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Noah Patrick Hearne

@nph.bsky.social
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Raised by wolves and bees and birds, sustained by secondhand books. 🪶 Naturalist. Magpie. Queer! 🌿 Assistant Curator of Vertebrates at National Museums Scotland. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ He/they.

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Noah Patrick Hearne @nph.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Spotting this horned leafhopper in my backyard in London was pretty wild, not because it’s the prettiest invert, but seeing something so different from from what someone might expect in a big city has got me looking everywhere for nice, friendly city bugs ever since :)
A horned leafhopper (Ledra aurita) on a leaf in my backyard back in 2020. It’s a small bug with a greyish green colouring, a little less than an inch in length. It has two distinctive projections on its pronotum just behind its head that are said to look like horns, though their rounded edges read more like little ears to me.
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Noah Patrick Hearne @nph.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
So many touching details in Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers at the National Gallery, London. I can’t recommend enough to go and see Vincent’s butterflies and dandelions and trees and sky! 🌥️
Detail of Long Grass with Butterflies, 1890 by Vincent Van Gogh.Detail of Tree Trunks in the Grass, 1890 by Vincent Van Gogh.Detail of Olive Trees, 1889 by Vincent Van Gogh.Detail from Landscape from Saint-Rémy (Wheatfield behind Saint-Paul Hospital), 1889 by Vincent Van Gogh.
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Noah Patrick Hearne @nph.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
In honour of this insane Homotherium cub news, here’s a lovely H. latidens canine we have at NHM London, one of the first discovered in England and among those used by Richard Owen to describe the species in 1846. Happy #FossilFriday!
A photo of NHM London’s specimen PV OR 14954, an upper left canine of Homotherium latidens.
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Noah Patrick Hearne @nph.bsky.social · 13/05/2023
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Noah Patrick Hearne @nph.bsky.social · 11/05/2023
Enjoy these bee feet (aka. beef) right here courtesy of @franzanth.bsky.social !!
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