🌊🌲 Riparian forests act as natural biofilters for freshwater reservoirs. Vegetation reduces sediment & nutrient runoff, stabilizes banks, regulates microclimate, and sustains aquatic biodiversity. Protecting these buffers safeguards water quality & ecosystem services. #GreenSky #Plants #Gardening

Sun’s out, PhDs out 🌞 Kicking off this year’s #GreenBalance field season in the Rheinland’s rare high-pressure window! 🌳 Here’s Morten testing “intersectional walks”—transects tracing bioclimatic gradients from green space to urban core. Bioclimate = what life really feels 🌡

Bitten by a tick in Bonn or Cologne? 🕷️ Report it to our GreenBalance project! Help us assess tick-borne disease risks in urban green spaces. 👉 Survey: greenbalance.geohealth-centre.de/https-greenb... More info: greenbalance.geohealth-centre.de Thanks for your support!

Zeckenbiss in Bonn oder Köln gehabt? 🕷️ Melden Sie ihn unserem GreenBalance-Projekt! Helfen Sie mit, das Risiko durch Zecken besser zu verstehen. 👉 Fragebogen: greenbalance.geohealth-centre.de/https-greenb... Mehr Infos: greenbalance.geohealth-centre.de Danke für Ihre Unterstützung!

📢 Der AK #MedGeo & die AG #Raum #Gesundheit laden zur digitalen #Ringvorlesung ein! 🏥🌍 📅 25.4.–25.7. | 🕐 Freitags, 13–14 Uhr 🔎 „Grundlagen der Gesundheits- & Medizinischen Geographie“ 🎓 Für Studierende & alle Interessierten | 💻 Kostenlos & digital Infos & Anmeldung: lnkd.in/esr4ByqQ #GreenSky

Rereading The Turn of the Screw after years, and wow—so many hidden details I missed before. The eerie tension, the ambiguity… it’s even more chilling this time. 👀📖 Anyone else feel like books reveal new layers with time? #GothicFiction #HenryJames #booksky #literature #english #books

[Blooming Spring] 148mm X 210mm Spring comes alive in a swirl of color! 🌿🎨 Bright red and yellow flowers bloom against lush green fields, while the sky whispers of warm days ahead. A celebration of new beginnings and fresh air! #painting #acrylic #psychology #mentalhealth

[Better Days Ahead] 297mm X 210mm Gray skies and slow days, but change is brewing. The sun always finds a way back. Brighter moments are closer than they seem. 🌤️✨ #painting #acrylic #europe #mentalhealth

[Holidays] 145mm x 210mm Holidays aren´t just a getaway, but a feeling. Gentle sea breeze drifting through open windows, golden sunlight dancing on the walls, the sound of laughter echoing through every room. Mornings are slow, nights are filled with stories✨🌿🏡#painting #art #nature

[That Autumn Day] 40.64 x 30.48cm Found this canvas on my old files: Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons, whispering memories of warmth and chill, laughter and longing, as the leaves dance their last waltz before winter's hush. 🍂✨ #painting #acrylic #art

[ 죄인들의 낙원 - Paradise of sinners] 297 x 320 A painting I made a few years ago, during a difficult time in my life. But there's always a solution to life's challenges, and every obstacle along the way teaches us to be stronger, take things with more calm, and act with foresight. 🎨✨ #painting #art

[Buenos días] Nature’s palette is endless 🌿🌸 Every shade, every hue, telling a story of beauty, life, and harmony. 🌈✨ There’s magic in the way colors breathe life into the world around us. #painting #acrylic #nature #sciart #science

[Quallen] 5 x 20 One of the best things about the last day of the week is the chance to lay back, unwind, and lose yourself in the pages of a good book. Enjoy this beautiful Sunday! ☀️ #painting #marker #reading #book

Rabbit, Irascible oil on yupo 11.75 x 19 Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second." - LEWIS CARROLL www.lolajovan.com/store/p718/r... #art #painting #fantasyart #rabbit #skateboard

[Salted Breeze] 60 x 40 Nothing beats the ocean breeze on a weekend. Salt in the air, sun on your skin, and endless blue ahead. Just what the soul needs. Have a lovely weekend! 🫧 #painting #canvas #ocean #acrylic

[O’ My Valentine‘s] 210 X 297 True love isn’t found in a search bar or a perfectly curated profile. It’s built in the quiet moments, in the flaws and the mundane, in the choice to stay when leaving would be easier. #painting #watercolor #valentinesday #love

Luca Brandi（Italian, b.1961） A new hope 2 - acrylic on Arches paper.

