alisonmarigold
@alisonmarigold.bsky.social
Mycologist, sometime botanist, plant lover, forager, small business owner, forester, musician. Working to become a better ancestor. Aotearoa/New Zealand.
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Meanwhile, the Nobel prize for economics was just awarded to scholars who highlight the importance of investing in science and research for innovation and productivity. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Meanwhile, the Nobel prize for economics was just awarded to scholars who highlight the importance of investing in science and research for innovation and productivity. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Check out this pincushion protea I found growing on the other side of the lake! It almost looks like something microscopic you'd find growing IN the lake.
The 2026 calendar is looking great and I'm excited to share, but had to take a time out to photograph this beaut first.
#flowers #photography
The 2026 calendar is looking great and I'm excited to share, but had to take a time out to photograph this beaut first.
#flowers #photography
November 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Check out this pincushion protea I found growing on the other side of the lake! It almost looks like something microscopic you'd find growing IN the lake.
The 2026 calendar is looking great and I'm excited to share, but had to take a time out to photograph this beaut first.
#flowers #photography
The 2026 calendar is looking great and I'm excited to share, but had to take a time out to photograph this beaut first.
#flowers #photography
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"On the morning of Nov. 10, researchers say they could hear the gathered excitement of the orcas on a hydrophone in Sunset Bay, Wash."
love that the whales had a family vacation
love that the whales had a family vacation
All southern resident killer whales gathered into ‘superpod’ south of Vancouver Island
The Orca Behavior Institute says it’s “thrilled” to have seen a southern resident killer whale superpod gather in the waters south of Vancouver Island last week.
cheknews.ca
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"On the morning of Nov. 10, researchers say they could hear the gathered excitement of the orcas on a hydrophone in Sunset Bay, Wash."
love that the whales had a family vacation
love that the whales had a family vacation
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parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
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wake up babe new Bachs just dropped
Onbekende orgelwerken Bach ontdekt en in Leipzig gespeeld door Ton Koopman
Het zijn twee stukken, die Bach vermoedelijk op 18-jarige leeftijd componeerde.
nos.nl
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
wake up babe new Bachs just dropped
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"Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives"
"Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives"
"Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives"
"Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives"
"Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
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During lockdown I made biwashu with nature-strip loquats and the cheapest white spirits I could find at Dan Murphy; must do it again, that stuff got me through some hard times
Japanify: How to Make Biwashu (Loquat Liqueur)
After making my umeshu and bottling it up for indulgence in October, I became restless. I wanted to make more while I waited for three months. But this time I wanted to try another fruit. After discus...
umamimart.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
During lockdown I made biwashu with nature-strip loquats and the cheapest white spirits I could find at Dan Murphy; must do it again, that stuff got me through some hard times
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There's this woman doing an absolutely wild social experiment on TikTok. She calls random US churches with the sound of a baby crying in the background, explain the baby hasn't eaten in over 12 hours, and asks for 1 bottle of baby formula. She has a public spreadsheet of how each one responded. 1/3
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 AM
There's this woman doing an absolutely wild social experiment on TikTok. She calls random US churches with the sound of a baby crying in the background, explain the baby hasn't eaten in over 12 hours, and asks for 1 bottle of baby formula. She has a public spreadsheet of how each one responded. 1/3
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Have you signed up for #secretSantaAoNZ yet?
Last day to get in on the fun is the 19th of November so tell your friends, tell your followers, tell your followers’ followers.
Spread the word!
🤶🎄🤶🎄🤶🎄🤶🎄🤶🎄🇳🇿
#kikorangi 🐶🇳🇿 🌱🇳🇿 🏏🇳🇿
Last day to get in on the fun is the 19th of November so tell your friends, tell your followers, tell your followers’ followers.
Spread the word!
🤶🎄🤶🎄🤶🎄🤶🎄🤶🎄🇳🇿
#kikorangi 🐶🇳🇿 🌱🇳🇿 🏏🇳🇿
It's beginning to look a bit like Christmas,
With sign up going live!🎶🎵
So here's the Bluesky Secret Santa AoNZ, with some friends from Mastodon along for the ride. We hope you are looking forward to some fun, and that we can bring it to you 🎄
Official hashtag: #SecretSantaAoNZ
App: secretsanta.nz
With sign up going live!🎶🎵
So here's the Bluesky Secret Santa AoNZ, with some friends from Mastodon along for the ride. We hope you are looking forward to some fun, and that we can bring it to you 🎄
Official hashtag: #SecretSantaAoNZ
App: secretsanta.nz
November 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Have you signed up for #secretSantaAoNZ yet?
Last day to get in on the fun is the 19th of November so tell your friends, tell your followers, tell your followers’ followers.
Spread the word!
🤶🎄🤶🎄🤶🎄🤶🎄🤶🎄🇳🇿
#kikorangi 🐶🇳🇿 🌱🇳🇿 🏏🇳🇿
Last day to get in on the fun is the 19th of November so tell your friends, tell your followers, tell your followers’ followers.
Spread the word!
🤶🎄🤶🎄🤶🎄🤶🎄🤶🎄🇳🇿
#kikorangi 🐶🇳🇿 🌱🇳🇿 🏏🇳🇿
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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(me forty minutes ago) i hate everyone and i hate this weather and i hate my life (me after going for a brief walk in the crisp autumn fog and chatting with three neighbors) we are all sacred apes upon gods green earth :)
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
(me forty minutes ago) i hate everyone and i hate this weather and i hate my life (me after going for a brief walk in the crisp autumn fog and chatting with three neighbors) we are all sacred apes upon gods green earth :)
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Bee-elzebub: new horned ‘Lucifer’ bee discovered in Western Australia
Bee-elzebub: new horned ‘Lucifer’ bee discovered in Western Australia
Australian expert stumbled across new species when surveying a critically endangered wildflower in 2019
As if deadly snakes, spiders and sharks were not enough, Australia now has a new creepy critter: a “Lucifer” bee with devil-like horns.
