This is “inosculation”, where two trees rub branches, roots or trunks together until they conjoin vascular systems, melting into one another. Latin in+osculari, “to kiss inwards” AKA: a long, slow, beautiful interspecies tree-snog, beech on birch & back again. 📷 Johnny Flynn

Leave Twitter just because it’s fallen into disrepair under terrible leadership? Babe, I’m in academia.

I'm sorry but if you are unreliable, I do NOT think you should be a narrator. Conveying trustworthy information is LITERALLY your job. If you are tragically lacking in self-knowledge or blinded by your own unwitting biases, maybe you are not the right person to tell the story

My line-manager is talking about how they have so many meetings they don't have time for lunch. People, particularly managers: PLEASE don't do this. Don't normalise skipping breaks and skipping meals. These meetings are not life-or-death.

this might sound cynical but i’ve always wondered why no billionaire has singlehandedly funded the halting/reversal of climate change solely for the sake of satisfying their narcissism by being able to say they literally saved the entire human race

THIS IS INCREDIBLE. Brave brave people. They know what they are risking. They can't arrest everyone, they can't kill everyone. Power to the strikers! #IranRevolution

This is incredible. A snowball fight filmed by cinema pioneers the Lumiere bros in France, 1896. It's been colourised and had the speed adjusted.

Have moved (or at least trying out) to joereddington.bsky.social