I think that says it all Happy Trans Day of Visibility!

Though TPS 2026 wasn’t on Trans Day of Visibility this year, we were SO visible over the weekend. We are everywhere. We are your relatives, your friends, your coworkers, your lovers. We deserve rights like everyone else. We are unbreakable, and we will always win. Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 💙🩷🤍

Most comedy depresses the shit out of me

I'm meeting some friends for dinner and decided to wear my "Acetabularia" dress. I get such a thrill from it. I don't know if the artist intended them to be giant single-celled algae, but that's what they look like to me!

Plant science research weekly, March 27 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Review: Rare variants in crop genomes; “Conservatory” uncovers conserved non-coding sequences; Quinine deconstructed; Hornwort Rubisco promotes pyrenoids in other plants; Salt extrusion from mangrove pneumatophores (1/2)

Blossom time is flower mixture time! Here are some of the photos I took for #wildflowerhour (8-9pm UK time Sundays) last weekend but I've done my mixture thing on them... When it's raining 9 days out of 10, for months, a photographer has do SOMETHING. I do this. #art #photography #Scotland

"A plant-based diet requires far fewer resources than a standard western diet ... Just as we make ourselves more energy-secure by switching from fossil fuels to renewables, we make ourselves more food-secure by switching from animals to plants." Nice analogy! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ribes sanguineum, also known as flowering currant, growing through a galvanised iron fence from a railway cutting... Did it escape from a garden? Now it wants back. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribes_s... #wildflowerhour

this afternoon at the edge of the Forth and Clyde #Canal it's Caltha palustris, the marsh-marigold. The flowering season is very short for these plants in Western Scotland but while they're here they're wonderful! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltha_... for #wildflowerhour

A US startup supplies spray for fast-growing loblolly pines with the hope of increasing biodiversity – and reducing the need for artificial fertilizer. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

for #wildflowerhour: cherry plum, wych elm, gorse and gorse. At last there are signs of spring in #Glasgow. Winter has seemed so long but at last the grass is growing and flowers appear...

Have we woken up in America? The deeply unpatriotic Daily Mail and Sun seem to now be supporting a menace of a foreign leader over our own govt and national security. They are really only loyal to their own vested interests. Which are a direct threat to our own. The routine betrayal is sickening.

Even if this is a one-poll anomaly, the important thing is that the Greens in England appear to have broken through the credibility barrier. They are now being seen as a genuine and realistic alternative to the 'main' parties, and It can't but have a big impact on their future polling and support.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Fuckity bye you weasel faced wee fuck.

Scotland. Governed by a government that cares. Time to shake off Westminster corruption.

The president of the United States killed children to distract from raping children.

we went to Dumbarton... I took some photos of small machines.. mixed them up a bit... coggy upcoloured #art #photography #Scotland

Wonkette: Not the news we deserve, but the news we need right now.

The dog has been very unwell since 2/2. 4 vet visits +meds, £1000. 1 cancelled birthday getaway, £1500. But yesterday she ate her food and asked for more! Priceless ❤️

End game...

1/x: I respect AMC and we agree on lots. I think this particular statement needs refinement, however, so I'm gonna give y'all a short thread. If you're AMC fans and inclined to dismiss her "opponents" I still hope you give this thread a shot.

“Every calorie we consume has passed through the phloem." @lkalmbach.bsky.social, now at the University of Neuchâtel, returned to share how pectate lyases and callose synthases and remorins shape sieve pore formation in developing sieve elements in the phloem. 📅 Feb 13 #PlantScience

What a humongous piece of shit

☘️ Well done to The First Minister of The North of Ireland, Michelle O’Neill ☘️

Can confirm

Botany valentine. Another oldie.

Super excited to have this online at @jxbotany.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... "Building a diverse and inclusive plant science community," a call-to-action. Thanks to @apaterlini.bsky.social @mehta-lab.com @yoselin.bsky.social @goormachtig.bsky.social & Agnes Uhereczky + funders!💚

Commons debate led by SNP’s Brendan O’Hara who says “the mountain of evidence… there is at least a serious risk of genocide occurring…should have triggered the UK’s legal obligation to act under the terms of the genocide convention”. hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026...

I ❤️Mangled metal. The forms persist through my mixing edit because they are defined by gradients not edges or textures: these surfaces soak up colour and remain visually coherent even when impossible to sensibly interpret. And starting off with painted areas is also good #art #photography #Scotland

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Did you know that in Scotland between 2023-24 and 2024-25 recorded crimes of Murder and culpable homicide decreased by 24% from 58 to 44 crimes [8.1 per million].There was a 27% decrease over the 10 year period between 2015-16 and 2024-25 from 60 to 44 crimesOur murder rate is 20% lower than England

It's "throw beans at the demons to drive them away" day in Japan. Setsubun is Feb 3, and mamemaki is the act of throwing beans. Oni wa soto! Devils out! Fuku wa uchi! Fortune in! (If only it was this easy to get rid of demons!)

one more planks'n'crash picture I'm getting good results from this new camera but the 4x3 aspect ratio is just weird after so many years of 6x4 so by god I have the urge to crop. #art #photography #Scotland

🚨 Requesting help: I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Please signal boost?

"Scotland’s free training and bursary (for nurses) means TWICE as many train to then give us 50% more nurses in hospitals and lower mortality rates"

Back to my garage planks and a stupid Golf Drive car crash. It's order and chaos in suburbia but tasteful. Better bigger. This is the kind of picture I'd like to see at the dentist's. #art #photography #Scotland

today I'm saying happy with a picture hope you get it fresh #art #photography

LLMs can spit out a terrifying volume of junk/pseudo-science to feed predatory journals and fuel a full ecosystem of science-mimicking slop. And some players will use this consciously to undermine trust in science! We can't ignore that!

There's this photo of a rough old wall on the farm. So I tidied the shed and made a picture of the planks mixed as per usual methods my pictures are how I communicate #art #photography

In May we will have 3 Indy First Ministers, who will stand together to demand our constitutional democracy It’s game on for Indyref2 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Would be amazing if European leaders would also start throwing out truth bombs like this. bsky.app/profile/atru...

FBI frame-up of Indiana University postdoc Youhuang Xiang: Anti-China witch-hunt escalates www.wsws.org/en/articles/... I'd heard whispers of these arrests for carrying plasmids and bio materials across borders before, but someone just shared this detailed news report with me. Please be careful.

My latest blog post, the days of meekly playing by Westminster rules stacked against Scotland will soon be over. The 2026 Holyrood election lays the essential foundations for a push for independence. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/t...

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

Everything about Liebour is fake or lies like their leaflets

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.