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Oxford School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography @oxford-anthro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How much do we really know about the history, politics and industry that nestle inside a glass of milk? 🥛 Alum @jcniala.bsky.social brings the anthropological perspective to a new #BBCIdeas film produced with @socsci.ox.ac.uk Find out more ⬇️ anthro.site.ox.ac.uk/articles/why...

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Why milk is never just milk: new BBC Ideas film explores the hidden politics of an everyday drink

Alum JC Niala features in new BBC Ideas Film

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Sarah Stewart @sarahastewart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hello to those attending @researchdataall.bsky.social Plenary in London on Oct 6-8. I am looking forward to meeting and re-connecting! #researchdata #researchinfrastructure

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Sarah Stewart @sarahastewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And also looking forward to the October meeting of the Science & Data Committee @bsbibotany.bsky.social - taking place this year at the @bas.ac.uk ! More to follow...! #botany #botanicaldata

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Sarah Stewart @sarahastewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Also looking forward to attending my first Plenary meeting @researchdataall.bsky.social which takes place in London this year! Looking forward to connecting (and reconnecting) with colleagues in the Research Data and Infrastructures space. #researchdata #researchsoftware #researchinfrastructure

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Sarah Stewart @sarahastewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

C'est la Rentrée - Looking forward to the start of the new academic term and to getting back to my #DPhil #PhDlife

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Sarah Stewart @sarahastewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hello! I'm back! Lost access to this account for a bit, but it is now seemingly restored!

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Derelict Second World War pillboxes at RSPB Loch of Strathbeg are being given a new lease of life as nesting sites for the in-decline Common Tern, thanks to an innovative conservation project.... speciesontheedge.co.uk/wwii-pillbox...

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WWII Pillboxes Transformed into Havens for Endangered Seabirds | Species On The Edge

Through Species on the Edge, derelict Second World War pillboxes are being converted into nesting sites for the in-decline Common Tern.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

What #EYABeauty lies on the inside of this unassuming folder? We're showing off Elsie Wakefield's fungi illustrations today 🍄 Wakefield became Head of Mycology at Kew Gardens in 1915 and our Archives hold her personal papers collection, which includes letters, illustrations and photographs. #KewLA

A blank grey paper folder on a brown wooden surface.

Numerous coloured illustrations of mushrooms layered on top of each other so that corners and sections of pages are obscured. On each sheet there are light pencil annotations next to the illustrations.

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TrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Superb result of lots of hard conservation work by my mate Tim Pankhurst at Plantlife, plus many others. For such a rare orchid to become *less threatened* is nothing short of phenomenal. Bravo to everyone involved! @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Rare Fen Orchid brought back from brink of extinction

Cambridge University Botanic Garden and partners have been working to successfully reintroduce the species.

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Also at #BIBConf25, a panel discussion on Artificial Intelligence: the good, the bad & how best to approach it as a botanical community. On the panel: @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social; Olaf Kranse (Univ Cambridge); Alice Kershaw @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social Stuart Desjardins (Univ. Leicester)

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Sarah Stewart @sarahastewart.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Wonderful to see @jackdashby.bsky.social discussing his book, 'Nature's Memory' @linneansociety.bsky.social last evening!

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Best time to join the growing ranks of #BSBImembers? In October to get 15 months of benefits for price of 12: that's when 100s of people inc @markavery.bsky.social & @alunsalt.bsky.social joined! 2nd best time? In November, to enjoy 14 months of benefits: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/bsbi...

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BSBI membership: save money with our autumn special offer

For the last three years, we have launched our autumn membership special offer by saying that 'in a rapidly changing world, our wild plan...

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Huge thanks to @adamvaughan.bsky.social for his excellent article in today's @thetimes.com about #GBRedList. Wild plants inc Common Restharrow, Common Rock-rose & Common Milkwort all now classed as Vulnerable - so no longer common! Download the new Red List: britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bi...

