@barbarasplendor
Histories of knowledge, medicine, pharmacy, science and fungi! Author of The State Drug. Theriac, Pharmacy and Politics in Early Modern Italy (HUP 2025). Usually early modernist. Neapolitan. Researcher at Ministry of Agriculture, Padua. Yale PhD
NEXT MONDAY!
Excited we get to welcome @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social to talk about Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid.
9 March, 17:30 (UK), in person & online -- sign up for the zoom link.
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians #HistSTM #HistMed
#HistSci #HistSTM #job
I just fell in with this Natural History of Gems and Stones, including mushrooms, vulcanoes and many many fantastic things❤️ #histscie #fungifriends #earlymodern
Apply for this! #EarlyModern 🗃️
Full house in Cully, Switzerland, for a 1-hour conference on the witches who created tempests! Really impressive participation of locals! #earlymodern
That's great Mathias! See you!
In the 19th century, cash crops and food staples increasingly fell victim to fungal pathogens. Watch #NotesandRecords author Sophia Jochem explore the Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley’s (1803–1889) researches into such plant-pathogenic fungi: cassyni.com/events/42qgG... #HistSci
Our panel "Reconsidering Spontaneous Generation,” has been accepted for the July 2026 ESHS/HSS joint meeting in Edinburgh. I am looking forward to seeing many friends and colleagues there!
Wow Melissa!
So many things happen or not happen because we have been unable to speak to each other, I wonder why Italian lacks this word
Fantastic! Let's keep in contact Brad, my KNOW-EM-FUNGI Fellowship is just about to start! #fungifriends #earlymodern
Work with me! 2-year postdoc (1+1) within COLUMN: Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations (HORIZON_HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-04). Topic: “Research of university botanical collections in relation to Italian and European colonialism”. Call at: shorturl.at/aurdS
📚 What made plants undesirable according to #earlymodern how-to books?
In our latest #blog Stefan Laube explores household books on the practice of weeding 🌿
howtobook.hypotheses.org/5594
If you happen to be in Paris in the next 2 weeks, here is a fun exhibit! #histmed #histpharma
#MedievalSky #histmed #histSTM #smallpox #measles #EpiSky Two PhD positions at @exeter.ac.uk.
Job at my beloved undergrad alma mater: VAP in #histsci #histmed at UW-Madison, due Jan 28.
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/visitin...
Je cherche de la biblio sur l'utilisation intensive des sangsues au XIXe siècle, puis l'abandon de la pratique, et les justifications données.
Lien avec les réformes des institutions médicales ?
Si qqn a ça sous le coude...
#histmed #histsci #19thc
Post-doc position at the University of Warsaw
in a project on #earlymodern protestant printing centres operating in Poland-Lithuania and Prussia
konkursydlanauczycieli.uw.edu.pl/api/document... (English version starts at page 7).
Applications are accepted until 9 March 2026.
#history
33 month postdoc (0.8 FTE) on a really interesting project at Essex on #EarlyModern German and English witchcraft...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...
As described there are at least 6 prints laid out on a tabletop to dry. Each print is my linocut on white Japanese paper which shows 18th century woman (Laura Bassi) in dress with fur cape, and hair in ringlets with a hairpiece which echoes a laurel crown. She’s holding an open book with Newtonian optics diagrams and in front of her is an electrical machine (a stand with vertical large glass plate and hand crank and brass tubes to channel the large electrostatic charges it could generate through friction). She is surrounded by typical high tech lab equipment of her day like conductors, an aurora flask, a luminous discharge tube, a Lane electrometer, Leyden jars and Volta's electric pistol. It’s printed in a gradient of a hint of turquoise through violet to red-magenta to bronze from the bottom to the top.
My edition of portraits of physicist Laura Bassi (1711-1778) surrounded by devices used to study electricity, laid out to dry
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #physics #electricity 🧪🐡
Review: The World as We Know It: Peter Dear *** - Dry but interesting exploration of the move from natural philosophy to science. Not an enjoyable read but worth it to discover more about the process rather than the science itself. popsciencebooks.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-... #bookreview #histsci
Thread 2 of a series on setting up an interesting feed and getting started with posting on a site without a central algorithm.
Today’s post is about finding accounts using Bluesky’s starter packs, and creating lists to organize accounts thematically.
#BlueskyHacks
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A tall image of a cluster of parasol mushrooms
Parasol mushrooms from one of several albums of collectible cards written by Dr Jac P Thijsse for the Verkande company in the Netherlands in the 1920s-30s #FungiFriends #MycoBookClub
Coming soon! Mycology for Architecture: Methods and Applications of Mycelium Materials in the Built Environment edited by Dilan Ozkan 📖
Learn more ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/2wfkch7f
#myceliumbasedmaterials #biodesign #biofabrication #circulardesign #regenerativematerialsystems
If this is already the normal procedure everywhere, i.e. a google scholar import, universities’ library catalogues will be useless tomorrow.
A man is sitting at a desk, writing a book with a quill. He is not looking at the page. A godly book, illuminated, is also present in the copperplate print of 1716. The godly message of the flying book is in German and from the Bible: Im Anfang war das Wort Joh:1 v:1". A light beam from the holy book to the yet blank page can also be seen with the words inscribed: „Dein Wort ist ein Licht auf meinem Wege Ps. 119 v. 105“. So, basically, god is the textual inspiration of the author's work. It looks like he is waiting an artificial hallucination in 1716. The source: https://portraits.hab.de/werk/17512/mirador
AI-assisted writing in 1716. #skystorians
I use a few games in many of my courses and the learning results are so astounding I would literally gamify the entire class if I could.
Well done @superoldgranny.bsky.social !
