Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore

Fungi and Trees, Their Complex Relationships by Lynne Boddy

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
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Toadstools, eggs, flowers, snail, painting.

🖼️ Jane Carkill

Me, listening to a mansplain show-off non-question while presenting my book on theriac in Venice to physicians in the astonishing sala dell'albergo at Scuola grande di San Marco

Photographs of four books: “Mushroom Day” by Alison Pouliot in our Earth Day series, “Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms” by Alison Pouliot, “Mushrooms” by Nicholas P. Money (distributed for Reaktion Books), “Funga Obscura” by Alison Pouliot.

🍄Did you know that today is National Mushroom Day? Celebrate with us by getting 30% off of any of these fun(gi)-filled titles when you order on our website using code READING25!

SSHM 2026: In/Out Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling Conference Co…

The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM
sshm.org/sshm-2026/

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 🏛️

slowscience.cnr.it/il-farmaco-di-stato-teriaca-farmacia-e-politica-nellitalia-di-eta-moderna/

Pre-registration link

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Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
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Why so few mushrooms in Western medicine? Mushrooms in early modern Western medicine today at Micocosmo festival in Capo di Ponte
#earlymodern #fungifriends #sciehist #histmed

@petervale.bsky.social & I are looking for scholars interested in contributing to an upcoming workshop/special issue on aeromobility and 20th science & tech. How aircraft changed scientific practice, use in experiments, air travel as foundation for academic collaboration, etc. Please share!

Meme. Painting of St. Hildegard, from the shoulders up. She is dressed up in her nunnish finery. Her wimple is white and very creased, so that she looks a bit like a mummy and her veil is the dusky black of that suggests it's been through the wash many times. She has something like a crown on her head, with little spikes that look for all the world like duck feet. The saint's eyebrows are hard lines like windshield wipers, & her nose is ski-jump smooth. Her head is surrounded by a nimbus of blue with a white outline, set against an orange background. She is looking up and towards your right, as if she's watching a possum that's about to drop onto the person sitting next to you. Her mouth is set in a tight smile. She's likely thinking about sex again. And maybe not just eel sex. Hildegard provided us with the first written description of the female orgasm, so it's quite possible that she's got that on her mind. Meme text reads: "Medieval Eel Truth: It's all about the Bingen's, baby!"

Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller.

Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch.

No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2
🗃️🧪

Life on Earth emerged fast. Far quicker than we thought | Aeon Essays It’s time to rethink how we study life’s origins. It emerged far earlier, and far quicker, than we once thought possible

spontaneous generation : )

#histscie

aeon.co/essays/life-...

Book cover: fungi by Brian Spooner and Peter Robets

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One of the oldest mushrooms!

Did Ferguson paint any mushrooms?

I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.

(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)

#histmed

5 pppppost-doc positions in the history of medicine at Edinburgh www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org

Call for Proposals: 2026 Joint Meeting of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) and History of Science Society (HSS), Scotland, 13-16 July 2026


Link to the full Call For Proposals is available here<hssonline.org/page/2...>

Sign the Petition Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

Needless (?) to say, universities have been around for centuries without management officers www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

Book titled The State Drug by Di Gennaro Splendore in a carton box

The new history of theriac (since Watson's 1966) is out there in the world, on its own. At last, out of my thoughts. I am so happy!
#histmed #histscie #earlymodern #histpharma #pharma

Call for 3 Post-docs in Pisa
www.santannapisa.it/en/assegni-d...

Pure Renaissance style

For fungi pics: mico-photo-contest @ Italian Mushrooms Festival in Capo di Ponte (BS) next September.
Check it out!
#fungi
#Fungifriends
#fungilovers
micocosmofestival.net/concorso-fot...

Home - How-To Books Research project on the history of how-to books in Europe – supported by the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel and the University of Glasgow

I just learned about a great project on early modern How-to-Books howtobook.eu books that are a call to action! #earlymodern

early printed page with small mushrooms image

15th-century LBM, aren't they lovely? #fungifriends #earlymodern #histmed #histscie

But only from the 16th cent. onward. Looking for authors willing to engage with the first 14 centuries. Fancy that? I can highly recommend it (as a topic)

Must be😂

Books on didplay on a table

It's real!! Spot The State Drug.

What was theriac anyway?
#earlymodern #histmed