Ann Marie Wilson
@annmariewilson.bsky.social
Historian at Leiden University College. Environmental history, Dutch history, gardens, birds, city parks. Oh and lots of dusty old nature guides.
Pinned
What do we tell ourselves when trees simply vanish? We’ve put Ann Marie Wilson’s beautiful essay « Tree illness as metaphor » in front of the paywall for you to find out. Read it here: europeanreviewofbooks.com/tree-illness...
Here’s an essay I wrote about trees. It’s also about climate narratives, loss, and Dutch women in early twentieth-century botany. But mostly it’s about 🌳🌳🌳 (and 🪲🪲🪲). With illustrations from @naturalis.bsky.social
Love her escherinhetpaleis.nl/en/whats-on/...
September 12, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Love her escherinhetpaleis.nl/en/whats-on/...
Reposted by Ann Marie Wilson
When people ask, "Right before the Republic crumbled, who was doing the best 19th century literary pun stencils?" remember my name.
September 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
When people ask, "Right before the Republic crumbled, who was doing the best 19th century literary pun stencils?" remember my name.
Absolute unit sighting at hollandmuseum.org in Holland, Michigan -- across the pond from @themerl.bsky.social and worth a visit. 🐑
August 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Absolute unit sighting at hollandmuseum.org in Holland, Michigan -- across the pond from @themerl.bsky.social and worth a visit. 🐑
Here’s an essay I wrote about trees. It’s also about climate narratives, loss, and Dutch women in early twentieth-century botany. But mostly it’s about 🌳🌳🌳 (and 🪲🪲🪲). With illustrations from @naturalis.bsky.social
What do we tell ourselves when trees simply vanish? We’ve put Ann Marie Wilson’s beautiful essay « Tree illness as metaphor » in front of the paywall for you to find out. Read it here: europeanreviewofbooks.com/tree-illness...
July 5, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Here’s an essay I wrote about trees. It’s also about climate narratives, loss, and Dutch women in early twentieth-century botany. But mostly it’s about 🌳🌳🌳 (and 🪲🪲🪲). With illustrations from @naturalis.bsky.social
I could, and shall, spend the whole day listening to these baby birds sing. #Birds #Koolmeesjes 🪶
June 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I could, and shall, spend the whole day listening to these baby birds sing. #Birds #Koolmeesjes 🪶
Nogal intens, dit. Uit de Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden, 1926. 😷📚❤️ @ubleiden.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Nogal intens, dit. Uit de Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden, 1926. 😷📚❤️ @ubleiden.bsky.social
My students and I are organising this event at @unileiden.bsky.social on May 17. Open to current students, prospective students, staff and alumni. For more info and to register, visit: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/ex...
April 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
My students and I are organising this event at @unileiden.bsky.social on May 17. Open to current students, prospective students, staff and alumni. For more info and to register, visit: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/ex...
Reposted by Ann Marie Wilson
ce n'est pas une université
In a first for the Ivy League school, Columbia's new officers have the same powers of warrantless search and arrest as any other police officer under New York law. The state law permits the officers to use "physical force and deadly physical force in making an arrest or preventing an escape."
Columbia University's new campus patrol officers appointed by New York Police Department
The 36 new special patrol officers announced last month by Columbia University were appointed by the New York Police Department and will be subject to the orders of the police commissioner, an arrangement confirmed by a Columbia spokesperson this week.
www.reuters.com
April 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
ce n'est pas une université
Reposted by Ann Marie Wilson
I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
January 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
Reposted by Ann Marie Wilson
One of my favourite things in headlines are where you can see the muscle memory of legal training being applied to animals, buildings, train lines.
This headline reads like the BBC is terrified of being sued for libel by the rhino.
January 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
One of my favourite things in headlines are where you can see the muscle memory of legal training being applied to animals, buildings, train lines.
