Padmaparna Ghosh
@padmag.bsky.social
Events and Comms @ Linnean Society of London. Lurks here, posts on Instagram as @Girl_On_A_Hill. Alum @TrinityCollegeDublin, School of Natural Sciences.
Natural history | Conservation | Art Stories | Textiles and Embroidery
Natural history | Conservation | Art Stories | Textiles and Embroidery
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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"We know how to slow the rate of #climate change. We know how to make our society more resilient to the impacts we can no longer avoid. But the message here is that we need to be moving much more aggressively on implementing them, said Gleick”
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
California researcher finds Earth's vital signs flashing red
Despite the ominous numbers, the report is not all doom and gloom.
www.sfgate.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"We know how to slow the rate of #climate change. We know how to make our society more resilient to the impacts we can no longer avoid. But the message here is that we need to be moving much more aggressively on implementing them, said Gleick”
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
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Some of the great illustrations from The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884), including tales of the mythical Glooskap, whose name literally means Liar, because it is said that when he left earth he promised to return but has never done so: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
October 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Some of the great illustrations from The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884), including tales of the mythical Glooskap, whose name literally means Liar, because it is said that when he left earth he promised to return but has never done so: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
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Best thing ever from the V&A stores today: on the front of Margret Mason’s 1660 sampler are clothed “boxer” figures (little men holding gifts, acorns here). Turn the sampler over and the men look much the same but are completely naked!
September 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Best thing ever from the V&A stores today: on the front of Margret Mason’s 1660 sampler are clothed “boxer” figures (little men holding gifts, acorns here). Turn the sampler over and the men look much the same but are completely naked!
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The passing of Paul Newman (2008), Sean Connery (2020), Sidney Poitier (2022), and now Robert Redford (2025) signals the slow disappearance of a certain type of 20th century figure: men who embodied classic style in a way that reflected their taste, rather than a professional stylist.
September 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The passing of Paul Newman (2008), Sean Connery (2020), Sidney Poitier (2022), and now Robert Redford (2025) signals the slow disappearance of a certain type of 20th century figure: men who embodied classic style in a way that reflected their taste, rather than a professional stylist.
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A good thread on how Trump uses visual images as propaganda tools, and why it's important to learn to decipher them, but worth noting is also the mainstreaming process this use is doing for much more extreme images that circulate in the margins. Not all are aware of the origins of these images.
Let's talk propaganda and cultural resonances.
We can dunk on these posters all we want, but this is effective. Nostalgia is one of their most powerful propaganda tools, and they're tapping into generations of cultural touchstones with these.
Media Manipulation Matters: A Thread
We can dunk on these posters all we want, but this is effective. Nostalgia is one of their most powerful propaganda tools, and they're tapping into generations of cultural touchstones with these.
Media Manipulation Matters: A Thread
September 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A good thread on how Trump uses visual images as propaganda tools, and why it's important to learn to decipher them, but worth noting is also the mainstreaming process this use is doing for much more extreme images that circulate in the margins. Not all are aware of the origins of these images.
This is so cool.
Delightfully ingenious travel journal which uses “hieroglyphic” plates to recount an 1814 voyage to the Caribbean: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hieroglyphic-journal-of-a-voyage-to-the-caribbean-1815
August 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This is so cool.
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There is a simple recipe for lively cities where the people come out in the streets and meet each other, where children play and where the elderly aren’t lonely, like this one in Spain: ban cars.
August 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
There is a simple recipe for lively cities where the people come out in the streets and meet each other, where children play and where the elderly aren’t lonely, like this one in Spain: ban cars.
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The Lure of the Underground — Alfred Leete, 1927
August 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The Lure of the Underground — Alfred Leete, 1927
Follow @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social to remote Pacific islands & secretive cable-laying operations that reveal the astonishing world of undersea cable infrastructure. Stories arnd geopolitical tensions & quiet heroics from the internet’s unseen circulatory system.
PLS pre-order - US / UK for now!
PLS pre-order - US / UK for now!
April 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Follow @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social to remote Pacific islands & secretive cable-laying operations that reveal the astonishing world of undersea cable infrastructure. Stories arnd geopolitical tensions & quiet heroics from the internet’s unseen circulatory system.
PLS pre-order - US / UK for now!
PLS pre-order - US / UK for now!
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Out in the US and UK in less than six months! Pre-order here, pretty please — it makes a world of a difference to sales. And please RT / spread the word!
www.amazon.co.uk/Web-Beneath-...
www.amazon.co.uk/Web-Beneath-...
April 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Out in the US and UK in less than six months! Pre-order here, pretty please — it makes a world of a difference to sales. And please RT / spread the word!
www.amazon.co.uk/Web-Beneath-...
www.amazon.co.uk/Web-Beneath-...
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Cat — Magdalena Patyk (@madziowa_p)
Charcoal on Paper
Charcoal on Paper
April 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Cat — Magdalena Patyk (@madziowa_p)
Charcoal on Paper
Charcoal on Paper
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"I want to see all I can of this beautiful world"
Margaret Fountaine
@linneansociety.bsky.social
@royentsoc.bsky.social
#Norfolk lepidopterist visited 60 countries on 6 continents; 24,000 #butterfly collection @norwichcastle.bsky.social
#womeninscience #envhist
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...
