New York Botanical Garden

@nybg.bsky.social

Gregory Plunkett and former NYBG post-doc Antoine Nicholas had a study published in "Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution" focused on the evolution of species of Azorella (Apiaceae) endemic to New Zealand, demonstrating two dispersals of the genus from South America.

ana 𝓙

@itsanapaula.bsky.social

Vim para a academia e todos os ar condicionados estão estragados 🕊️🕊️

Tom Ewing

@tomewing.bsky.social

Scholars of VRIL may demur but the implication of the Wikipedia entries is that Bulwer-Lytton came up with it in the 1870s then 90 years later some French guys made up that the Nazis were into it (it was tbf their kind of thing) and then neo Nazis believed them and actually got into it

🔞Velvet on Bluesky

@velvetygoodness.bsky.social

Oh that's vore, that's vore of my comfort character. That's vore of my comfort character being churned because I actually have this really weird idiosyncrasy with my degradation kink where I enjoy seeing characters I'm attached to mishandled.

🌎AL Wizard🪄

@acewiz8.bsky.social

So what did Rodney get for his ‘state visit’?
He got a $10 billion law suit!
Meanwhile we the tax payers got lumbered with a £30 million bill… WTF!!!
Time for Rodney to piss off in the Reliant Robin!

Kevin Verhoff

@kevinverhoff.bsky.social

We really really need to dispel the myth that farmers are growing food and that all of their activities are bucolic and good for the planet.

They are doing resource extraction. Which is a fine way to make a living but we need to be able to talk about what kind of extraction is right for us.

SeaAroundUs

@seaaroundus.org

Year in Review:

🐟 Big questions, jargon-free answers. Dr. Pauly’s “Ask Dr. Pauly” columns are now in one inspiring booklet.

https://bit.ly/blog198sau

Wuthering Heights Bot

@wutheringbot.bsky.social

Hareton, recovering from his disgust at being taken for a servant, seemed moved by her distress; and, having fetched the pony round to the door, he took, to propitiate her, a fine crooked-legged terrier whelp from the kennel, and putting it into her hand, bid her whist!

Winter 🍷🦇

@cyberbully.darkwo.ke

There are certain things which, while seeming innocuous, when placed in a Bsky bio are just hate symbols

DB 📉

@konvolutj.bsky.social

currently reading (it's not bad): https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/22589/mrs-woolf-and-the-servants-by-alison-light/9780140254105 apparently Woolf thought Yorkshire was somewhere near Birmingham, a solecism pointed out to her in a letter from an unemployed weaver in Huddersfield