Quietly, quietly, the UK Supreme Court is embarked on a rollback of the human rights and judicial protections of vulnerable minorities which looks every bit as stark as that of the US Supreme Court.
Excited to see Sundews at Glasson Moss this week. #WildflowerHour
Three weeks left to apply to our postdoc position on alpine plant resilience!
Us: Three years of funding, an awesome collaborative team, a gorgeous study system, blueberry pie, unionized postdocs.
You: A PhD and experience in ancient DNA, paleoecology, and/or plant genetics and genomics.
Ox-eye daisy 🤍💛💚
#WildflowerHour
I know garden snails get a lot of hate, but they are actually kinda rad 🐌
They are part of a clean-up crew, munching their way through rotting plants with their scrapy "tongues" (radula) and recycling nutrients back into the soil ♻️
Also they have blue "blood" (hemolymph) 💧
Day one of the #Redcar #fossil event was excellent. Spoke to hundreds of people, at least. Got to show all those people very old mud and tiny dead things, and some younger mud and dead things from Redcars #Jurassic rocks #geology #paleontology
The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the stat...
I can’t believe I got to chat with Kimberlé Crenshaw recently 🔥
Her work on critical race theory and intersectionality has been hugely influential to so many of us. For me personally, her work (and others) laid the foundation for the Academic Wheel of Privilege I co-created: osf.io/preprints/me...
The opening section from the latest UN report on environmental impacts of AI is wild.
What are we doing???!!!
unu.edu/inweh/collec...
Yorkshire fog coming into flower in the garden after #NoMowMay, with other grasses (perennial rye grass, cock's-foot) about to/or in bloom too 💚
#LawnFlowers #WildflowerHour
Jolyon Maugham KC
Dr Jill Whitelock
Jacquelyn Gill
This spring I took over and redesigned the only Gen Ed on plants here #IB103. We walked through every core aspect of plant bio in lectures & labs, but also through art & design. I had a blast, the evaluations are rewarding (4.9/5), the redesign got an award from the college, and a little press too!
Dr. Sara L Middleton
Dr. Sara L Middleton
Dr. Sara L Middleton
Dr. Sara L Middleton
Dr. Sara L Middleton
Geology Johnson
The Supreme Court has today "strip[ped] fundamental human rights protections from potentially hundreds of thousands of severely disabled people" say a group of National Charities for disabled people. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...
I will obviously do a proper thread later of the big new UN report into AI environmental impacts but here is the link if anyone wants to have a look
unu.edu/inweh/collec...
