biodiversity

<p>Did you ever gild <a href="/tags/moss/" rel="tag">#moss</a>? I did! Look behind the scenes of producing my podcast episode about moss and how moss took revenge (I don&#x27;t know why): <a href="https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/5d8402be-ad02-4d23-8c3b-4e42daf6a9b0" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/5d8402be-ad02-4d23-8c3b-4e42daf6a9b0"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcut</span><span class="invisible">s/posts/5d8402be-ad02-4d23-8c3b-4e42daf6a9b0</span></a> Of course you can listen to the episode now! And I interviewed a quite seditious tardigrade!<br>Just search <a href="/tags/naturematchcuts/" rel="tag">#NatureMatchCuts</a> on your podcatcher. </p><p><a href="/tags/naturematchcuts/" rel="tag">#NatureMatchCuts</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/reconnectwithnature/" rel="tag">#ReconnectWithNature</a> <a href="/tags/mosstodon/" rel="tag">#mosstodon</a> <a href="/tags/mossmonday/" rel="tag">#MossMonday</a> <a href="/tags/tardigrades/" rel="tag">#tardigrades</a> <a href="/tags/carbonsink/" rel="tag">#carbonSink</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#biodiversity</a> <a href="/tags/plants/" rel="tag">#plants</a> <a href="/tags/gardening/" rel="tag">#gardening</a> <a href="/tags/lawn/" rel="tag">#lawn</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#sciComm</a> <a href="/tags/naturelovers/" rel="tag">#natureLovers</a></p>

<p>Please leave the leaves. And make a vow: no more leaf blowers!</p><p><a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#Nature</a> <a href="/tags/bees/" rel="tag">#Bees</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#Biodiversity</a></p>

<p>(To my US followers 🤫 ) I wrote: &quot;Obviously, the immensely rich <a href="/tags/diversity/" rel="tag">#diversity</a> of choices offers evolutionary advantages for a wide variety of environments.&quot; I&#x27;m just writing about <a href="/tags/moss/" rel="tag">#moss</a> sex. 😁 Without Newspeak. 💪 </p><p>I&#x27;m proud to use the so-called &quot;flagged&quot; words ▶️ <a href="https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/00aabadd-63c5-4f3d-93a9-e93ebda61377" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/00aabadd-63c5-4f3d-93a9-e93ebda61377"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcut</span><span class="invisible">s/posts/00aabadd-63c5-4f3d-93a9-e93ebda61377</span></a></p><p>Yes, my podcast comeback episode will be about <a href="/tags/moss/" rel="tag">#Moss</a>!</p><p><a href="/tags/mosstodon/" rel="tag">#mosstodon</a> <a href="/tags/naturematchcuts/" rel="tag">#NatureMatchCuts</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/dei/" rel="tag">#DEI</a> <a href="/tags/forbiddenwords/" rel="tag">#forbiddenWords</a> <a href="/tags/nfi/" rel="tag">#NFI</a> <a href="/tags/biology/" rel="tag">#biology</a> <a href="/tags/bryology/" rel="tag">#bryology</a> <a href="/tags/ecology/" rel="tag">#ecology</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#biodiversity</a> <a href="/tags/reconnectwithnature/" rel="tag">#ReconnectWithNature</a> <a href="/tags/fascination/" rel="tag">#fascination</a></p>

<p>How Trump’s Federal Funding and Hiring Freezes Are Leaving America Vulnerable to Catastrophic Wildfire<br>—</p><p>Uncertainty over funding and hiring stemming from the president’s executive orders has limited wildfire training and postponed work to reduce flammable vegetation. It has also led some firefighters to leave the force, their colleagues said.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-funding-freeze-wildfire-season?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-funding-freeze-wildfire-season?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-funding-freeze-wildfire-season?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/wildfires/" rel="tag">#Wildfires</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#Biodiversity</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a></p>

