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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Ok! Clips that will attach the seed packs to the posters have been added. Next batch of seeds arrives tomorrow, so I can make seed packs of these 3 species (milkweed is already here, stratified in my fridge). Should be able to get them out into the neighborhood this weekend??

a 3 by 3 grid of posters, each with 9 clips of various colors glued to the posters. All of them say "Plant Native Plants, learn more with a QR code, and Take one and Plant" The top has bee balm, the middle has milkweed with a monarch and monarch caterpillar and one has a wasp on echinacea

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Tristan F. @tristanaef.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Shameful interview about gender-affirming trans healthcare on today's @npr.org Here & Now. The UK is an example of how NOT to treat trans youth. No mention of the recent report from several European countries that SUPPORTS trans healthcare for minors and rebukes the Cass Review. (1/) #trans

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 20/02/2025

Peter Carney gets up close and personal with some #FranklinExpedition relics at the Bath Royal Scientific and Literary Institution following a talk by @illuminator.bsky.social. erebusandterrorfiles.blogspot.com/2025/02/four...

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Four Rusty Tin Cans in Three Different Sizes

In January 2024 I had the pleasure of visiting the beautiful and historic city of Bath to attend a fantastic presentation by Logan Zachary...

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ultima thule @thethousandthpart.com · 23/02/2025

Visited Thomas Abernethy yesterday after a long time. His gravestone had survived another winter - no mean feat in Peterhead AND facing the sea - but this is Abernethy, whose widow would have needed a massive wall of granite to reflect his service record in the Arctic and the Antarctic alone.

A general view of some of the gravestones, a chapel and remains of a wall at Old St. Peter's Kirk, Peterhead, on the first sunny day following weeks and weeks of rain, wind and raw cold.

Close-up photo of a gravestone of Thomas Abernethy, a seaman, polar explorer and one of many Franklin Expedition searchers. He was a local boy who came from nearby Longside, and spent most of his life when he wasn't at sea, in Peterhead (apart from a spell in Chatham).

Image of transcribed words from Abernethy's monument: "Erected by Rebecca Young in memory of her deceased husband Thomas Abernethy, second officer of the ship Victory, and who shared in the perils and privations of the expeditions to the Arctic seas commanded by Sir E. Parry and Sir John Ross in the years 1823, 1829, 1833. Born 1803, died 1860. And the above Rebecca Young."

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

#StainedGlassSunday 1898 memorial window to Edward Oates, Lord of the Manor of Over Hall, in Gestingthorpe. Erected by his children incl Capt Laurence Oates, the man on Scott's Antarctic expedition in 1912 who went into the blizzard to die in hope of saving his fellow explorers.

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Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I should also say that this museum is completely volunteer-led. They are redoing their displays, and clearing out objects that are not linked to Newhaven, so there's room to develop a narrative of Newhaven's long history. The Brazen wreck is an important part of their identity. #NavalHistory

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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 03/02/2025

Are you an independent researcher, writer, artist, or creator? Are you fascinated by the history of polar exploration and looking to explore this in your work? The New Polar Times needs you!

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 30/01/2025

In 1960, Library and Archives Canada took possession of a can of Mystery Meat recovered from Beechey Island in Nunavut, and put it on display. (They thought it was a #FranklinExpedition artefact, but it's likely to have been from the Search. Image below is of a replica).

A replica Goldner's Patent food can, similar to the ones used by the Franklin Expedition. This replica was used by Peter Carney in his talks about the victualling of the expedition and the types of food the crew would have eaten. From http://erebusandterrorfiles.blogspot.com/2019/04/my-talk-at-mystic-seaport.html

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 21/01/2025

As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon. But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️

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People Have Had Non-Binary Genders for Thousands of Years

It's nothing new.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Business in Hispanic neighborhoods is already down: restaurants, grocery stores, everything. Immigrant customers and employees are afraid to leave their houses. If they can't leave, we can. Show up for your immigrant neighbors and their businesses, everywhere.

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Leah from South Dakota @leahfromsd.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Now more than ever 🏳️‍⚧️

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

As many of us seem to be undergoing our own little Winterreise... 'Krähe, wunderliches Tier, Willst mich nicht verlassen? Meinst wohl bald als Beute hier Meinen Leib zu fassen?' ~ Wilhelm Müller Crow. Ink on Fabriano Medioevalis, 85 × 132 mm, 2022. 1/2

Painting in gradated black ink washes of a crow on a bare wintry branch, photographed with a penny and the traditional Chinese brush used to paint the piece for scale. The penny could obscure about half of the crow.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/01/2025

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

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2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!

