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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 23d

Spot the difference: John the Baptist from the Hours of Joanna I of Castile and our Community Engagement Officer remembering how many emails he has to respond to

A close up of a medieval manuscript showing St John the Baptist pointing at a lamb. He's looking particularly haggard.

The archive's Community Engagement Officer looking similarly tired. He is in one of the archive's strongrooms, wearing an orange shirt. He is a white man with long brown hair and a short ginger beard.

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Vicky Temperton @7toucans.bsky.social · 23d

Where is it from?

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💙💙🤔CJ🤨🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Vicky Temperton @7toucans.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Go Australia! Facing up to the future. Proud of you.

Risks of climate crisis to Australia’s economy and environment are ‘intense and scary’, unreleased government report says

Sources say delayed risk assessment includes modelling of effects of climate crisis in ways that have been little discussed in political debate so far

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Vicky Temperton @7toucans.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Together we can do way more. Some positive stories amidst the insanity of today's world.

Natural England hails recovery of 150 struggling species

Chair Tony Juniper celebrates successes but says ‘collective endeavour’ needed to halt country’s decline in nature

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Vicky Temperton @7toucans.bsky.social · Aug 8

Are you a scientist? If so, make sure you read this.

Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · Aug 4

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

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A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise

Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

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Vicky Temperton @7toucans.bsky.social · Aug 8

Fully agree @james bullock.

James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · Aug 5

While I disagree with this simplistic argument about the perils of a falling population

I also disagree with simplistic arguments that ‘overpopulation’ is the problem

It is overexploitation - especially by the privileged in the global north - that is the problem
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

After the Spike by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso review – the truth about population

We shouldn’t celebrate a falling population, according to this persuasive debunking of demographic myths

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ashishnerlekar.bsky.social @ashishnerlekar.bsky.social · Jan 16

137 of us share our concerns with policymakers in an open letter: "There are more than just trees and forests to be conserved and restored" nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Open letter: There are more than just trees and forests to be conserved and restored

Click on the article title to read more.

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Dr. Riley Pizza @rileypizza.bsky.social · Jan 21

New paper alert! @lars-brudvig.bsky.social, @nashturley.bsky.social and I reveal key context-dependent impacts of seed mix design decisions on restored prairie community structure!🌾 🧪 #PlantScience #EcologicalRestoration #ecosystem

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A picture of an experimental prairie restoration, and the field is mostly composed of Echinacea purpurea

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Vicky Temperton @7toucans.bsky.social · Aug 8

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is a smooth story. Of the paralell channels, we seem to be all living in, in today's world. Nature stampede back through the crack in the door. Let's keep opening that door. Nature is our ally in the current fight with our own selves, with our ape nature.

This summer brought an abundance of butterflies and birds. Nature is ready to spring back – if we let it | Patrick Barkham

The recent hopeful surge of some wildlife isn’t down to us. But in an era of climatic decline, it shows the resilience of our fellow species, says Guardian nature writer Patrick Barkham

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Vicky Temperton @7toucans.bsky.social · Aug 2

Did you rather despair of the ecological restoration potential models of Bastin et al. Science 2019? Them check out our more inclusive and realistic global model. It's not perfect, but it's better, and the implications are important. Am going to buy an e car faster than I had thought.

Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · Aug 1

Big paper from excellent researchers like @7toucans.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Limited carbon sequestration potential from global ecosystem restoration - Nature Geoscience

The maximum carbon sequestration potential from global terrestrial ecosystem restoration efforts until 2100 is 96.9 Gt, which is equivalent to 3.7–12.0% of anthropogenic emissions until then, accordin...

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Vicky Temperton @7toucans.bsky.social · Jul 20

RiP Andrea Gibson.

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Andrea Gibson Poem Boomerang Valentine — Andrea Gibson, Poet, Writer, Activist, Author, Performer - Andrea's New Book "You Better Be Lightning" Available Now

love poem, falling in love with yourself, self love poem

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Vicky Temperton @7toucans.bsky.social · Jul 16

Speedy and important impact!

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Jul 12

We see here a self-styled "honest broker" with decades of experience in downplaying climate change presenting an age-old climate denial trope: using *annual* rainfall data as argument against an increase in *extreme* rainfall.
Does he *really* not know better? Or assume his readers won't?
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Headsoccer @headsoccer.bsky.social · Jul 14

Diese und weiter Ausreden werden in diesem Thread entlarvt.

