Aquatic plants buried underground for more than a century can be revived and regrown, according to a new study investigating the phenomenon of ‘ghost ponds’ – ponds that aren’t properly drained but filled in with soil and vegetation under agricultural land.
Restoring some of these buried ponds, and the habitats hidden in limbo beneath the soil, could be a valuable way of reversing habitat and biodiversity losses, say researchers, and we could even bring some plant species back from the dead.
The team from University College London in the UK has dug out three ghost ponds so far and estimates there could be as many as 600,000 similar patches spread out across the English countryside.
“We have shown that ghost ponds can be resurrected, and remarkably wetland plants lost for centuries can be brought back to life from preserved seeds,” says lead researcher Emily Alderton.
This is very forward, but my friend’s cat, Bobby, recently got in an accident. This morning, my friend found out he’ll be needing surgery by Thursday for his broken ankle. The medical costs come up to 1,000 Euro, and unfortunately, my friend can’t cover the costs. Our closest friends are trying to help her anyway we can, but what she really needs are funds. Please help us help Bobby! It’s 100% ok if you can’t donate, in which case please just share this post.
That was funnier than it probably should have been.
I saw an opportunity, and went down to stick a Pokemon in the nearest gym a little while ago. (Which is like two blocks away.) Then, before I got halfway home, I saw it was under attack.
So, I circled back around, and couldn’t resist trolling the guy. Wasted a few candies throwing them at the gym, and sure enough somebody standing right under a street light started peering around suspiciously after the health jumped back up.
Never did see me, I don’t think. Probably convinced he was dealing with a spoofer. Meanwhile I’m barely even lurking behind a car down the side street 😂
Mine may not have stayed in there long enough to collect anything, but at least that little stroll wasn’t totally wasted.
how old is the person being called out? adults hounding a teenager over saying something dumb they’ll regret in two years… it’s not cool, folks.
there are xkit mods that let you modify someone else’s post in a reblog, but most people don’t know about it, so make sure that you view any “incriminating” posts on op’s blog
does the person who wrote the callout have any reason to lie? (for example, a personal disagreement)
what’s the context?
^^ a couple months ago i saw a post calling out someone for “fetishizing trans men,” only to check the accused person’s blog and see that he was a trans guy himself, who made a lot of positivity posts about his body type.
how old is the post?
did the accused person have a chance to apologize or address the concern before the details were exposed to thousands of strangers?
what’s the purpose of the callout post? is it just to say “this person is bad and you should hate them,” or is it to say “this person has been sending slurs and violent death threats to bloggers in [x] group, here’s some reasonable proof, please block their url for your safety”?
Also, I have seen callout posts where the caption for a screenshot says something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from what was actually shown in the screenshot. So don’t just take what it says at face value and go “and it has a screenshot that must be proof”
Similar to “how old is the post,” how recent are the events getting talked about? Has the person since apologized and changed their behavior?
Also “is the content of the thing the person said actually as objectively harmful as the person doing the calling-out is claiming?”
Because sometimes someone sees a thing that upsets them for valid reasons, but the thing is not actually objectively harmful in general, just upsetting to that particular person, but they react as if it’s objectively harmful in general because humans are kind of notoriously bad at telling “this upsets me” apart from “this should upset everyone” unless they’ve made a special effort to learn that skill.
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