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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series is back and we have a stellar line up: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social, 6 Oct; @cberiksen.bsky.social, 28 Oct; Jim Endersby, 25 Nov; and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, 9 Dec. All seminars are on Zoom, 15-16 CET

Poster for Instructing Colonial Natural History, Autumn Term 2026 seminar series. The design uses an 1785 watercolour by Sarah Stone showing the interior of Sir Ashton Lever’s Museum in Leicester Square, London: a dark green natural-history collection crowded with display cabinets, birds, shells, antlers and other specimens, with green curtains opening onto receding galleries and a large elephant on the right. Four online seminars are listed: Sadiah Qureshi, 6 October; Christoffer Basse Eriksen, 28 October; Jim Endersby, 25 November; and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, 9 December. All seminars are on Zoom, 15.00–16.00 CET. Registration: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se

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Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen @jessiewhchen.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Surprise publication day! Earlier than anticipated, you can now read my #firstbook (digital version in #openaccess) or order a printed copy through the link. Official announcement and info on book presentation event coming soon! brill.com/display/titl... #NatHist, #HistNatHist, #flowers

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Everlasting Flowers between the Pages

"Everlasting Flowers between the Pages" published on 28 Aug 2025 by Brill.

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Christoffer Basse Eriksen @cberiksen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I’m very happy to announce that I’ve been awarded an IRFD Starting Grant for the project “Sovereign Flowers: Flora Danica and the Emergence of the National Flora, 1750–1900.” Hooray! The project allows me to build a small research group of a PhD student and a postdoc at Aarhus University (@au.dk).

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Fascinating presentation about “Bee-keeping, plant breeding, and early 18th C flower ecology” by @cberiksen.bsky.social at ISIH 2025: “Women, Men, and other Animals” in Aarhus. @isih-blueskye.bsky.social

Three presenters at a panel at academic conference

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Christoffer Basse Eriksen @cberiksen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I'm very happy to see my piece on insect pollination published on the awesome Journal of the History of Ideas blog.

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Dr Xinyi Wen @drxinyiwen.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

When you open an old notebook in the archive and there is a snake (skin): @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 🗃️💙📚

A piece of snake skin pasted into a naturalist’s calendar notebook, May 1801

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Elaine Leong @historyelaine.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Funded PhD Studentship @UCL History and @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on project titled 'Translating Monstrosity: Constructions of Difference in #earlymodern England and France'. Deadline Jan 31st 2025. Project & application info: www.ucl.ac.uk/history/oppo.... #histmed #histsci #HSTM #bookhistory

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Find opportunities to join UCL History in academic, research, teaching and learning, admin and other capacities below.

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Isaac Land @coastalhistory.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Scroll through their thread. This is like an episode from A.S. Byatt’s novel _Possession_. Adventures in research! 🗃️ 💙 📚

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Christoffer Basse Eriksen @cberiksen.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Xinyi has written a wonderful thread about our collaborative research on Margery Power peppered with pictures from our many archival trips. So many good memories!

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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

We made another thing! Here is a pretty great 'HPS Starter Pack' so you too can follow all the awesome history, philosophy and social studies of science (and #metasci #histSTM #philsci #philsky #hps #histsci 🧪) accounts on Bluesky. Please share widely #academicsky :)

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LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

After flowers, the next section of "Sleeping Beauties" focused on insects in fashion. To introduce the topic, they had the oldest item of the exhibit, this 1615-20 British waistcoat. It has embroidered flowers, birds, and insects with taxonomical accuracy, representing an English garden.

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Christoffer Basse Eriksen @cberiksen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Proofs have arrived. We’re all set to launch the next wave of Grew scholarship.

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Current writing mood: "There are some Erratas in the Book, but the writer says he is too lazie to give you a Note of them" (1676) Show me a writer who cannot relate... 🗃️

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Christoffer Basse Eriksen @cberiksen.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Entirely new on this thing. Is there a history of science starter pack? I missed those conversations after X turned into utter garbage.

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