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Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Aug 11

Markets are rich in #medicinalplants, & Gumi Shuka in Yerevan is no exception.
A visit is never just about buying. You get local names & uses, preparations. Sometimes, without even asking a single question.
For instance, the lady mentioned aveluk, maybe you use it too but not in soup. #ethnobotany

Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Aug 1

O patrão do porto

Btw did you know #Portugal comes from Portus Cale?
It was a small Roman port known today as #Porto. In the Middle Ages, the region became the County of Portucale. That’s where the Kingdom of Portugal was born in the 12th century.

So yes, it all started here ⚓✨
#summer #picture

Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Jul 25

This
#nature #mountain #slovenia

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Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Jul 15

If you are wondering, their mother came pick them up. Mission accomplished!

Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Jul 15

Trying to reunite baby bats with their mother 🦇🦇

After a call to the 🇸🇮 bat rescue centre, we placed them in a warm cardboard box.
At dusk, we set the box near where we found them. We set up a camera for a few images, then removed everything to give them the best chance of survival
#animal #nature

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Haenke @haenke.bsky.social · Apr 23

Call for submissions: Free Radicals | Symposium 🌱

Are plants at the centre of your research? Join us for the symposium by submitting a contribution of your own.

More info freeradicalstoolkit.substack.com/p/call-for-s...

@julienantih.bsky.social @sashstrelec.bsky.social #sciart #artscience #plants

Call for submissions | Free Radicals symposium

Join us in the dialogue on the state of play around thinking-with plants in creative research.

freeradicalstoolkit.substack.com

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Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Apr 22

I’ll be speaking at the SEB conference in Prague.

Sharing our work on Montpellier’s Droguier and how plant-based biomaterials sit at the intersection of material culture, and healthcare innovation.

If you’re around 7-12 June, let’s meet and talk plants

#ethnobotany #materiedica #materialculture

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Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Apr 21

With @sashstrelec.bsky.social we’ve just launched @antihlab.bsky.social substack:
Further Research Is Necessary
Exploring plants, and the intersections of science, tradition, and global health.

First post here
open.substack.com/pub/furtherr...

#ethnobotany #medicinalplants #materiamedica

A new leaf unfurling

Creating a research laboratory from scratch.

open.substack.com

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Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Mar 20

In Maastricht today, presenting "Le Droguier" - Montpellier's rich #materiamedica collection at Jan van Eyck Academie's Regenerate! symposium together with @sashstrelec.bsky.social. discussing traditional medicinal knowledge, #materialcultures & regenerative futures. janvaneyck.nl/calendar/reg...

Regenerate! - Jan van Eyck Academie

Je bent van harte uitgenodigd om deel te nemen aan dit 2-daagse symposium waarin we de nieuwe ontwikkelingen in materialen en methodes in creatie, conservering en kennisontwikkeling binnen de kunst- e...

janvaneyck.nl

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Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Mar 18

Mark, there’s so much to discuss indeed. Will reach out via DM.

Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Mar 18

The intersection of natural heritage and collective memory is crucial. How can we better preserve and acknowledge these histories? #art #history #herbalremedies #materiamedica #herbarium

Antih Lab @antihlab.bsky.social · Mar 15

As part of a new initiative, we seek to critically examine our complex histories, ensuring the preservation of the collective memory of these practices and emphasising the importance of acknowledging the intersectionality of natural heritage.

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Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Mar 17

In no particular order : Montpellier’s landscape & vineyard, vitamine sea and a toxic plant (Hyosciamus niger) #photography

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Stephen Spitewinter @spitewinter.bsky.social · Mar 11

#history #botany #art 🌱
Reynoutria japonica / Fallopia japonica - Japanese Knotweed

A botanical horror story. c1880, the worlds most invasive #plants are cool and trendy & appear in gardening magazines.

Unintended consequences...

powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...

www.cabi.org/invasivespec...

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Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Mar 13

Montpellier’s materia medica holds collections from Marseille’s colonial exhibitions, reflecting how medicinal plant knowledge was acquired, classified, and circulated. Excited for this event - especially the discussion on #materiamedica as material culture by @marknesbitt.bsky.social

Herbal History Research Network @herbalhistoryrn.bsky.social · Mar 13

The Zoom Room is ready, the speakers are prepped... only 5 days until our fabulous ONLINE seminar:

*Evolving Traditions: Influences on Western Herbal Practice*

Speakers from Kew, Oxford, NHM, Alternative Healers Project & more!

Wed 19 mar • 14:30 GMT

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evolving-t...

Evolving Traditions: Influences on Western Herbal Practice

A Herbal History Research Network Online Seminar

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Mar 13

I wasn’t surprised either, given that this includes food supplements - and we all know the issues surrounding them. That said, seeing actual figures helps put the scale of the problem into perspective 😅

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Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Mar 12

I was preparing my phytovigilance class & came across this recent article by Banaz&Heinrich. They tested 73 Lavandula oral products - 30% failed quality testing & 63% lacked key compounds. Serious issues in HMP & supplements, raising consumer safety concerns. #herbalmedicine
doi.org/10.1016/j.ej...

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Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Mar 12

The apocalyptic metal horse of the Paris Olympics has landed in Montpellier, Fr. And yes, the statue of Louis XIV in the background does look like it’s giving a dodgy salute - but let’s not go there.

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Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Mar 8

Pleasure to introduce Le Droguier as part of the Art & Science season at Montpellier’s contemporary Art Gallery MoCo
We’ll be holding 2 more guided tours - 11.04 & 16.05 - join us & discover the rich cultural and environmental #history of the 2nd largest #materiamedica collection in #France #ArtSci

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Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Mar 6

Your action is courageous and meaningful in the long run! And yes precarity blocks mobilization but from the other side of the pond it seems everyone is paralysed. The friend I mentioned is very well off, and it’s infuriating to get this kind of message when literally the entire world is impacted.

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Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Mar 5

An old friend from the US: Trump is the worst but fortunately I live in a liberal area in a liberal state so my day to day is pretty good.

Me :

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Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Mar 4

Vance, you absolute bloody plonker !

Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · Mar 4

Vance is now backpedalling furiously, I see. Only the UK & France had proposed anything approaching scale of 20k troops, so I don't see how he would be referring to anyone else. But let's take smaller states, then. Denmark & Estonia took same casualties per capita as America in Afghanistan.

Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Feb 28

Oh marvellous! Another masterclass from the diplomatic dream team. Truly, history in the making, just not in the way they think they would.

Fair play to Zelensky for keeping his calm while dealing with those two circus acts.

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IrishStar.com @irishstar.com · Feb 28

Vice President JD Vance accused Volodymyr Zelensky of overseeing a "propaganda tour" during an explosive White House meeting on Friday.

JD Vance's stunning six-word comment to Zelensky in explosive meeting

www.irishstar.com

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Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social · Feb 28

European perspective for Americans.

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Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Feb 28

AI filters are strong, but human creativity is stronger

#AIvshuman
#meme
#PromptEngineering101
#ChatGPTLogic

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Julien Antih 🌿📜 @julienantih.bsky.social · Feb 26

"Why invest in new antibiotics? Superbugs surely won’t be a problem…Surely, the market will take care of it.”

— The pharmaceutical industry, probably.

Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · Feb 26

UK ‘falling short’ in fight against rise of superbugs resistant to antibiotics www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

UK ‘falling short’ in fight against rise of superbugs resistant to antibiotics

Antimicrobial resistance contributing to estimated 35,000 deaths a year in UK, and government ‘a long way’ from containing the problem, says NAO

www.theguardian.com

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