1/2 #15August or #Assumption was a magic time long before Christianism.
#Myths and #rituals talk about #nature and #biodiversity of ancient times. But with the #climateCrisis, we are confronted with phenomena of shifting #baselines and "planetary amnesia".

How can we live with change when even traditions of the annual cycle no longer work? Can we redefine our #storytelling connections?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-08-shifting-times/id1630784381?i=1000629684574

I discovered a buzzword important for #nature, and every #museum and #gallery: #SlowLooking. Here's my article how to do it, great for kids: steady.page/en/naturemat... #NatureMatchCuts #soilLife #soil #NaturePhotography #woodlouse #biodiversity #naturalist #reconnectWithNature

Slow Looking And Soil’s Hustle...

Mastodon can be a great source of inspirations! Thanks to @ak_text post about #SlowLooking I discovered a buzzword important for #nature, and every #museum and #gallery.

I show you how to do it and why a woodlouse under a stone can be as interesting as an ancient artefact behind glass:
https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/47c218fa-5ba0-4dae-9140-305637008a00

And of course you can buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/naturematchcuts/tip or subscribe to my #newsletter!

1/4 #Summer is a good time to play with #mud, experiment with natural pigments. It's easy: take some surface soil without organic and other rests, solve it in water (or white school glue for longer lasting images) and paint!
The finer the soil, the better the pigments work. You can also sieve and even grind the finds. Great for children to discover the rich diversity of soil.

Imagine you were an alien with an #exoskeleton. When you eat too much of this delicious salad, you have to leave the old exoskeleton for a bigger one! I surprised a woodlouse when it left its exoskeleton trousers behind.

@frankashwood wrote: "Take a closer look at the life beneath your feet, and you'll discover a whole new world of dazzling complexity."

More photos of #woodlice and friends coming! (I'm a fan of #trilobites!)

#ScribesAndMakers 11th July 2025. Is art necessary, and why?

It's a question like: why do you breathe?
I have to, I'm feeling wonderful living in an atmosphere and when I stop, I'll be dead.
It's because nature is pure beauty and drama. Ask bowerbirds or spiders, ask puffer fish why they do what they do. I'm an animal who needs art to survive. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220527-the-animals-with-an-artistic-eye

The art of arranging marine algae into designs, bouquets, and even sometimes intricate little scenes, was surprisingly popular in the nineteenth century. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/album-of-seaweed-pictures-1848/ BTW, I know such little images made with moss.

Sometimes, when I interview bacteria or animals, I ask myself if it's not too childish. But hey, the highly respected @cnrs lets #blobs talk!
In case you need some #goodNews: Blobs are sure to take over the world (well, my hypothesis). Thanks to the CNRS and a #citizenScience project, they are already living in countless children's bedrooms. Listen to a blob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwcx6yCdDE8

Scientists record the #soundscape of a healthy #reef and play it to #corals in a disturbed #environment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/68553058
Study: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231514

I spontaneously thought of David Goulson's book Silent Earth about the #insectApocalypse https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443405/silent-earth-by-goulson-dave/9781529114423
Humans are #silencing #nature. Will we also need sound recordings to survive one day? Or for our children to know what is lost?

The research is still in pure #solarpunk state but sounds thrilling: Imagine building your house with mycelium bricks and paint it with these #photosynthetic #microorganisms immobilized in a printable polymer hydrogel for capturing #CO2! (Nothing for my micro-macro-amplifyer, I could hear them cry ) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58761-y (works only 1 year, only in the lab).
via @davidho

Greetings from an impressive great green bush-cricket! She grumbled that we humans shouldn't pick up animals and insects for no reason on our hands, especially for photos. We should imagine a giant monster with ungreen skin catching us! Would we like that? Ungreen skin?!

She was very grumpy. Even telling that I only catch her in my room to save her to the garden didn't calm her. She bit me three times. I would have done the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tettigonia_viridissima

Did you ever talk about #moss se.x? I did: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moss-the-emerald-treasure/id1630784381?i=1000707856049

You can find my podcast #NatureMatchCuts on every podcatcher/platform.

If you listened to my micro-macro-amplifyer you could hear a "roaaarrr!" against #aphids on my rose. In German, #ladybird larvae are called Blattlauslöwen, #aphid lions.

Because of the warm winter and the terrible dryness, we have myriads of aphids. And because of farmers using more pesticides, we have less #insects and insect eating #birds. So more aphids*. Everything is #interconnected. Read ALT!

I recently stumbled upon @NatureMC's podcast #NatureMatchCuts, in particular the episode on moss. Very engaging and worth a listen! I would love something like that in German for my daughter.
https://pca.st/episode/0277cd7d-585b-494c-82ab-6343247da56e
#PodcastTip #mosstodon

2/2 Yesterday someone asked me where to find my #podcast, here's the website:
https://naturematchcuts.net

Here my blog/newsletter: https://steadyhq.com/naturematchcuts/

Or just search #NatureMatchCuts in your favourite podcatcher or on any platform. If you like it, you can subscribe for listening, recommend it, share the links etc.

The newest episode is about #moss https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moss-the-emerald-treasure/id1630784381?i=1000707856049