Matthew Holmes

@mattholmes.bsky.social

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Historian of Science, Technology, and the Environment https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8498-3264 Author of "The Graft Hybrid: Challenging Twentieth-Century Genetics" @upittpress.bsky.social‬ #HistSTM #EnvHist #HistTech #AnimalHistory matthewrholmes.com

Two dishes containing peanut plants. One has been badly damaged by insects. The other, genetically engineered, plant is still intact and green. Image is from the Agricultural Research Service.

The Maastricht giant, Gigantius, being paraded through a city street.

A sparrow sitting on a ledge against the background of an American city.

Dolly Jørgensen speaks about purple martins and bird houses. Slide shows a picture of a martin in a gourd from the 19thc book “Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio.”

Helen Cowie’s talk on alpacas, showing two historical images of alpacas in menageries

A faint image of the aurora borealis

The cover of the latest issue of the journal "Technology and Culture." Two house sparrows perch outside a bird box.

Cover of The Graft Hybrid, featuring the Florentine Bizarria (a hybrid citron and orange tree).