Dr Raye eating choccy @LeafyHistory@computerfairi.es

Wow! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871),' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 45K times! 😲

Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🐒 🐟

#history #histodons @histodons #histsci #histbio #HistSTM #HSTM #STS @histstm #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #histsex #sex #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #Darwin

Just a few centuries ago choughs were recorded all along the south coast of England... Do you think we could get there again?! There was that chick in Dover this year too! 😻🐦‍⬛🧡 (Map based on my research, from my Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife) #chough #BritishWildlife #ornithology #envhist

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rpealguof6k3rbxbuourojhb/post/3l2cmwiz5ix25

' . . . but when it comes to the birds and the bees, maybe we didn't get the whole story.'

Super piece on ITV News yesterday prompted by the London Natural History Museum's fabulous new book A Little Gay Natural History by Josh Luke Davis. 🐵🏳️‍🌈🐧

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-08-02/new-research-reveals-same-sex-couples-in-1500-animal-species

#tv #televsion #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #Pride #PrideInSTEM #sex #science #biology #zoology #nature #naturalhistory #animals

How Australian scientists brought Norfolk Island’s thumbnail-sized #snails back from the brink of extinction
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/13/how-australian-scientists-brought-norfolk-islands-thumbnail-sized-snails-back-from-the-brink-of-extinction

"After initially struggling to reproduce in captivity, A. campbellii are now breeding like rabbits and scientists are planning to release some back into their only known home, a small valley on an island in the middle of the Pacific... The #snail was officially #extinct when, in 2020, pictures taken by local citizen scientist found their way to Dr Isabel Hyman"

📺 You wait a lifetime for a queer nature documentary and then two come along at once - typical! Hot on the heels of Queer Planet is Second Nature: Gender & Sexuality in the Animal World, narrated by the wonderful Elliot Page. It looks awesome! 🦒 🐬🏳️‍🌈🐠

https://www.secondnaturedoc.com/

#tv #televsion #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerinstem #prideinstem #sex #gender #science #biology #zoology #nature #naturalhistory #animals #secondnature #elliotpage

Most pristine #trilobite #fossils ever found shake up scientific understanding of the long #extinct group https://phys.org/news/2024-06-pristine-trilobite-fossils-scientific-extinct.html

Rapid volcanic ash entombment reveals the 3D anatomy of #Cambrian trilobites https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl4540

"The fossils, which are more than 500 million years old, were collected in the #HighAtlas of #Morocco and are being referred to by scientists as Pompeii #trilobites due to their remarkable preservation in ash."

The smelt is an estuary fish which swims upstream to spawn. 250-500 years ago it was common around Britain, and was thought to smell like violets or green leaves! It is now much rarer due to over-fishing and poor water quality. Map from my #AtlasOfEarlyModernWildlife #AnimalHistory #GIS #UKwildlife

It’s book launch day and my partner bought me the perfect gift - an edible copy! 😭🎂💛🖤❤️

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #325: Perucetus Colossus
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#perucetus #perocetuscolossus #whales #cetaceans #extinct #giants #chonk #chonkyboi #nofatshaming #wtf #science #biology #paleontology #comics #webcomics #comic #funfacts #facts #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

This is my #linocut of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), surrounded by plants & a mineral she touted as medical treatments, her invented alphabet & model of the universe. Her writings preserve not only her own knowledge & theories but the nature of institutional #medicine & folk healing of her day (which she deftly combined). While she might be best remembered today as a composer of 70 Gregorian chants & musical dramas… 🧵1/n

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSci #histMed #botany #MastoArt

I had a request from @LeafyHistory to help translate this text for their upcoming discussion group on the wolf in Japan. The 'dog Shogun' Tsunayoshi was something of an animal lover, and his Buddhist tendencies led to some extensive animal rights laws - even for wild animals!

Link: https://yobanashicafe.wordpress.com/2023/10/23/tokugawa-tsunayoshis-compassion-for-living-things/

#YobanashiCafé #Buddhism #JapaneseHistory #JapaneseLiterature #JapaneseBuddhism

Shaligrams, the #sacred #fossils, are becoming rarer because of climate change https://theconversation.com/shaligrams-the-sacred-fossils-that-have-been-worshipped-by-hindus-and-buddhists-for-over-2-000-years-are-becoming-rarer-because-of-climate-change-209311

"For more than 2,000 years, #Hinduism, #Buddhism and the shamanic #Himalayan #religion of Bon have venerated #Shaligrams – ancient fossils of #ammonites, a class of #extinct sea creatures related to modern #squids... #ClimateChange, faster glacial melting, and gravel mining in the #KaliGandaki are changing the course of the river, which means fewer Shaligrams are appearing each year."

It is in fact questioned by some authorities, wether even Mesolithic Europeans, were sailing out intoo deep waters, to catch offshore fish. (Pickard & Bonsell, 2004)

At European sites, inshore fishes greatly outnumber pelagic ones, although Thunnus, Scomber, Xiphias, and Belone turn up. I know from personal experience, that Belone and Scomber sometimes come quite inshore. The occurrences of the larger oceanic predators, Thunnus and Xiphias, are harder to explain without some offshore fishing.