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Nuala Proinnseas Caomhánach
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Diploid studying polyploids
Asst. Prof. @gvagrad.bsky.social | ‪‬@amnh.org

Plants & Protists | Environmental Law | Museums | Phylogenetics | Madagascar | co-convener Collection Ecologies chstm.org @collecol.bsky.social‬
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Nuala Proinnseas Caomhánach @nulybranch.bsky.social · 7d
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Cover of book with black and white drawing of a 1920s Flapper girl walking with a bag as she states “Buckle the Fuck up Bitches I’m coming”
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What happens to global health leadership as the US steps back? Co-Director, Suerie Moon, argues it won’t hinge on money alone, but political leadership.

“So, yes, others will step into the place vacated by the US, but they will be wearing their own shoes.”

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Filling America’s Shoes
Amitav Acharya, et al consider whether others can or will replace the United States as a custodian of the global commons.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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gvagrad.bsky.social
The Institute's Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism and the UN Library & Archives announce the online release of Nicolas Politis’ papers, providing an exceptional insight on one of Greece’s most renowned diplomats and #InternationalLaw scholars of the interwar period:
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December 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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profdanhicks.bsky.social
delighted to see my piece on the V&A Storehouse there at number 1 most-read columns in Art Review in 2025 artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
December 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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sritamabarna.bsky.social
A lot of thinking went into developing the methodology of the article.

Grateful to @nulybranch.bsky.social for her superb editorial feedback and vision in steering the series.
December 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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FLIPPING OUTSTANDING WORK, of interest to 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks and #histSTM
bibliowingate.bsky.social Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 10d
Do you enjoy my periodic rantings on Isaac Newton's alchemical citations? If so, take a look at my shiny new article on our improved #TEI encoding system of Newton's citations & what we can learn from some preliminary analyses of the data!
#BookHistory #histsci (tldr in 🧵)
doi.org/10.14434/tc....
A Bibliographical Framework for Citation Analysis of Isaac Newton’s Alchemical Manuscripts: Alexandra E. Wingate | Textual Cultures
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December 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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matthewcobb.bsky.social
Here’s a (soundless) extract of Jim Watson on the astonishing 1962 BBC documentary THE PRIZEWINNERS, about the five molecular biology Nobelists that year. The lack of sound makes him look like something out of The Fast Show.
December 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
nulybranch.bsky.social
going into 2026 like
Cover of book with black and white drawing of a 1920s Flapper girl walking with a bag as she states “Buckle the Fuck up Bitches I’m coming”
December 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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My Xmas present to you – a recording of a talk given by Crick to a public audience in Canada about the genetic code in 1966: tinyurl.com/Crick1966 Listen to it while you are peeling the sprouts, walking the dog, or whatever. Here's the context from my biography:
Crick was repeatedly invited to give lectures around the world as his lecturing style became renowned. Hardly any of these talks survive in written form – he did not read them out but extempo- rised from detailed notes. In only one case, a talk for the National Research Council in Ottawa in September 1966, did he permit an archived audio recording.22 In this apparently unique record of Francis at the height of his powers, he explained the links between the ‘two great families of molecules’ – proteins and nucleic acids – in terms that anyone could understand. Speaking in his slightly high- pitched, metallic voice, he used simple analogies to make his point – ‘sausages’ to describe the structure of haemoglobin, ‘spaghetti’ to describe DNA spooling out of a bacterium following a phage attack, and so on. When he made a joke, it was accompanied by his typical breathy snorting as he laughed along with the audience. Avoiding experimental detail, Crick brilliantly explained the central dogma and the sequence hypothesis, the proof that the code is non-overlapping, the redundancy of the code and the co-linear- ity of the nucleic acid and amino acid sequences. The final section was a tour de force showing how the outline of the genetic code could explain amino acid data from human haemoglobin variants and from mutations in Tobacco Mosaic Virus. In both cases, Crick’s careful analysis of the code showed that those variants were caused by single base-pair changes – all this long before DNA sequencing.
December 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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terre-strial.bsky.social
“The longer I live, the more convinced I am that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.”

