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Brad Scott

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Working with the Sloane Herbarium @QMULsed & @NHM_London • HPS @stsucl (1980s) • Routledge (1990s) • publishing technologist • DH • bryophyte recorder, Sussex

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Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · Feb 18

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...

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...

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 6d

🖥 We have a number of online research training courses starting in October.

Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · 1d

As a part of the EU-funded project led by @fabribald.bsky.social , this is a first event - Constructing the Environment #ConEnvHist on Monday 13th afternoon in Milan - speaking about practices and theories in premodern studies of nature #nature #histsci #histbotany #environment #environmentalhistory

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Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · 1d

Looks great. Is it in-person only?

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Dr Jennifer Howes @jhowesuk.bsky.social · 1d

Want to procure the paperback edition of my book? Go to Routledge's website and use the code TAOC25 to get a 25% discount. www.jenniferhowes.com/the-art-of-a...

Company painting of a bookbinder by an artist from Kolkata/Murshidabad/Lucknow, some time between 1798 and 1804. British library, Add.Or.1111.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 1d

'The transience of a flicker of fire [...] compels us to grapple with histories of the ephemeral and the impermanent, even within those places that seem built to last.'

Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt on Knole's connections to colonial history:

Indigenous Plant Stories in an English Treasure House

Delve into the links between Knole and Indigenous American histories as we investigate its colonial connections.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · 5d

I'd rather think of her as "of Soho Square" or "of New Fetter Lane", the iconic Routledge sites

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 5d

I haven't read the David Wootton review of @philipcball.bsky.social's Alchemy book, but Philip's response is insightful and well worth reading #histSTM philipball86.substack.com/p/was-alchem...

Was alchemy a load of nonsense?

David Wootton seems to think so; I disagree.

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Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent. Looking forward to reading it!

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · 14d

@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...

Collection Ecologies | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

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Isiah Newbins @inewbins.bsky.social · 15d

I’ve been working in natural history museums since I was 16, in that time I’ve met very few researchers who look like me. AMNH opening an exhibit highlighting black scientists in natural history (esp in our current climate) is MONUMENTAL to say the least! This will be a must visit!

American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 15d

Black in Natural History Museums in now open! See it on Floor 3 in the Museum's Gilder Center. Details: bit.ly/3KfbzTS

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Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · 17d

It is indeed a Penny Bun. The French and Italian names are more familiar: cep and porcini. Among the finest edible mushrooms in the country

Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · 17d

Zillions of mushrooms around in Ashdown Forest in Sussex. Today's finds include Boletus luridiformis, Russula claroflava, Cortinarius violaceus, and what I think is Volvariella bombycina

Scarletina Bolete fungus, with red stem, velvety brown cap, and flesh that turns blue when cut

Yellow Swamp Brittlegill fungus, which has a bright yellow cap and is common on the damp heaths and woods in Ashdown Forest

Violet Webcap fungus, a species that is not especially frequent in the UK but can often be seen in Ashdown Forest. When fresh it is astonishingly purple

Silky Rosegill fungus (I think) growing on a rotting Beech trunk

Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · 19d

And HS109, a small volume of plants from the gardens at Montpelier, which very likely belonged to Dr Edward Browne (1644-1708). This deletion is really hard to make out

The corner of the title page of a collection of dried plants probably dating from the 1660s. It includes Hans Sloane's catalogue number, HS109, and a short deletion, which was probably the name of a previous owner

Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · 19d

I need to go through my notes in detail, but HS30 is the first one that comes to mind. It came to Sloane via Christopher Merrett, but Sloane noted that it probably came from 'Dr Bates', surely George Bate (1608-1668), London physician and FRS, who would have been well known to Merrett

The title page of this hortus siccus has two inscriptions that pre-date Matthew Maty's copy of Sloane's catalogue entry: a note in the top left, almost certainly in Bates' hand "There is a Catalogue of all the plants in the Garden at Leyden which belongs to this Herball, Which is an Index to the Booke, (though not soe perfect as it might bee) yett as good as the Gardiner of Leyden (whoe made this Herball) was able to furnish mee with all, when I was a young student there"; and a deleted inscription which is very difficult to read "Given to my ever [unclear word] and [unclear words] December 8th [unclear year, possibly 1615 or 1645?]"

Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · 19d

This is fascinating. I have seen similar practice on the title pages of some of the bound volumes of dried plants in Sloane's collection

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Economic History Society @echistsoc.bsky.social · 21d

Now on the Long Run: 'The Barbados Census of 1679 and the Legacies of Slavery in Early Modern England'.
In this post Michael Bennett (Sheffield) & Misha Ewen (Sussex) introduce their research, which was financially supported by a Carnevali Small Research Grant.
ehs.org.uk/the-barbados...

The Barbados Census of 1679 and the Legacies of Slavery in Early Modern England - Economic History Society

This blog post is based on a grant awarded to Dr Michael Bennett of the University of Sheffield and Dr Misha Ewen, now of the University of Sussex, by the Economic History Society through the Carneval...

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Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · 23d

Another classic AI fail as iRecord attempts to ID a stagshorn fungus

Automated attempt by AI to identify a bright orange fungus, exhibiting a spectacular fail by suggesting it is either a wood mouse, an otter or a ladybird

Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · 28d

Sounds great. Your students are very lucky

Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · 29d

Love the cover design

Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · 29d

Evening walk to check out some Marsh Gentians (Gentiana pneumonanthe) on #AshdownForest

Three flowers of Marsh Gentian, which are blue-purple, but closed up in the early evening

Six more flowers, also closed, with the yellow flower of Dwarf Gorse photo bombing them

View down a big open track on the open heath of Ashdown Forest with some black cattle grazing in the middle distance, and a wooded landscape almost to the horizon

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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 29d

I'll be hosting an online event on encountering extinction in the archives with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social as part of The National Archives' Research Routes series.

Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...

Extinction and hope: Navigating animal encounters in the archive

What hope can be found in encounters with animals in archival documents?

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · Sep 8

Fascinating programme on the World Service on film archives, conservation and restoration

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

@moviessilently.bsky.social

BBC World Service - The Conversation, Bringing movies back to life

Two women from Italy and US discuss film restoration and the ‘detective work’ it requires

www.bbc.co.uk

Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · Sep 7

Interesting options in iRecord. #wildflowerhour

Screenshot from iRecord offering some AI based identifications of a 1.25mm fruit of Callitriche stagnalis. Other options included squirrel, wood mouse and (not in the screenshot) otter

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Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · Sep 5

I wonder what the equivalents are for UK vice counties (or even for each hectad in Sussex)?

@sussexwildlife.bsky.social @nbntrust.bsky.social

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iNaturalist Animals and Plants

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