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"Global Plants and Digital Letters: Epistemological Implications of Digitising the Directors' Correspondence at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew"

Anna Svenson considers the epistemological implications of the digitization of the Directors’ Correspondence (DC) collection (1841-1928) at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She concludes that care is needed to avoid replicating the invisible losses of extractive approaches to knowledge production, particularly in the context of collection-based biodiversity conservation.

Data Refuge

Data Refuge is a community-driven, collaborative project to preserve public climate and environmental data. When we document the many ways diverse communities use data, we can also advocate for future data.

"Mathematizing Nature's Messiness: Graphical Representations of Variation in Ecology, 1930-Present"

Martin’s article explores the rise of the line graph and an associated statistical method, linear regression, in ecology, contending that not only has ecologists’ use of linear regression shaped understandings of nature, but ecologists’ understandings of nature have also shaped their use of linear regression.