I’m loving this ciliate in slo-mo! Such beautiful cilia action. Keep watching to see it whizz about in real time. ID help appreciated! #marineplankton 🦑

A bit of underwater love for valentines. These Harpacticoida copepods are partaking in a mating sequence. As far as I can tell, some species of Harpacticoida engage in pre-mating guarding, others in post-copulatory guarding, so this behaviour we see here could be either. #marineplankton 🦑

#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...

Happy 2026 International Day of Women and Girls in Science!!! 🧪 🧫 🥼 ♀️ #stem #womeninscience #science #biology #math #physics #chemistry #fierce www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

2026 is proving to be a wonderful year for first time fungi finds so far. Looks like this is the rarely recorded Henningsomyces candidus - tiny little macaroni-like tubes found on a very rotten piece of wood in Southeast England. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

Another small painting from my solo exhibition going on right now at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans. One of a group of 4" square paintings. On view through the 21st. lemieuxgalleries.com "Uncertainty" Acrylic on canvas 4" x 4" #art #painting #surrealism #bats #nature #contemporaryart

My first ever UV microscopy image! This is a Halacaridae mite, but I think it might just be an exoskeleton. It glowed gloriously under the UV light source! #marineplankton 🦑

One from the archives. A sea urchin larva moving very gracefully across my slide. Did you know sea urchins started life like this? #marineplankton 🦑

"Arctic Fever" is fantastic!! Super engrossing and really useful for teaching and thinking with. ❄️ (Curators: Mark A. Cheetham & @issygapp.bsky.social // to accompany the exhibit at the Fisher Rare Book Library, Jan. 26-Apr. 24, 2026) storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3850...

1/ I’m going to do a thread of the promotional writing and interviews I’ve done for my book starting with…

Are you in UK and want to hear about my book Ghosts Behind Glass? 3 public talks in Feb: Cambridge Museum of Zoology, 11 Feb www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events/talk-... M Shed Bristol, 12 Feb  www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/m-s... Oxford NatHist Museum, 13 Feb www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a...

Super excited about presenting my 🌱paper!!! Thank you Instructing Colonial Natural History!!! @lindaaburnett.bsky.social 🌿😊 🤩🙏

"Researchers have reconfigured the traditional use of natural history collections for taxonomic, systematic, and biogeographical study into indicators of global climate change." - @nulybranch.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/11/24/b... #envhist #histsci #naturalhistory #climatechange

Sometimes a case just stops you in your tracks, like this 1816 Boston investigation of “a Woman personating a Man, by being dressed in Men’s apparel and parading the Streets.” The case never made it to trial, & I can find nothing else abt her. Not the only crossdressing case I’ve seen but rare! 🗃️

Today we have "Finding Black Lung in the Archives" by @drheathergreen.bsky.social and Kaley MacMullin This post is part of the Mining Danger Project niche-canada.org/2026/01/02/f... #envhist #histmed #mininghistory #cdnhist

It’s time for our annual best of 2025. Here you’ll find book recs for your 2026 reading lists, a 🔥🔥🔥 TV series about Canadian hockey enemies-to-lovers, and a banger album that’ll make you laugh and cry. nursingclio.org/2026/01/01/n...

Today we have "Power House Cliff" by Jeanine Rhemtulla, the latest excerpt highlight from Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada, published in collaboration with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social & the Alpine Club of Canada niche-canada.org/2026/01/01/p...

What happens to global health leadership as the US steps back? Co-Director, Suerie Moon, argues it won’t hinge on money alone, but political leadership. “So, yes, others will step into the place vacated by the US, but they will be wearing their own shoes.” @gvagrad.bsky.social bit.ly/3YuhQib

The Institute's Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism and the UN Library & Archives announce the online release of Nicolas Politis’ papers, providing an exceptional insight on one of Greece’s most renowned diplomats and #InternationalLaw scholars of the interwar period: shorturl.at/c1cGt

delighted to see my piece on the V&A Storehouse there at number 1 most-read columns in Art Review in 2025 artreview.com/what-isnt-at...

A lot of thinking went into developing the methodology of the article. Grateful to @nulybranch.bsky.social for her superb editorial feedback and vision in steering the series.

