5.5M ground nesting bees make home in Ithaca cemetery | Cornell Chronicle An Ithaca cemetery is home to one of the largest and oldest recorded aggregations of ground nesting bees in the world.

Cemeteries are mini biodiversity hotspots news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...

Wit, unker, git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture something unique about how people once thought about "two-ness".

The loss of the dual in English www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Jan Davidsz. de Heem: some ravishing flowers to end his birthday.

@mobotmuseum.bsky.social might be closed while we install the next exhibition but there are still plenty of lovely spots to enjoy around the building 🌿🏛

Thanks Claire for all the special elements 😍

FOUR more days to sniff this exhibition!

People smelling scent glasses

Signage and scent glasses

Antique scent vial

Scent glasses on table

Don't miss out! Time is winding down to visit the Smelling the Bouquet exhibition. 💐

📅 Open now–March 31, 2026
📍 mobotmuseum.bsky.social
🔗 buff.ly/wgtmR8d

This exhibition is included in Garden admission.

📸 Mary Lou Olson, Claire Cohen

#MOBOTGarden

5 sites by women architects you should know. 🧵

Internationally, many of the names in modern architecture that dominate the zeitgeist are men. Here are five groundbreaking sites created by women architects during the 1950s–70s. #womenshistorymonth

Happy National Fragrance Day! Check out #SmellingTheBouquet @mobotmuseum.bsky.social @mobotgarden.bsky.social thru March 31. If you can't visit in person, head to the linktree in bio to download the UNCOVERING THE FRAGRANT in the Sachs Museum Mural guide and exhibition catalogue to explore scents.

Couple smelling scent glass

Scent glass

We're in the final days of the Smelling the Bouquet exhibition! 💐

📅 Open now–March 31, 2026
📍mobotmuseum.bsky.social
🔗 buff.ly/wgtmR8d

Plan your visit to explore scents inspired by the diverse live and scientific collections at the Garden!

#SmellingTheBouquet Oud is deeply tied to Islamic tradition, as its pleasant scent was tied to spirituality and devotion, and believed to elevate one's experience during the fasting month of Ramadan. In Arabian homes, oud is burned to welcome guests, symbolic of hospitality and respect. #EidMubarak

#SmellingTheBouquet Oud or agarwood (also called aloeswood) is a fragrant resinous wood created by chance when Aquilaria genus trees are wounded by a fungal infection (Phaeoacremonium parasitica) that infects the heartwood of the tree, and in response the tree produces a dark, fragrant resin.

#SmellingTheBouquet Copper alembic still, made in Turkey, is a 2-part vessel used to heat liquids and botanical compounds to separate the volatiles, essential oils, or distillate for use in making perfumes (steam distillation). Its name comes from the Arabic al-inbīq, meaning “cup” or “beaker.”

Perfume 101: Distillation

#SmellingTheBouquet presents a scent lab in the lower level gallery @mobotmuseum.bsky.social where panels give information on the extraction methods used on plants for scent.

Let's hear it for perfumers! #SmellingTheBouquet @mobotmuseum.bsky.social @mobotgarden.bsky.social was made possible through the talent, expertise, & artistry of Shawn Maher and Weston Adam who created and provided all the scents to sniff! Thanks to their thoughtfulness, dedication, & inspiration!

🧵 First four Best Picture winners. Four very different films. All four in the public domain.

🎬 WINGS (1927)
🎭 THE BROADWAY MELODY (1929)
🪖 ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
🌄 CIMARRON (1931)

Choose your own Best Picture! 🏆

Watch them all ⤵️
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1️⃣/5️⃣
#redcarpet #Oscars

Sweetbay magnolia (Magnolia virginiana), native species to the eastern USA; @mobotgarden.bsky.social Herbarium
Always appreciated for their scent, magnolias (esp. Magnolia x alba) began being used in perfumery in the 1990s. Flowers and leaves can be steam-distilled to obtain essential oils.

Tatjana Wood, Award-Winning Comic Book Colorist, Dies at 99

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Tree Rings Reveal Origins of Some of the World’s Best Violins

But the average tree-ring sequence for a sizable fraction of the violins in their sample correlated well with tree rings from near Trentino in northern Italy, and specifically the high-altitude reaches of the Val di Fiemme.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/s...

One more month to visit #SmellingTheBouquet! Closes March 31, 2026.

@mobotgarden.bsky.social bryologists in the news!