#ecology blogging

[goddamnshinyrock]

I had a new "oh, my family were the weird ones" moment recently: it seems no one else's family celebrated Frog Night (the first warm rainy night of spring) by going down to the local vernal pool after dark to help the amphibians safely across the road and listening to the spring peepers. (We'd then go back in daytime later on to observe the egg masses, of course.)

Apparently "Frog Night" as a holiday is a thing my mother invented and not a widely-accepted idea, which is a shame because I've been referring to it as if it was for the past 30 years.

#raised by naturalists problems lmao #it's a good title for a children's book though someone should get on that #ecology blogging #amphibians

[antiqueanimals]

Wildlife in North Carolina. March 1982. Illustration by David Williams.

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#mammals #canines #dogs #felines #cats #animal death #ecology #animal welfare #casual reminder that this is a pro-indoor animal blog ESPECIALLY pertaining to cats #David Williams

[unapologeticmelancholy]

In a world that doesn't revolve around maximizing profit, it's simply common sense not to feed poison to our children.

#dark academia #light academia #chaotic academia #dark academia blog #anti capitalism #anticapitalista #neoliberal capitalism #neoliberalism #be the change #socialism #social activism #activism #sustainability #eat the rich #ecology

[bonefall]

the "strange place" could be a private wildlife collector? i know the buying and selling of wild animals as pets can be pretty bad in the uk (or at least it is w/ birds of prey? that's abt what i know)

OH that's a good idea, that's going to be one of my top choices for if I DO end up needing to change the "twoleg den" in the upcoming super edition. Private wildlife collectors are a HUGE problem because the laws on simply owning exotic animals (as long as they're not covered by the Dangerous Wild Animals Act) are suuuuper lax in the UK, and the Zoo Licensing Act only applies if you accept general admission.

(and even then, specifically, you can take admission a limited amount of times a year. James Wellington's Animal Welfare Nightmare Extravaganza, beloved winter tradition, £25 each, kiddies of edible height get in free)

Birds in particular are a huuuge issue because there's big oversights in the laws surrounding the keeping of birds of prey. You don't actually need a license to own any birds except ostriches and cassowaries, or one of the five destructive invasive birds. Your pet eagle just needs to be registered so they know you didn't snatch it from the wild. Licenses will only apply if you're breeding, selling, or using it for falconry.

Maybe I could even tie this hypothetical antagonist guy to Sharptooth/One Eye/The God of Summer's previous human incarnation, on some off-chance the series ends up using this villain again. That could be kinda neat.

#for a country that jabs at america for our birdsona a lot. brits suuuuure have some lax laws regarding eagle ownership #I love ragging on my country but we really went ham with the Migratory Bird Treaty Act #UK you want to enter the MBTA with the US Canada Mexico Russia and Japan. You want to do it sooooooo bad #also side note one of those Five Destructive Birds is a close relative of the Dreaded Australian Bin Chicken #Thing you do NOT need a license to own in England: an EAGLE #Thing you DO need a license to own: big-nose seagull #WELCOME BACK TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF THINGS YOU DIDN'T THINK YOUD LEARN FROM A CAT BLOG #Last time I taught you that we need to destroy sitka plantations to protect an unique and endangered biome #Today I teach you of eagle ownership #next time? who knows #bone babble #ecological updates

[aroaceleovaldez]

i mean it when i say we've gotta bring back askblogs. bring back making character chat posts with poor choice text colors over random backgrounds. bring back blogs dedicated to what outfits you think characters would wear.

fandom is an ecosystem, not a numbers game. these types of blogs/posts/etc still exist in concept, because people still want to make them and they're a great way to get your thoughts of an idea out in a simple format, but most people make them on like tiktok or instagram reels and that's where the problem lies. Those videos don't go anywhere. The format doesn't allow for the discussion to spread through the community and they're less likely to be engaged with in general. And to make them most people have to either show their face or figure out editing software, so the barrier to entry is higher (editing) and/or they have to forfeit an amount of privacy.

those types of posts/blogs are the first rung of the ecosystem. they're the perfect environment for younger members of the fandom to begin safely interacting with the larger community and putting their own thoughts and ideas out there. roleplay is the other major spot for that and those communities are diminishing as well, honestly (if you know of an rp forum board site, cherish it. and if you can make one, make one). they allow younger fans to begin engaging with the source material on a different/deeper level, but still at a very low barrier to entry, and begin conversations with other fans, which also helps them build skills which in turn may encourage them to pursue other avenues within the fandom (fic writing, other formats of askblog - which itself usually leads to art, cosplay, also fic writing, etc). Without those places to build those skills, they might feel discouraged from trying to begin when surrounded by curated people who have built their skills up for years.

