenigl. Hof- und Staatsdr., 1864 [Source]

A majestically colourful cockerel. From a picture book ABC for children, printed in the Swiss city of Bern in 1860. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Ud.9.460.

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...

Five more days to get your entries in! 👇🏼

⏳ Just under a month to go! 🌱 BHL’s Call for Support soft closes 31 Aug. That’s when we begin reviewing offers. Hosting, funding, services – every contribution counts. Help shape BHL’s future: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #OpenScience 🧪

For #WorldLionDay 🦁: Sallet in the Shape of a Lion’s Head [Nemean #Lion] Italian, c. 1475-80 Steel, gilt copper, glass, polychromy On display at the Met “This helmet is the earliest surviving example of Renaissance armor all'antica (in the antique style).“ #RenaissanceArt

🚨Call for entries!🚨 We're looking for the best original, unpublished essay in the history of natural history from undergraduate & postgraduate students worldwide. 🥇£300, publication in Archives of Natural History 📅Friday 15 August Find out eligibility & how to apply 👇🏻 shnh.org.uk/awards-honou...

Huzzah! The new issue of @sochistnathist.bsky.social's "Archives of Natural History" arrived today. #HistSci

Currently prepping these wooden beauties for a new display on Richard Owen’s science, art and legacy going into the NHM’s Images of Nature gallery tomorrow! #woodengraving #megatherium #bones #specialcollections

I was fortunate enough to look through Richard Owen's sea-serpent-related clippings and notes yesterday in the @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social. Came face to face with this goofy king of the deep. Shades of the infant form in Shin Godzilla.

🚨Call for entries!🚨 We're looking for the best original, unpublished essay in the history of natural history from undergraduate & postgraduate students worldwide. 🥇£300, publication in Archives of Natural History 📅Friday 15 August Find out eligibility & how to apply 👇🏻 shnh.org.uk/awards-honou...

Another little lunchtime discovery: a Greek New Testament (London, 1664) inscribed by botanist, physician and poet Erasmus Darwin in 1773. His grandson was Charles Darwin. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Kkk.738. Tagging @jillwhitelock.bsky.social.

I’ve been working on this publication since 2018 in one way or the other, and it’s a delight to hold the physical copy of the paper in Osiris, volume 40, 2025 in my hands. if you would like to read the histories of guide dogs beyond the Europe and North America into Japan and Australia—here it is.

New in Archives of Natural History (@sochistnathist.bsky.social): "Two unpublished Darwin manuscripts in the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social Museum, Cambridge: insights into Charles Darwin’s Beagle fossil collecting and its significance during and after the voyage" bit.ly/4kKpnC8 #histsci #HPS

I enjoyed reading this piece by Josephine Koopman on the SHNH summer conference. It offers a wonderful summary of the presentations we heard, and teases out the shared themes our papers raised. Thank you Josephine! shnh.org.uk/the-sense-of... @sochistnathist.bsky.social

📢A reminder for this week! Please register below for our AGM, which will include a our awards and prizes! Get your free ticket below!

Natural history friends! Join SHNH (@sochistnathist.bsky.social) for our annual prize-giving this Wednesday. We’ll zip through the AGM business in the first half, and then have brief talks from our medalists in the second. We would love for you to join us 😊 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shnh-annua...

Join some of our Curious Travellers team at the FREE Early Career symposium "Journeys of Curiosity", in Liverpool on 25th September 2025. Propose your papers by 15th August!

📢A reminder for this week! Please register below for our AGM, which will include a our awards and prizes! Get your free ticket below!

Ahead of the impending conservation work, here’s a series of “then and now” comparisons - using the original photos taken by Philip Henry Delamotte between 1853-1855, and the equivalent vistas from today! Note the “tent” for the Dinos yet to be finished in the 2nd old pic, and the bare scenery..

A date for your diary! Following on from our wonderful Summer Meeting we'd love for you to join us at our annual AGM, which will be followed by a presentation of the Society's awards and prizes! 🏅 📅 16 July 2025 🕐 15.00 BST Book a free ticket here 👇🏻 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shnh-annua...

255 years ago today, Europeans met #kangaroos. #OTD in 1770, Captain Cook wrote this in North #Queensland: "June 23 One of the Men saw an Animal something less than a greyhound; it was of a Mouse Colour, very slender made, and swift of Foot." This is the first European description of a #kangaroo. 🦘

had a grand time last week in Glasgow at @sochistnathist.bsky.social's annual meeting, hearing some wonderful papers on the senses in natural history, and getting a chance to talk about olfactory affects, hebraic philology, and biblical 'weeds'! much thanks to the society!

I had a great time talking about the optics of microscopy at this year's SHNH conference! 🔬 I come away feeling enriched by the papers we heard and the conversations we shared. Thank you to @ellelarsson.bsky.social and @sochistnathist.bsky.social for organising such a fantastic conference!

Here we go! 🎉 We've all gathered in Glasgow, and have a full few days lined up exploring and celebrating the intersection between our senses and natural history! From touch to temperature, it's sure to be fascinating 🪶🐌🐻‍❄️

It's #WorldPigeonDay. Catesby's "The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands" (1729-1747) is the 1st fully illustrated book on North American flora & fauna. It features the 1st published #SciArt of the passenger pigeon ➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40753186

Coenraad Temminck's (1778-1858) Les Pigeons text was accompanied by illustrations by French artist Pauline Knip (1781-1851). Giving her full control over the engraving and printing process, she controversially re-titled the work “Les Pigeons par Madame Knip”, crediting him by misspelling his name!

One week until our Summer Meeting in Glasgow! 🎉 We're looking forward to welcoming everyone who can come in person to discuss an amazing program centred on A Sense of Nature 🌺🍃 Can't make it but are still interested? How about joining online below! 👇🏻 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-sense-of...

One week until our Summer Meeting in Glasgow! 🎉 We're looking forward to welcoming everyone who can come in person to discuss an amazing program centred on A Sense of Nature 🌺🍃 Can't make it but are still interested? How about joining online below! 👇🏻 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-sense-of...

Very happy that my book, Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of U.S. Whaling, has been named a finalist for the 2025 ASLE Book Award. And I'm VERY proud to share the slate with so many other amazing authors. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Opening soon! Don’t miss this unique exhibition revealing the remarkable world of wasps and find out why we should all appreciate these incredibly fascinating, ecologically important animals. #WaspLove

Finally made it to the @mnhn.fr! The vertebrate skeleton is just so stunning in all its variety, this place showcases it like no other.

Happening today! Join us at the LSE or online. www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

Only a few hours left to register! 🙌🏼

🚨Less than 24 hours to grab your ticket! Registration closes at 18.00 BST tomorrow for what is shaping up to be a brilliant Summer Meeting in Glasgow!

There's still time to register for our International Summer Meeting! We'd love you to join us as we explore how the senses interact with the history of natural history. 📅19-20 June 🏦Kelvin Hall, University of Glasgow Register now! 👇🏻 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-sense-of...

This looks like a wonder world. I hope that there will be a book of the presented papers and the ability to watch recorded sessions later. #sciencepoetry #naturalhistorypoetry #womeninscience #stemwomen #sensoryexploration 📚🖋️📚💙📚🧪