Recently made an unwelcome discovery while digging up old papers for a lit. review. I wanted to cite Fasham, Ducklow & McKelvie (1990), AKA FDM90, a towering giant of a paper in 🌊 #BGCmodelling, only to discover that its #DOI no longer worked. (1/7)

John Montroll's raccoon, folded by me (one duo-colour sheet). I love this design #origami

Sometimes it crept with its Belly to the Ground, and ſtretched itſelf out ſo long that it ſeemed to reſemble a Serpent moving without Feet. It was let run looſe about the Houſe. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50196490

I especially love this diagram.

Allegory of Winter https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19190

Fascinating story It’s almost impossible to get rid of rope drive.google.com/file/d/1CVHW...

Exciting collaboration with Australian First Nations Wardandi artists Vivian Brockman Webb and Mitchella Hutchins and Scottish/Australian land artist Elaine Clocherty as well as lots of Glasgow artists for @glasgow2026.bsky.social festival. More info: www.elaineclocherty.com/glasgow-2026...

from 2033, Exam Boards will take _mal du siècle_ under consideration as qualifying Personal Circumstances, if documented by an official note from a moody novelist aeon.co/essays/young...

1777: Cut 24 fine cucumbers. Clouds flie different ways. Distant thunder.

Bison giubato just got back from a festival. Bison giubato has borrowed some woodworking tools from Cabionara (vol. 3) but hasn't had time to do anything with them. Bison giubato isn't listening to your story but also won't talk about anything else.

Biodiversity Pics@biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🦬 Descrizioni degli animali In Venezia: Nella stamperia di Carlo Palese, 1771-1775. [Source]

Another world is possible (just usually not with camels) cheesemap.netlify.app

This is cool. A couple years ago I got a Here's-a-Hardhat-Look-Thoughtful tour of the sewage reclamation plant in Irvine—sewage in at one end in a big pipe, and drinking water out the other in a small pipe. Part of a real 1960s Spaceship Earth tradition, inseparable from the freeways.

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Once a poster child for drought, San Diego now produces surplus water: enough to export to other states, thanks to decades of investment in recycling and desalination. The city is now negotiating deals to supply Arizona and Nevada. Wall Street Journal buff.ly/fDsk3Oe #ShareGoodNewsToo

"Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis), Valdes Peninsula, Argentina". Sebastião Salgado, 2004, part of his "Genesis" project.

Moche Vessel in the Form of an Owl Impersonator 100 B.C./A.D. 500 Peru www.artic.edu/artworks/915...

Oh hey it's #EarthDay and @solarisbooks.bsky.social are having a sale on books full of the wild places, ecological themes and excellent (or fucked up) beasties! Go fill yer boots! 🌍📚🖤

Seventeen vast crumbling bullet-ridden battle-scarred migration ships, each one the size of city, riding the waves of space along unknown routes, away from planet Earth. The dying Earth. The whole armada powered by the last remaining Commodore 64, circa 1987.

Who else needed to see more rainbow sea slugs this week? 🌈 These photos of Babakina anadoni we're taken by @yolandave_24 in Falmouth. #nudibranch #seaslugs #intertidal #rockpooling

So sad. I remember (90s) when Gifford Pinchot was a symbol of what environmentalists were fighting _against_—forest as harvestable crop vs forest as self-contained preexistent universe. Now the idea of sustainable harvest (as opposed to pure short-term asset stripping) is enough to make him a hero.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Minas Karamanis@minaskar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

New today from Reckoning X, our celebratory, extra-fancy tenth anniversary issue: "Camouflage", a painting by @rainjordan.com in which a dodo cosplays as a fan coral to fake out approaching colonizers reckoning.press/camouflage/

saw a cool image—sort of Moebius x Ragged Trousered Philanthropists—which turned out to be midjourney, on a blog that should have known better. Searched upstream to likely influences, then downstream to contemporary humans with similar influences, rediscovered @harriorrihar.bsky.social. So great.

Jon Juarez

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Sara Cardona: "so many of the #preColumbian figures have gaping mouths and eyes—they are on shamanic journeys—and they give me the sensation that they are not just seeing an ancestral deity, but maybe…looking at us. So I…return them to the contemporary world" 1/2 www.revuecolle.com/issues/vol-2...

ISSUE NO. 141 - Sara Cardona | Collé

ISSUE NO. 141 featuring Sara Cardona

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[opens fridge] [condiments, sauerkraut, four bags of shredded cheddar, two large jars of experimental homemade nonalcoholic whisky] [aloud] Our fridge is weird. I will eat leftovers. [opens freezer] [drawer overflowing with crochet nudibranchs]

this is such good news. If anything happened to BHL it would change the course of waterwayscollective.org zine-making.

Biodiversity Heritage Library@biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

This showed up in my feed adjacent to the news that Meta is going to introduce versions of your feed that continue without you after you're dead. Same conjuration tradition.

Dr Francis Young@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My new book on fairies (out next month) deals with homunculi as a kind of fairy - or, at least, as fairy-adjacent beings. I'm just a bit worried that the popularity of 'Small Prophets' could lead to a spate of people trying to make them, without the proper skills or preparation

There's an unrealised world of weird LLM variants, and then there's the form that big corps locked LLMs into within 5 min of creation. Katy Gero, LARB: "Artists of all stripes are allowed to play with technology. That’s our role: play with the world, test its limits, poke at the holes and problems."

Making a Literary Future with Artificial Intelligence | Los Angeles Review of Books

Five writers and AI researchers discuss the future of literature.

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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” Philip K. Dick

Not 1 but 2 evening #sciart events (w drinks) during #OSM26 in #Glasgow! * zine-making in the pub, Mon 23 Feb (link below) * opening for Constraint Made Visible (Transmission Gallery, 24 Feb)—collabs among local mathematicians, artists, crafters, and ocean modellers Pls help spread the word!

Neil Banas@neilbanas.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ocean zine making in the pub during #OSM26! Please join waterwayscollective.org and the @mastscot.bsky.social Energyscapes Working Group for an evening of #zines and collage in a cosy #Glasgow pub, following day 1 of the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting. Sign-up link below, spread the word!

How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9

Comparison of three temperate rainforest climate envelopes for Britain and Ireland: Where could our rainforest be?

There are multiple methods for creating climate envelopes for temperate rainforest, and these climate envelopes result in different extents across Ireland and Britain. An awareness of these differenc...

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