On a roll with weaving the NEH-ODH grants of 2008. These are all $10-50k DH Start-Up Grants; the top row is @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social ans two down from that is @juliaflanders.bsky.social. #DHmakes

If ever there was a day for a joyous Pink Butterfly Orchid from the #OrchidsOfRhodes tours, this must be it. 🦋 #bloomscrolling #orchids #Butterflies

Daily painting of #suflowers in #support of #Ukraine🌻 🎨Andrea Kowch - Sunflowers

This is one of my favorite grave decorations in Arras. More personalized dioramas celebrating professions, please.

fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere

Why not welcome the warm weather with a new flash workshop? I’ll be teaching CRAFTING STRUCTURE IN FLASH FICTION and yes this is an in-person workshop! writershouse.camden.rutgers.edu/events/coope...

It is remarkable how much clearer the air is in Silicon Valley than it was ten years ago. Electric cars have made a huge difference www.theguardian.com/environment/...

i don’t know how this is supposed to work in terms of intelligence but whatever these guys do is taking stuff that is not theirs to take and then sell it for the highest possible price electricity water clean air knowledge you name it they should be treated like the common thieves they are

I was talking about Solnhofen at work this week, so for #FossilFriday here are some rather gorgeous fossils from the site on display at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin 🦐🧪🦀

Make sure your loved ones aren't operating on out of date priors about intermittent renewables: tell them batteries are now an economical supplement generating full time dispatchable power from them. "How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power"

Pride crosswalks are being removed elsewhere. Lyons, CO still has theirs. A small town making a visible statement. Glad you’re here to share the moment. #Photography #ScottKissPhoto #Pride

Oh no, this is so awful 😔

So when Naomi Fisher takes umbrage that people have described her recent behaviour and podcasting as a step on a right wing pipeline, while she tags right wing media darling transphobes, and platforms right wing talking points, what exactly is she objecting to?

Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️

a messy something interesting some pretty parts, some unsettling (acrylics on recycled blue mat board) 🤍🕊️ #ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #AbstractArt #Art #WomensArtBlueSky #AbstractArtist #BlueSkyArt  #OregonArtist #Oregon #laurenoujiri

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

The preening contempt of former academics who accuse younger women of being "upset" for daring to disagree? That will win Labour another election, I'm sure! What could possibly go wrong!

These people are incapable of imagining for even a moment that people just have stable views on things that aren't entirely decided by "rah rah my team's the best team". I voted Labour for a long time but they're insane, all of them. No independent beliefs at all.

Boris Johnson's repeated lies during his time as PM got less coverage than this.....

We live in an era of perpetual outrage. The right are so at war with everything that I reckon that if you were to put the late Queen and Churchill on every bank note, coin, credit card and forehead in this country they'd still be screaming and beating their chests over it.

Virologist Charlotte Friend (b. #OTD in 1921) proved viruses could cause cancer (1957) & revolutionized virology (& helped define modern retrovirology). She later pioneered differentiation therapy, showing cancer cells could be "reverted" to health, defining a new path to treat cancer. #WomenInSTEM

Pastel still life, including a nice vase bought in a shop attached to an auction house, some ranunculus flowers, alstroemeria and an iris. The dried items on the right came from a bag of pot pourri. This was probably sold at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition. #pastel #flowers

Overnight Israel bombed the beach front in Beirut where hundreds of people displaced from their homes were sleeping in makeshift shelters

BREAKING: The UN refugee agency says up to 3.2 million people in Iran have been displaced by the ongoing war. Follow AP’s live updates.

Cyclists and pedestrians are on the same side, and conflicts like these arise because we are all being crammed into small slivers of space not taken by cars. Cyclists need to be courteous, yes, but a lot of this is solved by better infrastructure. Also, most cyclists are not riding at 20 mph.

After the devastating wildfire on Fylingdales, it's interesting to see the appearance of some fungi specialising in fire sites, and a liverwort growing on bare damp soil. @fylingdalesed.bsky.social @northyorkmoors.org.uk

Everything coming out of the Mandelson files confirms that his links to Epstein were known to all, and that appointing him showed both terrible judgment and a disregard for due process. [1/2]

Genuinely the TBI rate in Starmer obsessives must be astronomical. I've voted for 8 different political parties in two countries over my voting life. But identifying a blown up puff piece pushed by the Arresting Pensioners community prompts this tantrum 😭 National fund to get them therapy! Now!

Rusavskia elegans #lichen. About 3cm in diameter. #Yellowknife, NWT, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

It’s astonishing Mandelson received a £75,000 payout even after his longstanding links to Epstein were known. New documents show the PM was warned about the risks of his appointment, but appointed him anyway. Epstein’s victims deserve better.

It's publication day! My butterfly book for children publishes today in the UK & Germany. Written in the hope it captures the imagination of kids, and inspires a lifelong interest and love for butterflies and the wider natural world. (1/2) #Butterflies #Schmetterlinge

I passiontely agree and have been screaming this for years! I'm going to go a step farther in 2026 and say that if someone is opposing math education because it's not "real world" it's very possible they're on an alt right pipeline.

Palantir’s NHS England contract ‘opens door to government abuse of power’, health bosses told

If I had a Lancashire accent I think I'd be unstoppable. One of the best accents in the UK!

When I went back to university in 2001 to do my second master's degree, surrounded by 22 year olds, one was being sassy at me and I said my ebay account is older than your older sibling.

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name

Britain would throw Canada on a tire fire for a single head pat from the US. Canada has to tread very carefully with this government and a one-sided relationship.

Cladonia lichens. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends #mushroom adjacent:) Photo covers about 4cm, left to right.

No I am not adding a passkey leave me alone

The U.S. war on Iran is now estimated to cost $1 billion per day. Meanwhile Americans are told there’s no money for healthcare, hospitals, or basic social programs.

It's sunny out and my dog who's been a bit antsy with all the rain is out basking in the sun like the peace walrus he is

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

Spider Pot 051

Tonight is a Curry takeaway night here! What's the essential dish you order every time?

There's a guy on iNaturalist who always IDs my records and thanks for that etc, but he actually gave me a bad score on one of my MSc projects because he, the grader, didn't actually read the instructions, and I was too over it at that point to go get it corrected. Get off my moss records bro!!

This is kink, guys. This obsession with sex, his yours, theirs, aliens', it's suggesting a freaky guy. Why is he thinking about our sexual culture this much? It's a kink!

Looks like there's an asco book on the way from Geoff Kibby: 'Cup Fungi and other Ascomycetes' #MycoBookClub www.myko-service.de/p/kibby-g-cu...

Parmelina tiliacea (with a close view of its isidia in the last photo). Poznań, western Poland. #lichens #porosty #fungi #grzyby #lichenology #mycology #lichenfriends #fungifriends