Weird headline, really interesting biology. "there are more than 100 species of fungi now known to break down plastics."

straitstimes.com/world/unite...

One cure for imposter syndrome: acknowledge your inner tanuki (狸). You are an imposter, and that is the ground for a profoundly playful attitude! Be a scientist, be a monk, be a tree, be a poet, be the moon!

Evangelicals somehow combine the worst elements of every horror SciFi story I know. From jump-scare face huggers that turn out to be huge monsters at the origins of political power, to weird brain controlling lumps on the back of your neck, to freshly hatched pod people who point at you and scream....

They took someone again. I'm not even sure how to grieve.

It is one of the really awful bits about Scotland, which otherwise is generally a good place; there's huge support--politically, academically, and socially-- for evangelical protestantism. It's the most corrosive religious movement I know, and one which is deeply implicated in capitalism and the despoilment of what was a rather pleasant planet.

(Someone else can write the essay on TESCREAL, apocalyptic, prosperity gospels, the old Christian idea of predestination, and evangelicals.)

a manifesto for ecologists:

nature.com/articles/s41559-0...

decolonial, radicalized praxis for the future

but it still privileges, without challenge, universities and learned societies as the site of knowledge production and transmission.