📝 What 17,000 Pressed Flowers Revealed About Arctic Climate Change 🧵 doi.org/pwnc The brief Arctic summer is getting briefer. Research using herbaria shows that flowering times are shifting. Not all plants are responding the same way & that’s a problem #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)

I did my PhD on protected areas - the 15% of the Earth's land set aside as parks and reserves for the conservation of nature The UK's National Parks are NOT protected areas - they don't meet the definition Only 3% of our land does, it's a disgrace

bbc.com/news/article... "I don't think people have any idea of how much harm the visa rules cause"

Interesting work from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social on the mental health impacts of climate journalism. A solid psychiatric study and some nuanced, touching personal accounts. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/despair...

Happy father's day to everyone celebrating. Apparently the paternity leave in the UK is one of the worst in the developed world 🤦https://bbc.com/news/articles/cy8d3l7858zo

70% of people said science benefit people like them 73% said medical research and innovation benefit people like them 71% said new technologies benefit people like them To Erica, this is encouraging that the public opinion of science is NOT that different than before the election

A reminder. The budget that just passed the House slashes US scientific research by half. Please call or email your senators and tell them you do not want the NIH and NSF cut. You can find your senators contact info here: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

Happy #Pride everyone. Nature is infinitely diverse.

From @thehill.com, “Trump orders agencies to ‘sunset’ environmental protections.” thehill.com/policy/energ...

When NW Scotland wants to trade places with the Mediterranean. 📷 1. Above Gairloch, and the view to the Quiraing, Skye. 📷 2. Above Opinan, and the view to the Old Man of Storr, Skye.

This to me is astonishing. The site of Ireland's 1st breeding Cranes in centuries, could be 'developed' as a solar farm, instead of being protected for crane recovery. "the bog with the nesting cranes is at the pre-planning stage for a solar farm" 🦉 🐦 🌎 www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...

"It exists, it’s happening, and you can’t erase it by not studying it. Physician Preeti Jaggi responds to news that research into climate anxiety, rapidly growing among young people, is among the climate chg projects to be axed by NIH." www.nature.com/articles/d41... H/T @floragraham.bsky.social

Wishing all the mothers in the world a Happy Mother's Day! 💐 🎨 from "Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen" [1774]-1855. Digitized for #BHLib by the Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology @harvard.edu biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31064824 #MothersDay

🎈 Happy 99th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough! 🎈 Our favourite #DavidAttenborough moment is when he featured George Shaw's 1799 description of the Platypus in his "How the Platypus made us rethink evolution" video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBRV... 📖 doi.org/10.5962/p.30... 🧪 #ILoveBHL #BHLib

The most vital of tools, the Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social , is apparently homed at the Smithsonian. For obv reasons, the Smithsonian cannot retain it For free, you can access biodiversity-related texts going back to the 1400s! #ILOVEBHL www.biodiversitylibrary.org

Chairs aren't just for sitting! Apologies for the poor cropping - this was just a quick snap. Clematis montana Freda I believe but happy to be corrected 🙏☺️

How is Arctic flora changing on a warming planet? Climate change is altering plant diversity in the Arctic, with some species thriving in certain areas and declining in others 👉 news bit.ly/4cVpPLR 👉 nature paper bit.ly/44mXlsd @serradiaz.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social @museuciencies.cat

If you use the Biodivisity Heritage Library (I use it almost daily), you'll be saddened (and maybe angered😡) to learn that DOGE+Musk+Trump have eliminated its funding. BHL is looking for a new home. #ILoveBHL So much f***ing winning.🤬 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...

In an 1847 report to the British Museum, Darwin and his peers declared that "The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried out without reference to an extensive library." Still so true today... #ILoveBHL 63 million #OpenAccess pages & counting! www.biodiversitylibrary.org

Big news from the mudflats! The UK’s oldest known Oystercatchers - aged 41 and 43 - have been discovered on The Wash. That’s three times their species’ average lifespan! Legends wade amongst us... 😎 A reminder of why the East Coast Wetlands are so special: buff.ly/rgnjIeg

Published yesterday The UK is not heading in the right direction either. #humanrights

Okay, I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but BHL is an absolutely VITAL resource for ecologists and evolutionary biologists. There's no other database I'm aware of that provides digital access to species descriptions dating all the way back to the 1800s and beyond.

Me too, BHL is an invaluable resource for anyone doing any kind of natural history research!

