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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Taking a moment to appreciate the beauty of Merle Oberon (1911-1979)🖤 Merle Oberon, Sunday News, 1943 Photographed by Harry Wernecke.

Photo portrait of Anglo-Indian actress Merle Oberon taken in 1943, in Kodachrome. Oberon is facing the camera, with shoulders at 3/4 turn, wearing a black velvet blazer with a purple ruffle collar under it. She’s wearing a dramatic light colored net veil framing her face, decorated with light blue and pink flower pins on her dark brown hair. She’s photographed against a light green pastel background.

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Tfw when someone appreciates what you do 🥹🥰 Sweet little comment left after one of my tours for #heritageweek at @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social

Photo of a blackboard surface with a chalk message that reads “you are cool for studying this”

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Quite over the hill at 43, I suppose. (Irish Weekly Independent Sat, Aug 11, 1917 ·Page 6)

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Incidental random find during newspaper archive research. You are welcome.

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Next week! Come hear me blabber on about caring for the dead, one dusting at a time! At @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social of @tcddublin.bsky.social for #heritageweek2026 of course 🧽🫧💀 Booking is free but essential! 🎟️ trinitytrails.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Link here: https://trinitytrails.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173658217/events/428791810

Event flyer with a photo of medical models on shelves and text. Text on flyer reads:

Preserving 300 years of medical education is not an easy task!
Through a presentation and guided tour by museum Curator Evi Numen, learn what it takes to discover, conserve, and save the early modern history of Irish medicine through a special showcase of museum conservation in action.
Join us for this limited-edition
Trinity Trails tour of the Old Anatomy Museum at Trinity College Dublin. This is a rare opportunity to gain exclusive access to the Old Anatomy Museum and Lecture Theatre, which are usually only accessible to staff and students.
National
Heritage Week
A Heritage Council programme
Trinity College Dublin

Event flyer with photo of medical museum gallery and text. The text reads: This tour is designed for visitors aged 18 and over, and is not suitable for children.
Please note that the museum includes human remains on display, please exercise discretion when booking. Photography is allowed in our lecture theatre, but it is strictly prohibited in the museum.
ACCESSIBILITY: Unfortunately, this event is not accessible to people with mobility access requirements. There are steps both outside and inside the Old Anatomy Museum building and there is no lift access.
MEETING POINT: At the Campanile in Front Square.
This event is part of National Heritage Week
2026: Heritage at Risk. National Heritage Week
is an initiative by the Heritage Council.

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#Lughnasadh greetings 🦋🌾 A red admiral (Vanessa atalanta- maybe a species “aberration”?* But I’m no entomologist) taking breaks from its mating activities to rest in our garden in Drogheda.

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Happy August, everyone! 😅😬🫥

screenshot of a post by Melissa Meisels that reads “academics realising it’s somehow already late July” above a scene from The Simpsons of Ralph in a school bus. The subtitles on the screencap read: “(chuckles) I’m in danger.”

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Never thought I’d be so relieved to see rain in Ireland! Even if it only lasted for a few seconds…

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

There's half a dozen more 'ladies in black' in his catalogue, but I'm unexpectedly partial to this painting of his wife in white, mostly because of the vibrant red background. Portrait of Miss C. c. 1893 Oil on canvas Grand Rapids Art Museum, Mich.

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And one of his wife: Alice Gerson (Mrs. Chase) c. 1886 91.4 x 71.1 cm Oil on canvas mounted on fiberglass Signed lower left: Wm. M. Chase Present whereabouts unknown

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This is a personal favourite: Lydia Field Emmet 1900 61 x 50.8 cm Oil on canvas Signed upper right: Wm. M. Chase Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Bequest of Margaret Mallory

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And: Meditation c. 1886 33.7 x 22.9 cm Oil on panel Signed lower right: Wm. M. Chase Private collection

