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  1. It also includes “one of the most sumptuously illuminated of all the Anglo-Saxon lectionaries still in existence”, on loan from Pembroke College Cambridge. 🧵 2/
    pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/pem

    #11thCentury #AngloSaxon #Pembroke1347

  2. @albertcardona Very encouraging to hear!
    I've just been enjoying your #pembroke1347 posts, especially on the gardens full of flowers & new life in the spring:
    mathstodon.xyz/@albertcardona/

    #CambridgeUniversity #Cambridge

  3. @albertcardona Very encouraging to hear!
    I've just been enjoying your #pembroke1347 posts, especially on the gardens full of flowers & new life in the spring:
    mathstodon.xyz/@albertcardona/

    #CambridgeUniversity #Cambridge

  4. @albertcardona Very encouraging to hear!
    I've just been enjoying your #pembroke1347 posts, especially on the gardens full of flowers & new life in the spring:
    mathstodon.xyz/@albertcardona/

    #CambridgeUniversity #Cambridge

  5. @albertcardona Very encouraging to hear!
    I've just been enjoying your #pembroke1347 posts, especially on the gardens full of flowers & new life in the spring:
    mathstodon.xyz/@albertcardona/

    #CambridgeUniversity #Cambridge

  6. @albertcardona Very encouraging to hear!
    I've just been enjoying your #pembroke1347 posts, especially on the gardens full of flowers & new life in the spring:
    mathstodon.xyz/@albertcardona/

    #CambridgeUniversity #Cambridge

  7. @ClaireFromClare

    I've had the pleasure and the privilege to work side by side with Chris Smith when he was master of Pembroke college (he stepped down last year) for about 5 years, and, despite being a former politician, he means what he says.

    #Pembroke1347

  8. Bombus vestalis, a cuckoo bumblebee, deep asleep on a leaf in full sun. Notice the position of the antennae. Observed today - seems early for cuckoos, far more abundant in the late spring and summer.

    inaturalist.org/observations/3

    #iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #bumblebees #entomology #Pembroke1347

  9. First honeybee of 2026 caught me off guard without my pocket camera. Wet and lethargic, was at the warmest and sunniest spot of Pembroke’s gardens, perched on a rosemary twig. (The rosemary bush is in flower, as are some snowdrops nearby.)

    inaturalist.org/observations/3

    #iNaturalist #entomology #honeybees #Hymenoptera #Pembroke1347

  10. @markmccaughrean @mpi_astro

    What a beautiful space. Reminds me of the Mendel center in Brno, Czech Republic, nowadays used as a conference center.

    In our college, Pembroke, we've refurbished a former United Reform Church into a 220-seat auditorium. A fantastic venue for music concerts and also used daily during term time for lectures, and as a conference site. In the bell tower, we've built a rock climbing gym – just opened this September 2025.

    A great use of a great space made of wood and stone, with wonderful acoustics. The college graciously refurbished the organ and installed a grand piano too.

    #CambridgeUK #Pembroke1347

  11. Sixth: "To bee or not to bee", where we mourn the now departed hairy-footed flower bees and the many species of mining bees – see you next Spring –, and welcome a whole new range of bees, awoken at the right time to feast on the pink lampwick, bright yellow fear-leaf yarrow, and deep pink Deutzia bushes. The rooster includes mason bees, leaf-cutter bees, sweat bees, armoured-resin bees, masked bees, and the spectacular European woolcarder bee. The last two kinds are putting in quite the territorial control and mating show.
    pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/bee
    #Pembroke1347 #iNaturalist #Spring2025 #UK #CambridgeUK

  12. Fifth: "Fantastic colours on the wing", where we linger on the many beautiful flies that inhabit the college gardens, from beeflies to bright emerald greenbottle flies, hoverflies, dagger flies, assassin flies, and many others, plus the expected set of bees for late April and early May in Cambridge, UK.
    (No images because an update to the blogging platform broke functionality needlessly and carelessly – so click on the iNaturalist links to see them.)
    pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/fan
    #Pembroke1347 #iNaturalist #Spring2025 #UK #CambridgeUK

  13. When someone has lived a good life: “he died in college of eating too many custards” (p. 36-7)

    By some definition of good life.

    From: Aubrey Attwater’s lexicon: A guide to college life for the modern Valencian
    pem.cam.ac.uk/kit-smarts-blog/

    #academia #CambridgeUK #Pembroke1347

  14. Landed on my laptop. Light conditions were such I could take photos with focus stacking. Working from Pembroke's gardens is a wonderful experience.

    Syritta pipiens, a hoverfly.
    inaturalist.org/observations/2
    #iNaturalist #Diptera #hoverflies #entomology #Pembroke1347

  15. Fourth: "Wishing well", where we wander towards the college orchard pond and spot a freshwater louse, tadpoles, skaters, backswimmer beetles, diving beetles, and planarians. Plus quite the set of mining bees, mason bees, nomad bees, bee flies, and a yellow-stripped Darwin's wasp: an Ichneumon.

    pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/wis
    #Pembroke1347 #iNaturalist #Spring2025 #UK #CambridgeUK

  16. To find the subject of my PhD in the garden pond at my very Cambridge college, that made my day.

    Planaria, genus Schmidtea, swimming near the surface:
    inaturalist.org/observations/2

    #iNaturalist #flatworms #planaria #Pembroke1347

  17. Third post: "Beautiful butterflies" and many more, with some comments on late emerging bumblebee queens and cuckoo bumblebees.

    pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/bea

    #Pembroke1347 #UK #CambridgeUK

  18. This Spring I'm documenting the awakening of Pembroke College gardens in Cambridge, UK. Posts will touch on flowering plants, bushes and trees, and their visitors – largely bees, wasps, flies and butterflies, but also all other critters I happen to stumble upon. Aiming at one post per week.

    Posts will appear here:
    pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/all

    First post: "The return of the queens" pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/ret (March 13th, 2025).

    Second post, today: "Magnificent magnolia" pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/mag

    #Pembroke1347 #UK #CambridgeUK

  19. Usual suspects starting to let themselves be seen out and about.

    Weevil, Sitona lineatus, on a flower of holly-leaved hellebore, Helleborus argutifolius.

    inaturalist.org/observations/2
    #iNaturalist #weevils #Coleoptera #entomology #Pembroke1347

  20. Spring in #Pembroke1347 #UK
    A few observations among many, all within about 15 minutes of crouching down by a single flower bush, today.

    Lispocephala brachialis fly, in brown-resdish and blue colours.
    inaturalist.org/observations/2

    Hairy-footed flower bee, Anthophora plumipes. A male, in gorgeous yellowish-orange fur.
    inaturalist.org/observations/2

    Ichneumonid parasitoid wasp, its antennae as long as its whole body.
    inaturalist.org/observations/2

    Oxytelus sp. rove beetle, its silky wings unfolded.
    inaturalist.org/observations/2

    #iNaturalist #Diptera #Hymenoptera #Coleoptera #nativebees #flies #bees #beetles #parasitoids