This is what the pub looks like after a sauna and cold plunge in a car park #westyorkshire #eastlancashire

I wrote about @reproutopia.bsky.social's excellent book "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" for the new @nplusonemag.com

The 'give ice qr codes' thing reminds me of when Sarah Everard was murdered by a real policeman using his real police id to kidnap her, and the police & gvt made out the solution was to have a helpline to check that the person bundling you away was a real policeman (as the murderer was)

It was a challenge but it went OK👌

on.soundcloud.com/Nfja68tOVGJX... Upcountry (1999) John Wynne A musical portrait of Kenyan master musician William Ingosi Mwoshi <3

Honoured to have been asked to enter the FreakZone on BBC6 MUSIC at midnight tonight! I’m hosting an hour of what I think of as ‘space music’ ✨🪐 with tracks from @jamesholden.bsky.social @flcartographer.bsky.social @mtrlobjt.bsky.social @eeih.bsky.social @lauracannellmusic.bsky.social and MORE ✨🪐

Have a PhD interview today (not art) - wish me luck Bsky 🌒🌕🌘

BBC News Channel just cut off an extremely informed guest mid sentence without note who the achor just apologised to for keeping him waiting, as soon as he said that the US would pick up military action from where Israel left off in June 2025. Didn't even sign him off. Disappeared from screens #Iran

Just bough and enjoying my second @danelaw.bsky.social album in as many months. Headspace at last. thedanelaw.bandcamp.com/album/the-bl...

Huge thanks to 3,652 of you amazing #CitizenScientists who went out hunting for #NewYearPlantHunt! You sent us >25K records of an astonishing 663 different wildflower spp. blooming across Britain & Ireland Headlines in our infographic 👇 More details on our 2026 Results page: bsbi.org/take-part/ac...

Competition between contemporary artists and the landscape of market and organisational agendas is something I'm really ready to leave behind me.

New sound therapy found to flush out toxic Alzheimer’s proteins from brain

It seems that we have a new wave of people and organisations choosing to leave the other place and set up on Bluesky. So now is a good time to resurface this starter pack of LGBTQIA+ orgs to help get you going here on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/PSBhHbT

Did anyone else have this poster on their bedroom wall growing up? "Chalk Grassland." This was basically one of the gateway drugs into botany- not only the plants but importantly they communities they grew in. I loved this poster & it still lives vividly in my imagination. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

🦋🌿Hiring 12 x Botanists or Entomologists for 2026 field surveys in England! 4-month, full-time roles from late April to early September. Field sites in Yorkshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Kent/Sussex, Lincolnshire/Cambridge, Essex/Suffolk. Apply now: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca... 🧪

The Presbyterian Office of Public Witness has released a statement on the death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Presbyterian woman whose fatal shooting by a U.S. ICE officer last week in Minneapolis has sparked protests around the country. Read the full statement here: pcusa.org/news-storyte...

A fungus photo a day: Phaeoclavulina coral fungus taken yesterday. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

🌱Today’s flower/plant photo of includes one of my favourites, Purple Flower and another favourite, Sea Holly. The unusual thing about this photo is that there aren’t any bees, as normally these flowers are both absolutely buzzing with them. ❤️

Poppy #MacroMonday #gardening 🌱

Managed a short twenty minute walk today after three days of stomach flu. Did not disappoint. 🌱🍂🌧🌰🍒

Recommend this talk on urban wild plants now up on @bsbibotany.bsky.social youtube channel 🌱🌆 youtu.be/tCdCbQmn8sg?...

The Drivers Seat book club in the sauna was rescheduled bc snow but this graveyard is a stones throw and will suffice. Get in, indeed.

Mom I Frew Up threw up on the bed this morning, God love him.

