I'm partnering with Plume to raise funds to provide education for children affected by the Turkey-Syria earthquake in February. Want to bid to win my bike? A top-of-the-range Colnago from the World Championships. Stay tuned on Monday for a link to the #PSCC23 Charity Auction🥁

Het Leidse College van B&W en de gemeenteraad nemen afscheid van hún fantastische burgemeester Henri Lenferink. Prachtige speeches, een koninklijke onderscheiding en mooie emotie!

Vlaams duo baant zich weg door Australische wildernis om banaan te redden dlvr.it/SwQP2n

BHL MO Botanical Garden TDWG & the global biodiversity community mourns the loss yesterday of William Ulate (2nd BHL TechDir). Father, friend, colleague, bioinformatician, William touched the lives of many & was committed to the work of conserving the world's biodiversity.

Massive thanks to everyone who followed along and donated as Urska & I joined this year’s #PlumeStrong Cycling Challenge. We surpassed our fundraising goal together with Plume and have so far raised €550.000 to benefit children affected by the Turkey-Syria earthquake. 1/2

💙2013-2023🤍 10 yrs of activities for the #CETAF General Secretariat in #Brussels, always with the priority of empowering #taxonomy. If you want to discover what has been done in the last decade, you can download our publication here: cetaf.org/elementor-9515/ 🔻

It’s #TaxonomistAppreciationDay - taxonomy is a sometimes under-appreciated but always vital science that underpins so much biodiversity research and conservation action. Today I’m pledging to do more taxonomy and less administration moving forward! #iamabotanist

The wonderful Alan Paton!

We’re looking to create more Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs). TENs help improve the WFO taxonomic backbone and curate a global consensus classification. If you and your colleagues would be interested in developing a TEN contact [email protected].

🇮🇹 #GirodItalia Winners 2024 🩷 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thread of photographers who patiently waited to capture the shot of a lifetime 🧵 1. Leonardo Sens (3 years)

Here's what the world looked like a century ago - thread 🧵 1. Kids on the streets of England in 1901

My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best

Flashback to November 2015 when Trump mocked a disabled reporter. This should have been the end of Trump’s political career. Today we learned that Donald Trump said that disabled people “should just die.” How can anyone vote for this psychopath?

Donald Trump on Vice President Harris: “She’s totally against the Jewish people.” This would be news to her Jewish husband and her stepdaughters.

Check out this new #AJB essay! Comparative morphology at a crossroads By Julius Jeiter & Erik Smets doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1… #botany #evolution #phylogenetics #plantsystematics #TreeOfLife Wiley Plant Science

The #KMGBF is a game changer in our fight to protect endangered species & their habitats. This framework sets out clear targets to: 🐅 Halt species extinction 🌳 Prevent habitat loss 🌱 Promote sustainable land use Here's what you should know👇 via BES-Net (Biodiversity and Ecosystems Network)

The global economy is consuming more natural resources than ever, & the world is not on track to meet the #GlobalGoals. Urgent & bold action is needed to fix humanity’s relationship with nature. See more in the global resources outlook report: unep.org/resources/Glob… via UN Environment Programme

Mark Slapinski Affordability at crisis levels. War in Gaza still ongoing. War in the Ukraine still ongoing. Prices still climbing. Poverty and homelessness soaring. Recession on the way. Tariff taxes on Americans. Tesla stock DOWN. So much losing.