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Chris Manias@chrismanias.bsky.social |
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Historian of science based at King's College London, working on history of evolutionary & deep-time sciences and environmental history. Runs #PopPalaeo ( w'>aeo.com'>www.poppalaeo.com ).
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Chris Manias
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Still another six months to go until the book is available (via UCL Press as an open access publication!), but we now have a catalogue page and a cover - by @markwitton.bsky.social, and featuring Gertie the Dinosaur in centre stage
www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/...
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Chris Manias
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Putting my talk together for the "Cursed Objects in Museum Shops" symposium at Birkbeck next week. Will be talking about two sets of postcards of "restorations" of prehistoric reptiles and mammals by Alice B. Woodward, sold in the Natural History Museum in London in the mid-1920s. Examples below:
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Dr Susannah Lydon
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If you are interested in fossils & culture this is a great #FossilFriday read. Geomyths - such as "griffins have origins in Protoceratops fossils" - can be hugely seductive, but that doesn't mean they are supported by evidence.
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Chris Manias
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Just out - an excellent and important article by Craig Howe and Lukas Rieppel on fossils taken from Lakotan lands in the late 19th century, and the responsibilities of museums holding this material: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Chris Manias
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I think he might want to eat me....
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And very much liked this guy...
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Very fun couple of days in the Peabody archives, and got to look around the stores at some historic models
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Chris Manias
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... as is the Age of Mammals.
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Got to look around the reopened Peabody Museum today. The Age of Reptiles is still looking good....
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Chris Manias
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Some endearing Argentinian palaeoart for today from Rusconi 1931 - a Guanaco compared with Paleollama.
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Chris Manias
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Hah, thanks Laura!
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Chris Manias
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Very happy to see my new project (and a 1930s AMNH Triceratops) on the front cover of the latest Leverhulme Trust Newsletter: www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...
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Darren Naish
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Tickets not yet on sale for #TetZooCon 2024 (sorry), but new dates are Sept 27th-29th, and hoping to then have THE 1ST TETZOOCON COACH TOUR happening Sept 30th-Oct 2nd. Many speakers already booked, on #dinosaurs #herpetology #birds #monsters #palaeoart and more. More info asap.
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Chris Manias
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... and the Ilford Mammoth is looking impressive in its new uncluttered position
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Chris Manias
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At least the vintage cartoon of early artiodactyls and "Superhog!" have survived
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Chris Manias
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They have emptied out the mammals!
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Chris Manias
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I've used Captain Planet as a historical source illustrating early-90s environmentalism. Current students definitely seemed to look on it as a strange product of a distant culture...
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Donna Yates
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"T. rex is Fierce, T. rex is Charismatic, T. rex is Litigious: Disruptive Objects in Affective Desirescapes" Check out our new FREE and open access paper. In it, our enthusiastic citation to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson made it through academic peer review: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Greg Priest
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Richard Owen in Victorian art and literature.
Come for the comic character names, stay for the caricatures.
🐡🧪🌱🐋 #HistSTM
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Christina Riggs
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Essential read from my excellent Durham colleague Jonathan Saha, on #racism and backlash since the 2018 Royal Historical Society report on racial inequalities in UK history departments - with wisdom on how to keep doing the work. 🗃️ @historywo.bsky.social
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-his...
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Chris Manias
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Ah, I didn't know that! Very much looking forward to hearing what you come up with
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Chris Manias
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A really interesting series of posts by Christina Riggs reflecting on her great book Unwrapping Ancient Egypt, 10 years after its publication (I set the "Mummification" chapter in my undergrad object history module -it's excellent to get students to think differently about mummified human remains)
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Chris Manias
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I thought it was really good! (and histories of Egyptology are always a great way of leading students into colonial histories of science)
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Chris Manias
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@restingdinoface.bsky.social Hi Riley, just checking whether you've got my last email on the Raleigh event? (in case things are getting caught in spam filters!)
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Chris Manias
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Thanks Dominik - good idea! I know them, so can get in touch myself
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Chris Manias
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Here's quite a good youtube video showing it in-situ from multiple angles and in close-up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLAW...
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Chris Manias
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Following Charlotte Wood's excellent talk at the last #PopPalaeo event, I'm trying to source a high-res open-access pic of the Giraffatitan sculpture in Lindi in Tanzania for the PopPalaeo book
(here on googlemaps here: maps.app.goo.gl/2DDgYgtnXs7m... )
Any blueskyers have any leads?
