Here is my annual reminder that if Santa is bringing a games console, Santa might want to plug it in and turn it on and get all the updates done now, in advance, so that it is all ready to go on the big day.

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A homegrown alternative of this hellsite and we call it Tuitter who's with me.

This is so desperately sad. As a mother of a daughter; as an educated woman who works in a university, seeing how British universities work as engines of knowledge; as a human - this is so wrong.

"Sadly, the Government and the Opposition are choosing to believe (or at least say they believe) that voters can have it all: a ‘win-win’ situation where they can both keep their current lifestyles and meet our emissions targets without much change or pain."

Very happy to share that the January 2023 Issue of Ecography features the cover of our paper! The first bryozoan cover ever in this journal 💙 @griffiths_huw Cover link: ecography.org/content/januar… Paper link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec… ICM-CSIC news: icm.csic.es/en/news/calcif…

A terrified Afghan female protester says “the Taliban terrorised us at our demonstration today, beat women up and lashed us. We’ve now fled but some women have been detained by them. We don’t know what is going to happen next” The Taliban have banned women from education

The University is closed starting today, 23 December, and will reopen on 4 January. Wishing everyone a relaxing break with their friends & whānau. We'll see you again in 2023! 🎊

Plenty of people on here claiming "not all farmers" in response to Andrew Hoggard's climate denialist stance on RNZ yesterday. But they need to actually DO something about it. He is the president of Federated Farmers! He is representing you whether you like it or not!

Reminder: A #BombCyclone occurs when excess heat from other areas of the planet pushes on the artic cap forcing that cold air to be displaced somewhere else. Unmitigated global warming will make them more likely and intense. #ActOnClimate #climate

Wonder what is and, more importantly, isn't the polar vortex? Your friendly neighborhood climate website, Climate.gov, has got you covered! (Article from 2021) climate.gov/news-features/…

Woke up for no reason at 5.48 which means I actually returned from the Otago Farmers Market victorious, large tray of raspberries, strawberries, stone fruit, pastries for breakfast, sweet peas…now I can drink tea and watch the rain!

"Yes, it's freezing cold. No, that doesn't mean climate change is a hoax" by David Knowles (aka @writerknowles) for Yahoo News: news.yahoo.com/nasa-yes-its-f…

"Merry Christmas" from a hot and overcrowded bus replacement for a canned Waikanae-bound train. What I want for Christmas is a decent public transport system 🌲

What does this budget say about America's heart?

#Bryozoans are microscopic aquatic #invertebrates that live in #colonies. The colonies of different #species take different forms, building exoskeletons similar to those of corals. Most colonies are attached to a #structure such as a rock or submerged branch.

Yesterday you thought “surely there won’t be another supermarket trip after today” yet here you are.

What I am giving myself for Christmas: time and joy. How: deleting Twitter and Facebook. See you in the real world.