Laura Jennings
@botanistlaura.bsky.social
Botanist at Kew working on the conservation of New Guinea plants
Natee's skills are next level (look at the fluffy scales on the butterfly!)
Natee (they/them)@himmapaan.bsky.social · 3w agoGreen Hairstreak on Lilac Watercolour on vintage J. Whatman paper from 1940, approximately 134 x 178 mm. Referenced from a photograph by Debbie Anne Hope. Original available in the @changelingart.bsky.social 'Bugs & Beasties 6' auction this week: www.facebook.com/media/set/?v... 1/
Which TV series names survive contact with my spouse's odd brain? ❌️ Smallville = Muscle man ❌️ Big Bang Theory = Space Junk ❌️ Game of Thrones = Lord of the Thrones ❌️ The Good Place = Afterlife ✅️ Friends ✅️ Brooklyn 99 = 99 (close enough)
Does anyone know why this is? It seems to be common but I don't understand where it comes from
Laura Jennings@botanistlaura.bsky.social · last mo.I'm at a conference with a disappointing number of AI infographics and I'm compiling a collection called "AI thinks data is cylindrical"
I'm at a conference with a disappointing number of AI infographics and I'm compiling a collection called "AI thinks data is cylindrical"
The Ecology of a Herbarium: How Te Papa connects plants, people, and data www.botany.one/the-ecology-... From seaweed watercolours to global biodiversity databases, Te Papa’s herbarium shows how digital botany can make plant collections more accessible, connected and alive. #Botany #PlantScience
The Ecology of a Herbarium: How Te Papa connects plants, people, and data
From seaweed watercolours to global biodiversity databases, Te Papa’s herbarium shows how digital botany can make plant collections more accessible, connected and alive.
botany.one
I do not think enough non-essential things are being cancelled during the red warnings! If you would cancel for red warning of a flood or storm you should cancel for heat! [brought to you by my spouse's meeting 1.5 hrs drive away still being on]
It's now forecast to be 40 degrees here on Thursday. Our average daily high temperature for this time of year is 18. So angry for all of the people who're going to be unnecessarily harmed by this. So angry for our ecosystems that have not remotely evolved for this.
The Secret Life of Lathraea: I've written a post about the common toothwort (Lathraea squamaria), a parasitic plant which parasitises deciduous trees and is mostly found in alluvial and ravine forests. 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2026/06/lath...
<i>Lathraea squamaria</i>
When it comes to parasites, for most people it is a case of "out of sight, out of mind", and that especially applies to holoparasitic plants...
dailyparasite.blogspot.com
After studying with friends the other day, I want to know... what are some of the mnemonics you've used when studying another language (any language)? (Mine) Spanish: Llevar: LeVar Burton sure could Carry me Llegar: if you Go somewhere, you will Arrive there Llenar: Nar thanks, I'm Full
For all would-be SpaceX investors, reading "A City on Mars" is a strong recommend. Very funny on the many ways space is terrible, uneconomic, and the decades/centuries of (boring, non-phallic rocket related) research needed to make settlement even a vaguely realistic proposition.
FOUND! 🔍 Indonesia’s Blue-fronted Lorikeet 🦜 Hidden in the remote highlands of Mount Kapalatmada in Buru, Indonesia, the Blue-fronted Lorikeet has re-emerged after missing for more than a decade. 👀 Learn more here👉 www.birdlife.org/lorikeet-red... @abcbirds.bsky.social @rewildorg.bsky.social
Indonesia’s Blue-fronted Lorikeet found in unexplored forest
New records provide proof that the lost bird Blue-fronted Lorikeet persists in Buru’s highlands.
birdlife.org
This is SO important. www.euansguide.com/safertoilets
Euan's Guide
Making the world more accessible one review at a time.
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madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 3mo agopersonal lifelong side quest to fix these every time I see it. the red cord needs to hang all the way to the ground so people can reach it if they fall.
Aw yeah paint / pigment chemistry! With a side of 'chemicals' does equal bad, and 'natural' does not equal harmless.
Moths in a human suit (they/them)@lycomorpha.bsky.social · 3mo agoAnyway… Since this clay is a gigantic pain in the arse to mull, I'm taking plenty of spoonie breaks. & I'm gonna take a bunch of pics and bring you with me. Then I can tell you what all of the glorious chemicals in paint do. Cos I just think its neat that u can make paint outta mud & plant sap.
