‘Fossils Unearthed’: a new blogpost written by three of this year’s Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellows, @arnoldke.bsky.social, Elizabeth Hoiem and Conall Treen. www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/ccc-ecr...

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CCC ECR Network Reimagining Collections Workshop: Fossils Unearthed Dr Katharine Arnold, Dr Elizabeth Hoiem, Dr Conall Treen, Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellows, 2025-2026 During the first we...

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Another of the magnificent Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins wall charts we unfurled at @theul.bsky.social, previously held by what is now Earth Sciences. More primeval action going on in the background of this 'post-Tertiary' scene than I'd really clocked before.

Hard to beat a day spent unfurling long-furled geological wall charts held in the @theul.bsky.social, from painted Humboldtian vistas to a full set of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins's diagrams of extinct animals. A treasure trove.

We're excited to be collaborating with @ox.ac.uk on a major new project to digitise over a million natural history specimens for climate research. Read more: tinyurl.com/ynb2rk7z @docbroc.bsky.social @jackdashby.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk 🧪 #DigitalCollections #DiSSCoUK

📢Major new partnership between Oxford & Cambridge museums will release over a million digitised specimen records of British plants & insects. https://ow.ly/rXlt50ZnG37 Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge, UK Research and Innovation, Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford #DiSSCoUK

Today! #eshs-hss

Richard Fallon@richardfallon.bsky.social · last mo.

In just over a week, me and my @camglamresearch.bsky.social colleagues Grace Exley and Kimberly Glassman will head to Edinburgh for our #ESHS-HSS panel 'Old Collections, New Stories: Doing Natural History Humanities in Cambridge and Beyond'. I'll be talking about women, illustration, and graptolites

Delighted to welcome ‘Global Plant Lives’ Global Humanities Summer School students to @theul.bsky.social today for a session co-hosted by @theulspeccoll.bsky.social and our Natural History Humanities initiative at @camglamresearch.bsky.social. Phones came out to snap this Brachystelma barberæ!

In just over a week, me and my @camglamresearch.bsky.social colleagues Grace Exley and Kimberly Glassman will head to Edinburgh for our #ESHS-HSS panel 'Old Collections, New Stories: Doing Natural History Humanities in Cambridge and Beyond'. I'll be talking about women, illustration, and graptolites

Making Deep Time Visible in Stone and Space great blog by Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel @nhmwien.bsky.social on how architects of C19th natural history museums worked with geologists to express deep time thro their buildings, incl @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social valuepast.hypotheses.org/6678

It’s World Bee 🐝 Day! A day to celebrate these amazing insects, and to reflect on how we can support wild populations of 🐝 🐝 for the future. Museum collections are key in showing where bees used to be, setting baselines to understand impacts of stressors and set restoration/conservation targets

🏝️ Island Archives and Natural History Collections: A practice-based workshop exploring accumulation and dispersal 18-19 May Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4dq0wCg A workshop that will foreground creative exploration about the context of Island environments

Liz Smith & Mike Hawkins from @theul.bsky.social share the incredible knowledge and legacy data extracted via the Darwin Correspondence Project, and how it’s being harvested, used, and repurposed. #BHLDay2026 🧪🌱📖

Lovely to be able to talk to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social colleagues this week about our Natural History Humanities research initiative, including all things insect humanities. #EntHist

On Wednesday 6 May, Decolonising Plant Knowledge is back with an exciting afternoon of talks exploring how the ‘decolonisation of plant knowledge’ is currently activated in different forms of plant conservation and regeneration. 🪴 🌿 Find out more and register to attend: https://bit.ly/4tLJzcx

From ‘The Little Book of Herbs’ to live pharmacies - CRASSH

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We are excited to announce the launch of Fen to Fire, a living reconstruction of the Late Bronze Age Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement that we’ve worked to create with digital artist Guy Schofield and pupils from Cromwell Community College in Chatteris.

Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries. Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive. #PhDsky

University of Exeter and University of Cambridge Libraries & Archives - Collections Connections Communities

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Good to see that people have been enjoying watching bee-flies for almost 400 years 😀 #BeeFlyWatch

Dr Jill Whitelock@jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Someone updated this copy of Thomas Moffet’s ‘Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum’ (1634) with the Linnæan name for the Dark-edged bee-fly, Bombylius major (Linnæus, 1758) and other insects. 🪰💚 Rare books #BeeFlyWatch, M.14.42 @theul.bsky.social. #Diptera

📣 Call for art Artists and creatives - submit your work to CRASSH's 25th anniversary exhibition! The theme is 'Knowledge in a Fractured World' and can be interpreted broadly, from personal to global Deadline 31 July 2026 Find out more at bit.ly/4svggKv

An extraordinary herbarium containing almost 300 pressed plants is now available to explore online. It has been digitised with support from the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. Edward Hanmer’s Herbarium (MS Add.10547): https://loom.ly/J1Zj8OM @camdiglib.bsky.social

Today is the International Day of Happiness, a chance to reflect on what makes us happy. Right now, working with all my amazing new colleagues @zoologymuseum.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social makes me 😍. This leopard seal is also very happy, and would love to have you visit. What makes you happy?

Please share - and there’s an Information session online next week, 24 March 11:00–12:00 pm BST. Register your interest via the link on this webpage: www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Mark Brown@markjfbrown.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Here’s a great PhD opportunity in the crossover between humanities and natural history- please repost 🙏 www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Would you like to run your own Research Network at CRASSH? Applications are now open for Networks in 2026-27 You will receive funding of up to £2,000 per academic year, plus logistical assistance and a platform for events ➡️ The deadline for applications is 5 May 2026 https://bit.ly/3BknsiZ

A pleasure to host a @camglamresearch.bsky.social workshop yesterday @theul.bsky.social on ‘Discovering pressed plants in books and how to care for them’, led by @annalsvensson.bsky.social.

Lovely to be able to share this 18th-century bound herbarium for a workshop on botany and the book, funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. We’ve also digitised the volumes, so everyone can take a look! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...

1/ Explore the NEW website for the Legacies of Enslavement Special Initiative ⬇️ A central online hub for all research, collaboration and public engagement exploring @cam.ac.uk's historical links to slavery & the wider afterlives of enslavement and colonialism. 🔗 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/new-web...

Apply for CRASSH events funding! 💫 Have you got an idea that may: - Foster the exchange of ideas across disciplines and cultures? - Forge new collaborations ? - Bring academic research to wider publics? - Explore research and artistic practice? Apply by 17 May 2026 https://bit.ly/3CaV97M

"Wild-sea Holley by ye passage as you goe from portsmouth into Cornwall" collected by William Paine, 1737, from @cuherb.bsky.social. Now, this is in fact from Plymouth, and in modern parlance it is Eryngium campestre @jillwhitelock.bsky.social @timpurches.bsky.social 1/3

There's lots of talk about the growth of Cambridge. But what materials will the buidings be made of? This @camglamresearch.bsky.social roundtable is focusing on the potential of local stone and the university's collections of natural materials. 📆 27 March 2026. 12.00 - 2.00 Please share! 👇👇👇👇👇

Collections Lab: Building Stones: collections as resources for sustainable construction - Collections Connections Communities

The John Watson Building Stones Collection at the Cambridge University Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences comprises of approximately 2,500 specimens of building stones, in extensive use throughout Brit...

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The zoology collection in Turin shares the same building as the herbarium, and I thought this was the most beautiful display @zoologymuseum.bsky.social

Join us for a Collections Lab at the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social: ‘Building Stones: collections as resources for sustainable construction’, 27 March 2026, 12.00-2.00 pm. www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/events/item/... @camunivmuseums.bsky.social