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Losing respect for London's #RoyalSociety as it fails to #SpeakupforScience #USACoup https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/03/elon-musk-royal-society-fellowship-survives-fractious-members-meeting?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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Yes, Nature is completely right that #Trump is assaulting science and that he is swinging a wrecking ball at all publicly funded science: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00562-w After all, this is what he and his ilk have been pushing for all along, since 2016: to abolish publicly […]

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La processionària del pi (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) és una espècie autòctona que forma part de l'ecosistema forestal. Diversos depredadors, com ocells insectívors (mallerengues, puputs, cucuts) contribueixen al control natural de les seves poblacions. Vídeo 120 fps […] [Original post on masto.ai]

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rabbit fact: rabbits don't have toe beans! They have fuzz on their feets. It's stiff and compressed, and it protects their feetskin. This fact (which I learned surprisingly late in my life) brought to you bc I saw a picture which purported to be "rabbit toe beans" Nope. No such thing. Fake […]

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The annual farewell to the godwits ceremony is this evening starting at 6:30 pm at the Southshore Spit Reserve (at the very end of Rockinghorse Road) in South Brighton (Christchurch, NZ). There's festivities and a BBQ and a chance to see the bar-tailed godwits before they leave the […]

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Effects of building cycling infrastructure on bicycle use: Differences by gender through a longitudinal natural experiment study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0739885925000149

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Close up detail of the nearly complete Distinction Hotel Mural

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Today was my first bike ride since catching covid for a second time (watch out, it's out there). A big bonus was finding this kōtuku (white heron) in one of the native wetlands restored along Spark Road. Wow! To put that in perspective, I have biked this route […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

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Timeline cleanser. 🐑

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Scholars are building an archive of federal climate data. Here's how to find it. https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/scholars-are-building-an-archive-of-federal-climate-data-heres-how-to-find-it

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“A Glorious Dawn” featuring Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking The sky calls to us If we do not destroy ourselves #JukeboxFridayNight #ScienceAndDiscovery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

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the podcast arthropod has a great new episode out about the multicolored asian lady beetle: https://arthro-pod.blogspot.com/2025/02/arthro-pod-ep-174-multicolored-asian.html If you need to keep this insect out of your home, you'll find this episode especially useful (although I confess […]

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I think about this map a lot. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/

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Remember the trawler that hauled up 37kg of coral in the Tasman Sea? Greenpeace is sending an expedition to document the seamounts. We will go there and reveal the damage done. But the NZ Govt refuses to release the coordinates where it happened, despite all the fishing industry having them […]

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Meanwhile, in domestic bunny land. #bunny #pets

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Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they really liked snacks, model suggests https://www.livescience.com/animals/dogs/dogs-may-have-domesticated-themselves-because-they-really-liked-snacks-model-suggests

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"We want to hear about your favourite piece of NZ science reporting from the past 12 months.... Two awards are available to recognise achievement across different career stages: one for established professionals and one for emerging journalists." www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/02/21/c...

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Not sure who needs this right now, but it's rare to get such a literate, smoldering, disjointed-but-smooth funk groove, with wicked fiddle accents: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YEFLR2JnMd0 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEFLR2JnMd0 #PoetsExplodeLikeBombs #AndrewBird

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NATO can't protect Europe from Russia because the US has defected. The EU can't because UK is no longer a member. The UN can't because of Russia & US. We need a body with Europe + UK but not Russia + US, with existing admin infrastructure. What I'm saying is: arm the Eurovision Song Contest.

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Un exemplar jove de flamenc rosat (Phoenicopterus roseus) una mica presumit. #ocell #ocells #birds #bird #flamenc #flamenco #phoenicopterusroseus #flamingos #birdwatching #wildlife #aves #nature #natura #naturaleza #photo #photography #wildlifephotography #natgeo #birdsoftheworld #photonature

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Fish species thought to be extinct for 85 years rediscovered. @abc reports: "The last sighting of the Chel snakehead ... [was] recorded from specimens collected between 1918 and 1933 in the Himalayan region of India, leading scientists to believe the species had died out." […]

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"Running with the wolves" by Aurora from Wolfwalkers An incredible animated film with spectacular art. #ScreenOrStage #JukeboxFridayNight

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From the film Suzume by Makoto Shinkai, with the hipnotic voice of Toaka. すずめ - 十明 (Suzume OST) https://youtube.com/watch?v=luhOu2hcWIU&si=nZpNTQxKTB_g_Ce5 #JukeboxFridayNight #ScreenOrStage

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“OK, 3, 2, 1, let’s jam” Seatbelts – Tank! From the opening titles of the Cowboy Bebop #anime, a fast moving and catchy jazz piece. https://youtu.be/0hfOyOBHIq4 #JukeboxFridayNight #ScreenOrStage

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“Tank” by Yoko Kanno + Seatbelts from Cowboy Beebop What a track! #ScreenOrStage #JukeboxFridayNight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZl7N8sXyEo

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In light of today’s Bond news! https://theonion.com/wallace-shawn-emerges-as-frontrunner-to-replace-daniel-1828580876/ #Humor #TheOnion #JamesBond #Amazon

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This is what happens when you have climate denial in Government. NZ companies quietly quitting climate schemes www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

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Turn off your notifications. All of them. Why? Let @pluralistic explain: https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/19/gimme-five/#jeffty

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New Zealand Is Having a Clearance Sale. No, Wait, It's a Tourism Campaign. https://www.vice.com/en/article/new-zealand-is-having-a-clearance-sale-no-wait-its-a-tourism-campaign/ […]

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As the planet warms, the atmosphere and jet stream wobbles, sending the remaining cold air masses careening out of their normal locations. Earth's coldest locations have warmed twice as quickly There is a world of difference between 'weather' and 'climate'! #AureFreePress #News #press […]

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❄️ Artist: #DavidZinn in City: #AnnArbor MI USA 🇺🇸 02/2025 - Title: 🔴 "Clarence is sticking close to his favorite candle until winter ends or his tail grows some fur"🕯️ 🟡 "Clarence hält sich an seine Lieblingskerze, bis der Winter vorbei ist oder […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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#BiotaNZ is NZ's database for taxonomy and info on bacteria, fungi, land invertebrates and plants. I realised they have an #RSS service. I can subscribe and see all names updates as they are made. There's a filter to just provide updates to the taxonomic group you're most interested in. It […]

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Here’s a house sparrow that we saw in the Canterbury town of Culverden, NZ, on our undergraduate ecology field trip last month. One of the students, William Harland, is a fantastically skilled photographer and got this great photo of it and uploaded it to #iNaturalist. This is long-billed […]

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This was definitely one of those days where I wished I lived to the west of where I worked instead of to the east. It was one humdinger of a head wind biking home today. #HeadWind #biking #nz

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When you really give it some thought, it becomes astoundingly ridiculous that the economic incentives in our society are set up such that it is more practicable for capital owners to buy up large tracts of arable land or wilderness and cover them with solar panels than it is to en-masse put […]

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83 years ago around this time, my grandparents were 9 and 7 years old when British forces lost Singapore to the Japanese, after the British confidently declared that those Orientals could never defeat them. The Japanese crossed into a Singapore on a fleet of bicycles, bypassing British naval […]

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