<p>Small Is The New Great! How to fight against the sludge of 2025 - and how the tiniest things can change the world. I would be happy if you can find some hope in my new blogpost: ▶️ <a href="https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/025f4904-2364-4711-8907-f7e55841993f" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/025f4904-2364-4711-8907-f7e55841993f"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcut</span><span class="invisible">s/posts/025f4904-2364-4711-8907-f7e55841993f</span></a></p><p>You can subscribe for my free newsletter or support my work as a member!</p><p><a href="/tags/naturematchcuts/" rel="tag">#NatureMatchCuts</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#biodiversity</a> <a href="/tags/grain/" rel="tag">#grain</a> <a href="/tags/seeds/" rel="tag">#seeds</a> <a href="/tags/agrobiodiversity/" rel="tag">#agrobiodiversity</a> <a href="/tags/crops/" rel="tag">#crops</a> <a href="/tags/food/" rel="tag">#food</a> <a href="/tags/foodsafety/" rel="tag">#FoodSafety</a> <a href="/tags/historicseeds/" rel="tag">#historicSeeds</a> <a href="/tags/heirloom/" rel="tag">#heirloom</a> <a href="/tags/culturalheritage/" rel="tag">#culturalHeritage</a> <a href="/tags/seedsavers/" rel="tag">#seedSavers</a> <a href="/tags/seedbanks/" rel="tag">#seedbanks</a> <a href="/tags/farming/" rel="tag">#farming</a> <a href="/tags/histodon/" rel="tag">#histodon</a> <a href="/tags/cooperation/" rel="tag">#cooperation</a> <a href="/tags/hope/" rel="tag">#hope</a> <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversityshrines/" rel="tag">#BiodiversityShrines</a></p>

<p>The dead hedge behind the compost bays on the plot. </p><p>There’s a wooden hedgehog house in the middle of it providing some shelter hopefully to a pair of hedgehogs. </p><p>Robins regularly perch on the dead hedge branches. The dead hedge is habitat to many species of insects and visiting wildlife. <a href="/tags/allotment/" rel="tag">#Allotment</a> <a href="/tags/wildlife/" rel="tag">#Wildlife</a> <a href="/tags/gardening/" rel="tag">#Gardening</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#Biodiversity</a></p>

<p>This photo reportage is genuine, created in a real Homo sapiens brain, and produced without any AI rubbish: an <a href="/tags/expedition/" rel="tag">#expedition</a> to a distant <a href="/tags/planet/" rel="tag">#planet</a> where strong evidence of life had been found: the planet Elder 0815, part of the famous Mosslich-system. <a href="https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/d242349d-fa59-4af8-a834-c93d580a4039" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/d242349d-fa59-4af8-a834-c93d580a4039"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">steady.page/en/naturematchcuts</span><span class="invisible">/posts/d242349d-fa59-4af8-a834-c93d580a4039</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/naturematchcuts/" rel="tag">#NatureMatchCuts</a> <a href="/tags/mosstodon/" rel="tag">#mosstodon</a> <a href="/tags/lichensubscribe/" rel="tag">#lichensubscribe</a> <a href="/tags/moss/" rel="tag">#moss</a> <a href="/tags/macrophotography/" rel="tag">#MacroPhotography</a> <a href="/tags/naturephotography/" rel="tag">#NaturePhotography</a> <a href="/tags/naturewriting/" rel="tag">#natureWriting</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#sciFi</a> <a href="/tags/spaceflight/" rel="tag">#spaceFlight</a> <a href="/tags/reconnectwithnature/" rel="tag">#ReconnectWithNature</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#biodiversity</a> <a href="/tags/dinosaurs/" rel="tag">#dinosaurs</a></p>

<p>Learn how to experience <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> with a new <a href="/tags/perspective/" rel="tag">#perspective</a>: <a href="/tags/reconnection/" rel="tag">#Reconnection</a> For <a href="/tags/aliens/" rel="tag">#Aliens</a> is a joyful inspiration for children and adults for nature contacts.</p><p>Digitised, purely human-made mini-zine in pdf format that you can download and print yourself: <a href="https://ko-fi.com/s/700d3d3138" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>ko-fi.com/s/700d3d3138</a></p><p><a href="/tags/zine/" rel="tag">#zine</a> <a href="/tags/minizine/" rel="tag">#minizine</a> <a href="/tags/solarpunk/" rel="tag">#solarpunk</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#biodiversity</a> <a href="/tags/moss/" rel="tag">#moss</a> <a href="/tags/woodwideweb/" rel="tag">#WoodWideWeb</a> <a href="/tags/naturalist/" rel="tag">#naturalist</a> <a href="/tags/joy/" rel="tag">#joy</a> <a href="/tags/happiness/" rel="tag">#happiness</a> <a href="/tags/experience/" rel="tag">#experience</a> <a href="/tags/hiking/" rel="tag">#hiking</a> <a href="/tags/forest/" rel="tag">#forest</a> <a href="/tags/naturematchcuts/" rel="tag">#NatureMatchCuts</a></p>

