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We're very delighted to welcome our ERC Synergy project — "FirnMelt: Greenland’s Melting Firn and Ice Sheet Response" — into the world!

Photo: PIs William Colgan (GEUS), Horst Machguth (U. Fribourg), Angelika Humbert (AWI) & Michiel van den Broeke (Utrecht U.) from left to right.

evryone in the whole world can sign our petition to save our beautiful trees -

please do and take this chance to experience direct democracy in Switzerland

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evryone in the whole world can sign our petition to save our beautiful trees -

please do and take this chance to experience direct democracy in Switzerland

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Buchen auf dem Uetliberg Leben Lassen Grosse alte Bäume sind wertvoll. Sie spenden Feuchtigkeit und Schatten und bieten Schutz und Lebensraum für unzählige verschiedene Lebewesen.  Den vorhandenen alten Baumbestand zu erhalten, ist ...

Dieses Anliegen ist mir sehr wichtig – bitte unterschreiben & weiterleiten: act.campax.org/petitions/bu...

beloved beeches

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. (Antonio Gramsci)

Ice flowers

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A classic

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I will believe AI is useful when I am allowed to remove it from my devices

I need a riddle workshop ! Too much doom

A trio of sunlit orange enoki mushrooms grow on the gray bark of a dead American elm tree, speckled with moss. The largest mushroom shelters the smaller two, and their gills furrow as their caps dry in the winter air All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

#JennyHolzer

This was my pinned post at Twitter

The English sink

Hot and cold - never the two shall meet

Hoxton

Recommend this book

More Gorey detail

The Gorey Truth

A family of Stereum lobatum mushrooms grows off the side of a dark fallen log, their red shelves resembling lobster tails This is a new angle of a photo I posted one month ago All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

"I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives." Billy Connolly

#mushrooms

More mushrooms @lukelukeluke.bsky.social

‘Elenka’ (1936) by Alice Neel, rebel-painter-of-people (she disliked the term portraitist) born #otd 28 Jan 1900 #art www.npr.org/2021/05/14/9...

To me the cool thing about this image is that the sprinkling of blue stars are in the foreground, some 5 million light years away, while all those gorgeous colorful swirly galaxies are almost unimaginably more distant, out in the far depths of the cosmos. More info: www.stsci.edu/contents/med...

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