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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.co.uk · 06/10/2026

My first sighting of devil's fingers, Clathrus archeri, on our local common. I did a weird squeaking noise when I realised what it was. #fungi

Five bright red tapered 'fingers' of a fungus in long, wet grass, trees in the background shrouded in the mist.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There aren't many days when you can kayak off Start Point, renowned for one of Britain's most dangerous tidal races. But yesterday the stars aligned, so I bunked off work. Delighted to see Rupert Kirkwood (the Lone Kayaker) out there. He took this picture of me +1. Before you ask: yes, it's real. 🧵

In my kayak, watching a bluefin tuna leaping beside me.

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

[Climate Disaster] "Until recently, glaciologists in the #Alps considered 2% of #ice lost in a single year to be "extreme". This year has seen an estimated 5.5% disappear. "It's really just disastrous," said Dr Matthias Huss, director of #Glacier Monitoring #Switzerland, which produced the […]

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 02/10/2026

We need the EU, and they need us. We are stronger together. ♥️ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/polit…

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m0bi ⁂ @m0bi.mastodon.com.pl.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

🚴 🌞 Ładna pogoda to rower się ładuje. Nie braknie prądu temu roweru, póki słońca starczy 😉 Jeszcze serwerownię w #Naprawialnia muszę przerobić na PV, ale nie mam budżetu, na razie... #Polesie #m0biOnBike

Rower terenowy z małym akumulatorem i panelem pv, na trawniku przed domem na wsi

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@isotopp/117361237… And also make the bond market virtuous but not yet. "Last year, the BoE set out initial proposals for tighter rules after it had to intervene in 2020 and 2022 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and following Prime Minister Liz […]

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

RE: mastodon.scot/@Wen/1173412816054788… This 👇! Major Charles Jencks work, if you know the landform at Modern One in #Edinburgh or the Cells of Life at Jupiter Artland. Also has coffee ☕. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Jencks #Scotland #Landscape

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

A section of trunk with lichen, small epiphytes, and a climber I can't name, on the Northern side of a palm tree trunk. #mosstodon

Epiphyte is bright green.
Lichen is blueish green.
There is also some actual Moss.
Only a little of the palm trunk is visible under all the plantlife

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Our high street bank accounts are "other forms of private money". This approach is also about building a safer alternative to the current retail payment system, where we use commercial bank money mostly via US-based Visa and Mastercard. ➡️ […]

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

The European Central Bank in Frankfurt steps towards a digital Euro, via @Reuters. ➡️ www.reuters.com/business/finance/ec… "The new service, known as Pontes, allows banks and investors to settle blockchain-based transactions using […]

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is […]

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Tor Lillqvist @tml.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day! As Britannica puts it, On May 19, 2017, he dies of hypostatic pneumonia at age 77. For four months only family members know of his death. He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race […]

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Fife4Europe #FBPE @fife4europe.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Reform UK’s plan to halve the civil service by culling over 200,000 workers is a dangerous recipe for state failure. Axing back-office expertise while expecting functional public services is pure fantasy. Why trade competent governance for populist slogans? 🤔 #FBPE […]

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Wow, there's an absolutely brimming Student-Staff Association meeting at #Edinburgh Uni. Beamed into its second overflow lecture theatre #UCU.

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OS Community Maastricht @oscmaastricht.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Fwd: "Unique collaboration between faculties and University Library shows how ‘invisible’ knowledge workers contribute to Open Science" www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/un… "Behind the scenes […]

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Fife4Europe #FBPE @fife4europe.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

A Farage-backed Bitcoin firm acquiring the very gold dealer that paid him £685,500 for a few hours of "brand ambassador" work exposes a murky web of crypto, gold, and politics. Monetising public office while pushing speculative ventures is wrong. Man of the people 🤔 […]

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Cascading climate impacts and adaptation in miniature. After a night of torrential rain in #Edinburgh, topsoil and charred debris washed down a gully from the area burnt in this summer's gorse #wildfires on Arthur's Seat. Historic Environment Scotland's […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

A fan of dark soil spreads across a road from a gap in red/white traffic barriers, below a gully in the steep South side of Arthur's Seat, with blackened gorse bushes up the hillside.

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Well no thanks @Fairphone for dropping support of the FP3 last month. Not great when the USB port stopped charging (1% per hour?) and my #InterRail pass to get home from 4500km #StayGrounded trip 🚅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇧🇪🇩🇪🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 was only on the phone 😬! So yay […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Three parts used to repair a mobile phone and the tiny screwdriver marked Fairphone on a wood background. A Top Module with camera, Bottom Module with Microphone symbol and a battery marked "Change is in your hands".

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

RE: social.coop/@cwebber/11725398952196… "But solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight." #AcademicChatter

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Giant redwood / 'Wellingtonia' in the palatial grounds around the African Museum in Tervuren, outside Brussels. #ThickTrunkTuesday #Belgium

The rugged red bark of an early mature redwood stretches from the camera away into down-sweeping branches.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. In a trial involving 60 adults it matched […]

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

[US overseas intervention, A/I] RE: social.coop/@cwebber/11716813912464… 👀 This 👇 and it's not just a US + Italy story. The US Treasury doc on the URL below makes a link to the UK in particular. I wasn't sure what sense of 'hacker' was classic but here, they put together their own […]

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Fife4Europe #FBPE @fife4europe.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Watching Italy face 45°C highs in its most intense heatwave of the summer shows how rapidly the Mediterranean climate crisis is accelerating. Treating 40°C+ heat as an unexpected emergency rather than systemic reality fails communities. Can infrastructure adapt in time? 🌡️ #ClimateCrisis […]

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Fife4Europe #FBPE @fife4europe.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Dr Adam Kalkstein is suing West Point after being fired for refusing orders to remove human-caused global warming from his geography syllabus. The 17-year veteran argues censorship leaves military leaders blind to climate threats. Will the court protect academic freedom? #ClimateAction […]

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Here we go! 🚄 🛤️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿-🇸🇪 #StayGrounded #InterRail

Front of a Hitachi Azuma train in front of the sign on the Edinburgh City Council offices, on a cloudy morning.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Here's Jason Arday's death - and the media's role in it - trending on social media, again. And yet it's *nowhere* in the mainstream media today. It's "fallen" out of the news cycle in the same way that Russian scientists "fall" out of windows. 🔗

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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Sea turtle. Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Utrecht, ca. 1340-1350. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 110v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

“There doesn’t seem to be appropriate scrutiny, public or otherwise, on these nationally significant projects. The figures and designs behind many schemes are at best indicative, and at worst complete bunk.” #GenAI #DataCentres #AIBubble #ScotPol […]

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

📖 I'm just finishing @VaroufakisDE book Technofeudalism, not too technical - fwiw recommended. He keeps the monetary underpinnings in the frame, through to #CBDC. You can arguably keep the economic ideas with or without his politics. ➡️ […]

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Hello fedifolk especially fediscience, have any of you been working with WfD? I bet some are! I have just come across it, looks really interesting especially this prep work ... wissenschaftfuerdemokratie.de/en/wo… #AcademicChatter

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

@edouardmachery.bsky.social If the area's appropriate, try FAIRDomHub.org. I am not in the project but I use it for models, code and (small) files. Their permission structure is great. Standard ISA folders. Public snapshots can get doi.

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/1170… Looking forward to this 👀 👇! #scicomm And for @bioclocksuk and the #circadian crowd, Artificial Light at Night might also surface in the conversation? 🫣 The connection is the reflections from too many satellites🛰️, even those that […]

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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

War #elephant. Naples ca. 1340. Universiteitsbibliotheek Leuven, Cod. 1, fol. 146r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

@tml Love the ambition! Changing planes in Luton, I saw departures listed before mine to Hogwarts and Middle Earth 👀 but so long ago I can't find the photo.

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

A Republican senator said he obtained a copy of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s phone. Sen #RonJohnson (R-WI) said he was given it by the #Trump admin. The senator said it may answer questions #Fauci declined to answer at a hearing last week. Fauci faces a #contempt vote in #Congress today∶ The retired […]

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

When #AI tools hallucinate citations, their made-up author names are not random. "We show that #LLMs do not merely default to high-probability individual names when generating fictional experts: they produce correlated character ensembles, pairs and trios [of co-authors] whose co-occurrence […]

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Stuff I found @stuffifound.politicalmemes.org · 04/08/2026

Pretty interesting technique, although not every tree is suitable for it. In fact, it's only used on Cryptomeria trees #japan #wood #timber #nature #trees

For over 700 years, Japan has grown high-quality timber without cutting down the original tree using an ancient technique called Daisugi

[Photo of a tree with thick, long branches growing upwards

They found a way to harvest wood without losing the tree

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

For 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿exam results day this year, super-chilled-middle-child has gone away camping for a week and "will just find out when I'm back on Friday". I'm going to be looking at an unopened letter for 3 whole days 🫣😬😮‍💨

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Watching with interest: "Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges." retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31/fede… "A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four […]

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Sewzinski @sewzinski.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Sharing this bald cypress for #ThickTrunkTuesday the Spanish moss always adds more intrigue to a tree I think. #photography #trees #nature

Looking up at an old tall bald cypress surrounded by other smaller ones and pine trees and other natural Florida vegetation. Sunlight shines through trees feathery pine needles branches.

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

Clinging on to the clifftop, where the path drops out of the sunlight. Dunglass, East Lothian. #ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #Scotland

A low rock face in shadow, with a big, contorted oak root clinging to the top. The trunk rises above, balancing just over the drop. To the left, the path leads away in a tunnel of low trees.

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Edinburgh Linux Cafe @edinburghlinuxcafe.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

We had a great time on Saturday at the latest Linux Install Party! 7 people came along with their devices, including some needing support with existing Linux devices. Some new friends dropped in for a chat or to see how they could get involved, including a representative from the local Ubuntu UK […]

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧 @peter-link.expressional.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

**World Cup Moment #2: Lumumba Lives!** world-outlook.com/2026/07/18/world-… from #WorldOutlook July 18, 2026 > At the #WorldCup on Tuesday [June 23, 2026] — a man in a red suit stood completely still for 90 minutes in the stands. Then he covered his mouth and […]

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

🦌 Arctic reindeer are the only mammals whose eyes change color seasonally - gold in summer, deep blue in winter. They physically restructure a nanoscale photonic mirror inside their eyes to match Arctic twilight wavelengths, boosting night vision during months of polar darkness. #science #nature […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Gosh I have so much work to do... but I'm too angry because the engineer who built the fucking space mirror for Reflect Orbital and then quit openly admits that it won't actually provide solar power and that it's just for "Maybe there's some, you know, grand party in the desert" But they're […]

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Nicolas Fressengeas @fresseng.universites.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Le catalogue national des données de @recherchedatagouv est ouvert ! recherche.data.gouv.fr/fr/actualite… Il référence et permet de découvrir les données produites par la recherche française et déposées dans des entrepôts de […]

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