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Stephanie Holt

@stephholtnh.bsky.social

Naturalist & historian specialising in British Wildlife & the history of natural history. Fellow & Trustee of the British Naturalist Association & FLS, MCIEEM. Steering group member for Green Jobs For Nature. https://linktr.ee/stephanieholtnaturalhistory

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI)@bsbibotany.bsky.social · 4mo ago

More info here about the #CityNatureChallenge Bioblitz organised by BSBI's Botanical Skills (Northern Ireland) Project: www.tickettailor.com/events/botan... It's free, it's on Friday 24 April at Carnmoney Hill, Belfast & it should be a great day out: hope to see you there! @bsbiireland.bsky.social

Select tickets – Botanical Skills NI City Nature Challenge: Bioblitz in Carnmoney Hill, Antrim – Carnmoney Hill Local Nature Reserve, Carnmoney Hill, Newtownabbey

Botanical Skills NI City Nature Challenge: Bioblitz in Carnmoney Hill, Antrim – Carnmoney Hill Local Nature Reserve, Carnmoney Hill, Newtownabbey, Fri 24 Apr 2026 - Do you love nature? Want a good exc...

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Wild Belfast@wildbelfast.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Are you joining the #CityNatureChallenge from 25-28th April? Use the free iNaturalist app to document Belfast's nature, as cities compete for the most records! Record as you go, but check out the events occurring too 👀 We're hosting 3 bioblitzes - CEDaR, BSBI & Buglife have events on also! 🐞🌱🐝

Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI)@bsbibotany.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Great article by @donnalferguson.bsky.social in today's @theguardian.com about Darwin & Henslow's plant specimens & illustrations and the fab new @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social Certificate in Botany: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Links for this course & many others here: bsbi.org/learn/traini...

Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered

University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago

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Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 8mo ago

The Society currently invites applications for its David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People. The Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj Closing date: Friday 6 March 2026 #Skystorians

David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People - RHS

Launched in 2023, the David Berry Fellowship provides an annual award of up to £2,500 to undertake research on the history of Scotland and the Scottish people worldwide. Applications for the 2026 Fell...

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones@rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Come meet us (@stephholtnh.bsky.social included!) at the Natural History museum next month for specimens, travels, and digital humanities!

Curious Travellers@curioustravellers.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Come join us at @nhm-london.bsky.social on November 7th for a day conference on the connections between natural history collections and enlightenment travel writing. For more information, programme and registration details, follow the link! curioustravellers.ac.uk/curious-coll...

Curious Collections: Day Conference at the Natural History Museum Curious Travellers is a collaboration between the University of Wales Trinity St David, the University of Glasgow and the Natural History Museum, London, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It studies the world of C18th travel and natural history through the works of Flintshire naturalist Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), whose multi-volume British Zoology, and Tours of Wales and Scotland helped shape public understanding of the habitats, cultures and histories of the British Isles. We are currently preparing digital editions of the Welsh and Scottish Tours and examining the valuable Pennant collections held at NHM. On Friday 7th November we are holding a day conference in the Natural History Museum exploring the connections between Pennant’s writings, the art-works he commissioned, his vast correspondence network and his specimen collections. We would like this to be a springboard for future cross-disciplinary, cross-institutional collaborations, so please join us for an invigorating day of presentations and discussions! Places are limited so please book by 30 October: a.elias@cymru.ac.uk (01970 636543) Short papers from the Curious Travellers research team and NHM curators, pairing specimens and archive material with research stories drawing on Pennant’s correspondence, travel writing and commissioned art-works. A session exploring intersections between natural science, cultural history and the digital humanities. A chance to see specimens from the Pennant Collection with items from Library and Archives, to talk to the team, and to see panels and creative work from the recent Curious Minds exhibition held in Selborne. A Future Directions panel exploring strategies for research development. Free lunch and a drinks reception (5.30pm-6.30pm).
Stephanie Holt@stephholtnh.bsky.social · 10mo ago

So busy at the Journeys Of Curiosity conference in Liverpool today that this was the only photo I took! But we had excellent talks covering Wales, the Himalayas, Egypt, Brazil discovering natural history, archaeology, and teacher training…you’ll have to take my word for it though! 🤦‍♀️

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Jack Ashby@jackdashby.bsky.social · 12mo ago

150 years ago today, the last known Rodrigues parakeet died. It - and one other specimen - is now in @zoologymuseum.bsky.social: the only physical evidence the species ever existed. I wrote about them & the importance of #museums in our knowledge of #extinction: theconversation.com/the-rodrigue...

The Rodrigues parakeet’s last day: what one extinct bird tells us about the role of museums

Two specimens at a museum in Cambridge are the only physical evidence this bird ever existed.

theconversation.com