Brad Scott
@trichocolea.bsky.social
Working with the Sloane Herbarium @QMULsed
& @NHM_London • HPS @stsucl (1980s) • Routledge (1990s) • publishing technologist • DH • bryophyte recorder, Sussex
& @NHM_London • HPS @stsucl (1980s) • Routledge (1990s) • publishing technologist • DH • bryophyte recorder, Sussex
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Brad Scott
@trichocolea.bsky.social
· Feb 18
Collecting and cataloguing the world: the botanical collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753)
Botanical collections assembled before the widespread adoption of the ‘Linnaean’ system of binomial naming often have nomenclatural significance, are increasingly utilized to investigate genetic an...
doi.org
Our data paper is out today: Collecting and cataloguing the world: the botanical collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753).
Co-authored with Vicky Pickering, @rxcoulton.bsky.social, Julianne Nyhan and Mark Carine
doi.org/10.1080/1477...
Co-authored with Vicky Pickering, @rxcoulton.bsky.social, Julianne Nyhan and Mark Carine
doi.org/10.1080/1477...
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My @jskstanford.bsky.social year at Stanford centers on one question: What grows when you build a community newsroom inside a public library? I've been testing it in Brooklyn neighborhood. It's works.
We can do this in the 16,000+ library buildings in the U.S. Seriously.
medium.com/jsk-class-of...
We can do this in the 16,000+ library buildings in the U.S. Seriously.
medium.com/jsk-class-of...
I Have An Idea To Open 16,000 Newsrooms In The U.S.
What happens when journalism lives inside the public library?
medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
My @jskstanford.bsky.social year at Stanford centers on one question: What grows when you build a community newsroom inside a public library? I've been testing it in Brooklyn neighborhood. It's works.
We can do this in the 16,000+ library buildings in the U.S. Seriously.
medium.com/jsk-class-of...
We can do this in the 16,000+ library buildings in the U.S. Seriously.
medium.com/jsk-class-of...
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‘Mosses and wandering lichens’, as Ruskin puts it in ‘The Poetry of Architecture’ (1837), ‘though beautiful, constitute a kind of beauty from which the ideas of age and decay are inseparable’.
This whole essay. I had no idea Victorians thought about lichen.
courtauld.ac.uk/research/res...
This whole essay. I had no idea Victorians thought about lichen.
courtauld.ac.uk/research/res...
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
‘Mosses and wandering lichens’, as Ruskin puts it in ‘The Poetry of Architecture’ (1837), ‘though beautiful, constitute a kind of beauty from which the ideas of age and decay are inseparable’.
This whole essay. I had no idea Victorians thought about lichen.
courtauld.ac.uk/research/res...
This whole essay. I had no idea Victorians thought about lichen.
courtauld.ac.uk/research/res...
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Please sign this petition for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics.
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Please sign this petition for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics.
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Exciting new project with a great PhD opportunity just announced
A major new research project will delve into Wales’s long and often overlooked history of herbal medicine, shedding light on how people treated illness and maintained their health before the arrival of the NHS wp.me/p8Mk4U-198p
New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions
A major new research project will delve into Wales’s long and often overlooked history of herbal medicine, shedding light on how people treated illness and maintained their health before the arrival o...
nation.cymru
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Exciting new project with a great PhD opportunity just announced
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How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...
Medieval Philosophical and Scientific Manuscripts – an online short course taught by Anna Somfai
This course will run online from 14:00-17:00: Monday 26 January – Thursday 29 January 2026. The course explores medieval Western philosophical and scientific manuscripts produced over the spa…
palaeography.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...
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Lovely unusual coloured version of Henry De la Beche's 1832 cartoon The Light of Science for sale at auction next month. Seeking government support for science, De la Beche draws a fashionable female figure with gas lamp, wristwatch & of course a geological hammer.
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Lovely unusual coloured version of Henry De la Beche's 1832 cartoon The Light of Science for sale at auction next month. Seeking government support for science, De la Beche draws a fashionable female figure with gas lamp, wristwatch & of course a geological hammer.
