lecturer in environmental history @liverpooluni.bsky.social 🌿 || writing about #germans, #collecting, #plants & #empire in 19th c. southern #africa 🌵 || #nathist, #envhist, #collections, 🇬🇧-🇩🇪 || she/her || views my own ✨
Katherine Arnold
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I'll be sharing insights from my new article on the legal case involving Austrian collector Friedrich Welwitsch's Angolan botanical collection, but also some of the fun material that didn't make the final cut 🌿
Read the article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I'll be speaking at the Cabinet of Natural History seminar at @hpscambridge.bsky.social on 15 June from 1-2pm in the Gonville and Caius Fellows' Garden, the first day of my @camglamresearch.bsky.social Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellowship ✨
#envhist #envhums #collections #histsci
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🌵 Curtis's botanical magazine..
London ; New York [etc.]: Academic Press [etc.].
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The articles in our Endeavour special issue are starting to arrive! Check out research from @mattholmes.bsky.social & @arnoldke.bsky.social which are now available open access!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
#envhist #envhums #histsci #collections #museums
Very pleased to share my new article on the legal case surrounding Welwitsch's Angolan botanical collections, part of the @collecol.bsky.social issue in @Endeavour (edited by the lovely @dominikhhh.bsky.social & @nickytheprof.bsky.social) ✨ #envhist
Available open access! doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts.
So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.
What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.
New: “The evidence is now clear: History departments are shrinking.” bit.ly/3RhjGCY
the anti-trans bathroom ban is very bad—it's also a sign uk democracy is failing
my latest with @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...
An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information
I highly recommend reading this piece.
"Will this fossil fuel fascism, that billionaire-backed campaign to crush a green transition by any means necessary, hold back the tide of clean energy autonomy? It cannot be ruled out."
In 1872, Austrian collector Friedrich Welwitsch died in London, leaving behind a will which aimed to distribute his widely respected collection of pla…
The special issue proposes a new environmental history of the sciences manifested in a critical examination of the pasts and futures of collections. It crosses disciplinary boundaries to re-assess the...
Very pleased to share my new article on the legal case surrounding Welwitsch's Angolan botanical collections, part of the @collecol.bsky.social issue in @Endeavour (edited by the lovely @dominikhhh.bsky.social & @nickytheprof.bsky.social) ✨ #envhist
Available open access! doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
