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Starting day at #spnhc2022 in session "Connecting Communities to Natural History Collections"
Helen Barber-James leads off with "Integrating African Natural History specimen data; current progress and future needs". Huge collections of African material in European museums.
Helen Barber-James leads off with "Integrating African Natural History specimen data; current progress and future needs". Huge collections of African material in European museums.
But she points out there is also lots of material in museums in Africa and activities happening to both collect, digitize and curate materials.
(Reminds me that I need to figure out how to visit some African museums on my extinction project.)
(Reminds me that I need to figure out how to visit some African museums on my extinction project.)
Hillary Barron presenting virtually "Culturally Responsive Undergraduate Science Education: A model for equity and social justice academic biology"
She is emphasising that positionality matters tremendously in science education. Need to move beyond equity as inclusion.
She is emphasising that positionality matters tremendously in science education. Need to move beyond equity as inclusion.
Our session Exhibiting Extinction and Endangerment now happening at #spnhc2022!
After my brief introduction, Verity Burke @DrVerityBurke talking death masks
After my brief introduction, Verity Burke @DrVerityBurke talking death masks
Burke @DrVerityBurke turns to her work on the death masks of Alfred the gorilla 🦍 . His taxidermied body is in Bristol Museum, but other things like his bust appear in zoo.
His death mask was used to make plaster bust that is in M Shed, but it is a celebrity portrait not presented as conservation object.
Made it to Edinburgh for the keynotes at #spnhc2022 ! Starting with Mark Maslin on the Anthropocene.
Yikes! An extremely Euro-centric view of the “modes of human society” on a timeline presented by Maslin (who is a geologist).
Just shows that we historians are doing a terrible job of breaking down this kind of narrative.
Just shows that we historians are doing a terrible job of breaking down this kind of narrative.
Now Hermione Cockburn on Edinburgh and the birth of deep-sea science.
Starts by saying we need ocean literacy among general public.
Starts by saying we need ocean literacy among general public.
