Nathan Probably

Nathan Probably

@nathanprobably.bsky.social

Curator, Historian of Science, Mycologist. Wrote about Wetherspoons once: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160932723000467

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Nathan Probably
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Sometimes I do science too! Along with Zhiru Guoli, we explored how historical data can be used to help us quantify interspecific relationships between fungi. You can read all about it for free here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #historicalecology #mathematicalecology #fungalforays #mushrooms

tandfonline.comUse of Ecological Networks to Reveal Interspecific Fungal Interactions from 150 Years of Foray RecordsFungal forays have been conducted for more than 150 years, providing valuable, but underutilized, sets of records for studies of fungal ecology. Although foray records have been used to study speci...

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Dr Astrid Biddle
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@ilichenmoss2.bsky.social George Greiff in the BBC News headlines on Sunday morning. A fantastic discovery, and hopefully a way to moderate invasive (INNS) Campylopus introflexus (Heath Star Moss). Well deserved recognition for some very interesting bryological work. 🎉🙌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukKiller fungus discovered that destroys UK invasive plantA newly discovered species raises hope that some native British habitats could be restored.
Nathan Probably
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Christopher Kreuzer deserves to be very proud of this paper. I've yet to see anyone else so dedicated in producing such a comprehensive approach. A fascinating mix of quantitative and qualitative history of science serves as a fascinating case study for what digitisation can do for the humanities 🍄🍄

Plants, People, Planet@plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social

Digitisation as archival intermediary: Quantifying and qualifying Greta B. Stevenson's mycological collector networks 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... by Kreuzer et al. #PlantScience Image credit: Photography (CK) courtesy Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Nathan Probably
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A NEW PAPER! A really fun piece to write with the wonderfully brilliant and brilliantly wonderful Dion Dobrzynski. Its all about the #FungalTurn, the potential of metaphors in science, and the intersections of fungi and fiction. #mycology #mushrooms www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

cambridge.orgMycorrhiza and Metaphor in Twenty-First-Century Science/Fiction | Public Humanities | Cambridge CoreMycorrhiza and Metaphor in Twenty-First-Century Science/Fiction - Volume 2
Nathan Probably
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Our new paper on #mushrooms, #russia and #literature is finally out and in @aseees.bsky.social Slavic Review! It's been a long journey with several major life events but having amazing coauthors has made the whole process a real joy. You can read it #openaccess here: tinyurl.com/4dvexenc

tinyurl.comA Generation on Mushrooms: Mukhomor and Visions of Russianness in Victor Pelevin’s Generation P | Slavic Review | Cambridge CoreA Generation on Mushrooms: Mukhomor and Visions of Russianness in Victor Pelevin’s Generation P - Volume 84 Issue 2
Nathan Probably
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🚨 New paper out and its a banger! 🚨 We explored how historical foray records can be used to better understand fungus-fungus interactions in woodland species. Its free to read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #fungalecology #fungalscience #mycology #fieldmycology

tandfonline.comUse of Ecological Networks to Reveal Interspecific Fungal Interactions from 150 Years of Foray RecordsFungal forays have been conducted for more than 150 years, providing valuable, but underutilized, sets of records for studies of fungal ecology. Although foray records have been used to study speci...
Nathan Probably
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Latest paper with the fantastic @katherinenright.bsky.social Our thoughts and recommendations on #herbarium #digitisation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.comDigitization as scientific labor: Critical approaches and recommendations for herbariaViewing digitization against a backdrop of the history of herbarium labor—and in the wake of substantial shifts in the museum landscape—we give a series of recommendations for mass digitization proje...

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The Guardian
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Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people

theguardian.comGroundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous peopleNew book reveals that Pacific islands inhabitants helped European scientists identify hundreds of plant species In 1769, nearly nine months after setting sail with Capt James Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander…

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Edwin Rose
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Delighted to see this wonderful article by @donnalferguson.bsky.social @theguardian.com on some of the research being published in my forthcoming book that can be pre-ordered now! For the UK: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Reading-the-... And USA: upittpress.org/books/978082...

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people

theguardian.comGroundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous peopleNew book reveals that Pacific islands inhabitants helped European scientists identify hundreds of plant species In 1769, nearly nine months after setting sail with Capt James Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander…
Nathan Probably
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Reposting due to the recent migration here: happy to answer any questions by DM or email :)

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🚨 Prospective PhD students, come work with me and some amazing colleagues on looking at women in mycology! Details here and happy to answer any questions by email or DM: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🚨 #historyofscience #fungarium #phdopportunity

sites.google.comLCAB PhD studentships - Currently recruitingWomen and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950
Nathan Probably
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What do H.G. Wells and the Little Shop of Horrors have to say about the state of #botany and #plantsciences? My article on the interwoven histories of botany and the strange orchid is finally out: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #hgwells #littleshopofhorrors #nofungitoday

tandfonline.comTaxonomy of fear: the evolution of H. G. Wells’s “Strange Orchid”Published in Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
Nathan Probably
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🚨Job Alert🚨: We're hiring a Botany Curator 🍄🌺🌲at Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales to join our Natural Sciences team and use our collections to examine the impact of invasive species on ecosystems. #plantjobs #museumjobs #botanyjobs #mycologyjobs nmwtest.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...

nmwtest.ciphr-irecruit.comSenior Curator Botany (Invasive and non-invasive species) | Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales iRecruit Careers Portal
Nathan Probably
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Latest paper is out and its not on fungi! Instead its all about #Wetherspoons and history. How history is communicated and understood is important. Spoons has an interesting take on history that I think has wider implications... sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #spoons #histsci

sciencedirect.comHistory in the pub: The historiography of J.D. WetherspoonJ. D. Wetherspoon is a popular pub chain in the United Kingdom. Despite its prominence in British cultural life and active and deliberate engagement w…

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