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“B is for Baby” / B is for Bitumen. Elysia French's 2015 research trip to Fort McMurray inspired critical reflection on oil’s visual culture, extractivism, and everyday petro-dependency.

Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social. chose "'B is for Baby' / B is for Bitumen." by Elysia French as our most recent Editor's Pick!

niche-canada.org/2025/05/16/b...

#envhist #envhum #mininghistory #museums

Was just sent this, author unknown. There's plenty to debate but they're right about evolutionary ecology. 🌏

The oil spillover: prospecting for oil in innovation studies and the history of technology Innovation studies scholars use the concept of ‘spillovers’ to explain how ideas and people move among firms and industries and how regions form industrial clusters. Historians of technology use di...

the oil spillover - read all about it!

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The argument of THE ARROGANT APE is that human exceptionalism—a.k.a. anthropocentrism or human supremacy—is at the root of the ecological crisis, giving humans a sense of dominion over Nature, entitled to commodify earth and other species for our own exclusive benefit.

seconding this question! I need answers!

Henry = Humankind 👥 | Tommy = Climate Crisis🔥

A comprehensive account of the concept of organism should involve a botanical part: Check out my paper on #plantorganism #organicism
It is open access.
#philsci
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Positively misleading errors - Synthese Positively misleading errors are errors of statistical reasoning in which adding data to an analysis will systematically and reliably strengthen support for an erroneous hypothesis over a correct one....

Very happy to see my "Positively Misleading Errors" finally published (it's been a long road). It generalizes an error of statistical reasoning discovered by Joe Felsenstein in 1978. Really happy with how it turned out.

Currently free to access and download, so go for it!

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The women honoured in flowering plant genera: From myth to reality Many flowering plant genera are named for people, but there is a gender gap in this naming, with only 6% of eponyms honouring women. Here we explore this gap by examining in detail women for whom pla...

"The topic of naming taxa—not just in botany—is a very timely one."

#STEM #angiosperms #plants #botany #taxonomy #namingmatters #gender #eponymy #etymology #nomenclature

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The Baobab😍🌳 #baobab #saintexupery #Madagascar #botany #trees #plants

A Postcolonial Card Cartel: How European Companies Sold Biometric Voting in Africa Biometrics companies see Africa as the ‘ultimate frontier’ — a relatively untapped market, yet to be fully captured. Although there is now a substantial critical literature on identification technolo...

After years of research, I’m thrilled to share my article on biometric voting in Africa.
I focus on the companies who sell the tech. They have become key actors for both election management and citizen identification. Yet we know little about them.
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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

Happy birthday quantum mechanics! I got a ticket to the ultimate physics party Nature reporter joins hundreds of physicists on a remote island to celebrate Heisenberg’s enlightening trip there 100 years ago.

Can one particle instantaneously affect another? Is nature truly random? And did Heisenberg also get seasick??

Some musings on my weird and wonderful week on the island of Heligoland ⚛️🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#EnvHist Worth Reading: May 2025 Find lead and forever chemical contamination, hummingbird coevolution, and the dismantling of environmental justice measures in the latest list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWi...

Our editor-in-chief @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social's picks for environmental history you should read, watch, and listen to from May are now out!

niche-canada.org/2025/06/11/e...

#envhist

The cover of Patrick De Oliveira's book, Ascending Republic: The Ballooning Revival in Nineteenth-Century France, which features a painting of a balloon drifting over a crowd of onlookers near a clocktower that is topped with the French tricolor.

Congratulations to @plso.bsky.social, whose book on ballooning and modernity in 19th century France has just been published by @mitpress.bsky.social! 📖🎈🇫🇷

mitpress.mit.edu/978026254980...

#histSTM #histtech #PubDay
#aviation #ballooning #booksky

On the role that diagramming played in Crick and Watson’s contributions to the structure of DNA--and on diagrams as epistemic tools in science and math more generally--see
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (paywall).

