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pestilence4all.bsky.social
New study suggests that metastatic cancer cells may evade the immune system by stealing mitochondria from immune cells and setting up a ‘shield’ that protects them from being killed by immune cells. Wiley little bastards.

#Science 🧪
Cancer might evade immune defences by stealing mitochondria
Hijacking the energy-producing organelles from immune cells seems to help tumours in mice to infiltrate lymph nodes.
www.nature.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Purple Pitcher Plant flower buds growing among Sphagnum #moss. #Newfoundland, Canada. #carnivirous #plant #botany #bryophyte
Photo of two purple pitcher plant flower buds. The buds are reddish-brown, spherical and about an inch in diameter. The pitcher plant is growing among yellow-green Sphagnum moss plants.
January 17, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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mrslmb-1257.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Elegant Orange Sunburst Lichen, Rusavskia elegans. NWT, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of a round, orange lichen growing flat on light grey rock. The lichen is comprised of tightly packed, branching arms all radiating out from the centre. The lichen is covered in numerous small, round, orange discs - the apothecia.
January 17, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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scotfot.bsky.social
Turkish oak acorn case
A double Turkish oak acorn case with characteristic prickly acorn cap. Looking like a tentacles of sea anemone
January 16, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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alanjstedman.bsky.social
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo
Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable
January 17, 2026 at 7:12 AM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Lichens on a stick. The large orange #lichen is a sunburst lichen (Xanthoria sp). NWT, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of several lichens growing on a small tree branch. The centre of the pic shows a roundish, bright orange lichen partially covered in orange discs (apothecia). Other lichen species around the orange lichen are yellow and grey in colour. Combined, the lichens almost completely cover the branch.
January 17, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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john-abernathy.bsky.social
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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kevinault.bsky.social
Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Krauss with "The Wexford Carol."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxDZ...
Yo-Yo Ma, Alison Krauss - The Wexford Carol (Video)
YouTube video by YoYoMaVEVO
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December 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Caloplaca sp #lichen on seaside cliffs. #Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of two bright yellow Caloplaca lichens growing flat on rock. The lichens are circular in shape. The photo shows portions of the two circles which, at the closest point, are only a few mm apart.
December 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Sugared Sunburst Lichen. Isn’t that the best name?! The sugaring is visible at the centre of the thallus/body. Love this species. #fungi #lichen #fungifriends
(Scientific name, Xanthoria sorediata).
Photo of a bright orange lichen growing flat on rock. The lichen is roughly rectangular in shape and has a couple of smaller grey lichens growing on it.
December 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Israel’s PM Netanyahu heralded Ahmed al-Ahmed for showing “Jewish heroism” before learning the Bondi Beach “hero” is Muslim.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/th4zuo
December 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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jelltex.bsky.social
For #WildflowerHour from east Kent.

Our self-seeded Tansy put up new shoots in November and so is still flowering, but suffering after a couple of frosts.
December 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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davidstifter.bsky.social
A short video about the "terrifying" language Old Irish: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKmj...
Why the Old Irish Language Terrifies Linguists
YouTube video by Jack of All Languages
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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walkhighlands.co.uk
Sad news today as the historic former railway bridge over the River Spey at Garmouth has partly collapsed into the river. It can no longer be crossed, which means that the Moray Coast Trail cannot now be completed in full.

Thanks to Rachael Millar for providing the photos.

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Collapsed section of box bridge
December 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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lightacandle.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Black Nightshade...
December 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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bsbiscotland.bsky.social
The gorgeous Goat's-beard is my pick for botanical #adventcalendar Day 9 - also known as Jack-go-to-bed-at noon as the flowers open in the morning sun, but close at midday.

Widespread, but easily overlooked unless its flowers are open, it also has the best seed clock in botany! #wildflowerhour
Looking vertically down on the open flower of Goat's-beard (Tragopogon pratensis). A ring of eight narrow green triangles (phyllaries, the composite flower version of sepals), spaced around the outside of a yellow, dandelion-like flower with blunt yellow ray florets (with strap-like 'petals' or ligules), each one with a dark purple-black spot at the base, which is the floret's anthers fused together to form a tube. From some of these dark tubes, the yellow style can be seen protruding out of the top. This plant is subspecies minor - the yellow ligules only extend about halfway along the green phyllaries; in subspecies pratensis the ligules are as long or longer than the phyllaries. The background below the flower consists of rank green grasses, growing on the verge of a footpath An open flowerhead of Goat's-beard (Tragopogon pratensis subspecies pratensis) in the foreground, with two closing flowerheads and several entirely closed flowerheads behind in the grassy verge
December 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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bsbiscotland.bsky.social
Every so often I venture south of the border, and Day 11 of my botanical #adventcalendar is the amazing Large-flowered Butterwort - native to SW Ireland, but occasionally introduced in England, including this population in Edale
Like @bsbibotany.bsky.social, I couldn't stop grinning!
#wildflowerhour
The insectivorous Large-flowered Butterwort (Pinguicula grandiflora), growing on the side of an upland stream. Its five-petalled, bright purple flowers are striking, with three broad lower petals and two narrower upper petals, and a central white area with purple streaks leading into the corolla tube. Each stem has a single flower, and arises from a basal rosette of yellow-green, fleshy leaves, inrolled at the margins, and covered in glandular hairs that secrete a sticky mucilage to catch and digest their insect prey. In the photo, four flowers and eight rosettes are shown, growing out of a wall of bryophytes, including thalloid liverworts, with some sedge and grass leaves and stems also present A very happy lady stands at the edge of an upland stream, admiring a dense patch of Large-flowered Butterwort growing on the right-hand wall of the stream gorge. The patch is a mass of purple flowers and yellow-green basal rosettes. To her left, the stream runs gently along a flatter section, with the blue sky reflected in the water, and behind the gorge turns, escaping the shade and into bright sunlight which illuminates the heath and bracken covered slope above.
December 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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jelltex.bsky.social
Early for #WildflowerHour, the white form of Red deadnettle, Lamium purpureum.

Only seen this once before, so surprised to find it at the end of our street.

346/365
December 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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lauramckee.bsky.social
Spotted one female flower on a hazel tree! #WildflowerHour
Hazel tree with red tufty female flower behind male green/yellow catkins.
December 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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stevieparsons.bsky.social
This beautiful Common Chickweed flower, my favourite of this week’s #thewinter10 . Such a delicate and tiny flower in mid-December. #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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kategold24.bsky.social
I completed #thewinter10 with holly from local woodland, Plumpton, East Sussex. Most of the male plants had some flowers; female plants had berries but I found no flowers #wildflowerhour
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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lauramckee.bsky.social
Red dead nettle by the motorway. #WildflowerHour
Red dead nettle which is honestly pink. and hairy.
December 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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naturelark.bsky.social
Hazel, Corylus avellana, looking splendid at Beddington Farmlands this week. #WildflowerHour
December 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM