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Roger_TL45Y
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Retired scientist. Prone to 🌱 fads: Artemisas|Calamints|Crataegus|Medicks|Poplars|Goldilocks|Solanum|Dipsacus|Ferns. FLS. Cambridge UK but often in Suffolk 📷: Whooper Swans at Lakenheath. TL45Y =tetrad (2x2km square) round Cherry Hinton. ❤️ 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 & Berlin
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A glorious range of colour variation in these roughly knapped flints in the wall of Holy Trinity Church, Loddon #Norfolk #FlintFriday
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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This Roman kiln is one of many incredible finds the #OCAArchTeam are discovering on site @sizewellc.bsky.social that build up the story of Suffolk's past - want to learn more? Dig in here: oxfordcotswoldarchaeology.org.uk/project/sizewell/

@cotswoldarch.bsky.social #suffolk #heritage #archaeology
November 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Polypody fern catching the evening sun in a South Lancashire wall at Aughton ahead of @bsbibotany.bsky.social #BIBConf25 at Edge Hill tomorrow. #FernFriday
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 75,000 signatures! 🙏

LET’S KEEP GOING!

If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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The Aussie solanums of the Bucknell greenhouse (and their bifurcating stigmas) have been watered for the day — and they told me they can’t wait to see all the species counts come in for #plantsgiving 2025!

#ozplants #iamabotanist
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The only door into the church of St Peter #Cambridge. #AdoorableThursday
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Mistletoe season is almost here, again. Mistletoe Diary will be reporting on bits and bobs of mistletoey stuff through December: mistletoediary.com/mistletoe-se...
Mistletoe Season 2025/6
It's mistletoe time, yet again. And this year the berries have been ripening particularly early, some whitening up a month ago in October - which is very ear
mistletoediary.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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🏙️ Cambridge could see 50,000 new homes over the next 20 years – a “Second Cambridge”! Read our blog, explore the plan, and join the conversation before the public consultation opens 1 Dec 2025: https://cambridgeppf.org/doubling-the-size-of-cambridge/
 #GreaterCambridge #LocalPlan
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Red kites now a common and wonderful sight on the A10 commute from Ely to Cambridge. This one from Archibald Thorburn’s ‘British birds’ (London, 1915-1918). Lib.3.91.437-441 @theul.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Sunset over the M11 at @wildlifebcn.org Trumpington Meadows #Cambridge. Beautiful apart from the traffic noise.
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Went for a stroll around Lake Głębokie, which is popular as a city bathing spot (the Polar Bear Club was out in force!) The lake is surrounded by mixed forest and includes several Natural Monuments, including this huge Oak (more info in ALT text). #ThickTrunkTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
A London Plane tree in a puddle of its own leaves. Leaves from the row of Lime trees behind long since cleared away. Abbey Gardens #BuryStEdmunds #ThickTrunkTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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《We’re looking at a change in ideology over a generation or two. Social ideas and cohesion aren’t working well,” Zeeb-Lanz says. “And ritualistic violence is a very strong way to bring cohesion in a community.》

www.science.org/content/arti...
@neolithicbodies.bsky.social
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
At the foot of a shabby wall on an unprepossessing verge
I think these are leaves of Canadian Goldenrod, Solidago canadensis, so guess the #mildew on them must be Aster Powdery Mildew, Golovinomyces asterum. 🤔
Off Raingate St #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk today. #Fungi
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Don't forget that groups can still book to visit the Mill during the winter, when it's closed to the public, by contacting [email protected] #Education #schoolvisits #woodbridgetidemillmuseum #kidsinmuseums
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.

Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!

#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Let the bletting begin! Mespilus germanica near #Cambridge for #JacobinDay
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Douce-amere - Solanum dulcamara - site
November 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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A ghost of summer. Still some flowers on Wild clary in West Cambridge. #WildflowerHour
November 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This roundabout is on my route from the railway station to town centre in Bury. Ragwort grows between the tracks at the station. Not easy to get close but think this may be the reservoir of the plant in the town! Narrow-leaved Ragwort, Senecio inaequidens, #WildflowerHour at #BuryStEdmunds station.
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Pink on #Cambridge pavements - Common Mallow, Malva sylvestris, plus Petunia, Petunia x hybrida. #PavementPlants #WildflowerHour
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A raised cobbled area around a tree pit by a roundabout in #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk hosting Narrow-leaved Ragwort, Senecio inaequidens. #WildflowerHour
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
#TheWinter10 on banks & walls in Abbey Gardens #BuryStEdmunds:
Regular Wild Clary, plus:
3 wall/muralis things: Pellitory-of-the-wall, Ivy-leaved Toad-flax, & a surprise Annual Wall-rocket 🤗
Shepherd's-purse, Groundsel, Yarrow,
Red Valerian, Red Dead-nettle, Black Nightshade.
#WildFlowerHour
November 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM