A whole clutch of out staff and postgraduates were at #BSHS2025 a couple of weeks ago, and we have a contingent in Porto for the next few days at #ISHPSSB2025. Look out for papers from them spanning the breadth of history and philosophy of biology, from evolution and individuality to microbes!
A manuscript by Isaac Newton, a Darwin family Hortus Siccus, a 12th-century copy of Ibn Sina’s ‘Canon of medicine’, and an orange cover of ‘Brighter Biochemistry’, 1926-27, alongside artwork printing blocks used for the periodical.
Excellent display of science special collections by colleagues @theul.bsky.social on the last day of #BSHS2025 today, including some Isaac Newton, a Darwin family Hortus Siccus, a 12th-century manuscript of Ibn Sina’s ‘Canon of medicine’, ‘Brighter Biochemistry’ and more. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
I heard @francescastrobino.bsky.social on this at #BSHS2025 - an amazing archive and fascinating story of 'scientific' crafting and manipulation #histSTM
photo with blue sky and bits of King's College, Clare College and something else
I'm nearly at Peterborough and have waved bye-bye to Cambridge and #BSHS2025. See you next year in Edinburgh for HSS/ESHS 2026!
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Many at a lectern with a screen behind and 1900s image - rest of the room is wooden lecture theatre fittings and furnishing
Photo with man in front of screen with image, desks around in seminar style. Door of the room open as it's HOT
Scenes yesterday from #BSHS2025 - Jim Endersby reporting of a Striking New Theory of Man's Origin in the splendidly old-fashioned Hopkinson Lecture Theatre and @gustavholmberg.bsky.social with a picture of a lovely wooden model of the Newcastle-made Stockholm Observatory dome in HPS seminar room
#BSHS2025 Several @bshsnews.bsky.social colleagues in Cambridge asked me about my former student's radical science BSSRS research projects. Good news! There's a YouTube video of it here 👉 youtu.be/fH2rI--XfP8?...
Thank you to all those who attended our roundtable.
Using #nathist #collections to answer the big questions of our time: environment, race, gender and more questions were discussed today! #GLAM #BSHS2025
A photograph of Isabelle Charmantier giving her roundtable presentation, showing a slide on screen of a hierarchical archival catalogue record and images of Reindeer warble flies.
It was standing room only at our @camglamresearch.bsky.social #BSHS2025 Roundtable this morning. All of our speakers were amazing, but Isabelle Charmantier gave us Reindeer warble flies @linneansociety.bsky.social and I was like 😍😍😍.
Had a fabulous time at #BSHS2025 @bshsnews.bsky.social . #HistSTM
So much on #museums , #collections , #envhist #HistNatHist . 😍
Great seeing friends & meeting new people. Esp. @camglamresearch.bsky.social
Thanks everyone for attending our @collecol.bsky.social roundtable. Join please:
Male Syrphus hoverfly on Ragwort.
Decompressing with the insects on Sheep’s Green, Cambridge after taking part in a session for #BSHS2025 today. 💚 #WildWebsWednesday 📷 #photography #Diptera #Hoverflies
A picture of a tortoise in the middle of a poster on a wall. Above is the caption ’Pin the party hat on the tortoise’, with said party hat.
Just in case #BSHS2025 wasn’t entertaining enough … Party games in Seminar Room 2 at one of the conference venues.
Conference envy is a thing. Enjoying all the threads about #BSHS2025 in lovely Cambridge. My student days are behind me long enough to romanticize. Keep on posting #HPS.
This afternoon at #BSHS2025 (5G) Paul Merchant from @britishlibrary.bsky.social and I are going to reprise our @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social listening session on oral histories of agriculture + conservation. Curious to see contrasts, resonances with last weeks audience of regenerative farmers!
Chiara in action, with slide headed Images as pragmatic experiments including horopter and chromatic vision via a cat
Thinking about logic via 'stereoscopic moving images' - lots of circles and flow
Have been flitting around at #BSHS2025 from 1990s policy wonks to 1910s flies and the women who studied them. In the meantime, have some shots of Chiara Ambrosio's fab plenary talk on images as experiments, which I'm still mulling over...
Always fun to get the chance to talk about weird physics! Now to relax and enjoy the rest of #BSHS2025 from the audience… #HPS #histsci 🧪
Photograph of the audience and presentation for the talk.
Great talk in the #BSHS2025 Women in Natural History session today by Grace Exley on ‘How Women Shaped Geological Collections: The Case of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, 1813-1914’ - incoming Munby Fellow @theul.bsky.social / @camglamresearch.bsky.social Natural History Humanities.
Conference session with Hong Jiang showing various moss specimens and drawings
Great session on women in natural history at #BSHS2025, and I loved the mosses that Hong Jiang showed us from the girls at the Mount School in York, 1902-28
#bryology
Front of a lecture theatre - large slide projection with title Images as Experiments
Hasok Chang is introducing Chiara Ambrosio's Presidential Lecture #BSHS2025
Our @stsucl.bsky.social superstar and BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social President Chiara Ambrosio gives her Presidential Lecture at #BSHS2025
Listening to the fascinating story of the discovery of Joseph and Dorothy Needham’s biochemistry cabinet (contains eg Chinese-made penicillin from 1945), told by John Moffett at #BSHS2025
(Also enjoying the late afternoon light in an old Cambridge lecture theatre)
And another (Katy Duncan's conclusions on William Thompson, elecrometers and the fair weather problem in atmospheric electricity) #BSHS2025
One of the last presentations today before we come to our presidential address and the reception. Don't miss out on the presentations and guided tours tomorrow and on Thursday! conference.bshs.org.uk/programme #BSHS2025
Photo of King's College, Cambridge, chapel and porter's lodge from inside the quad
Photograph of punts on the river from a bridge, with college buildings on the left and trees on the right
Not a bad place to be put up for a conference #BSHS2025
I look forward to seeing you! I think #BSHS2025 and not #BSHS25? (going by usage on @bshsnews.bsky.social account)
TOMORROW in Cambridge!
Don’t miss Sadiah Qureshi live, sharing insight on memory, knowledge & empire from her new book "Vanished".
With an introduction by Helen Macdonald
📍 David Attenborough Building | 6–10pm
🎟 Free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1395979053...
#PublicLecture #histSTEM #BSHS2025