[大涼山 - Da Liangshan] 105 X 148 A painting of snow-covered peaks, frozen in time—yet it feels so alive. The crisp air, the quiet majesty, the untouched beauty of nature. Sometimes, you just have to pause and take it all in. 🌨️✨ #painting #colours #snow #nature

K O I #painting #Watercolor

Science and art are two sides of the same coin—both driven by curiosity, creativity, and a desire to understand the world. One explores the laws of nature, the other paints the emotion behind them. Together, they make the universe feel both logical and magical. ✨🔬🎨 #ScienceAndArt

Blind Spot #art

Did you see the deep-sea anglerfish that bubbled up to the surface? Did you wonder WHAT IN THE DING DANG HECK it was doing there? I talked to some scientists to find out everything I could! HT @sternarchella.bsky.social, @mbarinews.bsky.social 🧪🦑 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

The spectacular tree aloes, cultivated to great effect in S. California, are now separate from Aloe & very appropriately called Aloidendron (“Aloe-tree”). Here’s Aloidendron dichotomum in San Diego. #Asphodelaceae #TropicalBotany #Aloe #botany 🌾🧪🌱

🌟 Happy #InternationalDayofWomenAndGirlsInScience! Today, we celebrate the brilliant women and girls breaking barriers in STEM. Let’s empower each other to chase our dreams and embrace our passions. Your ideas have the power to shape a brighter future! 💖🔭 #EmpowerWomen #WomenInScience

Oxygen is released into the atmosphere during photosynthesis. At night, some is consumed again by the tree. But the tree releases more oxygen than it needs itself. Deciduous forests release 15 to./year/ha of oxygen, coniferous forests up to 30 to./year/ha into the atmosphere.🌳🌲

Reflect The special importance of the forest for clean drinking water. Due to the purifying effect of the forest, two thirds of the drinking water can be used completely naturally and without treatment directly from the wells or springs.💚🌱🌿☘️🌳🌲🍀💚

My lab made Pokémon cards featuring Texas fishes for our Darwin Day exhibit

How does the regulation of RNA stability contribute to cortical development? This study profiles the #RNAstability landscape of the #cortex across development, revealing that the CCR4-NOT deadenylase complex is essential for corticogenesis in vivo 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3EtZjvN

Full Moon is 1353UT 12 February 2025. 🔭 🧪

#Biodiversity has many benefits when it comes to good health and well-being, such as: 🌡 Reducing the impacts of hashtag#ClimateChange 🦠 Preventing infectious diseases 🍎 Provisioning water, food and clean air 💙 And much more! Learn more ➡️ cbd.int/health/

The relative influence of geographic and environmental factors on rare plant translocation outcomes 🌱🌏 Demonstrates opportunities to improve translocation success via integrating spatial modelling approaches into planning and management processes 📊🧪 🔗 https://buff.ly/4jxobmf

🌾🌱🌍🍄🌺🌳🧪 Starting this week 14:00 GMT February 12. Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 Round 1. Thirty-one teams. How many will be in Round 2? Watch on YouTube! Play along with the teams. Can you do better than them? youtube.com/@BotanicalUn...

Joan Miró, Still Life I, Montroig and Paris, July 1922-spring 1923 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134563

🧠💬 Can regulating emotions in a few people shift an entire group’s mindset? A new study finds emotion regulation contagion can reduce negative intergroup emotions. When 40% of a group used cognitive reappraisal, even untreated members showed change. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm 🧪

human extinction exhibition

José Cerca (@naturalselection.bsky.social) and Anabella Aguilera, Scientific Coordinator at the SciLifeLab Planetary Biology Capability, on pressing #ecology issues & why scientific conferences matter – at the Swedish Oikos Meeting 2025 🌍🧪↓ www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x1-... @nordicoikos.bsky.social

Hubble has captured this image of the nine rings of LEDA 1313424, nicknamed the Bullseye. Its observations helped confirm a blue dwarf galaxy (seen to its left) flew through the Bullseye 50 million years ago, leaving these rings behind.🔭 Credit: NASA, ESA, I. Pasha (Yale), P. van Dokkum (Yale)

Art and science may seem worlds apart, but both are driven by curiosity and the desire to understand the unknown. One creates beauty, the other uncovers truth — together, they shape the world. #ArtMeetsScience #Innovation #Creativity

After the snow. #photography #PhotographersUnited #KitsapCounty

Hello—I am looking for first person essays by scientists and doctors that are relevant to the news to run in Slate. Pitches and submissions: [email protected]

A recent study showed that 0.5% of your brain is microplastics by weight. A plastic sandwich baggie weighs approximately one gram, a human brain weighs 1400 grams. This means you have the equivalent of seven shredded plastic Ziploc sandwich bags shorting out your brain wiring

Daybreak on the cove🌲🌊🌞

Cute & Weapons #sketchbook

John Kane, The Campbells Are Coming, 1932 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135695

Happy Lunar New Year! 🐍🧧

Good morning Bluesky! Incredible sunrise in Forks, Washington 📸Mathew Nichols

„Winter isn't all bad – these ‚sublime’ landscapes of the frozen North from the turn of the 20th Century offer us a way into resilience – and an ‚acceptance of the seasonality of life‘.“ — BBC Culture www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Time for 🛏️ #sunset

Autumn Vibe Or as we Californians call it: fire season and there is no such thing as winter #art #elk #fantasy #nature