Dr Laura Lowe Forrest @llforrest

Botany BSc, MSc, PhD, a few postdocs, Panamanian/Scottish/US daughter, 2 cats. North Berwick, Scotland Joined September 2009

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Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20

9 months ago

Don't get distracted by seizing the Panama Canal or annexing Greenland. While Donald Trump says crazy shit, he's actually working on the complete dismantling of consumer protection laws and rigging the U.S. tax code to further enrich himself and his rich friends.

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Lancashire Wildlife Trust @Lancswildlife

9 months ago

How do you translocate sphagnum moss on a lowland raised peat bog? You throw it! We recently welcomed @KloraneFond to Little Woolden Moss to take part in a volunteering day, helping us translocate sphagnum moss. Read the blog below to learn more 👇 ow.ly/nGXy50UjQQZ

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HENRY MORRIS @mrhenrymorris

10 months ago

2.1m views and 14k likes for @sam_bidwell's twee thread about England here. He works for the Adam Smith Institute, whose reputation for intellectual rigour takes a bit of a knock. As a lot of it is just plain wrong. 🧵👇

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The Systematics Association @SystAssn

11 months ago

Abstract deadline for the Young Systematits' Forum approaches (again!) Send your abstracts in by 23:59 this Saturday (OCT 26) forms.gle/yy2us9QRXK6Hqg… We look forward to see all your systematics/phylogenetics/taxonomy talks on NOV 15

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Esther Bintliff @estherbintliff

11 months ago

In Somerset, a giant science experiment to tackle flooding began 10 years ago. Rather than trying to resist the sea, a large tract of land was surrendered to it. Lots of people were opposed. The local MP called it “an extravagant, ridiculous scheme”🧵

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Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford

11 months ago

Very few people realise that the vast majority of hospice and palliative care is provided by charity - not by the NHS. I think this is a national scandal. Please RT if you do too 🙏

Hospice UK @hospiceuk

11 months ago

Very few people realise that the vast majority of hospice and palliative care is provided by charity - not by the NHS. I think this is a national scandal. Please RT if you do too 🙏

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Alan Ferrier @alanferrier

11 months ago

MSPs at Holyrood have overwhelmingly voted to oppose the Westminster Labour government's cuts to the Winter Fuel Payment. The motion passed with 99 votes. Only 14 MSPs opposed it. Remember their names.

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Andrew Thin @andrew_thin

11 months ago

Pilgrimage to the starvation wall near the summit of Ben Dearg yesterday. Built by hungry crofters in return for oats during the potato famine. Landowners worried about the alleged moral hazard of welfare without work. Oddly no such concern about inherited income sources.

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My Aunt Fanny 🇵🇸 @Dienne_7

11 months ago

The solutions to nearly all the problems on this planet are obvious. They're just not profitable.

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Niko Ludwig @Collateral_com

11 months ago

Single worst piece of software ever invented

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1

11 months ago

Ecologist speaking calmly: if you pump groundwater from a drinking water aquifer for cooling data center shit and it evaporates, becomes a cloud, drifts away, and rains into the sea, you have in effect USED UP WATER. Begging everyone to learn the water cycle taught in 7th grade.

saila @sailaunderscore

11 months ago

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The London Economic @LondonEconomic

11 months ago

What has the ECHR ever done for us?

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HENRY MORRIS @mrhenrymorris

11 months ago

'Net Zero extremists'... Does he mean climate scientists, or the 75% of the voting public who support Net Zero by 2050?

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter

11 months ago

'Net Zero extremists'... Does he mean climate scientists, or the 75% of the voting public who support Net Zero by 2050?

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Liza Adamczewski or the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski

11 months ago

Third pass on my #RedSquirrel in the Mistletoe Icon. These beautiful delicate creatures are so scarce now. They are the treasures we should be protecting,one of our native species so under threat. If they spent our taxes on this rather than culling the poor old badgers

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The Culturist @the_culturist_

11 months ago

You haven't seen complexity in art until you've seen this 600-year-old painting. It's so detailed that modern medicine has been able to diagnose this man's exact type of blindness. And that's where things get mind-bendingly strange — this whole thing is an illusion... 🧵

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Bento Lab 🧬 @theBentoLab

12 months ago

Here’s a comprehensive (48-page) review of DNA extraction methods developed for point-of-need DNA-based testing that could be useful for DNA testing practitioners, students of PCR, fieldwork researchers, and anyone interested in DNA extraction chemistry. 👇 The authors, Lee et…

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Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) @BioGenEurope

12 months ago

Reminder! Join us for the 1st #BGE-@erga_biodiv Genome Applications Symposium! 🌍🧬 📅 Sept 30 & Oct 1, 2024 🕘 9:00-16:45 CEST No registration needed, the event will be openly transmitted via Zoom! ▶️ Zoom links, programme and more: biodiversitygenomics.eu/2024/08/27/1st… @REA_research

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JOHN NICOLSON 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @MrJohnNicolson

12 months ago

My Dad ran a big social security office - decades ago. Fraud he said was a tiny problem dwarfed by a much bigger one - all the people scared to apply for their entitlements because of right wing MPs screaming about “scroungers.” And here we are - Labour doing it all over again.

Fred Bloggs @MurrayJohn2000

12 months ago

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Dr Laura Lowe Forrest @llforrest

12 months ago

The things you find under your desk at the Botanics... a stack of silica gel-dried Marchantia thalli from around the world that we were storing in mini-petris.