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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
The Georges Dumézil-Mircea Eliade correspondence – a chronological listing with publication details or archive locations progressivegeographies.com/2026/07/19/t...
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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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
(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!)
We have made the news! #eshs-hss (overlooking the blandly sweeping statements made about Edinburgh and #histSTM) www.heraldscotland.com/news/2627512...
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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A CRIME has been perpetrated! The RS exclusive unique historical tote bag was PLUNDERED! The fiendish malefactors shall be punished accordingly!!! #hss2026 👀👀👀👀
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.
#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!
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
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
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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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.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 6mo agoRight, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized. And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.
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.
Phd Position: Art and Soil Ecologies, Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Closes 15 March 2026 ehc-amsterdam.nl/phd-position... #envhum
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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If can't visit us in person, this is the next best thing!
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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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.
@carpenter22.bsky.social · 6mo agowww.theguardian.com/global-devel... ‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
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
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.
🚨 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
Collection Ecologies | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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🚨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!
🚨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!
My entry for the SEP on externalism vs. internalism about justification is now live. plato.stanford.edu/entries/just...
Internalist vs. Externalist Conceptions of Epistemic Justification (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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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
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"?
Collection Ecologies@collecol.bsky.social · 8mo ago🚨 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
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 ✨
Collection Ecologies@collecol.bsky.social · 10mo ago@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...
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...
Collection Ecologies | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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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