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The MAGA loons who love their potato based staples & snacks are going to flip when the price sky-rockets - successful mass production of potato crops is deeply dependent upon climate data. On the other hand Phytophthora infestans is going to be in clover (& potatoes).

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Hoylake’s foreshore, an SAC, holds 2% of the UK’s young sand dunes. Yet, Natural England approved 1.5ha of clearance, endangering globally rare wildlife. I’ve instructed Freeths to challenge this & am raising £1,900 in legal fees. Any support helps! 🌱❤️ gofund.me/2669579c

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Now over 900 signatures. Please keep signing and sharing to send a clear message to the Royal Society that we want them to stand up for values that we all hold dear: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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I interpret ‘long day’ to mean ‘soul destroying’ judging by the levels of environmental brutalisation. ‘Guardianship’ as a metaphor of exploitation and destruction.

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While the fascists hold sway, science and solidarity.

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On International Day of Women in Science let's celebrate the life of Prof. Georgina Mace (1953–2020) who was instrumental in creating the Red List of endangered species which now underpins conservation around the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgin...

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ASPB "remains committed to robustly supporting and strongly advocating for diversity and inclusion in the plant sciences, period." Read full statement 👉 https://blog.aspb.org/aspb-reaffirms-its-commitment-to-diversity-and-inclusion/.

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Interested in Rare Plants? my 2024 small summary of how Creeping Marshwort Helosciadium repens is doing in Oxfordshire can now be read at judithwebb.weebly.com/creeping-mar... @friendlyevalley.bsky.social @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social

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Sad fact: The U.S. is the largest known market for trade in painted bats, who are native to South and Southeast Asia. Their populations are declining, and their biggest threat is overcollection for decor. Join us in telling retailers: Stop selling painted bats ⬇️

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Calling Leni Reifensthal, time to shoot ‘Triumph of the Will: The Thanksgiving’, you have a new client - “Trump says there will be a "big party" next year, as the country hosts the Olympics, football World Cup and celebrates its 250th anniversary.”(BBC News website).

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While the anti-science Nazi goons hold sway in the US and NOAA is down, possibly for a long time, we’ll all need to support the surviving, & so far independent, science infrastructure that remains.

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Royal Museums Greenwich isn't on here, so I thought I would hoist a flag for its excellent programme of events for LGBTQ+ History Month, including fab Queer History Night on 20 Feb. 🌈⚓🌊☠️ www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/gre... #LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #queerhistory 🗃️

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On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science. The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people. The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.

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I find it so satisfying when I finally 'get it'💡the difference between Aphanes arvensis and A. australis was always kind of a myth to me. But when I took the time and looked closely at specimens collected last summer, the difference is quite obvious. Look at seed size! #wildflowers #botany

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Need a spring break? Come to the Alpujarras in Southern Spain and enjoy the wild plants and fine food at Las Chimeneas, Mairena. www.laschimeneas.com/event/spring...

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Great presentation, strongly recommend! 👏🙌

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🌳🌳🌳 We have a new paper in @pnas.org showing climate warming leads to growth decline in beech because it drives trees to reproduce more frequently. Climate change can cause growth decline even when drought isn’t increasing by shifting where trees allocate resources doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423181122

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Absolutely repulsive and insensitive byline on BBC News website - his words cause ‘outrage’ in anyone with decency and think that genocide and ethnic cleansing are evil. A classic example of setting aside vulnerable people from the rest of humanity, we should all be outraged.

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We hardly ever see escapee Acaena pops in SE England, even in suitable habitat - I suspect a warming climate may be a cofactor; plus they don’t seem too popular in gardens down here.

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Human Rights Watch World Report came out this week and has this to say on the UK about political and media attacks on LGBTQ+ people, in particular trans women

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Meta has recently made major rollbacks to the hate speech policies that protect marginalized communities across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads — among other draconian, company-wide changes. Sign the petition to make your voice heard 🗣️

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One of Mexico’s loveliest wild plants, Laelia anceps, flowering in my porch, Isle of Wight.

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We are very much looking forward to welcoming bryological visitors to Herts this weekend: the Cambridgeshire Group. Wilbury Hill is unrecorded bryologically and there may be surprises with sand and gravels overlying chalk. Sat 18th Jan. www.britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Has the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) weakened over the last decades? In our new study, we combine state-of-the-art CMIP6 models and observation-based estimates of the air-sea heat flux in the North Atlantic to show that the AMOC has not declined since the 1960s! 🌊

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New paper alert! We find evidence of greater selfing rates in in an annual wildflower after 8 generations of cultivation on a native seed farm: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

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Labour’s rampant transphobia runs parallel to its total indifference to our communities. It’s quite happy to ignore hateful Tory policy & legislation when it suits. Hateful vote grabbing cynicism.

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Hi @bsbibotany.bsky.social folk; I’ve just received a report of seedling regeneration of Canarian Date Palm in central London - has anyone else heard of similar occurrences?

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The 2025 #NewYearPlantHunt is now officially underway! All the resources needed to take part are here: bsbi.org/new-year-pla... Hoping the weather is kind to 1000s of intrepid botanists heading out over the next 4 days to record wild & naturalised plants blooming in midwinter. Good luck everyone!

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Due to the impeccable timing of a delayed official press release, you probably haven’t heard that 40% of corals on the southern Great Barrier Reef died in 2024 due to record-breaking heat exposure. www.voanews.com/a/surveys-sh...

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Meanwhile, we’re skipping past 1.5 C without a care in the world.

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