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Capturing colour on HMS Beagle: Charles Darwin and Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1821) | The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Core
Capturing colour on HMS Beagle: Charles Darwin and Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1821)
www.cambridge.org
Delighted to have an article published in The British Journal for the History of Science, on Charles Darwin's chromatic vocabulary on the Beagle voyage. With enormous thanks to @sgsah.bsky.social, @edincollegeofart.bsky.social, @sochistnathist.bsky.social
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Get your weekend off to a great start by catching up on 'the Indiana Jones of the plant world' (and our past President!) Sandy Knapp on Private Passions.
As well as her music choices, she discusses how plants names are decided and her research into plants named after women.
As well as her music choices, she discusses how plants names are decided and her research into plants named after women.
Private Passions - Sandra Knapp - BBC Sounds
Michael Berkeley's guest is the botanist Sandra Knapp.
buff.ly
February 7, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Get your weekend off to a great start by catching up on 'the Indiana Jones of the plant world' (and our past President!) Sandy Knapp on Private Passions.
As well as her music choices, she discusses how plants names are decided and her research into plants named after women.
As well as her music choices, she discusses how plants names are decided and her research into plants named after women.
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🧵 Join us next week for a slow reading workshop on Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things, putting the wonderful Alma Whittaker at the heart of our conversation...
February 5, 2026 at 10:57 AM
🧵 Join us next week for a slow reading workshop on Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things, putting the wonderful Alma Whittaker at the heart of our conversation...
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📣 Call for Papers!
Join us for the Women’s History Network Annual Conference, celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library.
Open to scholars, independent researchers & heritage practitioners.
Full info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
Deadline: 29 March 2026
#WomensHistory #GenderHist
Join us for the Women’s History Network Annual Conference, celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library.
Open to scholars, independent researchers & heritage practitioners.
Full info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
Deadline: 29 March 2026
#WomensHistory #GenderHist
January 22, 2026 at 11:07 AM
📣 Call for Papers!
Join us for the Women’s History Network Annual Conference, celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library.
Open to scholars, independent researchers & heritage practitioners.
Full info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
Deadline: 29 March 2026
#WomensHistory #GenderHist
Join us for the Women’s History Network Annual Conference, celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library.
Open to scholars, independent researchers & heritage practitioners.
Full info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
Deadline: 29 March 2026
#WomensHistory #GenderHist
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‘Sarah Stone’s Unseen World’ Highlights #Avian #Paintings by an 18th-Century Talent #art #birds #WomanArtist #18thCentury
Link for more photos and information about her amazing #watercolor paintings: www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/02/sara...
Link for more photos and information about her amazing #watercolor paintings: www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/02/sara...
February 3, 2026 at 9:41 PM
‘Sarah Stone’s Unseen World’ Highlights #Avian #Paintings by an 18th-Century Talent #art #birds #WomanArtist #18thCentury
Link for more photos and information about her amazing #watercolor paintings: www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/02/sara...
Link for more photos and information about her amazing #watercolor paintings: www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/02/sara...
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🌷🌿 Tickets are now available for In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World.
Opening 19 March, this exhibition will take you from Oxford to the farthest corners of the world and back, uncovering the global stories behind some of Britain’s most beloved blooms. Details: www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/i...
Opening 19 March, this exhibition will take you from Oxford to the farthest corners of the world and back, uncovering the global stories behind some of Britain’s most beloved blooms. Details: www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/i...
January 30, 2026 at 8:32 AM
🌷🌿 Tickets are now available for In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World.
Opening 19 March, this exhibition will take you from Oxford to the farthest corners of the world and back, uncovering the global stories behind some of Britain’s most beloved blooms. Details: www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/i...
Opening 19 March, this exhibition will take you from Oxford to the farthest corners of the world and back, uncovering the global stories behind some of Britain’s most beloved blooms. Details: www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/i...
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What happens when humans are classified?
On 19 March, 6pm to 8pm, we’re launching Homo Sapiens | Classifying the Human Animal at the Society, with a panel discussion exploring Carl Linnaeus’ classification of humans and its enduring impact on ideas of race and difference.
Book now: buff.ly/frgzC9H
On 19 March, 6pm to 8pm, we’re launching Homo Sapiens | Classifying the Human Animal at the Society, with a panel discussion exploring Carl Linnaeus’ classification of humans and its enduring impact on ideas of race and difference.
Book now: buff.ly/frgzC9H
January 26, 2026 at 4:45 PM
What happens when humans are classified?
On 19 March, 6pm to 8pm, we’re launching Homo Sapiens | Classifying the Human Animal at the Society, with a panel discussion exploring Carl Linnaeus’ classification of humans and its enduring impact on ideas of race and difference.
