Nathan Probably
@nathanprobably.bsky.social
Curator, Historian of Science, Mycologist.
Wrote about Wetherspoons once: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160932723000467
Wrote about Wetherspoons once: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160932723000467
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Use of Ecological Networks to Reveal Interspecific Fungal Interactions from 150 Years of Foray Records
Fungal forays have been conducted for more than 150 years, providing valuable, but underutilized, sets of records for studies of fungal ecology. Although foray records have been used to study speci...
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Sometimes I do science too! Along with Zhiru Guoli, we explored how historical data can be used to help us quantify interspecific relationships between fungi. You can read all about it for free here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#historicalecology #mathematicalecology #fungalforays #mushrooms
#historicalecology #mathematicalecology #fungalforays #mushrooms
Our new paper on #mushrooms, #russia and #literature is finally out and in @aseees.bsky.social Slavic Review! It's been a long journey with several major life events but having amazing coauthors has made the whole process a real joy. You can read it #openaccess here:
tinyurl.com/4dvexenc
tinyurl.com/4dvexenc
A Generation on Mushrooms: Mukhomor and Visions of Russianness in Victor Pelevin’s Generation P | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core
A Generation on Mushrooms: Mukhomor and Visions of Russianness in Victor Pelevin’s Generation P - Volume 84 Issue 2
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October 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Our new paper on #mushrooms, #russia and #literature is finally out and in @aseees.bsky.social Slavic Review! It's been a long journey with several major life events but having amazing coauthors has made the whole process a real joy. You can read it #openaccess here:
tinyurl.com/4dvexenc
tinyurl.com/4dvexenc
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Anyone want to become Birmingham's curator of science and industry? - it's a really fantastic collection! careers.birminghammuseums.org.uk/job/333d2a38...
Curator (Science & Industry) - Job page - Birmingham Museums Careers
careers.birminghammuseums.org.uk
July 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Anyone want to become Birmingham's curator of science and industry? - it's a really fantastic collection! careers.birminghammuseums.org.uk/job/333d2a38...
Sometimes I do science too! Along with Zhiru Guoli, we explored how historical data can be used to help us quantify interspecific relationships between fungi. You can read all about it for free here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#historicalecology #mathematicalecology #fungalforays #mushrooms
#historicalecology #mathematicalecology #fungalforays #mushrooms
Use of Ecological Networks to Reveal Interspecific Fungal Interactions from 150 Years of Foray Records
Fungal forays have been conducted for more than 150 years, providing valuable, but underutilized, sets of records for studies of fungal ecology. Although foray records have been used to study speci...
www.tandfonline.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Sometimes I do science too! Along with Zhiru Guoli, we explored how historical data can be used to help us quantify interspecific relationships between fungi. You can read all about it for free here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#historicalecology #mathematicalecology #fungalforays #mushrooms
#historicalecology #mathematicalecology #fungalforays #mushrooms
🚨 New paper out and its a banger! 🚨 We explored how historical foray records can be used to better understand fungus-fungus interactions in woodland species. Its free to read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #fungalecology #fungalscience #mycology #fieldmycology
Use of Ecological Networks to Reveal Interspecific Fungal Interactions from 150 Years of Foray Records
Fungal forays have been conducted for more than 150 years, providing valuable, but underutilized, sets of records for studies of fungal ecology. Although foray records have been used to study speci...
tandfonline.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🚨 New paper out and its a banger! 🚨 We explored how historical foray records can be used to better understand fungus-fungus interactions in woodland species. Its free to read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #fungalecology #fungalscience #mycology #fieldmycology
Latest paper with the fantastic @katherinenright.bsky.social Our thoughts and recommendations on #herbarium #digitisation
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Digitization as scientific labor: Critical approaches and recommendations for herbaria
Viewing digitization against a backdrop of the history of herbarium labor—and in the wake of substantial shifts in the museum landscape—we give a series of recommendations for mass digitization proje...
