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Astrid Ebner-Zarl (she/her)
@astridebnerzarl.bsky.social
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Social Scientist. Doctor of Sociology.
Researcher @foresight-institut.bsky.social
On Bsky in my free time.
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#FlowersOnSunday #SundayInspiration #NaturePhotography
#PhotosAndPoetry #BloomScrolling #FlowerPower
Close up of a red rose in front of ivy leaves. The photographer added text to the photo in pink letters that says: And when you're close to giving up remind yourself of all the times when everything seemed hopeless but all of a sudden, unexpectedly, life gave you roses. In the lower right corner of the photo there's the name of the photographer & author: A. Ebner-Zarl.
November 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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A bit of encouragement for everyone who needs it right now. Inspired by the ocean's spectacular waves during a thunderstorm in Croatia, September 2025.

#NaturePhotography #Inspiration #Ocean #LandscapePhotography #Waves #Sea
Photo of the ocean with gigantic waves breaking on the shore. In the background a sailing boat. The text in the photo says: Don't worry. Life has taught me I am strong enough to sail even the stormiest seas. I can do this and so can you."
October 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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I'm a bit late to the party today - have a nice Sunday evening, everybody! 😊

#FlowersOnSunday #FlowerPower #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport
Two bellflower blossoms from behind. Sunlight shines through the blossoms.
October 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I haven't had much time to take photos lately,so I have to rely on my archive (which is huge, luckily 😁). Here's a flower whose shape & transformation I find particularly fascinating. (Nigella damascena?)
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Close-up of a magnificent white flower with striking and abundant green stamens, surrounded by highly branched, thin green leaf stalks. An assemblage of flowers as described in photo number one. In many of them, the blossoms have already developed into large, reddish seed capsules.
October 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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#FlowersOnSunday #SundayInspiration #Bloomscrolling

Wir können alles schaffen, wenn wir einander tragen.

We can overcome everything, if we carry each other.
Close-up of a daisy and a yellow bigger flower leaning on each other, the daysie's blossom being slightly above the yellow blossom. On the photo there is also text saying: Wir können alles schaffen, wenn wir einander tragen. (Translation - not on the photo - would be: We can overcome everything, if we carry each other.)
September 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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"Ohne die Leistung von Migrant*innen würde es nicht funktionieren." Die Zeitschrift @anschlaege.at hat mich über unsere FORESIGHT-WIFO-Studie zum wirtschaftl. Beitrag von Zuwanderung interviewt. Ich freue mich sehr - stellvertretend für unser großes Projektteam - Teil des aktuellen Hefts zu sein.
Screenshot der Headline und des einleitenden Absatzes. Headline: Ohne die Leistung von Migrant*innen würde es nicht funktionieren. Text: Migrant*innen nehmen Einheimischen die Arbeitsplätze weg – oder wollen erst gar nicht arbeiten, so gängige rassistische Erzählungen. Eine aktuelle Studie von FORESIGHT und WIFO, die von ASTRID EBNER-ZARL geleitet wurde, belegt stattdessen die enorme wirtschaftliche Bedeutung von Zuwanderung in Wien. Interview: CHIARA KOHLMORGEN
September 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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#FlowersOnSunday #FlowerPower #Bloomscrolling
Close-up of a daisy, positioned diagonally in front of a marigold. Accompanied by the words: ‘There's so much beauty in the small things.’
September 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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The sea during the ferry crossing. #Lošinj #Cres
Photo of a deep blue and very smooth sea surface, lightly reflecting the white clouds and the bodies of land on the horizon.
September 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Thank you, #Croatia, for a marvellous week in beautiful #MaliLošinj. Clear blue water, impressive rocks and pine trees as far as the eye can see. 😍 I took so many photos, I'm still not finished looking through all of them. Here's a photo of my favourite spot.
The photo shows a footpath along the sea, lined with trees. On the left two thirds of the picture the dark blue ocean stretches out, with several boats on it. Along the path, in the background, a small bench can be seen and some trees and bushes throw shadows on the otherwise sunny path.
September 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Thank you very much! 🤗 It's one of my favorite pics from this year. Here are some roses for you, too. 😊
Close-up of a couple of pinkish rose blossoms.
August 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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What a beautiful Sunday tradition: #FlowersOnSunday - some colorful flowers 🌸 to brighten up our timelines. Here's my contribution for today: a mixture of marigolds, chamomiles and a giant mullein. #FlowerPower

