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🌳 Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe. A Gand: chez Louis van Houtte, eÌditeur, 1845-1880.. [Source]

Um, apparently this was *very* soon, as it was published yesterday. Delighted to share my latest article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Do the fighter planes not even have their transponders on? Bah!

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

Wait everyone shut up for a second: the discovery of the Brachiosaurus holotype is at the exact midpoint between the founding of the United States and today (July 4, 1901)

tfw you have finally re-sorted three boxes of an art collection and you check and put box 2 in box 2 and then you go to the other box to put 3 away and find out that it is also box 2 so you go back to the first box and actually now it’s box 3 instead and so you move the things to the other box but -

I must be unwell; am seriously contemplating whether i actually want to have a 16th century book in the display or if it’s more of a distraction

I have read three novels that feature medieval wallpaintings, anybody know of any more?

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ok so I think I might do my next display on color. thinking out loud to myself: that 18th c flower coloring book the mineral color chart if I can find it some awful early modern hand coloring? the colored vs black ink redoute? maybe two different colored copies tacky chromolitho postcard??

Ignore this link unless you want to accidentally stay up two hours past your bedtime

intensely grateful for my fear of spiders rn as it meant i chose to vacuum off the lawn chair outside instead of bringing it straight in and thus I did not disturb the wasps nesting under the chair inside the house

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

What is this that roareth thus? Can it be a Motor Bus? Yes, the smell and hideous hum indicat Motorem Bum!

Am in love with this book cover from the @colezoology.bsky.social collections. New tattoo idea?

they have it across from the giant Ferris wheel so it looks extra shrimpy omg I am crying

More Leo & Diane Dillion. A book jacket for a collection of queer short stories.

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

Sharing to read on a proper screen later

Our digital cultural heritage is so fragile without ongoing resources. We're reaching a critical point where the whims of fascist politicians are dictating what digitised resources will survive. Who said culture and history wasn't political? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When I caveat research points about Tolkien (e.g. there’s no evidence that he knew/meant that - that we *know* of) is because there’s still primary material out there we haven’t seen yet. This is a case in point: newly discovered letter by Tolkien to be sold by Christie’s 1/2

BHL is featured in @theguardian.com's Age of Extinction series. The article highlights the extraordinary value of BHL and the urgent need to ensure it remains free and open into the future. Please read and share: www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪 🌎 📖 🔗 🐟 💚

Well, if it’s 17 June, it must be the 86th anniversary of Major Alfred Wintle, MC, responding to the defeat of France by starting a one-man campaign to rescue the French Air Force using methods which landed him in the Tower of London... 🧵

🐢 Happy #WorldSeaTurtleDay! This Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) is by Jean Gabriel Prêtre from Ramón de la Sagra’s Historia física, política y natural de la isla de Cuba (1855). Contributed to BHL by @mobotgarden.bsky.social: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8438411... #ILoveBHL 🧪

The Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it! 10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :) #history #archeology #arthistory #museums

ok but they’re like way higher than the letters now

I’m at the bread and circuses. I’m at the damnatio memoriae. I’m at the combination bread and circuses damnatio memoriae

As an archaeologist who has studied and excavated tombs and parts of temples in Egypt for 2+ decades where I could see Damnatio Memoriae in action, one thing I had never considered was how long it takes to put up the fucking scaffolding

the campus bar already felt loud when I went as a grad student it’s even louder several years out from that

It's a good day when you get to bust out a sentence like this. #18C

I wanna make this happen at my library

collections based professions continuing to be the coolest

Pop sci “news” is so often bad - does anyone remember the old Twitter account that appended “in mice” every time a mouse model study got over-represented? - but adding the imprecise use of “AI” for propaganda reasons is even more layers of fun

And the Rowlandson dance of death —!

I've picked up many postcards showing the battlefields of the Somme in the 1920s, but this is definitely one of the most intriguing. It is a postcard of Beaumont-Hamel written by a civilian living in the ruins in the 1920s. She has labeled the photo, including the Café Renaissance, where she lives.

I’m not sure I should be trusted with PowerPoint presentations I have a whole slide that just says HOORAY and has a picture of a flower

I am so excited to try this

The slow disappearance of public amenities in general -- benches, toilets, etc -- has made a lot of public spaces relentlessly and intentionally hostile

BHL celebrated 20 years at our 2026 Annual Meeting in London, hosted by @nhm-london.bsky.social and @rbgkew.bsky.social. Partners gathered to reflect on two decades of collaboration and plan the next chapter for open biodiversity knowledge. 🧪 Read more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/05/2026...

Faculty: libraries and librarians need your advocacy BEFORE our collections are shuttered and our workers are fired. Whether you think your library is in trouble, and it almost definitely is, write to your provost and tell them how essential the library and library staff are to your work. Right now.

sometimes you just need to sit on the floor in an obscure corner for a little while

See also: Plug/Socket Atlas theoutletatlas.com via @its-nice-that.bsky.social

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For the #DHmakes letterpress crowd 🚺 ♀

Overheard on the bus: “He’s about to be 33!” “Damn, he looked so young!”