Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@social.cleverlibre.org

Happy Monday morning 🌻 These hummingbirds with the yellow under their beaks are confusing me,which ones are they?

Looking for some help

A week or so ago, there was an article I saw get boosted a few times. It was about ants or some animal in Africa and the noteworthy part was that the (western?) researchers quoted the local community leaders as experts on the critter based on a long history of living together and included them as authors.

Can anyone help me find that article again? Boosts much appreciated!

The GOP has yet to realize that running on an anti-abortion, pro-gun, anti-vaccine, pro book ban, anti-trans, pro-Russia platform isn’t going to win over new voters. It’s going to bring ruin upon their party.

And they will have deserved it.

Coppola Comment long read on the fractional reserve crisis playing out in crypto and in parts of the wider financial system. Shadow banking is back.
https://www.coppolacomment.com/2023/04/a-fractional-reserve-crisis.html

After witnessing a white doctor refuse to treat a sick, elderly Native American woman who later died, Susan LaFlesche Picotte decided to become a physician to help her people. Born in 1865, she grew up on Nebraska’s Omaha reservation.

In 1889, Picotte became the first female Native American to earn a medical degree in the U.S. She raised funding & opened Wathill Hospital in 1913 - the first private hospital on a reservation. https://drsusancenter.org/dr-susan #HistoryRemix #history #science

Still many yrs away, in part b/c of scant $$, there's gr8 promise in #nuclear #fusion.

The Internat'l Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is using a Tokomak design (this vid). https://bit.ly/3UGqwiX

The nxt step in fusion design is the Stellarator: plasma is confined by rapidly changing magnetic fields, shaped by complex magneto-hydrodynamics computations on a supercomputer.

Germany is building one! https://bit.ly/43ztfyI (Ignore the over hype!)

The future is nuclear!
#science

If you care about horse welfare, don't watch the #GrandNational. Don't bet on it. Don't go to Aintree.
https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2023-04-13/first-horse-dies-at-grand-national-as-calls-for-stricter-safety-measures#:~:text=Four%20horses%20died%20at%20Aintree,the%20on%2Dcourse%20veterinary%20team.

Heads up! A new lawsuit objects to DiabloCanyonNuclearPlant remaining open. https://bit.ly/43lkGY6

Mentioned contract to replace Diablo w/ "clean & renewable #energy" wld include coal-fired power frm Wyoming!

A 2018 SanDiegoTribune article explains how bad 'grid regionalization' will be for CA. Emissions will go up! https://bit.ly/3zUbHQc

The fossil fuel industry is insidiously behind opposition to #nuclearenergy.

Beware the deceit often behind the words 'clean, renewable'.
#politics

Is this the cutest fungus ever!? 😲🍄💙
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This mini mushroom was found in Taiwan and is believed to be Mycena subcyanocephala, often called the blue-headed bonnet. The species is characterized by its teeny tiny height of around 1-3 cm, and its blue to blue-gray cap (typically only 0.5–1.5 cm in diameter).

M. subcyanocephala thrives in temperate climates and usually colonizes decaying wood or leaf litter.
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​📷 Eric Cho/iNaturalist
#nature #mycena #mycology #fungus #science #ScienceAlert #STEM

Only three more shows and a handful of tickets remain, for one show tonight and a matinee and evening show tomorrow, for our run of Allegiance in London! Oh, it’s been quite a run. Who’s going to grab these last ones? https://Allegiancemusical.com

Do you think climate scientists and the IPCC are too optimistic? Do you believe society is collapsing and humans are going extinct? Nature’s newest research journal — Nature Climate Doom — is the place to publish your best work about how and when the world will end.

Wetlands are Earth’s most threatened ecosystem, with 35% of the world’s #wetlands lost since 1970.

Protecting them can help with global challenges such as Climate Change, biodiversity loss and food and water security.

Via #IUCN

#Science #climatechange #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatejustice #climatecrisis #wildlife #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #pollution #publichealth #news #biodiversity #earth #indigenous #Amazon #Pantanal #planet

Oh shit now the "hey transpeople are evil cause one just shot some kids" morons are creeping in on my timeline... its almost like being a member of one of the most abused, ridiculed, attacked, and tortured groups in existance (trans people) might lead to a very very small portion of them snapping and becoming violent... the level of stupdity of these people to think it infers trans people are just bad people, instead of recognizing it might be a symptom of extreme abuse, is mind boggling.

"Too often we think of 'Nature' as happening somewhere else, more exotic, more wild. But what Wild Isles has shown us is that here in the UK nature is just as amazing, just as precious, and just as under threat as the rest of the world."

In light of the People's Plan For Nature published today, Butterfly Conservation CEO Julie Williams looks at why it is so important that we come together to take the action needed to protect and renew nature 👉 https://butrfli.es/3TGdIZw

📷: Nigel Ball

Very much a fan of this image from https://www.visualcapitalist.com/countries-by-share-of-earths-surface/ that shows why that recent UN treaty on protecting the ocean beyond national jurisdiction matters - this is a HUGE proportion of Earth's surface. #ocean #BBJN https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21708.doc.htm

My new Substack, 'The Big Picture,' is already nearing 50,000 subscribers! Sign up to hear my team and I's take on the big-picture questions of our times: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/subscribe

As awareness of the human impact on the environment grows, people seek ways to leave the Earth better than they found it. Today on #TheBigPicture, Team Takei's Amelia Mavis Christnot offers some insight and guidance on eco-friendly funeral and burial practices: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/eco-friendly-funeral-burial-options

Rachel Carson was born in 1907. She became a marine biologist & prolific writer.

Carson questioned the assumption that humans should dominate #nature. She recognized the dangers to natural systems from the misuse of pesticides like DDT. She also accused the chemical industry of spreading lies & politicians of accepting industry claims uncritically.

Her 1962 book, Silent Spring, is widely credited as being the catalyst for the modern environmental movement. #history #science #HistoryRemix