Dr Jill Whitelock
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social
Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
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‘Inhabiting Caribbean Light’ - new post by British Academy Global Professor Marsha Pearce on belonging, artists, art collections and museum practices on the @camglamresearch.bsky.social blog.
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/inhabit...
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/inhabit...
Inhabiting Caribbean Light - Collections Connections Communities
Inhabiting Caribbean Light Professor Marsha Pearce, British Academy Global Professor, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge 1. From the Caribbean to Cambridge: Professor Marsha Pearce joined the...
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January 5, 2026 at 10:41 PM
‘Inhabiting Caribbean Light’ - new post by British Academy Global Professor Marsha Pearce on belonging, artists, art collections and museum practices on the @camglamresearch.bsky.social blog.
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/inhabit...
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/inhabit...
January 5, 2026 at 8:52 PM
A nice Dandelion in Ely today. #WildflowerHour
January 4, 2026 at 8:50 PM
A nice Dandelion in Ely today. #WildflowerHour
Stinking hellebore flowering in Ely. #WildflowerHour
January 4, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Stinking hellebore flowering in Ely. #WildflowerHour
Droopy Smooth sowthistle. #WildflowerHour
January 4, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Droopy Smooth sowthistle. #WildflowerHour
Some of the Blue fleabane was still in flower today for a #NewYearPlantHunt in Ely. #WildflowerHour
January 4, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Some of the Blue fleabane was still in flower today for a #NewYearPlantHunt in Ely. #WildflowerHour
A magnificent Petty spurge growing as a #PavementPlant in Wigton. #WildflowerHour
January 4, 2026 at 8:42 PM
A magnificent Petty spurge growing as a #PavementPlant in Wigton. #WildflowerHour
An impressively tall Dandelion found whilst poking around down Wigton side streets for the #NewYearPlantHunt. #WildflowerHour #UrbanPlants
January 4, 2026 at 8:32 PM
An impressively tall Dandelion found whilst poking around down Wigton side streets for the #NewYearPlantHunt. #WildflowerHour #UrbanPlants
A Cumbria-Cambridgeshire #TheWinter10 from the #NewYearPlantHunt. Daisy, Groundsel, Sweet violet, Smooth hawksbeard, Cow parsley, Red dead nettle, Shepherd’s purse, Ivy-leaved toadflax, Sticky mouseear, Field forget-me-not and another Daisy. #WildflowerHour
January 4, 2026 at 8:24 PM
A Cumbria-Cambridgeshire #TheWinter10 from the #NewYearPlantHunt. Daisy, Groundsel, Sweet violet, Smooth hawksbeard, Cow parsley, Red dead nettle, Shepherd’s purse, Ivy-leaved toadflax, Sticky mouseear, Field forget-me-not and another Daisy. #WildflowerHour
Day 11, #12DaysWild. Cow parsley in flower for a #NewYearPlantHunt back in Ely. #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
January 4, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Day 11, #12DaysWild. Cow parsley in flower for a #NewYearPlantHunt back in Ely. #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Day 10, #12DaysWild. Geese the other side of a frozen canal, Cheshire.
January 3, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Day 10, #12DaysWild. Geese the other side of a frozen canal, Cheshire.
Day 9, #12DaysWild. Cheshire sunset.
January 2, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Day 9, #12DaysWild. Cheshire sunset.
Reposted by Dr Jill Whitelock
Wondering whether to bother with the #NewYearPlantHunt? This is why!
Evidencing the impacts of climate change on our plants, environment and our everyday. Climate change can seem nebulous and far away - this demonstrates its effects in your street…
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Evidencing the impacts of climate change on our plants, environment and our everyday. Climate change can seem nebulous and far away - this demonstrates its effects in your street…
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Winter blooming of hundreds of plants in UK ‘visible signal’ of climate breakdown
New year plant hunt shows rising temperatures are shifting natural cycles of wildflowers such as daisies
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Wondering whether to bother with the #NewYearPlantHunt? This is why!
