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Dr Jill Whitelock

@jillwhitelock.bsky.social

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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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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 18h

Celebrating archival collections in Cambridge and beyond, join us for the 2025 Sandars Lecture Series by Joan Winterkorn MBE.
11 & 12 November, 5-6pm.
🎟️ Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 1d

Walking down the Madingley Road today I'll be sure to look out for ichthyosaurs. In the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social, of course.

Close-up of an ichthyosaur jaw, Myopterygius campylodon (Carter). Location: Madingley Road, Cambridge.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 1d

Rosa mundi with ants.
#WeekPforPink #AlphabetChallenge 📷 #photography

Close-up photograph of a pink and white rose with ants on it.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 1d

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Red valerian in Ely yesterday. #WildflowerHour

Close-up photograph of bright pink flowers of Red valerian against a blurred dark green background.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 1d

Buck’s-horn plantain, Ragwort and Green alkanet flowering in West Cambridge, and Feverfew in the North Courtyard at @theul.bsky.social. #WildflowerHour

Close-up photographs of Buck’s-horn plantain, Ragwort, Green alkanet and Feverfew with a bug on it.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 2d

Stopping to notice the flowers. West Hub, Cambridge last week after a great @camglamresearch.bsky.social meeting.

Close-up photograph of a mauve Michaelmas daisy against a blurred green background.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 2d

Autumn garden. Rudbeckia, Sun spurge, Viola ‘Honeybee’, Feverfew from @theul.bsky.social, Geranium, Mexican fleabane. #SixOnSaturday

Montage showing close-ups of Rudbeckia, Sun spurge, Viola ‘Honeybee’, Feverfew, a pink Geranium and Mexican fleabane.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 2d

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s #Glow!

#BlueSkyArtShow 📷 #photography #Diptera #Hoverflies

Close-up photograph of a yellow and black banded female Syrphus hoverfly inside the glowing orangey yellow petals of a California poppy.

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Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social · 3d

🌿We're celebrating 200 years since John Stevens Henslow became Professor of Botany at Cambridge. He oversaw the relocation of the Botanic Garden to its current 40-acre site & was a mentor to Charles Darwin, inspiring his ideas on plant variation. Learn more about his legacy: tinyurl.com/4stzwhz9

Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social · 4d

Celebrating 200 years since John Stevens Henslow became Professor of Botany at Cambridge.

It's almost 200 years to the day since Henslow took an oath before the Vice Chancellor as 'King's Reader in Botany' on 10 October 1825.

Find out more about his legacy: tinyurl.com/4stzwhz9

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Geological map of Anglesey from J.S. Henslow's 1822 article Geological Description of Anglesea. Credit: Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Henslow's botanical drawings. Credit: University of Cambridge.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 3d

Excited to find drawings of moths by FW Frohawk (1861-1946) in the archive of biologist William Bateson @theul.bsky.social.

They’re catalogued as ‘27 drawings of Milan Leps’, but think this should be ‘Melan[istic] Leps’? Do they look right for showing melanism, #TeamMoth? MS Add. 8634/J.3 #EntHist

Montage showing coloured illustrations of moths and the envelope in which they’re kept. There is blue handwriting on the envelope, which might read: ‘Frohawk’s drawings [o]f Melan[istic] Leps’.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! 😊

Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! 😊

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 4d

The bird gallery at @mfnberlin.bsky.social is closed for redevelopment, but instead of packing away their #birds, they crated up 11,500 #taxidermy specimens and put the crates on display instead. It's a really interesting - and beautiful - approach to open storage. #museums

A series of wooden crates with glass fronts, containing densely packed shelves of taxidermy birds.

A wooden crate with a glass front, containing densely packed shelves of taxidermy birds.

A wooden crate with a glass front, containing densely packed shelves of taxidermy birds of prey.

A wooden crate with a glass front, containing densely packed shelves of taxidermy toucans and hummingbirds

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 4d

Leaf #scape. 📷 #photography

Close-up photograph of a Seven-spot ladybird on a curled Dogwood leaf, where the leaf meets the stem.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent! 😂

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 4d

Office chair graveyard. #UrbanGaze 📷 #photography

An assemblage of old and broken office chairs near a yellow skip. A tall building and trees are in the background.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 4d

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 4d

🤣 Love this so much. Uffenbach was grumpy about his visit to @theul.bsky.social too. Hopefully visitors had a better experience of the Woodward cabinets when they moved to the Library a few years later in the Conyers Middleton era …

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 5d

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 5d

I think it’s just the common variety growing all around the Library as a wildflower.