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Andrew Millar
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#OpenData and science policy, interdisciplinarity, #circadian biological clocks and plants. He/his.
University of Edinburgh, specifically the Biological Research […]

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Soon to start the next #staygrounded trip 🚄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 , for @dfg_public to Kassel 🇩🇪 , to review an ambitious #circadian PhD training 🎓 programme. 🧵
Map of Europe with blue seas and beige land, marked in double black track to show a 3000km rail trip, Edinburgh to Kassel and back.
December 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Willow in the marsh, polypody ferns.

#thicktrunktuesday #mosstodon

Find a #rainforest in the UK? 👀
➡️ https://map.lostrainforestsofbritain.org/
HT Guy Shrubsole et al.
Willow trunk leaning over a still, dark backwater. It's covered in moss with a few polypody ferns, one of the indicators of temperate rainforest in the UK.
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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The splendid Napoleon Oak 🌳 in its 248th year, now on the campus of the University of Lausanne.
➡️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Oak_(Lausanne)

For this tree, #UNIL researchers tested how many 🧬 mutations have accumulated over the centuries […]

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A huge oak in an open setting, with large low branches all around despite some limb removals. Two photos stitched together by Microsoft ICE software.
October 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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First snow reaches the larch roots, over 2000m 🏔️ .

#thicktrunktuesday
Forest floor with rocks so close below that the larch roots are snaking around in full view, and now dusted with snow.
October 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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🚄 Eurostar check-in is still the weakest link, on this trip in Paris rather than London.
Bit of a wait to get through the distant door circled in green.
People queuing, a dozen wide, into the distance.
October 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Back to work from the Alps 🏔️

#staygrounded
The streamlined, fly-splattered nose of a TGV high-speed train with its headlights on. The train curves along the platform to the left, while to the lower right the tracks are in darkness.
October 6, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Grave markers and weeping beech,
Dean cemetery, #edinburgh

#thicktrunktuesday #trees
A ribbed beech trunk displaces a headstone as it thickens, while the weeping branches create a backdrop curtain of leaves. The sun behind the trunk backlights the foliage and peeps past an upper limb, forming a starburst.
September 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Regrowth in #berlin.

#thicktrunktuesday
A 1m-thick trunk leaning slightly to the right that was cut (or broken) off about 3m up, with now strong regrowth forming a moderate crown leaning to the left. The healthy green canopy stands in front of the fresh white and yellow paint of the Charlottenburg palace.
September 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM