Glenn Benson FLS 🌴🦖🍄

A polished wooden box with a drawer split in two. One side is labelled "YES", the other "NO". A handful of lighter wooden balls are spread between the boxes, with some spilling out in front. Above the drawer is a hollow cylindrical protrusion that looks almost like a camera lens.

The Society's ballot box has played a crucial role in many important #decisions since our foundation, most notably in 1903 for the vote to allow women to become Fellows. With a majority of 54 votes to 17, the admission of female Fellows was finally granted.
#EYA #Decisions

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The Return of the Siamese Crocodile An unlikely success story with captive breeding, indigenous communities, e-DNA trials, acoustic telemetry and crocodiles on mopeds!

This coming Wednesday: tune in online for Pablo Sinovas's fascinating lecture on the Siamese #Crocodile! An unlikely success story with captive breeding, indigenous communities, e-DNA trials, acoustic telemetry and crocodiles on mopeds!

Book for free here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-return...

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Sadly this rhino is not being ridden by a Gladiator, but this 17th Century illustration by Edward Topsell is still worth a visit nonetheless!

See it up close in our *free* exhibition Still Life: Depicting Nature from woodblocks to X-Rays.

Open every Tues-Fri 10-5pm: https://buff.ly/3AR4692

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Hello new followers! Rounding off our first week with a very apt Menelaus blue morpho butterfly by Maria Sibylla Merian.

Merian revolutionised zoology by understanding how animals metamorphose, emerging as a new form.

Love this image? Get it as a print or card: https://buff.ly/498yGYN

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Sapiens? | Hunter Dukes The origins and obsolescence of an epithet

Blown away by this essay on Linnaeus and his life's undertaking to name all species, especially Homo sapiens. Splendid blend of taxonomy, philosophy, linguistics and theology. I will come back to it again. @linneansociety.bsky.social @hunterdukes.bsky.social
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/69/du...

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Starter pack for London's many learned societies such as the @linneansociety.bsky.social @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @geolsoc.bsky.social and many more!

go.bsky.app/FVjHKih

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Why do we Care About Frog Sex? Discover the latest news from The Linnean Society of London.

Why do we care about frog sex? To find out, check out the latest of our new #blog series, based on a paper in the Biological Journal discussing the sex metadata bias in museum collections!
www.linnean.org/news/2024/11...

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Check out our journals account too for the latest research!

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Events and Communications Manager (Parental leave cover) This role will lead on the development, delivery and evaluation of Linnean Society events and communications within the wider Engagement team while our Events and Communications Manager is on parental...

📢📢We are looking for an Events and Comms Manager for the @linneansociety.bsky.social (Parental Leave Cover).
Role involves producing and delivering the annual program of events, newsletters, social media campaigns & more.
Fixed term, deadline: 25 Nov 24, 9 am GMT. Details below.
Pls share.

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Join us for an evening opening of the exhibition and a display of the history of our building, to mark 150 years since the Society moved to Burlington House.

Relax with a drink in our beautiful library, which has been called a 'hidden gem' by many a visitor.

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I’m also currently president of @linneansociety.bsky.social, the world’s oldest active biological society, where Darwin & Wallace first presented the theory of evolution by natural selection in 1858. We have been in Burlington House for 150 years and last week secured our home for another 999 years!

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We had a wonderful time at this year's Green Careers Conference, with thanks to @britishecolsoc.bsky.social for being such fantastic collaborators. It was great to see so many young people keenly engaged with the world around them and passionate about careers in #environmental sectors.

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Floral woodblock on top of open book showing old, detailed prints of flowers

Close up of a floral carving in wood

There are few remaining extant woodblocks from the early modern period. The #Woodblocks from Rudbeck's Campi Elyisii survived a terrible fire which destroyed most copies of the book they were meant to illustrate. You can come and see them on display in our #StillLife exhibition.

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Our Local Nature Grant: A Review of This Year’s Youth-Led Projects Chickens, parades, plants, bats and bugs: stories from our local nature grants of 2024.

✨New blog post!✨

While the youth panel is hard at work judging this year's grant applications, why not take a look at the wonderful projects completed by last year's awardees?
www.linnean.org/news/2024/11...

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