Heidi
deepinthebaltic.bsky.social
Heidi
@deepinthebaltic.bsky.social
Mycology, ethnobotany, rhetoric, and Arctic and Northern Studies in SE Alaska
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I created this stater pack with women in ecology and evolution.
If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐

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November 30, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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“Hunter-gatherer” doesn’t actually describe how most civilizations related to production. “Hunter-gatherers” engaged in millennia of selective plant breeding & advanced landscape stewardship, which created wildly productive perennial gardens & managed hunting grounds www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Study finds Indigenous people cultivated hazelnuts 7,000 years ago, challenging modern assumptions | CBC News
A new study indicates Indigenous peoples in what is now British Columbia have been cultivating the beaked hazelnut for thousands of years, challenging assumptions that pre-colonial Indigenous people were only hunter-gatherers.
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Guest blog for our early medieval medicine project from Tim Hertogh on the "Rotulus of Muelinen"... which will be the subject the project's first critical edition!
#medievalsky
MMOTM 11: The “Rotulus von Mülinen” – Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine
cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
November 24, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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The new outline of fungi and fungus-like taxa is out now. Why do we need to do this so often? Because there are so many fungal species and only about 5-10% have descriptions. New genera, families etc are frequently being added to the tree. 🧪 🌍 #fungi #mycosky www.mycosphere.org/pdf/MYCOSPHE...
www.mycosphere.org
November 23, 2024 at 4:39 AM
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In my latest piece for Newlines Magazine, I explored the intersection of medicinal plants, climate change, development and socio-cultural issues.
#health #herbs #climatechange

newlinesmag.com/reportage/tr...
Traditional Medicine Struggles in Nigeria
Climate change and a lack of training of practitioners threaten popular herbal remedies.
newlinesmag.com
November 20, 2024 at 7:33 AM
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Yet another starter pack! This one is for archaeobotany as I've not seen one around so far! I am sure I've missed many of you so please share it and comment to be included :) go.bsky.app/5fRwi48 #archaeobotany #palaeoethnobotany #carpology #phytoliths #ancientstarch #anthracology #palynology
November 21, 2024 at 9:24 AM