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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 1h

God creating the animals

Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511; 'The Ashmole Bestiary'; 13th century; England (Peterborough?);f.6v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 1h

Time for a squirrel break

BL Add MS 18852; the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile' or the 'Hours of Joanna the Mad'; 1486 CE-1506 CE; f.88v

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Dun Jun @clustertuck.bsky.social · 2h

Diane Keaton has died. I loved her unique, naturalistic comic acting since "Love and Death." I thought she was still young. Well - she was still young. RIP. Photo: 2022.

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 2h

Here is your Saturday Spider, a fluffy Aphonopelma sp. tarantula in southeastern Arizona. They're usually on the ground, but this one climbed about a foot up into a spindly dry shrub. I thought B&W suited this portrait. #Arachtober 🌿🐙🕷️

A black and white photo looking straight into the fuzzy face of a tarantula, which is balanced on thin dry twigs.

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Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social · 4h

Hope so. They’ve just arrived.

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Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social · 4h

The only two things of which I’m moderately sure: this is a Cotoneaster, and the blackbirds are going to have a feast.
I think it’s probably C. bullatus.

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 18h

👇👇 "...all current (civilian) Epidemic Intelligence Service, and several people working on the Ebola response." 🛟

Staff at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention across multiple programs being fired tonight, including all current (civilian) Epidemic Intelligence Service, and several people working on the… | J...

Staff at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention across multiple programs being fired tonight, including all current (civilian) Epidemic Intelligence Service, and several people working on the Ebol...

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Lizzie Harper Illustrator @lizzie-harper.bsky.social · 8h

A question for #botany peeps.

Which #wildflowers have widest global distribution?

Looking for spc which grow in Asia, Europe, Americas (&Africa & Australasia too?) for a #botanicalillustration project

Suggestions please!

@bsbibotany.bsky.social @botsocamerica.bsky.social #ecology #plantscience

Cut to white autumn leaf watercolour #sciart #illustration with red brown edges but the leaf blade centre, by the midrib is still bright yellow. It's a spc of Acer maple from a botanical gardens in Sussex, uk

Daisy Bella perennis and Violets grwoing together, cut to white botanical illustration in watercolour. There are 5 flowering heads on the daisy plant and four on the violet, showing the flower at different angles. There's also some roots and substrate include, along with leaves of both species

#botanicalart illustration of #poa annua, Annual meadow #grass showing the plant, stolons, flowering head, and leaves. Cut to white watercolour

Common #polypody #fern #Polypodium vulgare cut to white #botanicalillustration by #sciart #naturalscienceillustrator Lizzie, showing 4 leaves of the fern, the rootstock, and details of the sori on the leaf tip. Three leaves are showing their top side, the smallest one, third across, is showing the spores on the underside

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Dutch Pendergrass @dutchpendergrass.bsky.social · 1d

Amazon has sold out of frog suits. Portland pivots to Yoshi instead.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 1d

Cat n' Mouse

Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1525; Psalter; 13th century; England (Canterbury); f.14r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 1d

Mouse using a 'cat'apult

BL Harley 6563; Book of Hours; c.1320 CE-c.1330 CE; England, S. E. (London); f.71v

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 10h

observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Ten UK data centres could cancel EV emissions gain

Research has underlined the lack of transparent and reliable figures for expected emissions driven by data centre growth

observer.co.uk

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Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social · 8h

Sound advice, Your Grace, as ever. 😊

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 20h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Mariposa Nature Tours @mariposanature.bsky.social · 15h

Good morning, and welcome to the weekend!

A little #bloomscrolling joy from Cyprus to start the day - island endemic orchids Ophrys kotschyi and Orchis troodi.

We see both on our annual Orchids of Cyprus tour - filling up fast now, just 2 places remain to join us there in March 2026. (1/2)

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Together Against Sizewell C @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social · 14h

"High level wastes from the time of the Windscale Fire of 1957 are still at the Sellafield site along with 140 tonnes of plutonium, all of which is now earmarked for deep burial under the Irish Sea bed."
#NoNewNuclear #SayNo2SizewellC mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/c... via @mariannebirkby

Cumberland Council Receives George Monbiot Nuclear Greenwash Award

on the 68th Anniversary of the Windscale Fire Image: The George Monbiot Nuclear Greenwash Award to Cumberland Council. The background to the image is one of the ‘Areas of Focus” Gosforth, Cumbria. …

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Rupert Wilson @smartrgw.bsky.social · 13h

Have a look at this habitat #restoration project off the NE coast of #England. It's great to see innovative #marine #habitat restoration projects underway. If you feel the same, please reshare www.zsl.org/news-and-eve...

Oyster “cubes” deployed to save UK’s underwater superhero | The Zoological Society of London

Oyster “cubes” have been deployed off the North East coast of England, in a bid to restore the near-extinct native species to UK waters.

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Helen McAra @hedgerownibbler.bsky.social · 1d

Violet webcap (Cortinarius violaceus) growing under gorse today near the Devil’s Punchbowl in Surrey. An absolute stunner of a mushroom and nationally rare - it’s always good to see these beauties.
#ukfungi

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 1d

Chasing mice on Friday night......

BL Royal 12 F XIII; Bestiary; 13th century; England, S. E.; f.43

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 1d

A conversation about hedge-laying led me to the 'A Load of Old Billhooks' website: www.billhooks.co.uk If you're interested in traditional rural crafts, it's an impressive resource, covering Europe as well as Britain. This is what the internet was made for.

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Pirjo Sundqvist @pirjosundqvist.bsky.social · 1d

Blusher mushroom (Amanita rubenses)

In folklore, Amanita rubescens was known as the mushroom that 'blushes from shame,' symbolically referencing the consequences of mistaken identity—perhaps a cautionary tale from past mushroom poisonings.

#FungiFriday #mushroom
#FungiFriends #lore
#photography

Six small and one big Blusher mushroom. The big one is showing the lines of its skirt nicely.

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Francis Hickenbottom @fhickenbottom.bsky.social · 1d

After seeing Rugosomyces ionides (Violet Domecap) in a beechwood on limestone at Fairburn yesterday, I decided to search the same type of habitat at Brockadale and there it was. This is a more attractive specimen than ones seen yesterday. #fungi

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

In today's episode of otherworldly fungi: a close look at Polycephalomyces tomentosus! It's growing right alongside what's likely a species of slime mold.

📷 tannarc on iNaturalist
📍 Australia
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay

A yellowish-brown fungus with translucent bluish appendages on it grows out of the substrate.

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Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 1d

NEW JOB in #ornithology with @RSPBScience to oversee research in #Wales with #seabirds and #waders: buff.ly/qkTVU6m

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