Everything we think about nature is deeply cultural. And much of what we imagine is based on outdated, irrelevant, or out-of-place beliefs. A new book by Jane Rawson 🧪 📚💙 - ThreadSky

drspacejunk.bsky.social • 22 days ago

Everything we think about nature is deeply cultural. And much of what we imagine is based on outdated, irrelevant, or out-of-place beliefs.

A new book by Jane Rawson 🧪 📚💙

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lisasass.bsky.social•22 days ago

📌

aprilmbeisaw.bsky.social•22 days ago

Thanks for sharing. I’m thinking about new definitions of wild/domestic during this semester’s research in Austria.

drspacejunk.bsky.social•22 days ago

How wonderful to be working in Austria! (Vienna is my spiritual home). What will you be doing?

aprilmbeisaw.bsky.social•22 days ago

I’ll be at the Natural History Museum to explore the incomplete domestication of rabbits/hares and pigs/boars. I believe they can help us envision shifts in human-animal relationships that are being driven by climate change. Fewer wild places may mean more partial domestications.

osteoconnor.bsky.social•22 days ago

That sounds fascinating and timely. Looking forward to hearing/reading more.

aprilmbeisaw.bsky.social•22 days ago

Thanks Terry! I’m in the reading/thinking stage now. Hopefully time at the museum will provide the data necessary to build out the idea.

osteoconnor.bsky.social•22 days ago

👍👍

drspacejunk.bsky.social•22 days ago

What an interesting project.

aprilmbeisaw.bsky.social•22 days ago

Thanks Alice!

almightynoodle1.bsky.social•22 days ago

Life in the natural world is nasty, brutish, and short... objectively speaking.

anthroandrew.bsky.social•22 days ago

Oho this is just the kind of stuff I love to think about

auntpatty.bsky.social•22 days ago

We're in a

fascist takeover

of the United States.

drspacejunk.bsky.social•22 days ago

I don't know what words of comfort to offer. I fear you're right.

scottakenhead.bsky.social•22 days ago

Painfully true.
We are slowly realizing how sophisticated ALL the Earthlings are.
Honeybees can do arithmetic?!
Fungi, even mitochondria, communicating?!
Sharks live 200 years?!
and ∞ more.

“We are the early ones.” (Francis Bacon?)

rhys-williamson.bsky.social•22 days ago

if we were pushed as much content about nature as we are politics, we'd be much happier and much more grateful/protective of its systems.

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