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Dr Anke Marsh
@ankemarsh.bsky.social
Palaeoecology, natural history, science, flora, fauna, microfossils. Researcher, writer, editor, photographer she/her

Also @lnhs.bsky.social for London based natural history
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Kiddo and I took a quick trip to Amsterdam. I may have taken *some photos. It is such a photogenic city, so walkable (despite the anarcho-cyclists 🤣), so delicious (think I gained a few kilos). Will do a thread, starting with photos from the train :)

*British understatement

#Photography
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Rare voices, & where we come from: the women in the firelit doorways: two great books from rural working class women’s lives …
[email protected]’s ‘Village’ & a re-issue of Mary Chamberlain’s ‘Fenwomen’ give voice to an otherwise largely silent corner of England, writes @nicolawriting.bsky.social, telling the evocative, hard-lived stories of rural working class women www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/vill...
November 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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This holiday season, I'm thankful for our common backyard birds. Sometimes we take the common birds for granted, but the fact is we should be grateful they've adapted robustly to urban and suburban settings. Here are a few shots from this morning.
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Fantastic thread

Love both of these accounts and it’s fun to see a combo of fashion and archaeology/ancient texts 😀😀

🏺#AncientBluesky
I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).

I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
How Louboutin of them, eh @dieworkwear.bsky.social 🤨

See, the ancient Mesopotamians were THE trendsetters :)))
Recent studies have uncovered the vibrant colours that once covered ancient Assyrian palace reliefs.

Sandals were often red and black, two predominant colours in the reliefs of king Ashurnasirpal II’s palace at Nimrud.

Source: antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/sou...
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Today’s photo is this #HolidayRobin who’s #OnTheEdge

Taken today in London

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Bird of the day, 'I'm going in!' Mute Swan about to drop off the slipway into the water... Westmeath, Ireland. #BirdOfTheDay #Swan #OnTheEdge #Birds #Wildlife #Ireland #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography #UKBirding
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Sooo… pedestrians are supposed to go into the road?? 😳 (click and zoom in)

#RoadRepairs #Signs
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Eaten, regurgitated, fossilised then recognised as the vomit fossil pterosaur. Will the indignities never cease?
Roses are red
That dino looks ill
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I’ve got one saying hello!

#HolidayRobin #Birds
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Hanging around - birds at unusual angles - is today’s theme. I’ve got to use my dangling crow. This one regularly flies from her nest in the cedar to a neighbour’s aerial to do her acrowbatic routine. Great fun to watch :))

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Crows
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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A yellow warbler heading down toward the creek for the #HangingAround theme of #BirdOfTheDay.

#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding #nature #warblers
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #HangingAround. Here's a male Eurasian Siskin that thinks it's a Nuthatch.

#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Here's the second of the #botanicalillustration courses I'm teaching at #Cambridgeuniversity #botanicalgardens in the UK next year. This one is in May:

www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/education-le...

It's all about #illustrating #blue #flowers. Think #iris, #campanula, #bluebells....
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Prof David Wengrow @ucl.ac.uk Institute of #Archaeology has been awarded the prestigious J. I. Staley Prize for #Anthropological Excellence this year by @sarsf.bsky.social School of Advanced Research

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📲 bit.ly/4riBQBy

@davidwengrow.bsky.social

📚 profiles.ucl.ac.uk/140-david-we...

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November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Apparently it’s #MallardMonday!

Here’s my contribution…

#Birds #LondonBirds #Splash! #EastCoastKin #Photography
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
BotD theme is warblers, or alt any bird with yellow eyes. Will do one of each today - common white throat from the local reserve and a male goldeneye from London Wetlands Centre

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #LondonBirds #Photography #EastCoastKin
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
#DoomscrollBreak

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“ Hands up if you want more peanuts.” #HolidayRobin #photography #birds #EastCoastKin
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Align it properly and it's totally a Winter Solstice-appropriate garden decoration for the festive season. ❄️🏺
Is that... is that an inflatable light up Stonehenge????

Oh no i want one
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
When I was a kid, maybe this was 1980?, I walked into the local record shop, Hungry Ear. I asked them to recommend decent music not the radio drivel. They sold me Bowie’s Scary Monsters and Blondie’s Parallel Lines. Mind blown. And I still love these albums.
Sounds magazine's top 20 albums of 1980.
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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My favorite bird photo just turned one year old 🥹❤️ Zoom in on the nuthatch's face and blow it a little kiss ✨
the camera is up against a tree trunk, looking straight up #birds
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Honored to receive the Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award this weekend at the @asor-research.bsky.social Annual Meeting
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Mr & Mrs - male and female of the same kind - is the theme today.

Mallards (he’s happy because hehehe, but see next pic), crow family and parents regretting life choices, and two coots still in the honey moon phase

#BirdOfTheDay #UKBirding #Birds #Wetlands #LondonBirds #Photography #EastCoastKin
November 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Something we all should do :) #DetoxDoodles!
Detox Doodles!

This is my daily sketching habit in an effort to curb mindless scrolling.

This page is about bottlenose dolphins!

#art #dolphin #ocean #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM