Sprucing it up

We're very delighted to welcome our ERC Synergy project — "FirnMelt: Greenland’s Melting Firn and Ice Sheet Response" — into the world! Photo: PIs William Colgan (GEUS), Horst Machguth (U. Fribourg), Angelika Humbert (AWI) & Michiel van den Broeke (Utrecht U.) from left to right.

evryone in the whole world can sign our petition to save our beautiful trees - please do and take this chance to experience direct democracy in Switzerland gruenezuerich.ch/blog/initiat...

evryone in the whole world can sign our petition to save our beautiful trees - please do and take this chance to experience direct democracy in Switzerland gruenezuerich.ch/blog/initiat...

Dieses Anliegen ist mir sehr wichtig – bitte unterschreiben & weiterleiten: act.campax.org/petitions/bu...

beloved beeches

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. (Antonio Gramsci)

Ice flowers

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I will believe AI is useful when I am allowed to remove it from my devices

Here are some nice mushrooms

This was my pinned post at Twitter

The English sink Hot and cold - never the two shall meet

Hoxton

Recommend this book

More Gorey detail

The Gorey Truth

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"I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives." Billy Connolly

More mushrooms @lukelukeluke.bsky.social

‘Elenka’ (1936) by Alice Neel, rebel-painter-of-people (she disliked the term portraitist) born #otd 28 Jan 1900 #art www.npr.org/2021/05/14/9...

To me the cool thing about this image is that the sprinkling of blue stars are in the foreground, some 5 million light years away, while all those gorgeous colorful swirly galaxies are almost unimaginably more distant, out in the far depths of the cosmos. More info: www.stsci.edu/contents/med...

Brr

American vaccination rates against once-common childhood diseases have been dropping. The rate of kindergartners with complete records for the measles vaccine declined from before the pandemic to last year, according to the CDC, well before Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s political rise. nyti.ms/42buOVp

Spanish Still Life with Books

Faces of Berlin

Arthur Kampf

Sabine Lepsius

Cafe Mandarin Berlin

Gert Wollheim

Berlin street art

2024 was hottest year on record for world’s land and oceans, US scientists confirm

“We need to build bridges to people on all sides of the political spectrum who are waking up as climate chaos worsens, despite the gross falsehoods from many Republican leaders,” writes the climate scientist Peter Kalmus.

Happy New Year!

Merwin leaving the Village

Here are some nice mushrooms

"The voice of the last cricket—first frost." —Carl Sandburg #forgottenpoets #poems #haiku #foundhaiku

Here are some nice mushrooms

Welcome Little Betties 2025! So excited for this lineup

As a first proper post, I’m mad excited to announce my debut pamphlet dropping with Little Betty in 2025, edited by the legend that is @anjakonig.bsky.social ✨ Big love to the team at Bad Betty Press for taking on these poems. Can't wait to bring them into the world 🙌🏾

go.bsky.app/VrQHhKJ want to catch up with more Post Muskalyptic Poets? Refreshed starter pack here for #PoetsOfBluesky

This

Everyone is suddenly here now - here are some wonderful poets to follow @jsaphra.bsky.social @pascalepetit.bsky.social @katyevansbush.bsky.social @susiecampbell.bsky.social @fxmpoetry.bsky.social

Community building #PoetsonBlueSky - join in by tagging five poets on bluesky @metapheric.bsky.social @carrieetter.bsky.social @jlimburg.bsky.social @anjakonig.bsky.social @niiayikwei.bsky.social

Nostalgic for America youtu.be/WNFf7nMIGnE?...