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Tobias Niedenthal (aka hexaOrthorexia)
@klostermedizin.de
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History of Medicine/Pharmacy
● Medicinal plants in Europe
● Herbal anti-infectives
● Coordinating the Forschergruppe Klostermedizin (Research Group Monastic Medicine), Würzburg (Germany)
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
„What has 6 fingers on a cave wall?“

„An AI slop of Neanderthal life.“
lemoustier.bsky.social Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 1d
🏺🧪 Reminder - it's never good #SciComm practice to make inaccurate/misleading gen-AI imagery.
Case in point- recent posts here of #Neanderthals with complex engravings, & metallic-looking objects.
(they also apparently have 6 fingers, but I guess who tf cares when it's just vibes for the public 🙄)
Screen grab of bluesky post showing text about Neanderthal aesthetics and a gen-AI image showing a male with inaccurate facial anatomy in a cave looking pensive, in front of him is a very complex graphic engraving in the floor and behind that is a red handprint on the wall with six fingers and a star-shape negative inside it. Screenshot of bluesky post with text about Neanderthals and fire, and a gen-AI image showing a group of male Neanderthals near extremely small mammoths in a snowy forest. The Neanderthals have a mix of fur and leather belts and wristguards, with metallic details including buckles. They have spears, the tips of which are clearly modelled on metal spears and in no way resemble any known Neanderthal artefacts. Close-up on the body of one Neanderthal in the forest showing details of the metal and leather belts and wrist-guards, and metallic-looking spears.
January 15, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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calthalas.bsky.social
For all the newcomers interested in book and manuscript history here is a handy starter pack

go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo
January 12, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
For #MosaicMonday a detail of a #Roman mosaic in Volubilis/Marocco depicting Medusa, the snake-haired mythical creature whose sight turns everyone to stone.
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Medusa’s head was a popular motif and used to ward off any evil.

📷🏺
Detail of a mosaic with Medusa, shown front-facing with expressive eyes and radiating snake hair, set within a circular border surrounded by geometric pattern.
January 12, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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Ingwer 1485 im "Gart der Gesundheit".

Der Text wurde von Johann Wonnecke von Kaub aus verschiedenen Quellen der Antike und des Mittelalters zusammengestellt.

Den Druck besorgte Peter Schöffer, der frühere Assistent von Gutenberg in dessen ehemaliger Werkstatt in Mainz.
January 11, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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enniusredloeb.bsky.social
The bear was trying to take possession of the honey reserves owned by the bees. The outcome was not good for the bear.

BL Harley 3448; Flore de virtu e de costumi (Flowers of Virtue and of Custom); 15th century; Italy, N. (Padua?); f.10v
January 10, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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A rather rare sight in Germany, but this ginger blossom was photographed in the Heidelberg Botanical Garden.
January 10, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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A ginger that @paularcurtis.bsky.social might like.
January 10, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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Stages of Life.
(Bartholomeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, 1486.)
January 10, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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edzard.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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Geranium pratense, Zingiber officinale, Panax quinquefolius.

Guérin-Méneville: Dictionnaire pittoresque d’histoire naturelle et des phénomènes de la nature. Vol. 3 (1835)
January 8, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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Auf die Titelseite der BLÖD haben wir es glaube auch noch nie geschafft. Die Kacheln der tagesschau freuen mich aber mehr.
January 7, 2026 at 6:32 AM
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For the very first time we have an English version.

Ginger (Zingiber officinale ROSCOE):
www.uni-muenster.de/Chemie.pb/en...
January 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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Der Ingwer ist Arzneipflanze des Jahres 2026
www.welterbe-klostermedizin.de/index.php/ar...
January 5, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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annepopkema.bsky.social
#BookHistory Help needed! I have trouble identifying this incunable page (back pastedown in a 1491 Cologne legal treatise, ISTC is00496000). Starting at "Non solum" seems to be a paraphrase and commentary on Decret., Lib. II, Tit. XV, cap. VII. Early provenance: Italy, c.1500.
Sharing=😘, solving=😍
January 4, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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1512 print of Walahfrid's Hortulus
www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb1...

#histmed #bookhistory
December 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Early Medieval Medicine: How a New Corpus of Manuscripts Is Transforming the Field (Open Access)
brill.com/view/journal...

#histmed #medievalsky
December 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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The first German herbal, c. 1145, starting with Ysopo and incl. 18 drugs. The last few, by a different hand, are influenced by Salerno, but no direct source is known.

Munich, BSB Clm 536, f. 86r-87r:
daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/bsb00007...

#histmed #medievalsky
December 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Happy Easter and all that jazz.

(Guido da Siena: Nativity, c. 1275.)
December 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Wenn der Schwurbelsender ARTE (@artede.bsky.social) einen Beitrag zu Hildegard von Bingen bringt, dann hört man besser nicht so genau hin.
Wenn man von einem ARTE-Beitrag über "Hildegard-Medizin" Pickel kriegt - Skeptix
(Lesedauer ca. 3 Minuten) Auf ARTE gab es kürzlich einen kurzen Beitrag zu Hildegard von Bingen. So inhaltsleer er auch war, Zeit für unkritische Aussagen zu Esoterik bleibt immer. Vor allem die sogen...
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December 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Yet another:
The benefits of multi-2D LC × LC compared to LC × LC for the analysis of European herbal remedies
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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enniusredloeb.bsky.social
What a desk!
#writingdesk
BnF MS Français 17211; Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, French translation by Claude de Seyssel, volume 1; early 16th century; f.1r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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mqassiti.bsky.social
A German obituary by the Institute for the History of Pharmacy and Medicine at the University of Marburg on Fritz Krafft

www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb16/igph...

#histstm #histsci #histmed
Wir trauern um Professor Dr. Fritz Krafft
Ein Nachruf auf Prof. Dr. Fritz Krafft
www.uni-marburg.de
December 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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enniusredloeb.bsky.social
Monkfish

Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 533; Bestiary; 13th century, middle; England; f.26r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
A gentle reminder from the past: writing words and doing calculations are crafts best done sitting at a desk wearing a fancy hat. #amwriting

The illuminated image is from 1414. #skystorians
A detail from Konrad von Ammenhausen's Schachzabelbuch: an illumination of a "Schriber" (1414), a writing man sitting at a table, holding a quill, writing on parchment or paper. Source: BSB München, BV037274467
December 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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lauropea.bsky.social
I Love Lucy: grey, synonymous with the 1950s, everyone keeps getting bothered by a guy called Fred Mertz

German politics: erm...
lauropea.bsky.social Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · Dec 11
i mean he does literally share his name with this guy
Fred Mertz on 'I Love Lucy'
December 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM