Another little creb 😊

Some surprisingly good coverage of the damage domesticated honeybees can do to habitats: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“We may feel like we’ve seen lots of butterflies this summer, but that’s only because last year was so awful." - Dr Richard Fox, Head of Science at Butterfly Conservation. More about the results, and why they matter, here #BigButterflyCount #butterflies #moths #insects

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage. Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants. Don't fall for it.

A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky

Our political leaders cannot say they didn't know - @michaelfakhri.bsky.social first warned that Israel was orchestrating the deliberate starvation of Palestinians in January 2024 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

I noticed something interesting when looking closer at my pics of this tiny frog (Granular Poison Frog, Oophaga granulifera) in Costa Rica. I'm not positive, but it looks like half an ant is embedded in its back, I think missing the abdomen. Some poison frogs eat ants - maybe one bit back? 🌿🐙🐸

New UK AI datacentre could cause five times emissions of Birmingham airport

The tough forewings of beetles and earwigs can be confusing to students learning insect identification for the first time. The Ant Lab videos are such a brilliant resource, showing how these amazing animals use their wings

Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects - A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides www.theguardian.com/environment/...

😱👇🏽 #nametheharm Increased global greenhouse gasses will increase global temperatures making ice sheets in polar and alpine zones melt and become unstable. Their collapse will cause local & regional damage

Gaza is not an anomaly. It is a mirror. A reflection of our world as it really is today. And for many, a preview of what is to come. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/huma... #Palestine #Israel

Gaza aid chaos ‘completely avoidable’ says UNRWA director

Something a bit different for today's #foxoftheday . Watch some newts , accompanied by a drinking fox's tongue , shared by @urbanponds101 ! Top work !

Open letter by Israeli academics. “This is a horrifying litany of war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing. … It is human societies, not governments alone, that commit crimes against humanity. … We cannot claim that we did not know. We have been silent for too long.”

Bees come in all shapes and sizes... This wee cutie measures around 7mm and is one of the UK’s smallest bee species. Halictus tumulorum, I think (commonly known as The Bronze Furrow Bee) - but my identification skills leave a lot to be desired, so do please correct me if I’m wrong. #bees #nature

"Seas off Cork a 'marine desert' due to overfishing of sprat, says owner of whale-watching business." Sprat, the basis of entire ecosystems, is being hoovered out to turn into fishmeal, an *insanely* wasteful process. Who or what gives them the right??? www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

‘Staggering’ scale of injuries is ‘barbaric’, says surgeon in Gaza www.channel4.com/news/stagger...

🔴 NEW 🔴 UK Supermarket Seabass Linked to Devastating Overfishing in Senegal Waitrose, Co-op, Lidl, Asda and Aldi among retailers selling fish fed on west African catch 📝 @hazelhealy.bsky.social & @brigitte-whl.bsky.social

Always a pleasure to come across a Golden-fringed Mason Bee (Osmia aurulenta) nest! This is one of 3 UK bee species to nest in empty snail shells. A female had just finished pasting leaf mastic over the entrance to the shell when I came across her yesterday at Porth Neigwl. #SolitaryBeeWeek

Colossal Liar Wolves forbetterscience.com/2025/05/21/c...

This Ivy-leafed toadflax does not give up its pollen easily but this small furrow bee is determined. #bees #pollination #naturephotography #wildflowers #macrophotography #wildlifephotography @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social @ianbeavis.bsky.social @jeffollerton.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @

Even more terrifying than the numbers - the likelihood that Labour will conclude that they need to push even harder to the right instead of setting out why the cult of Farage is wrong, dishonest and corrupt.