Worst thing about this post is that everyone in academia is aware of at least one case in the past and one case in the present. The systemic nature of the offensive activity is truly sinister.
Natalia (娜塔莉)@nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhen a guy in senior academic position (doctor & professor) becomes romantically entangled with someone in considerably more junior position. Why does it keep happening. How do you even mentally enter state, where you romantically perceive people in your pastoral care.
Haha I had no idea an old tamagochi looked like a buff shark with a moustache
🥖Kekeflipnote🥖@kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 3mo agoI KEPT MY TAMAGOTCHI ALIVE 1000 DAYS!!! J'AI GARDÉ MON TAMAGOTCHI EN VIE 1000 JOURS !! The maximum displayed is 999 but I will keep going and track myself. It was such an amazing journey and I am glad I could keep a tamagotchi alive this long!
I have enjoyed getting to know Jakarta a little bit but this is definitely needed, it's a terrible place to be a pedestrian. OP's other post talks about the improvement in train coverage since 2015.
@gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 3mo agoLarge projects, such as train lines, attract multiple foreign bids, but an overpass or better crossing signals do not. Convincing donors that these, too, are important might be the next frontier in improving Jakarta’s built environment.
Deforestation in Indonesia surged 66% from 2024 to 2025, when more than 433,000 hectares were lost, according to the NGO Auriga Nusantara. The country reached historic low deforestation in 2021, when around 230,000 hectares were cleared. By Hans Nicholas Jong for @mongabay.com:
Indonesia’s deforestation surges 66% in 2025
A sharp reversal after several years of decline, according to new data from the NGO Auriga Nusantara.…
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Even in the super touristy islands of Bali and Lombok there are plant species which haven't been collected for over 100 years. Our new checklist highlights all the plants found in the Lesser Sundas (southern Indonesia and Timor-Leste) and nowhere else in the world.
PhytoKeys@phytokeys.pensoft.net · 4mo agoA new checklist presents 319 endemic vascular plants of the Lesser Sunda Islands, derived from specimen data and expert-verified georeferences. Read the study here: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.273.184780
Things that work: giant rocket, very precise math, orbital mechanics, cameras, iPhones Things that don’t work: Microsoft Outlook, toilets, sat phones
New paper! A checklist of the plants endemic to the Lesser Sunda Islands (S Indonesia and Timor-Leste). For conservation we need to know where these plants are and if they are threatened, and we know so little about either. 51 species haven't been seen in >120 years! doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
New paper! A checklist of the plants endemic to the Lesser Sunda Islands (S Indonesia and Timor-Leste). For conservation we need to know where these plants are and if they are threatened, and we know so little about either. 51 species haven't been seen in >120 years! doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
While space is in the news: A City on Mars is a fun and accessible read about the biological (and legal) realities of humans space flight
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4mo agoGuess we get an uptick in sales of A City on Mars (a) when Elon Musk runs his mouth, and (b) when inspirational astronaut crews go on daring voyages to deep space. Nice to have variety!
This thread and the Zachary Taylor paper mentioned here are great reads (link in case you have access / can find elsewhere doi.org/10.1016/j.ac... )
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)@drspacejunk.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn 'A Study of Space Bathroom Design' (one of my all-time favourite papers for its beauty and elegance), space architect Zachary Taylor describes the brutality of space toilets. The picture is a submarine toilet - a similar confined space with no possibility of popping outside. 🧪 #ArtemisII
I think "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" every time I see a mushroom
Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · 4mo agoDon't know about Twitter, but this is my favorite Tumblr post
Maybrat is in the central Bird's Head and the whole area is gazetted for logging. If they're finding undescribed mammals imagine how many plants / beetles / fish there are.
Josh Luke Davis 🏳️🌈@joshlukedavis.com · 5mo ago"Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papua." Oh yeah this is super cool as both the pygmy long-fingered possum and ring-tailed glider were previously only known from fossils 🤯🧪🐀 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papua." Oh yeah this is super cool as both the pygmy long-fingered possum and ring-tailed glider were previously only known from fossils 🤯🧪🐀 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea
The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says
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"I asked Chat GPT and -" ok, I asked the exhumed corpse of Pope Formosus during the Cadaver Synod and he went "... ... ..." and then his jaw fell off and it was still a better answer
