And here's the CFP weblink (compressed by 'X' in my first post): sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-well/…

Plant Humanities Summer Program (Jun 30-Jul 25, 2025 in person at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC). For grad students & advanced undergrads. Includes 2 additional weeks of virtual work (Jul 28-Aug 8). Travel expenses, + are covered. Apply by Feb 15, 2025. doaks.org/research/fello…

If you're interested in seeing what's inside my new book The Unnatural Trade, you can now get a preview of the introduction and extracts from other chapters. Find out more, see inside, and order - brycchancarey.com/bookshop/unnat…

My article Herbaria: From History into the Digital Age has just been published in The American Biology Teacher, where I wrote a column for 30 years. It's good to be back, thanks to William McComas and Douglas Allchin. Open Access online.ucpress.edu/abt/article/86…

So exciting to see this out in the world! Congrats to Rachel Murray and Dr Vera Fibisan & all the contributors!

Mandrake, c. 1650, by #GiovannaGarzoni (Italian, 1600-1670). From Piante varie, f. 11., (seq. 32), held at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, doaks.org/resources/rare… #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory

I talked about some of the stunning botanical books in the Teylers collections on day 2 of VisionLab! We focused on the various book formats and how the physical sizes of the picture planes affected the depictions of plants & microscopic observations. #VisualizingtheUnknown

So excited to see the positive comments about Dr Isabelle Gapp's new book in the December issue of Choice.Reviews! '... turns to the shared geographical areas and natural environments of Scandinavia and Canada to address a new ecocritical history of art. ... Highly recommended.'

Gapp's book - A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930 - is published in the Lund Humphries series Northern Lights, lundhumphries.com/products/a-cir…

Warming flavours of saffron, pepper, chile and ginger for a cold winter's morning in #Dublin. From a 16th century herbal. a book on the medicinal uses of plants.

Happily browsing the provisory program for next The Renaissance Society of America, #RSABoston #RSA25 in which I present a paper on the🌳 subterranean🌿life of plants🍄and the politics of plant studies. It is part of a nice panel organized by Fabien Montcher & Katarzyna Lecky. #plantstudies #plantpolitics

Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft, botánica rescatada de las sombras mujeresconciencia.com/2022/09/06/ann…

Ada Rybachuk showcased the Arctic Circle to the rest of the world through her art. Rybachuk was a Ukrainian artist who spent years in the Arctic, living among the Nenets people and capturing their way of life. dailyartmagazine.com/ada-rybachuk

Announcing the latest addition to EHPC Book Series, published by Amsterdam Univ Press - Imperialism in Early Modern Spanish Narratives: Excavating the Environmental Conflicts of the Iberian Globalization by Miguel Ibáñez Aristondo aup.nl/en/book/978904…

New book announcement! Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art Edited by Robert Schindler, Bernd Ebert & Anna C. Knaap Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2024 Available to order from Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, mfa.org/publication/ra… or @toledomuseum, store.toledomuseum.org/default/exhibi…, among other sites #newbooksaboutwomenartists

Top 10 of this year's most read pieces — no.9: our post on Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462), the only fully illustrated herbal from the incunabula period of German history: publicdomainreview.org/collection/har… (Full Top 10 here: publicdomainreview.org/blog/2024/12/t…)

Ecocene's December 2024 issue is out! This issue features remarkable artwork, stories, and book reviews. Access the full issue on the journal's website. ecocene.kapadokya.edu.tr/index.php/ecoc…

Discover the life of Robert Hooke, England’s first professional scientist! Felicity Henderson & John Tresch discuss Hooke’s groundbreaking methods & role as a science communicator in this Renaissance Lives talk. 16 Jan 2025, 5:30–7pm | Online buff.ly/4ffIvWc

5) ... and (also forthcoming in #IlluminatingWomenArtists in Fall 2025) - Maria Sibylla Merian By Catherine Powell-Warren lundhumphries.com/products/maria…

Anna Boberg: Artist, Wife, Polar Explorer by Isabelle Gapp for #ArtHerstory artherstory.net/anna-boberg-ar…