A colourful pseudoscorpion - species not yet determined - found in compost, was a star visitor to Crowfield Village Fête, Suffolk, courtesy Anglian Microscopy Group. @suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social @vannabartlett.bsky.social

"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened." —Nikki Giovanni 💔 #poem #poems #poetry

#BigButterflyCount is here! Between now and the 9th August: - spend 15 mins in a sunny spot - count the butterflies you see - submit your sightings Find out more at bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org Happy counting folks! 🦋🦋🦋

Who was Anna Atkins? Discover the artist and scientist behind the first-ever illustrated photography book. gty.art/4wKDPAQ 🧵

Look at his beast. It weighs 3½ stone/23 kg - a real back-strainer & finger-crusher. The Vickers Patholux c.1970, with special features such as trinocular tube, halogen lighting, filter trays, fine-focus control. Needs work doing on it, though. I now need somewhere to put it. #microscopy

"The idea of vegetation underpinning all life has led contemporary scientists and phytobiologists to describe plants as constructors of the environment where we live—producers of nature, life and living condition." With #mosses surely down at basement level.

'Life as we don’t know it: plant life in the history and philosophy of science an introduction' @fabribald.bsky.social #philsky #plants #philosophy #science link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎸 ¡Buenos días! Hoy es el Día Mundial del Rock. Ni Elvis ni las bandas británicas: las verdaderas raíces de este sonido están en el blues, el gospel y en las manos de mujeres negras como Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Descolonizar la cultura es recuperar la autoría popular.🎙️✊🏾 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a4...

A raven at c.100 ft over the garden, flying south. Kaark-Kaark-Kaark Heading for the Dove valley. My heart always surges when I see these birds. They cast a spell like no other.

Ancient genomes and European dogs: what Bergström et al. 2026 clarifies — and what it doesn’t. A new Nature study analyzes nuclear DNA from 200+ late‑Paleolithic and Mesolithic canids across Europe and Anatolia, including Kesslerloch, Veretye, Scandinavian dogs and Boncuklu. #DogsofBluesky #stem

4/ One of our recent paper is specifically on this topic, if some of you actually read this sort of things 🙃 #FossilFriday #Paleosky 🧪⚒️🌊🦑 academic.oup.com/mollus/artic...

@geolsocnorfolk.bsky.social Stable oxygen isotopes reveal different thermal regimes during the Early Pliocene in the southern North Sea Basin: a multi-species approach

This was a rose. It is now sere. It may be dead. Sere (adj): dried up, withered, or without moisture; mostly used to describe dead, thirsty plants or dry, harsh landscapes.

At feral edge of field, the land sings songs of entanglement. We become caught up in our search for shade. Too tired and bothered to unpick ourselves, we watch distant shimmers, unsure whether they are the disturbances of warm air or dust-witches. – #DAKilroy, 1982

The Italian government is trying to take hunting legislation back to the 1980's. In brutal violation of EU law. Against all scientific advice. Threat is to birds from the Arctic to Southern Africa. We need support. Here is our Italian Partner's petition: share.google/g92NXJnrh4pC...

James Orr: Reform UK’s Religious Cambridge Professor’s Politics of Contradictions

The Ripple Effect... More than 35 communities across the UK tested their water for bacteria harmful to our health. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6863...

Farage versus Binface is absolute the summer we deserve

Acrocarpous mosses grow on the broiling, south facing roofs of the Bungalow while pleurocarpous mosses grow on the shadier north. All very ecological. Meanwhile, mosses animalicules shrink into a tun state of suspended animation: their desert survival mode. #bryology #mosses #microscopy #heatwave

Tomorrow is the official publication day for Thomas Paine: Collected Writings, in 6 volumes, from Princeton University Press. Just in time for the 250th...

🇺🇸 Today’s the day! Join Democrats Abroad UK in Lewes, East Sussex for an afternoon celebrating democracy, civic action, and the enduring legacy of Thomas Paine: www.democratsabroad.org/american_cri...

The £17 billion of tax HMRC is choosing not to collect youtu.be/cNej_KOdbQU?... That's enough to pay for 50,000 council houses a year, and HMRC don't seem to care that it's being lost.

"The present state of civilization is as odious as it is unjust ... and it is necessary that a revolution should be made in it. The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye, is like dead and living bodies chained together." (Thomas Paine) #USA #Mamdani #Trump

Breckles is one of Norfolk's out-of-the-way places. The landscape and its plants, insects, birds & mammals are gifts of centuries of nature and farming. Out with Norfolk Flora Group today, we investigated #plants of old pasture and former fen. #biodiversity @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social

I just flushed a scarlet tiger in my garden (photo from 2 weeks ago). Without wanting to be simplistic, for every species that, assisted by climate change, goes from unheard-of to common, there’s a familiar, much-loved species that can’t cope. Want cattle egrets? Kiss good bye to willow warblers.

@suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social #biodiversity #UK

Wow, that was truly amazing, the Strawberry Full Moon rising over Ely Cathedral this evening. Seen from Little Downham outside of Ely, Cambridgeshire 😍🌝 I didn’t think it was going to shine through the clouds, but it certainly did 🙏🏻🥰 #Fullmoon #strawberrymoon #ElyCathedral #amazing #Wonderful

Going totally sedimental - coring by the Ghost Ponds Team at Illington today revealed layers of sand under the valley floor but no organics; probably wind & water-lain deposit. Looking for buried 👻 ponds, we may have found a late Ice Age lake bed. @norfolkponds.bsky.social @carlsayer.bsky.social

'Understanding and counteracting the denial of insect biodiversity loss' - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #buglife #insects #bioconservation #biodiversity @suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social

In 2014, WMO asked weather presenters to imagine a report from the year 2050. A mere 12 years later, these possible scenarios grounded in climate science are already a reality in some parts of the world as we're seeing in Europe. Watch the series ▶️ bit.ly/4eQUVW3

Seaching for "paydirt" aka seedbanks & lost #ghostponds in the Brecklands of Norfolk, eastern England today with heck of a team @timholtwilson.bsky.social

Out coring a backfilled doline on arable at Illington in the Breckland, to see whether it could be a suitable pond restoration site. Our first core was abandoned at 1.6 m after hitting a buried log, after passing through rotten lumps of burned wood. 🧵

Look at this handsome monster Brown Trout in a glorious sun spun pool of the River Wissey, the biggest of many big #fish I met there Friday before last. King of the River. King of a favourite river. #MySwim #Rivers #chalkstreams #Norfolk #FishSky #TeamFish #ukwildlife #nature #30DaysWild 🧵1/23

How socks helped tell the story of Mesolithic Dartmoor 🧦 Soils are a silent archive beneath our feet. But how do you bring that archive to life? For Emma Stockley’s PhD research on Dartmoor’s Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, the answer was simple: knit them. 👉 shorturl.at/d2LtL

Hurrah! Following cancelling by Trumpist #DOGE politics, former staff of NOAA’s Climate agency have bitten back and set up a replacement, not-for-profit, climate information service - www.climate.us/news-feature... #globalwarming #globalheating #climatechaos #climatechange #USA

New data on insect pollinators show a dramatic decline in hoverflies across Great Britain between 2017–2024. 📉 Around one third reduction in abundance & number of hoverfly species recorded as part of @pomscheme.bsky.social www.ceh.ac.uk/press/new-da... 1/ @jncc.bsky.social 🧪

Today has been another record breaking day, with a new provisional June temperature record of 37.3°C recorded at Santon Downham this afternoon

Surprise, surprise, surprise!! www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-06...

I found a beauty today. A piece of fossilised wood in the high Suffolk Claylands. Incredible to think that this was alive about 200 million years ago. @timholtwilson.bsky.social @geolsocnorfolk.bsky.social

Traffic jams can offer moments of reflection and repose ... admiring brand new Cotswold dry-stone walling at roadworks beside the A436 at Birdlip in Glos. This Middle Jurassic limestone is looking scrumptious. #Cotswold #stone #craftsmanship #geology #geodiversity

The sun is putting a glorious polish on the leaves of Black Bryony (Tamus communis). It looks tropical - not surprising , as members of the Yam family (Dioscoreaceae) are mostly tropical. I've trained it along a fence and up a pole, later to create a showy festoon of scarlet berries. #Suffolk #flora

Ammophila sabulosa - the Red-banded Sand Wasp - in its saharan element,quivering and flickering to & fro at Knettishall Heath @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social in a fierce hunt for caterpillars (and anything else it can get a grip of). #Breckland #biodiversity @suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social #hymenoptera

A midsummer Yucca filamentosa in the Bungalow garden. Can you guess what it smells like? So far unvisited by any insects - they'd have to fly over from Trumpland.

"Migration does exactly what death does. Everything you had before it ends; everything you constructed collapses. Suddenly, you are left with nothing but yourself. You must consider yourself incredibly fortunate if you have a family travelling with you, journeying by your side on this path."

Hello Hive Mind: I have a question re. UV (ultraviolet) light for #biodiversity surveying. There was a cool article by Tilley et al. in British Wildlife #37.2. 2025. Are there any other UV #inverts workers in this field in the #UK? (Asking @norfolknats.bsky.social for poss Conference speaker.) 🦋🐝🌱

37°C prediction squatting like a nasty Fire-bellied Toad over Suffolk this coming Tuesday. I'm saving my bathwater for the plants.