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It's Trilobite Tuesday! Rarely exceeding 1 in (2.5 cm) in length—including its long, graceful tail spine—the small Middle Cambrian ptychopariid trilobite Norwoodia bellaspina hails from Utah’s Weeks Formation. It takes a sharp eye to spot one in the field.

American Museum of Natural History
@AMNH #Trilobite #museums #fossils

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This guide will introduce you to the GLAM-E method of building an open access program. It will give you a clearer picture of what open means in practice for you, your institution, your collections, and your community.

This handbook is part of the GLAM-E Lab Open GLAM Toolkit for cultural heritage organisations.

glamelab.org/products/go-open-… #museums #Openaccess #collections

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In the celebration of the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation's 10th anniversary, Caroline Jane Knight (Austen's fifth great niece) writes a beautiful essay on the history of the Foundation and what's to come.

janeaustenlf.org/pride-and-pos…

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian @romancelandia #JaneAusten

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Jezero Crater: Raised Ridges in 3D
Credits: #NASA, JPL-Caltech, Ingenuity
#nature #space #astrophotography

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Official PeerTube app out now:

:android: play.google.com/store/apps/det…

:apple_old_logo: apps.apple.com/app/peertube/id…

(coming soon to F-Droid)

How to add more servers:

1. Click Explore
2. Click "Show More Platforms"
3. Click the + icon in top right
4. Enter server's web address & connect
5. Click "Platforms" at the bottom to browse added servers

App is missing a lot of features, but it is not the developers' fault (framablog.org/2024/12/10/peert…). See reply below for how to get these features.

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Sea Aster flowers are usually purple, but variations are occasionally seen. This white form was spotted on a saltmarsh in Dornoch this summer, the purple one was growing nearby.
#Saltmarsh #Biodiversity #Wildflowers #NatureRestorationFund #NatureScot

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A Magellanic Starfield
Credits: #NASA, GSFC, et al., Hubble Heritage Team, AURA, STScI, #NASA
#nature #space #astrophotography

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Crowning Achievements in #Marketing #History: Conference on Historical Analysis and Research in Marketing (CHARM)

22nd Biennial – Now running from 12-15th June 2025

Host University: Brunel University London

Paper Submission Deadline: 14th Jan 2025
Direct your submission to the Program Chair: keep@tcnj.edu

charmassociation.org/arrangeme… #museums #history

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No evidence to indicate misconduct or wrongdoing concerning missing items: Canadian museum.

The Royal Ontario Museum ( #ROM ) has vigorous security procedures in place, and there has been no evidence to indicate that any objects are missing as a result of misconduct or wrongdoing, the Canadian museum told the Global Times on Sunday in response to a report that 2,234 items in its collection, including 136 oracle bones from China, are unaccounted for

globaltimes.cn/page/202412/132… #museums #Canada

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Why Aren’t Classical Statues Very Well-Endowed?

Cultural values have changed a lot since ancient Greece.

If you spend enough time with classical statuary, you may begin to ask yourself some questions that seem more appropriate to middle school health class than an art history discussion. Namely: Is it just me, or are all these dudes kind of … small?

mentalfloss.com/article/79897/… #Greece #Classicalstatues #Greek #art

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Not certain about Ancient Greece but Rome had seasonal fertility festivals where they paraded enormous (wooden) phalluses through the streets so I think the context mattered a lot when depicting size.

Also, kind of an aside since it's a different culture, but there is a similar festival in Japan called Kanamara Matsuri which is still celebrated.


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The making of 'Love Letters' aka. Kuih Kapit - favourite Malaysian and Singapore treat #food #snacks #Singapore #Malaysia
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In a forest in southern Småland, in southern Sweden, there is a small earthen cabin partially buried in the ground with its sod roof almost flush with the ground level, which renders the cabin nearly invisible. This type of #house is known as “backstuga” in #Sweden, which is literally "hill cottage". They are not very common today, but back in the 17th and 18th centuries, some of the country’s poorest people lived in them.

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If I haven't misunderstood the meaning of "hill", a "backstuga" is not a "hill cottage". " Backe" in swedish has several meanings, and one is "slope" - and many times these houses were situated in a stony slope at the edge of a wood, where nothing could be grown - so some poor people could just as well have it.

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WOW! Global Museum's up to 1.9K followers on Mastodon.

How long to get to 2K Followers I wonder? 😄

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The medieval Ingush towers, known as "Vepshi", were built by the Ingush people, an indigenous ethnic group in North Caucasus region, between the 13th and 17th Centuries AD. These towers are located in the mountainous regions of what is now Ingushetia, Russia.

The Ingush people built these structures as part of defensive and residential complexes. #medieval #Ingush #history


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Born #OnThisDay in 1906 was American computer scientist Grace Hopper. She was a pioneer of computer programming, developing programming languages like COBOL which is still in use today. She was one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer and is credited with writing the first computer manual.

The Royal Society
@royalsociety #royalsociety #computerscience

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SURPRISE! The Titan arum is in bloom 🎉

We are finishing out a record year for the Titan's with a 4th (and final) flowering. Standing at nearly 2.5 metres, this remarkable, smelly plant is our tallest of 2024.

📍See (and smell!) it for yourself from 10am tomorrow

Kew Gardens @kewgardens

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