Carbon credits perpetuate colonial land relations. They often represent pollution created by Global North nations deposited on to land in the Globak South, and Indigenous communities rarely have a say in governance nor benefit from them financially. 🌎 🧪 #geosky www.briefecology.com/p/colonizing...

🧪 we can learn so much from older cultures. theconversation.com/africans-sur...

Okay, this is hilarious! @tomgauld.bsky.social ⚒️🧪 #geology

I'm fascinated by this study of lactucin-rich lettuce extract for sleep. "Lettuce opium" was used in Europe as a sedative and painkiller. In this study, improvements in sleep time and wake-after-sleep were big enough to make a noticeable difference. 🧪 examine.com/refer/d2ldrm...

Update! — Mesquite 4.01 released, fixing a few small and one substantive bug (for details see response post). New: NINJA (for neighbour joining), new merge taxa options, node spots, Google Earth mapping. www.mesquiteproject.org 🧪 #evolbio @bembidion.bsky.social

Repost of today’s astonishing artifact since the image didn’t come through earlier. 🧪🏺

I’ve noticed there has been a general decline in national competitive fellowships open to various fields of study. In my grad school experience (which ended after 5 years this May) the Ford Fellowship ended and now the GRFP has greatly shifted towards a more specific research area. 🧪

In @jafscd.bsky.social , we outline a research framework that can guide collaborative efforts between agriculture/natural sciences researchers and Indigenous peoples with the goal of understanding the science of Indigenous cropping systems: doi.org/10.5304/jafs... 🧪

S-tier plant books: Anatomy of Seed Plants by Katherine Esau The Ecology of Intercropping by John Vandermeer