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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hate it. Absolutely hate packing for any weather, for any length of time. It paralyses me.

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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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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Leiter. The master of drawing the gaze. Gosh, love him.

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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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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Top marks to whoever chose the image.

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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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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Amazing, love it. Thanks for sharing.

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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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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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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Literally anything is better with beans.

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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 · 04/08/2025

It’s the background giggles that are killing me.

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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 · 20/03/2025

Only if you grab them by the chassis.

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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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Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Is there a discount for those in the UK? Thanks!

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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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