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A new vascular plant Red List for Great Britain | British & Irish Botany

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TrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Major revision of #GBRedList of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devil’s-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

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Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

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Sarah Stewart @sarahastewart.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Many (and belated!) Thanks to the #NorfolkFloraGroup and @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social for a great day in the field! Looking forward to the next field meeting (and more surveying!) 🥰🌱🌿

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Digitisation means global access. What was once locked in cabinets is now open to researchers, students, artists, gardeners - anyone, anywhere 🌐

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Through the power of digitisation, millions of Kew's plant and fungal specimens have stepped out of the archives and into the hands of the world 🌿 Explore the new Data Portal yourself and uncover centuries of botanical history - now just a click away! www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

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TrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Procumbent Pearlwort (Sagina procumbens) in its very unnatural natural habitat. We need a term for these road-dwellers - tarmacophytes maybe? #UrbanPlants #PavementPlants @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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IASSIST @iassistdata.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

🛟 IASSIST members, along with members from organisations like RDAP and the Data Curation Network, initiated the Data Rescue Project to coordinate efforts in preserving USA federal data at risk. Data have already been rescued from various agencies. #datarescue iassistdata.org/blog/2025/02...

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From risk to rescue: Securing data for the future generations

IASSIST is an international organization of professionals working in and with information technology and data services to support research and teaching in the social sciences and beyond.

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Sarah Stewart @sarahastewart.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

And the importance of data and citizen science here from @bsbibotany.bsky.social - contributing to the broader understanding of #biodiversity #plantdiversity

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Sarah Stewart @sarahastewart.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

In these times, Open Data are more crucial than ever. Datasets and websites in the US are unfortunately 'going dark' including medical and health datasets and climate change. #digitalpreservation #opendata www.axios.com/2025/01/31/h...

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HIV, transgender care, climate change and other federal websites go dark

Several CDC pages were taken down by Friday afternoon. Some redirected users to other sections of the site.

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Archives & Pathology Museum, City St George's, UoL @citystgeorgesarch.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The anonymous pamphlet 'Directions for Preserving Animals, and Parts of Animals, for Examination' was probably written by John Hunter in the 18th century, and advises that the bills of birds should be preserved separately in spirits, while the legs can be dried #Animals

A small plastic toy penguin on a book called 'Directions for Preserving Animals, and parts of animals, for examination', stamped with 'St George's Hospital Medical Library'

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Archives & Pathology Museum, City St George's, UoL @citystgeorgesarch.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

We know, we know, we're getting ahead of ourselves again, but... These little penguins have been exploring the archives. Look at all the other penguins! Things took a sinister turn however when they came across a book instructing on the preservation of birds 🤯 #EYAAnimals #ExploreYourArchive

Two small plastic toy penguins on a framed painting depicting penguins on an ice float, by Edward Wilson

Two small plastic toy penguins on some old-looking books on a shelf

Two small plastic toy penguins on a book open on instructions on preserving birds: 'Some birds are too large to be preserved whole, therefore it becomes necessary to observe their external appearances before the parts are separated'

Two small plastic toy penguins on a picture frame looking at a photograph of a penguin

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Archives & Pathology Museum, City St George's, UoL @citystgeorgesarch.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Our archive is #YourArchive. We have digital records, manuscripts, ephemera, rare books, artworks, and artefacts on the history and heritage of the university. Everyone is welcome to visit: you don't need to be a 'serious researcher' to come to the archives ☺️ #EYAYourArchive #ExploreYourArchive

A composite picture including a photograph of a metal chest with the title 'Archives St George's Hospital Medical School', a photograph of medical students and nurses, floppy disks and hard disks, a painting of a magician with a rabbit, a cow hide mounted on a wooden stand, manuscript with chemical formulae, guidance for Covid-19, handwritten letters and a shelf with old books

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Sarah Stewart @sarahastewart.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

蛇年快乐 Happy New Year of the Snake 2025

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Thanks to @pocketwildingie.bsky.social for promoting the fabulous Basal Project: basalproject.org.uk It's a great resource for anyone looking to identify wild plants from their juvenile leaves/ basal rosettes. The site was set up by @richardmabbutt.bsky.social, one of our amazing #BSBImembers.

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Basal Project

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Only 4 days left if you want to apply for a BSBI grant! We have Training Grants (<£250) so you can take a short #WildFlowerID course; Plant Study Grants (<£1K) for undergrads; Science & Research Grants (<£1K) aimed at PhD students or amateur researchers. bsbi.org/grants Don't miss out, apply ASAP!

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Dr Joby Razzelliot @jobium.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

All this time and money wasted on AI development when it could be spent making a thermos that doesn’t give tea a metallic taste

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM

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WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers

First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This #BlueMonday, a few 'blue' pages from one of our most popular books 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' (1843) by pioneering photographer Anna Atkins. Also watch our librarian, Will Beharrell's @willbeharrell.bsky.social, talk on the Society’s copy youtu.be/bTK_YU75Wbc

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Sarah Stewart @sarahastewart.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Pleased to have finally joined @historyscience.bsky.social as a member! Looking forward to participating in the Society!

