Edward Collins
@ejpcollins.bsky.social
Historian of science in the Spanish & Portuguese empires at
@ucddublin.bsky.social. Nautical science & technology, history of animals and creepy crawlies. Opinion-haver, sci-fi-enjoyer, cat-botherer.
@ucddublin.bsky.social. Nautical science & technology, history of animals and creepy crawlies. Opinion-haver, sci-fi-enjoyer, cat-botherer.
Won't someone think of the real victims here: old white guys and their imagined persecutions?
September 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Won't someone think of the real victims here: old white guys and their imagined persecutions?
Stars (1936) — A.E. Housman
August 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Stars (1936) — A.E. Housman
A must read for serious early modernists.
July 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A must read for serious early modernists.
Physicists who rank the strong nuclear interaction as the supreme fundamental force in nature have clearly never grappled with a cat refusing oral antibiotics.
May 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Physicists who rank the strong nuclear interaction as the supreme fundamental force in nature have clearly never grappled with a cat refusing oral antibiotics.
This chill little dude paid a visit to our garden - the Hawthorn Shield Bug.
April 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This chill little dude paid a visit to our garden - the Hawthorn Shield Bug.
Refreshingly honest birthday present from my nephew.
March 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Refreshingly honest birthday present from my nephew.
I can’t believe I only discovered The Wall by Marlen Haushofer recently. It’s magnificent.
March 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I can’t believe I only discovered The Wall by Marlen Haushofer recently. It’s magnificent.
'Yet natheless, behold! Here cometh Wonderwall!'
'I beseche thee, nay! I am right forspent.'
'This dayyyy shal ben the dayyyy that they shullen cast alle again upon theeeeeee...'
Taccuinum Sanitatis c.1460, NYPL Digital Collections
'I beseche thee, nay! I am right forspent.'
'This dayyyy shal ben the dayyyy that they shullen cast alle again upon theeeeeee...'
Taccuinum Sanitatis c.1460, NYPL Digital Collections
January 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
'Yet natheless, behold! Here cometh Wonderwall!'
'I beseche thee, nay! I am right forspent.'
'This dayyyy shal ben the dayyyy that they shullen cast alle again upon theeeeeee...'
Taccuinum Sanitatis c.1460, NYPL Digital Collections
'I beseche thee, nay! I am right forspent.'
'This dayyyy shal ben the dayyyy that they shullen cast alle again upon theeeeeee...'
Taccuinum Sanitatis c.1460, NYPL Digital Collections
Just became aware of this 2024 publication by @marcynorton.bsky.social: The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492. Her work on ‘vassal animals’ has been profoundly important for my own work on falcons in Europe and the New World. Looking forward to reading this!
January 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Just became aware of this 2024 publication by @marcynorton.bsky.social: The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492. Her work on ‘vassal animals’ has been profoundly important for my own work on falcons in Europe and the New World. Looking forward to reading this!
Gonna start calling people this.
January 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Gonna start calling people this.
January 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Image from Luis Lobera de Ávila's Banquete de Nobles Caballeros (1530). Yes, I know it looks like he's showing someone that he has distilled a butt in a flask.
December 10, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Image from Luis Lobera de Ávila's Banquete de Nobles Caballeros (1530). Yes, I know it looks like he's showing someone that he has distilled a butt in a flask.
God, so accurate
November 26, 2024 at 12:54 PM
God, so accurate
Róisín takes hard earned break from reading #academiccats
November 25, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Róisín takes hard earned break from reading #academiccats
Róisín, 17.5 years old #academiccats
November 24, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Róisín, 17.5 years old #academiccats