Hope you all have a happy and relaxing Sunday!
In the foreground there are numerous marigolds in orange and yellow, next to them a couple of chamomiles and on the left side behind the marigolds there is a giant mullein. The background shows two trees and the blue sky with big white clouds.
August 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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... all fascinating. Here's the fifth one.
#mushrooms #fungi
Close-up of a mushroom's very broad cap (beige on top, greenish on the sides).
August 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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During a hike last week, I encountered an explosion of #fungi. The moisture from the rainfalls in July must have been beneficial for them. Here are 4 of them,a 5th is below. The 3rd looks like a boletus edulis,but I wouldn't rely on it.😅Don't have a clue what the others might be, although they're...
Close-up of a mushroom with a curved red stem and a cap in green, grey and white. Close-up of a mushroom with a white stem and a broad cap in light brown (with a little bit of red on the right side) Close-up of a small mushroom with a white stem and a round brown cap, embedded in brown leaves. Close-up of a mushroom's cap (round and brown with grey dots)
August 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Happy #FlowersOnSunday! Here's a photo from the archive (taken in June - there were so many beautiful flowers that I couldn't post all of them yet 😁): a campanula after the rain.
Close-up of a campanula blossom with raindrops on it.
August 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Vielen Dank, dir auch eine gute Nacht! Schlaf gut! 🤗
Schlafender Bär auf einem Felsen.
August 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Thank you so much, dear Doris! 🤗 A huge shoutout to you for always supporting us with your reach and for making our posts more visible. I hope you have a great prolonged weekend! Here's a flower - on Friday 😉 - for you:
Close-up of an orange blossom with two bees in its middle.
August 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I hope you had an enjoyable Sunday! I'm a bit late again as I spent the afternoon at the lake - but after all it's still before midnight 😉, so: Happy #FlowersOnSunday!
I also chose a butterfly 🦋 for today's post - together with lavender blossoms and a photobombing bumblebee. 😁🐝
Several lavender blossoms, a golden brown butterfly with black and white spots is sitting on one of them. On the left side a bumblebee - slightly blurred - is flying through the picture.
July 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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An argument between three magpies.

#birds #BirdPhotography
Three magpies in a row on a garden meadow. The magpie in the middle has its beak open, as if calling out to the magpie on the right, which is walking away.
July 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I wish you all a relaxing Sunday evening with these calendula blossoms.

#FlowersOnSunday
Two calendula blossoms - the one in the foreground is orange, the one in the background is yellow.
July 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Gänsesäger-Gang. / Goosander gang. 😎

#birds #BirdPhotography
#NaturePhotography
Nine goosanders swimming aligned in a river, their heads reflecting in the water.
June 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Good morning!

#FlowersOnSunday
hummingbird hawkmoth amid lavender blossoms
June 29, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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I'm a bit late to the party (past ten p.m.) 😅, but here are some flower beauties for you: a poppy blossom with raindrops on its petals in the midst of lavender.
#FlowersOnSunday
#BloomScrolling
poppy blossom with raindrops on its petals in the midst of lavender
June 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Tautropfen.

#NaturePhotography
June 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Glad I had my camera with me today. Otherwise I would have missed to capture these amazing encounters.

#NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Birds #Stork #Deer #Naturfotografie #AnimalPhotography
A deer jumping through a field. Two deer from afar, standing in a field next to a tree. A stork on a roof from behind, looking back into the camera. Stork on a roof from the front.
May 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Happy #FlowersOnSunday, dear Doris!
Two large poppies in front of numerous white blossoms (yarrow?).
May 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM