Oxford United have apologised for releasing a clothing collection with the slogan ‘United 93’, after the club’s founding date in 1893. United Airlines flight 93 was one of those hijacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11. OUFC say “we are reviewing our approval processes”.

Things must be getting desperate in the UK if they're getting excited about a crop normally used for feeding livestock.

Meet the mangelwurzel: The forgotten root vegetable making a comeback

Mangelwurzels are attracting new fans, inspiring a festival and sparking a Somerset craze.

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Not new, and not discovered...still great news. I offer a, perhaps, more accurate, less colonizing, title: "Western scientists describe a felid known to local communities as Tilcayo. It is the first description of its kind in over a century"

Dr. Matt Schabath (he/him/his)@mattschabathphd.bsky.social · 4d ago

🧪 New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century - Called Tilcayo by local communities, it is part of a group called tiger cats found across much of South America www.reuters.com/business/env...

"We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and possibly distressing" I've never seen a trigger warning in the abstract of a research paper before This study estimates there were 2.2 million Indigenous Australians before British colonisation share.google/eCcqV6xHaVSx...

Can we not encourage Elon Musk and his techbro minions to all move to Mars? The prospects for humanity would improve dramatically, although not for the reasons they think.

Wild excitement in the family home following the appearance of a new Minecraft biome. At least the kids are talking about trees 🌳🌲

Dappled Forest – Minecraft Wiki

The dappled forest is a woodland biome consisting of poplar trees with red, orange, and yellow leaves, along with the occasional spruce trees. The ground is an orange-brown grass and coarse dirt soil ...

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Urban trees have different allometries to those in woodland, meaning that standard diameter-based estimates greatly over-estimate the potential for carbon storage. New paper by Davenport et al. 🧪🌍🌲 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Two high profile Irish politicians involved in 'incidents' yesterday - the Taoiseach & Healy Rae. There are ppl - racists, anti-vaxxers, angry loons - who have gotten the taste for intimidating people in the streets. If we don't deal with this now - we know where it goes.

We need a remake of "Tender Dracula, or Confessions of a Blood Drinker" from the perspective of a botfly.

franz@franzanth.bsky.social · 4d ago

what do you mean the naked blood-sucking vampire is supposed to be hot but the equally naked flesh-piercing maggot is supposed to be disgusting, what is this double standard

Britain in no place to sneer at village’s stupid separatist referendum buff.ly/RDjMFJQ

As an ex-Christian (I'm an escaped Fundie) old friends sometimes give me a knowing "Yes, but deep down you still believe don't you" because they can't quite accept that someone can know the whole story and still walk away.

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 4d ago

"people need to know who Jesus is!!" No they don't!!! They already heard and decided it wasn't for them!

Forest fragmentation intensifies along contested borders in northern Ethiopia, showing the impacts of conflict on conservation 🧪🌍🌳🌲🌐 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.

Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.

Robots asking humans if they're robots, humans asking robots if they're humans what are we even doing lol this sucks

Twelve months of continuous camera trap data from Ireland. Natural forest: 31Gb per camera. Coniferous forest: 7Gb. Wonder if we'll find any differences? @biocomp-erc.bsky.social

Can we please stop doing this? I made a comic about it and everything!

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Zero tolerance, not quiet acceptance

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The battles within UKHE have taken a particularly dark turn at Uni of Brighton.

Daniel C. Blight@danielcblight.bsky.social · 6d ago

To enable such an unprecedented attack on our rights, management have also today announced the de-recognition of the UCU and Unison. The scale of this assault is so extraordinary that the General Secretary of UCU has called a demo on campus tomorrow.

After listening to a few podcasts I'm increasingly suspicious that we are being tricked into hearing a nice human present content that was largely generated by AI.

Doode Bembe is a nature reserve in Belgium whose name translates as 'unusable grasslands'. It's a reminder that conservation often happens in places that have no obvious economic value.

Doode Bemde

In de Doode Bemde kan je wandelen langs de natuurlijk meanderende Dijle. Vlakbij Leuven gaan natuurbescherming en beveiliging tegen wateroverlast hand in hand. Wie weet vind je de sporen van de bever....

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You've got to feel a little sorry for the Shinners because this is going to cause some painful cognitive dissonance.

Richard Chambers@newschambers.bsky.social · last wk.

Breaking: Donald Trump says “I’d love to see Ireland unified…. I think it would be a great thing. How could it be bad?” Oh my word.

Hands up anyone who can't see the word 'sabotage' without hearing Ad-Rock scream in their head.

Wise move.

Last 2 days! Join our team!

Sal Keith (she/her)@salkeith.bsky.social · 2w ago

ONE WEEK LEFT to apply 2 UKRI-funded Senior Research Associates; intersection of behaviour, conservation + AI (coral reefs/UK waters) 1x2yr9mth; 1x2yrs. TWO WEEKS LEFT for the 3rd position on behavioural ecology (2yrs9mth) More info here sallykeith.weebly.com/team.html @lec-reefs.bsky.social

Maybe unpopular view: the Igs have run their course, have now become too famous (Igbait papers are definitely a thing), and should be quietly retired. Otherwise there's a risk they'll hang about like a famous comedian whose shtick seemed hilarious when you were in your teens and has not aged well.

Markus Eichhorn@markuseichhorn.bsky.social · last wk.

I wasn't aware of this: the 'stepping-on-snakes' paper was retracted following ethics concerns. Even Ig Nobels need to follow standards in research practice.

What is the difference between Ecology and Applied Ecology? Other than that you can get paid to do applied ecology. Genuine question.