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JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 1d

Painters of the Hudson River School understood what was happening to North American forests in the nineteenth century, and they didn’t like it. https://bit.ly/42tM7Ag

The Art of Deforestation - JSTOR Daily

Landscape paintings show how quickly American forests changed in the early nineteenth century—and the mixed feelings people had about that change.

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Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social · 12h

Sorry to hear this! Rest and get well!

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Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social · 6d

......yum.

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Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social · 6d

also @greenleejw.bsky.social - you are never forgotten.

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Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social · 6d

Invisible labour spotted within a digitised 17th century cook-book.

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 12d

Next week is going to be really exciting!

On Thursday (10/2), I'm co-hosting an online info session about
@ransomcenter.bsky.social's fellowship program.

Then on Friday (10/3), I've traveling to @utah.edu to discuss the Center's fellowships & collections.

www.research.utah.edu/funding-item... 🗃️📜

"An Archive of the Imagination: Research Opportunities at the Harry Ransom Center"
Presentation by Distinguished Visitor, Benjamin Gross, Ph.D.
October 3, 2025 from 11 am - 12 pm in the J. Willard Marriott Library, rm 1130

Talk is made possibly by Harry Ransom Center and University of Utah's Office of the Vice President for Research

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · May 8

New #openaccess Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750): A Research Companion Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans, @adendros.bsky.social
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... @nconstantinidou.bsky.social @leuvenup.bsky.social @jarrikvanderbiest.bsky.social

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 14d

I wish I could attend. This sounds great! #HistSci #EarlyModern

Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · Aug 21

📣Two new events in collaboration with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social! 📣

Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800 | 15 Oct | 5.30 - 7.30pm
tinyurl.com/2uayfe7r

From Bones to Books to Blitz Scrap – What London Recycled during the Second World War | 10 Dec | 5.30 - 7.30pm
tinyurl.com/3t2f435p

Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500 - 1800

Join us at The London Archives for an illustrated talk by Professor Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics).

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Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen @jessiewhchen.bsky.social · 14d

Printed copies of Everlasting Flowers are gorgeous! But the digital version is #openaccess for anyone to read: brill.com/display/titl....

A book presentation takes place at the KB in The Hague on 3 December. You are warmly invited! To register: tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/D...

Please share!

Printed copies of the book, with one copy open to pages 196 and 197, and the two that are stacked showing the cover.

Flyer for the book presentation, with the text reads as the following.

Left-hand side:
Book Presentation, 3 December 2025, KB, National Library, Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, The Hague

Right-hand side:
Programme
14:00 Walk-in
14:30 Welcome and opening, Esther van Gelder (KB, nationale bibliotheek), Editors of series Emergence of Natural History and De Gruyter Brill.
14:50 Book presentation, Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen (Huygens Instituut/KNAW).
15:10 Gifting of physical copies
15:15 Panel discussion:
State of the field(s) and practical knowledge
Moderator: Marieke Hendriksen (Huygens Instituut/KNAW)
Panelists: Marlise Rijks (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Sietske Fransen (Bibliotheca Hertziana/Max Planck Institute), Trude Dijkstra (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen (Huygens Instituut/KNAW).
16:00 Introduction to pop-up show. Display of reconstructions and creative projects related to the book.
16:15 Drinks / Borrel, Opportunity to see the pop-up show and book table featuring volumes from the Emergence of Natural History series.
17:00 End of event

Free admission with limited space.
Please register at https://tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/Details/Book-presentation-
Everlasting-Flower-Between-the-Pages--3-dec-134063.
Link to book: https://brill.com/display/title/70483

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 14d

Our September 2025 newsletter is live!

Read all about our upcoming events, initiatives, and opportunities: conta.cc/42CVYUm

The image contains the words "September 2025" and an image of a bird perched in a tree from Mark Catesby's The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands.

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Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social · 15d

yesterday eels, today Q4 reports

Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 15d

It's 1100. You're a peasant in Harmston, England. Congrats! It's a fine place to live. But at what cost?

Eels. That's what. Each spring, the village owes Earl Hugh 75,000 eels in rent. So every fall your life becomes all about the eels.*

Welcome to Harmston. Here's your net.
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Meme. Medieval colored drawing showing a figure in a small boat with a large green fish attached to his head. The figure is likely a man, but this is uncertain. His name is even less certain, but we'll call him Yedward. He is wearing a long orange shirt, and is paddling his boat across a body of blue water. There are clouds int eh background. Yedward might have been wearing a hat at some point, but if he was, the fish has eaten it. He seems very concerned, and you would too. That fish is no joke.

The fish has it's jaws around Yedward's head, and is arching its back so far that its tail will soon touch the top of its head. It's fins are thrust out, and it looks very graceful.

It's unfair to name the man but not the fish, so we'll call her Merwena. She was raised on tales of Jonah & Moby Dick, & longs to be like her literary heroes. She's going to eat this man if it takes all day. He can't paddle forever. Especially with a hole in his head.

Meme text reads:
"It's gonna be a long fall"

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Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social · 15d

Calling all history of medicine books published between 2020 and 2025!

histmed.org/william-h-we...

William H. Welch Medal

William H. Welch Medal The William H. Welch Medal is awarded to one or more authors of a book (excluding edited volumes) of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history published during...

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Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social · 17d

Looks like another successful market day concludes!

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Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social · 20d

Wow. I didn’t know this happened so often. This has happened to me and I simply thought what I had discussed the journalist wasnt “good enough”. I like your stance!

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Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social · 20d

The Dutch on Mauritius treating the Dodo like Roosevelt.

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Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social · 21d

Also, my mate Paul Sampson has a wonderful article and thesis on the subject: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34581236/ & rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/...

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Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social · 22d

Oh yes! I have been! Wonderful stuff there!

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Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social · 22d

Allegorie der Tulipomanie [Allegory of Tulip Mania], by Jan Brueghel the Younger, 1640s. A satirical commentary on speculators during the time of “Tulip Mania”

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 22d

People say they don't teach real world skills in college anymore.

People are wrong. We tried writing in cuneiform yesterday in my "What is a word?" class

Room full of students happily molding their own clay tablets

Some of these folks have bright futures as scribes! Student hand holding bamboo reed and writing their name in cuneiform

Another student writing cuneiform on their clay tablet next to an inferior tablet (a so-called smart phone)

My own miserable attempt to transliterate my name in cuneiform: S T I F N

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Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social · 23d

Scared to think.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 27d

BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Securing its future requires new partners & sustained investment. For more information, follow along here & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition. Help us safeguard the world’s collective biodiversity knowledge. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌱 🌏