Researches the Scottish Enlightenment, history of racism, Linnaean natural history, and collecting. Senior Lecturer & mum of 3. https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/https://bsky.app/profile/lindaaburnett.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/lindaaburnett.bsky.social/post/3ml6lxia3js2fHonoured to see our book Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History (@brucealexb.bsky.social), shortlisted for the Pickstone Prize by the British Society for the History of Science https://bshs.org.uk/pickstone-prize-2026-shortlist/ It’s a real privilege to be included alongside such inspiring scholarship.06 May 2026 11:29 +0000at://did:plc:2qsffcxfgqddd52dw6qfprht/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6lxia3js2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/lindaaburnett.bsky.social/post/3ml2d4wi6xs27WOMNH seminar! 6 May, 15:00–16:00 (CET) 'Everywhere and Nowhere: Women in the Making of Natural History' Luisa Kapp. Please contact Laurence Talairach for link: laurence.talairach@univ-tlse2.fr womnh.hypotheses.org/events Please circulate. Abstract below.04 May 2026 18:41 +0000at://did:plc:2qsffcxfgqddd52dw6qfprht/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2d4wi6xs27https://bsky.app/profile/lindaaburnett.bsky.social/post/3mkhyeccg5s2lSeminar alert! Nuala Caomhanach (@nulybranch.bsky.social) : 'Collecting Rarity: The Conundrum of Instructing and Constructing - Histories of Malagasy Endemism from Colonial Plant Specimens', Wed 29 April, 15-16 CET, for Zoom link: please email instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se. 🧵27 Apr 2026 11:40 +0000at://did:plc:2qsffcxfgqddd52dw6qfprht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhyeccg5s2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/lindaaburnett.bsky.social/post/3mhdbq2zjlk2yWe’re excited to share our seminar line-up for Women in Natural History Museums & Collections. Please join us and help circulate! First out: Wednesday 6 May – 15:00–16:00 (CET) Luisa Kapp (Senckenberg Nature Research) “Everywhere and Nowhere: Women in the Making of Natural History” 🧵#histsci #HPS18 Mar 2026 10:29 +0000at://did:plc:2qsffcxfgqddd52dw6qfprht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhdbq2zjlk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/lindaaburnett.bsky.social/post/3mgmvc23kn22pCall for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius. #Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork09 Mar 2026 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:2qsffcxfgqddd52dw6qfprht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgmvc23kn22phttps://bsky.app/profile/lindaaburnett.bsky.social/post/3mdfqutr3ws2jThere is still time to register for tomorrow's seminar: Yunting Gu (28th Jan, 3-4, CET) Disputing the lacquer tree: Visual Evidence and Global Knowledge in the Early Modern World. Zoom link: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/yunti... #skystorians #envhist #museums [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Jan 2026 12:24 +0000at://did:plc:2qsffcxfgqddd52dw6qfprht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdfqutr3ws2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/lindaaburnett.bsky.social/post/3mcz6glbdws2wSeminar on colonial instructinons by Yunting Gu 28th of Jan, 3-4, CET (Zoom): Disputing the lacquer tree: Visual Evidence and Global Knowledge in the Early Modern World. Zoom link: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se, Welcome! https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/yunting-gu-fudan-universityuniversity-of-cambridge- #skystorians #envhist #museums22 Jan 2026 12:22 +0000at://did:plc:2qsffcxfgqddd52dw6qfprht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcz6glbdws2whttps://bsky.app/profile/lindaaburnett.bsky.social/post/3mcz5wweypk2pNew seminars on Instructing Colonial Natural History 🌿 We can look forward to papers by Yunting Gu, Adriana Craciun and @nulybranch.bsky.social. For more info see instructingnaturalhistory.com (more info will be added). #skystorians #museums #collecting #histsci #envhist22 Jan 2026 12:13 +0000at://did:plc:2qsffcxfgqddd52dw6qfprht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcz5wweypk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/lindaaburnett.bsky.social/post/3mckkdlyxq22gThere is currently 30% off selected 18th-c history titles by Yale University Press, including Race and the Scottish Enlightenment. [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Jan 2026 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:2qsffcxfgqddd52dw6qfprht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mckkdlyxq22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/lindaaburnett.bsky.social/post/3m7hub7sbtc2lDon't miss! 🌿 Pocket Books and Floating Libraries: Books as Collecting Tools in Instructions to Travelers. Anna Svensson will discuss how books haven’t just described the natural world, they’ve also helped collect it. Wed. 10 Dec, 15:00–16:00 CET Zoom link, email: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se08 Dec 2025 10:49 +0000at://did:plc:2qsffcxfgqddd52dw6qfprht/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7hub7sbtc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/lindaaburnett.bsky.social/post/3m6wfp7nj2s2zJoin to learn how we can bring women’s voices forward—and reshape the story natural history collections tell. Today at 4-5 CET: “Not Mrs. Husband’s Name: Elevating Women’s Voices in Natural History Collections” by Archivists Ashley Aberg & Nicole Font (New York Botanical Garden).01 Dec 2025 12:14 +0000at://did:plc:2qsffcxfgqddd52dw6qfprht/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6wfp7nj2s2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/lindaaburnett.bsky.social/post/3m6ht5ao5qs2sThere is still time to register for tomorrow's seminar 'Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History'. The event will be hybrid, on 26 Nov from 3-4.30pm. Note that it is CET. Please email for a Zoom link: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se #skystorians #Enlightenment #Scotland [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Nov 2025 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:2qsffcxfgqddd52dw6qfprht/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ht5ao5qs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/lindaaburnett.bsky.social/post/3m6eisc5z3s2dJoin @brucealexb.bsky.social and I as we launch our book Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History (Yale UP, 2025). The event will be hybrid, on Wed 26 Nov from 3-4.30pm CET. If you can’t join us in Uppsala, please email us for a Zoom link: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/t7z22scrj9vbher5k35v9e1azqavu924 Nov 2025 09:21 +0000at://did:plc:2qsffcxfgqddd52dw6qfprht/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6eisc5z3s2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/lindaaburnett.bsky.social/post/3m5wa5a6xdk2nA new Isis Focus Section asks a bold question: “Is deep history white?”The issue shows how ideas of deep time emerged through European geology, empire, and the dismissal of Indigenous temporal knowledge. Deep history has long carried the imprint of a distinctly white European, extractive worldview. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Nov 2025 17:09 +0000at://did:plc:2qsffcxfgqddd52dw6qfprht/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5wa5a6xdk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/lindaaburnett.bsky.social/post/3m5tssqj5ik26Don’t miss the first talk in the WOMNH (Women in Natural History Museums and Collections) Online Fall Seminar Series! Monday 24 November 2025, 4:00–5:00 pm CET by Louise Berridge (NHM London): “Women of the Riverflies”17 Nov 2025 18:05 +0000at://did:plc:2qsffcxfgqddd52dw6qfprht/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5tssqj5ik26