Book now: buff.ly/frgzC9H
On 19 March, 6pm to 8pm, we’re launching Homo Sapiens | Classifying the Human Animal at the Society, with a panel discussion exploring Carl Linnaeus’ classification of humans and its enduring impact on ideas of race and difference.
Book now: buff.ly/frgzC9H
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Deadline approaching!
Pls RT!
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam ~ Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies
Monday, 15 June 2026
1/6
@asecsoffice.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @thebsls.bsky.social
Pls RT!
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam ~ Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies
Monday, 15 June 2026
1/6
@asecsoffice.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @thebsls.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Deadline approaching!
Pls RT!
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam ~ Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies
Monday, 15 June 2026
1/6
@asecsoffice.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @thebsls.bsky.social
Pls RT!
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam ~ Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies
Monday, 15 June 2026
1/6
@asecsoffice.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @thebsls.bsky.social
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Pervenche Desséchée, or “Dried Periwinkle” from ‘Les fleurs animées’ or ‘The Flowers Personified,’ illustrated by French caricaturist J. J. Grandville. First published in 1847, but this is a later 1867 edition published in Paris by Garnier Frères.
#botanicalillustration #rarebooks
#botanicalillustration #rarebooks
January 21, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Pervenche Desséchée, or “Dried Periwinkle” from ‘Les fleurs animées’ or ‘The Flowers Personified,’ illustrated by French caricaturist J. J. Grandville. First published in 1847, but this is a later 1867 edition published in Paris by Garnier Frères.
#botanicalillustration #rarebooks
#botanicalillustration #rarebooks
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Sasha Archibald explores the love and longing contained in the pressed and illustrated pages of 19th-century seaweed albums, including “the most ambitious album of all” by Charles F. Durant: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/love-and-longing-in-the-seaweed-album #seaweed
January 19, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Sasha Archibald explores the love and longing contained in the pressed and illustrated pages of 19th-century seaweed albums, including “the most ambitious album of all” by Charles F. Durant: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/love-and-longing-in-the-seaweed-album #seaweed
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🚨We have a SUPER exciting announcement!🚨
Our next Summer Meeting will be at @zslofficial.bsky.social on the theme of The Zoological Society of London at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World 🥳
📅1-3 July 2026
🗺️Zoological Society of London
Find out how to submit 👇🏻
shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...
Our next Summer Meeting will be at @zslofficial.bsky.social on the theme of The Zoological Society of London at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World 🥳
📅1-3 July 2026
🗺️Zoological Society of London
Find out how to submit 👇🏻
shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...
December 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
🚨We have a SUPER exciting announcement!🚨
Our next Summer Meeting will be at @zslofficial.bsky.social on the theme of The Zoological Society of London at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World 🥳
📅1-3 July 2026
🗺️Zoological Society of London
Find out how to submit 👇🏻
shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...
Our next Summer Meeting will be at @zslofficial.bsky.social on the theme of The Zoological Society of London at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World 🥳
📅1-3 July 2026
🗺️Zoological Society of London
Find out how to submit 👇🏻
shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...
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🔗 Just in case you missed our big news at the end of 2025, our plans to reunite and transform The Portico moved a step forward, following planning approval from Manchester City Council...
January 9, 2026 at 2:06 PM
🔗 Just in case you missed our big news at the end of 2025, our plans to reunite and transform The Portico moved a step forward, following planning approval from Manchester City Council...
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Cyclamen bring welcome colour to winter!
Did you known a common name for cyclamen is sowbread or swinebread? Pigs are fond of eating the roots! 🐷
📷 Illustration from ‘The Flowering Plants of Great Britain’ (1855) by Anne Pratt [Baring-Gould Library 0691]
#FlowersOnFriday #FridayFlowers #RareBooks
Did you known a common name for cyclamen is sowbread or swinebread? Pigs are fond of eating the roots! 🐷
📷 Illustration from ‘The Flowering Plants of Great Britain’ (1855) by Anne Pratt [Baring-Gould Library 0691]
#FlowersOnFriday #FridayFlowers #RareBooks
January 9, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Cyclamen bring welcome colour to winter!
Did you known a common name for cyclamen is sowbread or swinebread? Pigs are fond of eating the roots! 🐷
📷 Illustration from ‘The Flowering Plants of Great Britain’ (1855) by Anne Pratt [Baring-Gould Library 0691]
#FlowersOnFriday #FridayFlowers #RareBooks
Did you known a common name for cyclamen is sowbread or swinebread? Pigs are fond of eating the roots! 🐷
📷 Illustration from ‘The Flowering Plants of Great Britain’ (1855) by Anne Pratt [Baring-Gould Library 0691]
#FlowersOnFriday #FridayFlowers #RareBooks
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What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research?