Many nice messages from friends and had a majestic, frosty day in the Lakes with my two loves for my 40th. Here is a horse and a gorse. #wildflowerhour

🌛THIS EVENING!✨ North East Sound Women Network have an online catch-up for women and gender-diverse people across NE England. Log on to connect, share projects, ask questions and make some plans for 2026! Email [email protected] to request the joining link.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

For #wildflowerhour it’s Shepherd’s Purse and it’s protocarnivorous seeds from me nature.com/articles/s4159…

Goose grass + speedwell were new to me! #wildflowerhour #newyearplanthunt Top left clockwise spiral: lovely gorse, frosty red campion, shy hellabore, teeny goose grass, fave hairy bittercress, faint field speedwell, shaggy primrose, bitty shepherds purse, what we call coltsfoot, leggy buttercup!

From next week there will be a studio assistant to be real vs serious for...

#Venezula #Starmer The great Human Rights Lawyer is unable to form an opinion if Trump's actions are illegal. No wonder Saville got away with it...

Starmer has to go - oh my god. He's bad news through and through.

From Palestine to Venezuela: We call for unity in the struggle for self-determination and for collective solidarity against the genocidal US-Israel axis. Read our full statement: loom.ly/0PcQonE

Because of doing #NewYearPlantHunt last couple of days, I've definitely now met #TheWinterTen challenge for #WildFlowerHour tomorrow. So much so I can afford to share one early! Look at this dandelion frozen in bud before it could bloom!

The Weekly Read is "Bêtes Noires" by Lauren (Robin) Derby, which explores storytelling traditions between the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shapeshifting spirit demons called baka/bacá. Read the entire book for free now! buff.ly/KqM6djW

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

Writing a semester timetable for three overlapping modules and two staff, after four months off.... errr....

We've been working with @metoffice.gov.uk to analyse 10 years of #NewYearPlantHunt data. The analysis provides the clearest evidence yet of how rising temperatures are impacting the British & Irish flora, with knock-on effects for all our wildlife. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Donate to your places if you can again

OK OK Mercury now actually in Capricorn and, contrary to my slightly aggro-sass previous post on the matter, all signs of the zodiac will *benefit* from fortuitous cosmic alignment encouraging better communication and strategic thinking (not are encumbant to demonstrate this, lol). Until 19th.

I've given it some thought and while at first extremely abstract, this could be, in fact, very promising... 🤔 @merriam-webster.com

Poodle Years Day almost over...

- x7 recorded wildflowers - x5 certain IDs - x4 successful convos - many stood-in dog poos - much thwarted desire for chickweed flower - x3 causes to use new hand lens - x1 beautiful big waxing gibbous moon! #NewYearPlantHunt @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Twice listened to this new 40 min trance-y eerie textured industrial number to time my #NewYearPlantHunt reccy this morn. A solid 6 wild flowers to record for @bsbibotany.bsky.social + a couple in bud. Waiting for a degree or two more temp increase before I head out for real, incase it helps... 🙏

Not long now until #NewYearPlantHunt starts! Everything you need is here: bsbi.org/take-part/ac... Spotter sheets, Top Tips for successful hunting, info about group hunts, guidance on taking photos for #WildFlowerID, links to the #BSBIRecordingApp for uploading your finds & info on how to get help.

Mercury is about to transition into Capricorn tomorrow night - it's all about sharp thorough communications and strategy. And so I write this advice as an autistic spectrum Capricorn with a moon calendar: you have about 20 days to say what you mean and mean what you say, or you're fucked. HNY 🎉

Must. Find. Print.

this is pure ghoul shit. trans people are people. not an ideology. my life is not an ideology. you trying to end my life is. go get fucked, suzanne.

Suzanne Moore in 2020: "As a feminist, I would argue that gender is socially constructed, and it can be reconstructed." And in 2025: "This must be the year Britain finally kills off trans ideology." Transphobia is the engine that pulls the train of fascism.

We are now at 75k signatures, with many messages of support on Instagram, Facebook and here. This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls. Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜 notinourname.org.uk

I recur a donation to a press/arts org for a year each year. I'm leaning into @punctumbooks.bsky.social for 2026 bc they are open source, para-academic, v transparent processes + had a weird visual essay published by them in a collection called Bodies That Remain years back and gave me #confidence