Nathan E C Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 6300784 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan E C Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan E C |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH N E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Museum Wales |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4142-892X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Digitisation as archival intermediary
Societal Impact Statement Mass digitisation of natural science collections and archives has increasingly become a priority for scientific heritage institutions. Here, we explore the potential of mass digitisation to improve our understanding of the nature and history of scientific collaboration. Focusing on mycologist Greta B. Stevenson (1911–1990)—a peripatetic researcher whose career alternated between Great Britain and New Zealand—we quantify …
A Generation on Mushrooms
Victor Pelevin's novel Generation P has attracted both popular and academic interest for its ability to capture the zeitgeist of Russia in the 1990s and a generation searching for a new identity in the ruins of the Soviet Union. However, one element has been largely ignored by scholars: the role of fungi and, specifically, the entheogenic mukhomor . Here we discuss the history of mukhomor in the Russian context and demonstrate how Pelevin's repre…
Messy databases
Amateur naturalists and natural history societies are abundant throughout the UK, and indeed throughout the globe, and have intimate relationships with the museum sector. Importantly, amateur naturalists and natural history societies often possess expertise in fields underserved by museums, such as taxonomy or the local history of natural history. The amateur naturalist, in the context of the museum, is simultaneously volunteer and expert and thi…
Taxonomy of fear
Of stumps and stipes
Mycology, the study of fungi, is a relatively young and underexplored discipline with a strong culture of field collection and study. The Yorkshire Mycological Committee (YMC) of the Yorkshire Naturalist's Union, formed in 1892, became the first permanent mycological organization within Great Britain. Well renowned and highly competent, the members of the YMC espoused a distinctive philosophy and practice of science that led them into a drawn-out…
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Of stumps and stipes
Mycology, the study of fungi, is a relatively young and underexplored discipline with a strong culture of field collection and study. The Yorkshire Mycological Committee (YMC) of the Yorkshire Naturalist's Union, formed in 1892, became the first permanent mycological organization within Great Britain. Well renowned and highly competent, the members of the YMC espoused a distinctive philosophy and practice of science that led them into a drawn-out…
Messy databases
Amateur naturalists and natural history societies are abundant throughout the UK, and indeed throughout the globe, and have intimate relationships with the museum sector. Importantly, amateur naturalists and natural history societies often possess expertise in fields underserved by museums, such as taxonomy or the local history of natural history. The amateur naturalist, in the context of the museum, is simultaneously volunteer and expert and thi…
Taxonomy of fear
A Generation on Mushrooms
Victor Pelevin's novel Generation P has attracted both popular and academic interest for its ability to capture the zeitgeist of Russia in the 1990s and a generation searching for a new identity in the ruins of the Soviet Union. However, one element has been largely ignored by scholars: the role of fungi and, specifically, the entheogenic mukhomor . Here we discuss the history of mukhomor in the Russian context and demonstrate how Pelevin's repre…
Digitisation as archival intermediary
Societal Impact Statement Mass digitisation of natural science collections and archives has increasingly become a priority for scientific heritage institutions. Here, we explore the potential of mass digitisation to improve our understanding of the nature and history of scientific collaboration. Focusing on mycologist Greta B. Stevenson (1911–1990)—a peripatetic researcher whose career alternated between Great Britain and New Zealand—we quantify …
Biology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Amateur (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Citizen science (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · History of Science and Natural History (2 works) · Natural history (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Species Distribution and Climate Change (2 works)