<p>I just saw the first bumble bee! Tiny insects are flying again. This is the time to come out of my hibernation modus and write more about <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a>. I talk about <a href="/tags/snails/" rel="tag">#snails</a>, and as they are still in their protection places, reflect on Homo-not-so-sapiens: <a href="https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/28951404-a41f-4215-ab89-bc35dbc41233" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/28951404-a41f-4215-ab89-bc35dbc41233"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">steady.page/en/naturematchcuts</span><span class="invisible">/posts/28951404-a41f-4215-ab89-bc35dbc41233</span></a></p><p>You can subscribe to my free <a href="/tags/newsletter/" rel="tag">#Newsletter</a>: <a href="https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/newsletter/sign_up" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/newsletter/sign_up"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">steady.page/en/naturematchcuts</span><span class="invisible">/newsletter/sign_up</span></a> ( <a href="/tags/substack/" rel="tag">#substack</a> free <a href="/tags/europeanalternative/" rel="tag">#EuropeanAlternative</a> )</p><p><a href="/tags/naturematchcuts/" rel="tag">#NatureMatchCuts</a> <a href="/tags/gastropods/" rel="tag">#gastropods</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#sciComm</a> <a href="/tags/naturelovers/" rel="tag">#natureLovers</a> <a href="/tags/springvibes/" rel="tag">#springVibes</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#journalism</a> <a href="/tags/factcheck/" rel="tag">#factCheck</a> <a href="/tags/biology/" rel="tag">#biology</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#biodiversity</a></p>

<p>&quot;When frogs dream, lichens smile. Ecological connections were explored anew. Artists recorded conversations of small creatures. People sat fascinated in flower meadows. Children laughed in the forest with knobbly mosses and chatty ants.&quot;</p><p>Disover my virtual exhibit of <a href="/tags/biodiversityshrines/" rel="tag">#BiodiversityShrines</a> - about finds in a fictional future: <a href="https://www.cronenburg.net/biodiversity/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cronenburg.net/biodiversity/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cronenburg.net/biodiversit</span><span class="invisible">y/</span></a><br>It was a real exhibit, now saved online.</p><p><a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#biodiversity</a> <a href="/tags/sciart/" rel="tag">#sciArt</a> <a href="/tags/archaeology/" rel="tag">#archaeology</a> <a href="/tags/solarpunk/" rel="tag">#solarpunk</a> <a href="/tags/sporespondence/" rel="tag">#sporespondence</a> <a href="/tags/lichen/" rel="tag">#lichen</a> <a href="/tags/ecology/" rel="tag">#ecology</a> <a href="/tags/reconnectwithnature/" rel="tag">#reconnectWithNature</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a></p>

<p>A bit of creative hedge laying before and after photos from today’s session in the nature reserve. <a href="/tags/hedgelaying/" rel="tag">#Hedgelaying</a> <a href="/tags/communitygardening/" rel="tag">#CommunityGardening</a> <a href="/tags/gardening/" rel="tag">#Gardening</a> <a href="/tags/naturereserve/" rel="tag">#NatureReserve</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#Biodiversity</a></p>

