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Daily briefing: Earliest known dog genome pushes genetic record back 5,000 years
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00992-0?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Daily briefing: Earliest known dog genome pushes genetic record back 5,000 years

The 15,000-year-old remains of domestic dogs hint at their importance to early communities with different ways of living. Plus, ‘grade inflation’ hits PhDs and how environmental scientists can reinvent their research when funding is scarce.

Porcupine John 4d ago

Edmonds_Scanner 5d ago

In the end, don’t we all want the same thing?
Peace, warmth, and a cozy haunted cottage on the coast filled with books and tea that you share with the sea witch and other phantoms and spirits that prowl the wild, windswept shores?

Porcupine John 5d ago

Unicorn Riot 5d ago

NEW: Anishinaabe Leaders Raise Alarms About Enbridge’s Covert Line 5 Police Deals in Wisconsin

Canadian oil pipeline giant Enbridge has begun construction of its re-routed Line 5 crude oil pipeline Northern Wisconsin; it has secretive deals with two counties to reimburse sheriff’s departments for responding to Line 5-related protests. Anishinaabe leaders and local residents are concerned about the potential for constitutional rights violations.

Porcupine John 5d ago

Wisdom in Space 5d ago

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
-- Samuel Johnson

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelJohnson #Community

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #LakeSantaFe #Florida

Porcupine John 6d ago

"Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait, and love one another."

George Harrison

Porcupine John Mar 18

Greenpeace International Mar 18

Fact: recycled plastic still pollutes the planet the same way as any other plastic. To fix the plastic crisis, what we need is to drastically reduce plastic production.

Porcupine John Mar 18

MigsGarden Mar 18

“I arise today, through
The strength of heaven,
The light of the sun,
The radiance of the moon,
The splendour of fire,
The speed of lightning,
The swiftness of wind,
The depth of the sea,
The stability of the earth,
The firmness of rock.”
- St. Patrick

#stpatrick #stpatricksday #light #sun #rose #prayer #bloomscrolling #nature #faith #naturephotography #garden

Porcupine John Mar 13

#nature #gaeilge #irish

“It's hard to refer to a Celtic or Gaelic soul, spirit or mindset without sounding twee or New Agey; but it's generally acknowledged that there is something unique about how the Irish and Scottish worldview relates to the land, to the ancestors and to the lifeforce within nature.” —Manchán Magan

https://substack.com/@diankillian/note/c-227137720?r=k5vx7