- George Bernard Shaw
December 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
nulybranch.bsky.social
Parasitic Fungus!!!!!! Can’t wait to see this 🍄🍄‍🟫 in action 💕
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COLD STORAGE | Official Trailer | STUDIOCANAL
YouTube video by STUDIOCANAL
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December 21, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
American Ecofascism: A Conversation with Alexander Menrisky
- @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social

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#envhist #envhum
American Ecofascism: A Conversation with Alexander Menrisky - Edge Effects
Alexander Menrisky speaks about his new book, Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature.
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December 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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yaleclassicslib.bsky.social
New issue of Studia Celtica Fennica Vol. 21 No. 2 (2025): : journal.fi/scf/issue/vi... @sfennica.bsky.social #openaccess Gender and Theory in Medieval Celtic Literature @finnlongman.com @emmettaylor.bsky.social
Studia Celtica Fennica Vol. 21 No. 2 (2025): Special Issue: Gender and Theory in Medieval Celtic Literature
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December 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
"Print Cultures of Environmentalism & Archipelagic Imagination from Contemporary Sundarbans" by @sritamabarna.bsky.social is part of our Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social

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Print Cultures of Environmentalism and Archipelagic Imagination from Contemporary Sundarbans
Examining foxed periodicals from the Sundarbans, Chatterjee frames material page decay as environmental data, urging interdisciplinary climate humanities and graduate reform.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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sritamabarna.bsky.social
Sharing new writing at the end of the year.

Glad to be contributing a piece on archival and ephemeral outlier for @nichecanada.bsky.social

If you are interested in histories of print cultures, environmentalism and literary studies, this might be of interest

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Print Cultures of Environmentalism and Archipelagic Imagination from Contemporary Sundarbans
Examining foxed periodicals from the Sundarbans, Chatterjee frames material page decay as environmental data, urging interdisciplinary climate humanities and graduate reform.
niche-canada.org
December 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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heathbrown.bsky.social
Best book covers of 2025
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Best Book Covers of 2025
In a year of many great political science books, these covers were the best
medium.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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manchesterup.bsky.social
You've seen our top trade titles, now it's time to round-up our academic heavy-hitters for 2025🥁

This year our list of #BestBooksOf2025 features prize-winners on medicine, imperialism, migration, sexuality, nuclear policy and more.

Check out Instagram for the full selection of books!
Promotional image for Manchester University Press's best academic books of 2025. Cream background, blue snowflake pattern, black font.
December 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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marshslibrary.bsky.social
Hand-coloured mistletoe from a 16th century herbal. Do people still hang it much in their homes over Christmas?
Photo of a page from a 'Kreutterbuch' or herbal showing a woodcut of mistletoe with the name in multiple languages and fonts printed above, and the English name added in manuscript. The title page is missing so the imprint details are unknown.
December 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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hadas.bsky.social
my cover letter opening line
December 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Today we have "Concrete Memories: Constructing Denver’s Valley Highway" by @maggiemcnulty.bsky.social

This is the first post of the Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/12/08/c...

#envhist
Concrete Memories: Constructing Denver’s Valley Highway
Denver’s 1950s Valley Highway film exposes intimate demolition scenes, revealing memory, loss, and urban transformation that complicate archival interpretation.
niche-canada.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.
December 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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thedirtbird.bsky.social
Did everyone know this about O. Henry . Every sentence is bonkers
In 1895, he was charged with embezzlement stemming from an audit of the bank. Before the trial, he fled to Honduras, where he began writing Cabbages and Kings (in which he coined the term "banana republic"). Porter surrendered to U.S. authorities when he learned his wife was dying from tuberculosis, and he cared for her until her death in July 1897. He began his five-year prison sentence in March 1898 at the Ohio Penitentiary, where he served as a night druggist. While imprisoned, Porter published 14 stories under various pseudonyms, one being O. Henry.
December 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Listen to "Of lab mice and men" - @outsideinradio.bsky.social - outsideinradio.org/shows/of-lab...

Read "A Model Organism Triptych: A Vacanti Mouse, a Ticklish Rat, and A Pain-Free Mouse" - niche-canada.org/2023/07/18/a...

#animalstudies #animalhistory #histsci #envhist #science
Of lab mice and men — Outside/In
The story of how a leading eugenicist and a handful of wealthy automakers helped engineer the modern lab mouse.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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matthewcobb.bsky.social
The best science and nature books of 2025
From the threat of superintelligent AI to the dangers of overdiagnosis; plus the evolution of language and the restless genius of Francis Crick
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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trichocolea.bsky.social
Our data paper is out today: Collecting and cataloguing the world: the botanical collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753).

Co-authored with Vicky Pickering, @rxcoulton.bsky.social, Julianne Nyhan and Mark Carine

doi.org/10.1080/1477...
Collecting and cataloguing the world: the botanical collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753)
Botanical collections assembled before the widespread adoption of the ‘Linnaean’ system of binomial naming often have nomenclatural significance, are increasingly utilized to investigate genetic an...
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February 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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cmadruga.bsky.social
CollEcologies is back this week with another great discussion on how THINGS are also NATURE and what is all this about collecting and preserving, and where is "knowledge"?
collecol.bsky.social Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · Dec 2
🚨 Don't miss the next @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM seminar on Thursday 4 December at 11am EST/4pm GMT! ✨

This month, we'll hear from Thomas Biskup (University of Hull/Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel)

#envhist #histsci #histstm #envhums #collections #plants /1
December 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM