Back from "break" to Week 4 of This week we talked about scientific expeditions + fieldwork in "extreme" environments, from the tropics to the Arctic. We discussed hierarchies of knowledge production, the movement of specimens + the "burden" of science.

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Class is back in (in-person) session, y'all! In Week 2 of we discussed the material culture + labor of taxonomy in the 18thC, from the classification of mammals to crazy things like platypuses and from the abortifacient peacock flower to Linnaeus' sexist plants.

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Artist Chet Phillips offers a new spin on some of the most of our time. In his latest artistic installment, the illustrator depicts icons as vintage, taxonomic pieces in his series entitled, https://t.co/2rVJS3IGSZ

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on collibris, asses and hubris: Griffonnages Latents and their peeve pets

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