An amateur lepidopterist has shared how his remarkable discovery of a rare butterfly has led to a breakthrough in conservation. research. www.bbc.com/news/article... #conservation #Lepidopterology #science #ecology #SciChat
“A beautiful yukata with a pattern dyed in shades of blue. It is a modern work (from the middle of the Meiji era to the early Showa era) depicting a Yukata from a kimono shop, Sakusen. It is also a figure that conveys the history of a long-established store founded in the late Edo period.
The doorway of Jacob's Well, Trinity Lane, York. The 15th century doorway added to the 14th century former pub in 1902-4.
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Gareth Tilley is credited as being the first to discover the elusive black hairstreak in Surrey.
Very happy to share that I received the Swiss Design Award 2026 in the Interaction Design category.
It's been a while since I launched one of our collective's auctions. Quite proud of this arrangement for our album teaser 💙
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I've been playing with a new craft...foil embossing. There are parallels between it and printmaking, simplifying a design down, knowing where to have lines and not, working away with a hand tool. It gives me a similar flow state feeling. Perhaps you might like to have a go too haggytea.com/workshops
Donald Yip captured this photo of Drageøyet ("Dragon's Eye") on Uttakleiv Beach, Lofoten archipelago in nothern Norway.
You're looking at a boulder trapped in a glacial pothole ('jettegryte') created roughly 16,000 years ago as the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet retreated.
(📷: Donald Yip)
The extremely remote, deserted pre-famine village of Coimín na Gaorthaidh, meaning "commonage of the wooded river valley".
Almost no trees now remain.
The clues to the ecological catastrophe that has befallen the Irish landscape are so often in the place names.
Hello new (and old) friends! I'm Jay and I'm an assistant producer for science documentaries (currently working on Walking with Dinosaurs 2025 & Evolution), a science communicator, and a paleoartist! Please do give me profile a look if that sounds like it's up your alley!
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