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

As well as this one: Portrait of a Lady in Black (Annie Traquair Lang) 1911 151.1 x 120.7 cm Oil on canvas Signed and dated upper right: Wm. M. Chase 1911 The Alex Simpson, Jr. Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And this one: Lady in Black (Lilian Westcott Hale) Oil on canvas, c. 1914 30 × 24 in | 76.2 × 61 cm

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

William Merrit Chase (1849 - 1916), American seems to have been quite fond of ladies in black as he painted several, like this one, in the Met collection: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Painting of a dark haired pale woman in a black dress standing by a mahogany side table with claw feet and a rose on its surface

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

William Merritt Chase A Lady in Black (aka The Red Shawl) (1883) Watercolour on paper

Impressionistic painting of a seated woman dressed in all black, in Victorian era style, on an ornate black chair draped with a red shawl. Her face is shaded by a net veil and is turned towards the floor. She is wearing black hat, black gloves, and holding a large black fan on her left hand.

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It was lovely to host and participate on a panel discussion & screening of PASHIAS’s performance “Diva” at the @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social lecture theatre this evening, organised by @tcdclassics.bsky.social 💙🩷 We talked about gender, embodiment, art and humanity & the endless fluidity of it all.

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Nothing and no one gets a chance before my morning coffee ☕️ (Tweet by @thisone0verhere.bsky.social )

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Exciting news! @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social is proud to host 2 shows of "Miasma" by Colin Murphy in the Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre on Friday, April 17. Book to watch the great cholera debate unfold in the same halls that hosted such medical discussions for 140 yrs! tinyurl.com/miasmaplay

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Help save the historic gates of #ArnosValeCemetery! @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social! Donate below: arnosvale.org.uk/support/rest...

Historic image of gates from a promotional pamphlet, Bristol General Cemetery Company, circa 1939. Photo: Ruth Preece

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It's #caturday and I miss our old man, Smiglet. We had to say goodbye on NYE, after two difficult weeks of kitty home hospice. He died peacefully, at 17ish, of heart failure due to congenital cardiomyopathy. He was the best old judgy cat man & the most distinguished personality. I miss him dearly 💔

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

In 🖤 with Margaret Pender's proto-goth look. Bio: www.dib.ie/biography/pe... (Note that Irish "nationalist" in this context means anti-colonial / pro-Irish independence)

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

A long boy ca. 1790s An Egyptian ichneumon. Etching by Eastgate. @wellcomecollection.bsky.social . Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Picking wall colour for my art studio, like a completely normal person 😅 (Shoutout to the most photogenic ruin in Philly and its dedicated caretaker team @easternstate.bsky.social - the work they do for social justice and prison reform is vital!)

Screenshot of a hospital green paint colour by Farrow and Ball next to a photo of a cell from the Eastern state Penitentiary in Philadelphia, showing the same colour on the wall.

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Never thought I'd be studying for exams at 42, but here we are. Thankfully, my study buddy is ever so helpful... #PhDLife #Caturday

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Very thoughtful of @realgdt.bsky.social to make a movie just for me 🥰 (and most of my #histmed nerd friends)

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

In less ranty news, I had my first sighting of eurasian jays at @ucddublin.bsky.social campus of all places. I didn't expect them to be so big! Almost magpie-sized. #birdwatching

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It was an absolute honour to give a talk with the fabulous @anatomicalcat.bsky.social in collaboration with the also fabulous @drtrishbiers.bsky.social in a session chaired by none other than the @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social ‘s Dawn Kemp, at #iammc2025!

Photograph of a conference stage, showing the title slide of a talk entitled “Beyond Bentham: Re-examining Ideas of Consent and Body Donation
through Museum Collections in the UK and Ireland” by
Evi Numen (Old Anatomy Museum, Dublin)
Cat Irving (Surgeons’ Hall Museums, Edinburgh)
Trish Biers (The Duckworth Laboratoy, Cambridge)

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Petition to remove the aristocratic title bit from 'landLORD' and 'landLADY" to remind them that tenants are not actually their subjects. Considering landhoarder, wage-sucker, or maybe rent-leech as alternatives, but they don't quite roll off the tongue 🤔 Suggestions welcome!

