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@BenKuhnhaeuser Would be interested if n connecting and discussing role of continental landmass through time and it’s possible role in biodiversity: there are some very interesting distributions on Borneo that may be explained by geological processes

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@Mikeachim Icehouse events Tend to have a strong Rock record because of the variation in sea level glaciatiion causes. This wasn’t the case in the Sam lean and so the Mediterranean refilling is a particularly singular event

When I wrote about the Zanclean Megaflood filling the Mediterranean in 12-18 months (!) it was wistfully. I'm English. Lovely place, England! But - Big Geological Drama? Not round 'ere, sadly. Imagine my delight at what geophysicists have found in the English Channel! 1/

@Mikeachim 2/ when I lived up in the How o’ the Mearns, Aberdeenshire we had a beautiful glacial meltwater delta preserved just outside our village: record of water levels 100m above present sea level which could only mean the valley of the learns was a huge lake into which the delta built

@Mikeachim 1/ Mike, this was an icehouse event compared to the Zanclean greenhouse event: the icehouse events are quite common and leave strong imprints on the rock record

@I_amMukhtar To be honest I’d have stepped off the pavement into the road if I’d seen Zahari coming my way….

Nadhim Zahawi says he doesn’t feel safe in London because yesterday at 8am, while walking from his home in a posh area, he stepped off the pavement into the road to avoid a tired-looking man who “looked as if he hadn’t slept for a week.” He assumed the man was violent. The poor guy could've been on the night shift.

@iampriesst Oh yeah i remember flying over that near MMIA

I really need to know, whose house is this?! It stands out like mad!😍

@volcaholic1 It’s actually 3 landslides or fault planes next to each other: note how each one is concave uphill- very nice

Whoahh! Before and after satellite visual of the MASSIVE landslide in Niscemi on the Italian island of Sicily 👀👀

@ThomasPollas @BiankaB12 I think the whole point of the article is that unless very large very pure high quality deposits are found, the economics of extraction will be negative and no one in their right minds will invest with the risk of losing money

@BiankaB12 The main reason is that the people of Greenland say no to most projects on environmental grounds. Under Denmark they have home rule and are allowed to do so. If Trump steals Greenland he will not give a F about what the want and just start mining and drilling

THE TYRANNY OF THE ARCTIC So, Greenland is back in the news. I’ve been wondering why there hasn’t been some large scale industrial development over there, given that the geological map shows reserves for a lot of critical minerals. Then I did what I always do - started digging, and I educated myself on just how freaking hard it is to mine for resources in Greenland (and the Arctic in general). 🧵👇

@Jungle_KL That’s sweet

I've been running an online shop for over 10 years now, in order to make myself financially independent. Several years ago, I thought I definitely want to study Primula, considering a PhD might be necessary. I aimed to save more money, as I am uncertain whether the doctoral tuition fees and research funding will be sufficient. Thus, at that time, I added "I want to make and save money for my PhD and research" to my shop profile to thank everyone for supporting my shop business. Now that I'm pursuing my PhD, the university doesn't charge me any fees, and one of my supervisors has given me a lot of funding for research. But I never changed the profile of my shop. As I'm currently in China, orders have increased. Some customers, after seeing my shop profile, still leave messages after placing orders: "Wish you good luck with your PhD", "Wish you good luck with your research".🥹🥹🥹🥹

@timutteridge I lived on Borneo for 9 years, luckily in brunei who values its pristine forests: as soon as you go over the border into Malaysia you feel physically sick at the scale of deforestation of these hyper diverse ecosystems

I must admit, on my “what keeps me awake at night and what we should all come together to tackle and really worry about” is this… where plants are gone and will never have a scientific name…

@Didicoy_Tonttu @junhoBTC It won’t; this whole narrative is pseudoscience … still it’s really great for shits and giggles

@junhoBTC I don't really understand why a magnetic pole shift would cause that. Not saying that a huge fucking flood didn't happen, I just don't know why a pole shift would make it happen.

🎶 v14 of ECDOsim is here, introducing a "complex movement" that fits together three distinct pieces of evidence: 1. The Makah flood myth stating that the ocean receded for 4 days and then rose to the snow line of Mt. Rainier (peak elevation 4392 meters)

@lvaro14575134 @junhoBTC 120metres….only because the ice was locked up in glaciers

@junhoBTC This idea always has confused me, because sea level use to be significantly lower during the ice age.

@tjcrusher001 @junhoBTC There isn’t an ocean of water underground: There is water in fractures below 1.5km that is largely immovable: deeper than that physical modelling suggests water is bound up in various high temperature high pressure minerals. So happy to state theres no ocean of water down there

@junhoBTC I always thought as the plates shift rapidly it forces ground water to the surface very fast. Isn’t there supposed to be an ocean of water underground? I don’t think the poles thawing could flood the earth as fast as they say, it takes too long to thaw all that ice.

@MikesRarePlants Looks like you have Beg luxurians in there too!

@rovingnick Yes it stays at least 2 to 3 degrees above the temperature outside . Without any additional heating

If I could only keep one plant from our garden it would be our Oreopanax dactylifolius / andreanus. Photos taken today in our plant port

@briar_farm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold-hard…

@rovingnick Would love to get a loquat but not sure if it’s work. You have experience? Also after all research on citrus, even hardy types such as yuzu can’t handle below 0?

We planted four cherry trees in the glasshouse today. They will be fan trained in a line right down the centre of the growing area. This will provide a crop but also dappled light to shade the annual beds either side.

@briar_farm There’s a lot of persimmon breeding going. I always find it I teresti g to read developments overseas and Lubera.com is a useful resource: use translate to see in English

@briar_farm There’s a loquat variety now that has several flushes of flowers guaranteeing fruit set: its called Piera might be tricky to get hold of. Regarding yuzu they go down to -10 and there are some other hardy citrus hybrids too with more edible fruits again you’ll need to dig around

@Jungle_KL Given how popular a genus it is its woefully undersampled in the wild; well done for having the ability and the opportunity to do what you’re doing

With just naked-eye observation, even without any molecular evidence, we can already determine that they are different taxa, right? This region has only ever been recorded as the distribution of Primula capitata subsp. sphaerocephala, yet in my comprehensive sampling I found the two forms shown in the photo. There is no doubt that one of them is a new species. Discovering new species in Primula can be just this simple.