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Dr Jill Whitelock
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Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · Jun 13
Martagon lily #scape, @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social. 📷 #photography
Side view of lots of pink Martagon lily flowers against a blurred green background.
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Episyrphus balteatus.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels 📷 #photography #Diptera #hoverflies #ClassicMono
Black and white photograph of a Marmalade hoverfly on a white rose.
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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We've got some HUGE news! We've DOUBLED in size overnight! Not only have we added "some" more Cairo Genizah fragments, but "ALL" of them @theul.bsky.social !!!
This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Black British Voices: Black British Collections.

Cambridge University Library is forming a community panel of Black British & Black Northern Irish individuals to help shape its 2027 exhibition & events programme.

🗓️ Deadline: 14 Dec 2025
🔗More info: https://loom.ly/9lDrGVY
An image to promote the community call-out for the Black British Voices project at Cambridge University Library. We see a 1970s book illustration of a young boy and an older woman walking through a gate.
November 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Light #scape in the darknesss. Some Winter joy and sparkle at the opening of @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social Cambridge Botanic Lights yesterday evening. 📷 #photography
Multicoloured lights in Cambridge University Botanic Garden at night.
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Cambridge, 17:17. #UrbanGaze 📷 #photography
Tall buildings lit up against a dark sky with some pink lights, and a blur of people in the foreground.
November 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Autumn Blowfly on a leaf. #WildWebsWednesday 📷 #photography #Diptera
A dark-coloured Fly with red eyes on a green red-tinged leaf.
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Red kites now a common and wonderful sight on the A10 commute from Ely to Cambridge. This one from Archibald Thorburn’s ‘British birds’ (London, 1915-1918). Lib.3.91.437-441 @theul.bsky.social
Colour printed illustration of a Red kite.
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Epistrophe eligans.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels 📷 #photography #Diptera #hoverflies
A shiny yellow and black Hoverfly on a green leaf.
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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“Poore Toms a cold.” Wasn’t expecting to see a Shakespeare quarto today. 🤩 ‘King Lear’ (1608), @trincolllibcam.bsky.social
A printed book open at the text of ‘King Lear’ (1608), on a blue-grey book cushion.
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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You know #TheWinter10 has kicked in when you’re including Groundsel. Dandelion, Wild clary, Red dead nettle, Groundsel, Hairy bittercress, Daisy, Shepherd’s purse, Yarrow, Black horehound, Shepherd’s purse again, Smooth sowthistle. West Cambridge. #WildflowerHour
Montage showing Dandelion, Wild clary, Red dead nettle, Groundsel, Hairy bittercress, Daisy, Shepherd’s purse, Yarrow, Black horehound, Shepherd’s purse again, Smooth sowthistle.
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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A ghost of summer. Still some flowers on Wild clary in West Cambridge. #WildflowerHour
Three purple flowers at the top of a green stem, against a blurred green background.
November 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Autumn Hawthorn, West Cambridge. 📷 #photography
Close-up photograph of lots of deep red haws on a Hawthorn.
November 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Think these are female Goat willow catkins with seeds in a copy of William Salmon’s ‘Botanologia: the English herbal’ (London, 1710) (along with several other pressed botanical specimens). CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social
Pressed female Goat willow catkins with seeds, on top of a printed botanical illustration and text.
November 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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A tiny Wasp peering over a Scarlet pimpernel leaf. #Small #BlueskyArtShow 📷 #photography
A tiny black Wasp peering over a green Scarlet pimpernel leaf, with a red Scarlet pimpernel flower below.
November 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Reposted by Dr Jill Whitelock
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Just witnessed the ceremonial unrolling of some beautiful and often rather intriguing geological wall posters at the @theul.bsky.social. Here's a selection.
Detail of a German wall chart depicting fossil amphibia. Detail of a painted wall chart depicting trilobites. Painted wall chart depicting Darwin's theory of coral reef formation.
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Join us in Cambridge on 10 December for the @camglamresearch.bsky.social Michaelmas Term Keynote Lecture,
‘Repurposing Digitised Natural History Collections for 21st-Century Challenges’, delivered by Pam Soltis.

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/repurposin...
Repurposing Digitised Natural History Collections
CCC Michaelmas Keynote Lecture 2025 delivered by Pamela S. Soltis, Distinguished Professor, Curator, Director, UF Biodiversity Institute
www.eventbrite.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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The woods are lovely. #scape 📷 #photography
A low sun shining through tree branches.
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Cafe light. #UrbanGaze 📷 #photography
View across tables and chairs in a cafe through a window to a car park and the setting sun.
November 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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It’s hard to believe it was a sunny sixteen degrees last week. Honeybee on Green alkanet last Thursday in Cambridge. 📷 #photography
A Honeybee on a blue Green alkanet flower, against a blurred green background.
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Think this is a female Yellow dung fly on Ivy. #WildWebsWednesday 📷 #photography #Diptera
Female Yellow dung fly on Ivy.
November 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Eye-to-eye with (I think) a male Yellow dung fly resting on an Ivy leaf. #WildWebsWednesday #Diptera
A small Fly with red eyes on an Ivy leaf.
November 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Reposted by Dr Jill Whitelock
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1620: seeking predictions from an angel, Richard Napier asks whether one of his clients will 'live long & prosp[er]' #earlymodern 🖖
Manuscript image showing part of a paragraph that reads: 'wheather Mr John Monson hayre to Sir Th shall live long & prosp[er] & attayne to honour & good & a happy mariage', then, added later in a darker ink (but not shown in the image): 'he shall'. (NOTE6839 in the online edition.)
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Library view. @theul.bsky.social
A view out from the sixth floor of Cambridge University Library.
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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A nice White dead nettle in Cambridge. #WildflowerHour
Close-up photograph of a White dead nettle flower and leaves, against a dark green background.
November 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Common field speedwell in Cambridge. #WildflowerHour
Blue and white Common field speedwell flower against a blurred green, orange and yellow background.
November 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM