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  1. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's Research Biologist, Dr. Nucharin Songsasen, leads the Conservation of Rare Canids program to study and conserve wild canids in zoos and in their natural habitats in South America and Southeast Asia. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Nucharin Songsasen

    • Date: April 1, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's Research Biologist, Dr. Nucharin Songsasen, leads the Conservation of Rare Canids program to study and conserve wild canids in zoos and in their natural habitats in South America and Southeast Asia. #Groundbreaker

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  3. Photo of woman looking up with headphones on and recording equipment.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Pamela C. Rasmussen

    • Date: July 12, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  5. Astronaut and earth scientist, Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, was the 1st female American astronaut to spacewalk, and was named the 2017 Charles A. Lindbergh Chair of Aerospace History, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ellen Dorn

    • Date: October 4, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Ellen Dorn (right), former Director of Exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building, worked on several large scale traveling exhibits including “America’s Smithsonian,” for the Smithsonian's 150th and "Smithsonian's America" which traveled to Japan. #Groundbreaker

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  7. Dr. Paula DePriest, Deputy Director, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, and lichenologist, travels to Mongolia each year to build GIS data of the Mongolian region as part of a larger cultural heritage effort at the Smithsonian to create GIS databases for archaeological and historical sites. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Paula DePriest

    • Date: February 24, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Paula DePriest, Deputy Director, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, and lichenologist, travels to Mongolia each year to build GIS data of the Mongolian region as part of a larger cultural heritage effort at the Smithsonian to create GIS databases for archaeological and historical sites. #Groundbreaker

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  9. Cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. 2013 (Diana Alvarenga)

    Link Love: 3/29/13

    • Date: March 29, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A weekly blog post with favorite links.

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  11. Brightly colored pink bird with long bill alongside more plainly colored, smaller bird lifting leg.

    Link Love: 8/25/2017

    • Date: August 25, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: 435 high resolution book plates of gorgeous illustrations from Audubon's The Birds of America are now available for free download! [via Hyperallergic]And after you're done with the plates, check out peacock feathers under a high magnification lens, by artist Waldo Nell. [via Wired]University students are working to save the remaining copies of a black-owned newspaper, The

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  13. Embracing the Crowd

    • Date: April 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: When I started working with museums in 2005, the concept of crowdsourcing was in its infancy. That year, James Surowiecki ‘s book, “The Wisdom of Crowds,” was published and there were tiny experiments in crowdsourcing occurring in the cultural heritage sector. There were hesitations and objections about the whole concept within the GLAM (gallery, library, archive, museum)

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  15. brightly enshrined orange/red room filled with brightly colored boxes with buddha statues on top

    Link Love: 10/6/2017

    • Date: October 6, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Buddhist Shrine Room is coming back better than ever with the re-opening of the Freer Sackler. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Your last chance to catch the major David Bowie retrospective is at the Brooklyn Museum March 2nd-July 15th, 2018. [via Art Newspaper]Get your gif on this month with DPLA's annual contest, GIF IT UP!Five previously-unpublished Kurt Vonnegut stories

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  17. Black and white image of African American woman holding her baby, looking out the window.

    Link Love: 4/13/2018

    • Date: April 13, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: What's changed, and hasn't — the Fair Housing Act 50 years later. [via National Museum of American History]A 1749 book, The Governess, advocated for female literacy when the literacy rate was 40% in England. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Library of Congress has archival materials of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and records on historical Supreme Court cases now

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  19. Colorful white translucent salamander with 6 purplish tendrils protruding from its head.

    Link Love: 11/24/2017

    • Date: November 24, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A salamander, the axolotl, found in Mexico that once numbered in the 6000s/square kilometer is now down to 35. [via Scientific American]As we know, the Biodiversity Heritage Library has a lot of gorgeous images of natural specimen, in fact over 2 million of them, and it includes some from the Archives! [via Open Culture]Beatles fans, John Lennon's stolen diary was recovered by

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  21. Color photo of grey/brown bird specimen perched on branch.

    Link Love: 3/31/2017

    • Date: March 31, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: There are 145 collection items at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and their new Objects of Wonder exhibit looks at how scientists use these collections to further our understanding of the world! (via Buzzfeed)Get cozy while you research! Folger Shakespeare Library lends out handmade shawls to visitors. [via Atlas Obscura]Students from the College of

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  23. Google Analytics Map Showing Traffic to the Smithsonian Institution Archives' Bl

    Here's Looking at You

    • Date: June 25, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A peek into our metrics program at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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