This is the rose named Marianne. My husband bred this rose here on the property in 2001. It is a hybrid Gallica, a twenty-first century version of an old garden rose normally associated with the eighteenth century or earlier.

The scent is as strong and fruity as its mix of colors implies.

As a shrub, it grows to about two meters tall and four meters wide. It blooms only in the spring.

#bloomingtoday #flower #roses

This paper on bird population declines is a real smoking gun in #biodiversity declines

"Agricultural intensification, in particular pesticides and fertiliser use, is the main pressure for most bird population declines, especially for invertebrate feeders."
We should be grateful to the thousands of volunteers who compiled the dataset: a "population time-series of 170 common bird species, monitored at more than 20,000 sites in 28 European countries over 37 years"
#birds
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216573120

Glass Cliff Theory holds that once the boys network have decided a CEO job is too hard or the company unsalvageable THEN they give it to a woman. And when she fails they blame it on her.

So if/when Space McAfee boasts about appointing a female CEO to Twitter, remember that.

More on Glass Cliff Theory from the university of Exeter here:

https://psychology.exeter.ac.uk/cic/about/theglasscliff/#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20glass%20cliff,Minister%20Teresa%20May%20and%20Brexit.

I've published two academic books and seven articles.

All the years of research that went into them was unpaid. Writing time, unpaid. Editing and peer-review, unpaid. Royalties? None. I get nothing from the sale of those books or journals.

My first book is priced at $120.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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When you vote, politely say you wish to officially report you are unhappy with the PhotoID requirement.

Polling officers are obligated to record your discontent.

NB You can return back to your polling station and do this should you have voted already.

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Geri x