Dan McCulloughWhy the long face? 🤭
Scorpionflies have very long chewing mouthparts in proportion to their heads. Look at that snout!
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Rick GaehlA number of years ago, I had the privilege of visiting the Great Mosque of Córdoba. There was something about the hypostyle forest of marble columns and the endless repetition of double-tiered, red and white arches, that I found simply stunning. A millennium-old architectural masterpiece, which is as imposing, peaceful, and humbling today as the day it was built.
Wolfgang LuchtWhen capable scientists become government advisors, they're confronted with the realities of political power equations.
That is when they are confronted with situations where facts count for little if the conclusions don't have political support in the constellations of power.
"Politics isn't mathematics", as the then German minister of the environment Schulze famously once said when asked about my calculations of a fair remaining CO2 budget for Germany (since used up for 1.5C).
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That's when what I call "toxic realism" becomes a danger: the seduction of scientists to frame analytical conclusions in a way that adapts to what seems feasible, arguing it's better to achieve progress than be right but powerless. I'm told in such discussions a version of: "Being right and idealistic buys you nothing if there's no path to power, change. So don't insist like you do when it just burns bridges."
But all too often, I find it's the analytical findings that end up subverted.
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Kyle MontanioHaving a kid during the #collapse is a surreal juxtaposition.
I set up college saving funds without the expectation schools will survive as techbros and fascist ideologs dismantle the education system.
I prepare as best I can for my little one, but know #ClimateChange can't be faught off at the individual level and the perscriptive preparations of the past likely won't fit in her more dangerous world.
My baby girl is learning to smile while I struggle to not forget how.
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Squeeb CreativeOhh, hello there.
I found this Tussock moth caterpillar eating the rhubarb plant in the back garden. It pooped on me twice. Rhubarb is fibrous!
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Ben Lockwood, PhDPeer review on research manuscripts is funny. The tone of reviewer comments can be wildly inconsistent, so that it sometimes comes off as something like “this is very important research and an exceptionally well-written paper but also I hate it and here’s why”
Mark McCaughreanI've been meaning to make a photographic catalogue of the many bee species in our garden 🐝
Today was not a good day to start, with dark clouds & intermittent rain 🌦️
But this picture illustrates the scope of the problem. Even if you do get a good shot, identifying the species can be hard 🙀
Are these Bombus terrestris (buff-tailed bumblebees) or Bombus lucorum (white-tailed). Anyone? 🤷♂️
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