A couple of Common Dog-Violet plants seem to have returned for the autumn! #WildFlowerHour

Self-heal and bush vetch still in flower around Darlington area 💜 #WildflowerHour

She called it in 1983! > Bainbridge argues that new, severe problems are caused by automating most of the work, while the human operator is responsible for tasks that cannot be automated. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies...

Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick@shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 5d ago

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

A little more about the 2027 #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program and who can participate! Whether you’re looking for mentorship or hoping to support disabled people in STEM, there’s a place for you in our community. Applications are open through Dec. 11!

🌿🌾🌳🌍🍞🎼Jonathan Mitchley's family have told us they would like to share information about his funeral & donations in his memory. The botanical community has lost a champion. He touched so many lives for the better. www.abwalker.co.uk/funeral/jona... #BUC2016 - #BUC2026 #plants #music

Jonathan Mitchley Funeral Details | AB Walker

Dr Mitchley's family would like to thank you for your kind donations to Botanical University Challenge, in his memory.

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We welcome applications for grants of up to £400 to cover the cost of running a small meeting within the fields of our journals. This would normally be a local meeting taking place on one day and with a maximum budget of £1,000. Find out more www.biologists.com/grants/small...

Sea rocket out in abundance in Berwick-upon-Tweed 💜 #WildflowerHour

Got this close to a #seal today. The seals in #Eyemouth have a good thing going on getting fed by the locals (proper seal food) and chilling in the harbour. I too am round, long, and highly buoyant so maybe I should have been a seal? #Scotland

Devil's-bit scabious spotted on an extremely steep slope at Siccar Point on the east coast of Scotland. #WildflowerHour

Quoting another visitor to the site. "This is the best unconformity I've ever seen." Quite a moving experience tbh. I've seen physically and temporally bigger unconformities, but there's something about this one that sets it apart. Photo by @saralilplants.bsky.social #Geology

GHOULology Johnson@geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today, we visit Sicar Point. Leave predictions below for the kind of noise you think I'll make when I see the unconformity.

"We're going to need a bigger plate" @geologyjohnson.bsky.social made an absolute unit of a Yorkshire pudding this eve with limited kitchen equipment in a little Scottish fishing cottage we are staying in 😍

The Open Science Summer School 2026 is complete! Explore what we covered- Open Science track 1 training materials, including public lectures: osf.io/s9epn/overview, instructor training resources: osf.io/ay8qk/overview, & our self-paced tutorials: www.osc.lmu.de/training/sel.... OSSS26 highlights ⬇️

I signed the Diamond Reviewer Pledge: I commit to reviewing at least one article in the next 12 months for a diamond open access journal. Free to read, free to publish, scholar-led. Join us: forrt.org/diamond-revi...

Seems appropriate to wear the nerdiest shirt I own for star trek day today 😂

Basically me and a bunch of other working class people I know. Just swap out arts for science as applicable. Thing is, we get told those careers are not for us from a young age. A wee lassie, in her early teens, on the beach the other day was stunned that the interesting rock she thought was a...

Nick Stone@typejunky.bsky.social · last mo.

Just read a Wikipedia entry for an artist and was trying to imagine the working class backgrounded version. ‘Showed great promise with art at school, but had to get a job at Aviva, worked their way up to team leader over 25 years, got made redundant, worked for a charity for 15 years.

Thrilled to announce that my department - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - at the U of Arizona will likely be hiring for a tenure-track position in "Population and Community Ecology" this fall. Watch this space for more details and official announcements coming soon ... #Ecology #EcologyJobs 🌐🌾🧪

Skills are key to making Open Science a reality 🎓 📊 55% of EU countries support training and skills development in Open Science. EOSC Track tracks how Europe is building capacity for the next generation of researchers. 👉 Explore training & skills data: www.eoscobservatory.eu/explore/open...

Excited to be at the Beth Chatto symposium later this week on a panel discussing plant and ecosystem responses to climate change! 🌱🌡️ www.bethchatto.co.uk/symposium/sy...

Front row seats for climate breakdown: Lush green parks now turning to dust, leaves and limbs scattered as trees ditch body parts to try and survive the tsunamis of heat. Sad scenes in Hyde park, London the other week.

Yeah honestly it's been a week as a Black Autistic ADHDer in academia. A bunch of us in the neurodiversity community literally wrote a paper on myths surrounding neurodivergent conditions, the harms they cause and ways to counteract them. 👇🏽 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Some pics for world photography day that were a joy to capture. #WorldPhotographyDay #NaturePhotography

Deeply sad news about Jason Arday. Thoughts are with his family and friends in such a difficult time. Please also check in on your Black academic colleagues, especially Black autistic peeps. We are not ok 💔

COS is making some big changes to projects. If you regularly use OSF this will impact your workflow. Our lab will be migrating data and file hosting to other places, but still use OSF for prereg and preprints. Happy to chat with people about how you’ll approach the transition!

Center for Open Science@cos.io · 2mo ago

COS is announcing important changes to the Open Science Framework (OSF). OSF Projects—used for project collaboration, file mgmt, & storage—is being phased out as an active workspace over the next 6 months. This change does not affect persistence & accessibility of existing public projects. (🧵1/2)

One of most heartbreaking things about Hank Green turning to LLMs is that he gets to do science communication full-time to a massive audience and is well-resourced. He doesn't need to cut corners or outsource his thinking. Meanwhile, there are so many people doing amazing work with zero resources.

⭐ New paper in @natclimate.nature.com: Social influence shapes climate attitudes and action ⭐ Excited to share this from @samhampton.bsky.social, me & @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social, bringing together evidence on how influence operates in the context of climate action. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

Social influence shapes climate attitudes and action - Nature Climate Change

Individuals and groups shape others’ attitudes and actions through social influence. This Perspective articulates a research agenda of social influence for climate action, synthesizes existing evidenc...

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An island of yarrow in a sea of beige. Botanising is usually joyful. Increasingly my plant walks are 💔seeing the impact of heatwaves + drought. I know plants are resilient (my PhD research was on droughts in grasslands), but I still spiral thinking about wider consequences for ecosystem + humanity.

I am beyond excited to share that our paper, "Neurodivergent Perceptions, Experiences, and Perspectives in Academic Biological Sciences Spaces" has been published! A 🧵incoming because this paper is so special to me and the co-authors. doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Neurodivergent Perceptions, Experiences, and Perspectives in Academic Biological Sciences Spaces

Abstract. Neurodiversity has received considerable attention recently from the general population and academic researchers, coinciding with an increase in

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AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

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New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026

Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove...

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It seems this "AI companion" tool is a thing across Wiley journals? 🫠 www.researchinformation.info/news/wiley-l...

Wiley launches Atypon AI Suite to enhance research discovery - Research Information

Suite "makes it easier to explore and engage with academic content while respecting principles, precision, and rigour"

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Dr. Sara L Middleton@saralilplants.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This "AI companion" is following me as I read. Distracting & stalker behaviour. Semi-unstructured thoughts: these tools supposedly save time: What's the cost? Why does everything need to be fast? What about the potential human & knowledge connections lost? Impact on student critical reading skills?