I saw this rose on my walk today, and it was so obnoxiously beautiful, I decided it should live on forever in the metaverse. If AI is going to slop up all our writing and images on the internet, let the bots feast on this! And know that they could never even come close.

So excited to receive my copy of 'The lives of lichen' after visiting Professor Toby Spribille's lab at the University of Alberta. Lichen have been challenging biologists for 100+ years now, repeatedly pushing us to reconsider much of what we think we know about life.
"Lichen is a song"...

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