Mike Lush 🐜🪲🪰🐝
@sifolinia.bsky.social
Myrmecologist, entomologist and ecologist. Geospatial data specialist. Director @biospatialinsights.bsky.social. Progressive bluegrass fan. Father of two. Wales, UK.
America lied about the Iraq war. Then they weren’t believed about Ukraine | Moustafa Bayoumi
America lied about the Iraq war. Then they weren’t believed about Ukraine | Moustafa Bayoumi
Will US intelligence learn its lessons from the Iraq war, and just how badly their legitimacy has been undermined?
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Interesting review of repletism in #ants #Formicidae myrmecologicalnews.org/cms/index.ph... The most disgusting thing I've ever tasted was a Leptomyrmex replete. The composition is apparently unknown, but I'd describe it as rancid fat - not sugary at all. The things we do for science...
Myrmecol. News 36: 39-57
Myrmecological News
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I think this is probably the best take on this that I've seen.
Yes! 💯 Scatter cushions are also pointless, as surely no one can sleep with them on the bed and they mostly just get chucked on the floor. Please hotels, B&Bs, etc. stop wasting resources and money on this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The hill I will die on: Decorative cushions and throws on hotel beds should be banned, immediately | Annabel Lee
Why spoil perfectly crisp, clean bedding with dusty old accessories that have been used by hundreds of strangers? Yuck, says writer Annabel Lee
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This is truly brilliant!👏👏✨ I wondered why I disliked Trump so much……🤭 londondaily.com/british-writ...
British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read - London Daily
“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
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Join us for our dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte... Love to see lots of beginner dipterists, so much to learn! Bursary available to help fund email enquiries@dipterists.org.uk deadline extended to 31-3-26. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @britentsoc.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social #entomology #flies
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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If we are to survive what is coming, let alone to flourish, then we desperately need the kind of strategic adaptation that false optimism leaves unfunded or even sneered at. As a small gesture towards such adaptation, please sign and share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... Thank You…
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo...
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This is absolutely vital We are completely unprepared for the climate chaos that is coming Please sign now and share
Rupert Read@rupertread.bsky.social · 8mo agoIf we are to survive what is coming, let alone to flourish, then we desperately need the kind of strategic adaptation that false optimism leaves unfunded or even sneered at. As a small gesture towards such adaptation, please sign and share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... Thank You…
Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot
The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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When aliens land, expect them to call us "microscopic snails", before stamping us out as they make way for their new housing. Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
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There's another reason to be pro gender neutral toilets: men might actually wash their hands, properly, if women are watching... One Bladder After Another: why bros are finally having to queue for the loo | Emma Beddington www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
One Bladder After Another: why bros are finally having to queue for the loo | Emma Beddington
There are few things more irritating than waiting outside the Ladies while men sail in and out of their own facilities. A new, very long film has changed all that, writes Guardian columnist Emma Beddi...
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"0.3 per cent of the world’s land area – yes, just the land – would be needed to meet the current energy demand from solar alone, which is LESS THAN THE CURRENT LAND FOOTPRINT OF FOSSIL FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE."
Why solar power is the only viable power source in the long run
Not only is solar more than capable of supplying all the world’s energy, in the long term it is the only power source that won’t fry the planet
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Anyone else remember the film Idiocracy? m.imdb.com/title/tt0387... Not a great film, but with more and more people falling for right wing populists and conspiracy fantasists, I'm wondering if it'll turn out to be more prophetic than, say, 1984.
Idiocracy (2006) ⭐ 6.5 | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
1h 24m | R
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Fiji ant study provides new evidence of insects’ decline on remote islands www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fiji ant study provides new evidence of insects’ decline on remote islands
DNA analysis of endemic specimens in museums finds 79% of ant populations in Pacific archipelago are shrinking
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A few days ago I posted a dead yellow jacket which had become a community meal for Paratemnoides social pseudoscorpions, but I hadn't really considered that they are apparently capable of teaming up and catching a live one?? Checked on them later and the unfortunate wasp was deceased. Damn. 🧪
Reform really is attracting the best of the best... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nadine Dorries defects to Reform, saying Conservative party ‘is dead’
Former cabinet minister’s move on eve of Reform conference is further boost for party that took almost £1m in donations from ex-Tory donors
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Look at this crazy thing! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
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"A White House spokesperson told Fox News that the gold – “of the highest quality” – was all paid for by Trump personally." The actions of someone who intends to never leave. share.google/eWvYykcTf1JS...
Before and after: Trump’s extreme goldening of the Oval Office
An extravagant – and ongoing – makeover of the White House’s decor has taken place during the president’s second term. One colour theme stands out
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We’re going up at a rate of 700 signatures an hour currently. In the time it took me to boil the kettle it went up by 50. Keep the message in minds folks. Fair coverage is what we want so we hear from ALL parties not just the narrative of one. Sign and pass on petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
"Unfortunately, we are now living through a dis-Enlightenment. In the US in particular, and increasingly elsewhere, facts don’t matter and can be casually denied. Universities have become subject to bullying as compliance with the requirements of one political faction..."
Welcome to the dis-Enlightenment
A new dis-Enlightenment looms: in the US and beyond, facts are denied, science silenced, and the wealthy spread lies over truth
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🧵Here's a thought I've been having about the cost of transitioning from fossil fuels to clean energy: It does decarb fans no favors to pretend that there's no cost, or that just because "solar is cheap," that makes depreciating one entire system in favor of another cheap or easy. However!
As a philosophy major who adored symbolic logic courses, this may be my favorite cartoon ever.
This is phenomenal. Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment. It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock
My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock
Our street party tea was a muted celebration, full of uncertainty. Then, as now, we faced a long struggle towards a better world, says actor and writer Sheila Hancock
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Another new micro #fungus for me. Is it possible to confirm this as Protomyces macrosporus on Oenanthe crocata leaves? Also from the #Stackpole Estate in #Pembrokeshire today. #mycology
