Penger samles inn for å dekke rettskostnader i Førdefjordensaken. Alle monner drar. #naturen #VerdtÅBevare

On Armistice Day, I am sharing a poem from Belgian poet and priest, Anton van Wilderode (1918-1998) from his collection 'Zachtjes, mijn zoon ligt hier' (Softly, my son lies here): #poetry #RemembranceDay

Congrats to our previous Poetry Pamphlet Competition winner, @alisonbinney.bsky.social who was Highly Commended in this year's @forwardprizes.bsky.social! Her collection, The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning, is available from @serenbooks.bsky.social. #poetry #poetrycommunity #amwritingpoetry

Best heard with church bells at full clang in the background, such as Sagene Church in Oslo now. open.spotify.com/track/7MPAyK...

So looking forward to reading with my fellow poets @troycabida.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social I can’t wait to hear them read their work. Do join us this Thursday 13th November! 🎉@ninearchespress.bsky.social

I am catching up on @perfect-specimen.bsky.social and the Halloween episode was spooky, funny and informative. I've just looked up the vampire snail (Cumia reticulata) which got an honorable mention at the end, and it is bloodcurdling. Ten points for the costumes as well!

This should be really interesting, and it is free and happening online today. 👇

We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection! This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits: www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...

Look, at the point when your game of dress-up results in a month-long mystery around a robbery at the Louvre, I think it’s fair to say you’ve made your dream come true

"As clothing has become more technical, however, many Scandinavians swear by knee-high socks heated with rechargeable batteries." I have never heard of this in Norway. Is it just me? Battery-heated socks sounds like a hazard waiting to happen.🧦+🔋= 🔥

Here's a brilliant starter pack of Hybrid Writers from the great @taniahershman.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can #booksky #writingcommunity

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

January Writing Hours are up! Come and join Clare Shaw and I every day throughout January at 10am for a Writing Hour. Pas as you go and bursary tickets available www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/january-wr...

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

Alongside our online launch of Magma 93 'Liberation' next Thu 13 Nov, we are also holding an in-person launch at the fantastic Push the Boat Out poetry festival in Edinburgh, on Sun 23 Nov, 12-1pm. Join us there! More details & tickets here: pushtheboatout.org/events/magma...

Bird place-name of the day 109: RAMRIDGE (lost place, somewhere in Devon parish of Holcombe Burnell: www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/Resu... ). OE hremn + hrycg. ‘Ravens’ ridge’. #birdsandplace #naturewriting

I mistakenly said today that I had "sovet inn". This translates literally to "slept in", however in Norwegian it means died rather than overslept. I should have said "forsovet". I corrected myself and then jokingly said that I was resurrected. I don't think the joke landed. 🙃

I'm sorry but she made the sculpture 100% better www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Beaver Moon. Full moon. Supermoon. We are at perigee - the closest the moon will be to us this year.

"At least he’s been spared the worst part— the wanting to know why."

owing to the mystery of the spout—whether it be water or whether it be vapour—no absolute certainty can as yet be arrived at

153 years ago, on the 5th of November 1872, Susan B. Anthony and fourteen other women voted in the American presidential election. Anthony was later fined 100 dollars and responded :"I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty." She never did. #otd #history🗃️

dǫgun (sb. f.): 39 cits, e.g. daybreak, dawn, early morning // dagning, daggry, tidlig morgen ‘Vᴍ morgonenn i dagan stoð hann upp’ (Streng in DG 4-7) onp.ku.dk/o16297 #OldNorse

I know many of you will already have done something to help the people of Jamaica, but if you felt like helping a specific family, this is the GoFundMe set up by my son’s girlfriend for her relatives, who find themselves in dire straits. Every bit helps, shares appreciated. gofund.me/9b5b74984

Dominant electoral wins give Democrats a jolt of energy, while Republicans see a warning sign. (Aaron Zitner and Anthony DeBarros, Wall Street Journal-unlocked) www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

by no means prevent all communications

And you shall find me along the fjord. And the moon shall be my companion.

"two independent objects can become linked by one shared quantum state. When this happens, the future of one particle comes to depend on the future of its partner. What Alice gets depends on what Bob gets even though they are too far apart for any physical influence to travel between them"

It took me about three months to get here but... Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions. 10,151 species. #dataviz #birds #data

“Let the collector's motto be 'trust nothing to memory' for the memory becomes a fickle guardian when one interesting object is succeeded by another still more interesting.” -- Charles Darwin

We're absolutely delighted to announce Magma 93 'Liberation' is now published and available to buy on our website. Edited by Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social #liberation #magma93 Get your hands on a copy now! magmapoetry.com/archive/magm...

So delighted to have a poem, 'Sundew Rescue', in the beautiful new issue of @paperboatswriters.bsky.social, themed around Nature's Voice and sensitively edited by @alexnye.bsky.social and Ian Grosz. #poetry #ecopoetry

Yesterday’s #Wordle: blása (vb.): 338 cits, e.g. blow/play (a wind instrument), play (an instrument), sound a trumpet as a signal (of sth.), summon (sby/sth.) (to sth. (etc.)) ‘Gud baud Moysi. at hann skylldi gera lata .ii. ludra af silfri. ok skylldi…’ (Stj in AM 226 fol) onp.ku.dk/o8972

An apt word choice for me yesterday.

nīd-gedāl, n.n: an inevitable parting, the parting of body and soul. (NEED-yeh-DAHL / ˈniːd-jɛ-ˌdaːl) Image: Miscellany; N England, mid 15th century; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Additional 37049, f. 81v. #OldEnglish #WOTD

A special trip into the woods got extra special today! I saw a Eurasian three-toed woodpecker up close! I've seen the telltale rings they make on trees before, but never the bird itself. It is listed as near threatened in Norway. Eurasian three-toed woodpecker / tretåspett / Picoides tridactylus

I was lucky to be invited by a friend to attend the premiere of Láhppon/Lost at the Oslo Opera House tonight. It examines the Kautokeino Rebellion, the most violent event in Sámi history, for the first time through ballet. I can't quite describe it. See it if you can. www.operaen.no/en/Productio...

Kings Canyon National Park this afternoon, touched with autumn.

My favorite seabird. ❤️

Lommedalselva in Kolsås today.

The waterfall at Hønefoss ("foss" means "waterfall" in Norwegian). It is regulated and used to drive a power plant. It has a total vertical drop of 22 m. The recent storms have fueled its glory. The town's name, incidentally, has nothing to do with chickens ("høne" means "chicken").

I found a capybara pebble🤎

A reminder for UK residents

Hey seabird folks - have you ever thought "*ANOTHER* talk about <species X>?!" So did we. So we reviewed 3000 conference abstracts to see which species get the spotlight. Huge work from @ingridpollet.bsky.social with me and @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Saturday morning vibes…

Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression; they exist where a word has never intruded. Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet [The First Letter], 1903

Storm Benjamin has landed, and I saw this license plate today (on a Tesla, oh well). Come on, #seabirders ... @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social

Reading about the decline and ultimate extinction of the Great Auk upset me so much that it brought me to tears. So much so that I made a pilgrimage to the NHM to see one of the few remaining specimens. #Auktober