⚡️ Moldovan president rejects Nobel Peace Prize nomination, says Ukrainian POWs deserve it instead.
"Today, I was watching Ukrainian (prisoners of war) who returned home from Russia, and these are the people who deserve the Peace Prize," Moldovan President Maia Sandu said.
Not exactly subtle.
3.5 times increase in telecoms sabotage. 30 instances since Easter. 🐣
Concentrated to highway linking south Sweden/Europe to southeast coast/Gotland ferries.
During the past year, there have been several attacks against critical infrastructure near Finland. Russians are being increasingly apparent in their will to escalate the situation in the Baltic Sea.
These events must be set in the right context to understand why they happen. 1/
What species is it?
Tree moss, Pseudevernia furfuracea, is one of the most common lichens in Finland as it grows also on pine trees that are everywhere here. Apothecia on tree moss are very rare sight, this old tree moss from Ähtäri had stunning apothecia with a beautiful color
New - to me - perspective on Ocean Cleanup project, ie even if ignore the costs, it could actually cause more harm to ocean evosystem than help.
Incredible cycling footage: Descenting the Dolomites with Safa Brian
youtu.be/NJhAsOKg5KM?...
It’s been a shitty, exhausting day on the #GreatBarrierReef.
I feel like an art lover wandering through the Louvre....as it burns to the ground.
If you like macro photography, give Nicky a follow.
The taxonomic biases in biodiversity data are growing over time. The amount of data we are collecting is growing, but the biases get bigger. We need to make a conscious effort to study the understudied!
#SciComms #Science #Taxonomy
🧪 image from Troudet et al 2018
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
A brown bird with a stout bluish-grey bill, and white on the front of the neck. He is sitting on an egg in the middle of a ring of poo. The ground is barren, dark and rocky.
Blue-Footed Boobies and the magic poo ring.
Blue-footed Boobies nest in a simple scrape on the ground. Guides told us that the Booby, while shading their eggs from the harsh sun, turn to face the sun throughout the day, and that's why there is a ring of poo around the nest. 🧵
We have a likely position for a site of breakage for C-Lion 1: 55.8695, 17.0048
A Swedish minesweeper went there 6.5h ago and the spot matches Yi Peng 3 track and C-Lion 1 path.
@pekka.bsky.social @garygnutter.bsky.social
From Traficom presser:
C-LION1 exact malfunction 04:04:22 FIN UTC+2, complete breakdown +11 seconds. It's 02:02:22 UTC. EXACT time YI-PENG3 crosses C-LION1
A northern water snake sits on a bed of moss in dappled light surrounding by green foliage and tree’s
I came across this northern water snake basking in perfect dappled light in the woods of southern Ohio.
Switching to a wide angle lens let me show off its lush forest surroundings
#nature #photography #naturephotography #snakes #photography
Two internet cables in Baltic Sea were likely sabotaged on Sunday-Monday time frame. @pekka.bsky.social has given pretty solid evidence that the culprit could be a Chinese vessel Yi Peng 3
Slender-billed curlew has become extinct. The last one was observed in 1995. @petteritolvanen.bsky.social mentions that he knows several people who had seen the species in the last century. And now it is not possible any more
Which species of the new Lycogala epidendrum complex are easiest to identify in the field?
Argyll's atlantic woodlands were bursting with life last week including the wonderfully named:
Hazel Gloves (Hypocreopsis rhododendri)
Frilly-fruited Jelly Lichen (Leptogium burgessii)
Yellow Specklebelly (Pseudocyphellaria citrina)
Deceptive Featherwort (Pseudomarsupidium decipiens)
Ramalina fraxinea (Cartilage lichen in English and Isorustojäkälä in Finnish) is common in south Finland (also in my neighbourhood forests in Mustikkamaa), but becomes pretty rare further north you go. It is sensitive to airpollution.
This one had striking apothecia (fruiting bodies).
wow!
Splitting the species is quite fascinating for amateur observers as you rarely have opportunity to do some of the earliest identifications of the new species in your country/area.
Wolf’s milk (Lycogala epidendrum) got split to 15 new species a couple of years ago.
I recently spotted these. I havent learned to ID the new species yet, but these had a few characteristics that could allow to narrow the species: spotty surface, seems to grow also in groups, spores purple/pinkish
On a morning stroll, encounter a dead tree that was covered with a translucent film.
IDer on iNat indicated this could be caused by Ermine Moths.
I just spotted my first observation of A. ciliaris in Helsinki, Finland a couple of days ago.
Can you id species of Lycogala complex without examining spores with a microscope? I’m curious to learn if there are things to look for from just macrophotos from the field
bilberry island is what I call it in English. but you could also translate it as blueberry field.
Bird photos are hard with just a mobile phone camera, but sometimes, when they don’t notice you, you can get a great shot by sneaking closer.
European treecreeper, captured with iPhone 14 Pro.
Slimemold season is still strong in Finland. I found these three on my morning nature stroll around Mustikkamaa, Helsinki.
