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Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 OCTOBER 2026! 🌿Submissions for the 2027 #PeatCalendar are now open! Please send us your best shots of #flora in #wetlands and #peatlands. 💚All proceeds support early-career researchers! ✉️ peatecr@gmail.com 📸 Deadline for submission 15 October 2026

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Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🍻🍸 #PeatECR and #Peatlandenthusiasts, let’s meet up tonight after Ruhe first day of the fantastic #PowerToThePeatlands conference for a cosy pub night. 🕖 19h00 📍 Nul73 Lunch en Diner Café maps.app.goo.gl/9uiUUZZKXJ8C... #P2P

Event poster for a “Peat ECR Pub Night” on September 2 at 19:00 in ’s-Hertogenbosch, featuring a peatland landscape and neon text.

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Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🌿Submissions for the 2027 #PeatCalendar are now open! Please send us your best shots of #flora in #wetlands and #peatlands. 💚All proceeds support early-career researchers! ✉️ peatecr@gmail.com 📸 Deadline for submission September 30, 2025

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Meike Lemmer @meikelemmer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Would have loved to see them being fined to pay for the restoration work of the damage they caused. 4000 probably barely covers this effort.

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Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Attention #ECR 📣 Two weeks left to apply for this season’s #PeatNeeds funding!💰 #peatlands #wetlands #studentlife #phdlife

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 30/06/2026

🌿 Discover the fascinating world of Sphagnum mosses with ecologist @ryanclarkecology.bsky.social. Learn field ID skills, peatland ecology, and why these mosses are vital for carbon storage & conservation 🌎 🧪 📅 Tue 03 Nov 2026 | 🎟️ £12.50 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1980357119...

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Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

📣 We’ve launched the Peatland Early Career Researcher Community Discord channel —a space to connect, share knowledge, and collaborate on all things peat. Students, ECRs, and all peatland enthusiasts are welcome! Join us: discord.com/invite/qGrBR... #Peatlands #PeatlandScience #Ecology #ECR #PeatECR

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Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

📣 #PeatNeeds is back for July/August 2026! Microfunding of 125 CAD$ for one #ECR working on a wet-/peatland project. Global, no age limit. Apply by July 31; notifications by Aug 31. Previous #PEATNeeds awardees aren’t eligible. Apply ⤵️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #PeatNeeds #PeatECR #Peatlands

The Peatland ECR Action Team is advertising for applications for the PeatECR microfunding program, PeatNeeds. Each season, one person can win 125 Canadian dollars for specific PeatECR needs in the field or lab. The picture shows a peatland with a boardwalk and a wheelbarrow.

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Pamela Baur @pamelabaur.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🎙️ Podcast-Finale von „Moorvielfalt“: Alarm aus dem Moor – Was die Daten sagen & warum Handeln jetzt zählt Stephan Glatzel & ich (Geoökologie @univie.ac.at ) sprechen über die Veränderungen von Österreichs Mooren in den letzten 35 Jahren⤵️ moorvielfalt.univie.ac.at/podcast/epis... #peatland #podcast

Cover des Podcasts Moorvielfalt: Illustration eines Moor-Querschnitts: Torfschichten mit Wurzeln, grüne und orange Torfmoose sowie die rote Moosbeere als Moorvegetation © Adriana Lopez-Biagi; Titel der 4. Podcast-Episode: „Alarm aus dem Moor: Was die Daten sagen – und warum Handeln jetzt zählt“. Hintergrund in Grün und folgende Logos: Links oben: Universität Wien; Rechts oben das Projektteam der Universität Wien: Geoökologie; Links unten der Projektpartner: Österreichische Bundesforste; Mittig und rechts unten die Fördergeber: Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Klima- und Umweltschutz, Regionen und Wasserwirtschaft sowie NextGenerationEU.

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Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy World Peatlands Day!! #peatECR #Wetlands

Photo collage of different wetland types and plants to be found throughout the world.

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I've created a petition to get Winston Churchill replaced on the five pound note, with a Bog-moss. Sign here please. c.org/j7ZFc4qRFn

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Replace Winston Churchill on a five pound note, with a Bog-moss.

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@PeatlandCymru @peatlandcymru.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Happy New Year of the Horse! With #ChineseNewYear of the horse ahead 17/2, it’s a chance to celebrate one of our key allies in #WalesPeatlandAction – the ponies! By grazing on the dominant Molinia, they enable rarer peatland species to thrive. @natreswales.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social

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Meike Lemmer @meikelemmer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

As a member for over a decade, I cherish the @peatlands.bsky.social for their dedication to peatlands and I believe you can do better and define an early career researcher or professional better than just by the age of “under 30”. Please revise this antique rule 🙏

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Meike Lemmer @meikelemmer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

In my understanding of the liberty, today’s generations have, to change their first, often pressured or wrongly chosen, career pathway, makes this age constraint an outdated, unnecessary hurdle.

