Catherine Duigan
@cduigan.bsky.social
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Environmental consultant, researcher & non-fiction writer; water & nature; heritage & natural history; women in science; biographer of Dr. Kathleen Carpenter; Ireland & Wales connections; accepts commissions. https://catherineduigan.co.uk/
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10/7/1858 — b. Rosa Smith Eigenmann, American ichthyologist, author. Internationally renowned ichthyologist; the first noted female authority on fish, the first woman to discover new fish species. The first librarian, San Diego Society of Natural History #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #OTD
Rosa Smith Eigenmann
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Irish Foreign Ministry is supporting specific funding stream for Irish early career researchers to travel and collaborate with colleagues under the themes of the Ireland-Wales Shared Statement 2030.
#Research #ECR

The Ireland-Wales Shared Statement can be read here: www.ireland.ie/en/greatbrit...
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Of course Kathleen Carpenter, #freshwater ecologist, signed The Welsh Womens #Peace Appeal, clearly & confidently with her best fountain pen, as a testament to her loyalty & humanity.
New permanent exhibition at Llfrygell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales
www.wcia.org.uk/academi-hedd...
Background of handwritten names, with inset photograph of young woman in Edwardian clothing; white blouse; patterned neck scarf; coils of hair on her head Large wooden chest with background image of 4 well dressed women in early 1900s coats and hats; one woman holding open a document.
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Chowder for breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you began to look for fish-bones coming through your clothes.
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Lovely piece about visitors to @rspbcymru.bsky.social Cors Ddyga's new wetland pools, "slivers of liquid light, their margins still mottled dark with freshly turned mud and root, harbouring long-buried organic treasure, waiting to be snatched".

A @naturambyth.bsky.social project for Curlews
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A real but almost surreal #Antarctic sea #anemone by Thomas Alan Stephenson @aberdlsagb.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social from Terra Nova Expedition 1910 #historyofscience #Wales #taxonomy #sciart #envhist 🎨
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Morphological drawing with water colours of Antarctic sea anemone
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#OfficeToday
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
The National Library of Wales
- a cathedral to Welsh literature, language & culture.
#histenv #historyofscience #Wales #Aberystwyth
Library reading room with three levels of bookcases.
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Under Cadair Idris - plant pigments change and breakdown creating a tapestry of rich colours to enjoy 🍂
#Wales #autumn #Colours #landscapes #Valley #Uplands #mountains #nature
Rocky dark blue mountain ridge above grey scree and layer of rich brown bracken; foreground of green fields and yellowing oak tree along hedge line. Overcast sky. Rocky dark blue mountain ridge above grey scree and layer of rich brown bracken; intruding block of dark green coniferous trees on left; overcast sky.
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Rare insect thought extinct in Britain discovered at our Cors Goch Nature Reserve on Anglesey! The Limnephilus pati, a species of caddisfly, was found during a recent biodiversity survey.
Read all about it here 👉 www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/news/rare-in...

📷Robin Sutton, Ian Wallace
Limnephilus pati, a species of caddisfly on plain white background Limnephilus pati, a species of caddisfly
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nation.cymru
Images available to browse on the new platform include galleries of artworks by Van Gogh, Monet and Renoir, historic photographs of people and places, and images of objects from the national collection, all of which have special relevance to Wales
Thousands of images from Amgueddfa Cymru now available to access online
Amgueddfa Cymru has released over 2000 images into the public domain making them freely available on a new platform. It puts Wales at the forefront of open access and on par with global museums such a...
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Great news! The Welsh Government is to recognise beavers as a native species and award them full legal protection. This is great news for this wonderful mammal, which can help us restore our river and freshwater habitats 💚💙💚

Read more here:
www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/news/beavers...
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Fordwich #Trout: "the rarest of fish; many of them near the bigness of #salmon, but known by their different colour; and in their best season they cut very white…”
Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, 1653

At the Beaney Museum #Canterbury

#RiverStour #FishFriday #Kent #envhist #fishing #rivers
Simple painting of fish; brown dorsal surface and fins; silvery ventral surface, with informative text above and below image.
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Very, very sad news for #Ireland - Manchán Magan is a huge loss to Irish heritage, culture and nature. His beautiful writing will be much missed.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
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A shared #heritage - constructed circa 1400 from Irish #Oak, the Wagon Roof of the Chapter House of Canterbury Cathedral #Ireland #England #religion #architecture #wood #envhist #colonisation #history #nature #botany #Quercus
@cburycathedral.bsky.social

www.canterbury-archaeology.org.uk/wagon-roof
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The weeping brook without #Ophelia - The Great Stour

#chalkstream #nature #Canterbury #aquatic #macrophyte #rivers #plants #Shakespeare #envhist
Range of green submerged plants in flowing clear water
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“…built for people who believe and argued not for people who believed and sang or shouted praise.” This was John Betjeman’s reflection upon the simplicity of the design of non-conformist chapels.

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Ghost Feed by John Gerrard - The scene draws on real footage of forests burning in places like the Amazon and California, connecting the virtual to the very real environmental crises happening today.
#CreativeFolkestone

www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/artists/john...
john gerrard - Creative Folkestone
www.creativefolkestone.org.uk
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"But what if this present
Were the world's last night?"
Derek Jarman

🎨 🎞 📽 Ghost Feed by John Gerrad

Many powerful environmental messages by #FolkestoneCreative at
#FolkestoneTriennial2025
#environment #art #biodiversity #nature
Video of spider monkey looking at computer tablet in its hands with slow rotation revealing woodland habitat burning around it - large screen located in industrial landscape at end of railway track - male human figure looking at monkey - blue sky
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