It’s World Bee 🐝 Day! A day to celebrate these amazing insects, and to reflect on how we can support wild populations of 🐝 🐝 for the future. Museum collections are key in showing where bees used to be, setting baselines to understand impacts of stressors and set restoration/conservation targets
Lovely to be able to talk to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social colleagues this week about our Natural History Humanities research initiative, including all things insect humanities. #EntHist
Good to see that people have been enjoying watching bee-flies for almost 400 years 😀 #BeeFlyWatch
We are excited to announce the launch of Fen to Fire, a living reconstruction of the Late Bronze Age Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement that we’ve worked to create with digital artist Guy Schofield and pupils from Cromwell Community College in Chatteris.
Making Deep Time Visible in Stone and Space
great blog by Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel @nhmwien.bsky.social on how architects of C19th natural history museums worked with geologists to express deep time thro their buildings, incl @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social
valuepast.hypotheses.org/6678
Liz Smith & Mike Hawkins from @theul.bsky.social share the incredible knowledge and legacy data extracted via the Darwin Correspondence Project, and how it’s being harvested, used, and repurposed. #BHLDay2026 🧪🌱📖
📣 Call for art
Artists and creatives - submit your work to CRASSH's 25th anniversary exhibition!
The theme is 'Knowledge in a Fractured World' and can be interpreted broadly, from personal to global
Deadline 31 July 2026
Find out more at bit.ly/4svggKv
Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive.
#PhDsky
🏝️ Island Archives and Natural History Collections: A practice-based workshop exploring accumulation and dispersal
18-19 May
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4dq0wCg
A workshop that will foreground creative exploration about the context of Island environments
On Wednesday 6 May, Decolonising Plant Knowledge is back with an exciting afternoon of talks exploring how the ‘decolonisation of plant knowledge’ is currently activated in different forms of plant conservation and regeneration. 🪴 🌿
Find out more and register to attend: https://bit.ly/4tLJzcx
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Someone updated this copy of Thomas Moffet’s ‘Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum’ (1634) with the Linnæan name for the Dark-edged bee-fly, Bombylius major (Linnæus, 1758) and other insects. 🪰💚
Rare books #BeeFlyWatch, M.14.42 @theul.bsky.social. #Diptera
