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mossworm.bsky.social
I talk about Linnaeus so I had to draw a little Linnaeus
oval shaped cartoon portrait of Carl Linnaeus in a dark red coat
February 21, 2026 at 3:02 AM
rwoodsmall.bsky.social
"How many things could there be? 100? 150? 200, tops."
- Carolus Linnaeus
September 22, 2026 at 3:06 AM
cathamclarke.bsky.social
Quite an arrival - I feel like the slightly daunted heroine of a nineteenth-century gothic novel... Looking forward to sharing more over the next few days, from this workshop hosted by Linnaeus University.
The neo-gothic Teleborg Castle
April 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
frostedbiticles.bsky.social
Oh Lord, Linnaeus...

#AuRa | #GPOSE
February 10, 2026 at 1:28 AM
chanda.blacksky.app
TIL that Carl Linnaeus based most of his biological classification system on one he learned from the northern Scandinavian Indigenous Lapp people.

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February 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
monicavasile.bsky.social
In Uppsala for #eseh2025. Two cafés named after Carl Linnaeus (Linné) side by side… on Linnaeus Street.
Across the road: Carl the Hairdresser and his cockatoo lamp.

☕🦜✂️

#carllinnaeus #envhist #histsci
Cafes named after Carl Linnaeus in Uppsala Another cafe named after Linnaeus Linnaeus street Carl the Hairdresser and the Cockatoo Lamp
August 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
mossworm.bsky.social
"Semibalanus balanoides" means "the half-acorn that is like an acorn". thanks Linnaeus
April 7, 2026 at 10:53 PM
matthewowcarz.bsky.social
Carl Linnaeus (circa 1758)
September 25, 2026 at 1:30 AM
drandrewthaler.bsky.social
Google's wonderful AI believes that the Canada Goose, which was described by Linnaeus, was named after a random dude named John Canada.
google ai response saying Canada Gooses are named after John Canada.
October 5, 2024 at 10:52 PM
linawiren.bsky.social
Malva Olbia at Carl von Linné (Linnaeus) garden in Uppsala 🌺
May 16, 2024 at 11:15 AM
linawiren.bsky.social
Beautiful daytrip to 18th century botanist Carl Linnaeus country house outside Uppsala.
June 26, 2024 at 4:16 PM
nonfestpro.bsky.social
Linnaeus girassol
October 6, 2024 at 4:31 AM
altyellonatpark.org
The Lions Mane Jellyfish
Cyanea Capillata
Photo credit Alexander Semenov
Lives just one year, grows up to 120' long with a bell 7' across
Discovered by Carl Linnaeus 1758
Huge jellyfish with a blue bell and red tentacles
December 1, 2024 at 11:17 PM
celebrityhottub.bsky.social
LINNAEUS: OK let's go over your proposed taxonomy
DAVE, FRIEND OF LINNAEUS: Dog for sure
LINNAEUS: A little rudimentary but we can work with that
DAVE: And then next to that are drums and animals in one group
LINNAEUS: Dave, what the fuck
April 26, 2024 at 5:19 PM
ffarache.bsky.social

Ara ararauna (Linnaeus, 1758) - arara-canindé - Rio Verde - GO -Brazil
#birds #photography #wildlife
December 1, 2024 at 11:06 PM
mossworm.bsky.social
yippee yahoo wa wa yahoo wa hoo oof
the previous image in a page mockup. text: "More about Binomial Nomenclature: The modern Binomial Nomenclature system was formalized and popularized by Carl Linnaeus, a botanist and physician born in 1707 in Sweden. Linnaeus’s father was a curate, a sort of assistant to a priest, and thus Linnaeus learned to read and write in Latin at a young age. Some categories of living things were in use this time, but Linnaeus expanded upon these existing systems as he worked to describe and classify new species of plants in great detail. Linnaeus became a popular professor and lecturer at Uppsala University, and he encouraged his students to travel the world and collect samples of interesting things they found. Travel was very dangerous at this time, and some of these scientists died on their adventures, but many others brought back specimens of plants and animals which had never been seen by Europeans before, which Linnaeus then named."
February 21, 2026 at 3:23 AM
medievalpenguin.bsky.social
My hotel in Uppsala is right near the botanical garden that Linnaeus worked in. It’s lovely.
August 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
asherbriant.bsky.social
Night Heron Ascending: Latin name: Nycticorax Nycticorax—so good Linnaeus named it twice #print #printmaking #heron #bird #illustration #monhegan #linocut #blockprint
January 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
andrejpaleo.bsky.social
The gravestone of the Carl Linnaeus in the Uppsala Cathedral. It is made of Ordovician limestone. Here I've found several cephalopods. According to Alexander Pohl these are: i) a lituitid Ancistroceras; ii) endoceratid; and iii) orthoceratid.
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio
Carl Linnaeus gravestone a lituitid Ancistroceras Endoceratid Orthoceratid
March 27, 2026 at 9:42 AM
kristenobacter.bsky.social
Although we teach Linnaean classification to students from high school to PhD, Linnaeus’ work forms one of the 18th-century roots of modern scientific racism.

Don't teach one without the other, especially when the Linnaeus Society has such good teaching tools. 🧪🦠 www.linnean.org/learning/who...
A picture of the table in the order of Quadrupeds in Systema naturae, which Linnaeus published in 1735 and is an early example of scientific racism. Linnaeus was the first naturalist to include man within the animal kingdom. Linnaeus inserted man into the class Quadrupeds, and the order, Anthropomorpha. The order of Anthropomorpha contained the genera Homo (humans), Simia (apes) and Bradypus (sloths). Linnaeus divided Homo into four types, or “varieties”, as he called them in Latin: Europaeus albus: European white, Americanus rubescens: American reddish, Asiaticus fuscus: Asian tawny, Africanus niger: African black. There is no current scientific basis for this classification.
October 10, 2023 at 8:58 PM
mcmillen.dev
now imagining the alternate reality in which Linnaeus used his native Swedish instead of Latin, and all of the animals' scientific names sound like Ikea furniture
December 29, 2023 at 6:37 PM