Explore the worlds of wonder seen through the microscope. Help us identify and classify nineteenth-century microscopy illustrations.
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27 Apr 2021
We're happy to report that our #CitizenScience project data are now free to access on DataverseNL, following the FAIR guidelines for data reuse. In this interview, @lea_bei reflects on the challenges of making data FAIR. worldsofwonderblog.org/makin…
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17 Nov 2020
A huge thanks to Aleksandra Kuznetsova @the_zooniverse for interviewing us about our project and including it in the 2020 Zooniverse Highlights Book! You can read about it (and many other wonderful #CitizenScience projects) here: zooniverse.org/about/highlig… #CitizenScience
3 Sep 2020
We've just submitted a list of the illustrators we found to the Database of Scientific Illustrators. Feels great to help build this amazing resource! #histSTM #CitizenScience dsi.hi.uni-stuttgart.de/inde…
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4 Aug 2020
Lovely to chat with @lea_bei just now about her experience leading the @micro_worlds project -- great insight for us ahead of our own transcription project with @the_zooniverse #PostalHistory
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Have you been waiting to see what’s in store at our upcoming FREE Global Digital History of Science Festival? Our new dedicated Festival website has all the details: bshsfestival.org.uk
Join us from 6th-10th July
#HistSciFest #HSTM #HistSTM #HistSci #HistTech #HistMed
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3 Jun 2020
We are extremely excited to announce that you can now find us on YouTube! Just search for the 'Royal Microscopical Society' or follow the link here: ow.ly/Bjkp50zWkIT Please remember to subscribe!
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28 May 2020
Excited to announce the new @BritishAcademy_ #microscopicrecords blog entry: Catherine Wilson on #earlymodern microscopy, senses & thing theory! bit.ly/3dc5lif
@UoMhistdept @yorkuniversity @AHAhistorians #twitterstorians #materialculture #philosophy #EMQuon
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26 May 2020
Event: Book talk: Travelling Microbes in Central Europe, 29.05.2020. Open Zoom event with Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen (Vienna) and Katrin Steffen (Lüneburg). More info: pol-int.org/en/conference/tr….
For meeting link fill in: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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25 May 2020
We're featured in a @BSHSViewpoint article on digital resources and engagement in #HistSTM! 📢 Check out other #DigHist projects - and a guide on how to run a Twitter conference - here:
22 May 2020
🌊🌊🌊The latest issue of Viewpoint is now up on the website! Lots of great articles on the scientific, technological, and medicinal significance and impacts of water throughout history. bshs.org.uk/publications/vie…
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14 May 2020
Now that we've aggregated and cleaned the data we collected, it's time to meet the illustrators! We're happy to offer you a first glimpse of our visualised data. #histSTM #DigiHum worldsofwonderblog.org/meet-…
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30 Apr 2020
We’re happy & sad to announce that we’ve finished collecting data on @the_zooniverse. We analysed illustrations in 19 books, 1 collection of flyers & a whopping 63 volumes of journals! We thank you for the time & effort you put into our project. It’s been a blast!
What now? ⬇️
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30 Apr 2020
In the long run, we’d like to visualise our data, e.g. how the number of illustrations published in a periodical changed over time, much like @CuratorGeoff did (below). We’d also like to visualise networks of illustrators who worked together. cambridge.org/core/journals/… #histSTM #DH
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23 Mar 2020
#StayAtHome means people have more time for web-based #CitizenScience. We just welcomed our 2,000th volunteer! It's a bittersweet success, of course, but hopefully we can help make self-isolation a little less isolating. Take care of yourselves and others!
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20 Mar 2020
Around the mid-nineteenth century, microscopy became a popular way of experiencing nature without leaving your living room - maybe just the thing we need right now. #corona
Or help us analyse what nineteenth-century people saw through their microscopes. #histSTM #CitizenScience
12 Mar 2020
We've finished classifying illustrations in J. W. Griffith's (1875) monumental The Micrographic Dictionary: 845 pages containing some 800 illustrations! #CitizenScience #histSTM
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11 Mar 2020
1,947 people have contributed to our #CitizenScience project so far, classifying illustrations of all sorts of microscopic worlds of wonder. Thanks for caring about these minuscule things & thanks for all your hard work! #histSTM
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3 Mar 2020
#OTD in 1703 died Robert Hooke - one of the best appreciators of fleas and their amazing morphology. An original copy and one of his microscopes was on display at @RMGreenwich a few years back and it’s always a treat to see the images and ‘tech’
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