Want to know more about open/closed doors in museums?
Connect to @collecol.bsky.social at 5pm (CET) today
Yes, that's just enough time to finish this thing you're doing and grab a cup of tea.
www.chstm.org/group/collec...
Want to know more about open/closed doors in museums?
Connect to @collecol.bsky.social at 5pm (CET) today
Yes, that's just enough time to finish this thing you're doing and grab a cup of tea.
www.chstm.org/group/collec...
🚨 TODAY! A seminar from the @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM group at 4pm GMT/11am EST!
Join us in welcoming @nickyrvs.bsky.social (@hunterianglasgow.bsky.social) ✨
More info & Zoom link ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
#envhist #envhum #museums #collections #histsci
🚨 TODAY! A seminar from the @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM group at 4pm GMT/11am EST!
Join us in welcoming @nickyrvs.bsky.social (@hunterianglasgow.bsky.social) ✨
More info & Zoom link ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
#envhist #envhum #museums #collections #histsci
🚨Don't miss tomorrow! ✨ @collecol.bsky.social
Thursday 5 Feb (check yr timezone)✨ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
Nicky Reeves @nickyrvs.bsky.social on his reflections on access politics in the world of museum storage, #collections and their #envhist!
🚨 Don't miss the next @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM seminar on Thursday 4 December at 11am EST/4pm GMT! ✨
This month, we'll hear from Thomas Biskup (University of Hull/Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel)
#envhist #histsci #histstm #envhums #collections #plants /1
I will actually miss this, unfortunately, because I’m giving a workshop at the @icomdeutschland.bsky.social conference in Hamburg at the same time but y‘all should definitely not miss Thomas‘s presentation about his fabulous project.
#HistNatHist
#Collections
#EnvHist
CollEcologies is back this week with another great discussion on how THINGS are also NATURE and what is all this about collecting and preserving, and where is "knowledge"?
02.12.2025 11:42 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Join us this coming Thursday! You won’t regret it; well, you will if you dont join us 🤭✨✨✨✨
02.12.2025 09:58 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
for the reconstruction of natural history practices and networks of early modern Pietism, and it can be analyzed as an archive of historical biodiversity, providing insight into climate change 🌿
We hope you'll join us! To join, see below ⬇️
www.chstm.org/group/collec...
Thomas is lead researcher on the project entitled "A Testimony to Ecclesiastical Natural History and an Archive of Historical Biodiversity. The Herbarium Ruperti (1700) of the Herzog August Bibliothek". This botanical collection, compiled by a prominent Protestant clergyman around 1700, allows /2
02.12.2025 09:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
🚨 Don't miss the next @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM seminar on Thursday 4 December at 11am EST/4pm GMT! ✨
This month, we'll hear from Thomas Biskup (University of Hull/Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel)
#envhist #histsci #histstm #envhums #collections #plants /1
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 ✨
03.11.2025 08:28 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1Looks like a great reading group for those interested in natural history + history of collections! 🏛️🌿🦓
03.11.2025 10:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Happy 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 ✨
03.11.2025 08:28 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
🚨🚨 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
#HistSTM #museums #collections #envhist #HistNatHist
@dominikhhh.bsky.social @nickytheprof.bsky.social @cmadruga.bsky.social @dbrh.bsky.social @nulybranch.bsky.social @mattholmes.bsky.social @lindaaburnett.bsky.social @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social @annalsvensson.bsky.social @annatoledano.com
@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!
10.07.2025 21:16 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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:
Painted ceramic tiles showing a naked young man with blond her reading the papers which cover the middle part of his body. He sits in front of a fountain on a meadow with flowers
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...
Two dishes containing peanut plants. One has been badly damaged by insects. The other, genetically engineered, plant is still intact and green. Image is from the Agricultural Research Service.
The cover of a Greenpeace pamphlet against GM crops. The text reads "Genetic Experiment, Don't Buy It." A large X is in the center of the image and the background is a field of yellow crops (most likely oilseed rape plants).
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
22.04.2025 11:40 — 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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...