Patric Harris

Available now: PONDS: An Illustrated Guide
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ponds #lakes #freshwater

What we eat, how we travel and the things we buy all shape our impact on nature, driving growing pressures on land, water, species and climate 🍽️ ✈️ 🛍️

A new global study makes clear that protecting biodiversity requires transforming the systems behind our everyday lifestyles.

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extensively grazed cattle improve grass and wildflower diversity in upland calcareous areas

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

caveat: social science and funding required to nudge cultural farming switch from sheep

#farming #ecology 🧪

Enjoying some Iranian dates for breakfast in solidarity with the oppressed people of Iran now being terrorised by the US/Israel attacks as well as their own regime. The UK&US overthrew the last democratically elected government to bring us to this day!

Interesting!

For the tourism industry in the Middle East and Gulf region, the fallout from the conflict is projected to be acute.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/26zG

There is remarkably little appreciation of this inside he Washington Beltway.

Yep. This veteran feels the same. Especially since he started the war to distract from the crimes he has committed & the Epstein files which he is deeply involved in.

☀️🌑🛰️ 2026: The year we arrive at Mercury!

After almost 8 years since its launch in 2018, BepiColombo is entering its most critical phase yet. It is about to end its interplanetary phase and initiate its Mercury approach.

Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate - Nature The choanoflagellate Choanoeca flexa forms motile and contractile cell monolayers purely clonally, purely aggregatively or through a combination of both processes depending on environmental conditions.

Nature research paper: Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate

go.nature.com/4cM4B4L

Early hominin arrival in Southeast Asia triggered the evolution of major human malaria vectors - Scientific Reports Some species of the Leucosphyrus Group of Anopheles mosquitoes in Southeast Asia are highly anthropophilic and efficient vectors of human malaria parasites, while others primarily feed on non-human primates (NHP) and transmit NHP malaria parasites. The evolutionary history of this group, particularly the origin of anthropophily, was studied using phylogenomic analysis of 2,657 high-confidence nuclear single-copy orthologous genes and 13 mitochondrial protein coding genes from 40 individuals of 11 species. Molecular dating and ancestral state reconstruction revealed that monkey-feeding is ancestral with speciation of monkey-feeding species dating to the Pliocene within Sundaland (Malay peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra and Java) which was covered in tropical rain forests during this period. Although less parsimonious alternatives cannot be excluded, molecular dating, ancestral state reconstruction and reticulation analysis indicated that anthropophily most likely evolved once, involving adaptive introgression, in the early Pleistocene in Sundaland, giving rise to multiple descendent anthropophilic species. Such early origination of anthropophily must necessarily have been in response to the arrival of early hominins (Homo erectus) rather than anatomically modern humans, likely associated with loss and fragmentation of rainforests during the early Pleistocene. The early origination of anthropophily also provides independent non-archaeological evidence supporting the limited fossil record of early hominin colonization in Southeast Asia around 1.8 Mya.

The preference of some mosquitoes in the Leucosphyrus Group of Anopheles mosquitoes for feeding on humans may have evolved in response to the arrival of early hominins in Southeast Asia ~1.8 million years ago. The findings are published in Scientific Reports. 🧪 #evobio

Marvellous!

This image is bound to get under someone's thin orange skin. You know what to do.💪

Stress can cause:

❤️‍🩹 headaches
❤️‍🩹 neck and shoulder pain
❤️‍🩹 lack of appetite
❤️‍🩹 back pain
❤️‍🩹 a heavy chest
❤️‍🩹 tight muscles
❤️‍🩹 an upset stomach

Pausing, breathing, and reflecting through slow breathing techniques can help to reduce stress

Otherworldly landscape of White Pocket, Arizona #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Photography #Rocks #Arizona #Landscape 📷

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Can anyone identify this snake? Found dead in Singapore. Approximately 20cm long 0.7cm across.

Five stunning images from the Close-up Photographer of the Year awards An otherworldly coral, a very cute moth and an intricately beautiful mushroom are among the winners in the prize this year

An otherworldly coral, a very cute moth and an intricately beautiful mushroom are among the winners in the prize this year
www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

Galicia in Spain belongs to the Atlantic megalith tomb area. Dolmens are Neolithic Age constructions formed by large stone slabs. In Galicia, with the abundance of granite rock, dolmens are common. In picture Dolmen de as Maus de Salas. #StandingStoneSunday

IT'S COMING ...
FASCISM IS IN CONTROL ...
JUST LIKE PUTIN ...

tRUMPSTEIN WILL GIVE HIMSELF 95% OF OUR VOTES ... 🤬🤬🤬

SO WHAT'S THE PLAN???

»Es mag Dir pathetisch klingen, aber ich betrachte es als heilige Aufgabe mitzuhelfen in meiner Art im Kampf gegen Nazitum, menschliche Sturheit, Schlappheit und Barbarei. Was in Deutschland geschieht, geht die ganze Menschheit an.«

Irmgard Keun
geboren am 6. Februar 1905

7 - Teach your Children - Crosby, Stills and Nash 1970 YouTube video by stin

An all time favourite!

youtu.be/zj8FlXGPcOQ?...

Die Kleine hat mir den süßesten Witz erzählt:

Wie machen Nüsse beim Niesen?

"Cashew!"

Ich schmelze... 🫠😍🥹

As a German, I can attest that 12 means 12 and that all other answers are wrong.
Source: buff.ly/d56X7hc

THE SWAMP now exists in the White House!

The Swamp in action!!

Antarctica heartbreaking scenes as defenceless penguins and whales look on as huge industrial ships scoop up their food, they depend on to survive, vast amounts of krill
BAN KRILL FISHING IN ANTARCTICA NOW
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I've shared this before but sharing again since a lot of y'all are going through it lately 🫂

Wow!