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??

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

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...

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.

#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.

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

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!

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).

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. ⤵️

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.

Now more than ever 🏳️‍⚧️

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

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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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

Red Admiral Digital painting

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

Some good news! #snails www.bbc.com/news/article...

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.

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

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

Happy holidays from your furiends at the zoo

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

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 🗃️

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).

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

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

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

Happy solstice, internet friends ❄️🤍

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

Reading this article is what I imagine being a football fan and watching your home team win the superbowl feels like www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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.

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

Excellent analysis on the Beechey Island grave markers! Fine work by Logan and Alison! www.illuminator.blog/p/gravemarke...

On the Martlin Digital painting

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.