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Charismatic Mammal Still Fascinated by Museum Collections and the Tensions Between Nature and the Histories of Collecting Natural History. And Use of Capital Letters cmmadruga.wixsite.com

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Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"The microbial discovery has implications for the resilience of complex cells under extreme environmental conditions, and for the mechanisms by which microbial life adapted to climate change in the distant past."
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Red marks the spot: Network of complex microbes discovered at mysterious Blood Falls
A research team co-led by a Yale scientist has identified complex organisms near the Blood Falls area of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica — a discovery that offers new implications for how microbial l...
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The Georges Dumézil-Mircea Eliade correspondence – a chronological listing with publication details or archive locations progressivegeographies.com/2026/07/19/t...
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The Georges Dumézil-Mircea Eliade correspondence – a chronological listing with publication details or archive locations
The mythologist Georges Dumézil and the historian of religions Mircea Eliade had a long-term correspondence and several of their letters have been published. They met during the Second World War, a…
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Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We had a fantastic panel in the last slot of the last day of #HSS-ESHS #HSS2026 called "Pedagogies of Things in the Natural History Humanities" with @arnoldke.bsky.social, @annalsvensson.bsky.social & Kelly Whitmer. If you were there, we'd love to hear your thoughts! 🌿 #envhist #envhum
Discussing some of the features of an old book with a pressed plant inside. Discussing an old book with a pressed plant inside.Kelly Whitmer delivering a presentation.
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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
(If this is of interest, stay tuned for my friend Laura Briscoe's forthcoming article on AI + digitization in natural history collections in the special issue of HPLS on Death, Decay & Loss in Colonial Botany that @arnoldke.bsky.social and I are co-editing!)
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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We have made the news! #eshs-hss (overlooking the blandly sweeping statements made about Edinburgh and #histSTM) www.heraldscotland.com/news/2627512...
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Thousands of academics descend on Scottish capital for 'landmark' event
The five-day conference is being held at Edinburgh University, the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC), and the National Museum of…
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CatMadruga @cmadruga.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A CRIME has been perpetrated! The RS exclusive unique historical tote bag was PLUNDERED! The fiendish malefactors shall be punished accordingly!!! #hss2026 👀👀👀👀
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CatMadruga @cmadruga.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
@hssgecc.bsky.social
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CatMadruga @cmadruga.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
@hssgecc.bsky.social @arnoldke.bsky.social @dbrh.bsky.social @collecol.bsky.social
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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Anyone working at the National Archives UK this week able to take a photo of a single page for me?!?! One of those things the significance of which wasn't clear at the time.
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CatMadruga @cmadruga.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
#priceless #officialhashtagforHSS2026
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CatMadruga @cmadruga.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
#hss2026 Are you in #edinburgh? Been to an inspiring panel? Write a Limerick about Edinburgh and the HSS/ESHS conference and win an exclusive prize! Open Submissions by Thursday!!! Multiple entries possible!
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We are thrilled to announce that the ninth installment of our open-access online publication 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 is now live. It offers a dialogue on human nature and the origins of environmental degradation, taking inspiration from tradition and Indigenous practices. springs-rcc.org #envhum #envhist
Poster showing a truck loaded with old clothes in India.
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We've added a new post to our blog, by Koldo Trapaga-Monchet and Raúl Romero-Calcerrada on 'The royal forests of Almeirim: A multifunctional landscape in the larger Ribatejo geographical-cultural area'; here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/02/17/a... #envhist #portugal #forests @eandhwhp.bsky.social
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The royal forests of Almeirim: A multifunctional landscape in the larger Ribatejo geographical-cultural area
In this blog, linked to their recently published Open Access article (online first, February 2026) in Environment and History, ‘Multifunctional Landscapes in Central Mainland Portugal: The Royal Ad…
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It is so important to keep hammering in this point. People always ask me why I would have to go visit archives - why not just look at a scan? Because they haven’t been scanned! And they are never going to be! There are millions & millions of pieces of paper in every archive.
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
2026 in #museums thread set to begin! Will update this space with museums I see this year. Often these will cover special exhibits, but I’ll delve into regular collections too.
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Phd Position: Art and Soil Ecologies, Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Closes 15 March 2026 ehc-amsterdam.nl/phd-position... #envhum
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Phd Position: Art and Soil Ecologies (closes 15 March 2026)
We are hiring! We are excited to announce a PhD position on “Art and Soil Ecologies” within the JUST ART research consortium. The project engages with the vital role crucial role soil plays within …
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Center for PostNatural History @postnatural.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
If can't visit us in person, this is the next best thing!
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The Most Thought-Provoking Museum You’ve Never Heard Of | The Center for PostNatural History
YouTube video by The Curious World
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Workers hired for "data annotation" are not told the subjects of annotation will, over time, be more and more horrific. There ned to be class action lawsuits that bankrupt AI companies and throw executives in jail. In the meantime, "don't use genAI" - not video, not anything else.
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
“The era of hiding behind servers is over”.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🚨 TODAY! A seminar from the @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM group at 4pm GMT/11am EST! Join us in welcoming @nickyrvs.bsky.social (@hunterianglasgow.bsky.social) ✨ More info & Zoom link ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec... #envhist #envhum #museums #collections #histsci
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Collection Ecologies | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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CatMadruga @cmadruga.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🚨Don't miss tomorrow! ✨ @collecol.bsky.social Thursday 5 Feb (check yr timezone)✨ www.chstm.org/group/collec... Nicky Reeves @nickyrvs.bsky.social on his reflections on access politics in the world of museum storage, #collections and their #envhist!
