The sunlight warms leaves and skin alike, gardening on May's first bright day Challenging Sudoku Garden: World Naked Gardening Day Complete in 2:46 with no hints. Can you beat me? www.botany.one/sudoku-garde...

A nice post in @botany.one featuring new research on orchids from Cameroon by Paul Didier Atangana, Murielle Simo-Droissart, Bonaventure Sonké & Vincent Droissart : www.botany.one/what-tiny-or... Open access paper: doi.org/10.1017/S096... #botany #plantScience

No shots, only blooms, four decades of silence end with a petal's weight. Formidable Sudoku Garden: The Carnation Revolution Complete in 2:40 with no hints. Can you beat me? www.botany.one/sudoku-garde...

Dw i’n chwilio am glychau'r gog.

Restoring #peatland at Dundreggan and beyond 💦 A partnership of charities, landowners and businesses has joined together to save and repair a connected area of blanket #bog - among the world’s rarest habitats - across three neighbouring and diverse landholdings 👉 affrichighlands.org/news/globall...

Los coches eléctricos más económicos que los de gasolina - en Reino Unido.

Cap'n Bone Spurs spoke his brains to Sky News. It's not just deaths in Iraq & Afghanistan count for nothing, the "defensive sorties" in the Gulf right now don't count either. And in six years time we'll be back in the same position because the Dems will let things lie. news.sky.com/story/uk-can...

We’re interested in publishing blogs which explore Mad liberation, social justice, UK mental health and disability policy, and the work of grassroots groups. Paying £150, submit your pitch for a blog via the link below. www.nsun.org.uk/our-members/...

Hi friends! I’m running a Collage Club Sunday Session this weekend at Unstable Arts in Roath, Cardiff. Tix here: www.creatrixcymraes.com/shop/p/colla...

Do unto others before they do it unto you.

Truly, the job market is one of the places where our baffling relationship to AI is laid bare and with extreme consequences. Do we use AI because the job description was written by it and your application is being checked by it, or listen to the folks saying they can’t believe anyone would use it?

I recently hired someone. During the search, finalists submitted timed written essays. One of my colleagues flagged two responses as AI when reviewing. Different tools showed different likelihoods of AI use, from 3%-70%. Then I plugged my original writing in and it said 80% AI. We are cooked.

You don’t have to be a botanist to comment. This is about how sites can embed Bluesky posts discussing academic papers. If what I’m proposing is a Very Bad Idea, I’d like to know BEFORE it causes a problem rather than after.

Citation self-awareness for a fairer academic publishing landscape Check out our last viewpoint in Bioscience: In an asymmetric publishing system, citation are influenced by unconscious biases. Recognize them is necessary for a more balanced publishing landscape. doi.org/10.1093/bios... 🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁

roosevelt island has volunteer “petal protectors” who stop people from shaking the cherry blossoms 🥹🥹🥹 lovely new story from @lillysabs.bsky.social:

Remember folks, don't use Meta for Welsh translation work..

Heads up for academics - I just got a notification of a data breach linked to Highwire Press, a host for 100s of journals. Looks like it's mostly just emails/locations/affiliations being sold on the darkweb but be super alert to anything phishy smelling in your inboxes list of journals in link below

If he does, I wonder if @tomtomorrow.bsky.social will have Trump dressed up as the Ayatollahs' bellhop.

I borrowed an RF100-300 f2.8L from TryTheKit for the Easter weekend, and took it to Argaty Red Kites on Easter Sunday - such a versatile lens!. We spent the morning in their woodland hide, photographing red squirrels and birds. This was one of the squirrels that posed so well for us. #ukwildlife

Really gonna do the thing where astronauts get back from a long mission and everything’s gone apocalyptic on Earth? Really?

Chwilio am lyfr... ma gan World of Books hiwmor! "A Short Stay in Hell" (Cyn i neb atio fi!! Pan dwi'n chwilio am lyfr Snusnag dyma'r drefn: 1. Llyfrgell 2. Ail-law ar wob 3. Palas Print)

This is one of my favorite pieces of Tumblr fandom lore

Seven #plant capacities to #adapt to #abiotic stress academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-... #PlantScience #StressBiology @jxbotany.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social @asps-oz.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk @molbiosystems.bsky.social @plecevo.bsky.social @arccoesb.bsky.social @danielbolnick.bsky.social

Reading this article & saw “... the botanist Otto Degener struck out the name of his Kanaka Maoli (native Hawaiian) collaborator Henry Wiebke from his specimen labels (Shih 2025), after a falling out between the two.” Is Wiebke in #Wikidata? Yes! www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119459...

