Sari C. Cunningham
@saricunningham.bsky.social
Ecologist | Writer | Poet | Caregiver (Not in that order) | Conservation & narrative
🇺🇸 🇧🇪 🇸🇯 in 🇸🇯 Fondness for birds & islands.
Words: The Island Review, The Curlew, Kyoto Journal, The Ginkgo Prize Anthology, Magma
🇺🇸 🇧🇪 🇸🇯 in 🇸🇯 Fondness for birds & islands.
Words: The Island Review, The Curlew, Kyoto Journal, The Ginkgo Prize Anthology, Magma
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Delighted to announce Magma 92 'Ownership' is now published and available to buy on our website.
Edited by @pimlottkathy.bsky.social Danne Jobin and Paul Stephenson.
#magma #poetry
#ownership #magma92
#poetrymagazine
#magmapoetry
Get your hands on a copy here: magmapoetry.com/archive/magm...
Edited by @pimlottkathy.bsky.social Danne Jobin and Paul Stephenson.
#magma #poetry
#ownership #magma92
#poetrymagazine
#magmapoetry
Get your hands on a copy here: magmapoetry.com/archive/magm...
I'm grateful that my poem, Japanese Knotweed, found the best possible of homes imaginable. It is now published in issue 92 of @magmapoetry.bsky.social, 'Ownership'. Thanks to the editors for selecting it. Your belief in it means a lot to me.
I am catching up on @perfect-specimen.bsky.social and the Halloween episode was spooky, funny and informative. I've just looked up the vampire snail (Cumia reticulata) which got an honorable mention at the end, and it is bloodcurdling.
Ten points for the costumes as well!
Ten points for the costumes as well!
Please enjoy SPOOOOOOOKY! And I think you should look up ostrich penises because it’s spooky season and they are terrifying. As was @joshlukedavis.com costume…
💀 m.youtube.com/watch?v=1GdN...
💀 m.youtube.com/watch?v=1GdN...
Josh says don't research ostrich penises | The 'Perfect' Specimen Ep12
YouTube video by Natural History Museum
m.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I am catching up on @perfect-specimen.bsky.social and the Halloween episode was spooky, funny and informative. I've just looked up the vampire snail (Cumia reticulata) which got an honorable mention at the end, and it is bloodcurdling.
Ten points for the costumes as well!
Ten points for the costumes as well!
This should be really interesting, and it is free and happening online today.
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Tomorrow (Monday, Nov 10) the tables are turned: I’m the guest on the Greenhouse #envhum book talk to discuss Ghosts Behind Glass with @finnarne.me & guest host @medievalpenguin.bsky.social
Join us online for the discussion! 4pm CET/3pm GMT/10am EST
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Join us online for the discussion! 4pm CET/3pm GMT/10am EST
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 AM
This should be really interesting, and it is free and happening online today.
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We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection!
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
For those with a scholarly interest in Franklin, Watson, and other pioneering researchers in molecular biology, @sciencehistory.org has just opened our new landmark collection of their papers, and applications for research fellowships are currently open:
www.sciencehistory.org/hmbc
www.sciencehistory.org/hmbc
History of Molecular Biology Collection
This unparalleled collection includes Rosalind Franklin's historic 'Photo 51,' which revealed the double-helix structure of DNA.
www.sciencehistory.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection!
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
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Look, at the point when your game of dress-up results in a month-long mystery around a robbery at the Louvre, I think it’s fair to say you’ve made your dream come true
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Look, at the point when your game of dress-up results in a month-long mystery around a robbery at the Louvre, I think it’s fair to say you’ve made your dream come true
"As clothing has become more technical, however, many Scandinavians swear by knee-high socks heated with rechargeable batteries."
I have never heard of this in Norway. Is it just me? Battery-heated socks sounds like a hazard waiting to happen.🧦+🔋= 🔥
I have never heard of this in Norway. Is it just me? Battery-heated socks sounds like a hazard waiting to happen.🧦+🔋= 🔥
Eight winter clothing essentials Scandinavians swear by – from heated socks to ‘allværsjakke’
Eight winter clothing essentials Scandinavians swear by – from heated socks to ‘allværsjakke’
Brace for the cold with these clever accessories made and tested by people who know long, dark winters
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"As clothing has become more technical, however, many Scandinavians swear by knee-high socks heated with rechargeable batteries."
I have never heard of this in Norway. Is it just me? Battery-heated socks sounds like a hazard waiting to happen.🧦+🔋= 🔥
I have never heard of this in Norway. Is it just me? Battery-heated socks sounds like a hazard waiting to happen.🧦+🔋= 🔥
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Here's a brilliant starter pack of Hybrid Writers from the great @taniahershman.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can #booksky #writingcommunity
November 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Here's a brilliant starter pack of Hybrid Writers from the great @taniahershman.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can #booksky #writingcommunity
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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January Writing Hours are up! Come and join Clare Shaw and I every day throughout January at 10am for a Writing Hour. Pas as you go and bursary tickets available www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/january-wr...
January Writing Hours 2026
Come and join Kim Moore and Clare Shaw in a daily Writing Hour throughout January 2026
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
January Writing Hours are up! Come and join Clare Shaw and I every day throughout January at 10am for a Writing Hour. Pas as you go and bursary tickets available www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/january-wr...
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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Alongside our online launch of Magma 93 'Liberation' next Thu 13 Nov, we are also holding an in-person launch at the fantastic Push the Boat Out poetry festival in Edinburgh, on Sun 23 Nov, 12-1pm.
Join us there!
More details & tickets here:
pushtheboatout.org/events/magma...
Join us there!
More details & tickets here:
pushtheboatout.org/events/magma...
