Hats off, and respect to, Jewish American director Sarah Friedland who accepted her Venice Film Festival Award for her debut film ‘Familiar Touch’ in the name, and in support, of Palestinians facing "the 336th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza". aljazeera.com/program/newsfe…

The artistic touches all around Muséum de Toulouse are beautiful and joyful - giving the sense of a playful museum. #MuseumNerdsAbroad #pangolins #bears #lynx

Had I been in Whoville, I had simply stopped the Grinch from stealing all the presents. It's not that hard. Just shoot the green bitch

A new academic year means that the The Collection Ecologies Research Collective Consortium #HistSTM working group is back! Now in its second year, we're bringing you an exciting series of seminars & workshops! 🌿🪲🐠 If you want to get updates & reminders from us, make sure you sign up ➡️ chstm.org/content/collec… /1

Here's a sneak peek of the seminar line-up so far: On Thursday 10 October, 5pm BST we'll hear presentations from Jules Skotnes-Brown & Matheus Duarte (Visual Plague/ Global War Against the Rat) on 'Zoonotic Collecting” in Southern Africa and South America'. /2

On Thursday 14 November, 5pm GMT @karnold01 will present her talk that had to be rescheduled from earlier this year entitled 'The Will of Welwitsch: African Botanical Collections and Ownership in the Late Nineteenth Century'. /3

It occurs to me that a fun #AI project would be to train a model to detect obvious bad patterns in GBIF @biodiversity.social/@gbif maps and flag them for curation.

17.000 koloniale #HumanRemains in dt. Sammlungen, das ist der eigentliche Skandal. Es ist uns in den letzten Jahren nicht gelungen, die breite Bevölkerung darüber aufzuklären, was Kolonialismus eigentlich ist. Sonst dürfte es den privaten Handel mit kolonialen #HumanRemains

Marxist analysis should always be slightly stretched every time we have to do with the colonial problem. Everything up to and including the very nature of pre-capitalist society, so well explained by Marx, must here be thought out again. —Frantz Fanon

i bet academics who publish a lot while also teaching and raising children have failed to watch as many shows as i have

1) The rats of Paris are a plague reservoir. Today, such a statement would spook many. But that’s what Tanon claimed in 1922; the starting point of my OA article Of rats and children: plague, malaria, and the early history of disease reservoirs (1898–1930) link.springer.com/article/10.100…

“Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people, but what’s worse, I think, is that they’ll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad." - Frankie Boyle, Scottish comedian

Welcome back to the Unnatural History Museum 🕊️ Our first free online event will be about birds, featuring Clara Dawson, Megan Kuster & Elle Kaye! Please 'tweet' & share. 5pm Irish Time on Wednesday 13th November eventbrite.ie/e/the-unnatura… #museums #birds #birdsoftwitter

Learn about the evocative potential of science and pathology collections in medical museums. On 6 November, join our colleagues in the Object Based Learning Lab for a special Research in Focus talk during National #PathologyWeek. ucl.ac.uk/culture/whats-…

Getting everything ready for a Collection Ecologies Workshop today at NEST The Collection Ecologies Research Collective tu.berlin/wg/veranstaltu…

53 days!

Niemals vergessen: Die Bundesregierung liefert dafür weiter Waffen.