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Rats! I'm on Vancouver Island. *wistfully hopes it's a travelling display*
It's a great photo, good on your sister for bringing you to such creative fun!😊

Um, where is this nudibranch ride/artwork located? And does it have a sister Tardigrade ride...

I'm very sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing this story; as you say, many don't realise asthma is life threatening and that rescue meds are crucial.

I love the lithe motion and the speckles, and the seaweed is beautifully drawn!

Yeah this annoys me also. Especially when there's a massive row of hair products using the same technology 10 steps away in the pharmacy, but no guilt being leveraged there!

A blue dawn sky is almost obscured by hundreds of small puffy silver-white clouds that look like cottonballs. Their left sides (in the photo, which would be their Eastern sides) glow with white light from the rising sun. On the left of the photo the dark silhouettes of Doug firs reach out, not yet touched by the sun.

The entire sky glowed with puffs of cloud this morning as the sun rose. It was very cheerful!
#clouds #SalishSea

Aaaa they're like a hoverfly wearing giant Audrey Hepburn glasses, then getting stretched out in an interdimensional rift! Those super-antennae are *fantastic*, I love them!!! Golly weirdo insects are the bee's knees💚

Whoa!!! It has the same horns as the antlion larva but with a velvety green suit! Great photos😀
*scrabbles to look up adult owlfly*

Late night crispy hot fried perogies with basalmic-vinegar salad dressing dumped over them.

I'm so delighted these data will be openly shared, it is how I always imagined Canadian gov't funded science worked, but so often what the scientists hope to share with the public and fellow scientists is stifled by various government policies. I hope this UVic/ONC/NRC collaboration sets an example🙂

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毎度おなじみのアオモジホコリ。よく見かける種になります。

Yay! Thank you for getting me off the fence, it sounds wonderful! and looking forward to Auk family eyebrows in any form, no matter how distantly glimpsed, will brighten up the winter's dim days🦦

UVic-led Ocean Networks Canada shares data from first all-Canadian Antarctic expedition Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is making research data from the first all-Canadian-led scientific expedition to the Antarctic publicly available.

"The expedition, led by Natural Resources Canada scientist Dr. Thomas James, focused on three research areas: oceanography, geoscience and contaminants. It studied how melting Antarctic glaciers influence ocean chemistry, marine ecosystems and sea-level rise."
#ClimateChange #CollaborativeScience

2, and please tell us the correct answer tomorrow? the photo is great, like a marine lantern-festival decoration.

WHOA!!! great lil finds

Hurrah! Beyond your control! The best kind of ferry-related debacle🌞

Ah, that's so NEAT! I had debated signing up for August or October to see them, and then talked myself out of it. I love their eyebrows! Next year I will sign up🙂
And of course, you got to see the amazing non-bird sights as well! It sounds like a fantastic day!!!

A rosebush, R. Livin' Easy, is pictured against a bright blue sky. A fully open yellow flower is in the middle of the photo, and then various buds and wizened flowers are speckled in the distance. The leaves are a cheery bright green with a bronze serrated edge. The warm yellow flowers a half the size of an an average hybrid tea, but they are tidy and well spaced, and really cheerful. It's a very healthy rose, very little blackspot unlike a few of the roses nearby that are afflicted in spite of diligent and prickly defoliation of them all by hand (by my mum thank goodness, not me) every winter. Of all her roses I think I like this one best!

My mum's Livin' Easy rose giving blooming a final kick at the can for the season. No mildew, and the resident deer haven't even nibbled it even though they defoliated its neighbour!
#roses #autumn #SalishSea

rats! at least it's a glorious day so you can feel thwarted in a warm sunbeam🍁🌻🍂

That's so cool! (Did you see any puffins or rhinoceros auklets?)

If anyone needs a nerdy break from, well, the depressing chaos, I recommend checking out the Algal Awesomeness! feed, it's people nerding out about seaweeds in all their glorious and nifty aspects. I find it chipper and uplifting, with lots of surprising facts☺️🪸

Olive green two-tipped bubble-claws of Fucus gardneri seaweed (ignominiously known as Rockweed or the more dramatic Sea Wrack) give the Vulcan Salute to the sky at Cattle Point. They are on a gravel bar with pebbles of all colours mixed with pulverized winkle, limpet and crab shells, as well as bark chips, red strips of papery Arbutus bark from further up the coast, various other seaweed fragments, and some smooth dark green strands of eelgrass. Basically a totally normal post-gale mishmash of delights!

Live long and prosper

#PhycologyFriday

Very charming💛 They look like teeny weeny Mermaid's Purse ray egg cases!

Maples - UBC Botanical Garden Despite its small size, UBC Botanical Garden is well known for the diversity and quality of its plant collections. The conditions at UBC are ideal for the cultivation of a large number of temperate pl...

If you are into bark, UBC Botanic Garden's maple species collection will thrill you with the multitude of patterns and textures💚
"In total, the Garden has 250 separate accessions representing 119 Acer taxa, of which 30 are named horticultural selections and 168 are derived from wild collected seed."

It's hypnotically peppy!

World’s first mushroom-powered toilet debuts at UBC Tucked away in a forest in the University of B.C.’s Botanical Garden, a first-of-its-kind toilet is ready to turn human waste into nutrient-rich compost using the power of mushrooms.

And while you're there admiring (or even feeding) the fungal nook, you can also visit the excellent Maple collection in their dramatic fall finery!
#fungifriends #UBCBotanicGardens

YouTube video by SPOKANKI SPOKANKI - DULAMAN

An Irish choral composition (“the BEST song about seaweed” according to a commenter) gets a polyphonic spin by Spokanki, “8 sisters from the mystical country of SpokanLand, wandering around all corners of the planet to search and distribute music of different peoples from Africa to the Netherlands.”

“If you act like a steward of your property, rather than building a fortress to keep everyone away, you start meeting your neighbors and working with other people. You start a community that buys into the whole idea of #wildfirepreparedness together,” says Rasmussen.

📷: #Firewise
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*chortle*

This is a wonderful array, thank you for showing us! It's amazing you can detect the parents of the hybrids when the parents are long gone!