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
The Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research - by Professor Claire Squires | SAHA: The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance
A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.
saha.scot
December 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research?
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
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Interested in turning your PhD into a book? 📚
Join this half-day hybrid event on 16th Jan exploring multiple routes from thesis to publication, with Booker-shortlisted author Sarah Bernstein and leading scholars. Includes a proposal workshop!
#PhDtoBook
Sign up: tockify.com/sgsah/detail...
Join this half-day hybrid event on 16th Jan exploring multiple routes from thesis to publication, with Booker-shortlisted author Sarah Bernstein and leading scholars. Includes a proposal workshop!
#PhDtoBook
Sign up: tockify.com/sgsah/detail...
From thesis to book: developing your PhD
Fri 16 Jan, 13:00 - 17:00 [GMT]: BOOK ONLINE: https://forms.office.com/e/N9VyM2YfTC Contact: a.frayn@napier.ac.uk Schedule: This half-day hybrid session addresses the challenge of developing a PhD the...
tockify.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Interested in turning your PhD into a book? 📚
Join this half-day hybrid event on 16th Jan exploring multiple routes from thesis to publication, with Booker-shortlisted author Sarah Bernstein and leading scholars. Includes a proposal workshop!
#PhDtoBook
Sign up: tockify.com/sgsah/detail...
Join this half-day hybrid event on 16th Jan exploring multiple routes from thesis to publication, with Booker-shortlisted author Sarah Bernstein and leading scholars. Includes a proposal workshop!
#PhDtoBook
Sign up: tockify.com/sgsah/detail...
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We are delighted to announce that the BSPS will be running a doctoral scholarship competition in 2026! The competition will open in February, and the deadline will be 27 March.
www.thebsps.org/funding/doct...
www.thebsps.org/funding/doct...
British Society for the Philosophy of Science Doctoral Scholarships
Doctoral scholarships awarded by the BSPS for doctoral work in the philosophy of science undertaken at any UK university
www.thebsps.org
January 6, 2026 at 1:24 PM
We are delighted to announce that the BSPS will be running a doctoral scholarship competition in 2026! The competition will open in February, and the deadline will be 27 March.
www.thebsps.org/funding/doct...
www.thebsps.org/funding/doct...
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Now open: 2026 AHRC CDA PhD Studentship 🎓
A collaborative project with @stir.ac.uk & @stirlingcht.bsky.social exploring built heritage, housing & climate justice, focusing on tenants in historic tenements.
🗓️ Closing date: 23 Jan 2026
🔗 Find out more: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
A collaborative project with @stir.ac.uk & @stirlingcht.bsky.social exploring built heritage, housing & climate justice, focusing on tenants in historic tenements.
🗓️ Closing date: 23 Jan 2026
🔗 Find out more: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
2026 AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award- Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD Studentship at University of Stirling on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - 2026 AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award- Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD Studentship at University of Stirling, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Now open: 2026 AHRC CDA PhD Studentship 🎓
A collaborative project with @stir.ac.uk & @stirlingcht.bsky.social exploring built heritage, housing & climate justice, focusing on tenants in historic tenements.
🗓️ Closing date: 23 Jan 2026
🔗 Find out more: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
A collaborative project with @stir.ac.uk & @stirlingcht.bsky.social exploring built heritage, housing & climate justice, focusing on tenants in historic tenements.
🗓️ Closing date: 23 Jan 2026
🔗 Find out more: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Join art historian @giovannialoi.bsky.social for an online talk on the enduring legacy of Cabinets of Curiosities. From early modern Wunderkammern to contemporary art, he explores how collecting and wonder continue to shape how we understand the world.
Thurs 29 Jan | 6:30pm-7:30pm
buff.ly/SKvWTwN
Thurs 29 Jan | 6:30pm-7:30pm
buff.ly/SKvWTwN
January 5, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Join art historian @giovannialoi.bsky.social for an online talk on the enduring legacy of Cabinets of Curiosities. From early modern Wunderkammern to contemporary art, he explores how collecting and wonder continue to shape how we understand the world.
Thurs 29 Jan | 6:30pm-7:30pm
buff.ly/SKvWTwN
Thurs 29 Jan | 6:30pm-7:30pm
buff.ly/SKvWTwN
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Fascinating article here by @joycedixon.bsky.social -
Delighted to have an article published in The British Journal for the History of Science, on Charles Darwin's chromatic vocabulary on the Beagle voyage. With enormous thanks to @sgsah.bsky.social, @edincollegeofart.bsky.social, @sochistnathist.bsky.social
Capturing colour on HMS Beagle: Charles Darwin and Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1821) | The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Core
Capturing colour on HMS Beagle: Charles Darwin and Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1821)
www.cambridge.org
January 5, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Fascinating article here by @joycedixon.bsky.social -
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🚨Special announcement: our annual conference will be 3–4 Sept 2026 at LSE Library, in collaboration with @lselibrary.bsky.social, & Friends House, London.
