Excellent article. Robert Reich is such a great storyteller.

❤️💙🇬🇧 Love note from the wonderful city of London 🇬🇧 🤍via Kareem Parkins-Brown. A poem universal 🌍✨💛

"According to The National Red List 2020: Conservation Status of the Flora of Sri Lanka, approximately 68% of Sri Lanka’s orchid species are categorized as threatened. This includes 84% of the island’s endemic orchid species, [...] Kottawa-Arachchi tells Mongabay."

One of the most famous Dracaena spp is D. cinnabari, the dragon’s blood tree, endemic to Socotra, a tiny island off the Horn of Africa. The species epithet & common name refer to the red resin. 📷: James Bailey CCBYNC4. #Dracaena #Asparagaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

"Brevity is the soul of wit." — William Shakespeare, Hamlet #Shakespeare #Quote #Elephant #simple #silhouette #wisdom #author #Life #Renaissance #Era #scenery #scape #castle #detail #tree #sky #beauty #spirituality #blueskyartshow

Untitled (Woman carrying a basket and umbrella) by Unknown artist - Reverse glass painting / 19th century - Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane, Australia) #WomenInArt #art #GlassArt #GlassPainting #artText #PortraitofaWoman #BlueskyArt #artwork #QueenslandArtGallery #QAGOMA #ChineseArt #artbsky #1800s

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In these striking colour linocuts, Sybil Andrews, a longtime associate of Cyril Power, brings gritty drama and dynamism to country life (1930s)

“Landscape was here long before we were even dreamed. It watched us arrive.” - Robert MacFarlane #RobertMacFarlane #MacFarlaneMondays #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #naturewriting #lake #forest #mountain #eastcoastkin

Beauty. 💕

House with Red Roof, 1890 #cezanne #paulcezanne

Armand Guillaumin @artguillaumin #artontwitter #followart

With Mother Nature busy changing hues, another beautiful canvas appears underfoot. From my wife's walk today:

Stirling castle in the mist. Ask French people what they think about when they think of Scotland and they’ll often mention castles, ghosts and mist #photography #scape #scotland

It sounds like a perfect word to me...🥰

• Umbrella clouds on the road to Cofete Beach Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain #BlueSkyMonday #Iphone #Photography #Photographie #Scape #Landscape #Landscapephotography #Nature #Naturephotography #Travel #Travelphotography #Outdoor #Clouds #Mountains #Fuerteventura #Canaryislands #Spain •

Tomorrow morning Venus continues to appear close to the Beehive Cluster. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography

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Always a "Yes!" for the ☘️ Dubliners. Great tune! ☘️

“'I’m here because Labor Day in this country was built off the shoulders and on the hard work of the labor movement,' [Mack Julion] said. 'We have to stick together, you know solidarity forever. We have to remain connected, because right now labor is under attack[...]'"

Wow! Dazzling for all the senses. Gorgeous performance.

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted..." (Frederick Douglass)

When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live. -Sarah Kendzior, author (b. 1 Sep 1978)

Labor Day🌾 "The older I grow, the broader, deeper, larger that word Solidarity is impressed on my convictions." - Walt Whitman, c. 1890

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJetBlack “Black Pansy & Forget-Me-Nots,” Georgia O’Keeffe, Brooklyn Museum

Leonardo da Vinci's revolutionary thinking remains startlingly relevant. Join historian Martin Kemp as he uncovers Leonardo's "lateral seeing" and integration of art with science, showing how refusing to separate disciplines might unlock our interconnected challenges.

🧪 A new study shows scientists shifting to Bluesky, where research posts spark far higher engagement than on X. Peer-driven networks & richer discourse make Bluesky the rising hub for #SciComm 🧬🔬.

Europe steps up as US science funding shrinks. Aix-Marseille’s $16M “Safe Place for Science” drew an unexpected 300+ US applicants in 2 weeks, while the EU launches a $500M “Choose Europe for Science” push to attract top researchers. 🧪🧬🔬 #SciComm

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

💚💛❤️🤍💙 "It is increasingly women who are proving fundamental to fighting back, the stalwarts of their communities." "A report published this year to mark the 25th anniversary of the International Indigenous Women’s Forum (FIMI) cites the many ways women are the key protectors of cultures and land."

"[S]imple short-form overviews of published academic articles. Their main aim is to ensure that research is made more accessible to a wider, general audience." "[They] may also help to trigger real-world changes in policy, practice, and behaviour [for] key stakeholders in environmental management."

"These complex ecosystems are havens for marine wildlife, including commercially important fish, and are one of the most productive habitats on Earth. They’re also efficient in capturing carbon and protect coastlines by buffering against wave energy."

Large marine protected areas can encompass movements of diverse megafauna 🌊🌏 Provides evidence for the value of the large scale of the Chagos Archipelago very large marine protected area for protection of taxonomically diverse mobile megafauna 🐢🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Meanwhile, back in reality, global ocean heat content just updated through June 2025 and set a new record high. Time to wake up! Data (anomalies) & methods from www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa...

"With Webb, researchers can study the properties and growth of dust grains within protoplanetary discs like this one, shedding light on the earliest stages of planet formation."

Four new fellowships will support research into the RIA’s historic ties to colonialism. Projects will explore museum collections, imperial knowledge networks, colonial cartography, and the Academy’s role in the spoils of empire. Find out more 👉 https://tinyurl.com/5bxknnkx ‬

Well, this is quite interesting...link to one recent study included.

"Matthew Knight, senior curator [...] at National Museums Scotland said, 'This is the first time we've encountered weapons buried at a settlement where people lived. It forces us to reconsider relationships between people and these objects and enriches our picture of life in Bronze Age Scotland.'"

Save the date! Galway artist Dean Kelly returns with a new exhibition of paintings and photographs rooted in Galway. Opening at Kennys on October 24th. Preview below!

Just enjoying the dynamism of English modernist Cyril Power’s linocut ‘The Tube Station’ (1932)

Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art

Born on 31 August 1913, photographer Helen Levitt.

Out of the lane... #Photography #StreetPhotography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Hull #Urban #ShotOnLumix

Cool. Real cool.

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The wonderful human being, Johnny Clegg. Long one of my favorites. 🤍

Sydney Peppermint tree recovering from fire A photo from the archives. This tree had lost most of its leaves in the 'Black Summer' fires in Australia in 2019, but is putting out new shoots. These shoots grow from buds lying underneath the bark. #Australia #trees #WildOz #TreeOfTheDay #resilience

It’s not easy to capture flow in a still image but when I look at this I hear the roar of the water over the rocks, smell the forest where this waterfall thunders through and I am there again, noticing how familiar it is, and how changed #scotland #BracklinnFalls #nature

Ucluelet BC 24/08/13 #ColorADay #GreenSat Entrer dans👇🌲🌳✨

“the trees are about to show us how beautiful it is to let go”