@silviaalexandra.bsky.social

History, mysteries, swamp goth, truth telling, I WILL post pictures of an insect I saw. I work in conservation, heritage, natural history, museums, and libraries. Writing from Wonnarua Country.

First time I really ever thought about how odd/colloquial the name Bottlebrush is
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Very happy to donate to the Muslim Sisters of Éire who feed the unhoused week in week out. Only takes a minute msoe.ie/donate/
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Move slow and fix things
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Me encountering English marmalade (what I call it in my head and sometimes out loud) for the first time, was confronting. (I like it now, in a different way).
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books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.
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And for some background:
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/17/underland-robert-macfarlane-vegas-storm-drains-yucatan-caves-goatchurch-cavern
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Our Film of the month for April '26 is Underland
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nqWyrikm3U
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Source: The Conversation
share.google/WcIgy72VQn76zKFH7

#Logging native forest results in massive ecological damage. They're then replaced by a simple even aged tree crop that is more #flamable than an old, complex, biodiverse and intact #nativeforest.

We need to end native forest logging asap
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A wonderful fly-by Bittern in Birecik this morning. I can never quite believe my eyes when I see a Bittern. Such an extraordinary looking creature.
#Birds
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Also oh yeah I used to do this sort of thing for the Smithsonian and wish I had loads more time for transcribing. It's deeply satisfying.
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I had to inform my colleague yesterday, as we struggled to decipher a local long-dead figure's mad scrawls, that apparently some people can't read cursive now.
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Whenever I go church crawling, I obsessively look for graffiti. Recently, in All Saints Church, Claverley, I hit the jackpot when I found this fantastic little guy ✨️

#history #churchcrawling #churches #historicgraffiti #churchesoftheworld
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www.gofundme.com/f/fsg98-help-luanne-james-in-her-time-of-need (The photo is breaking my hearttt)
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Killing such a noble ancient creature for sport needs payment beyond a cell. Serious disrespect to the swamp kings.
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That's what I'm talkin about 🚉🚃

Victorians and Tasmanians get free public transport as state governments seek to ease surge in fuel demand www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/29/victoria-free-public-transport-april-petrol-prices?CMP=share_btn_url
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And never forget the BBC edited the footage to make it look like the miners attacked the police when in fact it was the other way round. "Our BBC" have always been establishment shills.
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“Find a hedgerow on a bank and examine just one yard of it. Then make a list of all the different plants you can find in that yard. You will be astonished at the variety” (1965)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
Writer: Richard Bowood
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A cloned sheep that helped pave the way for the creation of Dolly the sheep has gone on show at a rural life museum in Scotland.
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Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.
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Pop Leo asked if he should put on gloves to turn pages in the gorgeous Renaissance Bible and the librarian explained why it’s better to do so with bare hands. Glorious reaction.

Every rare books librarian & archivist feeling very seen, I gather. www.instagram.com/reel/DUcpEBYglnO/?igsh=bW43NW1uOHhoOTFz #BookHistory
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Dead Zoo in Blue is a project by Ishmael Claxton who has spent a couple of years following the project to decant the Natural History Museum in Dublin @nmireland.bsky.social Book launch in The Library Project in Temple Bar where you can also see his photographs on display. Photo: Ishmael Claxton
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New project- 出口🏃🏻‍♂️
Shinjuku Station has over 200 exits, I'm going to draw all of them wrongly, not where they actually take you, but the many worlds that they could take you to.
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This is fantastic
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This sort of nonsense is why I'm putting a 'never use my image or video for AI' in my last will and testament
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OK, who let the history nerd run New York??? (Bless you xxx)
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HDRs and ECRs! Remember that applications are currently open for a stack of grants and bursaries designed to help get you to our annual conference in July! Check them out here: theaha.org.au/awards-and-prizes/
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More
Street of the tree
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Street tree
Paddington
#publicsydney
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A deep and grinding shame
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Acknowledgments and dedications are micro-genres of scholarly life in which we tell the story of how the work came to be, and whom we wish to thank. A little snark keeps things real:
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