Dave Garbutt

One of the best short stories ever written.

Good, kill it with fire

“I wonder if I will miss the moss” “There was mud, / and there was the walking, / all the beautiful walking.”

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

autumn depression
tugging at the fragile leaves
laying all limbs bare

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Haiku #senryu #tanka

I think the worst rop off degree is Economics!

Curious about where science meets poetry?

Science Communication through Poetry is an online course exploring how creative language can make research more human and engaging.

Only a few places left. Register here:
napier.ac.uk/study-with-u...

#SciComm #Poetry #AcademicSky #SciArt 🧪

Exploring the role of green space in mitigating childhood opportunity across the U.S - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Exploring the role of green space in mitigating childhood opportunity across the U.S

🌳 Green space and childhood opportunity

A nationwide US study finds that children in deprived neighbourhoods have less access to green space, with Hispanic children most affected.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #PublicHealth 🧪

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems The global context has shifted dramatically since publication of the first EAT–Lancet Commission in 2019, with increased geopolitical instability, soaring food prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacer...

🥗 Rethinking global food systems

The new EAT–Lancet Commission calls for urgent action to make food systems healthy, sustainable and just. They feed more people but still drive planetary harm and inequality.

🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#SciComm #FoodSystems 🧪

Interception reduction from deforestation and forest fire increases large-scale fluvial flooding risk - Communications Earth & Environment Forest coverage loss from wildfires and deforestation increases flood risk for large-scale river catchments by reducing interception, according to analysis of data from twenty-one watersheds in Australia.

🌧️ Forest loss and flooding

A new study shows that deforestation and forest fires in Australia reduce rainfall interception, increasing river flooding across vast regions.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Floods 🧪

Check out consilience journal, molecules unlimited (2 anthologies) and the work of Sam Illingworth on communicating science with poetry. Sam isn’t here afaik but is active on linkedIn @samillingworth.com ! He is here too!

Badenoch wants to eliminate ‘rip off degrees’ like English. The usual philistine crap that a degree is just about work. The mission to create the stupidest nation on earth. And counterproductive. Young people will work for years. They’ll retrain endlessly. A degree can help them learn how to learn

For @hool415.bsky.social and this week's #promptcombo #visitor (s), an old TTT one I had forgotten about from around this time last year.

I've not caught up to anyone else's contributions yet but will do so before the week is out 😘

Full moon through an Astrophotography telescope

Obligatory Harvest Moon from this morning

~but on last evening‘s walk, it was gorgeous & glowing, abundantly Autumnal, and felt like Fall

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

—Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

Climate change: Deforestation surges despite pledges Data shows that cutting down tropical forests increased by 10% in 2022, despite promises made at COP26.

An area of tropical forest the size of Switzerland was lost last year as tree losses surged
They will not stop until every ancient forest is obliterated
They see no value in trees until they are logged for profit
But lets see how long we survive without Trees

www.bbc.com/news/science...

My friend David Adler, a Jewish-American who was on the flotilla and was kidnapped by the Zionist regime, is detained illegally in an Israeli prison and no one has had contact with him for four days.

Shamefully, the US government has done nothing to help him.

Don't let anyone ever tell you that Zionism is about the protection of Jewish people. Zionists reserve special hatred for Jews who reject their genocidal project and who insist on the equal humanity of Palestinians.

Hamas chief: All Israeli hostages for all Palestinian prisoners Sinwar’s first statement since onset of war dismissed by IDF spokesperson as ‘psychological terror cynically used by Hamas to create pressure’

Hamas offered to return the hostages, but Israel would rather sacrifice them in order to ethnically cleanse and get Gaza.

www.ynetnews.com/article/hjv5...

Illustration of two toucans (Ramphastos erythrorhynchos) perched on a branch. They have large, curved yellow and red bills with black markings, striking blue skin around their eyes, black feathers covering most of their bodies, cream-colored throats, and a yellow patch near the base of their tails. Behind them are green palm-like leaves. The detailed, naturalistic style emphasizes their vibrant colors and distinctive features, typical of 19th-century scientific bird illustrations.

🦜 A monograph of the Ramphastidae, or family of toucans
London: Published by the author, 20, Broad Street, Golden Square, [1852]-1854.

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a digital illustration with a traditional appearance on yellowed paper, of a reimagined banjo-kazooie. kazooie has a speech bubble saying "art share!"

ARTISTS! Let’s do an art share!

There are now more than 39.3 MILLION Bluesky accounts!

Let’s find each other!

Spread the post to reach the most! 💙

Meet the Stormers of Issue V

Billy Fenton writes fiction & poetry & has been widely published including The Rialto, Irish Times, Cyphers, Banshee, Poetry Ireland Review & more. He was chosen for Poetry Ireland Introductions 2025

The Storms is supported by #fingalarts & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

@jackabbott.bsky.social I am heartily sick of seeing these desperate pleas for help while our govt continues to support Israel beyond reason and decency.

Tutting in public doesn't cut it.

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social @johnswinney.bsky.social @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social

LAST CALL!! For The Last Ever Cult of the Spiny Hog #comeandjoinus

Well, it is weird to be typing this, but we are down to the last handfilled of places in the (gulp) FINAL EVER CULT So it is now or never... #comeandjoinus and generally find out more HERE

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

Dark blue and light blue squares background. Clipboard with quote by Terry Pratchett: "The first draft is just you telling yourself the story." NaNo2.0 logo on light blue cloud with fountain pen tip.

When it’s tough to quiet your inner editor, remember Terry Pratchett: "The first draft is just you telling yourself the story." You can always go back and edit, but first you’ve got to get something on the page. Check out NaNo2.org for resources & inspiration as you dig into #Preptober. #NaNoWriMo

Show idea for PBS crowd: "Bamboo Evictions," where a crew goes around the country removing bamboo from residential properties and then planting native plants to fill the void. Modeled after "Hoarders." Would have interviews with neighbors, of course. #InvasiveSpecies #NativePlants #gardening #bamboo

A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

My favorite part of William Carlos Williams’ intro to HOWL is where he’s like “my word, never expected this queer & troubled young poet to LIVE and produce a cogent book of poems.”

Favourite tofu recipes? I need to expand my repertoire....

Doenjang Jjigae (Korean Soybean Paste Stew) My best doenjang jjigae recipe! Learn how to make staple Korean stew - doenjang jjigae (Korean soybean paste stew) at home. It's hearty and comforting!

It isn’t the same as the Chinese but is a wonderful rich deep flavour. Also this is a lovely Korean stew https://mykoreankitchen.com/doenjang-jjigae/