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Ben Miller
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Somehow I never knew the Field Museum used to have a life-sized Mesohippus diorama, and it was adorable. Frederick Blaschke made the models. 🧪 #museums #paleoart
No, I don't know why those kids aren't wearing shirts.
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Alisa Bokulich
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Via Jack Ashby: Funded PhD studentship at University of Cambridge & its Museum of Zoology exploring Colonial Natural Historical Collecting in the South Asian Indian Ocean.
#philsci #histsci #hpbio 📜🗃️
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Chris Manias
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Commiserations Will! (can empathise with a similar very recent experience...)
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Chris Manias
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I check new editions of key journals every few months, but that's as much to keep up with general trends and for teaching material as anything else. Specific articles for research I'll usually find by searching or citations (or via social media, more often than not!)
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Mondo Mascots
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Midomosu the mammoth is the mascot of Midori City in Japan (where mammoth remains were found).
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Margot Finn
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5 full-time, permanent entry level (Lecturer, eg Assistant Prof.) academic posts at UCL History Department: 1) African, 2) Environmental, 3) Modern East Asian, 4) Modern European, & 5) Social & Economic History. Deadlines are 5 April 2024; apply for more than one if the job descriptions fit.
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Chris Manias
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Hah, that is cursed indeed!
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Ben Miller
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Dream job for somebody! 🧪🦕🦖
careers.amnh.org/postings/4058
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Chris Manias
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Thanks Lydia!
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Joanne Tatham
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Colleagues at Northumbria University are facing compulsory redundancies. Please sign and share speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/stop-job-cut...
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Chris Manias
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It's part of the Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences, and more open-access chapters are available (with quite a few more to come): link.springer.com/referencewor...
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Chris Manias
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I have a new (open access!) review article out, thinking about how histories of the earth sciences can connect with African history, especially focussing on histories of mining and palaeontology: link.springer.com/referencewor...
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Chris Manias
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A big "YES!" to this upcoming workshop at Birkbeck on "Cursed Objects in Museum Shops:"
www7.bbk.ac.uk/museum-cultu...
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Chris Manias
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Yep! Interpreted as "the jaw of the didelphys or opossum, being of the size of a small kangaroo rat"
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Chris Manias
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Also the first report of a Mesozoic mammal fossil!
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Chris Manias
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Just announced - we've got two (open-ended contract) jobs going at KCL History:
- History of Political Thought (with a focus on Africa, the Americas or Asia): www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/084725-...
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History of Islamicate societies 1500-1850: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/084726-...
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Chris Manias
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Oooh, thanks! This does look cool
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Chris Manias
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Now up for #FossilFriday - the recording of the online discussion on W.J.T. Mitchell's The Last Dinosaur Book
Hosted by Victor Monnin, with responses to the book from Alison Laurence, Zoë Lescaze, Norman MacLeod and Will Tattersdill, and reflections from Mitchell
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOEY...
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Raf De Bont
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Ahead of print alert! You can now read my article "The Economy of Rarity: Animal-Catching, Cryptozoology, and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Zoo" for the January 2024 issue of Environmental History for free.
#envhist #animalhistory #endangeredspecies #zoos www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Chris Manias
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Doing some reading on the history of the Manchester Museum, and found this interesting series of photos on the history of the massive fossilized Stigmaria stump in the Geology galleries, excavated in Clayton, West Yorkshire, in the 1880s
(from here: doi.org/10.1017/S001... ££ )
#FossilFriday
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Dr Susannah Lydon
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I attended this excellent event yesterday, and dug out my copy of the wonderful The Last Dinosaur Book. The inscription inside tells me my PhD supervisor gave it to me Xmas 1998. Had she already sussed I was at least as interested in what fossils tell us about people as I was in palaeobotany?
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Chris Manias
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Chapters from the (open access!) Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth & Environmental Sciences are starting to surface link.springer.com/referencewor...
I'll have one thinking about how African history and the history of the earth sciences can speak to one another, out relatively soon
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Chris Manias
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This is happening in two days time! Come along to hear some reflections on Mitchell's The Last Dinosaur Book, and general discussion of the position of dinosaurs in modern culture 🦕🦖🐦
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