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Today is Septidi the 17th of Brumaire in the year 234. Brumaire is the month of mist. Today we celebrate watercress.#JacobinDay More information on watercress

Very true. As @katharinehayhoe.com says, climate change is a crisis amplifier. We should be addressing the amplifier as well as the crises it amplifies.

My kid is starting to sound out letters and begin reading and it's a heart bursting feeling. Having her around is the greatest thing in my life. Having this little inquisitive goblin who just wants to be busy all the time and is at the beginning of everything brilliant

Another fun frame from my last Sandhill Crane encounter of the season. Love these goofballs #birds

It's easy to take autumn's colours for granted. But across much of the world, there's no such seasonal leaf fall: eg in the tropics, or where conifers hold sway in the north. Another of the things that make our natural forests so incredibly special.

Dung beetles know where they want to go. They roll, push or shove their dung ball & every few seconds they stop pushing to climb on top of the ball to make sure they are going in the right direction. This dung beetle male is just climbing down after a look around. More info in alt text #insects

We are on our way home, currently in Frankfurt waiting for our flight to Vancouver. I’ve made a huge list of things I want to read about when I get home. I’ll let you know any cool stuff. Thanks for letting me share this with all of you — it made it even more special. Names in Alt text.

Live footage of centrist pundits being permanently surprised by how cruel fascists actually are.

#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon Good morning from my little corner of the world

They hate nature.

On this day in 1944, Jack Miner died. He established a bird sanctuary, which still exists, on his Ontario farm to protect migratory birds. The data he collected through bird tagging led to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 between Canada and the USA.

@davepalmerusask.bsky.social @hilllabsask.bsky.social

Seriously nuts: the US threatened African and small Pacific and Caribbean island diplomats with cancelled visas and refused entry if they didn't vote against a shipping carbon price. "Bullying" doesn't do this justice. They're gangsters and criminals. www.ft.com/content/4e0a...

Last few spaces on my small museums & mental health w'shop this Sat 8 Nov I'll teach you neuroscience of how Tetris,Lego & arranging collections like this👇 help our brains deal with stress & lift mood;we'll make small museums together. Also:30% off my Etsy: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/copy...

Ok but like…what’s the cutoff? Can my monster romance novels go in here or is that not “literature” enough? I eagerly await your response. Ty.

Beetle illustrations from ‘Abbildungen Zu Oken’s Allgemeiner Naturgeschichte Für Alle Stände’ by Lorenz Oken. Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1843. University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Special Collections. #naturalhistory#insectart #insectillustration #beetles #beetleart #beetleillustration #sciart

For a belated #NationalBisonDay 🦬 : Kay Walkingstick (Member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and Anglo, b. 1935) #Buffalo Country, 2018 Oil on panel On display at Zimmerli Art Museum “Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always” exhibition #IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt #ContemporaryArt

So when the government lets people starve they step in and tell the private sector that they cannot do anything either? Did I get that right? Hungry people do crazy crazy things— this might be the thing that finally brings down the GOP.

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

Coming through! Important ptarmigan stuff to do! #birds 🌿

Today is Tridi the 13th of Brumaire in the year 234. Brumaire is the month of mist. Today we celebrate jerusalem artichokes.#JacobinDay More information on jerusalem artichokes

This from @lewisgoodall.com

Immediately adding this job description to my CV 😄 (really, I should have done so 10 years ago!)

Shifting gears to something more positive about autism-when my thoughts are v. noisy, angsty & low I arrange small good things neatly as mental medicine. It really relaxes my brain & it turns out the resulting photos also relax the brains of those look at them. An example, in case anxiety's lurking:

wealth has been mistaken for virtue, and money for wisdom

My lukewarm take on this is I question why we continue to platform (mostly? Exclusively?) men who made a lot of money in one area for their views/advice in other totally unrelated areas.

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Another good day not to be on the racist site, where every tragedy is an opportunity

Just a reminder that questioning or negating a person's autism diagnosis,especially that of a woman*: 1 invalidates that person's lived experience-something that's has been shown to worsen a person's mental health 2 stigmatises what is a neurodevelopmental disability that they've had from birth 1/2

Final version now available #AmJBot @botsocamerica.bsky.social Sequoia & Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with different adaptive responses to high-severity fires bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Plants are not adapted to fire, but to fire regimes 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🪴 #ecoevo #wildfire

One of my favourite images of a Grey Seal this year. The ocean water is crashing in the background against a small rocky outcropping far out in the bay. Bay of Fundy, #NewBrunswick, Canada September 2025 📸 #mammals #marinelife #seal #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

It’s been fun over the last week watching US and Canadian friend’s obsessing over à game of Rounders played in Victorian underwear 🤔😆

Fungi magic in an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍

Angry Junior Cooper’s hawk is ready with a Shakespearean curse: “Away, you starvelling, you elf-skin, you dried neat’s-tongue, bull’s-pizzle, you stock-fish!” Henry IV Part 1 (Act 2, Scene 4)

We saw many giraffes this morning including this female drinking from a puddle right in front of our vehicle.

This herd of elephants crossed the road right in front of us giving us a nice close look at them.

A dozen lions sleeping right near our vehicle. The cubs were nursing, lazily rolling over, and it was the most peaceful scene you could imagine. ❤️

We were able to sit with a herd of about 500 buffalo last evening. Mind-boggling.

Two male lions had killed a buffalo. This one was feeding and we were able to watch. Sound up for crunching. He’s going through ribs to get to inner organs.

For those of you who have been enjoying my videos, I’ve just been grabbing them with my iPhone. @glengrambo.bsky.social has been taking photos with an actual camera so there will be more good things to come!

Tonight was another unbelievable experience. Let’s start with vultures feeding on a hippo carcass. The trees all around were full of vultures and the must have been at least a hundred on the carcass itself. The hippo had been killed by a rival and staff moved it away from the water hole.

This old male leopard had found and dragged a zebra carcass to this tree. He was full and sleepy but trying to stay alert in case other animals came in to the meal. Glen holding camera on the left.

This is me. Although I wasn’t especially a horsey gal, I did work at a stables in my teens. Mainly so that I could be trusted to take a horse out on my own. I am genetically untidy.

Discworld QOTD, from Soul Music “There is a type of girl who, while incapable of cleaning her bedroom even at knifepoint, will fight for the privilege of being allowed to spend the day shoveling manure in a stable.”

He called them the interchangeable Emmas.

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Where the wild things are - a Pine Marten in a ravine on the west coast of Scotland. #pinemarten Well worth a listen: "Sometimes a wild god comes to the table. He is awkward and does not know the ways Of porcelain, of fork and mustard and silver" Tom Hirons soundcloud.com/tomhirons/so...

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