New blog: new paper on science denial. Combatting denialism depends on community approaches to scicomm. Experts need to be supported by academic and research institutions, policymakers, and journalists #academicsky #commsky wp.me/pF3Q3-TP

There is a point at which wealth gives you too much power to shape politics, just as there is a point above which super-rich lifestyles cause extreme harm to the environment. @dhnnjyn.bsky.social on why we need an "extreme wealth line" in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fuck the fuck off #eurovision #genocidedeniers

Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for: "As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

Israel has rapidly accelerated its destruction of Rafah in April and May. It's hard to understand the magnitude of this, even when spending time analyzing recent satellite imagery. From me, Samuel Granados, Aaron Boxerman, and @rileymellen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"I look at Starmer's trajectory and it is immensely difficult not to notice the trail of devastation left behind. Disabled people, Palestinians, trans people, and now immigrants. All I can see is someone who is willing to throw anyone out of his hot air balloon, just so it can rise higher."

We are witnessing ecocide’: Santander accused of funding vast deforestation The Spanish bank has funnelled $600m to firms clearing South America’s fragile Gran Chaco ecosystem for beef, palm oil and soya, Global Witness says www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The ABC interviewed the @adriftlab.bsky.social team on Lord Howe Island last month. Even this article doesn't capture the feeling of heartbreak and grim reality of feeling plastic crunch inside a live seabird chick. #ornithology #PlasticPollution

I also discuss the bizarre and disturbing association between the Starmer government and former special advisers to Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. I vaguely remember being told something about "Change". But this continuity is beyond our worst nightmares. Not just Tory policies, but actual Tories.

Thank you so much @hrw.org for publishing this piece and helping bring international attention to the plight of trans & non-binary people in the UK. www.hrw.org/news/2025/05... If you want to liaise with UK trans orgs, I recommend: @scottishtrans.bsky.social @transactualuk.bsky.social

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Flowers with bad breath - a wonderfully titled Perspective based on the paper published today in @science.org on convergent evolution of disulfide synthase in plants that smell bad. #PlantScience Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A red wing blackbird landing on a lillypad. #nature #birds #wildlife #photography

🦈 @edinburghnapier.bsky.social is leading the #SharkScape Project - a collaborative research initiative to gather data to ensure the survival of sharks, skates & rays in Scottish waters & beyond! 🌊 Watch the video below with @jathorburn.bsky.social to learn more! 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmfK...

Thread/Yesterday’s Impact Assessment Report lays bare the indefensible logic pushing Government’s #PlanningBill forward: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Or to put it another way, overseas students now subsidise the cost of teaching each UK undergraduate by an average of £2,500 each. Take them away and you've got an absolutely existential crisis for universities. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

Spotted Spurge (Euphorbia maculata) sans spots, shot yesterday on a Pennsport sidewalk. #Weeds #SidewalkWeeds #UrbanWeeds

📣 Join the conversation! 🌍🧪 Upcoming webinar explores how Indigenous Peoples' knowledge contributes to understanding biodiversity-water-food-health connections. 📅May 15, 2025 ✍️Register via ONet for "Indigenous Peoples and the #NexusAssessment" here: onet.ipbes.net/index.php/no...

...The government has also described nature protections as “red tape” that needs to be cut. Tann said: “Why call that red tape? You wouldn’t call protecting St Paul’s Cathedral red tape. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Israeli plan is ‘total control’ in Gaza – Norwegian Refugee Council www.channel4.com/news/israeli...

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Biggest demo I've seen in Edinburgh in years. Incredibly impressive turn out in solidarity with trans rights 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️

Bee Hotels: do they work? How to get the best from them? Join me to hear the results of @The_Buzz_Club 's Big Bee Hotel Experiment, online, tuesday 1pm, free but please book a place! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/improving-...?

"The end is in sight for the supremacy of trans ideology" The GC movement in the UK has marshalled billionaires, baronesses and basically ever major media outlet, but they still cast themselves as the underdogs waging war against imagined trans "elites" with a straight face.

This is hugely important - not just because: *It improves food security (Dig for Democracy) *It increases access to nutritious food *Can increase biodiversity *Increases awareness of how food is produced But also it can be a highly sociable activity, promote social cohesion and community building.

It's been great to work with WHALE Arts in Wester Hailes and my students over the past couple of weeks on workshops for budding young birders and artists!

Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism. Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism. The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.