So this just happened.

So this just happened.

Not quite. Morris minor.

Not quite. Morris minor.

Hotel.

Hotel.

13 is lucky: When on your 13th anniversary the garden you planted offers up for dinner 13 morel mushrooms you did *not* plant. Butter, heat, we’re there. #gardens #food #mushrooms #luck

13 is lucky: When on your 13th anniversary the garden you planted offers up for dinner 13 morel mushrooms you did *not* plant. Butter, heat, we’re there. #gardens #food #mushrooms #luck

More crabapple blossoms a-fallen. #flowers #gardens #spring  (at Le jardin)

More crabapple blossoms a-fallen. #flowers #gardens #spring (at Le jardin)

What the rains done to my crabapple blossoms. But I forgive them.  #gardens #spring #flowers #vermont #timesinevitablecrueldestructionandrenewal

What the rains done to my crabapple blossoms. But I forgive them. #gardens #spring #flowers #vermont #timesinevitablecrueldestructionandrenewal

6 a.m. and already scored the loons. #birding #vermont

6 a.m. and already scored the loons. #birding #vermont

Very brave grasshopper. Maybe a half-inch long, utterly unintimidated. #gardens #insects #olympusem5 #macro (at Le jardin)

Very brave grasshopper. Maybe a half-inch long, utterly unintimidated. #gardens #insects #olympusem5 #macro (at Le jardin)

Second in my sex pistils garden series: poppin’ poppy. #gardens #flowers #vt #vermont  (at Le jardin)

Second in my sex pistils garden series: poppin’ poppy. #gardens #flowers #vt #vermont (at Le jardin)

Apologies for so many garden pics. I can’t get over that it’s spring. (at Le jardin)

Apologies for so many garden pics. I can’t get over that it’s spring. (at Le jardin)

Well. (at Le jardin)

Well. (at Le jardin)

Volunteers were briefed not to get pulled into debating “politics” of arms dealing or the fossil fuel industry, lest it distracted from the science. I’ve since heard similar briefings have been issued for science events running over the summer. It’s also a line I heard all too often when I worked at Imperial College.

It’s bullshit. Simple bullshit. Politics doesn’t distract from the science. An over-emphasis on decontextualised science is used to distract from the politics.

It is often assumed science is somehow above political issues, but just because disinterestedness is an aspiration doesn’t mean it’s true in practise. It can be hard to spot ideologies you’re part of, so decent public engagement – which is honest about the uncertainties and arguments in science and actively invites questioning – can help science uncover itself more clearly. This is vitally important, because if you don’t recognise how routinely political science is, you just get played by those who do.

Make that a double, please. #spring #vermont #flowers #gardens  (at da house)

Make that a double, please. #spring #vermont #flowers #gardens (at da house)

texasmonthly:

Did we break the Internet yet? Official Top 4 BBQ Joints in the World, according to us, and we logged 33,168 miles and ate at 658 places so yeah, WE KNOW. #tmbbq #roadtrip #texasbbq  (at Texas Monthly)

texasmonthly:

Did we break the Internet yet? Official Top 4 BBQ Joints in the World, according to us, and we logged 33,168 miles and ate at 658 places so yeah, WE KNOW. #tmbbq #roadtrip #texasbbq (at Texas Monthly)