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
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NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline
As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexi...
www.thenerve.news
November 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
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An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
www.publicbooks.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
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Join us in Cambridge on 10 December for the @camglamresearch.bsky.social Michaelmas Term Keynote Lecture,
‘Repurposing Digitised Natural History Collections for 21st-Century Challenges’, delivered by Pam Soltis.
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/repurposin...
‘Repurposing Digitised Natural History Collections for 21st-Century Challenges’, delivered by Pam Soltis.
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/repurposin...
Repurposing Digitised Natural History Collections
CCC Michaelmas Keynote Lecture 2025 delivered by Pamela S. Soltis, Distinguished Professor, Curator, Director, UF Biodiversity Institute
www.eventbrite.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Join us in Cambridge on 10 December for the @camglamresearch.bsky.social Michaelmas Term Keynote Lecture,
‘Repurposing Digitised Natural History Collections for 21st-Century Challenges’, delivered by Pam Soltis.
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/repurposin...
‘Repurposing Digitised Natural History Collections for 21st-Century Challenges’, delivered by Pam Soltis.
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/repurposin...
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Read this whole thread.
It is worth it!
It is worth it!
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Read this whole thread.
It is worth it!
It is worth it!
Delighted to see this beautiful book turn up in the post. Part of the terrific British Wildlife Collection, published by Bloomsbury @chiffchat.bsky.social. I have loved the forms of marine phyla since A level biology
November 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Delighted to see this beautiful book turn up in the post. Part of the terrific British Wildlife Collection, published by Bloomsbury @chiffchat.bsky.social. I have loved the forms of marine phyla since A level biology
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In the second instalment of her blog series concerning the botany and the British Empire, Esme Barrell reflects on the colonial roots of the Royal Botanical Gardens and the appropriation of Indigenous botanical knowledge by British scientists.
museumofbritishcolonialism.org/red-bark-and...
museumofbritishcolonialism.org/red-bark-and...
Red Bark and Empire: Unearthing the Colonial Roots of Kew Gardens | MBC
Part One – Kew Gardens This project began with a single plant. While researching in the archives of the Royal […]
museumofbritishcolonialism.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
In the second instalment of her blog series concerning the botany and the British Empire, Esme Barrell reflects on the colonial roots of the Royal Botanical Gardens and the appropriation of Indigenous botanical knowledge by British scientists.
museumofbritishcolonialism.org/red-bark-and...
museumofbritishcolonialism.org/red-bark-and...
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Isis Focus Issue: "Is Deep History White?"
Enormous thanks to our editor Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social for bringing this incredible volume together. Check it out!!! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
Isis | Vol 116, No 4
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Isis Focus Issue: "Is Deep History White?"
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‘By 1790, one in eight Liverpool households were dependent on the slave trade.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan · No Illusions: Syntax of Slavery
Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
‘By 1790, one in eight Liverpool households were dependent on the slave trade.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Don’t miss the first talk in the WOMNH (Women in Natural History Museums and Collections) Online Fall Seminar Series! Monday 24 November 2025, 4:00–5:00 pm CET
by Louise Berridge (NHM London): “Women of the Riverflies”
by Louise Berridge (NHM London): “Women of the Riverflies”
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Don’t miss the first talk in the WOMNH (Women in Natural History Museums and Collections) Online Fall Seminar Series! Monday 24 November 2025, 4:00–5:00 pm CET
by Louise Berridge (NHM London): “Women of the Riverflies”
by Louise Berridge (NHM London): “Women of the Riverflies”
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My special issue on gardens and plants as laboratories of premodern science is out on @royalsocietypublishing.org #notesandrecords #nrrs #histplants #histsci #vegscilif #envhist with articles by me, Luzzini on minerals, @johedesan.bsky.social on Guy de La Brosse, Jalobeanu on Bacon, and Benharrech🌱
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
My special issue on gardens and plants as laboratories of premodern science is out on @royalsocietypublishing.org #notesandrecords #nrrs #histplants #histsci #vegscilif #envhist with articles by me, Luzzini on minerals, @johedesan.bsky.social on Guy de La Brosse, Jalobeanu on Bacon, and Benharrech🌱
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PhD in Early Modern Ethnobotanical History – KU Leuven, Belgium
Fully funded position
Eligibility: Master’s
Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Details: higherjobz.com/phd-ethnobot...
