📝 What 17,000 Pressed Flowers Revealed About Arctic Climate Change 🧵 doi.org/pwnc The brief Arctic summer is getting briefer. Research using herbaria shows that flowering times are shifting. Not all plants are responding the same way & that’s a problem #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)

I did my PhD on protected areas - the 15% of the Earth's land set aside as parks and reserves for the conservation of nature The UK's National Parks are NOT protected areas - they don't meet the definition Only 3% of our land does, it's a disgrace

‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: how the UK’s most beloved landscapes became biodiversity deserts

National parks, famous for their rich natural heritage, should be at the heart of efforts to protect habitats and wildlife. Instead, experts say they are declining – fast

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bbc.com/news/article... "I don't think people have any idea of how much harm the visa rules cause"

'I'm British but I can't live in my own country with my partner'

MPs in Bristol and Stroud want the government to scrap a family visa policy that separates couples

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Interesting work from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social on the mental health impacts of climate journalism. A solid psychiatric study and some nuanced, touching personal accounts. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/despair...

From despair to purpose: Six climate reporters on how to protect their mental health

Journalists from Brazil, Burkina Faso, Denmark, Nigeria, Trinidad and Tobago and the UK reflect on how they cope with the anxieties of global warming.

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Happy father's day to everyone celebrating. Apparently the paternity leave in the UK is one of the worst in the developed world 🤦https://bbc.com/news/articles/cy8d3l7858zo

70% of people said science benefit people like them 73% said medical research and innovation benefit people like them 71% said new technologies benefit people like them To Erica, this is encouraging that the public opinion of science is NOT that different than before the election

A reminder. The budget that just passed the House slashes US scientific research by half. Please call or email your senators and tell them you do not want the NIH and NSF cut. You can find your senators contact info here: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

Happy #Pride everyone. Nature is infinitely diverse.

From @thehill.com, “Trump orders agencies to ‘sunset’ environmental protections.” thehill.com/policy/energ...

When NW Scotland wants to trade places with the Mediterranean. 📷 1. Above Gairloch, and the view to the Quiraing, Skye. 📷 2. Above Opinan, and the view to the Old Man of Storr, Skye.

This to me is astonishing. The site of Ireland's 1st breeding Cranes in centuries, could be 'developed' as a solar farm, instead of being protected for crane recovery. "the bog with the nesting cranes is at the pre-planning stage for a solar farm" 🦉 🐦 🌎 www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...

One of Ireland's wildlife success stories is the return of this bird

Cranes were culturally significant in Ireland, kept as pets by nobility and may have been associated in folklore with death

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"It exists, it’s happening, and you can’t erase it by not studying it. Physician Preeti Jaggi responds to news that research into climate anxiety, rapidly growing among young people, is among the climate chg projects to be axed by NIH." www.nature.com/articles/d41... H/T @floragraham.bsky.social

Exclusive: documents reveal how NIH will axe climate studies

US agency guidelines nix funding for studies on climate anxiety and more but allow it for those on extreme weather and health.

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Wishing all the mothers in the world a Happy Mother's Day! 💐 🎨 from "Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen" [1774]-1855. Digitized for #BHLib by the Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology @harvard.edu biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31064824 #MothersDay

🎈 Happy 99th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough! 🎈 Our favourite #DavidAttenborough moment is when he featured George Shaw's 1799 description of the Platypus in his "How the Platypus made us rethink evolution" video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBRV... 📖 doi.org/10.5962/p.30... 🧪 #ILoveBHL #BHLib

The most vital of tools, the Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social , is apparently homed at the Smithsonian. For obv reasons, the Smithsonian cannot retain it For free, you can access biodiversity-related texts going back to the 1400s! #ILOVEBHL www.biodiversitylibrary.org

Chairs aren't just for sitting! Apologies for the poor cropping - this was just a quick snap. Clematis montana Freda I believe but happy to be corrected 🙏☺️

How is Arctic flora changing on a warming planet? Climate change is altering plant diversity in the Arctic, with some species thriving in certain areas and declining in others 👉 news bit.ly/4cVpPLR 👉 nature paper bit.ly/44mXlsd @serradiaz.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social @museuciencies.cat

If you use the Biodivisity Heritage Library (I use it almost daily), you'll be saddened (and maybe angered😡) to learn that DOGE+Musk+Trump have eliminated its funding. BHL is looking for a new home. #ILoveBHL So much f***ing winning.🤬 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...

A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …

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In an 1847 report to the British Museum, Darwin and his peers declared that "The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried out without reference to an extensive library." Still so true today... #ILoveBHL 63 million #OpenAccess pages & counting! www.biodiversitylibrary.org

Big news from the mudflats! The UK’s oldest known Oystercatchers - aged 41 and 43 - have been discovered on The Wash. That’s three times their species’ average lifespan! Legends wade amongst us... 😎 A reminder of why the East Coast Wetlands are so special: buff.ly/rgnjIeg

Published yesterday The UK is not heading in the right direction either. #humanrights

Disability Rights UK@disrightsuk.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today Amnesty International UK released a report exposing the brutal reality of the UK social security system that targets those already pushed to the margins. DR UK has authored the section on the impacts on the Disabled community. Please read & share widely! 👇 www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/so...

Okay, I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but BHL is an absolutely VITAL resource for ecologists and evolutionary biologists. There's no other database I'm aware of that provides digital access to species descriptions dating all the way back to the 1800s and beyond.

Rod Page@rdmpage.bsky.social · 2y ago

"A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library" blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-... Important changes for BHL @biodivlibrary.bsky.social which can no longer be hosted at #Smithsonian and needs a new home.

Me too, BHL is an invaluable resource for anyone doing any kind of natural history research!

ascalaphid@ascalaphid.com · 2y ago

I've downloaded literally thousands of taxonomic texts from BHL for my work over the years and probably at least a half dozen more every week. this is one of the greatest resources on the internet.

In addition to EVERY-FUCKING-THING ELSE The most vital of tools, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, is apparently homed at the Smithsonian. For obv reasons, the Smithsonian cannot retain it For free, you can access biodiversity-related texts going back to the 1400s! www.biodiversitylibrary.org

"The top ~2% largest trees account for 75% of the live tree carbon storage in the western US. This result suggests the importance of maintaining large-diameter trees in order to mitigate climate change." But Trump's recent EO plans to send them to sawmills. 🌏 www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

Banned DDT discovered in Canadian trout 70 years after use, research finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Banned DDT discovered in Canadian trout 70 years after use, research finds

Potential danger to humans and wildlife from harmful pesticide discovered in fish at 10 times safety limit

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UCU stands with trans people, today and every day. The Supreme Court ruling is not just wrong, it’s dangerous. We will never stop fighting for trans rights and equality. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Solidarity

Jo Grady@drjogrady.bsky.social · 2y ago

Trans women have always coexisted amongst the rest of society. The narrative that the Supreme Court ruling is about women being unsafe due to trans women is misleading. There is no data which proves trans women pose a safety threat to women. It is a media narrative and it is false.

📢Upcoming webinar! Don’t miss the “Indigenous Peoples and the IPBES Transformative change assessment” webinar scheduled to take place tomorrow! Register via ONet here: onet.ipbes.net/node/317 #IPBESStakeholders

The budget proposal eliminates: NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research office Stops funding regional climate data, climate competitive research or sea grant programs Severely defunds the Natl Ocean Service & the NMFS www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

Trump’s draft budget eviscerates weather and climate tracking and research | CNN

The move would devastate weather and climate research even as weather is becoming more erratic and extreme, and would cripple the US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate ...

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The best way for people to get health benefits of nature is to have contact with it during the day-to-day. Nature needs to be where people live, work and play. So it is fantastic to see case study examples of where this works in London. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing

Five thousand new homes alongside a paradise for newts appears to fly in face of government’s ‘false wedge’

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