Mike Gemmell
@vitexlucens.bsky.social
Apanthropist. Father. Papa. Knitter. Pupuhi. PhD. Botanist. Pākehā. This sound does not subscribe. Tenei haruru kaore ohauru https://soundcloud.com/detunedradio
December 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild.
Zorion guttigerum
Otago skink
Emperor penguin
Grackle
Long tailed bat (NZ)
Zorion guttigerum
Otago skink
Emperor penguin
Grackle
Long tailed bat (NZ)
Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild.
Rock wren
Elk
Badger
Echidna
Firefly
Rock wren
Elk
Badger
Echidna
Firefly
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild.
- Tuatara*.
- Kangaroos.
- Sperm whales.
- Glowworms.
- Stingray.
*in Zealandia, but as they were free-range I'm allowing it.
- Tuatara*.
- Kangaroos.
- Sperm whales.
- Glowworms.
- Stingray.
*in Zealandia, but as they were free-range I'm allowing it.
November 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild.
Zorion guttigerum
Otago skink
Emperor penguin
Grackle
Long tailed bat (NZ)
Zorion guttigerum
Otago skink
Emperor penguin
Grackle
Long tailed bat (NZ)
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BSBI @bsbibotany.bsky.social announces winning photographs markavery.info/2025/11/27/w...
First category: Up close with diagnostic features.
Grass-of Parnassus (Parnassia palustris), Birnie, Morayshire, by Catriona Matheson
First category: Up close with diagnostic features.
Grass-of Parnassus (Parnassia palustris), Birnie, Morayshire, by Catriona Matheson
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
BSBI @bsbibotany.bsky.social announces winning photographs markavery.info/2025/11/27/w...
First category: Up close with diagnostic features.
Grass-of Parnassus (Parnassia palustris), Birnie, Morayshire, by Catriona Matheson
First category: Up close with diagnostic features.
Grass-of Parnassus (Parnassia palustris), Birnie, Morayshire, by Catriona Matheson
#fridayflower Scarlet Pimpernel Lysimachia arvensis
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
#fridayflower Scarlet Pimpernel Lysimachia arvensis
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Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Gender-affirming care saves lives
I reckon you'd get a much better outcome if you gave the money used for incarceration to the communities and families the prisoners came from.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Luxon calls growing prisoner numbers 'a good thing' as police target slips
The prison population has surged to record highs and is now nearing 11,000 inmates
www.rnz.co.nz
November 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I reckon you'd get a much better outcome if you gave the money used for incarceration to the communities and families the prisoners came from.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Friday fruit. Kawakawa. Piper excelsum
November 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Friday fruit. Kawakawa. Piper excelsum
#fridayflower Erodium moschatum
Musty storks bill.
Musty storks bill.
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
#fridayflower Erodium moschatum
Musty storks bill.
Musty storks bill.
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People who I want making decisions about my treatment: doctors
People I do not want making decisions about my treatment: politicians
People I do not want making decisions about my treatment: politicians
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
People who I want making decisions about my treatment: doctors
People I do not want making decisions about my treatment: politicians
People I do not want making decisions about my treatment: politicians
#fridayflower tarata, Pittosporum eugenioides
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
#fridayflower tarata, Pittosporum eugenioides
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Kicking yourself because you missed Mark Duffell's recent Botanical Skills Webinar on the etymology of scientific names?
Or maybe you just want to watch it all over again because there was soooo much to take in!
No problem, we recorded the webinar for you!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8o4...
Or maybe you just want to watch it all over again because there was soooo much to take in!
No problem, we recorded the webinar for you!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8o4...
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Kicking yourself because you missed Mark Duffell's recent Botanical Skills Webinar on the etymology of scientific names?
Or maybe you just want to watch it all over again because there was soooo much to take in!
No problem, we recorded the webinar for you!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8o4...
Or maybe you just want to watch it all over again because there was soooo much to take in!
No problem, we recorded the webinar for you!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8o4...
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I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college:
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college:
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
#fridayflower chestnut flowers. Quite a distinctive aroma 😳
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
#fridayflower chestnut flowers. Quite a distinctive aroma 😳
#fridayflower Pōhutukawa flowers bursting out
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
#fridayflower Pōhutukawa flowers bursting out
#fridayflower tī kōuka, Cordyline australis.
October 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
#fridayflower tī kōuka, Cordyline australis.
Daughter asked if she could play schools. I told her if she is the teacher she has to go on strike too otherwise she would be breaking the picket line.
Full support for striking workers in our house
Full support for striking workers in our house
October 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Daughter asked if she could play schools. I told her if she is the teacher she has to go on strike too otherwise she would be breaking the picket line.
Full support for striking workers in our house
Full support for striking workers in our house