Evidencing the impacts of climate change on our plants, environment and our everyday. Climate change can seem nebulous and far away - this demonstrates its effects in your street…
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Evidencing the impacts of climate change on our plants, environment and our everyday. Climate change can seem nebulous and far away - this demonstrates its effects in your street…
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Day 8. #12DaysWild. A #NewYearPlantHunt in Wigton. Trailing bellflower in West Street growing in a wall next to Maidenhair spleenwort.
January 1, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Day 8. #12DaysWild. A #NewYearPlantHunt in Wigton. Trailing bellflower in West Street growing in a wall next to Maidenhair spleenwort.
Reposted by Dr Jill Whitelock
The 2026 #NewYearPlantHunt is now underway and the first records are already pinging in!
Take a look at the Results map:
nyph.bsbi.org/results.php
There are going to be a lot more markers pinging in as the day goes on, each one showing where a plant or list of plants has been recorded. Let's go!
Take a look at the Results map:
nyph.bsbi.org/results.php
There are going to be a lot more markers pinging in as the day goes on, each one showing where a plant or list of plants has been recorded. Let's go!
January 1, 2026 at 9:13 AM
The 2026 #NewYearPlantHunt is now underway and the first records are already pinging in!
Take a look at the Results map:
nyph.bsbi.org/results.php
There are going to be a lot more markers pinging in as the day goes on, each one showing where a plant or list of plants has been recorded. Let's go!
Take a look at the Results map:
nyph.bsbi.org/results.php
There are going to be a lot more markers pinging in as the day goes on, each one showing where a plant or list of plants has been recorded. Let's go!
December 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
#NewYearsEve, Cambridge 1769. The poet Thomas Gray records that the “Wren still sings, as in spring.”
From his ‘Naturalist’s Journal’, edited by Ruth Abbott for @camdiglib.bsky.social.
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ETON...
From his ‘Naturalist’s Journal’, edited by Ruth Abbott for @camdiglib.bsky.social.
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ETON...
Thomas Gray Manuscripts : Thomas Gray, Naturalist’s Journal
Thomas Gray was a lifelong natural historian, having first studied the subject with his uncle, Robert Antrobus, during his
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
December 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
#NewYearsEve, Cambridge 1769. The poet Thomas Gray records that the “Wren still sings, as in spring.”
From his ‘Naturalist’s Journal’, edited by Ruth Abbott for @camdiglib.bsky.social.
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ETON...
From his ‘Naturalist’s Journal’, edited by Ruth Abbott for @camdiglib.bsky.social.
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ETON...
Aphid in a Meadow buttercup, Wigton. #WildWebsWednesday
December 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Aphid in a Meadow buttercup, Wigton. #WildWebsWednesday
Day 6, #12DaysWild. A walk round The Swifts, Carlisle. Saw a Kingfisher by the river. @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Day 6, #12DaysWild. A walk round The Swifts, Carlisle. Saw a Kingfisher by the river. @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social
Pretty silver on this Silver-studded blue, from Edmund Sandars, ‘A Butterfly book for the pocket’ (1939).
December 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Pretty silver on this Silver-studded blue, from Edmund Sandars, ‘A Butterfly book for the pocket’ (1939).
Day 5, #12DaysWild. Close encounter with a Robin in the Wigton allotments. 📷 #photography
December 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Day 5, #12DaysWild. Close encounter with a Robin in the Wigton allotments. 📷 #photography
Little mini waterfall, Wigton. 📷 #photography
December 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Little mini waterfall, Wigton. 📷 #photography
Winter heliotrope flowering in Ely. #WildflowerHour
December 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Winter heliotrope flowering in Ely. #WildflowerHour
Field forget-me-not flowering as a pavement plant in Wigton today. #WildflowerHour
December 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Field forget-me-not flowering as a pavement plant in Wigton today. #WildflowerHour