A very insightful article urging us professors to step a few steps ahead of the students in terms of book reading and to wait until they catch up and catch the flame. I have been rather positively surprised myself recently when teaching a course where we analyse books on nature, wilderness etc...
Our latest statement from the natural climate solution advisory committee (#WBNK), that put simply, recommends giving degraded moorland that could be rewetted, special status legally, so it gets priority over other interests. We can't move moorland!
We need to be able to move faster in rewetting degraded moorland. The German natural climate solutions (#ANK) project OptiMuM is providing the assessment of what works in terms of Shagnum moss reestblishment and carbon drawdown from the atm, so results can be transferred to other moorland.
Yesterday evening I left the EU Parliament at 19:30, after a very long day.
Good news is that members of 4 parties are unhappy about the CAP proposal, so there's a potential openness for discussion.
The bad news is that the overall spirit on environment is rather 'slash-and-burn'. Quite alarming.
So true Robin.
The world has focused on Zohran Mamdani, for VERY good reason. 🙌🏼
But don’t forget- he’s not the only one.👊🏼
Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago is on 🔥….
Much like Mamdani, he is focused on the right thing- affordability.
And fighting ICE.
We love him 💙 &
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& @katmabu.bsky.social
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A very eloquent analysis by Monbiot. Make sure you read this. Being ultra wealthy does seem to create billionaire brains that are unable to imagine life from any other perspective but their own. #Montbiot
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A really well written blog post about the values people hold in relation to #grassland restoration. A key outcome of our Grassworks project, asking what leads to success in grassland restoration.
A close up of a medieval manuscript showing St John the Baptist pointing at a lamb. He's looking particularly haggard.
The archive's Community Engagement Officer looking similarly tired. He is in one of the archive's strongrooms, wearing an orange shirt. He is a white man with long brown hair and a short ginger beard.
Spot the difference: John the Baptist from the Hours of Joanna I of Castile and our Community Engagement Officer remembering how many emails he has to respond to
Where is it from?
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Go Australia! Facing up to the future. Proud of you.
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Together we can do way more. Some positive stories amidst the insanity of today's world.
Are you a scientist? If so, make sure you read this.
Fully agree @james bullock.
137 of us share our concerns with policymakers in an open letter: "There are more than just trees and forests to be conserved and restored" nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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A picture of an experimental prairie restoration, and the field is mostly composed of Echinacea purpurea
New paper alert! @lars-brudvig.bsky.social, @nashturley.bsky.social and I reveal key context-dependent impacts of seed mix design decisions on restored prairie community structure!🌾 🧪 #PlantScience #EcologicalRestoration #ecosystem
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This is a smooth story. Of the paralell channels, we seem to be all living in, in today's world. Nature stampede back through the crack in the door. Let's keep opening that door. Nature is our ally in the current fight with our own selves, with our ape nature.
Did you rather despair of the ecological restoration potential models of Bastin et al. Science 2019? Them check out our more inclusive and realistic global model. It's not perfect, but it's better, and the implications are important. Am going to buy an e car faster than I had thought.
Speedy and important impact!
We see here a self-styled "honest broker" with decades of experience in downplaying climate change presenting an age-old climate denial trope: using *annual* rainfall data as argument against an increase in *extreme* rainfall.
Does he *really* not know better? Or assume his readers won't?
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Diese und weiter Ausreden werden in diesem Thread entlarvt.
Einfach diesen genialen Artikel lesen. Die Riege der weissen älteren Herren, die absolut gar keine Verantwortung, für ihr und unser Verhalten annehmen wollen, wächst Tag für Tag. Stellen Sie sich vor, wir würden unseren eigenen Haushalt, unser zu Hause so behandeln. Wie sähe das aus?
Congrats on this very important paper. Have been co-writing a chapter on mineral soils, especially the climate change potential of grasslands, for the German WBNK natural climate advisory committee, and just added a paragraph on bd and soil C and your paper could not be more welcome. Thank you.
Taylor’s law predicts unprecedented pulses of forest disturbance under global change | Nature Communications share.google/tGonDK25Iymd...
The epitome of an innovative idea: applying Taylor's Law to understanding the variability of disturbance events in forests. Important paper!
Lesser Butterfly-orchid, Platathera bifolia. Typically up to 30cm. Ridged stem. 5-25 white flowers per spike. Lower flower lip usually points downwards rather than curving backwards. Pollinia are close together and parallel to each other.
This is so true. I saw a BBC documentary some years ago, showing that parts of the brain associated with empathy are triggered by reading books (much more than scrolling). Reading Shakespeare activates more sparks in our brains than other writers. Isn't this fabulous? Read books, read Shakespeare!
Fossil fish Dapedium punctatum from the Philpot collection at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
5 July 1779: birth of Elizabeth Philpot at Red Lion Square, London. She and two of her sisters settled in Lyme Regis, collected fossils and befriended #MaryAnning. Their collection is now @morethanadodo.bsky.social. Contrary to what’s online, there are no known portraits of Elizabeth Philpot.