This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 17/01/2025

Robert Anstruther Goodsir died OTD in 1895, aged 71. Much of his life is opaque. But what we /do/ have shows a brave, brilliant, compassionate man, who often put himself at great risk to help others. He's also the best writer by far of all the people who searched for the #FranklinExpedition.

Image shows a very goth gravestone. There is a bronze bas relief of sail ships in an icy landscape near the top. The inscription reads:

Robert Anstruther Goodsir M.D.
Arctic explorer and traveller who in 1849 sailed in the ship "Advice" in search of the Franklin Expedition and again in 1850 as surgeon accompanied the expedition fitted out for the same purpose by Lady Franklin.

Born 1823
Died 1895

The grave is located in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.

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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Now available in paperback for preorder. nyupress.org/978147983094... 🗃️ 🎓🌈 🏳️‍🌈

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Scare-argh Boo-arnard 👻 @sarahbpolar.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The latest Polar Artists Collective exhibition is now LIVE!! Check it out from our linktree here: linktr.ee/polarartcoll...

Part one of the Polar Artists Collective exhibition poster made by our designer Alex Huston!

Part two of our Polar Artists Collective exhibition poster made by Alex Huston

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Polar Artists Collective @polarartcollective.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Cracks in the Ice: An Installation || Mary Walters An installation describing the decline of Arctic sea ice, for the Edinburgh Science Festival

An art installation showing declining sea ice, at the end of a room with a red crack across the floor.

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Please help me! I’m on X because that’s where my paintings sell. I shift about 95% of my work there. If I could just get my followers up to the same level here, it would release me from the swamp. I live in the middle of nowhere so I rely on social media to share & show my work.

The rewilding meadow in front of the cottage

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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Red Admiral Digital painting

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

For New Year’s Day 2025, a hellenistic glass vase shaped like a pomegranate. 2nd century BC - 1st century AD. A symbol of abundance and good luck for the year ahead! ‘The Pomegranate: Greek Symbol of Good Fortune for the New Year’: greekreporter.com/2025/01/01/p... #Archaeology

A small purple glass vessel in the shape of a pomegranate probably used as a container for perfumed oil. Height 6.9 cm (2.7 in), Diameter 6.6 cm (2.5 in) The lighting enhances the translucent purple glass which replicates the colour of a ripe fruit. There is some encrustation particularly around the calyx which has one lobe missing.

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Dean (N7DPW) Walton @deywalt.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Flew over Greenland a few days ago. That was a cool experience. I had the only open shade on the plane. Look what they all missed out on! I am guessing the mountains are flat-topped from glacial/icepack action.

Image of flat topped rocky mountains covered with snow and lit by the sun.

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cj ‼ @jaradraws.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

old art, still a good crimus movie :] #thegreenknight #fanart #jaradraws

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James Fitzjames @captjamesfitzjames.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas to all! 🎄💖 [Letter from Robert Coningham to Fitzjames] #19thC #NavalHistory

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Happy holidays from your furiends at the zoo

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I couldn't share this clip when I first posted this thread, because Bsky didn't support video then, but here's the pop-up being opened. The Nutcracker, Walker Books, 2015. The book is still available (dead name, boo). #ArtAdventCalendar #NHPNutcracker

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 25/12/2024

Happy Christmas! 🎄 'Christmas day is one of great importance to the men: the whole of it has been given up to revelry, at present there is not a sober man in the ship', Charles Darwin, 25 Dec 1831 🍾 thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/c... @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social #histsci #histbio 🗃️

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Christmas on HMS Beagle

Charles Darwin spent Christmas day of 1831 in Devonport awaiting favourable weather for the departure of HMS Beagle. Darwin wrote in his diary for the voyage: Christmas day is one of great importan…

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas! 🎄 Christmas card design I did for Papyrus back around 07/08? Ink and gouache. It echoes my illustrations for Clement C. Moore's The Night Before Christmas, published by Walker Books just a few years prior in 2005 (see following post).

Silhouette illustration in black ink with touches of red and green of Father Christmas on his sleigh being drawn by his eight-reindeer team across the sky over the rooftops.

