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nulybranch.bsky.social
Diploid studying polyploids @natural-history.bsky.social @nyu.edu Evolutionary Biologist by day | Historian by night || Contr.Ed Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social | NiCHE @nichecanada.bsky.social
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Tfw that book project that was almost derailed by the pandemic and its aftermath (and the German academic job market) finally has a cover: Practices & Narratives of Early Modern Piracy, forthc. this August with Amsterdam University Press 🏴‍☠️ #pirates #EarlyModern #AcademicPublishing

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MAJOR MILESTONE for fungal science! 🍄💻 Our entire Fungarium - 1.1 million dried fungi specimens - is now fully imaged!👇1/4 ow.ly/w9JX50VT9FA

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Utter Glee! #fungi #fungarium #herbarium #collections #museum #botanicalgarden @rbgkew.bsky.social

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Cannot wait to see this exhibit! #botany #science #STEAM #art #plants

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Today is the day! My book Lab Dog is out from @uchicagopress.bsky.social a week early and you can find it wherever you find books. For @thedrift-mag.bsky.social, I put it in context with xenotransplantation, “trans rats,” & contemporary lab animal politics newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/from-capit...

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Carlo Rovelli on the importance of good #PhilSci to making advances in physics. On his account, misinterpretations of Kuhn and Popper by practicing physicists account in part for what he considers to be too much work on unproductive research programs. #HistSTM

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Today is the final day to submit proposals for Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories series, edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social! The proposal form is quick! Spread the word. niche-canada.org/2025/04/16/c...

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Love an 18th century burn. 🔥🔥🔥 "This Duhamel has invented an infinity of machines which serve no purpose, has written & translated a multitude of books on agriculture, of which it is not known if they have any useful result, that is still awaited." Denis Diderot, 1767 #history #STEM #inventions

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"It is difficult to summarize the impact of NiCHE in a short paragraph..." - @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social Read DeWitt's full comments alongside other Canadian history blog representatives on the topic of "Challenges and Impact" on @activehist.bsky.social - activehistory.ca/blog/2025/04... #cdnhist

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Overachieving roses, yet again, 😤. "The pointy edges of petals rely on a type of geometric feedback never before seen in nature." #botany #roses #plants #math #nature #STEM #science

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ONE WEEK left to submit your proposals to our Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories, edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social What's that one "thing" you haven't been able to fit into broader research? niche-canada.org/2025/04/16/c... #envhist #envhum

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We've got a new NiCHE series CFP!! Call for Submissions – Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories Proposal Deadline: 7 May 2025 Editor: @nulybranch.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/04/16/c... #envhist #envhum #archives

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New NiCHE Series! Call for Submissions – Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration Proposals accepted on an ongoing basis. Editors: @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social and @stundenbower.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c... #envhist #envhum

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Two moods while writing: 1) this is actually pretty good 2)

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Spring program for the Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series. The first seminar is by the wonderful @nickytheprof.bsky.social on Wed 26 Feb, 3-4 pm C.E.T: The Land of True Britons: Edward Lhwyd's Survey of Wales.

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"This should unnerve every American who eats" #plants #botany #science #seeds #agriculture #genetics www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

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Today on our site we have "CASTOR / A Sharp-Toothed Typeface for Multispecies Storytelling" by Marianne Hoffmeister-Castro This post is the third in a series marking the 50th anniversary of the passing of Bill C-373, edited by @blairstein.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/03/18/c... #envhum

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NEW #research from the Zanders Lab & Halfmann Lab in @plos.org shows how selfish genes “cheat” inheritance to ensure they’re passed to the next generation. Learn how the discovery could help scientists better understand #fertility & #neurodegeneration. Learn more: bit.ly/41uOr8V WATCH: (part 1/3)

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Happy #StPatricksDay! 🍀This green beauty shows the early formation of a small colony of corals from the Hawaiian Montipora capitata coral. N Coral polyps have autofluorescence by the expression of the Green Fluorescent Protein. 🔬(Gibson Lab) #discovery

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ICYMI: Virtual Event – When History Meets the Environment – @canadashistory.bsky.social Forum Thursday, 20 March 2025 – 6-9pm EST niche-canada.org/2025/03/14/v... #envhist #cdnhist

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Botany be like... #plants #botany #art #science #marydelany #britishmuseum #natureinart #artlovers @britishmuseum www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/03/13/i...

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Don't leave me humourless! CfP Deadline Tomorrow. #climatechange #Climatecrisis #environmentalhistory #humour #humor #comedy #envhist

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"A group of thieves used explosives to break into the Drents Museum in Assen ... and stole four ancient Romanian artefacts, including the Helmet of Cotofenesti, an almost 2,500-year-old gold helmet, which were on loan from the National History Museum of Romania in Bucharest." #museums #collections

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