Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

ThornyHedges

@thornyhedges.bsky.social

970 followers 2K following 620 posts

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📖 🏡 ☕️ 🐈‍⬛ 🐞 🪴 Family, friends, music, green spaces, horticulture & nature are my happy places with a book or two thrown in for good measure. #wildlife #trees #photography #nature #cats

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 52m

Fabulous specimens

Reposted by ThornyHedges

Debbie T Knits 🧶 @debbietknits.bsky.social · 1h

Totally
🧶 #knit #knitsky

1 8

Reposted by ThornyHedges

Peter Rutherford photography @peterrphotography.bsky.social · 1h

#woodland #woodlandphotography #edinburghphotographer #dalkeithcountrypark #autumn #autumnvibes #autumncolors #treesofinstagram #trees #nature #naturephotography

1 4

ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 1h

That isn't going to be a problem. We've no intention of travelling to the US.

ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 1h

🤦‍♀️

ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 1h

a scarecrow is wearing a red hat and orange collar

ALT: a scarecrow is wearing a red hat and orange collar

media.tenor.com

Reposted by ThornyHedges

Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 3h

Why are some apples as sweet as honey while others make your face pucker? 🍎

Dive into the chemistry behind apple sweetness, tartness, and aroma in this graphic!

👉 Read more: www.compoundchem.com/2025/10/16/a...

#ChemSky 🧪

Infographic titled “The Chemistry of Apple Flavours” explaining what makes apples sweet or tart and key flavour compounds. Sweetness comes from sugars like fructose, tartness from acids like malic acid. A higher sugar/acid ratio means a sweeter apple. Apple types are grouped as sweet (e.g., Fuji, Gala), balanced (e.g., Jazz, Braeburn), or tart (e.g., Granny Smith, Bramley). As apples ripen, aldehydes convert to alcohols and then to esters, which dominate aroma in ripe apples. Key esters shown include butyl acetate, hexyl acetate, 2-methylbutyl acetate, and ethyl 2-methylbutanoate.

30 61

Reposted by ThornyHedges

Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 9h

Just popping out to LIDL, or 50-1-500-50 as the Romans called it.

32 57 510

ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 14h

Security?!
Privacy?!
GDPR?!

Reposted by ThornyHedges

Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 14h

Ever wondered what stories lie behind Kew’s collections? 🌍
Today’s the day to find out – it’s #AskAnArchivist Day! Our archivists are here to answer your questions about rare books, explorers’ journals and the care of centuries-old plant records.

Ask below 👇
#AskAnArchivist #KewArchives

5 16 60

Reposted by ThornyHedges

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 16h

Grasshoppers evolved into their present form around 250 million years ago.

That was the period after the worst mass extinction event this planet has yet seen: the End-Permian 'Great Dying', and when the supercontinent Pangaea began to break apart.

In comparison, we humans arrived only yesterday.

8 13 90

Reposted by ThornyHedges

Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 15h

A request for weather interested volunteers!

Met Eireann would like to rescue millions of weather observations taken in Ireland over many decades that are still stuck on paper. #WeatherRescue

Anyone can help: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...

2 89 87

Reposted by ThornyHedges

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 15h

Emily Davies (1830-1921), daughter of the rector of Gateshead, was a suffragist who edited the English Woman’s Journal. She co-founded Girton College Cambridge, the UK’s first residential institution offering university-level education, but not degrees, for women, on this day 1869.

9 35

ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 1d

Taste delicious though.

Reposted by ThornyHedges

Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 3d

It's mushroom season in the Northern Hemisphere 🍄

Here's a look at the chemistry of arguably the most iconic mushroom, fly agaric, and what makes them so brightly coloured and hallucinogenic: www.compoundchem.com/2024/11/11/f...

#ChemSky 🧪

Infographic on fly agaric mushrooms, with an image of the mushrooms in the middle (red with white spots). The chemical structures of the mushroom's pigments are shown, including muscarufin, the primary pigment responsible for their red colour. The compounds behind the mushrooms' psychoactive properties, ibotenic acid and muscimol, are also shown. These compounds imitate neurotransmitters in the brain to exert their effects.

3 43 120

ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 1d

Do you not use them for mulch?

ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful & tranquil. I envy you.

Reposted by ThornyHedges

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

Kirkby-born Adolescence star Stephen Graham launches global project asking fathers to write to their sons. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Adolescence star Stephen Graham launches global project asking fathers to write to their sons

The Emmy-winning actor will work with psychologist Orly Klein to compile the letters into a book exploring masculinity and the challenges facing boys today

www.theguardian.com

8 25

ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 1d

Best to protect before temps drop towards -5°C.

ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, point taken! 🤣

ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 1d

We were in Edinburgh yesterday and realised that most towns/cities are glorified shopping centres with little difference between them.

1 1

ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 1d

Or Gaelic in Scotland

Reposted by ThornyHedges

Badger Trust @badgertrust.bsky.social · 1d

🎥🦡 BrockWatch is live! Help reveal the secret world of badgers — be a Trapper, Spotter or Watcher. Join in today: buff.ly/XeeKDkf

5 13

Reposted by ThornyHedges

Scottish Wildlife Trust @scotwildlife.bsky.social · 1d

🍁Ready for some autumnal vibes? 🍂

The latest issue of our Wildlife Watch magazine is full of autumnal activities and wonderful wildlife!

#WildlifeWatch #Autumn

A spread of pages from the autumn issue of Scottish Wildlife Trust's Wildlife Watch magazine. The pages feature a large photo of a carrion crow as well as some autumnal activities and large illustration of a fly agaric mushroom.

1 1 6

ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 1d

There's a company called Dalefoot in Cumbria who make use of it for their peat free compost. Bloomin fabulous stuff.