And those conversations they foster also in turn help the community, by offering ideas to artists or fic writers to extrapolate on or building community jokes. And that text/blog format specifically is extremely beneficial, because it allows younger members of the fandom to remain anonymous and keep their privacy without concerning themselves with having any platform or having anything attached to them (very important for young fans figuring themselves out and navigating online community spaces for the first time, since they can remove themselves from spaces easily if they decide they don't like it and they're protected, rather than PUTTING THEIR FACE ON THE INTERNET). And those posts they make will spread a lot more into the community since they're in a significantly easier format to be reposted (few people are gonna be reposting tons of random short-form videos versus spamming their instagrams with reposts of 10 random fandom images yoinked from tumblr, or reposting to pinterest or something). Like, don't repost art, at the VERY least don't repost without credit, but also I am not ignorant to the fact that my art is not just the first google image result for "pjo pride" and related searches, but also the 4th, the 6th, the 9th, the 10th, the 11th, etc etc., and pops up in the search results before the official ReadRiordan does simply because people reposted my work more (most with credit, thankfully).

For fandom to be a community, it needs to perpetuate itself. There needs to be engagement with one another and conversation. If that bottom rung is cut off, then new fans won't be able to grow into the other niches of the fandom, and the fandom will be solely reliant on the source material and die out extremely quickly, and there won't be a community. There's no conversation! There's no reason to stay beyond the original material! But if you don't have points of entry for new fans, they won't have any way to build the skills needed to move into those niches, or engage with the community in a healthy way.

tl;dr: Bring back askblogs and character-based text post blogs. They are vital to fandom ecosystem.

#fandom #long post // #i know many people jest about tumblr posts being reposted often to other social media #but there's a reason for that! because few other social media these days are primarily text-based! and tumblr is a BLOGGING website! #we're built for sharing random essays! which means we have a LOT of word-heavy stuff #that other platforms can really only have in a different format - usually either image or video - due to character limits #and videos - even short form video - is far less engaged with because it takes more time to interact with #and short form videos of this nature ^ are usually only reposted in like. long-form video format compilations #which are pretty equally if not even less frequently interacted with #because most of those other social media platforms dont have good ways to easily share posts en mass like tumblr's reblog function #so even if those posts do get shared they rarely go far and even if they do they dont stick around #i also personally dont think it's coincidental that general fandom attitude shifts occurred circa 2016-2018 #around the same time as the major shift away from tumblr due to the bans #anyways if you run one of those types of blogs i respect you immensely #you are underappreciated but you fulfill an important ecological niche #also i know rp blogs are still a thing but theyre much more scarce and rp communities in general are drying up

[jessonline]

turkey tail (trametes)

#turkey tail #fungus #wild fungi #fungi aesthetic #fungicore #fungi #mushrooms #mushroom aesthetic #mushroom picking #plants #plantcore #plantblr #plant blog #mycology #botany #ecology #botanical #forest #forestcore #forest aesthetic #forest mushrooms #forest magic #forest nymph #woodland #woods #green #brown #nature #naturecore #nature blog

[myxomycota]

lilac variation of Fuligo septica

by Jan Thornhill, Canada.

#the link directs to her blog post about purple fuligo :-) if u want more info #basically fuligo septica is likely a species complex w different colour phenotypes #but as with many myxos is yet to be properly sequenced and described #fuligo #fuligo septica #jan thornhill #dog vomit slime mold #myxomycota #slime mold #slime mould #myxomycology #forest floor #fungi #ecology #mycology #forestcore #myxomycetes #macro photography #microbiota #nature photography #protists #biology #microbiology

[science-for-the-masses]

#science #science communication #Scicomm #Stem #Science education #Science blog #Environmental science #ecology #Bees #Save the bees #Botany #plants

[solid-snakes-solid-snake]

there is supposedly a fortnite leak that solid snake is being added in the new season. If this is true guys im going to supply you with so many fucking gifs of him doing gay little dances

peter griffin is also here but not important

#this is emily btw i am an avid fortnite player #ijm losing it #also losing my mind because its finals week. butgood news guys i got an ecology internship related to old and new growth #trees #you guiys probably didnt know this because me and sarah share nothing about ourselves on this blog. i am a biology major with a field bio #focus. emily fun facts #now im going to get paid minimum wage to look at leaf samples under a microscope for hours lol #okay byeeeeeeee

[rockislandadultreads]

One with Nature: Connecting with the Natural World

Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy Jones

Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains deeply ingrained in our language, culture and consciousness. For centuries, we have acted on an intuitive sense that we need communion with the wild to feel well. Now, in the moment of our great migration away from the rest of nature, more and more scientific evidence is emerging to confirm its place at the heart of our psychological wellbeing. So what happens, asks acclaimed journalist Lucy Jones, as we lose our bond with the natural world--might we also be losing part of ourselves? Delicately observed and rigorously researched, Losing Eden is an enthralling journey through this new research, exploring how and why connecting with the living world can so drastically affect our health. Travelling from forest schools in East London, to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, via Poland's primeval woodlands, Californian laboratories and ecotherapists' couches, Jones takes us to the cutting edge of human biology, neuroscience and psychology, and discovers new ways of understanding our increasingly dysfunctional relationship with the earth. Urgent and uplifting, Losing Eden is a rallying cry for a wilder way of life - for finding asylum in the soil and joy in the trees - which might just help us to save the living planet, as well as ourselves, from a future of ecological grief.

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return.

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard

From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest--a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery. Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she's been compared to Rachel Carson, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls of James Cameron's Avatar) and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. Now, in her first book, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths--that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complex, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own.

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James E. Lovelock

Celebrities drive hybrids, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and supermarkets carry no end of so-called “green” products. And yet the environmental crisis is only getting worse. In The Vanishing Face of Gaia, the eminent scientist James Lovelock argues that the earth is lurching ever closer to a permanent “hot state” – and much more quickly than most specialists think. There is nothing humans can do to reverse the process; the planet is simply too overpopulated to halt its own destruction by greenhouse gases.In order to survive, mankind must start preparing now for life on a radically changed planet. The meliorist approach outlined in the Kyoto Treaty must be abandoned in favor of nuclear energy and aggressive agricultural development on the small areas of earth that will remain arable. A reluctant jeremiad from one of the environmental movement’s elder statesmen, The Vanishing Face of Gaia offers an essential wake-up call for the human race.

#nonfiction #non-fiction #non-fiction books #history #Environment #biology #botany #nature #natural science #sustainability #science #ecology #to read #tbr #booklr #book blog #reading recommendations #Book Recommendations #book recs #library books #informed reading #reading for a better world

[goddamnshinyrock]

Don’t give CPR to wild animals: a thing you wouldn’t think you’d have to tell people but apparently you do. 💀

#this is how we get zoonotic diseases kids!! #Do Not Try This At Home #ecology blogging

[volcanicvisionary]

Primary Succession - how it relates to Team Magma's goal

A question I am asked over and over again as the leader and representative of Team Magma is 'How the world could possibly flourish after being recreated with the help of Groudon's powerful Precipice Blades, which shall pierce the Earth's crust and cover the oceans in volcanic rock?'

The answer is quite simple!

When new rock is exposed by volcanic action, it is eventually overtaken by pioneer lichens, which over time, create soils! These soils then create space for shrubs, trees, and eventually, pokémon to flourish! The expanded land provides space for humans and pokémon to further grow and evolve, unlocking previously impossible genetic perfection.

Below is a diagram created by myself, to aid in the comprehension of my words.

It is clear that this is the only way in which humanity may progress.

#Maxie's blogging #pkmn rp #rotomblr #pokeblogging #magma leader maxie #team magma #pkmn irl #groudon #irl pkmn #primary sucession #biology and ecology

[thisthat-ortheother]

#poll blog #random polls #silly polls #stupid polls #polls #silly poll #tumblr polls #poll #nature poll #science poll #ecology #marine ecosystem #rainforests #marine biology #rainforest #ecosystem #ecosystems #biology #wildlife #natural habitat #biodiversity #zoology #amazon rainforest #marine life #biomes #science tumblr

[godzilla-reads]

🎨 All Art is Ecological by Timothy Morton (Penguin Green Ideas # 3)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️/5

This book is described as provocative and playful and explores “the strangeness of living in the age of mass extinction…”

Strangeness is a good way to describe this book because it felt all over the place, there was no linearity to it. I felt confused and frustrated as I read it, just “not getting it”. I underlined some quotes that sound good on their own but mostly I was disappointed by how disjointed this book was. I guess there’s a reason I don’t read philosophy books.

#godzilla reads #all art is ecological #book review #reading #penguin green ideas #book blog #bookworm #booklr #bookish

[photo-art-lady]

'Global Warming' - Fine Art Photography Self Portrait By Anya Anti

#fine art photography #anya anti #self portrait #self portraits #self portraiture #global warming #photographers on tumblr #women photographers #female photographers #photography #photography blog #photoblog #photo-art-lady #portraiture #female portrait #female portraiture #ecological #mother earth #earth #planet earth #science #ice caps meltdown #environment #environmentalism #climate change #environmental issues #ecology #greenhouse effect #greenhouse gasses #environmental catastrophe

[mossyfauna]

hi there! 🌿

im an aspiring wildlife biologist intending to major in wildlife bio and minor in applied ecology. I'd like to go to grad school studying wolves or canines in the future as well. i created this blog to motivate me with my studies and to reblog posts relating to my interests 🍄

i would love to chat if you have similar goals or if you are majoring/already majored in what i mentioned above! I really want to make more friends with similar interests! 🍃

#studyblr #biology #wildlife #wildlife biology #zoology #science #science major #biology major #plant biology #botany #animal science #study blog #study motivation #studyspiration #introductory post #blog intro #ecology #canines #canidae #wolves #conservation #environment #biodiversity