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Alongside our online launch of Magma 93 'Liberation' next Thu 13 Nov, we are also holding an in-person launch at the fantastic Push the Boat Out poetry festival in Edinburgh, on Sun 23 Nov, 12-1pm.
Join us there!
More details & tickets here:
pushtheboatout.org/events/magma...
Join us there!
More details & tickets here:
pushtheboatout.org/events/magma...
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Bird place-name of the day 109: RAMRIDGE (lost place, somewhere in Devon parish of Holcombe Burnell: www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/Resu... ). OE hremn + hrycg. ‘Ravens’ ridge’. #birdsandplace #naturewriting
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Bird place-name of the day 109: RAMRIDGE (lost place, somewhere in Devon parish of Holcombe Burnell: www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/Resu... ). OE hremn + hrycg. ‘Ravens’ ridge’. #birdsandplace #naturewriting
I mistakenly said today that I had "sovet inn". This translates literally to "slept in", however in Norwegian it means died rather than overslept. I should have said "forsovet". I corrected myself and then jokingly said that I was resurrected. I don't think the joke landed. 🙃
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I mistakenly said today that I had "sovet inn". This translates literally to "slept in", however in Norwegian it means died rather than overslept. I should have said "forsovet". I corrected myself and then jokingly said that I was resurrected. I don't think the joke landed. 🙃
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I'm sorry but she made the sculpture 100% better
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Australian teen charged with sticking googly eyes on artwork
A local council said the repairs to the bright blue sculpture would be 'significant'.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I'm sorry but she made the sculpture 100% better
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Beaver Moon. Full moon. Supermoon. We are at perigee - the closest the moon will be to us this year.
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Beaver Moon. Full moon. Supermoon. We are at perigee - the closest the moon will be to us this year.
"At least he’s been spared the worst part—
the wanting to know why."
the wanting to know why."
I envy how he takes it all in,
soothed by the breeze ruffling his fur.
—Ken Hines
soothed by the breeze ruffling his fur.
—Ken Hines
Field Mouse Dangling from a Red-Tailed Hawk by Ken Hines - Rattle: Poetry
My first thought wasn’t the drama above
but the bone-tired scientist I read about
who held a mirror up to a mouse,
just to watch his whiskers
twitch.
www.rattle.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"At least he’s been spared the worst part—
the wanting to know why."
the wanting to know why."
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owing to the mystery of the spout—whether it be water or whether it be vapour—no absolute certainty can as yet be arrived at
November 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
owing to the mystery of the spout—whether it be water or whether it be vapour—no absolute certainty can as yet be arrived at
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153 years ago, on the 5th of November 1872, Susan B. Anthony and fourteen other women voted in the American presidential election. Anthony was later fined 100 dollars and responded :"I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty." She never did. #otd #history🗃️
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
153 years ago, on the 5th of November 1872, Susan B. Anthony and fourteen other women voted in the American presidential election. Anthony was later fined 100 dollars and responded :"I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty." She never did. #otd #history🗃️
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dǫgun (sb. f.): 39 cits, e.g. daybreak, dawn, early morning // dagning, daggry, tidlig morgen ‘Vᴍ morgonenn i dagan stoð hann upp’ (Streng in DG 4-7) onp.ku.dk/o16297 #OldNorse
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
dǫgun (sb. f.): 39 cits, e.g. daybreak, dawn, early morning // dagning, daggry, tidlig morgen ‘Vᴍ morgonenn i dagan stoð hann upp’ (Streng in DG 4-7) onp.ku.dk/o16297 #OldNorse
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I know many of you will already have done something to help the people of Jamaica, but if you felt like helping a specific family, this is the GoFundMe set up by my son’s girlfriend for her relatives, who find themselves in dire straits. Every bit helps, shares appreciated. gofund.me/9b5b74984
Donate to Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica, organized by Taylor Mitchell
Hello everyone,
Many of you have heard about Hurricane Melis… Taylor Mitchell needs your support for Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica
gofund.me
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I know many of you will already have done something to help the people of Jamaica, but if you felt like helping a specific family, this is the GoFundMe set up by my son’s girlfriend for her relatives, who find themselves in dire straits. Every bit helps, shares appreciated. gofund.me/9b5b74984
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Dominant electoral wins give Democrats a jolt of energy, while Republicans see a warning sign.
(Aaron Zitner and Anthony DeBarros, Wall Street Journal-unlocked)
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
(Aaron Zitner and Anthony DeBarros, Wall Street Journal-unlocked)
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Democrats Dent Trump’s Coalition With Three Big Election Victories
Tuesday’s wins give Democrats a jolt of energy, while Republicans see a warning sign.
www.wsj.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Dominant electoral wins give Democrats a jolt of energy, while Republicans see a warning sign.
(Aaron Zitner and Anthony DeBarros, Wall Street Journal-unlocked)
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
(Aaron Zitner and Anthony DeBarros, Wall Street Journal-unlocked)
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
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by no means prevent all communications
November 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
by no means prevent all communications
And you shall find me along the fjord. And the moon shall be my companion.
November 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
And you shall find me along the fjord. And the moon shall be my companion.
"two independent objects can become linked by one shared quantum state. When this happens, the future of one particle comes to depend on the future of its partner. What Alice gets depends on what Bob gets even though they are too far apart for any physical influence to travel between them"
Niels Bohr (left) spent years sparring with Albert Einstein (right), who insisted that the world has more concrete properties than quantum mechanics suggests. Reality proved weirder than Einstein had believed.
www.quantamagazine.org/its-a-mess-a...
www.quantamagazine.org/its-a-mess-a...
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"two independent objects can become linked by one shared quantum state. When this happens, the future of one particle comes to depend on the future of its partner. What Alice gets depends on what Bob gets even though they are too far apart for any physical influence to travel between them"