A group of Mallard drakes and hens feeding on the ice at the edge of the lake in @CUBotanicGarden, enjoying today's brief respite from the current wintry weather #WildlifeWednesday #WednesdayWildlife #UKWildlife #WaterfowlWednesday #MallardMonday

Turkey Tail mushrooms, Trametes versicolor on a fallen tree branch (L) & a cluster of the grey and white Candlesnuff fungus, Xylaria hypoxylon, with moss & fallen brown leaves (R); seen yesterday in Wandlebury Woods, Cambridgeshire #FungiFriday #Fungi #Mushrooms #MushroomMonday

The varied and many saints of #January (A 17th century calendar, BM)

Coral Spot fungus, Nectria cinnabarina, on a fallen tree branch, seen on our New Year's Day walk in a Cambridgeshire woodland #FungiFriends #FungiFriday #Fungus #Mushroom #MushroomMonday

Spotted these tiny mushrooms peeping out of a moss covered tree during a heavy rain shower - are they a species of Bonnet- would welcome an ID check if possible #FungiFriends #FungiFriday #Fungus #Mushroom #MushroomMonday #Cambridgeshire

If this was not the 2nd Sunday in Advent, today would be the feast of St Ambrose, 4th Century Bishop of Milan. A popular saint in late medieval England, as one of the Four Latin Doctors his image survives on 18 screens and pulpits in Norfolk, as here at East Ruston.

Golden yellow #autumn leaves glowing in the #winter sunshine against a bright blue sky; seen this week in @CUBotanicGarden #Trees #Leaves

Park Street, Bristol, c1939.

Out now! Strauss Clay's Hesiod: Theogony | The first modern edition of this seminal work, providing all the linguistic, textual, metrical, and literary material required by students. Find out more: ☑️ https://t.co/qgoZDcSES4 #classicstwitter

Drifting mesh illusion" The inset appears to move.

3rd December 2023 A morning mist floats across Midsummer Common. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Time & Space'. Available at https://t.co/4pnnT50Ows and all bookshops.

#TheWinter10 Top L/R: Hedgerow Cranesbill, Feverfew, White Ramping-fumitory, Creeping Bellflower, Prickly Sow-thistle and Greater Periwinkle Bottom L/R: Herb Robert, Gallant Soldier, Red Valerian and Purple Toadflax #WildflowerHour @wildflower_hour @BSBIbotany

US soldiers and their loyal K9s. 🇺🇸 🦅🫡🐾

"In Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History, historian of science Oren Harman offers a meditation on transformation writ large." Read the #ScienceBooks Review: https://t.co/CWQcmg3Jeq

#PavementTiles instead of 'Pavement Plants' from me today; lovely to see these tiles outside a house saved from the black asphalt footpath covering #TuesdayTiles #TilesOnTuesday

Has anyone encountered a good definition of “slop”. In a quantitative, measurable sense. My brain has an intuitive “slop index” I can ~reliably estimate, but I’m not sure how to define it. I have some bad ideas that involve the use of LLM miniseries and thinking token budgets.

“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder,” according to 20th-century historian Arnold Toynbee. He claimed every great culture collapses internally due to a divergence in values between the ruling class and the common people…🧵

To tell a child a fairy tale is to whisper into their ear that the world is far larger, far stranger, and far more beautiful than waking sight can hold. To tell a tale at bedtime sends them into garden of dreams, with courage and crowned with imagination https://t.co/aoJLcDGWiK

The Professor Will See You Now: Coyness in political research ✍️ @philipjcowley

#TheWinter10 Part 3/3 Creeping Thistle, Cirsium arvense ; Ivy, Hedera helix; Yarrow, Achillea millefolium and Red Valerian, Centranthus ruber #WildflowerHour @wildflower_hour @BSBIbotany