Reposted by Ann Marie Wilson
I will never tired of photographs of people walking around carrying bird hides on their head. From the book, In de ban van vogels (a history of Dutch ornithology), by Karel Voous.
January 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I will never tired of photographs of people walking around carrying bird hides on their head. From the book, In de ban van vogels (a history of Dutch ornithology), by Karel Voous.
Reposted by Ann Marie Wilson
Pictures that explain things.
Trees in Winter (back endpapers)
Artist: SR Badmin, 1963
Trees in Winter (back endpapers)
Artist: SR Badmin, 1963
December 14, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Pictures that explain things.
Trees in Winter (back endpapers)
Artist: SR Badmin, 1963
Trees in Winter (back endpapers)
Artist: SR Badmin, 1963
Contribution to the staff holiday party. #WOinActie #DoeHetNiet
December 11, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Contribution to the staff holiday party. #WOinActie #DoeHetNiet
Me: "Check out these cool sheep I saw on my bike to work today. Do you think they were there seeking warmth? Or maybe because it was dry compared to the grass?"
Wife: "They were probably just charging."
Wife: "They were probably just charging."
December 11, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Me: "Check out these cool sheep I saw on my bike to work today. Do you think they were there seeking warmth? Or maybe because it was dry compared to the grass?"
Wife: "They were probably just charging."
Wife: "They were probably just charging."
Co-sign. I love this.
I just learned about @librarycongress.bsky.social "Collaging Through Space and Time" tool, and it might be my new favorite thing: blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20...
Collaging with the Library’s Digital Collections | The Signal
In 2018, the Library launched the very popular Free To Use and Reuse Sets, where staff curate thematic sets of items from our digital collections that are either in the public domain, have no known co...
blogs.loc.gov
December 5, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Co-sign. I love this.
Lock of hair belonging to William IV, Prince of Orange (1711-1751), currently on show at the Mauritshuis as part of their 'Lost Museum' exhibit. Arresting to encounter- it stopped me in my tracks! Though it also looks suspiciously like a cat coughed up a hairball. www.mauritshuis.nl/nu-te-doen/t...
December 4, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Lock of hair belonging to William IV, Prince of Orange (1711-1751), currently on show at the Mauritshuis as part of their 'Lost Museum' exhibit. Arresting to encounter- it stopped me in my tracks! Though it also looks suspiciously like a cat coughed up a hairball. www.mauritshuis.nl/nu-te-doen/t...
How does a bee see a landscape? On December 16, come hear artists Dirk-Jan Visser and Gus Drake talk about their project on analyzing and visualizing the different interests of more-than-human life in (decision-making about) the natural world. researchplatform.art/events/new-h...
December 4, 2024 at 12:08 PM
How does a bee see a landscape? On December 16, come hear artists Dirk-Jan Visser and Gus Drake talk about their project on analyzing and visualizing the different interests of more-than-human life in (decision-making about) the natural world. researchplatform.art/events/new-h...
Reposted by Ann Marie Wilson
For anyone just getting started here, I created a list to help you find some smart, hopeful, angry, beautiful writing about this watery plant-strewn rock floating in the middle of the cosmos we all happen to live on.
Feel free to suggest additions!
go.bsky.app/5Z65eat
Feel free to suggest additions!
go.bsky.app/5Z65eat
November 24, 2024 at 1:07 AM
For anyone just getting started here, I created a list to help you find some smart, hopeful, angry, beautiful writing about this watery plant-strewn rock floating in the middle of the cosmos we all happen to live on.
Feel free to suggest additions!
go.bsky.app/5Z65eat
Feel free to suggest additions!
go.bsky.app/5Z65eat
20,000+ today on the Malieveld, protesting cuts to Dutch higher education. #WOinActie
November 25, 2024 at 7:19 PM
20,000+ today on the Malieveld, protesting cuts to Dutch higher education. #WOinActie
Tot straks ☔️
November 25, 2024 at 7:28 AM
Tot straks ☔️
