🌿 EXPERT VIEW 🌿 Peat moss farming can contribute to climate protection 🌍 Parsons et al. review state of the art research with a focus on Sphagnum biomass gain in photobioreactors 🧪🔬 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience Ralf Reski

While volunteers helped @txfreedomread.bsky.social track book removals from Tx schools after SB12 & SB13 were passed last year, I made a spreadsheet of the classic & acclaimed books that were banned from individual districts in 2025-2026. You won't believe it. open.substack.com/pub/franklin...

More Than 100 Classic and Acclaimed Works of Literature Removed from Texas Schools Last Year

Was your favorite book banned from a Texas school district in 2025-2026?

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Vacancy for an Industrial PhD position, at Noldus and the Dept of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University. It is about developing new methods to semi-automatically detect and analyse behaviours in videos of human interactions, using AI methods: noldus.recruitee.com/o/phd-candid...

Noldus - PhD Candidate-AI for Automated Human Behavior Annotation

Are you passionate about state-of-the-art machine learning technologies and their potential to deepen our understanding of human social behavior? At Noldus Information Technology B.V. in Wageningen, T

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Junior researcher landscape history – Verborgen verhalen uit het Veen // Wageningen www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/j... Please be aware that a good command of the Dutch language is mandatory for this position. #BotanyJobs

Junior researcher landscape history – Verborgen verhalen uit het Veen

As a junior researcher, you will work on the research project Verborgen verhalen uit het Veen (‘Hidden Stories from the Bog’), which focuses on the cultural history of Dutch raised bog landscapes.

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I recently got back from a long weekend walking in the Austrian Alps. Completely amazing flora and landscape. Smooth journey there and back as well thanks to the NightJet sleeper direct from Arnhem to Innsbruck.

Very excited to find some bee orchids today! #Bloomscrolling

This is science under fascism. Our institutions should be fighting for us, and with us. But instead, they are collaborators.

Science Magazine@science.org · 3mo ago

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Rhenen was looking spectacularly picturesque this afternoon as I cycled past on the other side of the Lower Rhine.

A friend recommended visiting a spot on the IJssel floodplan with the charming name of 'the road of the goose egg'. There were all sorts of lovely plants growing there, bit this Veronica austriaca caught my eye from a distance; such an intense blue and larger flowers than other speedwell.

Our (#Wageningen) council have planted some verges full of Ragged Robin (and others). It looks spectacular at the moment, but it is a wetland plant and we have very dry sand soil. How can it possibly survive?

There is nothing quite like the fresh green of new beech leaves with sunlight coming through them. #Wageningen, #cycling, #spring #gravel

I like to share this with you: polluters and their political allies are quietly weakening laws that protect our drinking water, nature, and health. It's affecting all 450 million of us in Europe. Only takes a minute to sign if you're interested. #HandsOffNature handsoffnature.eu?utm=.share.b...

Hands Off Nature – Defend Europe’s Forests, Rivers & Wildlife

Stop the dismantling of European environmental protections. Stand up for forests, wildlife, clean air, and safe water - our nature depends on it.

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Rond Wageningen zijn grote oppervlakten grasland (waar trouwens nooit meer koeien komen) afgelopen week al gemaaid. Er is werkelijk geen pol blijven staan. Dat betekent: (1) dat er niet één weidevogel was komen broeden, óf (2) dat alle nesten kapot zijn gemaaid. Ik weet niet goed wat triester is.

Amazingly beautiful hornet in my garden in #Wageningen this afternoon. It was collecting some wood from my old fence to make a nest. Its chewing was remarkably loud! @wespenstichting.nl

Though now known in Dutch as "narcis", this spring flower actually used to be known as an "affodil" in both English and Dutch; from the Latin "affodillus". It is quite likely (though it cannot be proven) that the English "daffodil" gained its "d" from the Dutch:"de affodil".

Great gravel ride across heathland and woodland including the famous Deelerwoud route this morning. 85 km. #cycling #gravel #veluwezoom

It's wonderful to see spring flowers everywhere. These Anemone nemorosa were growing in patches on a verge, spotted as I cycled past on my gravel bike. #flowers, #gravel, #cycling

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‘No kings, just vaccines!’: demonstrators gather at NIH headquarters to protest against cuts to medical research

Protesters decried Trump administration healthcare policies and direction of HHS under leadership of RFK Jr

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Two PhD positions in fish physiology with an amazing supervisor, @rachaelmorgan.bsky.social ! 🧪🐟 Tell your friends! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Two PhD Research Fellows in Fish Physiology (298755) | University of Bergen

Job title: Two PhD Research Fellows in Fish Physiology (298755), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Friday, April 17, 2026

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A friend leant me The Player of Games by Iain M Banks! Amazing, he predicted the smartphone decades before they were invented, and jt was a fun read too (despite the fact that I'm not into games). Here is my #review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/7a4c... #sci-fi, #booksky, #books #boeken

Review by andrewspink - The Player of Games

The most remarkable thing about this books is its prescience.  The 'terminals' have an awful l...

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Excellent #gravel #cycling tour organised by TCW79 from #Wageningen yesterday. 72 km of pleasure! Veluvia graveltour.

Join us for a postdoc @ the Donders Institute; application deadline March 24. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Postdoc Position: Affective Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a Postdoc at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

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School massacre stuns US From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Vergeet niet vandaag te stemmen! Don't forget to vote today!

I've just finished reading Hafren by Sarah Chave (@sarahchave1.bsky.social). Great book! See my #review here: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c05d... #book, #literature, #booksky, #wales, #rivers, #nature, #nature-writing, #England, #Gloucester, #landscape, #ecology, #history

Sphagnum pulchrum and fallax #moss #bryophyte

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Onze Europe digitale rechten worden aangevallen! In plaats van onze democratie en privacy te verdedigen, wil Ursula von der Leyen de bescherming tegen Big Tech en hun AI afzwakken. Laat je stem horen en eis dat ze niet toegeeft. Teken nu de petitie! share.greens-efa.eu/s/pdzCSOt6

Teken de petitie: Mijn gegevens, mijn keuze

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#ReneeNicoleGood #BookSky #ICE lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.

Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

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The University of Fribourg, Switzerland, is seeking applicants for an open-rank Professorship in Animal Ecology. Applications due by 31 March 2026. More info: https://www.unifr.ch/scimed/de/faculty/positions #job