#openhumanities — Public Fediverse posts

We're delighted to announce the publication from Open Humanities Press of Dark Botany: The Herbarium Tales, edited by Prudence Gibson, Sigi Jottkandt, Marie Sierra and Anna Westbrook.

Available in open access and print:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/dark-botany/

Dark Botany activates the material and sensorial wonder of plants. In this Wunderkammer of critical plant studies essays and plant+artworks, the herbarium emerges as a site of multiple materialities and reflexive forms of counter-narrative. Herbaria specimens come alive as assemblages, telling truths about their dark histories and darker contemporary currents, while reflecting on the complexity of texture, movement, memory, compound structure, chemical emissions and rapid evolution of plants and languages. What one discovers is that herbaria are not static: they are as vital, energetic and enigmatic as the plants in their collections.

#OA #OAbooks #humanities #openhumanities #ohp #plants #PlantScience #environmentalhumanities #art

It's already week 2 of my #ResearchLeave 😱
Last week was mostly spent picking up loose ends and doing lots of the #InvisibleWork of research, like documenting, tidying, archiving, and depositing various data sets and related materials. These are time-consuming and often frustrating tasks. We can be honest here, and not fool ourselves and others.
For the time being, the "credit" or "merit" we get from doing #OpenResearch #OpenHumanities is benign even though it might be the right thing to do…