🌱🐋🧪🐡 #EvoBio #HistSTM

The Queer (& Kink) Ecology of Tank Girl Tank Girl, the titular character of the 90s cult classic post-apocalyptic science fiction film, is an icon of queer (and kink) ecology.

#PrideMonth Reading

"The Queer (& Kink) Ecology of Tank Girl" by Madeleine Bavley

niche-canada.org/2024/08/19/t...

#envhum #queerecology #filmstudies

A collage illustrating diverse biological behaviors across life forms: orange and yellow lichens growing on rock (symbiotic behavior), a close-up of bacteria (microbial interactions), leafcutter ants cooperating to carry a leaf (social insect behavior), a sundew plant trapping an insect (plant predation), and phylogenetic trees representing evolutionary relationships.

What theoretical & methodological challenges emerge when investigating #behavior across the tree of life? We are organizing an interdisciplinary workshop on 'comparative behavioral biology' (Sept. 26-27). Please help us share the open CfA! 📢👇 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsci #HPbio #evobio

Herbaria Are Fascinating Zea mays collected by Hugh Iltis in Virginia in 1943. (Botanical Research Institute of Texas) For this weekly blog I manage to come up with some topic, always related to plants, and almost always r…

Post from Herbarium World on some of my favorite specimens herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/h... #herbarium

Carbon-Atom Scavengers Enable Divergent, Selective Carbon Deletion of Azaarenes Divergent synthesis is a powerful strategy that provides simultaneous access to multiple derivatives of a given substrate. However, the emerging developments in skeletal editing have largely delivered...

Our latest is a serendipitously discovered pair of reactions that can pull either the C2 or C3 carbon out of quinolines by choice of an amine scavenger. A deep mechanistic dive took us some surprising places, in @chemiejisoo.bsky.social's latest.

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A side view of a bound volume with a metal clasp. The volume has a label affixed to its cover and the writing on it is blurry. The page edges are marbled.

A handwritten journal entry in a bound volume, dated 5th April, detailing a journey by boat. There is a small sketch of a boat and its sails at sea, as well as a sketch of a coastal cliff edge.

Ink handwriting in a bound volume, written in 19th century hand. The two fables whose titles are underlined and written out are 5) The Pigeon & the Monkey and 6) The Hyena & the Hedgehog.

In our Archives collections, we hold this fascinating manuscript journal of George Maw's travels to Morocco in 1871. It doesn't just include botanical observations, but it is a rich account of culture, history, linguistics, and meteorology, to name a few.

#KewLA #ExploreYourArchive #VE80

Thanks for posting this Jason. I just added it to an environmental history course I am designing on "Sassy Women & Suave Men." James has to make an appearance (of course), those martini's won't shake themselves.

YouTube video by Neil Bromhall Time lapse Dandelion flower to seed head

Apomictic distractions as I try catch up on overdue writing assignments and projects. #writing #scriobh #plants #dandelions #apomixis #botany #flowers

[Video by Neil Bromhall]

Congrats Jason! Super exciting!!!

Three ceramic cows on a wooden shelf facing the same way

Some things are clearly trying to get out lol

book cover (with a detail of an early modern map): Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy. Connecting the Seas, 1550-1800, edited by Susanne Gruss & Marcus Hartner

Tfw that book project that was almost derailed by the pandemic and its aftermath (and the German academic job market) finally has a cover: Practices & Narratives of Early Modern Piracy, forthc. this August with Amsterdam University Press 🏴‍☠️
#pirates #EarlyModern #AcademicPublishing

A tray containing dried fungal specimens with sponge-like textures, stored in Kew’s Fungarium collection.

MAJOR MILESTONE for fungal science! 🍄💻

Our entire Fungarium - 1.1 million dried fungi specimens - is now fully imaged!👇1/4
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Fungarium collection digitised! What interesting specimens have we uncovered? As part of the Digitisation Project, our team has been working toward making our entire dried fungi collection available for global access.

Utter Glee!
#fungi #fungarium #herbarium #collections #museum #botanicalgarden @rbgkew.bsky.social