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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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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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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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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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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
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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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
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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:
December 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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“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
Parasitic Fungus!!!!!! Can’t wait to see this 🍄🍄‍🟫 in action 💕
youtu.be/kea7gnh1uYA?...
COLD STORAGE | Official Trailer | STUDIOCANAL
YouTube video by STUDIOCANAL
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December 21, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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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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"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

niche-canada.org/2025/12/17/p...
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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 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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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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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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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!
December 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Hand-coloured mistletoe from a 16th century herbal. Do people still hang it much in their homes over Christmas?
December 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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my cover letter opening line
December 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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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...

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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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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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Did everyone know this about O. Henry . Every sentence is bonkers
December 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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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.
outsideinradio.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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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...
doi.org
February 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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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"?
🚨 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