#EcoScience

[jestermessenger]

🌍 ATTENTION EVERYONE 🗣📯🔊

Mother Earth just dropped a new island 🏝 everyone clap

[think-otb]

Did you know that wood is actually rarer than diamonds? It sounds unbelievable, but in the vast universe, this simple Earthly resource is incredibly special. While trees may seem abundant on Earth, the process that forms wood—photosynthesis—requires a very specific set of conditions. Wood needs sunlight, water, and a planet at just the right distance from its star. In contrast, diamonds are made from carbon and high pressure, both of which are found abundantly throughout the cosmos.

From carbon asteroids to dying neutron stars, diamonds can form in many places in the universe. But wood? It relies on the delicate balance of life, liquid water, and the right atmosphere, making it something truly unique to our planet.

In this video, we explore why, in the grand scheme of the universe, a branch in your yard is actually rarer than all the diamonds you could ever find!

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[corvidco]

@goooser ‘s Karl design

@routeriver @bdaycheesecake @snails-are-made-of-jelly @evren-sadwrn @ecoscience @kuprisunshka

[neoflareon]

Boggo Rd/Park Rd

First 5 images are various trains at Boggo Rd/Park Rd station with the cross river rail construction, busway, and ecosciences precinct in the background.

The 6th image is the sign for the Boggo Road bus station located on Annerley Rd, in front of it is a "construction on side road" sign

The last image is a directory sign outside Boggo Rd/Park Rd station for the Police station and local primary school, ACAB is written on it.

[oswednesday]

when i was sent to that rural school district cause my mom won custody i had an ecoscience class called hunting and the teacher demonstrated the Science of culling by dumping a bunch of marbles in a small tank and was like "these are deer" and after that i tried everything in my power to be sent elsewhere like i ended up not starting at that school until later but no one would help me like genuinely get into another school despite my efforts like my gma on my mom's side was like oh they should get an apartment in the city to go to a real school and i wanted that soooo bad but its like okay,,,you need to get me the place then,,,im literally 12

[yoomeyoo]

Fungi: Nature’s Secret Weapon to Supercharge Forest Growth!

Forests are the lungs of our planet, but did you know that tiny fungi living underground play a huge role in helping trees grow stronger and faster? Scientists and innovators are now harnessing this natural partnership with cutting-edge technology to restore forests faster and more effectively than ever before.

What’s the story?

🔹Trees don’t grow alone. They form symbiotic relationships with fungi called mycorrhizae, which attach to their roots and help absorb water and vital nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen from the soil. In return, trees share sugars with the fungi.

🔹Unfortunately, decades of poor land management, deforestation, and soil degradation have damaged these fungal networks, making it difficult for new forests to thrive.

🔹Enter Funga, an innovative startup using advanced soil science and data analytics to identify which native fungal communities have been lost or depleted in specific areas.

🔹Funga then collects wild fungi from healthy ecosystems and inoculates tree seedlings with these fungi while they are still in the nursery. This means when the seedlings are planted, they already have their fungal “superpower” partners ready to boost their growth and resilience.

Why is this a game-changer?

🔹Early trials show that trees with fungal partners grow up to 30% faster and survive better in challenging environments.

🔹Faster-growing forests capture more carbon dioxide, helping fight climate change.

🔹Healthy fungal networks improve soil quality, increase biodiversity, and support wildlife habitats.

🔹This approach can dramatically speed up reforestation projects, making them more successful and cost-effective.

What can YOU do?

🔹Support reforestation and conservation projects that use science-based methods.

🔹Learn about the importance of soil health and fungi in ecosystems.

🔹Advocate for sustainable land management practices in your community.

🔹Reduce your carbon footprint to help protect natural habitats.

 Share your thoughts and tag a friend who loves nature and innovation!

#ForestInnovation #FungiPower #ClimateAction #Reforestation #Sustainability #EcoScience

[oneirophasia]

Faustian Musicals: Self-explanatory. I have found four nickels, and somehow all of them are on fire.

Little Shop of Horrors

Beethoven's Last Night

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

I'm not sure what to call this one, either. Ecoscience Fiction? They're reviving the theme of Man vs Nature by putting a beautiful, dangerous, impersonal alien ecosystem in the role of Nature as a reminder of when the wilderness still felt sublime. It dominates the story at least as much as the human characters do, and is portrayed as unconquerable, but survivable, provided that it is understood and respected. (James Cameron is not welcome at the book club.) "Can ye draw in the Leviathan with a fishhook" kind of genre, with increasingly blatant subtext about climate catastrophe and the Anthropocene.

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Fantastic Planet

The Mist

Annihilation (again, acting as a bridge to Psychogeography Horror)

Love and Monsters, which is quite peppy by comparison to the rest but that's an interesting tone too, not every nature documentary ought to imitate David Attenborough

Scavengers' Reign

Rain World, or so I've heard

Subnautica

The Frecosystem (not to self-promote but)

Also I've recently watched Dave Made A Maze, and am enthusiastically including it as a particularly strange entry on the Psychogeography Horror list. :D

Some extremely specific genres I've had to make up my own names for.

Mindscape Fantasy: The majority of the story happens in a symbolic representation of a character's headspace, trying to pick through the dream logic and free-association to explore and possibly heal their subconscious

Paprika

American McGee's Alice

Yume Nikki

Psychonauts

Inception I guess but do better

Psychogeography Horror: Something about this entire region of space appears to be apocalyptically broken in ways that threaten its inhabitants' lives and identities (what do you mean that sounds oddly resonant, you know there are better ways to tell me you're trans)

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Roadside Picnic

STALKER

Uzumaki

The Southern Reach

Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun

New Phyrexia

Invisible Diaries or Unnatural Histories: A series of loosely related contemplative vignettes about strange-but-beautiful places or objects, each of which is internally and thematically consistent but mostly self-contained

Invisible Cities

Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies

Invisible Games

Myst

The SCP Foundation

The Unorthodox Engineers

Doctor Who sometimes

Magic: the Gathering sometimes

Star Trek sometimes

[zero-zoxx-international]

Ökologisches Porträt (Ecological Portrait), 1987 by Sammy Tornado

[pinkhairedwoman]

Behind The Oil Myth - A Personal Epiphany

Behind The Oil Myth – A Personal Epiphany

OK, this is not a book post – nor is it any kind of a review, it’s one of the rare ‘other’ posts I warned you I would be making.

I recently got a reminder on Facebook  of a post I made a year ago. It described the sudden realisation I had come to during a conversation with one of my kids some time previously. In light of the news we’ve had about the pervasive, invasive effects of plastics in…

[asphodeldwisteria]

Hi friends! Here's my delayed post for the 5th day of the #abmidyearstashchallenge by my dear 누나 @peepingpomeranian! • Toners: - #Innisfree White Tone Up Skin - I bought this before I bought The Ordinary's Niacinamide so I don't really need this toner but it's nice. It slightly hydrates and helps brighten because of the niacinamide in it. Won't repurchase. - #Whamisa Organic Flowers Deep Rich Toner - this really is rich lol. I don't like how this smells but I love this for layering hydration. Not a great 7 skin option but great to add on a daytime routine. Probably won't repurchase. - #HadaLabo Hydrating Lotion - love this! Great for the 7 skin method. Hydrates well, plumps and softens the skin too! Not sure if I'll repurchase. - Hada Labo Premium Lotion - haven't used this yet but I'm so excited to! - #DrJart Ceramidin Liquid - love this! Thanks to my bae @fairuzmusarrat for this amazing prezzieeee! This softens the skin and hydrates it so well! Might repurchase! Samples: - #Hanyul Rice Skin Softener - #TheFaceShop Yehwadam Revitalizing Toner - #Mamonde First Energy Essence - Innisfree #EcoScience Skin - #OHui Miracle Moisture Skin Softener #rasianbeauty #kbeauty #koreanskincare

[atlbrafal]

Me an Frank! #frankthomas #ecosciences #lasvegas (at Las Vegas Convention Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/B79htXyHkoM/?igshid=x9lga3nu1x16

[corvidco]

Day 201 of drawing ponk until he’s added to the qsmp!

@bdaycheesecake @routeriver @snails-are-made-of-jelly @ecoscience @goooser @kuprisunshka @evren-sadwrn

[o-craven-canto]

In Praise of the Real:  Reforming the Humanities

Frederick Turner, 2009 (source; emphasis added)

Ironically, then, the sciences and the humanities have changed places. The humanities now profess a scientifically obsolete view of events, a power-based account of the world which is as incompatible with the values of human culture as Kant rightly declared the Newtonian universe to be. [...] Meanwhile the sciences, with their rigorous research methods, and beginning with presuppositions just as linear and deterministic as they were accused by the humanities of being, have disclosed to us a universe full of freedom and creativity, fertile ground for art and moral action.

Reality is legally defined as what is scientifically verifiable; hence we teach evolution in high-school biology, not scientific creationism.   The humanities, however, are now teaching that reality is entirely relative to the culture and gender of the knower; our humanist professors are thus as far removed from fact as the most “biblical literalist” sect.  That loss of contact with reality is also a loss of contact with the public–a failure to perform the mandate, bought and paid for fair and square by the people of our states and nation, of educating and civilizing the young, and acting as the repository and conduit of the cultural heritage.

I propose that we refound the humanities on the sciences.  There are various routes by which we might recover the connection.  The first is the anthropological path, retracing the roots of human arts and other activities through the oral tradition, folklore, cross-cultural anthropology, performance theory, ethnodrama, the study of human and animal ritual, archeology and human evolution.  The second is the neuroscience route, the study of the neurobiological foundations of esthetic experience, language, meaning, perception, experience, etc.   The third is the chaos theory route: using the powerful new sciences of complexity and nonlinear dynamics, we might develop a general vocabulary of creative emergence.  The fourth is the information theory and cybernetic route: learning from the extraordinary difficulties and successes of computer science in modeling the human mind, we might develop a deeper theory of literary meaning.  This approach might include game theory, and the information theory of Claude Shannon and John von Neumann.  The fifth is the ecoscience route: the study of the humanities as a complex ecological system, recently emergent upon the planet, in the context of other living organisms, especially domesticated plants and animals.

If we seek for scientific foundations, there are those who would raise theoretical and political objections to foundations and foundationalism. [...] One maintains that since everything we can know depends on how we see it, there is no fundamental reality (phenomenology).  A second reminds us of Wittgenstein’s dicta: “whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent” [...] and maintains therefore that since everything we say depends on how we say it, there is no fundamental reality (linguistic philosophy, deconstruction).  A third points out that because everything is dependent on its context within a structure, there is no fundamental reality (structuralism).  A fourth sardonically points out that whenever anyone says anything, they are naturally following their socioeconomic interests [...] (Foucauldian discourse analysis, neomarxism).  A fifth reminds us that everything that is said is said in a determining historical context [...] (the new historicism).  A sixth insists that the psyche that says anything is an illusory construction anyway [...] (the neofreudianisms of Lacan, Deleuze, and Guattari).  A seventh denies the objectivity of science, because science is made up of a society of persons with ideological and economic interests [...] (the scientific antifoundationalism of Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Habermas).  An eighth points out that whoever says anything has a sex and a gender, usually male, that irremediably distorts what is said [...] (feminist epistemology).  And so on; and we can now add a ninth, that maintains that all human views of reality are only human views, and that since we cannot know how Nature sees things, there is no fundamental reality: the view of the radical Greens and Deep Ecologists, such as Arne Naess and George Sessions.

Of course the secret of all these antifoundationalisms is that they are really foundationalisms in disguise. [...] stated in their positive form these positions do not particularly contradict each other [...] And this conclusion might lead us, by an odd but perfectly legitimate turn of logic, to the positive assertion that all these implied foundations are indeed foundational–sensation, language, structure, power, history, psychology, legitimation, sex, and nature, and that probably there are dozens of other foundations as well.  Foundations, then, need not be mutually exclusive; and the interesting thing might be to work out how all these foundations are related to each other.  A universe crammed with partial foundations, that have not ceased to interact, and that thus leave open a huge future space where they are unpredictably going next–this is what we see if we escape the feverish loyalties of a particular ideological camp.

Consider a view of the world which is anchored, relatively fixed, and unitary at one end, and open-ended, changeable and multiple at the other–a tree structure.  This would give us the benefit of a common deep language and a protean and creative surface language.  This is what I propose–a past that is relatively fixed and knowable, though never absolutely, and a future that can grow in whatever direction we and all other desiring and imagining beings may desire or imagine.

If observers vote on the constitution of the world, I would simply extend–or rather, recognize–the franchise and observerhood of everything else in the universe, from animals and plants to atoms and elementary particles.  Thus for beings like ourselves who like to see things as texts, the universe is to some extent a text, but there are many entities that do not experience the world in those terms, and if we ignore them, we will come to grief.  Feyerabend thought that humans constructed atoms; I would reply, yes, and atoms construct us also.   Indeed, there are cases, as when Feyerabend’s own world-constructing activity entered into contest with that of his and the world’s molecules, when human observers lose the vote and must, tragically, die.  Reality is consensual, yes; but the consensus rather massively includes all the energy and matter in all the stars and galaxies. [...] Radical ethnic and feminist critiques of science remain valid but with a hugely reduced relevance, since the critics are always free to go canvass the nonhuman part of the real universe for themselves, and submit themselves to its arbitrement in the form of successful prediction; such postmodern critiques then become legitimate nitpicking. The new neuroscience shows us how subtly the human and animal brain compensates for any distortions in its perception, how the eye for instance corrects for perspectival errors; and evolutionary science shows how such a bias toward “objective” truth is dictated by species survival.

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