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Elspeth Body
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Nature, science, doing good things for people, born at 347ppm
Working for @ukceh.bsky.social 💧🌳🌍

🎙️ Counting The Earth podcast: tinyurl.com/CTEarthpodcast
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We planted this cherry tree just over a year ago. It had a rocky start and we thought it might not make it (bark damage by some sort of beasty meant the centre stem died), but it’s rallied beautifully and given us the best blossom this year. Can’t wait to see how it takes shape this summer 🌱 🌸 💚
Small cherry tree with blossom in the sunshine
April 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Here are some nice mushrooms
A cluster of oddly formed pearl oyster mushrooms grow off the side of a bare log, bits of punkwood stick to their caps, and their alabaster gills flow and swirl across their undersides. All photos by me
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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🖥️ Join speakers including our own Prof Laurence Jones at the next Natural Capital Initiative webinar!

Discussions on how we can protect and improve natural capital and the benefits it provides in towns and cities

📅 Tue 8 April, 12:30-14:00

my.rsb.org.uk/item.php?eve...

#GreenCities #EcoUrban
Colourful wildflower patch in front of buildings, plus logos of Natural Capital Initiative, The James Hutton Institute, UKCEH, and the Royal Society of Biology and the webinar details mentioned in the post
April 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Very happy to make this my first post on @bsky.app - thanks @bas.ac.uk 😄😋🥞
bas.ac.uk British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · Mar 4
This #PancakeDay here's our recipe for pancake ice:

🧊 Get some ice forming on the top of your water
🌊 Bump bits of ice together with small waves
♻️ This rounds their edges as they freeze!
🥞 Grow the disc edges with trapped frozen foam

These pancakes will be up to 3m wide + 10m thick.
Bon Appétit 👩‍🍳
The surface of the ocean is frozen, but in a layer of round patches that all tesselate together.
March 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM