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Nuala Proinnseas Caomhánach
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Diploid studying polyploids
Asst. Prof. @gvagrad.bsky.social | ‪‬@amnh.org

Plants & Protists | Environmental Law | Museums | Phylogenetics | Madagascar | co-convener Collection Ecologies chstm.org @collecol.bsky.social‬
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Nuala Proinnseas Caomhánach @nulybranch.bsky.social · Dec 24
going into 2026 like
Cover of book with black and white drawing of a 1920s Flapper girl walking with a bag as she states “Buckle the Fuck up Bitches I’m coming”
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#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...
February 11, 2026 at 8:48 AM
nulybranch.bsky.social
Happy 2026 International Day of Women and Girls in Science!!! 🧪 🧫 🥼 ♀️ #stem #womeninscience #science #biology #math #physics #chemistry #fierce

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2026 International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Join UNESCO on 11 February 2026 for a global event celebrating women in science and shaping a future where science and gender equality advance together
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February 11, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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jaspersharp.bsky.social
2026 is proving to be a wonderful year for first time fungi finds so far. Looks like this is the rarely recorded Henningsomyces candidus - tiny little macaroni-like tubes found on a very rotten piece of wood in Southeast England. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
February 8, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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amyguidryartist.bsky.social
Another small painting from my solo exhibition going on right now at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans. One of a group of 4" square paintings. On view through the 21st. lemieuxgalleries.com

"Uncertainty"
Acrylic on canvas
4" x 4"

#art #painting #surrealism #bats #nature #contemporaryart
Acrylic painting of a dusky fruit bat hanging upside-down from a branch, with tears dropping from one eye.
February 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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elizabethbeston.bsky.social
My first ever UV microscopy image! This is a Halacaridae mite, but I think it might just be an exoskeleton. It glowed gloriously under the UV light source!

#marineplankton 🦑
February 3, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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elizabethbeston.bsky.social
One from the archives. A sea urchin larva moving very gracefully across my slide. Did you know sea urchins started life like this?

#marineplankton 🦑
February 2, 2026 at 7:47 PM
nulybranch.bsky.social
"Arctic Fever" is fantastic!! Super engrossing and really useful for teaching and thinking with. ❄️

(Curators: Mark A. Cheetham & @issygapp.bsky.social // to accompany the exhibit at the Fisher Rare Book Library, Jan. 26-Apr. 24, 2026)

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Arctic Fever: Image and Narrative...
Mark A. Cheetham
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February 2, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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williamcarruthers.bsky.social
1/ I’m going to do a thread of the promotional writing and interviews I’ve done for my book starting with…
williamcarruthers.bsky.social William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 23d
The first paperback copy of my book Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology just arrived! Available on the 15th March from @cornellupress.bsky.social: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Flooded Pasts front cover Flooded Pasts back cover
January 22, 2026 at 6:07 AM
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dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Are you in UK and want to hear about my book Ghosts Behind Glass? 3 public talks in Feb:
Cambridge Museum of Zoology, 11 Feb www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events/talk-...
M Shed Bristol, 12 Feb  www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/m-s...
Oxford NatHist Museum, 13 Feb www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a...
Ghosts Behind Glass
How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us.   While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...
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January 12, 2026 at 10:44 AM
nulybranch.bsky.social
Super excited about presenting my 🌱paper!!! Thank you Instructing Colonial Natural History!!! @lindaaburnett.bsky.social 🌿😊 🤩🙏
lindaaburnett.bsky.social Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 22d
New seminars on Instructing Colonial Natural History 🌿 We can look forward to papers by Yunting Gu, Adriana Craciun and @nulybranch.bsky.social. For more info see instructingnaturalhistory.com (more info will be added). #skystorians #museums #collecting #histsci #envhist
Poster showing the seminar schedule. The image is of Louis XVI giving instructions
January 23, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
"Researchers have reconfigured the traditional use of natural history collections for taxonomic, systematic, and biogeographical study into indicators of global climate change." - @nulybranch.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/11/24/b...

#envhist #histsci #naturalhistory #climatechange
Big C3 Energy: Arctic Plant Collections as Evidence for the Climate Crisis.
Arctic plants use efficient C3 photosynthesis to survive cold, now serving as biased yet vital climate-change indicators.
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January 7, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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drleonj.bsky.social
Sometimes a case just stops you in your tracks, like this 1816 Boston investigation of “a Woman personating a Man, by being dressed in Men’s apparel and parading the Streets.” The case never made it to trial, & I can find nothing else abt her. Not the only crossdressing case I’ve seen but rare! 🗃️
A court issued recognizance binding six people to give evidence regarding an 1816 Boston investigation of “a Woman personating a Man, by being dressed in Men’s apparel and parading the Streets.” The recog is from the Boston Municipal Court File Papers, Box 9, Supreme Jucicial Court Archives, Boston.
January 6, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Today we have "Finding Black Lung in the Archives" by @drheathergreen.bsky.social and Kaley MacMullin

This post is part of the Mining Danger Project

niche-canada.org/2026/01/02/f...

#envhist #histmed #mininghistory #cdnhist
Finding Black Lung in the Archives
Coal mining’s overlooked slow disaster, black lung, devastated workers, remained dismissed, archivally absent, and resurfaces through community memory and activism.
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January 2, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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nursingclio.bsky.social
It’s time for our annual best of 2025. Here you’ll find book recs for your 2026 reading lists, a 🔥🔥🔥 TV series about Canadian hockey enemies-to-lovers, and a banger album that’ll make you laugh and cry. nursingclio.org/2026/01/01/n...
Nursing Clio Presents Its ELEVENTH Annual Best of List!
Every December the Nursing Clio editorial collective – an all-volunteer staff – gather our Best Of recommendations for the year past. We don’t need to tell you that 2025 has been …
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January 1, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Today we have "Power House Cliff" by Jeanine Rhemtulla, the latest excerpt highlight from Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada, published in collaboration with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social & the Alpine Club of Canada

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Power House Cliff
Jeanine Rhemtulla's journey led to rephotographing Jasper landscapes, revealing colonial fire suppression, lost Indigenous stewardship, climate change, and ecological transformation.
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January 1, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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gvagrad-ghc.bsky.social
What happens to global health leadership as the US steps back? Co-Director, Suerie Moon, argues it won’t hinge on money alone, but political leadership.

“So, yes, others will step into the place vacated by the US, but they will be wearing their own shoes.”

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Filling America’s Shoes
Amitav Acharya, et al consider whether others can or will replace the United States as a custodian of the global commons.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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gvagrad.bsky.social
The Institute's Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism and the UN Library & Archives announce the online release of Nicolas Politis’ papers, providing an exceptional insight on one of Greece’s most renowned diplomats and #InternationalLaw scholars of the interwar period:
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December 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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profdanhicks.bsky.social
delighted to see my piece on the V&A Storehouse there at number 1 most-read columns in Art Review in 2025 artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
December 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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sritamabarna.bsky.social
A lot of thinking went into developing the methodology of the article.

Grateful to @nulybranch.bsky.social for her superb editorial feedback and vision in steering the series.
December 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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jasonwdean.com
FLIPPING OUTSTANDING WORK, of interest to 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks and #histSTM
bibliowingate.bsky.social Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · Dec 22
Do you enjoy my periodic rantings on Isaac Newton's alchemical citations? If so, take a look at my shiny new article on our improved #TEI encoding system of Newton's citations & what we can learn from some preliminary analyses of the data!
#BookHistory #histsci (tldr in 🧵)
doi.org/10.14434/tc....
A Bibliographical Framework for Citation Analysis of Isaac Newton’s Alchemical Manuscripts: Alexandra E. Wingate | Textual Cultures
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December 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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matthewcobb.bsky.social
Here’s a (soundless) extract of Jim Watson on the astonishing 1962 BBC documentary THE PRIZEWINNERS, about the five molecular biology Nobelists that year. The lack of sound makes him look like something out of The Fast Show.
December 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
nulybranch.bsky.social
going into 2026 like
Cover of book with black and white drawing of a 1920s Flapper girl walking with a bag as she states “Buckle the Fuck up Bitches I’m coming”
December 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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matthewcobb.bsky.social
My Xmas present to you – a recording of a talk given by Crick to a public audience in Canada about the genetic code in 1966: tinyurl.com/Crick1966 Listen to it while you are peeling the sprouts, walking the dog, or whatever. Here's the context from my biography:
Crick was repeatedly invited to give lectures around the world as his lecturing style became renowned. Hardly any of these talks survive in written form – he did not read them out but extempo- rised from detailed notes. In only one case, a talk for the National Research Council in Ottawa in September 1966, did he permit an archived audio recording.22 In this apparently unique record of Francis at the height of his powers, he explained the links between the ‘two great families of molecules’ – proteins and nucleic acids – in terms that anyone could understand. Speaking in his slightly high- pitched, metallic voice, he used simple analogies to make his point – ‘sausages’ to describe the structure of haemoglobin, ‘spaghetti’ to describe DNA spooling out of a bacterium following a phage attack, and so on. When he made a joke, it was accompanied by his typical breathy snorting as he laughed along with the audience. Avoiding experimental detail, Crick brilliantly explained the central dogma and the sequence hypothesis, the proof that the code is non-overlapping, the redundancy of the code and the co-linear- ity of the nucleic acid and amino acid sequences. The final section was a tour de force showing how the outline of the genetic code could explain amino acid data from human haemoglobin variants and from mutations in Tobacco Mosaic Virus. In both cases, Crick’s careful analysis of the code showed that those variants were caused by single base-pair changes – all this long before DNA sequencing.
December 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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terre-strial.bsky.social
“The longer I live, the more convinced I am that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.”

- George Bernard Shaw
December 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
nulybranch.bsky.social
Parasitic Fungus!!!!!! Can’t wait to see this 🍄🍄‍🟫 in action 💕
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COLD STORAGE | Official Trailer | STUDIOCANAL
YouTube video by STUDIOCANAL
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December 21, 2025 at 5:14 AM