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Meike Lemmer @meikelemmer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

For years now, every time I read this post, I can’t help but feel sad, frustrated and helpless about the discriminative age limit set. I remember how I read this same text the first time when I had just started my PhD studies. I was 32. I was an international student and was under financial strain!

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Pro Natura @de.pronatura.ch · 06/01/2026

«Gerade weil der Igel so bekannt und beliebt ist, ist er der ideale Botschafter für die Bedürfnisse der Natur im Siedlungsraum. Zudem geht es ihm weniger gut, als man vielleicht meint.» Wildtierbiologe Andreas Boldt im SRF-Tagesgespräch zum Igel #TierdesJahres: www.srf.ch/play/radio/r...

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Andreas Boldt: «Der Igel frisst nur zur Not Schnecken»

Tier des Jahres 2026 ist der Igel. Diese Auszeichnung vergibt die Naturschutzorganisation Pro Natura immer Anfang Jahr. Der Igel ist ein grosser Sympathieträger, hält auch Überraschungen auf Lager. Zu...

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Mike Shewring @mikeshewring.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Who should pay when commercial forestry creates conservation problems? New analysis shows 200,000-971,000 ha of UK peatland at risk from conifer invasion. Based on our @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social poster. #peatlands Link - tinyurl.com/yc3b2s9h Feedback/ comments welcome—not my usual writing style!

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The Silent Invasion

How Non-Native Conifers Are Threatening Britain’s Peatlands

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Akrotelm 🌾 @akrotelm.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Eine der dringendsten Aufgaben, um sich am die Folgen der Klimakrise anzupassen: 👉 Wir müssen endlich anfangen Wasser 💧 in der Landschaft zu halten, anstatt es über Gräben, Kanäle & begradigte Flüsse möglichst schnell rauszuleiten, wie es gegenwärtige Praxis ist.

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Meike Lemmer @meikelemmer.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Just in time for Santa Claus to prepare the gifts 🤶🎅🦌🛷

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Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

We are extending the deadline until November 09 for submissions to the #2026PeatECRcalendar. Send us your best #wildlife photos in #peatlands and other #wetlands. Include the coordinates, peatland and animal name, some information about your project. Email to peatecr@gmail.com

Promotional poster for the 2026 PEAT (Peatland ECR Action Team) calendar themed "Wildlife." It announces that the photo submission deadline has been extended until November 9. The background shows a wooden path leading through peatland toward distant mountains at sunset. Photo credit: Justinas Sakas.

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The MagiK Garden @themagikgarden.com · 07/10/2025

Meadowview Biological Research is in need of donations to meet their 13.7K payment in a month. Plus you can buy really cool bog plants or just a big bag of live sphagnum moss. Don't let this wetland fall in the hands of those who would quite literally "drain the swamp."

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Meadowview Biological Research Station | Preserving and Restoring Pitcher Plant Bogs

Meadowview is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to preserving and restoring rare wetland plants, habitats and associated ecosystems on the coastal plain of Maryland and Virginia. Our parti...

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Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

🚨📸 About 2 weeks left to send in your best #wildlife in a #peatland shot and publish in the 2026 edition of #PeatCalendar Email to: PeatECR@gmail.com Deadline: 30 September

Promotional poster for the “2026 PEAT Calendar” by the Peatland ECR Action Team. The calendar theme is “Wildlife.” The poster announces that photo submissions are open until September 30, 2025. The background features a scenic photo of a wooden boardwalk leading through a peatland toward snow-capped mountains under a colorful sunset sky. Photo credit: Justinas Sakas.

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Filiz Polat 🌈💚☮️🦔 @filiz-polat.de · 28/08/2025

Die Erlaubnis, Gas vor #Borkum zu fördern, ist ein Schlag ins Gesicht der Borkumer*innen, die sich für den Schutz der Insel einsetzen. Und es ist eine grobe Missachtung des gesetzlichen Auftrags, den #Klimaschutz zu stärken und unser Land enkeltauglich zu machen. www.filiz-polat.de/presse/meldu...

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Grüne kritisieren Entscheidung der Bundesregierung scharf

Gestern (27. August 2025) hat die Bundesregierung ein Abkommen mit den Niederlanden unterzeichnet, das einen weiteren Baustein bei der Erschließung eines grenzüberschreitenden Gasfelds in der Nordsee ...

