Happy World Albatross Day!! Did you know that the world’s oldest known wild bird is an albatross!? After her mate disappeared a few years ago, we thought Wisdom, a now 74 year old Laysan Albatross who breeds on Midway Atoll, was done breeding bc they mate for life. 1/2 #ICCB2025 🧪

It was great to meet with pupils and parents from local schools to chat about 3D pollen and landscapes for the University of Nottingham Family Discovery Day! 🔥🌱🌼🌲 School of Geography proudly represented by Gary Priestnall, myself and Alastair Wills 💪🏼

Just trying to cope with the madness, losing myself in a soothing XRM scan of a pennycress flower. @danforthcenter.bsky.social @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half. 📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

Thought-provoking conversations about how #participatory research can be best conducted to answer the right questions, for the right reasons for the most desirable outcomes. Focusing on #land management across the uk but with global impact @anthropocenebio.bsky.social @uoyenvironment.bsky.social

Love this story - the sacred (religion) providing sanctuary for the sacred (nature). Some of these trees protected by Chinese temples are thousands of years old www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When a language dies, so does a way of knowing the land. When traditions are erased, ecosystems lose their stewards. Help us amplify the voices that sustain the planet. Read stories of biocultural diversity at terralingua.org #WorldEnvironmentDay #BioculturalDiversity

War often seems to bring new kinds of pollution (nuclear fallout in WW2, Agent Orange in Vietnam, depleted uranium in the first Gulf War), and it seems that one lingering environmental effect of Russia's invasion of Ukraine will be spent fibre optic cables from drones - probably a global first.

In daylight, this Cape Fuchsia blossom is purely yellow. UV light reveals a different color dimension, including the teal markings (invisible to us!) that point pollinators to the nectar within. Off to do a podcast – stay tuned, if you're into that sort of thing! #flowers #photography 𝑃ℎ𝑦𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑢𝑠

Photosynthesis is the most important reaction on Earth. In most plants, leaves are the primary solar collectors & sugar-makers. But leaves are vulnerable to herbivores. As #defense, some plants use chemicals; others use physical defenses, like this Solanum pyracanthos #Solanaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Is it hot right now in the UK? New interactive website allowing anyone to explore live temperatures hour-by-hour across the UK, and whether they are cool, warm or hot relative to normal. istheukhotrightnow.com Built by @roostweather.bsky.social.

Nigella flowers are starting to bloom in the garden and they are magical 💙

Over 5.5 millon records available! This is really something 😊

People & Nature Can Thrive Together. 🌍🧍‍♀️🌎🌲🌏🍄🌐 Human–nature relationships through the lens of reciprocity: Insights from Indigenous and local knowledge systems @peopleandnature.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This is a cool thread and article on the ethnoprimatology (relationships between humans and other primates) of the Paiter-Suruí people in the Brazilian Amazon 👇🐒

Pilot Whale You know what time it is? That's right! It's time to plug my work again! Yay! www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...

Important piece on the still largely overlooked story of deforestation (and forest degradation) in the Gran Chaco - and their devastating social-ecological impacts: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A few years ago at forecasting conference, a climate researcher made the good point that motivating action will face an additional barrier in places like UK, because on average it will become nicer, warmer place over next decade or so (I.e. April sunny photos in papers) - then much worse, of course

It was great yesterday to learn about the latest initiative from the amazing @mapbiomas.bsky.social project: 38+ years of land cover change around Brazil's archaeological sites! 🌎🏺🛰️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NZb... Find out more on their website (brasil.mapbiomas.org/2025/04/29/a...)

O povo Kaingang conta uma história sobre a gralha azul e a araucária. É uma história linda que chegou a virar livro pelas mãos do Vehn Táhn, liderança da retomada em Canela.

"You may be thinking, How are trees DEI, exactly? Well, for starters, there are over 73,000 tree species on Earth, which is, frankly, way too much diversity."

Absolutely true. UN says above 20% tree canopy cover makes it a forest London has over 8.4 million trees with canopy cover of c.21%. It is one of the world’s largest urban forests Those trees are doing an awful lot of good stuff Goal should be every* urban area has at least 20% tree canopy cover

He's being subject to this exclusively for political opinions, as far as I know there's no claim that he committed a crime. If this is not the work of an authoritarian regime, I don't know how to describe it.

Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

The Pollen Count

I didn’t know: 30% of England’s tree cover is outside of national forests I did know: “Our precious street trees improve air quality, mark the changing seasons and provide us with peace, shade and joy. Their value simply cannot be overstated” Find the map here: ncea.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant...

Nice BBC feature on novel ecosystems, including some of our @econovoau.bsky.social work (led by @mattkerr.bsky.social, @anordonez1.bsky.social & Erick Lundgren) 🌿🍃🐎

Venom isn’t just a feature of some animals; it’s found across the living world, from plants and fungi to bacteria and viruses, says a new study. Read:

This happened 8 days ago and is horrific www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

In Florianópolis, #Brazil, traditional fishers are navigating shrinking stocks, new regulations, & rising tourism while fighting to preserve their heritage. Their story is one of resilience, equity, and sustainability. Read more on #ThinkLandscape: 🔗https://buff.ly/77oEm6B

Together with our publishing partners, Bellingcat continues the work of drone journalists who had been killed while documenting the war in Gaza, visualising the unprecedented scale of destruction through detailed 3D aerial maps. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/03...

At our booth, kids became real Pollen Detectives—exploring pollen grains under the microscope, cracking pollen mysteries, and letting their curiosity lead the way! 🌸🔬 A huge THANK YOU to everyone who stopped by: you reminded us that science is truly wonderful when shared.

Trees and traditional knowledge in a win win for people and nature 🌳💚🌲

@walternewton.bsky.social has managed to capture all the #morphological details needed when attempting to convert the pollen/diatom into a pixilated image. I am blown away by the creativity he has applied, which means I have some awesome publicity material! #pollen or #diatom stickers anyone?!?! 😍🔬😀

As heat and drought intensify, Australia's ancient Wollemi pines may no longer be safe in the wild. So conservationists are growing the pines in a globally dispersed “metacollection," with trees planted in botanic gardens from Sydney to San Diego.

Thanks to Andrea Thomer, @iceageecologist.bsky.social, and Jessica Blois for showing the value of Neotoma. $1.5 billion in replacement cost. The critical role of community curated data resources in @agu.org’s @eos.org : eos.org/opinions/the...

Horrific.

The video of Trump’s deportees arriving in El Salvador is horrific. This is 21st century Nazism. Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised. Where is the global outrage? The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.

🤯 Indigenous territories, which occupy ~23% of the Brazilian Amazon and ~28% of its mature forests, contribute up to a third of all annual rainfall for the country's agricultural land! 80% of Brazil's farmland benefits! 🌳🌴🌧️🌾 serrapilheira.org/wp-content/u...

I did not have Trump accidentally solving the UK university crisis on my 2025 bingo card...

Some wind-pollinated trees cause allergies, some do not. Pollen grain size is very important. We often see vast clouds of pine pollen, and your car may turn yellow, but pine pollen grains are huge. They may cause irritation, but not allergies. Compare tiny ash pollen with huge white pine pollen.

I hate when I send an email to someone and check it off my to do list and then they write me back???? No, I DID it. Don’t you see.

Paleogene Bagelopollis verrucatus (Carroll 1999, Palynology 23:55), a fossil pollen type named for the resemblance of its pores' pseudo-annuli to a BAGEL. Nice example of disregarding Greek/Latin bound morphemes in forming scientific terms. Probably the only #Yiddish-derived palynological term! 🧪

If instead of video we ask only for images, we could use #OpenAI's #Dall-e3. For the prompt "several tricolporate pollen grains from different families, shown in polar and equatorial views", we get this wonderful display of pasta or colonial wasp nests. #palynology 🌿🧪

Chilean Cacti news www.bbc.com/future/artic... @iebchile.bsky.social @biodata.bsky.social

"Anyone currently living in the country and earning XP on Duolingo must comply and register with the government or face deportation." theonion.com/dhs-beg...

The plants fight back.

532 years ago, indigenous people enslaved by Columbus landed in European shores for the first time. As per the rules set out by Columbus himself, when you see inhabited land that you did not know existed, for the first time, you discover it. So, Happy Day of the Discovery of Europe everyone!