The species – dubbed Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer – was found in the state of Western Australia, Curtin University announced on Tuesday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Bee-elzebub: new horned ‘Lucifer’ bee discovered in Western Australia
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This something I'm very proud to have done, in partnership with NatLib and @jingajik.bsky.social's team.
In 2019, we put the first 8 years of Rip It Up online, free, searchabe and downloadable. In 2024 we added 1986-98 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/...
@audioculturenz.bsky.social
In 2019, we put the first 8 years of Rip It Up online, free, searchabe and downloadable. In 2024 we added 1986-98 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/...
@audioculturenz.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This something I'm very proud to have done, in partnership with NatLib and @jingajik.bsky.social's team.
In 2019, we put the first 8 years of Rip It Up online, free, searchabe and downloadable. In 2024 we added 1986-98 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/...
@audioculturenz.bsky.social
In 2019, we put the first 8 years of Rip It Up online, free, searchabe and downloadable. In 2024 we added 1986-98 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/...
@audioculturenz.bsky.social
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Great discussion!
I'm the author of these diagrams and a lot of the questions that come up around them are addressed in this companion diagram that breaks down the differences starting at the power plant.👇
Much more context is in the original article:
yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/01/elec...
I'm the author of these diagrams and a lot of the questions that come up around them are addressed in this companion diagram that breaks down the differences starting at the power plant.👇
Much more context is in the original article:
yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/01/elec...
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Great discussion!
I'm the author of these diagrams and a lot of the questions that come up around them are addressed in this companion diagram that breaks down the differences starting at the power plant.👇
Much more context is in the original article:
yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/01/elec...
I'm the author of these diagrams and a lot of the questions that come up around them are addressed in this companion diagram that breaks down the differences starting at the power plant.👇
Much more context is in the original article:
yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/01/elec...
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THIS IS YOUR VERY LAST CHANCE! My friends and pin ups in the
Wāhine Toa Firefighter Calendar recreated their poses for me. But if you want the real thing AND to support Breast Cancer Cure. Get your orders in RIGHT NOW!!!
www.breastcancercure.org.nz
Wāhine Toa Firefighter Calendar recreated their poses for me. But if you want the real thing AND to support Breast Cancer Cure. Get your orders in RIGHT NOW!!!
www.breastcancercure.org.nz
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
THIS IS YOUR VERY LAST CHANCE! My friends and pin ups in the
Wāhine Toa Firefighter Calendar recreated their poses for me. But if you want the real thing AND to support Breast Cancer Cure. Get your orders in RIGHT NOW!!!
www.breastcancercure.org.nz
Wāhine Toa Firefighter Calendar recreated their poses for me. But if you want the real thing AND to support Breast Cancer Cure. Get your orders in RIGHT NOW!!!
www.breastcancercure.org.nz
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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Good news #Kawaiicon friends! Slides are now up on my site:
garden.errbufferoverfl.me/soapbox/bull...
Keep your eyes out for raw data, zines and recordings! Which should be there 🔜
garden.errbufferoverfl.me/soapbox/bull...
Keep your eyes out for raw data, zines and recordings! Which should be there 🔜
Is My Job Even Real? Bullshit Jobs in Infosec – errbufferoverfl, enthusiastic zinester & artist, reluctant security engineer
Notes about society, microfarming, and sometimes security engineering.
garden.errbufferoverfl.me
November 8, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Good news #Kawaiicon friends! Slides are now up on my site:
garden.errbufferoverfl.me/soapbox/bull...
Keep your eyes out for raw data, zines and recordings! Which should be there 🔜
garden.errbufferoverfl.me/soapbox/bull...
Keep your eyes out for raw data, zines and recordings! Which should be there 🔜
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I also made a rare insult generator because I wanted to make something evil >:)
Rare Insults 🔥
Fresh burns delivered daily
dr.eamer.dev
November 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I also made a rare insult generator because I wanted to make something evil >:)
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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we gotta stop with the tiny microphones. get a full size mic like an ADULT. you look like you’re at tea with a mouse
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
we gotta stop with the tiny microphones. get a full size mic like an ADULT. you look like you’re at tea with a mouse
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I'm not the first person to notice this, but there are so many services that have been relatively stable for decades that are now having weird dumb problems and I'm certain it's because of CEOs trying to shoehorn in AI and it making stupid mistakes and breaking shit, and it sucks.
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I'm not the first person to notice this, but there are so many services that have been relatively stable for decades that are now having weird dumb problems and I'm certain it's because of CEOs trying to shoehorn in AI and it making stupid mistakes and breaking shit, and it sucks.
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The organizers of the UN event for healthy indoor air used a canary on all their materials and gave everyone canary pins.
Why? Canaries detect dangerous substances in the air of coal mines. We all need to be like canaries and warn about the dangers of unhealthy indoor air due to COVID and climate.
Why? Canaries detect dangerous substances in the air of coal mines. We all need to be like canaries and warn about the dangers of unhealthy indoor air due to COVID and climate.
September 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The organizers of the UN event for healthy indoor air used a canary on all their materials and gave everyone canary pins.
Why? Canaries detect dangerous substances in the air of coal mines. We all need to be like canaries and warn about the dangers of unhealthy indoor air due to COVID and climate.
Why? Canaries detect dangerous substances in the air of coal mines. We all need to be like canaries and warn about the dangers of unhealthy indoor air due to COVID and climate.