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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It was a real pleasure to contribute a piece to this fantastically interdisciplinary volume organized by Danielle Sands & Daniel Whistler, in collaboration with colleagues in the Library & Archives at @rbgkew.bsky.social 🌿 #envhist #histsci #plants www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Very happy to see another article out in the world! Part of a special issue edited by the wonderful @sabinehanke.bsky.social & Anne Sophie Overkamp, from a fantastic (and very hot) workshop we had in Tübingen back in 2024 #envhist #envhum #histsci Available open access: doi.org/10.1002/bewi...

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Déborah Dubald @dbrh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In my article, I grapple with the idea of socio-environmental responsibility of nathist museums, and how assuming this responbility is far from obvious once you look at their history. It is also a pledge for an environmental history of nathist museums - it has a lot of @collecol.bsky.social in it!

picture of abstract in French and English :
Les musées d'histoire naturelle dans l'anthropocène: collecter et exposer la nature à l'heure de la crise environnementale
La crise environnementale contemporaine touche les musées d'histoire naturelle de manière particulière: de nombreuses prises de position témoignent d'un sentiment d'urgence à trouver une place dans la lutte contre le changement climatique et à répondre aux grands enjeux posés par l'anthropocène. Or, les musées d'histoire naturelle sont eux-mêmes le résultat de pratiques de collecte de la nature, qui depuis au moins le xville siècle jusqu'au xx* siècle, se sont fondées sur l'exploitation des rapports de pouvoir, notamment coloniaux, et d'une logique d'accumulation des ressources naturelles.
Pourtant, différentes initiatives (fin xXe siècle - début xxI siècle) en faveur de la biodiversité démontrent les efforts entrepris par les musées d'histoire naturelle pour réparer la nature. Cet article invite ainsi à réfléchir sur la façon dont on peut penser historiquement la responsabilité socio-environnementale de ces musées.

English : Natural History Museums in the
Anthropocene: Collecting and Exhibiting
Nature in the Age of Environmental
Crisis
The environmental crisis has affected natura history museums in particular : numerous statements or scientific events reflect a sense of urgency to play a role in the fight against climate change and to actively respond to the major challenges of a natural world in the age of the Anthropocene. However, natural history museums themselves result from

practices of collecting nature based on the exploitation of power relations, especially colonial, and a logic of extraction and accumulation of natural resources from the 18th century at least to the 20th century. This article also draws on various initiatives conducted by natural history museums from the late 20th to the early 21" century to curb the collapse of biodiversity and the many undertakings to attempt to repair a broken nature. In doing so, this article stands as an invitation think historically about the socio-environmental responsibility of these museums.

and bio mentionining Collection Ecologies : DÉBORAH DUBALD est historienne des cultures matérielles de la nature, des sciences et de la santé à l'époque contemporaine. Sa thèse (2019) portait sur l'histoire des musées d'histoire naturelle en France au XIX siècle. Actuellement, son travail se situe à l'intersection de l'histoire du patrimoine scientifique et naturel, du travail et des pratiques des sciences naturelles et médicales, et de l'histoire du genre. Elle est membre du collectif «Collection Ecologies » qui interroge les relations entre histoire des collections, cultures matérielles des sciences et histoire environnementale.

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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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Déborah Dubald @dbrh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A Collection Ecologist at work ⛏️👇 Thank you @trichocolea.bsky.social ! #hss-eshs #hss2026 @collecol.bsky.social

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Déborah Dubald @dbrh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

What an amazing session - perfect in all possible ways to close HSS2026 on a flowery panel blooming with inspired thoughts 🌷🌿🌵 Thank you to the Collection Ecologies crew & friends @envhist @envhum

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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We had such an amazing turnout for this & great engagement from the audience about some historical questions, but also some very practical concerns about what it means to teach with material objects in a world of digitization, AI, declining attention span, & much more. #hss-eshs #envhist #envhum

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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Not only that, but a large contingent of the wider @collecol.bsky.social network also came! So many people there working on collections, natural history, museums, environmental history, etc. 🌿🪲 What a great way to kick off the conference! #hss2026 #eshs-hss

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Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

As always, @dbrh.bsky.social is serving brilliant @collecol.bsky.social wisdom. #eshs-hss

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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Very pleased to share my new article on the legal case surrounding Welwitsch's Angolan botanical collections, part of the @collecol.bsky.social issue in @Endeavour (edited by the lovely @dominikhhh.bsky.social & @nickytheprof.bsky.social) ✨ #envhist Available open access! doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Portrait of Friedrich Welwitsch (1806-72), from Wikipedia.

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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I was very lucky to be part of this amazing book. I've co-authored a piece on natural history collections and climate change with Martha Fleming (Natural History Museum of Denmark) as part of @collecol.bsky.social. Looking forward to finally seeing it in print! ✨🌿 #nathist #envhist #collections

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Déborah Dubald @dbrh.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Want to know more about open/closed doors in museums? Connect to @collecol.bsky.social at 5pm (CET) today Yes, that's just enough time to finish this thing you're doing and grab a cup of tea. www.chstm.org/group/collec...

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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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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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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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Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I will actually miss this, unfortunately, because I’m giving a workshop at the @icomdeutschland.bsky.social conference in Hamburg at the same time but y‘all should definitely not miss Thomas‘s presentation about his fabulous project. #HistNatHist #Collections #EnvHist

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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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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Looks like a great reading group for those interested in natural history + history of collections! 🏛️🌿🦓

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Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🚨🚨 This is a quick notice to let you all know that we have had to cancel this session! But, we have moved it to 6 November! We hope you'll join us then! ✨🪴

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Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

@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...

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Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Had a fabulous time at #BSHS2025 @bshsnews.bsky.social . #HistSTM So much on #museums , #collections , #envhist #HistNatHist . 😍 Great seeing friends & meeting new people. Esp. @camglamresearch.bsky.social Thanks everyone for attending our @collecol.bsky.social roundtable. Join please:

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Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Greatly looking forward to #BSHS2025 and esp. our @collecol.bsky.social roundtable on Wednesday, 11.30 am. Already very happy about the accommodation because I get to walk past this gorgeous #ceramics art work by one of my favourite artists. Thanks @bshsnews.bsky.social 😍 #DuncanGrant #HistSTM

Painted ceramic tiles showing a naked young man with blond her reading the papers which cover the middle part of his body. He sits in front of a fountain on a meadow with flowers

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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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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 · 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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Matthew Holmes @mattholmes.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Where does our food come from and is it safe? My article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science explores the history of plant #genetics and concerns over #food in the BSE crisis and #GMO controversy: doi.org/10.1093/acre... #histSTM #envhist #aghist #EnvSci

Two dishes containing peanut plants. One has been badly damaged by insects. The other, genetically engineered, plant is still intact and green. Image is from the Agricultural Research Service.

The cover of a Greenpeace pamphlet against GM crops. The text reads "Genetic Experiment, Don't Buy It." A large X is in the center of the image and the background is a field of yellow crops (most likely oilseed rape plants).

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Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Starting shortly. I was so much looking forward to @nathanbossoh.bsky.social ‘s presentation but I can’t attend after all. 😩 one of those days . 🙄 Don’t be like me !

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Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Our own @arnoldke.bsky.social will host a workshop at this event on how to work with + read natural history specimens with colleagues at the Liverpool World Museum! 🪲 Information on schedule, bursaries, & sign-up available in the link below ⬇️🌿

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Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Don't forget ⬇️ In just a few hours! ⏰ Join us today to hear from @nathanbossoh.bsky.social on three core themes of access, exploitation, & curation as a way of opening further dialogue on the role of museums in the creation (& curation) of new botanical futures. We look forward to seeing you! ✨🌿

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Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🚨 @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM seminar on 10 April @ 12pm EDT/5pm BST! ✨ Dr @nathanbossoh.bsky.social will discuss 'Imperial Exploitation, & the Curation of New Botanical Futures' & his co-curated exhibition at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social. We hope you'll join us! ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...

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Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

🚨 Another @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM seminar this week! 🚨 We'll hear from Leah Malmut (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities) on 'Collecting Building Blocks for a Better Bee' 🐝 13 March at 12pm EDT/4pm GMT (note the European time change) ⏰ More info & Zoom link ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...

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Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

#Collections & #enthist & #envhist. Hurray! Join us on 13 March!

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Déborah Dubald @dbrh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Do you like bees? Then mark down your calendar for @collecol.bsky.social 's next meeting this coming Thursday! 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Spring program for the Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series. The first seminar is by the wonderful @nickytheprof.bsky.social on Wed 26 Feb, 3-4 pm C.E.T: The Land of True Britons: Edward Lhwyd's Survey of Wales.

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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Join us on Monday (18.00-19.00) for Marie Mianowski's seminar: Tracing Sarah Mary Fitton (1795–1874). Marie will be discussing her research on Fitton, an Irish born botanist, discussing both individual hurdles she faced & systemic difficulties that were typical for women scientists in the 19th c

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

New paper re-up! It covers: - how natural history & world cultures #museums can learn from each other. - examples of questions natural history museums can ask when researching legacies of colonialism in their collections. - a discussion about repatriation. - environmental legacies of #colonialism 👇

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