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February 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Latest paper with the fantastic @katherinenright.bsky.social Our thoughts and recommendations on #herbarium #digitisation
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people
Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people
New book reveals that Pacific islands inhabitants helped European scientists identify hundreds of plant species
In 1769, nearly nine months after setting sail with Capt James Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander…
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February 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people
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Delighted to see this wonderful article by @donnalferguson.bsky.social @theguardian.com on some of the research being published in my forthcoming book that can be pre-ordered now!
For the UK: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Reading-the-...
And USA: upittpress.org/books/978082...
For the UK: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Reading-the-...
And USA: upittpress.org/books/978082...
Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people
Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people
New book reveals that Pacific islands inhabitants helped European scientists identify hundreds of plant species
In 1769, nearly nine months after setting sail with Capt James Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander…
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Delighted to see this wonderful article by @donnalferguson.bsky.social @theguardian.com on some of the research being published in my forthcoming book that can be pre-ordered now!
For the UK: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Reading-the-...
And USA: upittpress.org/books/978082...
For the UK: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Reading-the-...
And USA: upittpress.org/books/978082...
Latest paper out in @natsca.bsky.social with the brilliant Sophie Roberts, @ilichenmoss2.bsky.social
, and Katherine Slade. A really neat way to find potentially misidentified specimens from large collections datasets. natsca.org/article/2891
, and Katherine Slade. A really neat way to find potentially misidentified specimens from large collections datasets. natsca.org/article/2891
Journal Article | Natural Sciences Collections Association
natsca.org
February 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Latest paper out in @natsca.bsky.social with the brilliant Sophie Roberts, @ilichenmoss2.bsky.social
, and Katherine Slade. A really neat way to find potentially misidentified specimens from large collections datasets. natsca.org/article/2891
, and Katherine Slade. A really neat way to find potentially misidentified specimens from large collections datasets. natsca.org/article/2891
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And it is now possible to pre-order from @upittpress.bsky.social upittpress.org/books/978082...!
Delighted to say that my book now has a cover! Due to be published on 18 March 2025 (USA) and 13 May 2025 (worldwide).
November 15, 2024 at 10:02 AM
And it is now possible to pre-order from @upittpress.bsky.social upittpress.org/books/978082...!
Reposting due to the recent migration here: happy to answer any questions by DM or email :)
🚨 Prospective PhD students, come work with me and some amazing colleagues on looking at women in mycology! Details here and happy to answer any questions by email or DM:
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🚨 #historyofscience #fungarium #phdopportunity
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🚨 #historyofscience #fungarium #phdopportunity
LCAB PhD studentships - Currently recruiting
Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950
sites.google.com
November 18, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Reposting due to the recent migration here: happy to answer any questions by DM or email :)
Reposted by Nathan Probably
🚨 Prospective PhD students, come work with me and some amazing colleagues on looking at women in mycology! Details here and happy to answer any questions by email or DM:
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🚨 #historyofscience #fungarium #phdopportunity
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🚨 #historyofscience #fungarium #phdopportunity
LCAB PhD studentships - Currently recruiting
Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950
sites.google.com
October 17, 2024 at 2:40 PM
🚨 Prospective PhD students, come work with me and some amazing colleagues on looking at women in mycology! Details here and happy to answer any questions by email or DM:
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🚨 #historyofscience #fungarium #phdopportunity
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🚨 #historyofscience #fungarium #phdopportunity
A really interesting #CFP from a consistently amazing conference. Bring your most yeast-y ideas!
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/10/...
#historyofmycology #fungalturn #fermentation #yestoyeast #historyofscience #STS
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/10/...
#historyofmycology #fungalturn #fermentation #yestoyeast #historyofscience #STS
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
October 29, 2024 at 1:41 PM
A really interesting #CFP from a consistently amazing conference. Bring your most yeast-y ideas!
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/10/...
#historyofmycology #fungalturn #fermentation #yestoyeast #historyofscience #STS
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/10/...