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Alexa Price, Ph.D. @downeast-alexa.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Also since it’s Antarctic kitten time, this is an older drawing that I’m not particularly proud of but I put a filter over it so here, have some kittens and a perplexed Ross

A graphite drawing of a man in naval uniform sitting in front of the windows of the captain’s cabin in a sailing ship, next to a table. There are two kittens on the table. One is inspecting a teacup and the other is on its hind legs looking for attention

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Tristan F. @tristanaef.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

In honor of the Winter Solstice and the most Christmas story ever, I present: my top adaptations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 🧵 #SGGK

Dev Patel as Gawain in The Green Knight (2021). A closeup as he faces the camera with his sword drawn and held in front of him.

A panel from Emily Cheeseman’s graphic novel. The Green Knight, a man with green skin and a green beard, stands over a kneeling Gawain. Text bubble reads: “The Green Knight heaved the axe into the air, readied for the blow, and brought it down—“

The cover of Holly by William Aime. Subtitle reads: “Never bring a gun to an axe fight.” The text is laid over a photo of a mossy tree. A large bloody axe is in the tree trunk. Crime scene tape runs along the bottom.

Screenshot from a webpage of Daniel M. Lavern’s story. The top is a reproduction of an illustrations in the original Green Knight manuscript. The text below reads:

GREEN KNIGHT: hi hi
come over
it’ll be fun
we can whack off each other’s heads with swords

GAWAIN: what

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Dave Long @axe99.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

The old maritime history feed will no longer pick up new maritime history posts – for the new maritime history feeds, please check out bsky.app/profile/axe9... and bsky.app/profile/axe9... #mhfmtnu

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Jill🌻 @jillsunflower.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Happy solstice, internet friends ❄️🤍

A beautiful snowy view of a small frozen lake at sunset, with pinks and blues reflecting from the sky onto the ice, and silhouetted mountains and trees in the background

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

(cautiously at the farmer's market) and would you say your cow is... you know... a friend of Louis Pasteur...?

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 17/12/2024

You do not need to be an academic to visit an archive. You do not need a degree to visit an archive. There is no terrifying Don at the door grilling potential visitors. If it's your first time, a nice archivist will help you. It's our shared history, our preserved records. Go explore it.

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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 17/12/2024

Hi. I'm Andrew. I own New England's oldest map store because last year I moved across the country after an old guy retired and gave it to me Willy Wonka-style. Visit my store in Rhode Island. www.mapcenter.com

A nerd in a teal sweater holding a stack of books about railroads in front of a wall of framed maps.

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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

On the Martlin Digital painting

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 11/12/2024

US: Trans Lifeline’s Hotline is a peer support phone service run by trans people for our trans and questioning peers. Call them if you need someone trans to talk to. translifeline.org/ho... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 11/12/2024

These sailor inventories are the most rich sources of the details of clothing and professional material culture of working men in the late-nineteenth century, and uniquely show possessions at early to mid-life, rather than end-of-life.

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Tristan F. @tristanaef.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I love this one because it’s a perfect example of an LLM doing what it’s designed to do: find the most statistically likely word to follow whatever you give it

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

In the university English department where I studied for my undergrad degree, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight was always the last text before Christmas in the 1st year. It is 100% a Christmas story, so fill your festive boots

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Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Can't wait to read this! I've always been fascinated by the local knowledge of wind. #CoastalHistory #Orkney

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Alexa Price, Ph.D. @downeast-alexa.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Reposting this request! Please let me know if you can help! 😍

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Angry Algonquin @angryalgonquin.com · 08/12/2024

So chuffed to see the @scottpolar.bsky.social here on Bluesky. It's a wonderful place.

Circular map, Arctic, on ceiling of Scott Polar lobby

Circular map, Antarctica, on ceiling of Scott Polar Institute

Navigational instruments used by polar expedition

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Terror Camp @terrorcamp.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Our third panel, "Queerness and Transformative Works", is starting now on Zoom! ✨ Featuring presentations on fandom for history and historical fandom, the creation and consumption of trans narratives in Terror fanworks, and homophobia and historical memory in Dan Simmons’ The Terror.

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Terror Camp @terrorcamp.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Our first panel of the day, "The Arctic as a Site of Knowledge Production", is starting now on Zoom! ✨ Featuring presentations on the polar prehistoric record, learning Inuit languages in the time of The Terror, and narrativization of the Frozen Deep.

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