In addition to EVERY-FUCKING-THING ELSE The most vital of tools, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, is apparently homed at the Smithsonian. For obv reasons, the Smithsonian cannot retain it For free, you can access biodiversity-related texts going back to the 1400s! www.biodiversitylibrary.org

"The top ~2% largest trees account for 75% of the live tree carbon storage in the western US. This result suggests the importance of maintaining large-diameter trees in order to mitigate climate change." But Trump's recent EO plans to send them to sawmills. 🌏 www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

Banned DDT discovered in Canadian trout 70 years after use, research finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UCU stands with trans people, today and every day. The Supreme Court ruling is not just wrong, it’s dangerous. We will never stop fighting for trans rights and equality. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Solidarity

📢Upcoming webinar! Don’t miss the “Indigenous Peoples and the IPBES Transformative change assessment” webinar scheduled to take place tomorrow! Register via ONet here: onet.ipbes.net/node/317 #IPBESStakeholders

The budget proposal eliminates: NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research office Stops funding regional climate data, climate competitive research or sea grant programs Severely defunds the Natl Ocean Service & the NMFS www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

The best way for people to get health benefits of nature is to have contact with it during the day-to-day. Nature needs to be where people live, work and play. So it is fantastic to see case study examples of where this works in London. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Climate Change Committee says we can't reach our legally-binding climate targets and expand airports. But more than 20 airports have plans to grow, which will increase capacity by 60%+. Help us tell the government we don't want airport expansion:

Just found out that one of my closest friends had a PhD offer rescinded because the NIH grant funding the program was cut. He’s considering Europe, as are a lot of researchers and scientists. Our research sector was the envy of the world. We’ll never recover. No hell hot enough

Getting extra concerned with social media's trajectory. I've had 2 accounts the past 2 months on different sites banned for use of idioms being confused as calls to violence. I said "you're really shooting yourself in the foot" and "throw this government out of office" Appeals also seemingly broken

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“This should unnerve every American who eats. Our food system is only as safe as our ability to respond to the next plant disease or other emergent threat, and a strong [National Plant Germplasm System] is central to our preparedness.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

But this isn’t a done deal yet. With at least a year before cuts come into force, there’s still time for the UK government to rethink. You can help us call for change. Email your MP now action.trussell.org.uk/disability-c...

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

Invasive species have “been fully or partially responsible for more extinctions in the last 500 years than any other cause.” 😟 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Looking for a fed science article topic? LTER @uslter.bsky.social are long-term ecological research sites that have been studied for up to 40 years An NSF project ($30 mil/year) w/ "NASA, USFS, EPA, state agencies, & private foundations" ($90mi/year), now at risk. Decades of work are in danger!

A comic Becky made about her travels. Posted to Instagram on February 25, a day before she was detained by ICE. www.instagram.com/p/DGhxERAxPzX/

From ancient laurel forests to vibrant wildflowers: explore the Canary Islands' unique flora adapted to volcanic landscapes. The bell-shaped Canarina canariensis and cone-shaped Echium await nature enthusiasts

What an incredible person and life of blessing others. May others follow in his footsteps, and he rest in eternal peace. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The NIH website, including NCBI, GenBank, and BLAST are down. I thought it might be a brief outage so waited 12 hours and checked again before posting this. They’re still down. It is hard to express just how fundamental these tools are to biology and medicine: research, applied, public and private.

Ramadan Mubarak to all observing it! 🌙🌟🤲 Check put my article from last year at @languageonthemove.bsky.social www.languageonthemove.com/happy-ramada...

Happy #StDavidsDay, Wales a place that holds my heart, so many happy memories from time well spent there. #1stMarch #springiscoming #daffodils #flowers #DailyFlowers #DyddGŵylDewiHapus

More than half of countries are ignoring biodiversity pledges, and global governments have never met a *single* target in the history of UN biodiversity agreements. These crimes represent high treason against life. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Did you know that many "normal" plants grow accidentally as #epiphytes? 🪴🌿🪷🏵️ G. Zotz created this project www.inaturalist.org/projects/acc... to understand how often this happens? Under which conditions & in how many species occurs? Here examples from #Asturias! You can also contribute!

A good metaphor for things right now!

'Ticans' are incredibly proud of *their* nature, and it shows. Like in these paper cutlery wrappers that were everywhere. Alongside 'Pura Vida' (good life): 'Enjoy our Nature' While not perfect, it shows how nature CAN be deeply integrated into society. We have much to learn.