<p>my Birds of Colombia Flickr item is here, with new photos being added every day <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98553536@N03/albums/72177720330647347/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.flickr.com/photos/98553536@N03/albums/72177720330647347/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.flickr.com/photos/98553536</span><span class="invisible">@N03/albums/72177720330647347/</span></a> come take a look</p><p><a href="/tags/bird/" rel="tag">#Bird</a> <a href="/tags/birds/" rel="tag">#Birds</a> <a href="/tags/birding/" rel="tag">#Birding</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#Biodiversity</a> <a href="/tags/birdphotography/" rel="tag">#BirdPhotography</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#Photography</a> <a href="/tags/flickr/" rel="tag">#Flickr</a> <a href="/tags/album/" rel="tag">#Album</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#Nature</a> <a href="/tags/tanager/" rel="tag">#Tanager</a> <a href="/tags/birdsofmastodon/" rel="tag">#BirdsOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/colombia/" rel="tag">#Colombia</a></p>

<p>🧵 Yes, yes, everyone comes out with this now ... but I wanted to mention that I have an account on ko-fi <a href="https://ko-fi.com/naturematchcuts" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>ko-fi.com/naturematchcuts</a> and, like many other freelancers, I fuel my storytelling with <a href="/tags/coffee/" rel="tag">#coffee</a>! <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/mastodon.online/blobcatcoffee.png" class="emoji" alt=":blobcatcoffee:" title=":blobcatcoffee:"> <br>So I don&#x27;t run on fossil fuels and I am purely human in the outer*** shell and brain.</p><p>*** which is a lie. These tiny little aliens in our body, named <a href="/tags/microbiome/" rel="tag">#microbiome</a>, don&#x27;t live only in our gut but also on our skin.</p><p><a href="/tags/storytelling/" rel="tag">#storytelling</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#sciComm</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#biodiversity</a> <a href="/tags/naturematchcuts/" rel="tag">#NatureMatchCuts</a> <a href="/tags/living/" rel="tag">#living</a></p>

<p>Every manicured lawn is an act of war on nature.</p><p>We call it tidy.<br>Nature calls it ecocide.</p><p>A short read from County Meath about why mess is more — and how tidiness is quietly killing our wildlife.</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://gardeningwell.ie/climate-action/mess-is-more" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gardeningwell.ie/climate-action/mess-is-more"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gardeningwell.ie/climate-actio</span><span class="invisible">n/mess-is-more</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/wildlifegardening/" rel="tag">#WildlifeGardening</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#Biodiversity</a> <a href="/tags/rewilding/" rel="tag">#Rewilding</a> <a href="/tags/quietactivism/" rel="tag">#QuietActivism</a> <a href="/tags/gardeningwell/" rel="tag">#GardeningWell</a> <a href="/tags/ireland/" rel="tag">#Ireland</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/newspecies/" rel="tag">#NewSpecies</a>!<br>New springtail from the <a href="/tags/caucasus/" rel="tag">#caucasus</a> just sprang in:</p><p>Ceratophysella dobrolyubovae</p><p>Treatment: <a href="https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038187EB-FFD6-603A-FF03-FE9AD588FC72" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="treatment.plazi.org/id/038187EB-FFD6-603A-FF03-FE9AD588FC72"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">treatment.plazi.org/id/038187E</span><span class="invisible">B-FFD6-603A-FF03-FE9AD588FC72</span></a><br>Publication: <a href="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5725.3.4" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5725.3.4"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5725.</span><span class="invisible">3.4</span></a><br><a href="/tags/zootaxa/" rel="tag">#Zootaxa</a> <a href="/tags/ceratophyselladobrolyubovae/" rel="tag">#CeratophysellaDobrolyubovae</a></p><p><a href="/tags/fairdata/" rel="tag">#FAIRdata</a><br><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/oa/" rel="tag">#OA</a> <a href="/tags/openaccess/" rel="tag">#openaccess</a> <a href="/tags/biology/" rel="tag">#biology</a> <a href="/tags/taxonomy/" rel="tag">#taxonomy</a> <a href="/tags/ecology/" rel="tag">#ecology</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#biodiversity</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/wildlife/" rel="tag">#wildlife</a> <a href="/tags/conservation/" rel="tag">#conservation</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a> <a href="/tags/invertebrates/" rel="tag">#invertebrates</a> <a href="/tags/collembola/" rel="tag">#collembola</a> <a href="/tags/springtails/" rel="tag">#springtails</a></p>