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

As uncomfortable as these diagrams may seem, they don't hold a candle (or oil lamp) to their 19th century predecessors! Note the cringey lack of gloves. via: bjui-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Line drawing of an 19th century cystoscopy

Line drawing of 19th century cystoscopy techniques

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

The cystoscope in the meme is obviously a rigid one, but I'm annoyed to not be able to find the original source of the illustration and the exact model. Here's a similar one of a flexible cystoscope applied to both typical sets of urinary organs:

Colour illustrations showing the application of a flexible tube systoscope to the urinary tract in female and male typical urinary anatomy

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Irish physician, friend of pugs, and @tcddublin.bsky.social alum improved on the design of the instrument and performed the 1st successful endoscopy in 1865. #BAUSUrology has a great little video about his endoscope: www.baus.org.uk/museum/10/cr...

Photographic portrait of Sir Francis Cruise seated on his desk with a pug by his feet

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

A cystoscope is an endoscope - a tool to see inside the body using a thin tube & a light source, at its simplest form. The first endoscope was invented by German physician Phillip Bozzini in 1807. It looked even less friendly than the cystoscope in the meme 😬 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Scan of a line diagram of an endoscope on yellowed paper. Original schema of Bozzini’s “Lichtleiter.” (Reprinted from Bozzini P: Light guide, an invention to view internal parts and diseases together with the figure. In: Hufeland CW, ed. Journal of Practical Medicine. Berlin; 1806:107-124 (8).)

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Tomorrow and Wednesday! Come hear me and my illustrious colleague Siobhan Ward talk about body donation, graverobbing, legislature, and broken umbrellas, in the halls of @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social for a set of special #heritageweek tours: www.heritageweek.ie/event-listin...

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

This is what I wrote on the forum btw, and while I did there was a fleeting moment where I thought, ‘is this professional enough?’ The sheer absurdity of having to even consider appearing professional while human beings are deliberately and systematically being starved to death, is maddening.

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Random curious tidbit I just stumbled upon while looking for historical remedies for hysteria in an 1872 issue of the Chemist & Druggist serial on @archive.org 🐈‍⬛ 🩸🩸🩸Published under the ‘Gossip’ column. #medicalhumanities #folkmedicine #historyofmedicine #donttrythisathome

Clipping from The Druggist and Chemist, 1872 that reads:

“Mrs. Margaret Carr, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, bought a black cat for the purpose of taking three drops of blood from it to be administered to a grandchild suffering from croup. Thereupon her neighbours raised a tumult, charging her with witchcraft, and she was obliged to call upon the authorities for protection. Mr. William Owens, her lawyer, brought twenty witnesses to prove that the child recovered the moment the dose of blood was administered.”

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

That’s basically why I’m sharing a cat pic at such a moment. Hope someone else benefits! Here’s another, for good measure. Not a care in the world.

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I’m so jealous of him. He knows nothing of dictators, or ethnic cleansing, or world wars. He just gets to sit on his little sofa and be cute 🥲 #caturday

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

In personal news, after much deliberation as to where my research on displaying the dead in Ireland would fit, I applied and got accepted into the @ucdsociology.bsky.social programme under Dr Barbara Gornicka’s watchful eye. Everything is terrible, but I’m excited to start in September! 😅

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I was half expecting little Danny to roll by…

Hotel corridor with orange patterned carpet and 70s decor, reminiscent of the Shining.

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

In Hamburg, one hour ahead from IST, and about 50 years back in hotel decor. I was honestly sad I didn’t have trousers to press.

(Photo) 70s style hotel room, complete with waterbeds and trouser press

Photo of a cream and brown vintage trouser press

Photo of a wall pointed plaque with 3 barometers and temperature dials

Photo of a corner window and elevator door in 70s decor

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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Still #caturday in some of the world 🤷🏻‍♀️ #tabbies #catsky

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