Alun Salt
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Web thing for
@botany.one
. Reluctant tech adopter. Dysgwr Cymraeg. he / him / fe
So much for Planck’s constant.
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Also, you might be surprised at prices. For physical books. If you search around for a couple of minutes, you might well find indies cheaper than Amazon. Depends on niche.
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6 days ago
#PlantScience
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I need to make a note of this.
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo
8 days ago
As you boil in the heat, never forget that all those people who for decades have deliberately and maliciously disrupted efforts to tackle climate change are probably sitting comfortable in their large air conditioned houses. Houses funded on the back of lies/misinformation they helped propagate.
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in silico Plants
10 days ago
Top Tips for Attending the Plant Biology Conference as an Introvert from
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Top Tips for Attending the Plant Biology Conference as an Introvert | Plant Science Today
Conferences can be inspiring and full of opportunities to connect. But for many, they can also be overwhelming, especially if large crowds and constant social interaction leave you feeling drained.
https://buff.ly/GqXtioW
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Apparently, I'm known for "The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry". I'm fairly sure that was someone else, though their names elude me at the moment.
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John Bull
17 days ago
i assume banning kids from social media will be accompanied by a huge investment in teen-friendly communtiy spaces (like youth clubs) and social activities? No? Huh.
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Seeing a lot of "Everyone must get off X, it enables the far right" posts from Substackers today. If that's because they think people shouldn't be on platforms that promote the far right, that's great.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters?amp;CMP=bsky_gu
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Anthony Head was simply outstanding as Herc in Cabin Pressure. I'm struggling to think of another actor who could have gone toe-to-toe with Roger Allam (Rotterdam) and Stephanie Cole (Ottery St Mary & Vaduz).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwqA...
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The Complete & Alphabetical Cabin Pressure Experience, Pt. II [M - Z]
YouTube video by safabekr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwqAR-96-f0
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Jac Larner
about 1 month ago
Two weeks on from the Senedd election, here are a few reflections on what actually happened and what it might mean for the next four years. Thread. 🧵
jaclarner.github.io/jaclarner/bl...
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Uitlander
about 1 month ago
www.bigfinish.com/news/v/micha...
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Michael Keating 1947–2026 - News - Big Finish
Award-winning, full-cast original audio dramas from the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blake's 7, Class, Dark Shadows, Avengers, Omega Factor, Star Cops, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Gray, Pathfinder Leg...
https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/michael-keating-1947-2026
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First hoglet of the season
youtu.be/QyaDeNw0ClA?...
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Draenog a’i babi
YouTube video by Alun Salt
https://youtu.be/QyaDeNw0ClA?si=Y3UMy8FXye76rxl8
about 1 month ago
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Angus Main
about 2 months ago
Wes Streeting is already facing growing calls to stand down as PM
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AJCann
about 2 months ago
I'm trying to track down the original source of this much-reproduced
#cartoon
. If you know, I'd be grateful if you tell me.
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Mike Parker
about 2 months ago
Just remarkable how suddenly the newfound interest in Welsh politics of the UK-wide commentariat evaporated the second Reform got beaten.
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Snowdrop, allium each bears a careful name a bookseller wrote. Brevis Sudoku Garden: William Stearn Complete in 0:57 with no hints. Can you beat me?
www.botany.one/sudoku-garde...
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Sudoku Garden
Commemorating Professor William Stearn
https://www.botany.one/sudoku-garden-13/
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The results are staggering. A minimum of two PC representatives in every single constituency. The Valleys = Labour identity is shattered.
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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...
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Sudoku Garden
World Naked Gardening Day
https://www.botany.one/sudoku-garden-12/
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UMR AMAP
2 months ago
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
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What Tiny Orchid Seeds Reveal About Their Evolution
New research on Central African orchids reveals that even the smallest seeds can preserve clues about how plants evolved and adapted over time.
https://www.botany.one/what-tiny-orchid-seeds-reveal-about-their-evolution
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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...
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Sudoku Garden
Day of the Carnation Revolution
https://www.botany.one/sudoku-garden-11/
2 months ago
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Dw i’n chwilio am glychau'r gog.
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Trees for Life
3 months ago
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...
