Siobhan Leachman

Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and Australia would "lose some degree of access" to the publisher's 1600 titles from the start of next year.

Thousands of academics and students in New Zealand and Australia are poised to lose access to Elsevier journals next year

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The stalk-eyed Crustacea Cambridge, Printed for the Museum, 1895. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13885333

The stalk-eyed Crustacea Cambridge, Printed for the Museum, 1895. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13885333) #nature #illustration #art

Never Make Your Move Too Soon - Live At The Alley Cat Bistro, Culver City, California / June, 1987

Very much enjoying Ernestine Anderson this afternoon. open.spotify.com/track/1RkXIw...

Scientific illustration of a magnolia flower at various stages of bloom. Shades of pink.

Glorious Magnolia campbellii. Image via @biodivlibrary.bsky.social and @wikicommons.bsky.social Created by Joseph Hooker and William H. Fitch. Public Domain commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Il...

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Really disappointing that the mayor wants to turn one of the last remaining remnants of the pre-human Canterbury Plains into a solar farm, rather than see it restored it as a scientific reserve.

This is the land that Colin Meurk has been championing for decades, and it finally got scenic reserve status a few years ago. Perhaps the Mayor doesn’t realise that. www.stuff.co.nz/environment/...

She also had herself committed to an asylum so she could see how the patients were treated and then report on her experience. Great woman!

Street caution sign for stag beetles

Street sign with a frog

Best signs in my neighborhood…🪲🐸

An overview shot of a portion of the collection: a long window box with wooden frames filled with glass models of plants carefully arranged and labeled on white backgrounds, as though part of a 3D herbarium. From this distance, they are indistinguishable from real plants.

Glass model of maple leaves, featuring blended molten glass that mimics the red hues of autumn foliage

A glass model of a Columbine (Aquilegia) with parsley-like leaves and pendulous, faintly red and yellow flowers that look like swans huddled together, necks touching and wings flared out.

Glass model of a Potentilla with almost ferny foliage and simple, open-faced yellow flowers with fuzzy centers.

Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors

That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are

Sunrise, Saturday, 15 November, from Makorori Headlands, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

🎉 Dr Shannon Clarke wins the McMeekan Memorial Award for her groundbreaking work in animal genetics — boosting sustainable farming in Aotearoa New Zealand! 🌱

👏 A huge week of science & global collaboration at #ISGME2025

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4p8rfYi/

#BioeconomyScience #AgInnovation

Illustration of a magnolia flower with large, creamy white petals edged and streaked in deep maroon. The flower's central pistil is detailed in yellow and red hues. Below the blossom, the green stems and multiple broad, textured leaves show natural veins. Some buds and curling bracts are also visible, emphasizing various growth stages. The artwork uses fine lines and subtle shading to highlight the flower's delicate texture and structure, typical of an early 19th-century botanical print. The background is plain, focusing attention entirely on the magnolia specimen.

🌳 Flora conspicua
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826.

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Spotlight on #S2O pilot partner Cactus and Succulent Journal, featuring articles about #cacti and #succulent plants, including caudiciform and pachycaul succulents and xerophytes, and is meant for professionals and hobbyists alike.

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OMG SPEECHLESS

#Aurora has erupted & gone coronal (directly up).

Now the entire southern sky

Bound into three exquisitely colored volumes, Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods (1860–1902) features hundreds of species, collected across 42 years by a female mycologist named M. F. Lewis:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fungi-of-shropshire

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A monograph of the Nectariniidae, or, Family of sun-birds London: Published by the author, 1876-1880. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/113608

A monograph of the Nectariniidae, or, Family of sun-birds London: Published by the author, 1876-1880. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/113608) #nature #illustration #art

Our abstract for #LivingData about the use of #Symbiota portals in #LatinAmerica is out! At least 140 collections in 12 countries are actively using the portals 🥰. So far, less than 40% of collections in the region are available anywhere online. We'd love to help! 💚 biss.pensoft.net/article/1773...

The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836 London: Published by Smith, Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill, 1839-1843. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48899186

The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836 London: Published by Smith, Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill, 1839-1843. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48899186) #nature #illustration #art

A monograph of the British marine annelids. London, The Ray society, 1873/1900-1922/23. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37824149

A monograph of the British marine annelids. London, The Ray society, 1873/1900-1922/23. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37824149) #nature #illustration #art

Photo of a bright yellow nudibranch and the GBIF and DataCamp logos overlaid

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Valentina Karatajute-Talimaa and Elga Mark-Kurik on Kreuzritter lake (Kryzhiuochiu ezheras), under an umbrella, north of Vilnius,Lithuania, 1977 (photo H.-P. Schultze).

Model of sacabambaspis helsinki

Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵

The famed model held in Helsinki is made out of silicone (from a sculpted foam template), with added doll eyes. It exploded online and turned into a mascot character (サカバンバスピス) in the Japanese pop culture from late 2022 onwards.

Call for opponents to support wapiti plan The group which instigated the move to get wapiti in Fiordland classed as a herd of special interest says opponents should get right in behind it...

It is impossible for deer at any level to maintain and enhance natural biodiversity.

"Herd management plans aimed to keep deer numbers at a level which enhanced the recreational hunting experience while maintaining and improving natural biodiversity and forest health." www.odt.co.nz/southland/ca...

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Here's a view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft, now in orbit there. science.nasa.gov/mission/juno

Image processed from raw data by @kevinmgill.bsky.social

Cartoon. Title: COP30: NZ'S GUTTING ITS OWN CLIMATE PACT. Two panels. First a not so great caricature of Todd Muller (hey, it's been a long time since I had to draw him lol) he's standing holding a report that says Framework he's patting James Shaws shoulder kindly saying "Nice work!". James Shaw (again not a great caricature but at least it kinda looks like him) holding the earth in his hands says back, "Something we agree on!" At the bottom it says - 2019 Bi-partisan agreement. The 2nd panel Simon Watts is leaning back and tripping over what could be the opposition leader Chris Hipkins (he's dropped the earth and it's slow motioning towards the ground where is smashes. Simon is saying to him, "HA! HA! Not anymore!" And under that panel it says, 2025 Bye bye bi-partisan.

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Today COP30 starts in Brazil... I can't list all the things this coalition has gutted from the environmental plans.

A sad day for all...

#NzPol #Cartoon #COP30