Ep. 3 of “A Natural History of Limpets” is out! Here I show how these animals are not just evolutionary marvels and biomechanical fortresses, but keystone species of rocky shores, and how they helped define the basic principles of ecology as a scientific field 👇

Insect wingbeats generate micro-Doppler signatures—distinctive time-varying patterns in radar reflections that arise from tiny motions such as wobbles. Scientists are now able to distinguish, not just birds from bees, but one bee species from another.

claidheamh "sword" is from Old Irish (bzw. Old Gaelic) claiḋeḃ /ˈklaðʲəβ/, from Proto-Celtic *kladiwos (which was loaned, via Gaulish, into Latin as _gladius_)

🦊 “Longbridge Foxes” — By Annatomix in Longbridge, Birmingham, UK 🇬🇧 Underpasses That Became Secret Art Worlds (12 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/05/23/u...

“Why isn’t it like this in England and Wales, with a rump of repellent Tory, Reform and Labour politicians fighting daily to outwanker each other in front of a disgusted public?”, and the short answer is: in Scotland, we have maybe 15% fewer spiteful reactionaries, and that really is all it takes.

The current state of affairs in Scotland is politicians and press exasperatedly saying to each other: How could we have lost again, when we spent five years screaming at the public about The Trans Menace? And the answer is: the public find that shit weird and unsettling, and don’t much want it.

Bring back the 3 mile limit!

This is renderite / AI bollocks. Those plants don't grow so well in salt water. Let's not be so credulous.

Model of the medieval water system of Krakow, Poland, which would bring water up and spread it through pipes trough the city after it was filtered. wielkahistoria.pl/wodociagi-w-... upadektechnikikrakowa.blogspot.com/2018/04/wodo...

🧵 Eine in der welligen Grundmoräne in NO-Dtl. typische Erscheinungsform: 👉 Eine -eigentlich- abflusslose Senke, drumrum überall Acker, der zu allen Seiten ansteigt. Die Senke ist vermoort, natürlich. Und entwässert, klaro... Aber: Wie hat man das Ding entwässert? Und wohin fließt das Wasser? 🧐 /1/

Decided to read Ulysses (translated from Homer by J. Joyce) and I increasingly have the feeling that Christopher Nolan hasn't got this right AT ALL.

What you see in the Sun, is the Chicago skyline from the Indiana Dunes beach, across Lake Michigan. You can see it from 50 miles of distance due to a form of superior mirage, because the skyline is seen above where it's actually located. [📷 wesskywalker]

I can recommend a listen to the QAA podcast episode about the "De-Extinction Nightmare" (2 parts, soundcloud.com/qanonanonymo... ), covering comprehensibly and founded not only why they did NOT actually bring back the dire wolves, but also all the other issues connected to "De-Extinction"-movements.

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘Wren’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Joseph George Strutt's Sylva Britannica (1822), a 19th-century exploration in etchings and words of British trees “distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude, or beauty” — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sylva-britannica

Archaeologists carrying out excavations ahead of the construction of a new road at Ponso, near Este in the Veneto region of Italy, have uncovered an ancient Venetic and Roman temple site, including numerous inscriptions in the Venetic language (all photos: SABAP Padova Treviso Belluno)🏺

Today: Computational bottleneck

The correct response to this *fart noises + lewd tossy hand gestures*

they didn’t resurrect shit but ok

It's so flipping cool that this is CC licenced.

'Russula in Nederland en Vlaanderen' by G.M. Jansen is being regularly updated, so it's worth downloading the latest version. Very useful for identifying Russulas in temperate Europe #FungiFriends www.mycologen.nl/onderzoek/sy...

Depone's a handy word

Liar, Liar, Liar liar, Liar liar liar, Liar liar liar liar liar, Liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar, Liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar. The Fibbernacci sequence

Danska vänner. I mars kom den här nyheten om att #Öresund och #LillaBält ska bli marina "naturnationalparker". Frågor: 1) Är det beslutat ännu? 2) Finns det någon officiell information? 3) Vad innebär begreppet #naturnationalpark? 4) Vet någon något om vilka regleringar som ska gälla i parkerna?