#historyofmycology #fungalturn #fermentation #yestoyeast #historyofscience #STS
🚨 Prospective PhD students, come work with me and some amazing colleagues on looking at women in mycology! Details here and happy to answer any questions by email or DM:
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🚨 #historyofscience #fungarium #phdopportunity
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🚨 #historyofscience #fungarium #phdopportunity
LCAB PhD studentships - Currently recruiting
Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950
sites.google.com
October 17, 2024 at 2:40 PM
🚨 Prospective PhD students, come work with me and some amazing colleagues on looking at women in mycology! Details here and happy to answer any questions by email or DM:
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🚨 #historyofscience #fungarium #phdopportunity
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🚨 #historyofscience #fungarium #phdopportunity
What do H.G. Wells and the Little Shop of Horrors have to say about the state of #botany and #plantsciences? My article on the interwoven histories of botany and the strange orchid is finally out:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#hgwells #littleshopofhorrors #nofungitoday
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#hgwells #littleshopofhorrors #nofungitoday
Taxonomy of fear: the evolution of H. G. Wells’s “Strange Orchid”
Published in Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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October 5, 2024 at 9:42 AM
What do H.G. Wells and the Little Shop of Horrors have to say about the state of #botany and #plantsciences? My article on the interwoven histories of botany and the strange orchid is finally out:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#hgwells #littleshopofhorrors #nofungitoday
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#hgwells #littleshopofhorrors #nofungitoday
🚨Job Alert🚨: We're hiring a Botany Curator 🍄🌺🌲at Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales to join our Natural Sciences team and use our collections to examine the impact of invasive species on ecosystems. #plantjobs #museumjobs #botanyjobs #mycologyjobs
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Senior Curator Botany (Invasive and non-invasive species) | Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales iRecruit Careers Portal
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July 22, 2024 at 10:57 AM
🚨Job Alert🚨: We're hiring a Botany Curator 🍄🌺🌲at Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales to join our Natural Sciences team and use our collections to examine the impact of invasive species on ecosystems. #plantjobs #museumjobs #botanyjobs #mycologyjobs
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Latest paper is out exploring how we can make museum databases messier 👨💻👩💻 doi.org/10.1111/cura...
Messy databases: Recognizing transcribers as experts and engaging amateur naturalists in digitization
Curator: The Museum Journal is a forum for museum professionals to debate & discuss the current practices, issues & policies surrounding museum studies & museology.
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February 28, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Latest paper is out exploring how we can make museum databases messier 👨💻👩💻 doi.org/10.1111/cura...
Was offered the opportunity to write about why we tell history for #Wetherspoon News. Now available to read and cite here: jdwetherspoon.com/news/2024/01... #WetherspoonNews #Wetherspoons #Spoons
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January 29, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Was offered the opportunity to write about why we tell history for #Wetherspoon News. Now available to read and cite here: jdwetherspoon.com/news/2024/01... #WetherspoonNews #Wetherspoons #Spoons
Latest paper out (and with a festive release date). Some discussion on #mycology, #eponyms, and #DNASequencesAsTypes It's a divisive issue but I hope the paper helps reframe the debate in a positive way
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 3, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Latest paper out (and with a festive release date). Some discussion on #mycology, #eponyms, and #DNASequencesAsTypes It's a divisive issue but I hope the paper helps reframe the debate in a positive way
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Latest paper is out and its not on fungi! Instead its all about #Wetherspoons and history. How history is communicated and understood is important. Spoons has an interesting take on history that I think has wider implications... sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #spoons #histsci
History in the pub: The historiography of J.D. Wetherspoon
J. D. Wetherspoon is a popular pub chain in the United Kingdom. Despite its prominence in British cultural life and active and deliberate engagement w…
https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160932723000467…
December 8, 2023 at 2:31 PM
Latest paper is out and its not on fungi! Instead its all about #Wetherspoons and history. How history is communicated and understood is important. Spoons has an interesting take on history that I think has wider implications... sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #spoons #histsci