As a once (& future?) library worker and current @ucu.org.uk member, I stand with striking BL staff. Library, and especially special collections, workers are often told they should accept low wages because they get “a dream job:” but any job needs to put food on the table & pay rent.
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Bought myself a little treat from the Dorchester Book Fair today
25.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Online and in-person tickets are still left for our upcoming Symposium Organismal Resilience in a Rapidly Changing World.
There are reduced prices for students and Linnean Society members.
Register now!
Still a few days to apply for this! We’re looking for someone to work on Charles Darwin’s books and offprints. Fixed term for two years. Closes 26 Oct.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/darwin-...
An overhead shot of our library tables. Two people are looking at old architectural illustrations of Burlington House and other associated information neatly laid out. Text reads "Open House, 20 September, Burlington House, 10:00-17:00".
Weekend plans? Join us this September 20 for crafts, family tours and more at #OpenHouse! Our beautiful building will be open 10am-5pm, a perfect opportunity to catch our Naturalist Notebooks exhibition before it closes.
Have a look at the link below for more information:
buff.ly/nOc4y4E
Ok I definitely need to give that a go.
02.09.2025 15:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wow! Did you try it?
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The Royal Society's Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme is still open for applications. This scheme offers early-career scholars the opportunity to use history of science collections, including our own, as part of their research. Find out more:
#RSGrants
https://royalsociety.org/grants/lisa-jardine/
TIL that people used to use bread as erasers! From an annotation by Margaret Keynes, one of Darwin’s granddaughters, in Gwen Raverat’s copy of the first edition of Period Piece (MS Add.8209.3: 374)
02.09.2025 13:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
There be dragons here @theul.bsky.social
31.07.2025 11:03 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Two green muskoka chairs sit on the grass under a tree facing a large river.
Catch you next time, Canada 🇨🇦
12.07.2025 23:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An empty stage lit in blue light. The curtain at the back has the initials RD with a lightning bolt
Rhys Darby at Alexandra Palace was an absolute joy of an evening. He’s just starting his U.K. tour so there’s lots of chances to catch him!
01.06.2025 11:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Come and hear me talk about the Cook voyages, natural history and Indigenous knowledge on 30th May!
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Fascinating bound herbarium at the Linnean Society - probably early 19th c. I’ve never seen an iris laid out like that before!
24.05.2025 13:29 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In love with this gorgeous sundew collected in Norfolk in 1872 - with thanks to @cuherb.bsky.social
24.05.2025 13:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Only a few days left to apply for this - come work with me, @jontopham.bsky.social @hpsleeds.bsky.social and @lizsmith.bsky.social and Katrina Dean @theul.bsky.social
21.04.2025 17:14 — 👍 17 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0Two more weeks to apply!
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Book launch tickets on sale today at 10! Absolutely delighted to be in conversation with David Olusoga at Manchester Museum on 6 June, 6-8:30pm. Join us for a launch celebration among amazing ways of being!
Free, but limited places so register here. Pls share.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sadiah-qur...
High on my list! It’s been about 20 years since I was there but I think of it often.
11.04.2025 11:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Charmed by this publisher’s ad at the back of “The Poisoned Cup: a tale of Weymouth and Sandsfoot Castle” by Joseph Drew (1954).
11.04.2025 11:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
*EARLY BIRD REMINDER!*
Book before 18 April
www.dhoxss.net
This year, enhance your knowledge of #digitalhumanities tools, techniques and research methods at #DHOxSS2025.
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@david.deroure.org
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
Should have said: now at Montacute House in Somerset
10.04.2025 11:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Section of tapestry depicting a wild turkey, a crane, and a cassowary
Section of a tapestry depicting varied Crustacea and fish
Section of a tapestry depicting a pufferfish and a clownfish
New obsession unlocked. Not usually particularly into tapestries but was absolutely fascinated by the natural history specimens pictured in this 18th c tapestry woven at the Gobelins factory in Paris.
10.04.2025 11:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Very much on holiday. Have barrelled through Kaliane Bradley’s Ministry of Time (supplied by the wonderful The Book Shop in Bridport) in something like 24 hours. Bliss.
08.04.2025 17:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Join us and our hunt for bats with exclusive access to Crystal Palace after hours! There's still time to book tickets.
07.04.2025 09:23 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨Are you a professor from overseas, interested in working with Cambridge collections to bring expertise, skills & knowledge in an underrepresented area?
We would love to hear from you!
Check the latest Visiting Professorships scheme @leverhulme.bsky.social
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
#GLAM
We are delighted to announce another fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship, this time in conjunction with @theul.bsky.social. "The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage". Deadline 30 April. See here for full details: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2233... #histsci
24.03.2025 10:03 — 👍 38 🔁 32 💬 3 📌 2
Newest accessory
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Systema Naturae, a double page spread chart, tightly packed with names of animal species. It is split into Quadrapedia, Aves, Amphibia, Pieces, Insecta and Vermes.
It is #TaxonomistAppreciationDay today! A big day for Carl Linnaeus, who we happen to care about (just a little.)
100 years before Darwin's evolutionary theory was published, Linnaeus was classifying animals based on shared traits. He created #SystemaNaturae in 1735, and we still use it to this day!
Still finding fun new (to me) things in the Darwin Archive (MS DAR 225: 179)
20.03.2025 11:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0