Rebecca Parmer

The new Red List for Vascular Plants published this week by @bsbibotany.bsky.social highlights the serious decline in Britain’s freshwater plants.

A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

BHL at Living Data 2025 & GBIF Governing Board Meeting This month, members of the biodiversity community from across the globe gathered in Bogotá, Colombia, for two major meetings: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Governing Board Mee…

BHL had a strong presence at #LivingData2025 + the #GBIF #GB32 Governing Board Meeting in Bogotá 🇨🇴. We shared our transition progress, rallied support & strengthened collaborations for linked open biodiversity data. 🧪 🌎 📚 🌱🔗 Read more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/11/livi... #OpenScience

American Historical Association Announces 2025 Prize Winners – AHA The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes.

The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2025 awardees! #AHAPerspectives🗃️

Did you know that BHL has #FullTextSearch? You can search for scientific names, places, etc, but you can also find all the things that "Alfred Russell Wallace" found "delicious" in his travels (search for "delicious" and then narrow search results by author). #ILoveBHL www.biodiversitylibrary.org 🧪

Do you want to be a part of our mass digitisation project, and potentially have your research shared more widely?

As we wrap up on this momentous project, we’re keen to showcase how Kew’s data is being used in research across the globe 🌍

Could you help us tell this story? ✨

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

Judge reverses Trump administration's cuts of billions of dollars to Harvard University A federal judge in Boston has ordered the reversal of over $2.6 billion in federal funding cuts to Harvard University.

“A review of the administrative record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that (the government) used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities." apnews.com/article/harv...

My mother always told me that if I was feeling bad about myself, I should go help somebody. I’ll have to tell her about these findings.

The Delightfully Saturated History of Color Charts Three tomes give new meaning to “full color” by chronicling the visual history of color charts, swatches, palettes, and more.

hyperallergic.com/929139/the-d...

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now.

www.weherepress.org

Collective Nouns for Librarians A group of librarians is called a cardigan. A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading. A collection of Eric Carle books covered in s...

A cluster of teens reading quietly is called a mystery.

A pile of books gathering dust is called a hold shelf.

A handful of change is called a budget.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/col...

BHL Transition Update #4: Welcoming CLIR as BHL’s New Fiscal Sponsor We’re thrilled to share some exciting news: 🎉 The Biodiversity Heritage Library has a new fiscal sponsor – the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)! This is a major step forward in s…

📢 Big news! BHL has a new fiscal sponsor – @clirnews.bsky.social 🎉 This marks a major step forward in BHL’s transition to a more sustainable, community-led future.
🌍 Read all about what this means for BHL: 🔗 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/08/tran... #ILoveBHL

We are so pleased to share the final deliverables of our Digital POWRR Peer Assessment Program, which was generously funded by the IMLS. These include a white paper, the “Navigating Uncertainty” framework and the volume of case studies authored by participants!

digitalpowrr.niu.edu/announcing-t...

A gallery view, with herbarium specimens in vitrines, drawings around the walls

Darwings of plants 224, 1919 chamone Hepatica Blasprant rilettin orylus Avellana aselus pilotlinies APRIL 26.1919 Anemone nepalica Hepatica The character of the DIe AePdUCe. JOr APRIL 237913 Corylus avellana Common filbert m carer lveliness and n Suppressed sentimentality

Drawings of three plants + roots, with three circular diagrams below / Vere I a 1919 75า9 Dagala oulgauis Jungrulin RileTlinen JUNE 1 193 Polygala vulgaris Common milkwort Caution Accuracy Tact Accuracy 10/ 1919 alickonvalie Convallaria majalis. Seum sisale detal, 22 RileT linin Convallaria majalis Lily of the valley Silence Innocence Strength JUNE 11, 1919 Geum rivale Water avens Submissiveness is acquired through Tact and Accuracy Humility and Accuracy

Various circular graphs + diagrams

Hilma af Klint's botanical drawings / spirit diagrams at MoMA 🥰

Friends, please share!

Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project

Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...

Moby-Dick always finds you when you least expect it.

A red flower on a green stem withe the words: BHL Call for support now open overlayed.

📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL

I think it’s a highly simplified process - they identified a spectrum signature for arsenic using optical spectroscopy and then built a tool that uses that signature to automatically analyze & give an instant result (“safe” vs “toxic”). There’s more info here: stemforbritain.org.uk/posters2025/...

I was sexually harassed and bullied as an invited speaker at the Rowfant Club. (I was required to speak there by my boss at the time.) It would mean a lot to me if people would stop legitimizing this deeply sexist organization.

Judge orders Trump administration to allow Harvard to enroll international students The administration’s action was illegal and would cause irreparable harm because about a quarter of Harvard students are from other countries, lawyers argued

Breaking news: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to bar international students from enrolling at Harvard. The ruling grants Harvard a win in one of the most high-stakes battles in its ongoing war with the administration.

Not me tearing up in my office, nope. This was such a lovely tribute.

The Gendered Labor of Noticing and Anticipating - JSTOR Daily Through interviews with couples, sociologist Allison Daminger refines our understanding of cognitive labor in the household.

“…women took on more cognitive labor in 4.6 of the nine possible areas of home life… Women were far more likely than men to anticipate and monitor, while men were more involved in decision-making and, to a lesser extent, identifying and researching options.”

A cake shaped like a button sample book

A sample book of colorful buttons

Cookies shaped like Hough’s American Woods

Examples of Hough’s American Woods

Today is the Winterthur Library Edible Book Festival, and WOWEE ZOWIE!!!

Map Scroll cinnamon roll

Gluten free manuscript scrolls with fruit leather rabbits!

Edible Books!

We had a bumper crop of delicious entries into my favorite #NewberryLibrary culinary tradition yesterday!
And not everything mimicked a codex... Here are the scrolls!
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Come take my job and work with an incredible staff!

Fantastic opportunity to work with #GLAM natural history collections and colleagues across Cambridge!👇

EFF Border Search Pocket Guide border-pocket-guide-2.pdf

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

Knowing How vs. Knowing That: Navigating the Past In response to my essay on originalism and history, I am glad that Georgetown Professor Randy Barnett applauded me for getting originalism right. As he sees it, I am the first historian to criticize O...

Hey y'all, @jgienapp.bsky.social made it here.

Don't know about you but I've been sharing his great little piece w/ non-academics even more than usual lately, on historical methodology & why originalism (esp in its current form) is so far from that practice 🗃️: www.processhistory.org/gienapp-know...