@collecol.bsky.social is back! 🪲
We've put together a great seminar series - we hope you'll come along!
On 2 Oct 11am EDT/4pm GMT we're doing a reading club - Appadurai's "The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination".
All info ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
Séminaire d'histoire et d'épistémologie de la préhistoire @recherche.mnhn.fr le mardi 20 janvier (en ligne, 17h00) avec Wolf Feuerhahn @cnrsshs.bsky.social @cak.ehess.fr : "Progrès : histoire d’un mot plutôt que d’une idée". Détail de la séance et lien de connexion ici : hnhp.mnhn.fr/fr/programme...
Dark green background with white text overlaid reading "call for papers", surrounded by various natural history illustrations of animals wearing party hats.
🚨We have a SUPER exciting announcement!🚨
Our next Summer Meeting will be at @zslofficial.bsky.social on the theme of The Zoological Society of London at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World 🥳
📅1-3 July 2026
🗺️Zoological Society of London
Find out how to submit 👇🏻
shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...
If anyone out there works for a museum (anywhere in the world) that would like to have me give a similar talk about extinction & museums with a local twist, please contact me!
Le séminaire "Muséums et enjeux contemporains" reprend ce soir à 17h30 à @mnhn.fr : Samuel Cordier discutera l'intégration de l'histoire des collections aux parcours d'expositions à travers l'exemple du musée zoologique de Strasbourg 🐧 @recherche.mnhn.fr
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There are still a few weeks left to submit your proposals for our ECR Symposium next year!
We'd love papers from across the field which speak to all aspects of the history of natural history by early career researchers!
Find out how to submit 👇🏻
A very detailed engraved illustration of a venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula). It is depicted growing from a tuft of sod with its carnivorous appendages spreading outward from the base and flowers branching off a single stem that rises from the base. #botany #histbotany #botanysky #plantsky #bloomsky
An engraved plate from my 1827 copy of Elements of Botany by Benjamin Smith Barton, one of the first professors of natural history in the U.S. & who built the largest collection of botanical specimens in the country. This was considered the first U.S. botany textbook. 🌱 🐡 📚💙
Getting ready for my course: Ecologies of Knowledge - @unimi (Historical Studies)
#environmentalstudies #environmentalhistory #envhist #ConEnvHist #histsci #workshop #17thcenturystudies I will map the pre-history of ecological thinking in different fields #ecology #plantstudies #courses #history
Very happy that my article on the ackee tree in Jamaica is out! Thanks to @treeseeker.bsky.social and @planthums-uk.bsky.social for editing this excellent special issue.
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...
Première session du colloque international "Études de provenances des collections de sciences naturelles et humaines : Muséologie et histoire pour le temps présent" @mnhn.fr où l'on parle objets africains, insectes, restes humains, géologie et même assassinat du général Kléber
Exciting news! Bookings for the conference we are organising with National Gallery are now live! www.mghg.info/forthcoming-... Join us on 26-27 September to learn about the histories behind museum creation. In person or online. Booking link available on our website/ National Gallery.
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BSHS Hughes Prize 2025 Winner 🎉
Congratulations to Renée Bergland as the winner of the BSHS Hughes Prize 2025 for "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science"
A brilliant book opening 19th-c histSTEM to a broader public📖✨
www.bshs.org.uk/the-winner-o...
I'll be speaking at the Plants on Paper exhibit opening reception on Oct. 3 from 3-5PM - let me know if you'd like an invite! We'll look at some gorgeous botanical illustrations, herbarium specimens, cyanotypes, and other 19thC plant-based objects, many of them produced by women. 🌸
And if you're in the area, check out the exhibit Plants on Paper: Artists' Engagement with the Green World at Yale's Arts Library, which is beautiful and rich (checklist + bibliography linked on the website). Open until 11/2.
guides.library.yale.edu/artsAreaExhi...
