#CFP Female Networks of Knowledge: Natural History between Private and Public Spaces (Vienna, November 19-20, 2026), due May 30.
Conference explores how women shaped scientific knowledge via networks that crossed the domestic, social, and institutional from early modern to 19th c. #envhist #histstm
'Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table in the style of Dario, Fossil Wood Incrustation, 1970s'
Dario x 'Fossil Wood Incrustation' (1970s).
15 minutes; no questions; government got the blame; my department to have 60% of us sacked. Apparently sacking us will lead to a ‘new, improved’ curriculum. No voluntary scheme, straight to selection and legal minimum redundancy payment.
The authors of this wiki page (dinocrisis.fandom.com/wiki/Noah%27...) deserve a Pulitzer for almost making the time travel in that game make sense. Clearest I've been on the matter in 26 years. But questions remain.
Must be at least knee-length
I knew this would find its way to you
Medieval manuscript image of two fish swimming in waves of water.
wæter-stefn, f.n: the voice or sound of water. (WAT-er-STEH-vun / ˈwæ-tɛr-ˌstɛ-vən)
Image: Bestiary; Iran (Maragheh), c. 1297-1300; Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.500, f. 78v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
So does Alan Grant keep re-tucking his denim shirt during the action of Jurassic Park or is even a T. rex attack not enough to untuck it?
Mudie's Select Circulating Library lay at the heart of the Victorian publishing system. Karen Wade's site, now at a new URL, makes it possible to explore the library's catalogues as never before, with an index of 22,000 novels by 6000 authors. curatr.ucd.ie/mudies/
#victorian #bookhistory
book cover, it reads: Eleonora Paklons, Kristof Smeyers, Kurt Vanhoutte, Hannah Welslau (eds) PERFORMING MAGNETISM The theatrics of persuasion in the long nineteenth century the cover shows a man in a tuxedo staring straight at you, his skin is green and his eyes are yellow
Good morning all! For those who can't wait any longer: our book PERFORMING MAGNETISM is already available in open access, with huge thanks to @leuvenup.bsky.social
Read it here:
openresearchlibrary.org/content/d7d0...
Or here: www.jstor.org/content/oa_b...
Big in Japan
GIANT CRAB OF JAPAN
Heightened portrait of an elderly man in civic attire in front of a red-tinted, moody city skyline.
Surely among the best paintings of a provost anywhere, the neo-Expressionist portrait of 'Patrick Lally (1926–2018), Lord Provost of the City of Glasgow (1996–1999)' by Peter Howson (c.2000). A key takeaway from the @thebsls.bsky.social conference reception at Glasgow City Chambers last week.
Edwardians have their own chronological problems too!
Very cool. May I ask what that stamp is?
Reading a modern academic work that's very concerned with dating the 'Victorian era'. At various points it lands on 1860–1918, 1820–1914, 1837–1918, and 1815–1918. The book has good stuff in it but this doesn't seem a productive area of discussion for a book about the nineteenth-century US.
I didn't know the OUMNH had a large collection of dinosaur stamps. Interesting...
thunderbeast park, route 97, chiloquin, oregon, 1987
thunderbeast park, route 97, chiloquin, oregon, 1987
@bgavurin.bsky.social this is what you were looking for: Hal Grant's 'The Ancient Horror', from the April 1928 issue of Amazing Stories. The background cow really adds to the pained expression in the plesiosaur's eyes to make it perfect.
Once I found two original paintings of American artist and UFO contactee Columba Krebs (here’s one). She had her first psychic vision at 15, studied theosophy in Singapore and India, and knew several 50s UFO contactees: www.californiadesertart.com/edgewalker-c...
Yeah, it's very silly and quite fun. The outbreak of prehistoric monsters is great but only happens right at the end.
I deserved all I got
My conference Premier Inn room looks out onto a cemetery. This is where they bury you if you have more of a comment than a question.
Congrats to @richardfallon.bsky.social for being on the shortlist with Contesting Earth’s History in Transatlantic Literary Culture!
You can watch/listen to our recorded @greenhouseuis.net book talk conversation about the book here:
🎥 newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
🎧 newnatures.org/greenhouse/p...
Thank you Dolly!
The monument is carved from red sandstone in the Mughal architectural style. It is a pillar with lotus bud finial. The upper section is tetragonal with vertical blank cartouches. The lower section is a column with a central floral motif. There is a plinth of red sandstone and this rests on a very eroded plinth of (English) yellow sandstone.
The memorial of the lawyer Daboda Dewajee in Kensal Green Cemetery. It is carved from a block of red Bhander Sandstone, probably from the Dholpur region of Rajasthan. This sandstone from the Vindhyan Basin is a Global Heritage Stone and this is a remarkable use of it here in London #urbangeology
First edition: The Third Eye – The Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama, by Lobsang Rampa. Features an image of a Tibetan man against a Tibetan landscape, wearing red robes and a yellow headdress. On the back, a man who looks not even slightly Tibetan kneels, wearing robes
Today would have been the 116th birthday of Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, who grew up in a Tibetan monastery, had a hole drilled in his forehead to activate his third eye and give him mystical insight, and encountered both yetis and his own mummified body. Well, so he said... 🧵
Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935 Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology and Palaeontology Richard Fallon Studies religiously motivated publications about Earth's deep geological history focusing on transatlantic science in the period 1860-1935 Based on extensive consultation of archival sources and overlooked published texts Brings together fields of controversial science normally discussed separately, such as Christian creationism, occult science, and hollow-earth scholarship Offers intriguing new perspectives on well-studied writers such as the Theosophist H. P. Blavatsky, the creationist George McCready Price, and the novelists H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Rice Burroughs
My book's on the shortlist for the 2025 @thebsls.bsky.social Book Prize. Stiff competition though! Winners announced at the annual conference this Friday (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/04/2025...).
The brand new journal ‘Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research’ from @incsa.bsky.social is now LIVE! See here for my editorial which introduces the Forums section, for which I’m the section editor: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#MolluscMonday Bivalve borings in a fragment of a fallen marble column from the ruined Temple of Serapis at Puzzuoli, Italy. The temple was famously figured by Charles Lyell in his Principles of Geology (1830).