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Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

⚠️ Monthly reminder for the upcoming Photo contest deadline on September 30th. Have your best shot of#wildlife in #peatlands and other #wetlands featured in the next edition of #PeatCalendar2026 🐻🦊🐸🕷️🦟🐜🦦🦫🦧🐃🦋🫎🦆 ℹ️ peatecr.com/contact-us2/... ✉️ peatecr@gmail.com

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PEAT Calendar

Pretty Peatlands Call for photo submissions for the 2026 PEAT Calendar – Wildlife We’re very excited to issue this year’s call for photo submissions for a new 2026 PEAT Calendar!!…

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Only 28 countries have so far submitted #carbon-cutting proposals to the UN, with some of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases – including China and the EU – still to produce their plans. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Brazil issues last-ditch plea for countries to submit climate plans ahead of Cop30

Only 28 countries have submitted carbon-cutting proposals to the UN, with some of the biggest emitters yet to produce plans

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

#TansleyReview: The effects of #drought on #Sphagnum #moss species and the implications for hydrology in #peatlands Keane et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

The global and local distribution of Sphagnum and a detailed desciption of its anatomy.

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Meike Lemmer @meikelemmer.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I’m very sorry to tell you ladies that this article is yelling you BS. #Sphagnum moss is not different from #peat moss! It’s exactly that. #peatlands #makePeatlandsGreatAgain

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Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

PeatECR Bio Series #1 - just in time to introduce our first featured bio in for July 2025 💚 Today we introduce Leeza Speranskaya, a recent MSc graduate, focusing on evaporation dynamics in restiad peat bogs. Connect with Leeza here: www.linkedin.com/in/leeza-spe... #PeatECRBioSeries

Leeza Speranskaya is a Masters graduate from the University of Waikato, now working as an environmental scientist at a consultancy. She is a self-proclaimed data cruncher but enjoys the occasional bush-bash, both of which she got to experience during her Masters! Leeza’s Masters research focussed on Kopuatai bog, a unique peatland ecosystem located near Paeroa, New Zealand. Kopuatai is dominated by a plant called Empodisma robustum, a wire rush that has allowed this peatland to form due to its high water retention abilities. Specifically, this plant conserves water through restricted transpiration and its dense standing litter. Leeza’s research had two components - (a) analysing over 10 years of evaporation data (i.e., data crunching) which was diligently collected by her supervisor Dave Campbell via the eddy covariance method, and (b) measuring interception loss by collecting rainwater from under the dense E. robustum structure (i.e., bush-bashing). The 10-year evaporation dataset was compared to that of Mer Bleue, Canada, in collaboration with key researchers Peter Lafleur and Elyn Humphreys, to determine the impact of their differing vegetation types on evaporation. This research was able to confirm that E. robustum does in fact have higher water retention capabilities than the Sphagnum mosses found at Mer Bleue during dry canopy conditions, while wet canopy conditions allowed for higher evaporation due to interception loss. An analysis of evaporation patterns with increasing vapour pressure deficit (VPD) at Kopuatai and Mer Bleue indicated that E. robustum is able to restrict evaporation at high VPD, which may allow it to be more resistant to climatic warming and drying compared to ecosystems like Mer Bleue.

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

The longer you look at moss, the more incredible it gets. Here's a closer look at Slender Cruet-moss (Tetraplodon mnioides). 📷 marceau_c on iNaturalist 📍 Austria 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

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NEYEDC @teamneyedc.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Our final #MapOfTheMonth is now online! This time we're featuring a map created by bryophyte recorder Steven Heathcote, showing sphagnum species richness at Askham Bog, York: www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi... Steve was accompanied on the survey by one of our Ecological Data Officers, Hannah! 🔎

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Map of the Month - July 2025 — neyedc

July’s Map of the Month shows species richness of Sphagnum at Askham Bog, York!

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Meike Lemmer @meikelemmer.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Great piece on climate doomerism. I am somewhat missing the realism in it. You look at the two extremes in the story, but leave out the vast majority of realists that do/believe/spread/act on the existing science for more than half a century and yet the curve is rising more steeply than ever 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Dr. Jessica Richardson @definearth.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

🧪 At one point in earth's history, warm air temperatures, high humidity, and high CO2 stimulated photosynthesis. Land was covered with dense, lush vegetation🌿. But a new study shows that while marsh CO2 uptake will ⬆️ with atm. CO2, so too will emissions of CH4. peatmail.substack.com/p/jurassic-m...

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Jurassic Marsh: How More Carbon Could Explode Plant Growth

"'God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man, man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.' 'Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.'" Drs. Malcolm and Sattler, Jurassic Park.

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Meike Lemmer @meikelemmer.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

🥺🙏 Das tut mir so Leid für dich! Die stetige Eco-anxiety verbraucht bereits enorme Energie, und bei Dir kommt der Kampf gegen solche Windmühlen auch noch dazu. Bitte mach weiter! Deine Posts sind so gut, wir brauchen deine klaren Worte! Ich hoffe es hilft dir zu teilen 🦋🫶 #SharingIsCaring

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Meike Lemmer @meikelemmer.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

A game I recommend for relaxing is “AER - memories of old” youtu.be/ldJr6nUDqAs?... Beautiful soundtrack, flying like a bird between isles in the sky, following the spirit world 🪶

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AER Memories of Old - Release Trailer

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Meike Lemmer @meikelemmer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Why they’re important: • Chironomids are key indicators of water quality. • They play a vital role in the aquatic food chain, serving as food for fish and amphibians. • Their tubes help stabilize sediment and recycle nutrients.

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Meike Lemmer @meikelemmer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

• Clustered formations: Often densely packed, as in your photo. • Aquatic environment: Found in wet, peaty, or muddy areas with high organic content.

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Meike Lemmer @meikelemmer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

These larvae (often called non-biting midges) are very common in wetland environments, including peatlands, bogs, and marshes. Here’s how you can recognize them: • Tube-like structures: Made from sediment, detritus, and sometimes silk secreted by the larvae.

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Meike Lemmer @meikelemmer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I was intrigued by your photo and thought about the worms in wadden sea. However they make different tubes and eventually I asked AI about it 😬 here is what it said: The small tubes in the peat of a peatland are most likely made by Chironomid midge larvae tubes.

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Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

🚨Little reminder for all #PeatECR #photographers to send in your best shots of #wildlife in #wetlands and #peatlands. 🏆 Receive fame and appreciation while we feature your photos in our next edition of the #PeatCalendar. ✉️ peatecr@gmail.com 📸 Deadline for submission September 30, 2025

ALT text: Announcement graphic for the “2026 PEAT Calendar” with the theme “Wildlife.” Photo submissions are open until September 30, 2025. The background shows a boardwalk through a peatland at sunset with mountains in the distance. Photo by Justinas Sakas.

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Meike Lemmer @meikelemmer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Woohooooo!!! Way to go!!! So excited for you!!! 🥳🤞🍀

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Matthias Schreiber @schreiberepe.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

"Man muss ... so ehrlich sein, dass auch andere Zukunftspolitik bezüglich Schulden, Renten oder sogar innerer & äußerer Sicherheit auf eine Art unrealistisch ist, weil sie auf der falschen Prämisse beruht, die aktuelle Reststabilität klimatischer Verhältnisse ließe sich in die Zukunft hochrechnen."

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Klimapolitik: Es reicht nicht, wenn nur die Grünen grün sind

Die Spitze der grünen Bundestagsfraktion geht mit einem fetzigen Strategiepapier in Klausur. Das zeigt leider auch, dass die Partei das Klimathema wieder monopolisiert.

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Akrotelm 🌾 @akrotelm.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Die #Ostsee stirbt. ☠️ Die Ursachen: zu intensive Nutzung, Altlasten, vor allem aber viel zuviel Eintrag von Nährstoffen aus der #Landwirtschaft 🚜. Es muss schnell gehandelt werden. 👉 Aber getan wird trotzdem lieber erstmal nix, denn es könnte ja wer verärgert über mögliche Einschränkungen sein.

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Ostsee: Streit um den Meeresschutz

Dass die Ostsee besser geschützt werden muss, darüber sind sich alle einig. Die Landesregierung wollte einen Nationalpark, aber die Bürger waren dagegen.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Wow, the amazing ‘Orkney Hood’ is so well preserved it looks like it was woven yesterday rather than c. 1,600 years ago! Found in peat in 1867, this remarkable woollen hood from Iron Age Orkney likely belonged to a child. AD250 - AD615 National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a mannequin wearing a brown-coloured woollen hood with long knotted fringe on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. It was found in peat moss on the island of Orkney in 1867. Organic clothing rarely survives. This woven hood is remarkably well-preserved for its age. Radio-carbon dated to AD 250 - AD 615.

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Moss friends in the UK if any of you happens across Sphagnum warnstorfii by any chance, would you mind collecting a small amount for me by any chance? 🙏

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Journal of Plant Ecology @jpecol.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

‼️ #Warming🌡️ ➡️ #MicrobialCommunities and substrate mediated ecosystem functions in #Sphagnum- and #ShrubPeatlands Results: The #CarbonDioxide💨 emission from shrub-dominated peatlands was significantly lower than that from Sphagnum-dominated peatlands. doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...

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Akrotelm 🌾 @akrotelm.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

All das könnte Unmengen Wasser 💧 in der Landschaft zurückhalten, der auch direkt & indirekt positive Folgen für die Landwirtschaft hätte. Aber das wird nichtmal diskutiert. Es wird so getan, als ob man mit großen Becken zur Bewässerung einfach so weitermachen könnte wie bisher. #Dürre

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