Le programme 2025-2026 du séminaire 'Muséum, objet d'histoire' est en ligne. Centré sur l'histoire du @mnhn.fr il rend aussi compte de l’actualité en histoire des sciences sur et autour des institutions savantes naturalistes @recherche.mnhn.fr
objethistoire.hypotheses.org
Romane Le Roux, @adelechevalier.bsky.social et moi-même y présenterons une communication sur la création de la galerie de minéralogie, de géologie et de botanique du Muséum à la fin des années 1830 ! Un dépouillement d'archives à six mains pour mieux comprendre la répartition des collections 🏛️🪨🌿📚
Open (free) access recent edited book with chapter on human-tree relations in a graphic novel, as well as other mentions of plants - Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: Multidisciplinary Entanglements www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
Un champignon et une pièce de monnaie se trouvent dans une poêle. Le texte indique "Il est faux de dire qu'une pièce d'argent ou des oignons noircissent au contact des champignons mortels."
Des mains nettoient un champignon dans un grand bac d'eau. À l'arrière-plan, du sel est déversé dans un second récipient. Le texte indique "Amanite phalloides" puis "Il est faux de dire que la macération dans l'eau salée et les lavages répétés à l'eau salée et les lavages répétés à l'eau bouillante éliminent les poisons."
Deux champignons sur fond blanc. Ils sont légendés "Amanita phalloides" et "Amanita pantherina". Le texte indique "Il est faux de dire que tous les champignons qui ont un anneau sont bons."
Une limace monte le long d'un pied de champignon tandis qu'une deuxième mange le chapeau du champignon. Le texte indique "Il est faux de dire que les limaces ne mangent pas les champignons mortels".
"Le saviez-vous ?" édition cryptogamie 🍄
Dessins de Michelle Bory pour le Salon du Champignon du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 1967.
In yesterday's Museums: Power & Politics class I asked students what they collect (thanks to @alexzivkovic.bsky.social)! Their answers were similarly sweet and really helped me get to know them. My answer: I keep a little cabinet of curiosities at home filled with mosses, rocks, minerals, etc...
The dissertation! 150 pages of prairie, history, & more pawpaws than you'd expect.
I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now.
Check it out in pdf form:
drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...
Book cover of Ghosts Behind Glass with colorful Carolina parakeet under bell jar
Preorder now!!
Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums
Coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in October 2025.
Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures of dead things. It’s beautiful!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I use BHL every single day in my research and teaching. I could not write my books or articles without it, I don't know what my students would do without it, and I would have to radically rethink my career without it. This is more critical with funding cuts. Please, please someone support BHL.
Happy to share the news that I have won the Young Researcher Fellowship - with a 3-year research project to enlarge the focus of my MSCA and explore aspects that were not within that project
The title is: Constructing the Environment: A History of Botanical Knowledge before 1800 #ConEnvHist
« Vivre et penser le temps dans les Amériques », c’est cette semaine au Campus Condorcet ! 🕰️ 🌎
" Collections et armées "
Le séminaire des collections de Science de la Terre et de l'Univers du @mnhn.fr @recherche.mnhn.fr
📅 Jeudi 12 juin 2025
📍 Amphithéâtre de Paléontologie du MNHN, 2 rue Buffon 75005 Paris
⏰ 10h00 - 12h15 • 14h00 - 17h15
➡️ paleo.mnhn.fr/sites/cr2p/f...
🦍 What are the magic tricks behind a perfect diorama?
🪄What are natural history #museums' trade secrets?
☘️Why are plants and insects so poortly represented in these museums?🐝
I had a great time on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chatting about #NaturesMemory. 🔊Listen:
newbooksnetwork.com/natures-memory
Alerte ! Les résultats d'un projet remarquable mené par une équipe d'archivistes sur les réseaux de femmes archéologues aux XIXe et début du XXe siècles sont enfin en ligne.
Need la même chose pour les archéologues francophones.
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6ème séance du séminaire "Muséums et enjeux contemporains" demain à 17h30 à @mnhn.fr : @p-stewens.bsky.social examinera la façon dont les réflexions sur les restitutions muséales s'appliquent aux collections naturalistes 🦕🐚🪴 @recherche.mnhn.fr
museumenjeux.hypotheses.org/477
Passionate about #restitution? Curious about what it means for natural history #museums? Then this event is for you! I'll be speaking at the @mnhn.fr on 3 June 2025 about this very issue - and you can join my hybrid lecture from anywhere!
More info: paul-stewens.com/news/lecture...
