Julien Antih 🌿📜

Markets are rich in #medicinalplants, & Gumi Shuka in Yerevan is no exception.
A visit is never just about buying. You get local names & uses, preparations. Sometimes, without even asking a single question.
For instance, the lady mentioned aveluk, maybe you use it too but not in soup. #ethnobotany

O patrão do porto

Btw did you know #Portugal comes from Portus Cale?
It was a small Roman port known today as #Porto. In the Middle Ages, the region became the County of Portucale. That’s where the Kingdom of Portugal was born in the 12th century.

So yes, it all started here ⚓✨
#summer #picture

This
#nature #mountain #slovenia

If you are wondering, their mother came pick them up. Mission accomplished!

Trying to reunite baby bats with their mother 🦇🦇

After a call to the 🇸🇮 bat rescue centre, we placed them in a warm cardboard box.
At dusk, we set the box near where we found them. We set up a camera for a few images, then removed everything to give them the best chance of survival
#animal #nature

Call for submissions | Free Radicals symposium Join us in the dialogue on the state of play around thinking-with plants in creative research.

Call for submissions: Free Radicals | Symposium 🌱

Are plants at the centre of your research? Join us for the symposium by submitting a contribution of your own.

More info freeradicalstoolkit.substack.com/p/call-for-s...

@julienantih.bsky.social @sashstrelec.bsky.social #sciart #artscience #plants

I’ll be speaking at the SEB conference in Prague.

Sharing our work on Montpellier’s Droguier and how plant-based biomaterials sit at the intersection of material culture, and healthcare innovation.

If you’re around 7-12 June, let’s meet and talk plants

#ethnobotany #materiedica #materialculture

A new leaf unfurling Creating a research laboratory from scratch.

With @sashstrelec.bsky.social we’ve just launched @antihlab.bsky.social substack:
Further Research Is Necessary
Exploring plants, and the intersections of science, tradition, and global health.

First post here
open.substack.com/pub/furtherr...

#ethnobotany #medicinalplants #materiamedica

In Maastricht today, presenting "Le Droguier" - Montpellier's rich #materiamedica collection at Jan van Eyck Academie's Regenerate! symposium together with @sashstrelec.bsky.social. discussing traditional medicinal knowledge, #materialcultures & regenerative futures. janvaneyck.nl/calendar/reg...

Mark, there’s so much to discuss indeed. Will reach out via DM.

The intersection of natural heritage and collective memory is crucial. How can we better preserve and acknowledge these histories? #art #history #herbalremedies #materiamedica #herbarium

In no particular order : Montpellier’s landscape & vineyard, vitamine sea and a toxic plant (Hyosciamus niger) #photography

#history #botany #art 🌱
Reynoutria japonica / Fallopia japonica - Japanese Knotweed

A botanical horror story. c1880, the worlds most invasive #plants are cool and trendy & appear in gardening magazines.

Unintended consequences...

powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...

www.cabi.org/invasivespec...

Montpellier’s materia medica holds collections from Marseille’s colonial exhibitions, reflecting how medicinal plant knowledge was acquired, classified, and circulated. Excited for this event - especially the discussion on #materiamedica as material culture by @marknesbitt.bsky.social

I wasn’t surprised either, given that this includes food supplements - and we all know the issues surrounding them. That said, seeing actual figures helps put the scale of the problem into perspective 😅

I was preparing my phytovigilance class & came across this recent article by Banaz&Heinrich. They tested 73 Lavandula oral products - 30% failed quality testing & 63% lacked key compounds. Serious issues in HMP & supplements, raising consumer safety concerns. #herbalmedicine
doi.org/10.1016/j.ej...

The apocalyptic metal horse of the Paris Olympics has landed in Montpellier, Fr. And yes, the statue of Louis XIV in the background does look like it’s giving a dodgy salute - but let’s not go there.

Pleasure to introduce Le Droguier as part of the Art & Science season at Montpellier’s contemporary Art Gallery MoCo
We’ll be holding 2 more guided tours - 11.04 & 16.05 - join us & discover the rich cultural and environmental #history of the 2nd largest #materiamedica collection in #France #ArtSci

Your action is courageous and meaningful in the long run! And yes precarity blocks mobilization but from the other side of the pond it seems everyone is paralysed. The friend I mentioned is very well off, and it’s infuriating to get this kind of message when literally the entire world is impacted.

An old friend from the US: Trump is the worst but fortunately I live in a liberal area in a liberal state so my day to day is pretty good.

Me :

Vance, you absolute bloody plonker !

Oh marvellous! Another masterclass from the diplomatic dream team. Truly, history in the making, just not in the way they think they would.

Fair play to Zelensky for keeping his calm while dealing with those two circus acts.

🤡

European perspective for Americans.

AI filters are strong, but human creativity is stronger

#AIvshuman
#meme
#PromptEngineering101
#ChatGPTLogic

"Why invest in new antibiotics? Superbugs surely won’t be a problem…Surely, the market will take care of it.”

— The pharmaceutical industry, probably.

Thanks to both of you :)! Yes, WFO was my starting point. I should have specified that I needed a tool to process large datasets at once. TNRS tnrs.biendata.org/about/ developed at University of Arizona and Missouri Bot.Gard. amongst others, automates this using multiple databases, including WFO :)

Le 7 mars, mobilisons-nous pour les sciences ! 🔬✊ En écho à Stand Up For Science (@standupforscience.bsky.social) et face aux menaces contre les institutions scientifiques, des actions auront lieu dans chaque ville universitaire de France. Infos & inscriptions 👉 standupforscience.fr

UK Universities are reluctant to break a toxic social media relationship Andy Tattersall presents new data on the extent to which UK universities are continuing to engage with X and shifting their activities to alternative social media platforms. Whether universities sh…

Academic activity on #X continues to fall, and #Bluesky continues to eat into X’s share of #SocialMedia.

But UK universities are still reluctant to cut ties with X altogether.

@andytattersall.bsky.social asks why on ‪@lseimpactblog.bsky.social‬ 👇

🌬️ 🏙️
Namsan park, Seoul 🇰🇷
#photography
#city

TNRS - Taxonomic Name Resolution Service An online tool for the standardization of global taxonomic names.

For those interested, there’s already a tool for this: tnrs.biendata.org

Ref: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Big thanks to @aishwaryachaure.bsky.social for the heads-up and welcome to bluesky 💪🏼🐥