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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: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/ar 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🐒 :transgender: 🐟

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

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks

' . . . 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. 🐵🏳️‍🌈🐧

itv.com/news/2024-08-02/new-re

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

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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

How Australian scientists brought Norfolk Island’s thumbnail-sized #snails back from the brink of extinction
theguardian.com/australia-news

"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"

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks

📺 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! 🦒 :transgender: 🐬🏳️‍🌈🐠

secondnaturedoc.com/

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

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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

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

Rapid volcanic ash entombment reveals the 3D anatomy of #Cambrian trilobites science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

"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."

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@ClaireFromClare So I'm still learning but you follow @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy, and then they bridge your account so your posts appear on Bluesky (tho you will start with no audience there). Then any likes or comments on your posts from there will show up here. But atm you won't be able to follow back or see original posts of people whose accounts aren't bridged. Tell me if you do it and I will follow you from Bluesky! 🦋​ Better explanation here! - fed.brid.gy/docs#fediverse-get

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My Bluesky & Mastodon accounts are now bridged I think 🦋​<>🐘​ so you should be able to follow my other account from here if you want more animal history stuff 💚​

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Laurie Raye 🍵

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

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn

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

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

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

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Laurie Raye 🍵

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: yobanashicafe.wordpress.com/20

#YobanashiCafé #Buddhism #JapaneseHistory #JapaneseLiterature #JapaneseBuddhism

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@CFoix Fields, plains, heaths and wolds which I suppose makes sense. - It sounds like they liked the big open, hedgeless fields of the champion countryside. Maybe I am stereotyping early modern Lincolnshire and Norfolk and Cambridge too simplistically, I suppose they can't have been made of entirely wet fields. Perhaps the bustards might have migrated out to drier land in winter too. 🤽​

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According to my research, the Great Bustard was still pretty well recorded in Britain 250-500 years ago. It was hunted to extinction in the nineteenth century, but has since been reintroduced in Wiltshire.
I wonder if all the birds in the eastern Fen counties got soggy bums! - I don't think they are very waterproof birds! 😹​🦃
(Map from my Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife)​

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Thanks, you must let me know what you think! :abunhdhappyhop:

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Shaligrams, the #sacred #fossils, are becoming rarer because of climate change theconversation.com/shaligrams

"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."

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Three maps from my ATLAS OF EARLY MODERN WILDLIFE showing where wild animals were recorded in Britain and Ireland 250-500 years ago... :bunhdpeek:​
I found loads of records of Pine Martens and Otters. So why no records of Beavers from early modern England..?
John Ray (1693) says 'These animals have been cut down by hunters all the way to the final extermination, and their stock in England and Wales is thoroughly extinct...'
Were they already gone?😿​

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Carolyn Foix

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.

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@CFoix That is a fair question :blobcatmlem:​ - I think the wildcats were likely still doing okay genetically. - they only went extinct in England due to intense pest control in the 18th century. The wolves are harder to pin down - the wolf hunters clearly saw them as wolves not dogs, if that means anything!

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More new research from me published this month! :abunhdhappyhop:​

This is a chapter in the edited volume 'Wolf: Culture, Nature, Heritage' (Boydell Press). My research examines the (vv old!) chancery records of England and found over 200 licences for hunting hares 🐰​, foxes 🦊​, badgers 🦡​, wildcats (🐱​!) and wolves (🐺​!!!) in 13th and 14th century England. The licences are specific so can be mapped like this!

Free copy available here: zenodo.org/record/8173432

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@idoubtit Woah that is amazing, what a compliment! 🙀​​ Love a bit of the Fortean Times! 👻​

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