FLIPPING OUTSTANDING WORK, of interest to 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks and #histSTM

Here’s a (soundless) extract of Jim Watson on the astonishing 1962 BBC documentary THE PRIZEWINNERS, about the five molecular biology Nobelists that year. The lack of sound makes him look like something out of The Fast Show.

going into 2026 like

My Xmas present to you – a recording of a talk given by Crick to a public audience in Canada about the genetic code in 1966: tinyurl.com/Crick1966 Listen to it while you are peeling the sprouts, walking the dog, or whatever. Here's the context from my biography:

“The longer I live, the more convinced I am that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.” - George Bernard Shaw

Parasitic Fungus!!!!!! Can’t wait to see this 🍄🍄‍🟫 in action 💕 youtu.be/kea7gnh1uYA?...

American Ecofascism: A Conversation with Alexander Menrisky - @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social edgeeffects.net/alexander-me... #envhist #envhum

New issue of Studia Celtica Fennica Vol. 21 No. 2 (2025): : journal.fi/scf/issue/vi... @sfennica.bsky.social #openaccess Gender and Theory in Medieval Celtic Literature @finnlongman.com @emmettaylor.bsky.social

"Print Cultures of Environmentalism & Archipelagic Imagination from Contemporary Sundarbans" by @sritamabarna.bsky.social is part of our Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/12/17/p... #envhist

Sharing new writing at the end of the year. Glad to be contributing a piece on archival and ephemeral outlier for @nichecanada.bsky.social If you are interested in histories of print cultures, environmentalism and literary studies, this might be of interest niche-canada.org/2025/12/17/p...

Best book covers of 2025 medium.com/3streams/bes...

You've seen our top trade titles, now it's time to round-up our academic heavy-hitters for 2025🥁 This year our list of #BestBooksOf2025 features prize-winners on medicine, imperialism, migration, sexuality, nuclear policy and more. Check out Instagram for the full selection of books!

Hand-coloured mistletoe from a 16th century herbal. Do people still hang it much in their homes over Christmas?

my cover letter opening line

Today we have "Concrete Memories: Constructing Denver’s Valley Highway" by @maggiemcnulty.bsky.social This is the first post of the Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/12/08/c... #envhist

Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.

Did everyone know this about O. Henry . Every sentence is bonkers

Listen to "Of lab mice and men" - @outsideinradio.bsky.social - outsideinradio.org/shows/of-lab... Read "A Model Organism Triptych: A Vacanti Mouse, a Ticklish Rat, and A Pain-Free Mouse" - niche-canada.org/2023/07/18/a... #animalstudies #animalhistory #histsci #envhist #science

Our data paper is out today: Collecting and cataloguing the world: the botanical collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753). Co-authored with Vicky Pickering, @rxcoulton.bsky.social, Julianne Nyhan and Mark Carine doi.org/10.1080/1477...

CollEcologies is back this week with another great discussion on how THINGS are also NATURE and what is all this about collecting and preserving, and where is "knowledge"?

Join us this coming Thursday! You won’t regret it; well, you will if you dont join us 🤭✨✨✨✨

"Terror Camp Clear" by @tchotchke.bsky.social of @terrorcamp.bsky.social is the eleventh and final post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/12/01/t... #envhist #envhum

Can you help push us over $12,000? Only a few more days left in our annual fundraising campaign and we are still far from our goal. We are not institutionally funded. We rely entirely on supporters and do good work with a very small budget!! fundrazr.com/niche2025?re... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist

Our editor, Nicole Miller, chose "Crafting the Plasticene" by @robinshistory.bsky.social as our most recent Editor's Pick! "There is no way to unmake resin-infused wood and fiberglass. Wind turbine blades pose the same problem." niche-canada.org/2025/08/07/c... #envhist #envhum #plastics #canoes

We depend on our supporters to be able to pay our grad student & precarious contributors honoraria. Make sure we don't have to make cuts to this program in 2026 by supporting our annual fundraiser today. fundrazr.com/niche2025?re... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist #histgeog

Today we have "Big C3 Energy: Arctic Plant Collections as Evidence for the Climate Crisis." by @nulybranch.bsky.social This is the 10th post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social & @sarahmpicks.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/11/24/b...

"Does humour in the face of the climate crisis allow us to explore environmental humanities research in novel and innovative ways?" - @nulybranch.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/07/25/f... #envhist #envhum #climatecrisis

We are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm. Free! Online! All welcome! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...