Margaret Fountaine
@linneansociety.bsky.social
@royentsoc.bsky.social
#Norfolk lepidopterist visited 60 countries on 6 continents; 24,000 #butterfly collection @norwichcastle.bsky.social
#womeninscience #envhist
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...
April 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM
"I want to see all I can of this beautiful world"
Margaret Fountaine
@linneansociety.bsky.social
@royentsoc.bsky.social
#Norfolk lepidopterist visited 60 countries on 6 continents; 24,000 #butterfly collection @norwichcastle.bsky.social
#womeninscience #envhist
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...
Margaret Fountaine
@linneansociety.bsky.social
@royentsoc.bsky.social
#Norfolk lepidopterist visited 60 countries on 6 continents; 24,000 #butterfly collection @norwichcastle.bsky.social
#womeninscience #envhist
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...
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'Night Lights of Piccadilly'
(from 'This Is London', 1959) by Miroslav Šašek
(from 'This Is London', 1959) by Miroslav Šašek
April 2, 2025 at 6:47 AM
'Night Lights of Piccadilly'
(from 'This Is London', 1959) by Miroslav Šašek
(from 'This Is London', 1959) by Miroslav Šašek
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Morning Bluesky.
Partial solar eclipse in the UK today, starting at 10.07 and finishing at noon.
Don’t be like this guy.
Partial solar eclipse in the UK today, starting at 10.07 and finishing at noon.
Don’t be like this guy.
March 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Morning Bluesky.
Partial solar eclipse in the UK today, starting at 10.07 and finishing at noon.
Don’t be like this guy.
Partial solar eclipse in the UK today, starting at 10.07 and finishing at noon.
Don’t be like this guy.
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This story makes a really powerful (and tragically depressing) point: that there is no evidence strong enough to counter a world view anchored in conspiracy theory and reinforced by a multitide of motivated "influencers" — even the death of one's own child.
Mom of child dead from measles: “Don’t do the shots,” my other 4 kids were fine arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Mom of child dead from measles: “Don’t do the shots,” my other 4 kids were fine
The interview downplayed the disease, maligned vaccines…
arstechnica.com
March 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This story makes a really powerful (and tragically depressing) point: that there is no evidence strong enough to counter a world view anchored in conspiracy theory and reinforced by a multitide of motivated "influencers" — even the death of one's own child.
Just found out about #BloomScrolling (love it!).
A ragingly magnificent Magnolia specimen here from southeast London.
A ragingly magnificent Magnolia specimen here from southeast London.
March 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Just found out about #BloomScrolling (love it!).
A ragingly magnificent Magnolia specimen here from southeast London.
A ragingly magnificent Magnolia specimen here from southeast London.
Have you ever learnt a new technique and then been like “lol, never again”. I met mine with latch hooking. It’s an extremely tedious process that proceeds at a pace so excruciatingly slow that you’d be rather walk on hot coals for the rest of your life than ever risk meeting another carpet.
March 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Have you ever learnt a new technique and then been like “lol, never again”. I met mine with latch hooking. It’s an extremely tedious process that proceeds at a pace so excruciatingly slow that you’d be rather walk on hot coals for the rest of your life than ever risk meeting another carpet.
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*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens
Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!
www.uu.nl
March 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
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american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
March 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
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Always a blessed relief to hold the manuscript of a NEW BOOK in your hand. This one, on the fragile undersea cables that carry our data, took 2 years of research…
February 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Always a blessed relief to hold the manuscript of a NEW BOOK in your hand. This one, on the fragile undersea cables that carry our data, took 2 years of research…
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How do you conserve 200-year-old documents?
Join our expert conservator John Abbott on 4 March at 14:00 as he delivers a live demo in restoring 18th and 19th century papers from our collections.
Book your free spot below for a rare behind-the-scenes look at conservation in action!
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Join our expert conservator John Abbott on 4 March at 14:00 as he delivers a live demo in restoring 18th and 19th century papers from our collections.
Book your free spot below for a rare behind-the-scenes look at conservation in action!
bit.ly/4ifl1Cy
How to Conserve 18th and 19th Century Paper with Live Demo
Join our talk on how to conserve loose 18th- and early 19th-C papers, including a live conservation demonstration!
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February 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
How do you conserve 200-year-old documents?
Join our expert conservator John Abbott on 4 March at 14:00 as he delivers a live demo in restoring 18th and 19th century papers from our collections.
Book your free spot below for a rare behind-the-scenes look at conservation in action!
bit.ly/4ifl1Cy
Join our expert conservator John Abbott on 4 March at 14:00 as he delivers a live demo in restoring 18th and 19th century papers from our collections.
Book your free spot below for a rare behind-the-scenes look at conservation in action!
bit.ly/4ifl1Cy
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The older I get, the more I would trade a single unit of empathy or wisdom or generosity for 10 units of IQ. In me or anyone else.
February 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The older I get, the more I would trade a single unit of empathy or wisdom or generosity for 10 units of IQ. In me or anyone else.
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man this is legit no different than a 4chan /pol/ post. like truly no difference, down to the ASMR gag. from the white house account.
February 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
man this is legit no different than a 4chan /pol/ post. like truly no difference, down to the ASMR gag. from the white house account.