Orkney Library staff (and #BookyMcBookface) have been at Dounby Community School today for a special #WorldBookDay BOOK TASTING with the kids! 🍽📚 A LOT of books were tried and tested, tasted and talked about! 😍

Rough sharks’ slow growth and few young, combined with an unusual diet of shark eggs, make them susceptible to overfishing, which highlights the need to provide refuge from human activities. Learn more in the latest issue of Science: scim.ag/68n

Falling Star

The Magpie nest building seems to be going well in my garden; they were just bringing in small things to the centre of it yesterday:

This is the first time I've seen a #spider with a parasitic #wasp larva. It doesn't bode well for the #spider

Expo har under månader wallraffat i en sluten digital gemenskap där tonåringar, den yngsta bara 12 år gammal, planerar ideologiska våldsdåd. Det här är del 1 i vår artikelserie Jägarna – där pojkarna tar steget från chatten till nazistiskt gatuvåld. LÄS! expo.se/fordjupning/be…

Explaining southern culture to my colleagues at this conference (explaining what grocery store feet means)

#AnimalFigureOfTheDay and we're back to #tigers for a little while. We got to # 46 before, so here's # 47. Another white tiger, this time a Safari Ltd figure from 1996. Quite a pleasing figure, though that striping isn't exactly accurate. #toyanimals

Please watch and share this moving speech by Tiwi leader Therese Bourke in the Senate last week. She's asking the Australian Govt to stop a law that would threaten First Nations consultation rights about offshore gas projects, and effectively bypass federal enviro law.

The Church of St. Mary Magdalene at Debenham in Suffolk. The lower stages of the tower are Saxon in origin, while the main body of the church mostly dates from the 14th and 15th centuries. #SteepleSaturday 📸 My own.

Medieval screen from the Church of St. Peter & St. Paul at East Harling in Norfolk. #ScreenSaturday 📸 My own.

Always worth growing a potfull of Fritillaria meleagris each year - then you can plant them in the garden when they finish. #fritillaria #fritillariameleagris #fritillary #springbulbs #marchflowers #containergardening #pots #peatfree

Exciting news! Fab guide by Finch Publishing is published on Monday! More details then! #sussex #gardening finchpublishing.co.uk

One of my favorite conversations with a neighbor happened at a neighborhood ‘street party’ during the pandemic. N: oh, you do still live here. Me (confused): yeah. N: I thought your house was abandoned. You know, your front yard? Me: those are flowers.

I had a wonderful time out in London watching VUKOVI rock out at the Electric Ballroom in Camden Town, with 2 other excellent bands Angkor and Knifebride.

A lovely looking tulip about to unfurl #gardening

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One of America's most accomplished political consultants, Hal Malchow, will die on Thursday. He has one last urgent message for Democrats. politico.com/news/magazine/…

How (and Why) I Planned a 40-City Book Tour About Shark Science and Conservation therevelator.org/why-book-tours…

Kate Starbird: "The people that benefit from the spread of disinformation have effectively silenced many of the people that would try to call them out" nytimes.com/2024/03/17/us/…