#museumcollections — Public Fediverse posts

Now an English version of our recent web publication with our students, titled "Images of the World", is available:

How were images of the world and ideas of foreignness and otherness negotiated and constituted in nineteenth-century art?

https://museumsandsociety.net/en/research/digital-image-worlds/weltbilder

#museumcollections #paintings #annotation #openscience #sciencecommunication #teaching #publishing #studentpublishing #webpublishing #digitalarthistory #decolonize
#AlexandervonHumboldt
#AiméBonpland
#FerdinandKonradBellermann
#FriedrichGeorgWeitsch
#CarlBlechen
#FriedrichAugustStüler
#PaulMeyerheim
#WilhelmKuhnert
#RadenSaleh
#AmritaSherGil
#Palmenhaus
#BerlinerZoo

A new look at decades of data from #MuseumCollections & #surveys of #LeafLitter #ants in #Florida #reveals a steady #decline in #NativeAnts , #simultaneous #increase in #nonNative ants—even in #protected natural areas of the state, researchers report.
#Reported in the journal Current #Biology , the findings point to a potential future devoid of native ants, the #researchers said.

https://www.labmanager.com/news/in-florida-study-non-native-leaf-litter-ants-are-replacing-native-ants-30091

#entomology #insects #biodiversity #AtRisk #ecology #environment