Auke-Florian 🪹

@aukeflorian.nl

🌍 Biologist, 🪺 Studying strange animal nests, 📚 Author, 🧠 Doing science communication daily, 🏛️ Loves natural history, 🔥 Documenting the Anthropocene 🌐 www.aukeflorian.nl 📍 Leiden, The Netherlands

Scientists warned you about: ♨️ more/longer/hotter heatwaves (hot planet=hot weather) 🌀 stronger storms (warm water=hurricane food) 🌧️ downpours (warm air holds more water vapor) 🌵 droughts (warm air is thirstier) 🔥 fire weather (hotter, drier) 🌊 sea level rise (land ice melts, warm water expands)

Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

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Let's share something positive! Last week, I was a judge in a seagull-imitation competition (dream job!!), and this was the juvenile winner. Isn't she amazing?! 🤩 "Three, two, one ... 🐦"

Working in the library and having your headphones suddenly disconnect is embarrassing in itself, let alone when you're watching a Jane Goodall documentary and the whole quiet workplace suddenly echoes with screaming chimpanzees. Jane would have loved this. 🐵

I just hope a brave natural history museum managed to get hold of one of the dead ducks found in the reflective pool. It would be such an iconic specimen to turn into a museum piece that reflects current American politics. 🦆

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