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#archives #hiddenhistory #art theguardian.com/culture/articl…

With our rivers once more riding high in UK politics, I'm reminded again of this brilliant Grasshopper Geography map. A way of re-centring rivers in land and mind. Everyone lives in a watershed.

We’re absolutely thrilled that the Flow Country has been listed as a UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 #WorldHeritageSite! This breathtaking landscape in the north of Scotland is internationally important for upland breeding birds including Red-throated Diver, Golden Plover and Greenshank, along with Hen

Spotted: #ghostsign palimpsest in Hong Kong

Public libraries are places of warmth, shelter & access; they’re engines of social mobility; they hold wonder & kindness & imagination & possibility within themselves. Liverpool’s Spellow Lane “library of the future” was opened in 2023 after a community-led makeover. Now this.

Hello — a fundraiser/book drive has been started today to help replace the books & repair shelving destroyed during last night’s attack on the Spellow Lane library in Liverpool. Details here in case you’d like to give/share on: gofund.me/d024718f

Climate change, the ocean and the internet. Infrastructure is always invisible until it breaks. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Vintage Hong Kong signage and café ware

Data linking and sharing are dependent upon good data management and metadata. #data #DataSharing theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

Happy #Caturday

My talk about Elizabeth Blackwell and her “Curious Herbal” is now on the The Linnean Society of London’s YouTube channel. It’s an imperfect presentation in lots of ways—and I make a few embarrassing mistakes—but I hope it’s a useful introduction to an amazing book 😊 youtu.be/SurhOJ_x71U?si…

This is the nicest thing I saw today. “Priamus polycletes” [sic] in Carl Clerck’s Icones insectorum rariorum (1759). This copy at the The Linnean Society of London is from the private library of Carl Linnaeus, and annotated by him.

"Looking at nature without fungi is like trying to diagnose a disease without doing a blood test. Fungi are the firmament of life on Earth. They make systems ecosystems.” Vital new fungal conservation initiative just announced, led by Fungi Foundation. 👏 theguardian.com/environment/20…

Rivers have ghosts, and they lie all around us in the land… This is one of the famous Fisk maps of the 1940s, showing the ghost-meanders of the Lower Mississippi. Alongside it are images of the beautiful recent re-meandering of a stretch of the River Stiffkey; exceptional work

Hello: this is 'Riversong', a "broadside ballad" which protests the slow death of rivers in the UK & around the world––& sings for their revival. 'Riversong' is free to print, share, set & sing, speak aloud on a riverbank, post on walls or windows, adapt, translate, perform,

Probably going to be checking in on here infrequently, but I am now on BlueSky. You can find me here: bsky.app/profile/saraha…

Resharing a witch tree for Halloween.

I've gone where the skies are blue! Find me there and join the conversation at bsky.app/profile/saraha…

Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere. The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back. A day I mark in my mind much more than Christmas or New Year. Fiat lux! 📷 by