"Scientists increasingly recognising" is a sentence I read a lot when researching for my podcast #NatureMatchCuts. Fine!
In my "learning years" the world was dull, #science often depended on a strongly patriarchal system that watched #nature from the view of anthropocentric colonialists.
It was the time when every excavated dead body with weapons or status was declared as a man. https://www.sidestone.com/books/gender-stereotypes-in-archaeology And #animals had a status somewhere deep down, together with rivers and rocks, non-human

May I introduce myself? I'm Phymatocerra aterrima, the Solomon's seal #sawfly. My larvae are extreme gourmets: they can eat only leaves of #SolomonsSeal and #LilyOfTheValley. If you kill the habitats of these plants, we can't survive. Therefore, we love the #forests of #VosgesDuNord and our photographer's wild #garden.
It's #fairy: #Polygonatum multiflorum is the fairy tale's key 'Springwurz' that opens all doors - perhaps also the magic viper's cave under the elder tree? #NatureMatchCuts

You can't imagine the effort I have to put in to write a podcast episode (will be about moss). First of all, I have to understand everything myself so that I can then tell you all about it in three sentences in the most entertaining way possible.

A huge sigh of relief: I've finally managed to explain moss sex in a way that I hope is generally understandable. Not easy because there are only complicated technical terms for some stuff. Moss is generally neglected in all languages I know. So I have to find analogies ... We should have a moss sex cartoon.

"A piglet wrapped in an enormous duvet" - I'm just sitting at the interview with this fascinating person, suddenly she cries Yabba dabba doo! - her species won the Guardian #Invertebrate Of The Year contest! "They are gloriously independent animals. They don’t need us half as much as we need them." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/07/guardian-invertebrate-of-the-year-2025-natural-history
Should I ask her what she thinks about the article?

One of my favourite times of the year: when the trees start to turn green and everything is in bloom at the edge of the forest and in the Streuobst-Wiesen.

If super-bullies conquer the headlines with absurd crap, imagine a world without bullies in power.
It's on us to counter their #narratives with how we would like the future to be. It is up to all of us to fight for this future. Not tomorrow but now!
Write *your* plot of humanity and cooperation.
https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/fbdd3658-8415-466b-98d8-100a923820a0

Scripting my next #NatureMatchCuts podcast episode about moss. Well, the part about moss sex was quite funny to write ... now I have to explain the life of moss babies. If you want to see examples of real #diversity, look at moss persons! Fascinating!

We have not enough rain. I know that without any app. Because always, when the traditional magnolia bloom in northern Alsace, it rains a lot. The splendour often lasts only a few days.
Now we've only had grey, dry days. Wonderful to see the flowers. But bad for the drying soil.
If you connect nature's calendar with "traditional" remembered weather you can see the shift: https://www.cronenburg.net/magic/

In France, you can now get reminders for podcast production on health insurance.
My physiotherapist asks me every week when it's finally going to start again! I'll tell you all: The episode will be released next month.
I told him that he was actually there to relax my muscles and not to cause me stress. Well, if you have fans ...
Please be patient!

Spring is finally here! These little friends bring their babies to ‘graze’. #Woodlice feed on rotting plant matter, as well as bacteria and fungi on rotting plants. Like gourmets they have very sensitive olfactory receptors to find tasty treats. They are an important part of #soilLife. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcellio_scaber As a child, I was happy about their #trilobite -like look.

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: https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/025f4904-2364-4711-8907-f7e55841993f

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And now and no more rabbit holes, please. I have to write part 2 of this "Backstage: Between Dr Who and Earth Sounds" https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/e7f309ce-2f1e-46f0-ba80-e8e86b6a8430
You can read my blog via newsletter now, from a EU platform instead of Substack.

Are you curious how I invented my micro-macro-amplifyer and why I like Dr Who? How I learned from a BBC colleague that a bed is important for work? Do you want to imagine a grey haired woman watching childrens' TV and having a culture clash thanks to Audacity? How I came to podcasting (part 1) https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/e7f309ce-2f1e-46f0-ba80-e8e86b6a8430

(To my US followers ) I wrote: "Obviously, the immensely rich #diversity of choices offers evolutionary advantages for a wide variety of environments." I'm just writing about #moss sex. Without Newspeak.

I'm proud to use the so-called "flagged" words https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/00aabadd-63c5-4f3d-93a9-e93ebda61377

Yes, my podcast comeback episode will be about #Moss!

"What I see seems like a second-rate James Bond plot, except that James is bogged down somewhere over his martinis and not around when you need him."
Yay, I'm back with blogging! And you can get my blogposts as a newsletter via mail: https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/00aabadd-63c5-4f3d-93a9-e93ebda61377 A new episode for my #podcast is in research. It feels so good to write again!