Nuala Proinnseas Caomhánach

Are We in a ‘Smut Renaissance’?

The mycologist in me got way too excited...😅🍄 😞#Ustilaginales #Tilletiales #basidiomycetes #smut #smuts #heatedrivalry #wutheringheights

🚨Visit the new International Geneva Global Health Platform website!

LINK 👉 ghplatform.org

🔎 Explore:
🗓️ Upcoming events
🌎 New Climate Change & Health page
📄 Publications
📚 Courses

#GlobalHealth #InternationalGeneva

Why are Turbellarians so adorable!? 🥹 At least I think it’s a Turbellarian! 😆

#marineplankton 🦑

“A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Thin... Introduction With interests spanning from the baroque to Postmodernism, Caroline Shaw, a contemporary classical composer and the youngest person to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music for her 2013 Parti...

My article on the contemporary classical composer Caroline Shaw and her engagement with Romanticism is up in Sillages Critiques (Critical Whiffs) - give it a read if you’re interested in music, the sublime, mortality, and joy 🖤

In case you missed our conversation about ghosts, extinction, and walking the halls of museums. 👇

I’m loving this ciliate in slo-mo! Such beautiful cilia action. Keep watching to see it whizz about in real time. ID help appreciated!

#marineplankton 🦑

A bit of underwater love for valentines. These Harpacticoida copepods are partaking in a mating sequence. As far as I can tell, some species of Harpacticoida engage in pre-mating guarding, others in post-copulatory guarding, so this behaviour we see here could be either.

#marineplankton 🦑

#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...

2026 International Day of Women and Girls in Science Join UNESCO on 11 February 2026 for a global event celebrating women in science and shaping a future where science and gender equality advance together

Happy 2026 International Day of Women and Girls in Science!!! 🧪 🧫 🥼 ♀️ #stem #womeninscience #science #biology #math #physics #chemistry #fierce

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2026 is proving to be a wonderful year for first time fungi finds so far. Looks like this is the rarely recorded Henningsomyces candidus - tiny little macaroni-like tubes found on a very rotten piece of wood in Southeast England. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

Another small painting from my solo exhibition going on right now at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans. One of a group of 4" square paintings. On view through the 21st. lemieuxgalleries.com

"Uncertainty"
Acrylic on canvas
4" x 4"

#art #painting #surrealism #bats #nature #contemporaryart

My first ever UV microscopy image! This is a Halacaridae mite, but I think it might just be an exoskeleton. It glowed gloriously under the UV light source!

#marineplankton 🦑

One from the archives. A sea urchin larva moving very gracefully across my slide. Did you know sea urchins started life like this?

#marineplankton 🦑

YES! Thanks Libby for the catch here 😊

library.utoronto.ca/exhibit/arct...

Arctic Fever: Image and Narrative... Mark A. Cheetham

"Arctic Fever" is fantastic!! Super engrossing and really useful for teaching and thinking with. ❄️

(Curators: Mark A. Cheetham & @issygapp.bsky.social // to accompany the exhibit at the Fisher Rare Book Library, Jan. 26-Apr. 24, 2026)

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1/ I’m going to do a thread of the promotional writing and interviews I’ve done for my book starting with…

Ghosts Behind Glass How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us.   While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...

Are you in UK and want to hear about my book Ghosts Behind Glass? 3 public talks in Feb:
Cambridge Museum of Zoology, 11 Feb www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events/talk-...
M Shed Bristol, 12 Feb  www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/m-s...
Oxford NatHist Museum, 13 Feb www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a...

Super excited about presenting my 🌱paper!!! Thank you Instructing Colonial Natural History!!! @lindaaburnett.bsky.social 🌿😊 🤩🙏

Big C3 Energy: Arctic Plant Collections as Evidence for the Climate Crisis. Arctic plants use efficient C3 photosynthesis to survive cold, now serving as biased yet vital climate-change indicators.

"Researchers have reconfigured the traditional use of natural history collections for taxonomic, systematic, and biogeographical study into indicators of global climate change." - @nulybranch.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/11/24/b...

#envhist #histsci #naturalhistory #climatechange

Sometimes a case just stops you in your tracks, like this 1816 Boston investigation of “a Woman personating a Man, by being dressed in Men’s apparel and parading the Streets.” The case never made it to trial, & I can find nothing else abt her. Not the only crossdressing case I’ve seen but rare! 🗃️

Finding Black Lung in the Archives Coal mining’s overlooked slow disaster, black lung, devastated workers, remained dismissed, archivally absent, and resurfaces through community memory and activism.

Today we have "Finding Black Lung in the Archives" by @drheathergreen.bsky.social and Kaley MacMullin

This post is part of the Mining Danger Project

niche-canada.org/2026/01/02/f...

#envhist #histmed #mininghistory #cdnhist

Nursing Clio Presents Its ELEVENTH Annual Best of List! Every December the Nursing Clio editorial collective – an all-volunteer staff – gather our Best Of recommendations for the year past. We don’t need to tell you that 2025 has been …

It’s time for our annual best of 2025. Here you’ll find book recs for your 2026 reading lists, a 🔥🔥🔥 TV series about Canadian hockey enemies-to-lovers, and a banger album that’ll make you laugh and cry. nursingclio.org/2026/01/01/n...

Power House Cliff Jeanine Rhemtulla's journey led to rephotographing Jasper landscapes, revealing colonial fire suppression, lost Indigenous stewardship, climate change, and ecological transformation.

Today we have "Power House Cliff" by Jeanine Rhemtulla, the latest excerpt highlight from Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada, published in collaboration with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social & the Alpine Club of Canada

niche-canada.org/2026/01/01/p...

Filling America’s Shoes Amitav Acharya, et al consider whether others can or will replace the United States as a custodian of the global commons.

What happens to global health leadership as the US steps back? Co-Director, Suerie Moon, argues it won’t hinge on money alone, but political leadership.

“So, yes, others will step into the place vacated by the US, but they will be wearing their own shoes.”

@gvagrad.bsky.social bit.ly/3YuhQib

The Institute's Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism and the UN Library & Archives announce the online release of Nicolas Politis’ papers, providing an exceptional insight on one of Greece’s most renowned diplomats and #InternationalLaw scholars of the interwar period:
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delighted to see my piece on the V&A Storehouse there at number 1 most-read columns in Art Review in 2025 artreview.com/what-isnt-at...

A lot of thinking went into developing the methodology of the article.

Grateful to @nulybranch.bsky.social for her superb editorial feedback and vision in steering the series.

Thank you for such a rich and provocative essay!! So grateful to have gotten the opportunity to work with you, such a joy!!!! Yay teamwork 🙌⚡️⚡️⚡️

FLIPPING OUTSTANDING WORK, of interest to 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks and #histSTM

Here’s a (soundless) extract of Jim Watson on the astonishing 1962 BBC documentary THE PRIZEWINNERS, about the five molecular biology Nobelists that year. The lack of sound makes him look like something out of The Fast Show.