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
New paper alert! The next of our genome sequence papers has just been published on Wellcome Open Research. This is another of the specimens collected during a 'genome blitz' at @gilbertwhites.bsky.social wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/11-...
Congratulations @beetlequeen.bsky.social on this remarkable paper towards resolving the evolutionary relationships of ground beetles!! 🪲🪲🪲
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...
It was fantastic! Such a shame the 'pond' is just a little too large, we'd have loved to have had you with us, some great books, and really inspirational talks :)
Our Spring Naturalist Challenge is now up on the Urban Nature Network - pop over for a few ideas on what to do this spring to build your natural history skills 🌻 the-urban-nature-network.mn.co/share/1kFX9L...
We’re up and running at Gilbert White’s Book Day! We’ve got a brilliant line up of authors and it’s a glorious day down here in Selborne! I’ll be interviewing Melissa Harrison at 1pm. If you’re in the area come and join us! #LiteraryFestival #NatureWriting
The real treat were some of the absolute treasures of the museum that were brought out for us, including Maria Sybilla Merian’s work on the Insects of Surinam, the Natural History of Brazil from 1648, and some of the Tradescant collection, including this wonderful armadillo!
Last week I was invited to assist with an MSt class for @ox.ac.uk Faculty of History at @morethanadodo.bsky.social to discuss working as a historian with natural history specimens #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoryOfScience #MuseumResearch.
A group of people gather round looking at birds on a lake. Wording to the left of the image reads: New work. Increasing inclusivity in biological recording in the United Kingdom: progress to date and future priorities. www.bto.org/UKInclusivityBiologicalRecording
1/ A research paper involving our Head of Ringing & Nest Recording Ellie Leech looked at the importance of increasing inclusivity in biological recording. Discover more in this thread ⬇️🧵
📖 www.bto.org/UKInclusivit...
#WomenInScience #CitizenScience
Delighted that my first solo history paper has just been published in Archives of Natural History (the journal of @sochistnathist.bsky.social)! It’ll be available online soon at @edinburghup.bsky.social, or you could join the Society and get a print copy of your own! 🙂
Delighted to announce that I have been elected to the board of trustees for Gilbert White’s House & Gardens @gilbertwhites.bsky.social ! #Trusteeship #GilbertWhite #NewRole #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #MuseumLife
A great new paper about pros/cons of collecting insects with K-12 kids! Also, yay open access 😀🪲 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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
New article out today with @andy4040.bsky.social on the Liebig Trading Cards in the collection for the #BritishNaturalistsAssociation Country-Side Magazine #TradingCards #NaturalHistory #Ephemera #NewArticleAlert❗️
A man in a grey jacket points at antique books as a crowd looks on with interest
A large serrated fossil shark's tooth rests on the palm of a hand, almost filling it
A conference report for our exhilarating 'Curious Collections' day at the Natural History Museum (@nhm-london.bsky.social)
curioustravellers.ac.uk/conference-r...
Teaching today in the @morethanadodo.bsky.social seminar room, what better place to teach about natural history & natural history collecting to history undergrads for my first ever class for @ox.ac.uk history faculty! Huge thanks as always to @andy4040.bsky.social for the extra specimen loans!
A huge thank you to everyone who came along and made it such a good day and for such good conversation. Special thanks to the CTP team, and our wonderful curators who brought out some of Pennants specimens from the collections. #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #NHMScience #Museums #HistoryOfScience
I had no chance to post about Friday’s fantastic Curious Collections conference for @curioustravellers.bsky.social, but suffice to say these chairs were full as we welcomed nearly 60 guests to @nhm-london.bsky.social for a packed programme on Thomas Pennant and the work (and future🤞) of the project.
Come meet us (@stephholtnh.bsky.social included!) at the Natural History museum next month for specimens, travels, and digital humanities!
Back to history today and a lecture for the Oxford History Faculty Environmental Humanities group on @curioustravellers.bsky.social and our Curious Minds: Thomas Pennant and Gilbert White exhibition. #HistoricalResearch #DigitalHumanities #ThomasPennanr #GilbertWhite @ox.ac.uk
Yesterdays launch of the 61st Wildlife Photographer of the Year was excellent - I ran a science station on bats celebrating one of the best bat photos I’ve seen, chatting to our guests about bats, photography, and @nhm-london.bsky.social science 🦇 #WPY61
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! 🤦♀️
📣Calling all new research students in history & historical subjects. Do you want to learn how the IHR can help you during your studies?
Join us on the 8 October to find out more.
@royalhistsoc.org @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @historyandpolicy.bsky.social @chppc.bsky.social
bit.ly/41UPOyG
We are looking for an Environmental Trustee to join our board. 🌱
For full details follow the link: gilbertwhiteshouse.org.uk/opportunities/
@andy4040.bsky.social
Was a great day, glad we could coordinate it to go together!
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...
Excellent day speaking in The New Dark Aesthetic: The Bats Project at Orleans House Gallery. Nestor Pestana has drawn together such an inspiring project combining art & science for bat conservation, it’s a joy to be a part of it!🦇🦇🦇
#ArtAndScience #ArtOfNature #ArtInConservation
Myself, the amazing Nestor Pestana, and others are doing this event on Saturday at Orleans House Gallery combining the art, science, and mythology of bats! Come along and join in the conversation! #Bats #ArtAndScience
www.orleanshousegallery.org/events/19055...