Proofs have arrived. We’re all set to launch the next wave of Grew scholarship.

I am delighted to announce that @HPSWarburgian and I have been awarded the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize for our work on Margery Power and 17th-century botanical image-making. Many thanks to the @hssonline for this extraordinary honour.

@DrRosalindWhite I’m also very proud to see the work that @HPSWarburgian and I have done on Margery Power featured here next to the original analyses of Anna Marie Roos and Kim Sloan as well as @DrRosalindWhite own original work on Henrietta London.

@DrRosalindWhite I also think that the format will work really well in teaching contexts. With the framework, introduction and case studies, students will feel at home in the materials, and be able to use the SloaneLab to identify new sources to work with.

I just spent the whole morning browsing through this incredible resource on women in the Sloane collections and reading the beautiful catalogue that @DrRosalindWhite has put together. This work will be incredibly useful for future studies of early-modern collecting practices.

This is an absolutely wonderful find!.

I also wonder if Kirby and Spence ever considered the fact that insects also contribute to flower pollination, but I guess that's for me to find out. Anyway, highest recommendation from this insect historian.

I particularly like the idea that insects are dangerous, because they cannot be kept within imperial borders (too fast, too invisible, too free). Although I'm reminded of Linnaeus's notion of insects as the 'police of nature' keeping vegetation at bay.

This is such an insightful essay on the construction of the idea of the 'insect-enemy' by 19th-century entomologists, which shows us how to think of insects as both revered objects and dangerous, harmful agents.

RT @DetUngeAkademi: Sidste uge havde vi det traditionsrige fællesmøde med @VSelskab. Under temaet "Vekselvirkninger", fik vi præsentationer….

I had the great privilege to present my research on the history of botany at the annual joint meeting of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Danish Young Academy last week. Such a nice opportunity to engage with brilliant researchers from across the sciences.

RT @MarshsLibrary: Fabulous hand-coloured title page of volume 8, Italy from Joan Blaeu's Atlas Major, printed in 1662. .

RT @NHM_Library: Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) was the official court artist of Marie Antoinette. Known for his stunning depictions of….

RT @brockingtonian: JOB ALERT: We’re advertising for 2yr research associate to work on @Cambridge_Uni botanical collections at the @FitzMu….

This is a wonderful opportunity to come to Aarhus on a (generously) funded fellowship open for researchers across all disciplines. Please get in touch if you want to know more about @AIAS_dk, which is one of the most stimulating research environments in Denmark.

RT @MMuschalek: 📢 Job alert! Come work with me @BaselHistory !📢 Three fully-funded (4yrs) positions - 2 PhD, 1 PostDoc - in my SNF project….

On my way home after two lovely days in Cardiff discussing colour in natural history with @SHNHSocNatHist. Lots of great talks about striking colourists, organic pigments, chromatic standards, mountain zebras and cuddly tapirs.

I did not know this. Bourdieu just scored a huge increase in cultural capital, at least in my book.

Exactly this. It’s a classic dynamic in the history of labour: once processes are instrumentalized to the point of being devoid of actual craftsmanship, you can easily swap out the workers (in this case students) with machines. It’s the instrumentalization we should fight against.

Tusind tak til forskningsordfører Anne Hegelund @Enhedslisten, som i går var med @DetUngeAkademi på arbejde på @AarhusUni. Vi var glade for samtalerne om vidensberedskab, fri forskning og kloge, engagerede hænder!