Today's celebrates the 80th birthday of Mario Molina, the Mexican chemist who demonstrated that gases were damaging the layer.

Further details via : https://t.co/LFelfj3sNc


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Big news! We have a call out for Greenhouse Green Transition Fellows for Aug-Dec 2022. We're looking for scholars & artists who want to critically engage with idea of Green Transition. One month residency in Stavanger paid for by us. https://t.co/QHbe2VawG2

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Hot on the heels of our General Call last week for submissions to the new journal ‘Climates and Cultures in History’, we now announce a Special Call for a themed issue of CCH focusing on anthropogenic climate change: https://t.co/BaDNr6r41Z

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Today we bring you an open call for an ENTIRELY NEW JOURNAL! 'Climates and Cultures in History' () will address the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of climatic variability in human history around the world. https://t.co/WhROPQJ6VT

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This week in Stillingfleet's 1755 Norfolk "Wind high; Rooks sport and dash about as in play, and repair their nests". Chestnut leaves grow yellow as Birch trees turn to gold. Marsh Elder grows pink in the shortening days.

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"After the return of the Wheat Ear...there is seldom any severe frost," wrote Alex Berger in May, 1755. "When you see the White Wagtail, you may turn your sheep into the fields; and when you see the Wheat Ear, you may sow your grain."

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On the 11th May 19:00 UK time, we will commence our first virtual event! Join our friendly online community for a daily 1.5 hour dose of & - live presentations and chat every day of the week! E: info.org

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"Making fruit attractive in print is not easy."

John Lindley, English horticulturalist and author of Pomologia Britannica (1841), is 's Scientist of the Day!

https://t.co/X0qbbZh52E


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Excited that an article about our "Insects Through the Looking-Glass" exhibition project will appear in the next (we were awarded the BSHS Outreach&Engagement grant for it) Stay tuned!
https://t.co/BKBCkbUoZy

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Curious about the history of science in This we recommend giving our former research fellow a follow! She studies and mining in Mexico. (Image, American Vanadium Company mining camp in Peru, 1911.

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Catesby also sent seeds and plants from North America--like this Mayapple--to the nursery owned by Thomas Fairchild. Read more here: https://t.co/reyh5TjzRR via https://t.co/jzf3EMh7ZD via

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Next, we showcased the work of botanical illustrator Margaret Mee, whose stunning "Flowers of the Brazilian Forests" foreshadowed her later involvement in rain forest conservation efforts. (3/5)

(QK486 .B6 M4 1968 folio)


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How have indigenous plant names served as boundary objects in the history of science? My article in looks at case studies from botany & anthropology in 19C Aotearoa & elsewhere: https://t.co/THPibuX6KH

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Cannot help but think this anthropomorphic mollusc slightly Carrollian: A book about The Oyster, "at home" and "on its travels", and "at its journey's end" (with unexpected health benefits!)

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Have you heard about project by & ? They're trying to find the 200 yr old trees that helped map Illinois. I found a few in my town & you can too!
Learn more: https://t.co/m7LDEielzx

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In our latest feature article, whale historian Vicki Szabo gives a fascinating of the now critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. Lots of great, interdisciplinary history and archaeology, with some to boot. https://t.co/RHmuTRcWUb

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