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1/14 Today in #OceanhistAPM: #coral as I look forward to discussing @em_hutcheson's chapter for the #oceanhist reading group @chstmorg tomorrow. Last year I enjoyed making @MakingKnowing's imitation coral with Donna Bilak. https://www.imaginarien-der-kraft.uni-hamburg.de/aktivitaeten/workshops/2020-making-and-knowing.html
2/14 We had fun & produced lovely specimens: https://twitter.com/dominikhhh/status/1232050866028515330?s=20. We also heard from @whitmer_kelly about "Realia and the utility of play in educational reform projects" #Coral symbolises the importance of playfulness in knowledge formation, don't you think? #OceanhistAPM
3/14 Donna wrote about her workshops in Hamburg and elsewhere in an article for a special issue edited by the one and only @MMAHendriksen : https://doi.org/10.1002/bewi.202000010 So it's not only fun but also important work beyond the #academy #OceanhistAPM
4/14 Looking for #coral in my twitter bubble was so interesting & this thread presents some examples. Donna Bilak & @taranummedal produced the fab born digital edition of M. Maier's Atalanta fugiens.
https://twitter.com/taranummedal/status/1285932347225968640?s=20 Look & listen: https://furnaceandfugue.org #OceanhistAPM
https://twitter.com/taranummedal/status/1285932347225968640?s=20 Look & listen: https://furnaceandfugue.org #OceanhistAPM
5/14 Emblem 32 is a beautiful image & text on #coral with this fantastic line: "This is the Philosophical vegetable, animal, and mineral Coral, which lies occult in the vast ocean, and is not known." Perfect for #OceanhistAPM, right?
https://furnaceandfugue.org/atalanta-fugiens/emblem32.html
https://furnaceandfugue.org/atalanta-fugiens/emblem32.html
6/14 Of course many #museums hold #OceanhistAPM specimens, including #coral.
@MNCN_Col, could you tell us a little bit more about this drawing? https://twitter.com/MNCN_Col/status/1340765103772340230?s=20
@MNCN_Col, could you tell us a little bit more about this drawing? https://twitter.com/MNCN_Col/status/1340765103772340230?s=20
7/14 As we all know #documentation & #metadata are key in #museum work both for #nathist as well as for #HistSTM . This is a great example form @CardiffCurator showing us their work with #coral and other #oceanhistAPM https://twitter.com/CardiffCurator/status/1195626308207861763?s=20
8/14 #Coral is a fascinating #oceanhistAPM to talk about "response-ability" for the natural world, as @marioninmcr has recently argued. And I totally agree and love the phrase. https://twitter.com/marioninmcr/status/1332729315621019650?s=20
9/14 Looking at #oceanhistAPM is of course inspired by the environmental problems of today. As we all know, #coral reefs are fragile ecosystems as @IPBES reminds us. https://twitter.com/IPBES/status/1333940696995270658?s=20
10/14 #Mapping & #taxonomy are important topics in #HistSTM & #envhist, also concerning #oceanhistAPM. Current work by @WRMarineSpecies and others builds on long (and partly violent) traditions. Here is a collection of #coral reef maps: https://twitter.com/WRMarineSpecies/status/1121020018764992512?s=20
11/14 For a #map that visualises humans' dependency on #coral, look at this from @decolonialatlas https://twitter.com/decolonialatlas/status/1201567472731725824?s=. #OceanthistAPM also needs to incorporate this aspect.
12/14 The #HistSTM of #coral and other #oceanhistAPM is also deeply colonial as @TamaraFernando3 highlights. https://twitter.com/TamaraFernando3/status/1189217305340891137?s=20
13/14 This history of #coral includes not only #oceanhistAPM but also land-based species. E.g. #coraltrees. This example from @karnold01 shows entangled histories but also #C18 racist taxonomies, as #CPThunberg's species epithet (Erythrina caffra) shows https://twitter.com/karnold01/status/1331201691216175108?s=20
14/14 Hope you all enjoyed this short #histknow #histSTM #envhist #oceanhist of #coral . Now I want to hear your #oceanhistAPM stories! 
Happy to see #oceanhistAPM in #museums are getting lots of attention these days. here‘s a fantastic thread on conserving #coral reef habitat display. https://twitter.com/nautilusnat/status/1351514750727966721
