An afternoon walk to Kidbrooke bog in @ashdownforest.bsky.social. Though the Bog Asphodel is gone over, and it is very dry, the sundews are still abundant. And then I saw a moth, but unsure what it was with wings closed. And then voila! The Chevron (Eulithis testata). Rather scarce in Sussex

"Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience." New today in the Society's journal 'Transactions': Joe Moran 'On Detail in Historical Writing': bit.ly/44UMi8C Now available OA @joemoransblog.bsky.social @massobsarchive.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2

So happy to finally share the news that my book, “A History of Uncertainty: Science between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe,” will be out in Spring 2027 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. I still can't believe it's now beyond my hands and on its way to meeting its readers.

🌿🍄🌿 Finally went into the office + picked up my copy of Thinking With Plants + Fungi (and some other books). What a beautiful, colorful, joyful celebration of nature, history + science. Order your own copy + read my article on moss below (or on Amazon). 🌿🍄🌿 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

New publication! Edited by me, Nicole Aljoe and Olly Ayers, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, first published in 1782. Now out with Oxford World’s Classics, with extensive introduction and commentary.

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation iucn.org/news/202607/...

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

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Yesterday was graduation at Queen Mary. @fmurrayrowlins.bsky.social and I have been very fortunate to be part of the plants and humanities group supervised by @rxcoulton.bsky.social. It has been a wonderful intellectual experience, and also a great deal of fun #plantHumanities

Decolonial memories of Germany: Excellent new publication by @dependencybonn.de on transnational perspectives of German colonialism from 16th to 21st centuries. Including text by Daniel Bendix @dajoben.bsky.social Open access at @degruyterbrill.bsky.social www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

‘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...

CCC ECR Network Reimagining Collections Workshop: Fossils Unearthed - Collections Connections Communities

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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A delightfully lyrical account of bryologising in a heatwave by Sue Rubinstein #bryology #bryophytes @bbsbryology.bsky.social sussexbryophytes.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/g...

Global Warminghurst

Still hot and sunny between heatwaves, the shade of trees and a high wall in the parking area by The Holy Sepulchre Church in Warminghurst was welcome. I recorded Metzgeria furcata, Rhynchostegiell…

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Here's the full story of what we believe to be the start of the colonisation of yet another new orthopteran to the British Isles.

Team cricket - how we found a cricket new to the British Isles

This following italicised sections were written by Matt Phelps, who first heard this unusual cricket...  I strolled over to Sussex Wildlif...

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Some extremely cool, painstaking science here.

Moth wings have a sense of smell

Insect wings are fantastically sensitive, feeling the wind, touch and even tasting. Now researchers from Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, reveal in Journal of Experimental Biology t...

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Whaling Museum goes viral for ‘worst aquarium ever’ T-shirts, totes. New Bedford is considered the home of whaling’s history in America — and now, home to the worst aquarium ever. www.thestar.com/news/world/u... #globalmuseum #museums #whaling #marketing

Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

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The amazing chalk landform of Hooken cliffs, just west of Beer in Devon

The Society for the History of Technology conference extended its call to late August, & this year’s conference will be all online. Details below if you’d like to submit. Also, I’m putting together a panel that has 1 or 2 more slots on it, so lmk if (1/2) www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeti...

2026 SHOT Annual Meeting (Virtual)

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Just out! My introduction to a new special issue in @sciasculture.bsky.social on "Tech Oligarchy" - go check it out and the papers in the special issue (under "Latest" articles) #techoligarchy #assetization #techbro #bigtech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tech oligarchy

Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Only three days left to apply! I started on a similar position here and it really helped me get my feet + teaching/admin experience after finishing the PhD. It's a fantastic place to work and our students are great! ✨ 🚨 Deadline ➡️ 23 July #envhist #envhum #histstm

Katherine Arnold@arnoldke.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨 JOB KLAXON #skystorians #envhist #envhums Cover for some of my teaching next year - 0.5 FTE at University of Liverpool. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE899/l...

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

my cfp for @rsaorg.bsky.social is⤵️ - I look forward to discussing excrescences growing from/within/on/as plants, as premodern knowledge of plant life and of intermediary bodies fascinates me a lot! fungi🍄, moss, insects🐛, corals🪸, stones, sheep🐑 growing from plants! Please, send abstract! #rsa

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www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... also here!

Wonderful and provocative talk by @madelinewhite.bsky.social on vernacular plant names in pre-Linnaean plant collections #ESHS-HSS

Excited to see @eayers0.bsky.social talking about a moss specimen (and more Entangled Organisms) from William Mitten's herbarium #ESHS-HSS

Slightly belatedly, this was the excellent roundtable yesterday on History of Science as Agent of Change? Handling Colonial Natural History Objects #ESHS-HSS

Paul Merchant of the National Life Stories project @lifestoryrec.bsky.social talking fascinatingly about oral history in the Sources Beyond the Archive roundtable #ESHS-HSS

link.springer.com/article/10.1... Life is strange - sometimes we know it, sometimes we don't... the life of plants is something we know little about - fascinatingly enough my introduction to this special issue is published while I am in Edinburgh at the #HSS26 #eshs26 conference #plantlife

Life as we don’t know it: plant life in the history and philosophy of science an introduction - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

This introduction discusses the challenges plant life has represented in the history and philosophy of science, and outlines the topics dealt with by the contributors. Understanding plant life, behavi...

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Nuala Caomhanach @nulybranch.bsky.social talking about women's labour in plant molecular biology #ESHS-HSS

Pressed specimen of Moonwort, ca 1780s, in a bound herbarium connected with the Darwin family. MS Add. 8090 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social, @theul.bsky.social.

I'll be surprised if I am the only person on the 12.30 from King's Cross to Edinburgh who is going to #ESHS-HSS #HistSci

Archives Fest is this Sunday at The National Archives. I'm speaking about treason records (Anne Boleyn's trial record will be on display) so I can promise alleged incest and gruesome executions. Good clean family fun. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...

Archives Fest 2026

Discover 1,000 years history at The National Archives - a fun day out for the whole family!

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fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/cfp-rsa-2027... Giancarla Periti and mine cfp for @rsaorg.bsky.social #RSA2027 #RSAPhila27 on #CraftingNature, we welcome contributions that address the production, cultivation and uses of veg materials, and the artistic and scientific knowledge #histsci #arthist🌱

CfP RSA 2027 – Crafting Nature: Vegetal Materials

CFP on RSA websiteThis is part of our project on natural crafts – here the series we direct. Despite their silent existence, plants were considered more than passive medicinal and agricultura…

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