Luiza Teixeira-Costa

Side view of the assembled Sherlock Holmes Lego set. It looks like a beige book cover with details of dark brown and the famous profile of Sherlock Holmes wearing a hat and holding a magnifying glass.

It's the most wonderful Lego set of the year! A real treat for all obsessed Sherlockians 🔎

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

Awesome Lego sets too, btw!

Pteridology (FERNS) with Dr. Fay-Wei Li — alie ward Fronds. Forest dwellers. Spores. Houseplants. Queer icons. We’ve got ferns. The charming and hilarious professor and author of “Ferns: Lessons in Survival from Earth’s Most Adaptable Plants,” Dr. Fay-...

WE GOT FERNS, folks.

I hope you like ferns. If you don’t, just listen and you will like ferns. 🌿🌿🌿

Dr. Li is hilarious and charming and you will love him. And ferns.

In conclusion: ferns.

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Painting of a large bouquet of different flowers in a terracotta vase on a table in semi darkness

Maria van Oosterwijck (1630-1693), Dutch Golden Age painter, known for richly detailed flower paintings and other still lifes #WomensArt

New Post: Update: 18th World Congress on Parasitic Plants – São Sebastião, Brazil (new dates and venue) www.parasiticplants.org/2025/12/upda...

Job - Tenure Track - Environmental History - BOKU University Tenure-track BOKU University - Vienna position seeks environmental history scholar with strong research, teaching, interdisciplinary methods, funding success, and socio-ecological expertise.

Job – Tenure Track – Environmental History – BOKU University - Vienna

Apply by January 6th.

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#envhist

Evolutionary dynamics of dietary specialisation – insights from Neotropical mistletoe‐dependent frugivores Mistletoes occur worldwide, with most relying on birds to disperse their sticky seeds to suitable hosts. There has been considerable ecological research on these interactions, emphasizing those birds....

In time for the festive season, my latest paper charts the 25 million year story of how mistletoe and songbirds somersaulted across the Americas, diversifying as they went.  Strap in for an epic ecological tale #MistletoeMunchersFromWayBack 1/12
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One life, but so many cheeses and ice cream flavors. It's just unfair.

The explanation is simple: most of us, lactose intolerants, simply do not care about the effects of a bit of milk when a favorite food/drink is involved. Life without cheese and ice cream is just not worth it.

What's worse than one demogorgon?? TWO DEMOGORGONS!!!

This one was not beaten by Steve & Dustin, but instead drawn by Frederik Miquel (1864), published in 'Choix de plantes rares ou nouvelles, cultivees et dessinees dans le Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg'.

#StrangerThings #Demogorgon

YouTube video by Museum of Science Biodiversity in Indigenous Homelands

Why is biodiversity collapsing globally, but thriving on Indigenous lands? 🌱🧪

Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer points to a striking pattern in global biodiversity reports: Indigenous territories are defying the widespread ecological decline.

Amig, acho CHIQUERRIMO vc ter livros, quadrinhos E audiolivros. Vc é o maioral mesmo! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

You've seen "men would rather dismantle the Federal Government than go to therapy"

now get ready for

"Men would rather ask ChatGPT what you want for Christmas than just asking you for a list of what you want for Christmas"

The RHS Plant Collector Archive is a unique collection of papers associated with the 12 plant collectors and their journeys. For the first time they are now fully catalogued, digitised, and free for everyone to access #skystorians #gardenhistory #nineteenthcentury
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New Post: Rain brings surprising shifts for desert mistletoes and their animal visitors www.parasiticplants.org/2025/11/rain...

Risotto is not work. It is meditation, followed by self care.

This paper stems from my talk at last year's conference organized by the @parasiticplants.bsky.social in collaboration with @iufro.bsky.social Huge thanks also to the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the @hanse-ias.bsky.social for having funded parts of this ongoing research!

🚨 I'm excited to share that my new publication is now available at @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social 📃 Building on numerous publications and on my own recent research, I discuss several ways in which #GlobalChange 🌎🌍🌏 affects the physiology of #ParasiticPlants 🌱

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Fellow (digital) book worms: which e-reader do you recommend?
I'm looking for a device in which I can read both ebooks and PDFs, while also being able to highlight sections of the text. Something that doesn't push the user into a subscription model (e.g., Kindle) would also be great.
Thanks :)

Painting featuring a desert at dawn or dusk in blueish light with tall cacti in silhouette against a gold and mottled purple cloudy sky

'Saguaro Dusk' by contemporary US Impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt

Print of a group.of large white flowers on dark green stems and leaves against a lighter green background

Australian printmaking artist Rachel Newling, 'Oriental lillies' hand coloured linocut #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Tree rings from ancient coffins offer clues to Earth’s past Wood from gravesites can help reconstruct historic temperatures, floods, and droughts

Scientists are turning to tree rings from ancient coffins to glean novel insights into our past.

Beyond withered corpses and grave goods, the buried woods reveal unparalleled details about historic temperatures, droughts, and floods.

#Dendrochronology #Paleoclimatology

New at @science.org 🧪🏺

Oh, they look lovely! Funny how a hairless breed still has such a sweet appearance and so much character.
And, hey, you've already guaranteed your safe passage into the beyond hahaha.

She looks like a Xolo, the Mexican breed that guides the souls the underworld

não custa lembrar que “a maior operação contra o crime organizado da história do Rio” foi a CPI das milícias conduzida pelo Freixo que prendeu 236 criminosos com provas e sem tiros

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

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My linocut portrait of van Leeuwenhoek in burgundy wearing a wig, narrow moustache, loose robe and neck scarf, holding his invention, a microscope. He’s surrounded by his microscopic observations, “animacules”, blood vessels and more, in gold, orange, green and yellow

Happy birthday to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632 – 1723), the Dutch scientist & progenitor of #microbiology known for his improvements to microscope tech. 🧪🐡 #histsci He was a draper in Delft, then a politician with an interest in lensmaking. Using his handmade #microscopes, he was first to observe 🧵

Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer) Our Trees will feature mistletoe on Sunday and gibbons on Tuesday. Sunday Tree is about an important holiday plant, mistletoe. Mistletoe is common in the south, but we only notice it when the leaves ...

What do mistletoe and gibbons have in common? Both are featured in the coming week on Our Trees, mistletoe on Sunday, gibbons on Tuesday. Please join us then!

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