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Thrilled to have Prof Sachiko Kusukawa talking us through Leonhard Fuchs's History of Plants - our first 2025 presentation of Linnean Lens. A recording will be available if you miss it. Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel to be alerted to the upload here: www.youtube.com/linneansociety

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Sandy Hetherington @sandyheth.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Interested in Botanical spirals but couldn’t attend my lecture @linneansociety.bsky.social Don’t worry you can now watch it on YouTube! 👇👇👇 The talk includes an overview of our recent paper on fern fiddleheads @currentbiology.bsky.social youtu.be/WLHDnjwcPlc?...

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The Origin and Evolution of Botanical Spirals | Sandy Hetherington

YouTube video by Linnean Society

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Archives & Pathology Museum, City St George's, UoL @citystgeorgesarch.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

We're getting a bit ahead of ourselves but just cannot wait to complete the first part of #ExploreYourArchive week, looking at #tiny things through microscopes in our collections, from a classic golden St George's engraved microscope to wood-encased 1940s & more utilitarian-looking 1980s 'scopes 🔬

Gold-coloured microscope engraved with 'St George's Hospital'

A black Ernst Leitz Wetzlar microscope in a wooden case, c.1940s

A grey 'Inverted Olympus CK' microscope manufactured in Tokyo from the 1980s

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Archives & Pathology Museum, City St George's, UoL @citystgeorgesarch.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

We also went #huge with an anatomical textbook from 1747 featuring rhinoceros Clara in the background. Medical textbooks were often large to be able to show the illustrated details accurately. Poor Clara was exhibited around Europe, and died in London in 1758 #EYAHuge #ExploreYourArchive

Black and white illustration in a book of a skeleton, with drawing of a rhinoceros in the background and a pencil at the bottom of the illustration showing the large scale of the book.
From Bernhard Siegfried Albinus's 'Tabulae sceleti et
musculorum corporis humani', first published in 1747, illustration by by Jan Wandelaar

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Archives & Pathology Museum, City St George's, UoL @citystgeorgesarch.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Medical history often focuses on great individuals, but there are so many unsung #heroes whose work is essential, yet often overshadowed. We catalogued our #HistNursing collections last year funded by #ArchivesRevealed - they're a treasure trove of #nursing heroes #EYA #ExploreYourArchive #EYAHeroes

Picture of books, one with handwritten cover label identifying it as a lecture notebook for subjects including surgery, eye lectures, infant feeding, pathology, practical nursing and gynecology. Another book is opened to a page of handwritten notes and a drawing of a shoulder bone

Black and white photograph of two women smiling in long party dresses

Black and white photograph of a nurse dressed in a uniform handling trays and equipment by a serving hatch

Image of a table with numerous items, including a jigsaw puzzle of St George's Hospital, photographs and magazines. On the foreground is a small box displaying the 'Constituents of a pint of milk' in test tubes, including fat, protein and lactose

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Today's ornithology fact - the world's smallest bird of prey (a falconet) is smaller than the world's largest hummingbird (Giant Hummingbird) 🧪🪶

Museum skins of a falconet and a hummingbird with a 15 cm ruler for scale

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Dennis Hansen @dennish.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Frontispiece of 'Osteologia' (1680), with a human skeleton checking in the inhabitants of the book: "Tortoise... check; on you go, quick now" (Rijksmuseum, hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001...) #EarlyModern 🐢

Engraving - a human skeleton holds a long list of animal names. A long line of skeleton animals move from the background and up around the human skeleton. A tortoise skeleton is at the very front of the line. Two flying parrot skeletons hold up a piece of fabric with the author, title, and subtitle of the book.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 07/12/2023

The Oxford Internet Institute has a ton of featured research on life online: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/ They also run a degree program on Social Science of the Internet, so if you look around in the ORA (ora.ox.ac.uk ) you'll be able to find some research from grad students in there.

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OII | Research

Our research is at the cutting edge of social science. Find out more about our faculty and students' work uncovering how technology and the internet impact our day-to-day lives.

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Sarah Stewart @sarahastewart.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Hello World! I am now here on Bluesky! I am a sociologist of data, research infrastructures and scholarly communication, a data manager and biologist! I also love art, literature and going on long walks!

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