Dennis Hansen

Excellent news, thanks a lot!

Alas! Aber bitte, schnell schnell 🥹

Erh, sorry, German 🤓

Looking much forward to this one! - are you planning a DE version, too? (asking for our museum shop 😁)

THE WONDER OF LIFE ON EARTH is published 5 Feb 2026 and is available for pre-order. For more details inquire within: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/henr...

#2025SVP For people who missed my talk: I’m happy to give this or longer versions via zoom/in person for your seminars/colloquiums. Being based at a small museum w/ little daily exchange among peers, it’s a great opportunity for me to stay connected & for you to learn about our shelled overlords.

We're advertising a PhD project to investigate the hydrodynamics of Aldabra Atoll @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social! We are looking for a student with strong quantitative skills and interest in ocean modelling. Competitive funding available through ILESLA. Please share with anybody who may be interested!

May your recovery be a swift one; gute Besserung, Thony!

A brown butterfly or moth-like insect with an eyes pot on its wing sitting on a yellow flower like cone.

Reposting an oldie for #FossilFriday!
This is Kalligramma brachyrhyncha, a medium-sized kalligrammatid ( #Mesozoic lacewings) from the Middle #Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. It is known to have had eyespots on its wings and may have acted as a pollinator for #bennettitaleans. #paleoart

The Role of Images in Early Modern Botany This seminar brings together two experts on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plants. Zooming in on the dilemma of visualizing plants (or not), and how images could become part of epistemic methods w...

Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿

Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.

www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...

Blackmail him - "pay me 2000 EUR, or this baby finds it way into your office" - signed: Triassic Terror Faction 🖤🤘

Entrance to the new exhibition "Nürnberg Global, 1300-1600" at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.

Albrecht Dürer's famous woodcut of the Rhinoceros.

Partially disassembled Schlüsselfelder Ship from 1503, to show how the nef can be filled with wine.

The Archangel Raphael and Tobias in limewood made by Veit Stoß, 1516.

A magnificent exhibition: "Nürnberg Global, 1300-1600," showcasing stunning #MedievalSky & #EarlyModern objects—paintings, engravings, goldsmithing & scientific objects, woodcuts, books (of hours), architectural models, sculptures, armor, textiles, coins. It's SO good!
🗃️ #HistSci #ArtHistory 🏛️

Still looks kinda dead to me, though, L.J. 😁

Did you give the old one to Spiekman? 😁

I hope you didn't update that delightfully heron-y Tanystropheus? 🙃

After two years of hard work, I’m proud to announce that our new special exhibition @smnstuttgart.bsky.social is now open for the public – Meet Triassic Life: Dawn of the world of reptiles (1/7).

Being able to simply gaze at a dinosaur skeleton NOT surrounded by a multi-coloured text-book-inna-string with pow-pow fonts and 'DID YOU KNOW that xyz'-messages all over -- imagine that... 💚🥲

--both of which (& more!) can be admired in the current special exhibition of the Zentralbibliothek in Zurich:
www.zb.uzh.ch/de/exhibits/...
(but sadly not the oil painting - alas!)

Here's a portrait she drew of her younger brother:
www.e-manuscripta.ch/zuzneb/conte...
And here's one of her (few) surviving minatures:
www.e-manuscripta.ch/zuzneb/conte...

Thank you for sharing Anna's gorgeous self-portrait!

Please caress them ever so gently from me 💚

#TropicalGardenProblems 💚

Congratulations! 🤘🍻

In Quest of Hybrid (Non-Bird) Dinosaurs — Tetrapod Zoology Might there have been hybrid dinosaurs in the deep geological past? If so, could we identify them from the fossil record? Let’s discuss…

Might there have been hybrids between Mesozoic (non-bird) #dinosaurs, perhaps even between groups that had been separated for 10s of million of years? YES, the existence of such animals is very likely. But could we >identify< such animals? Let's see... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/9/...

You look like a purveyor of small green monsters that will feed on pets in the house 💚

You beat me to this comment 😁

The Book Cover of Philip Ball's Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science

The maniacal, scribbling gnomes in the cellar of Ball Mansions have tossed of another tome:

Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science

And it’s gorgeous!

#histsci

I always thought that title would be a great band name 🖤

Good-good, thanks - just some time away from online things 🤓

Screenshot from my powerpoint slide of "Early Modern News Media as Objects of Knowledge". The talk will be given on the 18th of September at the workshop “Objects and things: what are objects of knowledge?”.

In other news, I'll be talking about #earlymodern news media next week in Copenhagen. This is the first workshop of the new "Objects of Knowledge" network, organized by @lauraskouvig.bsky.social and @mariasimonsen.bsky.social

comm.ku.dk/research/inf...

#histknow meeting #newshistory, #skystorians