dennish.bsky.social
Concept- & content developer new Natural History Museum UniZurich; Island biologist w. fetish for giant tortoises (Aldabrans!) & rewilding 🐢
Fond of Gessner (x2) & Scheuchzer; lover of old books, older fossils, history of science & music of metal
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Feel free to share, Mieke! 💚 - The exhibition opens on Monday; I'll post photos of the finished models soon 🤓
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Nature is healing 🥹
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Congratulations, Jim - great cover! 🐸💚
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Echoes of the title page of Sprengel 1793 😍💚🐝
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Thanks; fingers crossed!
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Congratulations - it looks gorgeous! ...is there a cheaper paperback version on the horizon, by any chance? 🥹
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This is so great! 💚 - I missed out on the news that you found a new nerdy home; congrats!
Say hi to @debbiemleigh.bsky.social if/when you bump into her up there (if you haven't already - she's also a former UZH nerd 🤓
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You people are truly evil 😁🙃
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Browsing the Rijksmuseum's digital collections is always a treat 💚🤓
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"Pip-pip, pour us another cuppa - there's a fine lass, I dare say, whatnot; soon this little thing will blow over and we can get back to pretending to care about science"
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Your drafts have a magical touch, Natee 💚
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Congratulations on the submission! 🤓🤘
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Flotem
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If not today, when? 🤓
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🤐 Indeed, mum's the word...
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Excellent news! (the book, not extinction!) - looking much forward to reading it! And gorgeous cover 💚
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Exactly. It seems they'd rather go "pip-pip; hope for all of this rather inconvenient brouhaha to blow over, whatnot, eh, old sport?" - while sipping tea with schtiff upper lips.
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After the second coffee, my brain just reminded me of a short story I read decades ago, in which an Early Modern screw plays a key role. I'm almost certain you know it already - but just in case you don't: Parson's Pleasure, by Roald Dahl.
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Doing something that makes one weep with joy - doesn't sound like a worthless enterprise to me. Quite the opposite. Screw the popular, I say! (& you got yourself a boatload of punny titles for talks served on a platter with that one! 🤗)
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Someone who cares deeply about the history of human societies and what holds them together, obviously! 🤘
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Good question. I am fairly sure they are at least content a lot of the time. And even in bad times, they are the original stoics, sitting it out for months. There's a good XKCD-comic that nicely sums it all up: xkcd.com/889/
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The museum reported that only an old, rusty screw was taken; "We are at a loss to explain this theft", the director said.
"Fools, FOOLS - I'll show them ALL!", Prof. Camps cackled to herself as she entered her underground lair, caressing a small, ancient screw. 🤘🖤