Gina Hammond
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Gina Hammond
@ginahammond.bsky.social
A couple of decades in university collections & museums; currently managing a teaching collection within FMHHS at Macquarie University.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginahammond/
This year's EOY greetings from #Downingherbarium features
Aussie plants with traditional English Christmas common names: Mt Blackwood Holly(near Mackay) Graptophyllum ilicifolium; Creeping Aust Ivy Leafed Violet (E. Aust) Viola hederacea; & Mistletoe, Muellerina eucalyptoides(sthn Qld to Sth Aust)🎄
December 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This cute little fella just wanted to share my coffee today ☕️. Very gentle little tap tap tap to get my attention. #Ibis aka #binchicken
December 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
#PlantoftheWeek from #Downingherbarium Sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum... Did you know C4 photosynthesis was an Australian - Brisbane discovery? We take sugar for granted. Consuming 180+ million tons - every year, largely in processed foods. However, origins of commercial sugar are quite complex.
December 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A legacy of genetic entanglement with wolves shapes modern dogs | PNAS (pretty sure our orange tantrum throwing cat is more wolf-like than our rottweiler x) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A legacy of genetic entanglement with wolves shapes modern dogs | PNAS
Dogs evolved through interactions between people and gray wolves during the Late Pleistocene and have been ubiquitous in human societies ever since...
www.pnas.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
A Cultural Cacophony ... Volume of papers put together by Andrew Simpson & me, from the Museums Australia national conference ten years ago. Where does the time go?
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
December 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
You Gotta Believe ... always a favorite

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You Gotta Believe
Why not believe in Her? Directed animated etc. by Nina Paley Music: "You Gotta Believe" (Norman Whitfield) sung by the Pointer Sisters, circa 1976 Scene…
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December 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Another from the #DowningHerbarium #PlantoftheWeek archives "Flowers for the #Christmas Festive Season" - December in Sydney is riot of colour - Jacarandas, Flame trees, Silky Oaks, Christmas Bush, Agapanthus, Cape Chestnuts... reminding us that summer has arrived. @zygodon.bsky.social @mqnatsci
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Travel by train to Katoomba, or from Bundanoon to Tallong in late Oct. to Nov., & you will be greeted by meadows of golden-yellow daisies, Coreopsis lanceolata. Not native but make a spectacular show in their naturalised habitats. #PlantoftheWeek #DowningHerbarium @zygodon.bsky.social @mqnatsci
December 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
#ICOMDubai2025 -An absolute treat to be able to attend last month! Abstracts linked here are from joint sessions of CIMUSET, CIPEG, NATHIST with #UMAC; & then IC's day for UMAC at AUS Library - American University of Sharjah: umac.icom.museum/wp-content/u...
December 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
An appropriate post for December in Australia, by Alison Downing from appropriately named #DowningHerbarium - "...assumed nectar seeking birds pollinate Christmas Bells but astonished to find out they are self-pollinating & ants facilitate the movement of pollen within the flowers" #PlantoftheWeek
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM