Last year I set up four polar bear sampling stations in our study area at Alert (Nunavut, Canada). Goal: collect pictures and hairs to document the understudied Arctic Basin population. This one, from 8 August 2025, is our first good photo ! 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦑🦊 (barbed wire for genetic hair collection visible)

📣 TERROR CAMP V PROGRAM ANNOUNCED! Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam... We’re thrilled to bring you a fantastic line-up of presentations for Terror Camp V, from deep dives into Inuit texts and polar history to queer naval fiction & scurvy. Find out what we've got in store! 🤩

One summer, when I was seven, my parents sent me to live with two aunts in PARKLIFE. I did not want to go. The elderly have that effect on children. PARKLIFE! But they loved me. And I grew to love them. PARKLIFE! ... but I am hungry. I am hungry, and want to PARKLIVE

4th October 1859 was a regular day for Joseph Taylor Goodsir. Wake early, think about God, pinch of snuff, meet brother John, read the day's post. Which included an letter sent by sister Jane to their brother Harry of #HMSErebus in Jan 1848, and returned 11 years later as "undeliverable".

USB-port Convention The Signal Jam Cardiogram B

My Longest “Devastating News, Lads” Ever

Just as written records from the lost Franklin Expedition were within reach, Canada is having to pull the plug on archaeological excavation of HMS Erebus & Terror. loganzachary.substack.com/p/illuminato...

Not before time, news on 2024’s finds from the investigation on Erebus & Terror, with some very interesting items found including a raincoat! welcome is the news Parks Canada won’t be doing any further active research on the wrecks, at least for the time being. parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nu/e...

A very happy birthday to Alexander McDonald, born in Laurencekirk #OTD in 1817. Alexander was assistant surgeon on #HMSTerror and was lost with the #FranklinExpedition. And he was, without doubt, goth AF. @scottpolar.bsky.social holds some of his letters: each one sealed with a blood red skull.

The spirit of Taco Bell Fest is eternal

Good news... we're extending our submission deadline! You now have until September 5th to send us your proposals: whether it's for 5, 15, or 30 minute long presentations, we want to hear from you! 🤩❄️🖋️ Submit your abstract here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1u3x...

Hollywood producer (chomping cigar): so whaddaya got for me, Laura Me: how about... Austin Powers is thrown back in time and has to convert the Slavs Producer: ... mmm. whaddaya call it Me: Shagolitic Producer (cigar falling out of mouth, grabbing phone): clear stages 4 and 21, we're filming NOW

I think what he learned in boating school is this, which also explains why the Franklin Expedition never came back bsky.app/profile/keit...

Lindsey's account is such a great resource for the history of medicine. Friends, doctors fans, and fellow multiples, all you need is an email. Used the template below with the following addition, at least partly in case there's a filter on identical messages. Plus there's a point to make

The Stromness Museum has no idea that mentioning John Rae, who went looking for the Franklin Expedition as depicted in AMC’s The Terror (2018), on Bluesky was the smartest thing their marketing team could have done

I'm thrilled that @issygapp.bsky.social are co-editing the *fifth* series for @nichecanada.bsky.social on Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North-this time, on "States of the Field–New Research in Arctic Pasts." We want to hear from up and coming Arctic researchers! niche-canada.org/2025/08/04/c...

its come to my attention that some of you dont know about the JCR corset incident that sent me spiraling into months of pure insanity so here we go. on the 1819 parry expedition they put on a production of the citizen in which jcr's corset ripped open pinup style and they published a POEM about it

Jane, Lady Franklin died OTD in 1875, aged 83. She was interred in the catacombs of Kensal Green Cemetery, and I'm not kidding when I say that getting down there to pay my respects in person was one of the best days of my life. www.illuminator.blog/p/jane-catac...

The Terror (2018) ep. 9

armfish alert! armfish alert!

"Sir Edward Belcher went off to hunt for D." "D was secured and brought on board." I can't express how relieved I was to realise that "D" in this case was short for "ditto". Ah, log books. #AdventuresInArchives

Not to be dramatic, but these are some of the best photos I’ve seen all year

They are writing a letter to Lady Jane

Charming Nasca lobster-shaped vessel from Peru 🦞 AD 300-600 📷 Walters Art Museum art.thewalters.org/object/2009.... #Archaeology

Apparently it’s 10 years today since I discovered that adding googly eyes to the tap on a wine box makes it look like Shaun the Sheep.

It's the 100th anniversary of the death of French composer Erik Satie today. When I visited his gaff in Honfleur earlier this year I was delighted to discover some unexpected ship content, scratched into the original plaster of the house.

Butthole Confidential

Wow thanks for reducing the text resolution so bad it looks like each letter has been rolled in lint

Follow the link below to sign up for your PDF copy of There Will Be Poems! We will be distributing the zines via email on Monday 30th June. Thank you to everyone who submitted to this beautiful piece of community art ✨ forms.gle/jEktKyUUoXAN...

The principle of being allowed to read *anything* I chose. No "perhaps when you're older" ever and I had some truly bizarre tastes as a child. Loved STI/drink/drugs information leaflets, for example, wasn't more than 7 - in fact he introduced me. Free to take home, unlike second-hand books

(First, do no h)armfish

DAVE K PIRANESI!!!!!!!!!! deadline.com/2025/06/pira...

Not now, Goth Iceberg.

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

Where are my polarhead friends who have nothing going on for the next four weeks??? Someone do this!

THE SHIP IN FRANKENSTEIN WAS DONE BY THEEEEE MATTHEW BETTS? HMS TERROR EXPERT MATTHEW BETTS? THIS IS MADE FOR MEEEEEEE

It’s that time again! We’re amazed and delighted to be kicking off the FIFTH(!) annual Terror Camp polar conference, with information about our programming, key dates, how to submit an abstract, and more. ❄️ Full details: www.tumblr.com/terrorcamp/7...

Worsley and the German submarine captain he fished out of the sea, as discussed @anadequatesir.bsky.social ! Arnold is the fellow in the middle. Plus, the letter he wrote Worsley after the event...the rituals are INTRICATE

We all love a BIG STUCK SHIP and this one has the added bonus of the most soothing live feed in internet history. play.adressa.no/video/301823...

I’m in Ilulissat in Greenland, where there is a UNESCO World Heritage icefjord as well as the best graphic design designers I’ve ever seen

Just been advertised an "immersive" experience of the Titanic and I'm not sure these people have thought much about their metaphors...

Bridgens in this

It's exactly 171 years since #FranklinSearch ships HMS Resolute and HMS Intrepid were abandoned in the Arctic by The Odious Edward Belcher. No, I'm not over it.

Come for the polar footage stay for the buckwheat pancakes and Korean naval strategy

ok fine not immune to a bandwagon

The only possible improvement to this is imagining the ancient historian proclaiming this in the voice of Arab Dad www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDQ0...