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Alejandra Quiroga
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Libros 📚, ciencia 🧪 y naturaleza 🏞️
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Algunos helechos típicos de la laurisilva canaria registrados ayer para el #VBiomaratón en El Pijaral (Anaga, Tenerife): Woodwardia radicans, Hymenophyllum tunbrigense, Davallia canariensis y Asplenium hemionitis. @alequirogario.bsky.social @gtp-sebot.bsky.social @biomaratonflora.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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mfmazuecos.bsky.social
Algunas observaciones de endemismos canarios hechas hoy con @alequirogario.bsky.social para el #VBiomaratón en la Corona Forestal de Tenerife: Cistus symphytifolius, Argyranthemum broussonetii, Echium virescens y Aeonium spathulatum. @biomaratonflora.bsky.social

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May 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Hoy ha comenzado el #VBiomaratón de Flora Española. ¡A esta hora ya tenemos más de 2000 observaciones en nuestro proyecto de @inaturalist.bsky.social! Puedes seguir las observaciones en tiempo real en www.inaturalist.org/projects/v-b...

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May 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Hello—Is A River Alive? has been adapted as Radio 4’s Book of the Week next week.
Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music.
First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am.
You can listen here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane, Episode 1: Anima
Robert Macfarlane explores an idea that changes the world – that a river is alive.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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We’re delighted to introduce the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist! The 16 books on the list are genre-spanning, with many exploring the ramifications of global events in the past, present and future. We hope you enjoy every moment of the journey within their pages.
Announcing the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist
Tune in on Tuesday 4th March at 8am GMT for the announcement! Hear from our judges as they reveal the 16 books on the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist sponsored by @audible and @Baileys. The judging panel for the 2025 Prize is chaired by author Kit de Waal. She is joined by novelist, journalist and inaugural winner of the Orange Award for New Writers (the Women’s Prize for debut novelists in 2006), Diana Evans; author, journalist and mental-health campaigner, Bryony Gordon; magazine editor, most recently Editor-in-Chief of Glamour UK, Deborah Joseph; and musician and composer known for award-winning film scores, Amelia Warner. We hope you discover some brilliant books to buy, borrow, read, love and pass on.
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March 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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The 2025 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction longlist. We cannot wait to hear what you think of these 16 incredible books!
February 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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¡Ya están aquí nuestros nuevos clubes de lectura! 👀
January 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Made a list of new nonfiction books to look out for this spring:
December 30, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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Los tesoros del Real Jardín Botánico al descubierto: siglos de investigación, belleza y misterios de su archivo histórico
Ilustraciones que sobrevivieron a naufragios e incendios, una de las colecciones de láminas botánicas más valiosas del mundo y un enigmático código de colores aun sin descifrar, son solo algunas de la...
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December 8, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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“Living in a culture where 30% of the contents of a bookstore are translations is very different from living in a culture where only 3% of the books are.”

translationpatterns.substack.com/p/3-percent-...
3 percent, 60 percent: the singularity of English in the world of translations
making sense of some crude numbers
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December 7, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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Hoy, en #LibrosMuyRegalables de autoras, 'La ciudad solitaria' y 'El jardín contra el tiempo', de Olivia Laing.
December 4, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
November 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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My first post here! We’re looking for an enthusiastic plant developmentalist to join our team as a postdoc working on how this wonderful plant builds sexually deceptive flowers. Link here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49334/
November 26, 2024 at 6:40 PM