There's a little magic to December evenings... ✨

Is nature looking festive where you are? Share your Sunday snaps with us. 👇

The Monarch Caterpillar (Herbivore Edition)

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🏞️ Rivers make our lives healthier because nature and abundance grow along its path: they literally shape our landscapes and support life’s incredible diversity.

Keep them flowing by keeping them protected here: https://nature.ly/46zW0O8

New World View

#NightSkyPhotography #NightscapePhotography #MoonPhoto #CornMoon #Moonrise #SonyAlpha #AlphaUniverse #SonyCommunity #ScandinavianPhoto #SonyPhotography #NatGeoYourShot #PhotoPills #PhotoPills_Moon #MadeWithLightroom #MadeWithPhotoshop #VisualsOfEarth

Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight is the mighty-beaked Hawfinch! 🍂

A shy autumn migrant, these large finches are drawn to the UK’s woodlands, where they put their powerful bills to work cracking seeds.

Have you spotted one?

Halloween is for the goths and moths 📣

So we're kicking off our spooky countdown with the aptly-named Feathered Gothic (Tholera decimalis). A common moth, well distributed throughout most of Britain, but very local further north.

📷: Rob Blanken
#MothMonday #TeamMoth

Research needs freedom — to ask hard questions, test new ideas, and share results. But today that freedom is under pressure. Welcome to an important conversation about how we can safeguard science in a troubled world. https://tinyurl.com/ysxudtsd

Accounting isn’t just about spreadsheets. It shapes business, policy and society. That’s the idea behind Numbers Talk, a new podcast from SSE's Department of Accounting.

👉 The first episode is out now: Johan Graaf on the rise of investor relations. #accounting https://tinyurl.com/y77nspem

Congratulations to Professor Martina Björkman Nyqvist on her appointment to the board of @sidasweden.bsky.social – the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. Her research helps ensure that aid is directed to where it makes the biggest difference.

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"In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history."

-Carl Sagan

Here's a closer look at the record low sea ice conditions around #Svalbard. The ice edge is still close to the 85°N line of latitude along the Atlantic front. That's a lot of open water into the Barents Sea region! Data from AMSR2.

“We can’t take growth for granted. We need openness to new ideas and people who can turn new knowledge into practice," reflects Professor Anna Dreber Almenberg, a member of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. #nobelprize hashtag/economicshttps:%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2F5f9hpw83" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#economicshttps://tinyurl.com/5f9hpw83

"Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small."

-Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience.

The Snail Kite

#WildlifePhotography #WildlifePhotographyBird #WildlifePlanet #WildlifeOnEarth #WildlifeConservation #VisualsOfEarth #EarthFocus #ShowYourStripes #BiodiversityLoss #NaturePhotography #ForestPhotography #Revieshan #ScandinavianPhoto #CanonNordic #ShareMySigma #MadeWithLightroom

🚨Reminder: MT is proposing wolf hunting regulations that could allow up to 500 wolves to be killed in one season.
Hunters could take 30 wolves each. This plan ignores science, ethics, and the ecological value of wolves.
Public comments are open through today. Speak up now: fwp.mt.gov/aboutfwp/com...

The Luminance of My Blues

#SaveButterflies #ButterflyWorld #PlanetButterfly #RoamThePlanet #VisualsOfEarth #EarthFocus #WildlifePhotography #WildlifeConservation #NatuurFotografie #NaturePhotography #ClimateResilience #ShowYourStripes #CanonNordic #ShareMySigma

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