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Random Nature Podcast

@writingtwobooks.bsky.social
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Folks talk about environmental humanities; ecocritism; biodiversity issues| posts and reposts by Christy Hyman PhD, Lots of bird photos and Fingerlakes NY stuff| views are my own ✨

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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 8h
Birds of Wondaland
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 14h
Blue Jay
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 15h
Friday feast with the yard birds! The Redwingled Blackbirds will be moving out soon! Got to keep them fed!
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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 16h
Crossing Sognefjorden, the largest fjord-system in mainland Norway, at sunset.
View of a sunset through a grimy ferry-window. The sun is sinking behind a low ridge in the middle-section of the photo, casting a golden shaft across the billowing waters. The top section of the photo is covered by dark clouds against a dark pale blue sky.
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pigeon Guillemot 30-36cm (AUK) Pacific Coast from Alaska - California, parts N E Asia and Siberia. Female lays 1-2 eggs on bare rock inside a cavity. Both parents share incubation duties, taking turns sitting on the eggs 32days Both feed chicks 8 weeks leave on their own to swim and hunt for fish
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 21h
Coffee activate!
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 21h
Coffee! After a two week hiatus!
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rainy day, birds still gotta eat!
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The Cottage Garden @simonecannon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Harlequin glorybower (Clerodendrum trichotomum) is a striking shrub known for its metallic blue berries, pink star-calyxes, and leaves that smell remarkably like peanut butter that attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. "You had me at peanut butter" #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Garden
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Samuel Alito has recused himself from a Supreme Court climate case, after ethics watchdogs uncovered his fossil fuel stockholdings. Instead of relying on the justices to occasionally do the right thing, we need Congress to enact real SCOTUS reform.
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How to Fix a Broken Supreme Court | Robert Reich
Justice Roberts refused to testify in a hearing on SCOTUS ethics.Thomas and Alito accepted luxury vacations from GOP meg
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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On its way to terrorize some park goers.😂 #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky
Red-winged blackbird with black feathers and red and yellow feathers on its wing flies with wings tucked.
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Susan Howe @dancingsue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology #nature #fungi #biology #photography Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) a couple of days ago.
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Honey fungus #fungi
viewed from underneath, a bunch of honey fungus growing out of a mossy log
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Doing a little happy dance because my birthday is not during Mercury Retrograde this year, yahoo!
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wayne is having one of those mornings.
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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something to look forward to!
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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm really happy to have been invited to appear on Random Nature Podcast! This will be a great opportunity to talk about the many ways in which my research connects things past & present, including iconic sitcoms.
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And the next guest on Random Nature Podcast???? Steffen Hope, PhD @hopesteffen.bsky.social We will talk about the Random Nature of Western Norway, fjords, St. Olaf, Rose from the Golden Girls and even more! It should air December 4, 2026.
Scandinavian man posing in front of picturesque scene in Vestland, Norway.
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pigeon Breakfast Club
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Patagonia, Arizona
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Finally the Waterfall Hunter! Be forewarned: my voice is raspy because I was singing the night before. I also giggle a lot because of some outlandish encounters✨ www.buzzsprout.com/2036345/epis...
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THE WATERFALL HUNTER - Random Nature
I sit down with the one and only Waterfall Hunter. He tells me about alligators that watch his cousins play basketball on the court. I hear all about his hometown of Cross, South Carolina. Fair warnin...
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The Cottage Garden @simonecannon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The cone-shaped #flowers of Panicle hydrangeas (Hydrangea paniculata) in the front #garden have dramatically changed colour from white and lime-green to deep pink and red as the summer progressed, and now they're donning their autumn coppery pinks #BloomScrolling #Autumn #Gardening #EnglishGarden
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Content Warning: This episode includes an account of when I was almost SA'ed as a middle schooler www.buzzsprout.com/2036345/epis...
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Misdirected fury at the Lab of Ornithology: Cornell's Reckoning - Random Nature
So here’s what went down: a fraternity on campus was involved in a major gender-based violence incident. The university administration? Total radio silence. Then, instead of going after the presi...
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Conflating the independently run Lab of Ornithology with horrendously violent fraternity boys is nasty as hell work and if you are going that delete me right the phack now. Deadass
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wood Duck!
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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've written a short & very acerbic blogpost, outlining one of the reasons I hate generative AI, namely that it strengthens authoritarians in their constant war against reality. This is essentially a draft piece, so any feedback is very welcome. my-albion.blogspot.com/2026/09/auth...
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Authoritarianism, generative AI, and the war against reality
Quis evadet?    - Hendrick Goltzius, 1594  In the past three years, generative AI has infected daily life on a destructive scale. It is a ...
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have decided to cancel one of my Random Nature Podcast sessions this week. I will revisit scheduling the person in the next year once reconciliatory action has been brought forth on the part of the university administrators who mishandled the very public, very tragic abuses that happened in 2024.
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In pursuit of fungi and pine cones. I’ll leave the mushrooms. I’ll take the pine cones.
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sometimes a photo tells a story. Starring: Redbellied Woodpecker Mourning Dove #birdoftheday
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Veery. Shindagin(Shin- DAYgin) State Forest; near my place.
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Eugenicist operation manual, page 3.
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When will I see Virginia again? I really don’t know… These days I go purely north. This is the scenic byway near Shenandoah Valley.
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I just thought to myself that I never mentioned one of my favorite sparrows on the podcast: The Harris Sparrow. They don’t get too far east. This winner was in Nebraska.
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Enchanting
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Redwinged Blackbirds and Yellowheaded blackbirds alighting- Arizona/Mexico border
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild Asters of the Fingerlakes!
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
TGIF, teaching done for the week!
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Birds Canada @birdscanada.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Le mois de septembre dans le calendrier d'Oiseaux Canada 2026 met en vedette une photo à couper le souffle de deux Gros-becs errants, prise par Missy Mandel. Le saviez-vous? Les Gros-becs errants muent complètement une seule fois par année, à la fin de la saison de reproduction.
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#BirdoftheDay Prairie Falcon From my time driving through New Mexico on I-10
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It was. I found the photo. Just for you. French Broad River in background.
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#Birdoftheday Blue Jay Pileated Woodpecker Great Blue Heron Ithaca, New York
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy #FallEquinox from the Fingerlakes region of New York!
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Jack Maynard(he/him) @jhmsparky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This Steller's Jay saw me watching it hide a peanut, and realizing I could see where it was buried, unearthed the nut and flew it to a safer cache. #birding Can't trust the humans
Steler's Jay with Peanut
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Libby Spencer @libbyspencer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Once down to a single pair. Conservationists rescued them from oblivion. The flock is now 350 strong. New Zealand’s karure, or black robin, has been crowned the country’s 2026 Bird of the Year. cnn.it/4rqzZeL
photo of the black robin.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My new piece with @katharinehayhoe.com is out a TIME, which highlights what we all need to learn from climate communicators: “This summer of disasters has shown us that climate impacts are not political, and it is past time we stopped talking about them as if they were.” time.com/article/2026...
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We Need to Stop Talking Like Climate Change Is Partisan
Climate change should be seen as a shared challenge to solve together, not a political debate, write Katharine Hayhoe and Dana R. Fisher.
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Cyndie is not an #ECHO💙🔵dot 🔵 state @cyndieg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#BirdoftheDay “You looking at me?”
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
2nd thoughts.
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Headed to town
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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Morning morning from some feasting pigeons
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