gordonlightfooted
Gorgeous Gordon Lightfoot photos, chickens, cats, medieval stuff, metal, and folk rock
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That time Harold was choking on a ping pong ball
oooohh
it's like a period drama to me
Here is an angel of summer coming to give you hope in this freezing month! 🌼 Photo from my collection, ca. 1970s.
Gordon Lightfoot by the Grain Elevator
Gordon Lightfoot
You’re just a cranky ol’ tomcat aren’t ya
*Oscar falls in love*
Although spring peepers are rarely more than 1.5in long, they make some of the loudest sounds in the forest relative to their size! ©
>at the graveyard
>rotten hand thrusts out of the dirt
me: *holds it*
VOTE GORD 🇨🇦
Buddy Holly VS Gordon Lightfoot
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VOTE GORD!!!!
Buddy Holly (1936-1959) The Crickets - lead vocals and guitar Songs: "That'll Be the Day," "Oh Boy!" Defeated Opponents: Frank Sinatra Propaganda: none
Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023) solo Songs: "Carefree Highway," "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" Defeated Opponents: Eddie Cochran Propaganda: none
gordon lightfoot propaganda bc him losing is a crime
Eddie Cochran VS Gordon Lightfoot
The Red Green Show - Ranger Gord plays the word game
"Is this that band you like, what's it called, the..toxic...toxically hip?"
after barely a day of my poll being up it seems like so many people know about and really love natural history collections which makes my heart sing!! i would love for my fellow natural history nerds to rise up and sign this petition to protect one!!
duke university is CLOSING its herbarium which holds over 800,000 plant/fungus/algae specimens including 2,000 types spanning 180 years of collection effort all across the planet. it is the second largest private university herbarium in the entire united states. this is really bad!! i will explain in short terms:
every natural history collection's purpose is to collect and maintain specimens, which are collectively supposed to be a thorough representation of biodiversity across time and space. when sampled at regular intervals at the same places, specimens can tell endless stories about changes in shape, abundance, range, genetics, and SO much more. basically, they are a big sample size to use in all manner of studies, including those that concern climate change and biodiversity loss! new species and evolutionary relationships are constantly discovered at collections even when specimens are like 100 years old. duke has recently championed itself as a global leader in biodiversity research which is honestly in jawdropping conflict with its move to close its herbarium. this herbarium not only supplies duke researchers with material but researchers all over the world. specimens have been cited in over 46,000 publications and over 13,000 since 2019 alone. we have old shit in our cabinets but the science is anything but history!
faculty and staff have 2-3 years to move the specimens elsewhere which is NOT enough time for 800,000 old dried plant/fungus specimens. this is an issue in even the BEST natural history collections at the biggest institutions but collections are pretty much always understaffed and underpaid. a university collection usually relies a lot on student labor and you know they do not have the time to be contributing to this move. to find collections that would take these specimens AND allocate the manpower and time needed to send them off is not feasible. types, especially holotypes should really NEVER be transported because they serve as the exemplar for the characteristics of the species it represents. i do not feel good about hurrying 800,000 old, fragile specimens including 2,000 types getting moved in a short amount of time by a few people. i do not want to know what will happen to the remaining specimens that don't make it out in time.
this sets a really dangerous precedent for other university collections across the world. this is not a random state school, this is duke university, which is practically an ivy league. if they close such a prominent and respected collection just because they're not 260% maximizing their profits, it may let other greedy university admins know they can get away with the same. i've only been in the professional collections world for a short time but shutting down a collection let alone one as big as duke's is almost UNHEARD of. i haven't seen scientists band together so strongly and quickly over an issue (i'm in an ENTOMOLOGY collections listserv and someone advocated for emailing duke admin against this decision), probably because they can all agree on how strongly this could impact climate and biodiversity research and policymaking down the road.
tl;dr if duke herbarium really closes, we would be losing a vital hub for ongoing and future research that helps us understand how our world is changing through the dynamics of our plants and their allies. other institutions might see this and follow suit with their own collections.
Happy Valentine's Day hip heads
@gordonlightfooted Who wore it better?
he sounds like a newborn kitten crying for its mother
Merry Gordmas to you too!
Merry gordmas @gordonlightfooted
Gordon LIghtfoot
Sundown
"ur so quiet whats on ur mind"
me
Gord Downie interviewed in 1989 x