Brad Scott (@trichocolea) — Bluesky Profile

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Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities

Here's an awesome natural history humanities PhD opportunity, working with Cambridge University Library & our insect & archive collections here at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, exploring the links between entomology, life writing & environmental change. Please share!
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

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Picture of women on a beach John Leech, ‘The mermaids' haunt’. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1854 - 1869. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. Picture Collection, The New York Public Library.

Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections
We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius.
#Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork

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@rxcoulton.bsky.social

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View inside projection box with 35mm projector

Peering into the auditorium from the projection box

35mm projector in action at the Atrium in East Grinstead, Sussex.

#filmHistory #technology

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4 days ago

Were you "treated like a prince", and did you have to dress for dinner?

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1 March Wednesday March. 1st. Up at 5 oC. & by 6. at Fetter Lane. The Coach started soon after, & we were fortunate in getting a day without rain. We travelled very fast, – at…

Enjoyed Frederic Madden's account of his journey from London to Fakenham, and then Holkham. 1 March 1826. Quite a trek, and then the archive...

madden1826.com/1-march/

@madden1826.bsky.social

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4 days ago

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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1 week ago

Working with criminal justice records
Wed, 25 March | 13:00 GMT | Online

🎤 Charlotte Smith, The National Archives
🎤 Dr Jessamy Carlson, The National Archives
🎤 Miles Wright, The Law Commission of England and Wales

Reserve your spot here:
shorturl.at/KlsVm

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1 week ago

This #MapMonday we have even #MoreMaps for you! 🗺️✨

We've georeferenced the 1,329 first edition Six-inch maps of England and Wales we added in November. Now you can use a special toggle button in our viewers to compare these maps side-by-side.

Explore the new tool > maps.nls.uk/additions/#194

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This underscores how parochial my knowledge of UK bryophytes is...

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More from this incredible manuscript.

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2 weeks ago

Production of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Victoria Rooms, Bristol, 1985. Directed by Ruth Martin, MD Philip Joslin, Jimmy - Rob Burt, Jenny - Kate Smith

Near the end when God comes to Mahagonny

Went to see Kurt Weill's Mahagonny at ENO last night. I knew what we were in for, as I was in a production by Bristol University Operatic Society when I was an undergraduate in 1985.

It is a remarkable work. And I am in 3 of these pictures...

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2 weeks ago

Excellent. Can we talk moss?

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2 weeks ago

Yes!

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3 weeks ago

Try Yr, the Norwegian weather app. The Estonians got me on to it

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3 weeks ago

Great film, though I didn't see the echoes of Night of the Hunter...

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3 weeks ago

The 100 Plants in 2026 Challenge

We're trialling something new this year at the BSBI - an activity designed to support absolute beginner botanists with identifying *and* recording their first ever 100 plants in 2026 🌿

If you know anyone that might like to take part then please spread the word:

bsbi.org/take-part/ac...

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3 weeks ago

Knowing Plants in Places One of the questions David Streeter often asks when out in the field is “Why is that plant growing there?” Typically, answers to such a question may include discussion of the relative l…

I have documented a few historical themed walks in recent years: sussexbryophytes.wordpress.com/2021/07/11/k...

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Yes, I grew up in Plymouth and spent lots of time walking on Dartmoor and the southern part of the coast path

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3 weeks ago

Ooh, I am interested too. I am from Devon, though don't live there now, and I know Giorgia!

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1 month ago

Interesting to imagine the 15 minute walk there from the museum

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1 month ago

A page from the commercial listings of Robson's directory of London from 1830, running from Kerr & Turnbull, warehousemen, through to Thomas Kilpack's cigar divan in Covent Garden

There's a Charles Kilpack, bookbinder at Southampton Street in Robson's 1830 directory

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1 month ago

Call for Submissions: "Botanical Imaginations" - Edge Effects Edge Effects invites submissions for that explore our complex relationship to plants and proliferate botanical imaginations.

Call for submissions from @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social - plants!

edgeeffects.net/botanical-im...

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1 month ago

Black Studies in Europe: A Politics of Knowledge
Friday, 13th February 2026, ONLINE
Speakers: Sara Fila Bakabadio, Nicole Grégoire and Jacinthe Mazzochetti

Jacinthe Mazzocchetti is professor at UCLouvain (Belgium) currently working on migrations, gender and performing arts. She is affiliated to the research center for prospective anthropology (LAAP/IACCHOS), co-director of the collections “EthnopoetiK” and “Anthropologie prospective” (Academia).

Nicole Grégoire is research affiliate at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporaines, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She the author of articles and chapters on race and Africa diasporas’ activism in Belgium.

Sarah Fila-Bakabadio is historian of the Black Atlantic, Associate Professor in American and African American studies at CY Cergy Paris Université (France), editor-chief of African Diaspora (Brill) and member of the publishing house, Ròt-bò-Krik.
Her work focuses on the intellectual, cultural, and political circulations of African-Americans and European Afro-descendants in the Black Atlantic in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair invites you to an online session on Black Studies in Europe.
The three editors discuss their recently published anthology.
Friday, 13th February 5.30 pm (Paris time). Online. Registration link👇🏽
undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com/next-event/

Spread the word.

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1 month ago

Brede church with a group of wet bryologists looking at the walls and trying to avoid the very slippery path

View of the river Brede from Brede churchyard. The river is very high and nearby fields flooded

Moss hunting in the rain at Brede in Sussex. The first thing Graeme said to me was "I've come bryologising by mistake"

#bryology #bryophytes

@bbsbryology.bsky.social

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1 month ago

That is great news! I can't wait to read it

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1 month ago

TOMORROW!
Please join us for More-than-Human Curation, 2nd in our More-than-Human/ities seminar series w/ York University, Toronto
Come explore how art & wildlife interact in museum settings & curatorship🦣🌾
Wed 4 Feb
17:45–19:15
Register here yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1ON4d36KQQWSXZUwX10Nuw

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1 month ago

I am here for the testate amoebae

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1 month ago

Photograph of an American bison standing beside a fence at the London Zoo in 1906.

The research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories.

Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo...

#envhist #envhum

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2 months ago

Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians

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