Judge rules that President must remain without balls.

Didn't realise that Substack is working with Polymarket as well as Nazis. www.theverge.com/news/881292/...

This site is less fun if you’re not so keen on being old and venerable. profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday/

Evergreen. Block and ignore. Also—and I hate that I have to add this—if someone DMs you with weird rumours, don’t respond. Block them. Trolls spread disinformation through unverified claims. Smear campaigns thrive in secrecy. If you want clarification, ask the subject of the rumours directly.

I've unexpectedly lost my job. It's a major bummer. This is a long shot but if anyone has any freelance gigs going, or knows of a remote/hybrid role for a content guy in the south-west/poss London, please shout! Content design | UX writing | copywriting | editing | content management | articles

Here's something for the Irish Times in which I try to explain what's about to happen in Welsh politics. Hope it's of interest. www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...

I’m searching for the original and/or rights owner of this fabulous picture of Birmingham in the early 1970s. It popped up on my Instagram feed, but I’ve been unable to track it down. Any leads? I’m really hoping to use it in a book. (And would much appreciate a RT please)

the "lost" species Monarda mexicana is still out there! Known from just 2 historical collections (most recent from the 1950s). Imagine my joy in stumbling on a picture of it on @inaturalist.bsky.social !!! We've now documented the first known modern populations and revived the species name:

Oes gan Bombus terrestris enw Cymraeg? Dw i wedi bod yn ychwanegu enwau Cymraeg at @iNaturalist.bsky.social. Dw i wedi dod o hyd i enwau ar gyfer pethau fel Fucus vesiculosus a Littorina littorea ond does dim enw ar gyfer Bombus terrestris ar Termau. Oes 'na gyfeirnod bo' fi'n gallu ei ddefnyddio?

If UBI was a coup for billionaires and corporations, we'd have gotten it decades ago. They don't want us to have the power UBI provides. They want us to have no choice but to work for them, for as little as they can legally get away with. UBI = POWER TO THE PEOPLE widerquist.com/basic-income...

New Welsh Government legislation has officially recognised the Eurasian beaver as a native species and granted it protected status

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

There is always a tweet.

Yeah, having now slept on it properly, it is weird that no losing parties statement really reckons with why people might have chosen the Greens and instead they all chose to blame sectarianism. It does suggest that they still don't really recognise people who vote Green as, you know, real people.

The best gift I gave myself was to make sure my personal site has no analytics.

Treecreeper in a woodland puddle. 😍 Taken recently at Swell Wood in Somerset. 😊 #Birds 🪶 All my links; linktr.ee/carlbovis 🐦

Note to other people outside the UK: @blackwells.bsky.social really are great for overseas deliveries. ZERO postage!

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Will spring aid Omics? Who can research? Who can not? Survey needs answers Challenging Sudoku Garden: 🧩 Omics Needs Your Help Complete in 1:40 with no hints. Can you beat me? www.botany.one/sudoku-garde...

Everything that Andrew Windsor has allegedly done happened while he was a full member of the British royal family, surrounded by security with his every move monitored and arranged for him. Why isn't the whole organisation being investigated?

My philosophy:

Crossed with the Bayer names this would work well. Also Oxon has two different villages called Wootton because of shifting admin boundaries. Similar would make for great missed deliveries “Ah no, this is for Ottery-by-Gamma Aurigae, This is Ottery-juxta-Beta Tauri”. Or stars as county names.

Great show. Season One might be a bit clumsy, but 2-4 are just amazing. Also the later arc is depressingly relevant to our current situation in the US. If you’ve never watched this show I’d strongly recommend it.

A woman involved in organising a protest against migrants has been banned from entering Wrexham football club’s ground for five years for posting an allegedly racist message on Facebook ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-1eEE

Post a banger not in English Adwaith - Eto m.youtube.com/watch?v=_fp7...