Theme: Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library: One Hundred Years of Women’s History.
Call for Papers coming mid-Jan! #WomensHistory
Theme: Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library: One Hundred Years of Women’s History.
Call for Papers coming mid-Jan! #WomensHistory
January 5, 2026 at 11:02 AM
🚨Special announcement: our annual conference will be 3–4 Sept 2026 at LSE Library, in collaboration with @lselibrary.bsky.social, & Friends House, London.
Theme: Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library: One Hundred Years of Women’s History.
Call for Papers coming mid-Jan! #WomensHistory
Theme: Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library: One Hundred Years of Women’s History.
Call for Papers coming mid-Jan! #WomensHistory
A post I wrote recently for the @chromotope.bsky.social Chromobase, on the aesthetic implications of Patrick Syme's colour charts in Victorian Britain:
chromobase.huma-num.fr/narratives/o...
chromobase.huma-num.fr/narratives/o...
On Colour and Taste: John Gardner Wilkinson and *Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours*
chromobase.huma-num.fr
January 2, 2026 at 4:54 PM
A post I wrote recently for the @chromotope.bsky.social Chromobase, on the aesthetic implications of Patrick Syme's colour charts in Victorian Britain:
chromobase.huma-num.fr/narratives/o...
chromobase.huma-num.fr/narratives/o...
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Applications for our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships close on 5th January 2026, so don't delay! ⏳
We’re welcoming applications from scholars from across the globe to work with our unique research collections.
Apply now: glasgow.ac.uk/library/rese...
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re welcoming applications from scholars from across the globe to work with our unique research collections.
Apply now: glasgow.ac.uk/library/rese...
#UofGLibraryFellows
January 2, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Applications for our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships close on 5th January 2026, so don't delay! ⏳
We’re welcoming applications from scholars from across the globe to work with our unique research collections.
Apply now: glasgow.ac.uk/library/rese...
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re welcoming applications from scholars from across the globe to work with our unique research collections.
Apply now: glasgow.ac.uk/library/rese...
#UofGLibraryFellows
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Happy New Year #18thCists #skystorians!
We can't wait to welcome you to @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social NEXT WEEK for #BSECS2026.
You can register FOR THE CONFERENCE ONLY [no accommodation or meals] at the registration desk from 8am, 7 January.
Programme available here:
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
We can't wait to welcome you to @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social NEXT WEEK for #BSECS2026.
You can register FOR THE CONFERENCE ONLY [no accommodation or meals] at the registration desk from 8am, 7 January.
Programme available here:
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
BSECS Annual Conference
BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference
www.bsecs.org.uk
January 2, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Happy New Year #18thCists #skystorians!
We can't wait to welcome you to @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social NEXT WEEK for #BSECS2026.
You can register FOR THE CONFERENCE ONLY [no accommodation or meals] at the registration desk from 8am, 7 January.
Programme available here:
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
We can't wait to welcome you to @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social NEXT WEEK for #BSECS2026.
You can register FOR THE CONFERENCE ONLY [no accommodation or meals] at the registration desk from 8am, 7 January.
Programme available here:
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
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Le Rollier à longs brins (Coracias caudatus) by Jacques Barraband for ‘Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus’ by François Levaillant. Paris: Chez Denné le jeune, 1806.
University of Chicago Special Collections.
#rarebooks #birdart
University of Chicago Special Collections.
#rarebooks #birdart
December 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Le Rollier à longs brins (Coracias caudatus) by Jacques Barraband for ‘Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus’ by François Levaillant. Paris: Chez Denné le jeune, 1806.
University of Chicago Special Collections.
#rarebooks #birdart
University of Chicago Special Collections.
#rarebooks #birdart
Delighted to have an article published in The British Journal for the History of Science, on Charles Darwin's chromatic vocabulary on the Beagle voyage. With enormous thanks to @sgsah.bsky.social, @edincollegeofart.bsky.social, @sochistnathist.bsky.social
Capturing colour on HMS Beagle: Charles Darwin and Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1821) | The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Core
Capturing colour on HMS Beagle: Charles Darwin and Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1821)
www.cambridge.org
January 1, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Delighted to have an article published in The British Journal for the History of Science, on Charles Darwin's chromatic vocabulary on the Beagle voyage. With enormous thanks to @sgsah.bsky.social, @edincollegeofart.bsky.social, @sochistnathist.bsky.social