#PhDPosition #Ethnobotany #EuropeJobs #AcademicCareer #ResearchOpportunities #EnvironmentalHistory
Fully funded position
Eligibility: Master’s
Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Details: higherjobz.com/phd-ethnobot...
#PhDPosition #Ethnobotany #EuropeJobs #AcademicCareer #ResearchOpportunities #EnvironmentalHistory
Fully Funded PhD in Ethnobotanical History at KU Leuven | HigherJobz
Apply for a fully funded PhD in Early Modern Ethnobotanical History at KU Leuven, Belgium. Deadline: 30 Nov 2025.
higherjobz.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
PhD in Early Modern Ethnobotanical History – KU Leuven, Belgium
Fully funded position
Eligibility: Master’s
Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Details: higherjobz.com/phd-ethnobot...
#PhDPosition #Ethnobotany #EuropeJobs #AcademicCareer #ResearchOpportunities #EnvironmentalHistory
Fully funded position
Eligibility: Master’s
Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Details: higherjobz.com/phd-ethnobot...
#PhDPosition #Ethnobotany #EuropeJobs #AcademicCareer #ResearchOpportunities #EnvironmentalHistory
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What, exactly, does this string of words mean? Why does everyone who stands to profit from selling "AI" love to repeat it? And what's the value of slogans that masquerade as history?
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer
The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself. It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...
sonjadrimmer.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
What, exactly, does this string of words mean? Why does everyone who stands to profit from selling "AI" love to repeat it? And what's the value of slogans that masquerade as history?
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
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'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality'
Important new paper from Farhana Sultana
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Important new paper from Farhana Sultana
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality'
Important new paper from Farhana Sultana
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Important new paper from Farhana Sultana
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Out on the South Downs near Firle today. Gorgeous light on the chalk landscape
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Out on the South Downs near Firle today. Gorgeous light on the chalk landscape
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We're looking forward to our conference at the Natural History Museum (@nhm-london.bsky.social) on Friday - read our press release to find out more!
Conference Reveals Welsh Naturalist’s Major Contributions to London’s Natural History Museum
The upcoming ‘Curious Collections’ conference at the Natural History Museum, London (November 7th) will shed new light on one of the oldest collections in the museum’s archives and explore the scienti...
www.uwtsd.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
We're looking forward to our conference at the Natural History Museum (@nhm-london.bsky.social) on Friday - read our press release to find out more!
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Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts!
www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
www.sciencenorway.no
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts!
www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
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Back by popular demand, Introduction to Latin Palaeography will run online in February 2026 #MedievalSky 👇
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Introduction to Latin Palaeography
ies.sas.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Back by popular demand, Introduction to Latin Palaeography will run online in February 2026 #MedievalSky 👇
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Happy Monday! 🌵 We're glad to say that this rescheduled Reading Club session is happening this week! Join us on 6 November to discuss Appadurai's article, a fantastically rich piece to raise questions connecting museums & collections, coloniality & the global/planetary, & the age of Anthropocene ✨
@collecol.bsky.social is back! 🪲
We've put together a great seminar series - we hope you'll come along!
On 2 Oct 11am EDT/4pm GMT we're doing a reading club - Appadurai's "The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination".
All info ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
We've put together a great seminar series - we hope you'll come along!
On 2 Oct 11am EDT/4pm GMT we're doing a reading club - Appadurai's "The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination".
All info ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
Collection Ecologies | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
www.chstm.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Happy Monday! 🌵 We're glad to say that this rescheduled Reading Club session is happening this week! Join us on 6 November to discuss Appadurai's article, a fantastically rich piece to raise questions connecting museums & collections, coloniality & the global/planetary, & the age of Anthropocene ✨
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Does anyone know where the Iguanodon footprints found in the Greensand near Arthur Conan Doyle's house in May 1909, and which ended up on display in his billard room, are today? I suspect they remained with the family, but there are a lot of potential museums they could have ended up in.
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Does anyone know where the Iguanodon footprints found in the Greensand near Arthur Conan Doyle's house in May 1909, and which ended up on display in his billard room, are today? I suspect they remained with the family, but there are a lot of potential museums they could have ended up in.