Headsoccer @headsoccer.bsky.social · Nov 21

10 Arten wie Politiker:innen, Medien und Menschen auf die Klimakrise reagieren und damit lediglich ablenken oder mangelndes Problembewusstsein zeigen.
Hier kurz debunkt. 🧵

Bildbeschreibung: Zu sehen sind 10 Karikaturen mit unterschiedlichen Methoden zur Ablenkung. Im Thread sind alle 10 noch einmal einzeln beschrieben.

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Vicky Temperton @7toucans.bsky.social · Jul 15

Einfach diesen genialen Artikel lesen. Die Riege der weissen älteren Herren, die absolut gar keine Verantwortung, für ihr und unser Verhalten annehmen wollen, wächst Tag für Tag. Stellen Sie sich vor, wir würden unseren eigenen Haushalt, unser zu Hause so behandeln. Wie sähe das aus?

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Jul 14

Das »nur zwei Prozent der globalen CO2-Emissionen«-Argument reflektiert nicht nur Verantwortungslosigkeit, Rücksichtslosigkeit und Ignoranz, sondern auch eine extreme Kurzsichtigkeit.
Wer die Gründe dafür noch nicht verstanden hat: Bitte den Artikel lesen! ⬇️
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Meinung: Friedrich Merz’ Bundestagsrede: Ein Zechpreller als Bundeskanzler – Kolumne

Friedrich Merz findet, Deutschland müsse erst einmal nicht mehr so viel für die Zukunft der Menschheit tun: Unser Anteil an den Emissionen sei doch so klein. Das ist ein sehr schlechtes Argument.

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Vicky Temperton @7toucans.bsky.social · Jul 15

Congrats on this very important paper. Have been co-writing a chapter on mineral soils, especially the climate change potential of grasslands, for the German WBNK natural climate advisory committee, and just added a paragraph on bd and soil C and your paper could not be more welcome. Thank you.

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Vicky Temperton @7toucans.bsky.social · Jul 6

Taylor’s law predicts unprecedented pulses of forest disturbance under global change | Nature Communications share.google/tGonDK25Iymd...

The epitome of an innovative idea: applying Taylor's Law to understanding the variability of disturbance events in forests. Important paper!

Taylor’s law predicts unprecedented pulses of forest disturbance under global change - Nature Communications

Large pulses of disturbance have been observed globally in response to climate change. Using Taylor’s Law, the authors show that those pulses were not unpredictable but expected given a strong scaling...

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · Jul 6

Lesser Butterfly-orchid, Platathera bifolia. Typically up to 30cm. Ridged stem. 5-25 white flowers per spike. Lower flower lip usually points downwards rather than curving backwards. Pollinia are close together and parallel to each other.

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Vicky Temperton @7toucans.bsky.social · Jul 6

This is so true. I saw a BBC documentary some years ago, showing that parts of the brain associated with empathy are triggered by reading books (much more than scrolling). Reading Shakespeare activates more sparks in our brains than other writers. Isn't this fabulous? Read books, read Shakespeare!

Dixie ☕︎ @dixie13.bsky.social · Jul 5

#booksky

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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · Jul 5

5 July 1779: birth of Elizabeth Philpot at Red Lion Square, London. She and two of her sisters settled in Lyme Regis, collected fossils and befriended #MaryAnning. Their collection is now @morethanadodo.bsky.social. Contrary to what’s online, there are no known portraits of Elizabeth Philpot.

Fossil fish Dapedium punctatum from the Philpot collection at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

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Tj. @tjeerd001.bsky.social · Jul 5

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Vicky Temperton @7toucans.bsky.social · Jul 6

Nice.

Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · Jul 5

It’s National Meadows Day today. To mark the occasion, as well as our 5th year of BMS project, it would be great if our followers could take a look at their local grassland patch and send us a list of species. You don’t need to be an expert. All records are valuable. Thank you 👍

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Vicky Temperton @7toucans.bsky.social · Jul 6

The importance of species diversity for human well-being in Europe - ScienceDirect

As we are not (yet) managing to alter our lifestyles away from overwhelmingly productivist to something sustainable, the choice is becoming birds or more stuff. I vote for birds, flowers, butterflies. Please repost.

The importance of species diversity for human well-being in Europe

Nature affects human well-being in multiple ways. However, the association between species diversity and human well-being at larger spatial scales rem…

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