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Landscape of globally rare habitat restored near Loch Ness in one of first and largest projects of its kind in Scotland
In one of the first and biggest projects of its kind in Scotland, a landscape of more than 1,000 hectares of a globally rare and threatened habitat is being restored near Loch Ness, as part of Britain...
https://affrichighlands.org/news/globally-rare-habitat-restoration/
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3 months ago
Los coches eléctricos más económicos que los de gasolina - en Reino Unido.
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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...
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National Survivor User Network
3 months ago
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/...
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Blog submission guidelines
We accept pitch submissions from NSUN members (individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, or trauma as well as user-led groups).
https://www.nsun.org.uk/our-members/members-blogs/blog-submission-guidelines/
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Creatrix Cymraes
3 months ago
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...
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Collage Club: Sunday Sessions — Creatrix Cymraes
This two-hour Sunday Session will include a brief introduction to collage as an artistic medium, an overview of some art history for inspiration, and plenty of time creating collage artworks of our ow...
https://www.creatrixcymraes.com/shop/p/collage-club-sunday-sessions
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Do unto others before they do it unto you.
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Faith Kearns, Ph.D.
3 months ago
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?
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Matt Henry
3 months ago
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.
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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.
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Nicolas Mouquet
3 months ago
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...
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Rachel Holliday Smith
3 months ago
roosevelt island has volunteer “petal protectors” who stop people from shaking the cherry blossoms 🥹🥹🥹 lovely new story from
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Meet the 'Petal Protectors' Guarding NYC’s Blossoms From Pic-Snapping Crowds
Touching or shaking the fragile flowering trees can harm them. These volunteers on Roosevelt Island make sure that doesn’t happen.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/11/cherry-blossoms-flower-trees-spring-guard/
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Ade🏴
3 months ago
Remember folks, don't use Meta for Welsh translation work..
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Dr Vanessa
3 months ago
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
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HighWire -- Browse
https://web.archive.org/web/20260302143743/http://highwire.org/lists/allsites.dtl
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If he does, I wonder if
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social
will have Trump dressed up as the Ayatollahs' bellhop.
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Malcolm Campbell
3 months ago
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.
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Adam Rogers
3 months ago
Really gonna do the thing where astronauts get back from a long mission and everything’s gone apocalyptic on Earth? Really?
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Gwenno ✨✨✨
3 months ago
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)
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert
3 months ago
This is one of my favorite pieces of Tumblr fandom lore
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Abiotic Stress in Plants
3 months ago
Seven
#plant
capacities to
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stress
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
#PlantScience
#StressBiology
@jxbotany.bsky.social
@sebiology.bsky.social
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@biology.ox.ac.uk
@molbiosystems.bsky.social
@plecevo.bsky.social
@arccoesb.bsky.social
@danielbolnick.bsky.social
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Seven plant capacities to adapt to abiotic stress
This review presents seven inherent plant capacities that are essential for reproductive success during the stresses of drought, salinity, flooding, temper
https://academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jxb/erad179/7176155
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Siobhan Leachman
3 months ago
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...
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Judge rules that President must remain without balls.
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Didn't realise that Substack is working with Polymarket as well as Nazis.
www.theverge.com/news/881292/...
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Substack isn’t just known for “platforming and monetizing Nazis” now.
A claim cited by the Substackers Against Nazis, and in much more recent reports. What if it also promoted service providers that make money from pushing people to gamble on and seek an edge in just ab...
https://www.theverge.com/news/881292/substack-isnt-just-known-for-platforming-and-monetizing-nazis-now#comments
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This site is less fun if you’re not so keen on being old and venerable.
profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday/
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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 The Tower, The Moon, The Gun
3 months ago
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.
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Richard Wyn Jones
3 months ago
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...
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Labour’s century-long hold on Wales faces collapse – but why?
Shifts in identity, social change and the strain of long incumbency mean Ireland’s nearest neighbour is about to undergo a sea change
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2026/03/25/labours-century-long-hold-on-wales-faces-collapse-but-why/
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Mike Parker
4 months ago
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)
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Patrick McKenzie
4 months ago
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:
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iNaturalist-facilitated rediscovery of Monarda mexicana (Lamiaceae) in high-elevation habitats of Durango, Mexico | Phytotaxa
https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.744.2.5
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