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Messy-haired hedge-doctor & friend to the local Slow Worms.
Special subject: the history of wildlife & wild plants in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.
Looking to follow people who talk about nature, history, unions and the secret moonlight magic that opens the gates to faerie.
#AnimalHistory #EnvHist #HistoricalEcology #medieval #EarlyModern #MoreThanHuman #CelticStudies #HGIS #extinction #histodons
Joined Dec 2022
Next Wednesday evening (1900 GMT+0) I'll be giving a free academic seminar on my soon-to-be-released book (The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife)! I'll be covering why Britain and Ireland's pre-industrial natural history data is so reliable, how I map historical records, and how you can tell the difference between when a species was unrecorded and when it was truly absent. Come nerd out with me! 
😻 Register here - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ahg-seminar-introducing-the-atlas-of-early-modern-wildlife-tickets-422495384067
#histodons #archaeology #gis #EarlyModern #wildlife
Happy #SaveTheEaglesDay!
Where I live now, eagles seem impossibly mythic birds, but according to my research, just 250-500 years ago White-tailed Eagles (or Sea Eagles) were widespread around the coasts of Britain and Ireland. The last native White-tailed Eagle was only shot in 1918! 🌬
But this is not the end of the story. The eagles are reintroduced on Mull, Wester Ross and Fife in Scotland, Killarney NP in Co Kerry and now the Isle of Wight in England. Please post pics if you see one! 🦅💚
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Yamaguchi Sekkei: Lions and Tigers in Peony and Bamboo
• Pair of six-panel folding screens
• Ink and color on gilded paper
• 149 × 330 cm (each screen)
• Edo period, 1668
• The Cleveland Museum of Art
#japan #japanese #art #artofmastodon #arthistory #japaneseart #japanesearthistory #artfromjapan #edo #japanesepainting
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More on the limits of ChatGPT. One of the key points, which I also discovered when noodling around, is that the bot makes stuff up when it doesn't know something, so that anyone with detailed knowledge of a field is likely to notice immediately if a student submission is chatbot generated.
https://www.medievalists.net/2022/12/why-ai-wont-steal-medievalists-jobs/
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🧪 #Science
🦕 #Naturalhistory
🦭 #Nature
'Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery - determines that cave paintings included lunar calendar information about the fertility of different animal species'
This is a remarkable discovery for a professional but for an amateur. Simply wow. Well done, Mr Bacon.
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Ok, this is cool: a team of biologists worked out that turtles can talk. The hatchlings even talk to each other in the egg to coordinate their hatching. Turtle talk is at frequencies not very audible for humans and it can take hours for some species to reply to each other.
“Had we had a bit more expansive imaginations, we might have caught this earlier,” said Karen Bakker, a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/06/turtles-eat-south-america/
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My 1st (unfiltered) pass in #mapping #English #PlaceNames taking the form ‘X-on/upon-river Y’ (e.g. Stratford-on-Avon). Data (158 names) incl. both surviving & ‘lost’ names, with dates of 1st reference ranging from 900-1983! The distribution is intriguing, espec. the absence of names in the S & E, as is the tendency for names to cluster. Only named rivers drawn. Now time to slice, dice, & play. Your thoughts welcomed. #Medieval #EarlyModern #Names #EnvHist #Histodon #HistGeog #Rivers #Maps
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Hi, I do #naturewriting to highlight wonder & aliveness in the world. In a Nature-Spirit #podcast I use #history and #naturespirituality to make sense of current #ecocrises. My first book, Kissed by a Fox, won the WILLA Award in #creativenonfiction. It’s #memoir punctuated by cultural story—how Euro-world came to think of nature as lacking. My second book, Tamed by a Bear, is a journal of one year in a #spiritualpractice of #natureconnection. Centering more-than-human voices. #Introduction
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New Year's is coming! Parties! Fun! Hangovers! And of course, you'll want to cure your hangover in the most medieval way!
The internet will tell you that eating raw eels was a traditional medieval cure. Sweet! To the store!
Hold on there, hos.
This was NOT a traditional medieval remedy. Eel blood is toxic to mammals. It causes very bad reactions in mucus membranes, & induces intestinal distress. Enough can prove fatal.
Curiously, otters don't seem bothered by this.
#Eels #Otters #History
My strange winter habit is to read something about #SlowWorms (they are hibernating right now and I miss them! 💚)
I found this paper today called 'Great capricorn beetle-created corridors as refuges for lizards' https://herpetozoa.pensoft.net/article/81190/download/pdf/
It describes how common lizards, sand lizards and slow worms use the holes (corridors) bored by gc beetles for predator evasion, as well as maybe hunting, thermoregulation and hibernating. Another reason to have a log pile! 🦎🎄 #herpetology
@mistyuk wow I am jealous!! You will have to post a pic (or maybe wait until they are gone for safety!) 💚
@mistyuk That's amazing! I wonder how many generations of seals that is? Have you seen any this year? 💚
@richardev Ah nice! I hope martens and wildcats come back in our lifetimes, there are places near me which feel like they would be perfect too! 💚
@richardev It's just the standard recorder effort problem so not so bad when you know to balance for it - "Oh hi again Machell!" But Morecambe Bay woods sounds lush! Have you there often yourself?
@CherylMorgan That's so outrageous!
@forestfern Thank you, I am ever so excited about it!! 😹
@richardev Yes! I can actually explain that one. There was one recorder called Thomas Machell who seems to have been EVER SO interested in Martens and Wildcats around Kendal. He was so interested in them and records so many locations that it skews the whole map, although I suspect the early modern Lake District was also genuinely a very good habitat for them too! 
@mari3lle I know right! I was absolutely blown away when I saw that cover, all credit to Pelagic Publishing! The artwork is actually from the seventeenth century - I have a contemporary picture for most of the species in the Atlas! 
December's historical wildlife map is of the (harbour/grey) #seal! According to my research, seals were widespread around Britain and Ireland 250-500 years ago! 🐕🧜♀️
Interestingly, seals started to decline after the end of the #EarlyModern period due to increased hunting. Around 1900 they had become so rare that they had to be legally protected. They have recovered pretty well since, and it's now pupping season, so look out for them if you walk on the coast this winter! 🌊🔭 #histodons #mammals
- Bird Site:
- https://twitter.com/LeafyHistory
- Bluesky Bridge:
- @leafyhistory.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
- Pronoun
- they/them
Messy-haired hedge-doctor & friend to the local Slow Worms.
Special subject: the history of wildlife & wild plants in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.
Looking to follow people who talk about nature, history, unions and the secret moonlight magic that opens the gates to faerie.
#AnimalHistory #EnvHist #HistoricalEcology #medieval #EarlyModern #MoreThanHuman #CelticStudies #HGIS #extinction #histodons
Joined Dec 2022
