Nathan Probably

Anyone want to become Birmingham's curator of science and industry? - it's a really fantastic collection! careers.birminghammuseums.org.uk/job/333d2a38...

Use of Ecological Networks to Reveal Interspecific Fungal Interactions from 150 Years of Foray Records Fungal forays have been conducted for more than 150 years, providing valuable, but underutilized, sets of records for studies of fungal ecology. Although foray records have been used to study speci...

Sometimes I do science too! Along with Zhiru Guoli, we explored how historical data can be used to help us quantify interspecific relationships between fungi. You can read all about it for free here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#historicalecology #mathematicalecology #fungalforays #mushrooms

Use of Ecological Networks to Reveal Interspecific Fungal Interactions from 150 Years of Foray Records Fungal forays have been conducted for more than 150 years, providing valuable, but underutilized, sets of records for studies of fungal ecology. Although foray records have been used to study speci...

🚨 New paper out and its a banger! 🚨 We explored how historical foray records can be used to better understand fungus-fungus interactions in woodland species. Its free to read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #fungalecology #fungalscience #mycology #fieldmycology

Digitization as scientific labor: Critical approaches and recommendations for herbaria Viewing digitization against a backdrop of the history of herbarium labor—and in the wake of substantial shifts in the museum landscape—we give a series of recommendations for mass digitization proje...

Latest paper with the fantastic @katherinenright.bsky.social Our thoughts and recommendations on #herbarium #digitisation

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Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people New book reveals that Pacific islands inhabitants helped European scientists identify hundreds of plant species In 1769, nearly nine months after setting sail with Capt James Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander…

Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people

Delighted to see this wonderful article by @donnalferguson.bsky.social @theguardian.com on some of the research being published in my forthcoming book that can be pre-ordered now!
For the UK: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Reading-the-...
And USA: upittpress.org/books/978082...

Latest paper out in @natsca.bsky.social with the brilliant Sophie Roberts, @ilichenmoss2.bsky.social
, and Katherine Slade. A really neat way to find potentially misidentified specimens from large collections datasets. natsca.org/article/2891

And it is now possible to pre-order from @upittpress.bsky.social upittpress.org/books/978082...!

Reposting due to the recent migration here: happy to answer any questions by DM or email :)

LCAB PhD studentships - Currently recruiting Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950

🚨 Prospective PhD students, come work with me and some amazing colleagues on looking at women in mycology! Details here and happy to answer any questions by email or DM:
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🚨 #historyofscience #fungarium #phdopportunity

Howdy, I do the history of mycology and botany--please can you add me to this list? :)

Howdy--can you add me?

A really interesting #CFP from a consistently amazing conference. Bring your most yeast-y ideas!
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/10/...
#historyofmycology #fungalturn #fermentation #yestoyeast #historyofscience #STS

LCAB PhD studentships - Currently recruiting Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950

🚨 Prospective PhD students, come work with me and some amazing colleagues on looking at women in mycology! Details here and happy to answer any questions by email or DM:
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🚨 #historyofscience #fungarium #phdopportunity

Taxonomy of fear: the evolution of H. G. Wells’s “Strange Orchid” Published in Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)

What do H.G. Wells and the Little Shop of Horrors have to say about the state of #botany and #plantsciences? My article on the interwoven histories of botany and the strange orchid is finally out:
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#hgwells #littleshopofhorrors #nofungitoday

🚨Job Alert🚨: We're hiring a Botany Curator 🍄🌺🌲at Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales to join our Natural Sciences team and use our collections to examine the impact of invasive species on ecosystems. #plantjobs #museumjobs #botanyjobs #mycologyjobs
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Latest paper is out exploring how we can make museum databases messier 👨‍💻👩‍💻 doi.org/10.1111/cura...

Was offered the opportunity to write about why we tell history for #Wetherspoon News. Now available to read and cite here: jdwetherspoon.com/news/2024/01... #WetherspoonNews #Wetherspoons #Spoons

Latest paper out (and with a festive release date). Some discussion on #mycology, #eponyms, and #DNASequencesAsTypes It's a divisive issue but I hope the paper helps reframe the debate in a positive way

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History in the pub: The historiography of J.D. Wetherspoon J. D. Wetherspoon is a popular pub chain in the United Kingdom. Despite its prominence in British cultural life and active and deliberate engagement w…

Latest paper is out and its not on fungi! Instead its all about #Wetherspoons and history. How history is communicated and understood is important. Spoons has an interesting take on history that I think has wider implications... sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #spoons #histsci