A great example of the value of museum specimens in understanding the impact of the #ClimateEmergency , & the power of art in communicating it.
The #botany collection of Henry David #Thoreau provide a baseline for plant communities 150 years ago. All the ones in blue are declining

Brad Scott NHM Library&Archives Which is btw, a great resource for people like me - who are loving the weird adverts from late 19th - first half of 20th century 📰

Ever since the botanical team learnt I collect old newspapers, I often find these amazing gifts at my desk in the morning 😍🍫

For #envhum #envhist #nathist #bluehumanities folks

Andrea Murphy I recently found a stack from the 1930s, mostly front pages of daily newspapers having articles about ww2 military movements. My bf said it was a thing to post them to flash out spies. They just had to listen in who is repeating the info published on the front page to the enemy

Brad Scott NHM Library&Archives My favourite so far was a bicycle advert that ended up mounted on the sheet with the specimen, because it was inseparable from the plant. I see this sometimes with daffodils and morning glories.

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What is in your collections? Listening to Karin Wagner on digital specimens as cultural objects - photos of physical #Naturalcollections but also art, inscriptions, letters, printed materials, etc.
Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg Kew Science

SHNH Brad Scott Brad presents a fascinating story from H. Sloane's collecting network featuring witch trials, ship wrecks & pearl fishers! Folks, study #HistNatHist , it contains the multiverse!
Important comments on #NatHist #Collections #EnvHist #provenance too! The Collection Ecologies Research Collective
😉 #SHNHECR

Since I'm sharing my old newspaper snippets on insta, why not here. Vintage adverts are wild, I just can't get enough.
And it is always a good counter argument to the 'back then, things were better' narrative.

Registration is now open for our ECR Symposium on 23 Feb! Please visit eventbrite.co.uk/e/493876476837 to register! This wonderful showcase of research being done by doctoral researchers and ECRs across the globe is free to attend so don't miss it! #nathist #histnathist #naturalhistory

Brad Scott NHM Library&Archives Most of these papers are disintegrating as you touch them, but I think most of them can be found digitised in the British Newspaper Archive. britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/?ds_kid=437000…

I still can’t believe I get to be part of this amazing event in Feb! #nathist #naturalhistory

Ok guys here we go, the Leningrad Seed Bank.

The LSB was started by geneticist Nikolai Vavilov.

Unfortunately Stalin didn't like genetics so he sent Vavilov to a gulag in 1940. Vavilov said 'fuck you, I teach genetics in the gulag' & died there.

That's how this story STARTS

A friendly reminder that great people come from all places. Do not judge people by their origin or place of birth, judge them by their actions that speaks a thousand words.

The second session of the SHNH #SHNH 's Early Career Researcher Symposium fascinated me. Beautiful illustrations and amazing researches by Uys, Phillips and Dr. Arnold! #SHNH ERC #nathist #histnathist #naturalhistory

Family Photo on Path of Titans on the Nat Hist Semi-realism server!

#pathoftitans #nathist #dinosaurs #Herbivore

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Check out our Digital Natural History series for more on this topic!

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#envhist #nathist #dighum #digitalmethods

You need to try some of these!! 😱

The final Whale Week event is ONLINE this Thurs w/ World Cetacean Alliance: 'Whaling to Watching: Charismatic Encounters on Yorkshire & Basque coasts' 5.30pm BST.

With me on oral histories in Yorkshire + Les Plans du Pélican on film work in the Basque region. Register: bit.ly/3DRfpwn

Had a wonderful time with my fellow presenters at the fourth and final session of the SHNH #SHNH 's Early Career Researcher Symposium. Haviland and Mandrij have truly delightful researches! #SHNH ERC #nathist #histnathist #naturalhistory

A lot more to come, I have a whole stack of these, sketchy cough syrup adverts and whatnot.

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#scicomm #nathist A day to remember #twlz

I can't express, how proud I am right now. We climbed Ben Nevis yesterday. My body is in lots of pain, but I did it. 💪 One peak left from the 3 peak challenge! #bennevis

#OTD , 18 June 1858, Charles Darwin received a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace 'containing a perfect summary of the views which he had worked out in the preceding twenty years'...... #Wallace200 The Linnean Society of London

Someone is very bee-sy in my garden 🤭🐝