#walkingstick — Public Fediverse posts

A Bonanza For Fans Of The Natural World - The Digital Library Sharing 64 million Pages Of Scientific Knowledge With Everyone
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/18/natural-world-digital-biodiversity-heritage-library-scientific-knowledge-free-access-aoe ← shared technical media article
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https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ <-- shared BHL home page / data portal
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[glorious resource!]
“The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.“
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“The Biodiversity Heritage Library [BHL} is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities...
Some go there to read about the wood that Victorian manufacturers used to make walking sticks. Others want to see an illustration of a Tasmanian tiger or marvel at the field diary of one of the first known botanists to explore the Antarctic.
Over the past 20 years, more than 64m pages have been made freely available through the... BHL – a digital treasure trove for fans of the natural world. More than 680 museums, universities, libraries and scientific institutions from China, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand to Europe, Africa, Mexico, Canada and the US, have contributed to the library.
This week, a report from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew... revealed the crucial role digitisation [like BHL’s] is playing in “transforming our ability to understand and respond to the climate and biodiversity crises”, but it was the creation of the BHL 20 years ago that first demonstrated how bringing centuries of scientific knowledge online can unlock transformative discoveries and insights about the natural world.
David Iggulden, who chairs the BHL executive committee alongside his job as head of data and digital, library and archives at RBG Kew, describes the library as an invaluable and “absolutely essential” resource for scientists in the field. But it is also used by scientific researchers, environmental historians, educators, art historians, artists, citizen scientists and members of the public who – like Iggulden – simply enjoy browsing its contents on a rainy weekend.
“I just get caught up in it sometimes, looking at the various collections,” he says. “I think it’s amazing that we can explore such a vast array of different collections from very different institutions.”
As well as published biodiversity literature and journals, there are letters, illustrations, climate records, field diaries, ecosystem profiles, distribution records and manuscripts containing the original collecting stories of a particular species or detailing voyages of discovery…”
#BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #BHL #Biodiversity #library #literature #illustrations #UK #texts #historic #reference #online #opendata #visualisation #museum #walkingstick #university #research #institute #species #ecosystems #habitat #data #digital #climatechange #response #reference #resource #correspondence #illustrations #records #manuscripts
@BiodiversityHeritageLibrary

Walking stick of Emperor Franz I with a hidden stiletto, Austria, ~1815 AD

https://piefed.social/c/historyartifacts/p/2020230/walking-stick-of-emperor-franz-i-with-a-hidden-stiletto-austria-1815-ad

Loyalty of the Rohirrim o7

https://piefed.social/c/lotrmemes/p/1770982/loyalty-of-the-rohirrim-o7

One of the best unintentional benefits of wood carving has to be the free mulch. As soon as spring hits, these aspen shavings are going around my baby apple trees haha

#woodcarving #woodworking #traditionalcrafts #walkingstick #whittling #crafts

Apple hook season Major league scrumping. rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/10/ww-a... #autumn, #food, #hermitpractice, #hermitcraft, #photography, #walkingstick, #wildedibles

WW: Apple hook season

Pacific Crabapple The best food you can't eat that you'll ever have. rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/09/ww-p... #autumn, #FirstNations, #food, #hermitpractice, #hermitcraft, #walkingstick, #wildedibles, #woodworking, #WordlessWednesday

WW: Pacific crabapple

Pacific Crabapple

The best food you can't eat that you'll ever have.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/09/ww-pacific-crabapple.html

#autumn, #FirstNations, #food, #hermitpractice, #hermitcraft, #walkingstick, #wildedibles, #woodworking, #WordlessWednesday

I just love these patterns. At first they look like cracks, but they are just black lines running through the wood.

#FiXatoCreative #FiXatoWorksWood #woodWorking #staff #walkingStick #wood

At today's charity event I won a prize in the raffle.
It's a handmade Shillelagh* - made by one of the players.
Unfortunately it's rather long at the moment so I will be modifying it so my wife can use it (as long as she doesn't lose it)

*Shillelaghs are traditionally made of blackthorn, this is from yew wood.

#Shillelagh #walkingStick

also non weed beauties ☺️ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyline_petiolaris #walkingstick

100 Days On The Mountain The first blog post I made after I came out of the jungle. rustyring.blogspot.com/2011/09/100-... #100DaysontheMountain, #ango, #hermitpractice, #maple, #meditation, #poem, #sangha, #walkingstick, #wildlife, #Zen

100 Days on the Mountain

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-23/lord-howe-island-cloud-forest-rare-ecosystem-species-return/104407260
a great article, but how did they fail to mention the wonderful Lord Howe Island Stick Insect, Dryococelus, or the tree lobster???

Now that the rats have been extripated, will they re-introduce the tree lobster?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryococelus

#insect
#treeLobster
#stickInsect
#walkingStick

Oh, almost unseen...a northern walking stick swinging on the garden gate. #gardening #nature #WalkingStick

The Far Side desk calendar for August 21.

#garylarson
#thefarside
#walkingstick

Kävin Kyllön terveyskeskuksen apuvälinepisteellä ja sain käyttööni mattakahvaisen kävelykepin vasemaan käteen. Nyt on sitten käytössä kahdet kepit eri puolilla käsiä, vasemmalla kävelykeppi ja oikealla näkövammaisille tarkoitettu valkoinen joustokeppi.

PS. Oispa kolmas käsi puhelimen näpertelyä ja kauppakassin kantamista varten 🐙

* Jalat ovat kunnossa, heittohuimauksen vuoksi haettu kävelykeppi avuksi.

#WhiteCane #cane #blind #deafblind #WalkingStick

I got a "Step2Gold Ta-Da Cane-Chair" via eBay this week and I like it a lot. It turns into a chair in about 1 second and back into a walking stick in the same amount of time. Today, I tied this little pouch to it to add pockets

#trekking #cane #SystemStick #CaneChair #ThanksItHasPockets #WalkingStick #sitting #chair #mod #tadachair #step2gold

#Grasshopper wears brace to support floppy neck

https://talker.news/2024/02/23/grasshopper-wears-brace-to-support-floppy-neck/
#houston #texas #walkingstick

I've very occasionally (maybe 3-4 times total) used a #WalkingStick due to chronic foot/leg #pain over the last few years.

This month, as I've travelled and pain has gotten worse, I've used it more. In Wellington it was very much a non-issue. No remarks on it, seat offered on a bus without comment, no note when entering #wwc games.

#accessibility #disability

Go off to my usual disability aids supplier to order a spare non tumble tumbler and another of the red plate guards I use so very often. Both absolutely essential disability aids so I can manage meals. And trust me to nab some more things! Getting a poncho for my wheelchair, and a blue tartan stick (made in Somerset!).
#Disability #DisabilityAids #OccupationalTherapy #Wheelchair #WalkingStick #Tartan #Somerset

wow. this is great #productdesign by Jonas Kathan and Lilian Holthus.

(a nifty walking stick that also aids you in gettting up from sitting.)

hope it gets realized soon!

🌐 https://jonaskathan.myportfolio.com/lift-more-than-a-walking-stick

#accessibility #homecare #eldercare #lift #walkingAid #WalkingStick #Gehhilfe #Aufstehhilfe #Gehstock 3.0 #Pflege #Hilfsmittel #mobility