Help us uncover the hidden lives of Europe’s ground-nesting bees When most people think about pollinators, they picture bees visiting flowers. But for many species, a large part of life happens elsewhere: in the soil. Many pollinators do not just feed above grou…

Join a new citizen science project and help us to uncover the hidden lives of Europe’s ground-nesting #bees - please share with your networks:

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Edible Apocynaceae: a new global synthesis of diversity, conservation and pollination just published – and a personal landmark for me! This year – 2026 – marks the 40th anniversary of my first publication. Forty years. Imagine that – I certainly can’t! It feels like a long time ago, a distant memory, anothe…

Edible #Apocynaceae: a new global synthesis of diversity, conservation and pollination just published – and a personal landmark for me!

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#biodiversity #food #IUCN #pollinators #sustainability #UNSDGs #botany

No kings sign with gold toilet flushing a playing card of trump and words “royal flush”

No kings sign saying fck djt and clown version of trump

Sign saying immigrants welcome/immigrantes birnvenidos and an image of white and brown handshake

Little girl holding a sign saying trump is a bad guy

A few photos from our local #nokings rally

photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar, we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Panel 1: 3 bulbs underground. The bulb on the left says, "I can feel the warmth of the sun. I hear birdsong. Nature awakens! It's time to sprout!" The other 2 look excited. Panel 2: The 3 bulbs have sprouted into 3 daffodils. They are bent by the strong wind and rain. They are not happy. The middle flower says, "Idiot!"

March is such a tease. #spring #falsespring

Home Ice Advantage
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(For the second time)

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Let’s make it viral folks. Thank you @histoftech.bsky.social.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

As of January 1st 2026, John and I are **no longer** the owners of Complexly (the educational media company we started 15 years ago that makes Crash Course, Eons, SciShow, Study Hall, and a bunch of other shows.)

We have been the sole owners for all that time...

From Ghana to Benin, mechanization is redefining agriculture. 🚜

@fao.org is working across Africa to put the right tools in farmers’ hands, boosting productivity, improving food quality and creating rural jobs.

Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/3M3LZCA

#AgInnovation #SustainableMechanization

Gorgeous

this has become a very important video to me

The Pillsbury Dough Boy float at the Macy's Parade

He is risen

Rudy press conference at 4 seasons total landscaping

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Four Seasons Total Landscaping

Five yrs ago today in my role as head of Voter Protection for Biden-Harris in Phila, at right about this moment, I was reaching out to our team to figure out who could sneak into a hastily-called press conference by Rudy Giuliani at the Four Seasons Hotel ... and then, what, it's going to be where??

10 Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Here's Where We Are Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.

Some good-ish climate news.

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." - Oscar Wilde, The Importance of being Earnest.

a white squirrel is waving its paw in the air . Alt: a white squirrel is waving its paw in the air .

Hatch act? Never heard of it?!

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

Two medium-sized orange pumpkins. One carved with almond-shaped villain eyes and a big toothy grin and the other with round eyes and round mouth with little fangs, and eyebrows indicating surprise and fear. Both lit up with red lights inside.

Happy Halloween!

Love it!!!

Perhaps the one issue is the way communities engage in raising children to be good citizens. When I was a kid I can remember a few moments when strangers in line or at the library corrected my behavior. We often ignore misbehaving kids in public and maybe we shouldn’t???

Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive' Glacier cores reveal Icelandic volcano that plunged Europe into darkness

At least it’s not 536, nominated by historians as the worst year in history. Or really any year between 536-546 would have been an epically bad time to be alive.

Cold comfort I know, but interesting!

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Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to Robert Sommer about his research on the brothels within the nazi concentration camp system.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

I love this!

Scientists Studied The Infamous "Chicago Rat Hole" And They Have Some Bad News The "Chicago rat hole" became so famous it is now housed in the City Hall-County Building. Scientists studying it found a few surprises, and some grim news.

Just glad Splatatouille's family can finally have some closure x