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Padmaparna Ghosh

@padmag.bsky.social
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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

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Beasts in the Myths! We will be exploring the wild in Greek myths. Today, it is this cicada (Tacua speciosa) from Edward Donovan’s ‘An Epitome of the Natural History...' (1800-1804).
A natural history illustration of a cicada, with four-wings outstretched. The insect is depicted in front of small red flower.
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Join Russell Fielding for a virtual lecture about the botanical, cultural, and political history of breadfruit’s world travels on Wednesday, September 2 at 1 PM. Get your ticket today! buff.ly/NgicTzB
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The Remarkable Breadfruit | Botany, Culture and Politics
Tracing breadfruit's varied and vivid history through tropical horticulture, Indigenous knowledge, colonial food, and modern nutrition.
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Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
With no confirmed sightings of a Ghana Cuckooshrike in 13 years, they knew the odds of seeing one slim. But after a long day of hiking and driving, the team...read on for more!
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Lost bird found: Ghana Cuckooshrike documented in Taï National Park, Ivory Coast
20 July, 2026By David GoodmanGhana Cuckooshrike (Lobotos lobatus) in Taï National Park, Ivory Coast. Photo by Stephanie Bartlett. The Upper Guinea rainforests of West Africa once stretched unbroken ac...
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
"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...
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California researcher finds Earth's vital signs flashing red
Despite the ominous numbers, the report is not all doom and gloom.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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.
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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This is so cool.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The Lure of the Underground — Alfred Leete, 1927
Poster advertising the London Underground seen on a London Street with pedestrians and people coming out of cars and people flying off the top of double-decker buses levitating and floating along and then down the stairs into the train system
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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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!
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Samanth Subramanian @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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-...
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Cat — Magdalena Patyk (@madziowa_p) Charcoal on Paper
A nightmare black cat with wide eyes and a gaping mouth full of needle teeth
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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"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...
Photograph of Margaret Fountaine in Victorian dress alongside butterfly display
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
'Night Lights of Piccadilly' (from 'This Is London', 1959) by Miroslav Šašek
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Morning Bluesky. Partial solar eclipse in the UK today, starting at 10.07 and finishing at noon. Don’t be like this guy.
Trump stares at the sun during an eclipse
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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.
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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Just found out about #BloomScrolling (love it!). A ragingly magnificent Magnolia specimen here from southeast London.
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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
*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
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Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens
Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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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Samanth Subramanian @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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
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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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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/02/2025
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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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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.
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Join us and Professor Anna Metaxas on Feb 12, 6 pm UK. We have all heard of landscape connectivity, but what about ocean connectivity? How can we conserve ecological connectivity in the ocean, particularly in light of the impacts of climate change? Free & online, booking essential. bit.ly/3Eqe6HL
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Connecting the Dots to Protect the Ocean
How can we conserve ecological connectivity in the ocean, particularly in light of the impacts of climate change?
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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
There are many wildernesses; motherhood is one. As is a world ground down into microplastics. "If you forestall the effort to stay tidy with your thinking, you might remember how fear does not live on a separate planet from awe. This is the wilderness we stand in." orionmagazine.org/article/moth...
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Mother Load - Orion Magazine
Microplastics and the new wilderness
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BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
📢 Rediscover natural history! The Linnean Society of London invites historians, archivists, curators, and artists to (re)visit natural history. 🗓️ Tuesday, February 11 · 9:30am - 7pm GMT - London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-... Supported by BSHS through a small events grant! 🌟
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Symposium | (Re)discovering Natural History
A symposium with historians, archivists, curators & artists to discuss ways of finding and telling the best stories in special collections.
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XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
In Jiangnan, China’s silk-producing region, silkworm farmers rely on #silkwormCats(蚕猫) to protect seeds and cocoons from rodents. #caturday This tradition has been passed down through generations. Beyond pest control, these cats also inspire decorative folk art, such as painted designs, 1/2
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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Painted mica overlays depicting different tradespeople, probably Company School, India, 19th C. Collections: SOAS.
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Lots of wonderful nature-based Christmas decorations in #London this year, like this stunning peacock in Berkeley Square…but something looks familiar… Ah yes, this gorgeous plate from D’Orbigny’s ‘Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle’ (1843-49). #ChristmasLights #Nature
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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Cats Christmas Party. Louis Wain.