Well there you go. Like any good Centrist, Burnham would prefer an undemocratically-elected fascist gov't to having socialists having a say in running the country. Like there was any doubt

Pointillist Jylland. #GIS

🇳🇴 🇳🇴 🇳🇴 🥳 Det bor två vargar inom mig och den ena är norsk

I do hope every major pi in the field (?) gets banned if they can't check a reference for LLM slop.

Would dearly like to buy (or borrow) a copy of this book. Private publication so rare! Does anyone have a copy lurking on their shelves please?

They're also trying to sell me this. It could be the basis of a good Orpheus / John the Baptist / Bran the blessed cosplay?

This is a painting titled “Moonrise” created in 1884 by Polish realist artist Stanisław Masłowski (1853–1926), who was known for his realistic style, and this piece is considered a nocturne landscape.

But power and durability aren't the same thing, as Le Guin reminded us with her oft-quoted maxim that "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings": www.ursulakleguin.com/nbf-medal 3/

A lovely sunny day. Great for carving stone in the garden - a pestle macehead and a carved stone ball made today

Today the internet is trying to sell me a 'self defence' ruler with an integrated spanner. You never know when you'll need to defend your stationery cupboard from hordes of pen rievers; duel a colleague over who last cleaned the coffee machine, or stage an office mutiny.

"DB will let you down. It will also, more often than the internet would have you believe, deliver you eight hours of clean uninterrupted thinking time at 250 km/h ... drop you within walking distance of your next meeting, + occasionally reroute you down the left bank of the Rhine at golden hour"

Today the internet is trying to sell me a 'self defence' ruler with an integrated spanner. You never know when you'll need to defend your stationery cupboard from hordes of pen rievers; duel a colleague over who last cleaned the coffee machine, or stage an office mutiny.

Also FYI, the majority of Colorado River water used for “farms” in the below graphic is actually for cattle feed (alfalfa and hay). The minority of the agricultural water use is for food people eat directly, like wheat. science.nasa.gov/missions/lan...

Today is Septidi the 27th of Floréal in the year 234. Floréal is the month of flowers. Today we celebrate chive.#JacobinDay More information on chive

I feel like maybe some people are skipping over the bit where Helen of Troy was HATCHED FROM AN EGG. I'll just leave this depiction from Metaponto here in case anyone needs it. (Photo by @diffendale.bsky.social)

Love this figure describing Colorado River basin allocation

Doing away with the 3 mile limit in '84 was a typical Thatcher govt policy. Sell a profitable future out for short-term gain. This one is just less visible than many of the others.

Fresh from the ground for #FindsFriday A rather nice Late Iron Age shale core 2,000 year old residue from bracelet manfacture (the square hole being from where this centrepiece was originally held in place on a pole lathe) 📷 Winterborne Kingston #Dorset July 2024 #Durotriges24 #FindsFriday

Results Age xkcd.com/3245/

Bring back the 3 mile limit!

Grocery shopping, ca. 1960s www.tumblr.com/newrider/815...

People who get AI to summarise everything so they can complete their doctorates should get the title ‘[tl;]Dr’

And so: If you’re in the green hydrogen business, please lobby for making ammonia/fertiliser from green hydrogen rather than keep pushing e-kerosene and hydrogen trucks, trains and buses.

Fik dette #protip af en isenkræmmer. Godt sted at shoppe reservedele til elektronik og hårde hvidevarer: cjdele.dk

Was welding these flanges to the axles so I could mount these solid wheels on the scythe bar mower. Now they're working on the machine. Hopefully I need not fear brambles, sloes or hawthorn any more. Fixing punctures on the old wheels every time I used it became very tiresome.