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CatMadruga @cmadruga.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🚨Don't miss tomorrow! ✨ @collecol.bsky.social Thursday 5 Feb (check yr timezone)✨ www.chstm.org/group/collec... Nicky Reeves @nickyrvs.bsky.social on his reflections on access politics in the world of museum storage, #collections and their #envhist!
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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
My entry for the SEP on externalism vs. internalism about justification is now live. plato.stanford.edu/entries/just...
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Internalist vs. Externalist Conceptions of Epistemic Justification (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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CatMadruga @cmadruga.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Yesterday heard Daniel Liu, at the @tuberlin.bsky.social dan-liu.net @dan-liu.net and I was so inspired by the questions left unresolved and the ones his forthcoming book is going to answer! #historyofmicroscopy is not necessarily #historyofmicroscopes
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CatMadruga @cmadruga.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
CollEcologies is back this week with another great discussion on how THINGS are also NATURE and what is all this about collecting and preserving, and where is "knowledge"?
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Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Happy Monday! 🌵 We're glad to say that this rescheduled Reading Club session is happening this week! Join us on 6 November to discuss Appadurai's article, a fantastically rich piece to raise questions connecting museums & collections, coloniality & the global/planetary, & the age of Anthropocene ✨
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Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
for the reconstruction of natural history practices and networks of early modern Pietism, and it can be analyzed as an archive of historical biodiversity, providing insight into climate change 🌿 We hope you'll join us! To join, see below ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
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Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thomas is lead researcher on the project entitled "A Testimony to Ecclesiastical Natural History and an Archive of Historical Biodiversity. The Herbarium Ruperti (1700) of the Herzog August Bibliothek". This botanical collection, compiled by a prominent Protestant clergyman around 1700, allows /2
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Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🚨 Don't miss the next @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM seminar on Thursday 4 December at 11am EST/4pm GMT! ✨ This month, we'll hear from Thomas Biskup (University of Hull/Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel) #envhist #histsci #histstm #envhums #collections #plants /1
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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Couldn't apply to a post yesterday because I received my PhD more than 4 years ago. Couldn't apply to a post today because I received my PhD less than 5 years ago.
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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
New episode of The HPS Podcast! 🎙️ Today, Dr Surekha Davies joins us to discuss her new book Humans: A Monstrous History – a sweeping look at how ideas of monstrosity shaped science, empire, and what it means to be human. @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social #hps #history #monsters 🎧 Listen here:
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S5 E2 - Surekha Davies on Humans: A Monstrous History
The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · Episode
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.
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Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🚨 Don't miss our final CHSTM seminar of the academic year! 12 June at 12pm EST/5pm BST ✨ @dominikhhh.bsky.social & @nickytheprof.bsky.social will be workshopping our forthcoming special issue with Endeavour! 🪲 Sign up to get all your @collecol.bsky.social info! www.chstm.org/group/collec...
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Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Join us & let‘s workshop together! #envhum #collections #museum
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Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
‼️ Don't forget! We'd love to have you join us tomorrow to help workshop ideas for our @collecol.bsky.social special issue! We want to hear from friends & those interested in/who work with natural history/museum collections 🌿 #envhum #envhist #nathist #histsci #collections #museums
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Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
Hello new followers! We're Collection Ecologies 👋 We investigate histories of #collections to understand how collections can serve as archives + knowledge repositories in #envhist, & by reflecting on collections as ecologies themselves. Check out our CHSTM seminar ⬇️ www.chstm.org/content/coll...
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Michael D. Barton @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Transcripts of Alfred Russel Wallace's Four Surviving Field Notebooks From the Malay Archipelago are now Available: tinyurl.com/29pcrzhw #histsci #HPS
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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Delighted to announce the publication of my new article with Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva. It was fantastic to write this article, we were able to combine our language skills and archival expertise to write a global history of science at the Namibia/Angolan border. Available open access here:
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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 02/01/2025
i have like six copies of this
Title page of The Oxford Handbook of Hoarding and Acquiring, part of the Oxford Library of Psychology series.
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Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de · 20/12/2024
Heute ist die neue Ausgabe des Magazins "Damals" erschienen, mit einem kleinen Beitrag von mir: www.wissenschaft.de/magazin/weit...
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Wie der Woermann-Konzern die Kolonialgeschichte prägte
Kolonialismus hatte immer auch eine wirtschaftliche Dimension. Welche Rolle spielten Unternehmer in der Ausbeutung der Kolonien? England hatte den Wettlauf v
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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 20/12/2024
The year’s last author copies are here, on the first day of my holiday break. @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and I wrote an epilogue for this excellent book on Digital Ecologies. #envhum
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Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Love this scheme! Take note lovely DH friends, that it is a VIRTUAL fellowship.
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Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de · 20/12/2024
Call for Proposals: Animals and Empire. Provenance Research as a Method for Global Histories, Workshop, Hamburg 20.-21. March 2025 kolonialismus.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/2024/12/20/c...
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Call for Proposals: Animals and Empire. Provenance Research as a Method for Global Histories, Workshop, Hamburg 20.-21. March 2025 – Hamburgs (post-)koloniales Erbe
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Academic guilt season starts today, winter edition. Feel guilty if working, feel guilty if not.
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
📖To mark the 150th anniversary of the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, the Baessler Archive has published a special retrospective issue. ✏️ We contributed with several articles on postcolonial provenance research. Get a copy via: journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ba...
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