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Our Collected Archives are now on our online archive catalogue! They include the commonplace books of Lady Pleasance Smith, and a draft manuscript of ‘A History of the Fishes of the British Isles’ by ichthyologist Jonathan Couch bit.ly/4g5btZY
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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 10/12/2024
Find a review of our new exhibition Oracles, Omens and Answers and interview with co-curator Professor David Zeitlyn in The Guardian here: www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/d... #OraclesOmensandAnswers.
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Tarot, tarantulas and TikTok: exploring our long obsession with predicting the future
A new exhibition at Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries examines the enduring appeal of divination
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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
"Shah Jahan Hunting Blackbuck with Trained Cheetahs" (1710-15, Rajasthan) for #CheetahDay today. Courtesy: The Met, public domain. You can also go see The Great Mughals exhibition at the V&A on the extraordinary creative output and culture of the Golden Age of the Mughal Court (about 1560 – 1660).
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
#CyberMonday? Sorry, we're focused on cyBIRD Monday. Limited flock remaining.
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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Instead of Black Friday, a bit of Bloom Friday? A few of my favourites from the botanical drawings of Scottish surgeon/botanist Dr Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762-1829). He commissioned several from artists in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Myanmar. 1. Cassia glauca 2. Begonia picta 3. Camellia hengna
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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Join us tmrw at 12.30 pm GMT for an online talk on the return of the Siamese Crocodile: the unlikely success story with captive breeding, indigenous communities, e-DNA trials, acoustic telemetry and crocodiles on mopeds! Talk by Pablo Sinovas. Free, online lecture - register below. bit.ly/4i4p0Cy
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The Return of the Siamese Crocodile
An unlikely success story with captive breeding, indigenous communities, e-DNA trials, acoustic telemetry and crocodiles on mopeds!
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This microscope was used by the botanist Robert Brown to observe the ceaseless jostling of microscopic particles in 1827, known as ‘Brownian motion’. Brown also found the cell nucleus of an orchid tissue through his microscope, as seen reproduced in this drawing. #Tiny #EYA
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 25/11/2024
I've updated this starter pack for all interested! Now bursting with over 100 natural history museum related accounts 🎉🌱🦆🙌 go.bsky.app/NtdUnyF
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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
It's #ExploreYourArchives week! Today's theme is #Tiny - and we've chosen this picture of the smallest member of @alpineclub.bsky.social Tschingel climbed over 30 peaks (and made 11 first ascents) with Coolidge (her owner) and was elected an Hon. member after her ascent of the Breithorn.
Tschingel - the first canine & female member of the Alpine club
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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Tried it. Loved it.
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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The language of language infects how we think about language. Samanth's profile of Ganesh Devy in the New Yorker; a man's quest to survey all of India's languages. Read below.
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Should a Country Speak a Single Language?
In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. One scholar thinks that would be a loss.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Depressing: Fossil fuel emissions projected to be almost 8% higher in 2024 than in 2015, the year the Paris climate agreement was signed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Figure showing that emissions from coal, oil, and gas have all increased from 2015, when the Paris Agreement was signed.
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Samanth Subramanian @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Is it a good time to press my Substack onto the fine people of BlueSky? I hope so. Please sign up. It’s all free! samanth.substack.com
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multi-storied | Samanth Subramanian | Substack
Tales from the search for tales. Click to read multi-storied, by Samanth Subramanian, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Midday visual break: A bunch of amusing octopuses sumo wrestling (bottom centre), breakdancing (?), playing intruments. Edo period woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), who was one of the three principal 'Ukiyo-e' artists that includes Hiroshige. (British Museum Collections)
Colour Japanese woodblock print of octopuses sumo wrestling, dancing, sword playing, playing instruments.
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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
📢📢We are looking for an Events and Comms Manager for the @linneansociety.bsky.social (Parental Leave Cover). Role involves producing and delivering the annual program of events, newsletters, social media campaigns & more. Fixed term, deadline: 25 Nov 24, 9 am GMT. Details below. Pls share.
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Events and Communications Manager (Parental leave cover)
This role will lead on the development, delivery and evaluation of Linnean Society events and communications within the wider Engagement team while our Events and Communications Manager is on parental...
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