Ynys Môn leading the way again ✊🏻

Last day of our massive work event today. Three sessions back to back and one smile plastered on. Several drinks after five pm. Then back to normal - it’s been ‘fun’!

If the temperature continues to drop - and based on decades of observation I’m pretty confident it will - I’ll soon need to break out the hats! 🎉

This is incredible to see! It’s not that long ago that no one had ever seen a live giant squid and now, here is footage of a sperm whale eating one!

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life

Watching part 4 of Wonderland: Science Fiction in the Atomic Age on Sky Arts. Really fascinating doc, on how the fears of the age we live in feed into sci-fi.

This (but for the most part replace toads and Melies with wobbly or crunchy marine things and dead naturalists. And shitposts. Really, I am as politically aware and engaged as many people on here but I don’t need it bleeding into every part of my life.

Marie Antoinette never saw the sea. I don’t know why but this strikes me as quite sad.

The tortoise probably outlived the Hanoverian dynasty

I love unnecessarily sexy statues. My favorite being Thirst Trap Lincoln from the LA County Superior Courthouse.

🚨 UK Govt is considering whether to ban destructive bottom-trawl fishing in 41 marine protected areas. We need YOU to help us demand a complete ban in these ocean havens, before it's too late. Hurry, we only have 5 days left to respond! 🐟🌊 ACT NOW: only.one/act/uk-mpa-c...

Non-expert here: if your first thought when you see this is non-ironically “a laptop!” what exactly is wrong with you? Ever heard of boxes? Mirrors? Artworks? A writing tablet would not have been my first guess but I would also not have been a weirdo projecting my world onto the past and crying wolf

Share your favourite black and white film:

"I have thought of Absent Friends – absent in The Happy Land – "not lost, but gone before" – let us hope." [John Barrow, 22 Dec 1875] Today last year news came that Fitzjames was finally found, craziest week of my life ensued but thankful for such an incredible historical breakthrough! #NavalHistory

Yay!

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 71st anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth

Good to see there’s some progress being made here www.crustaceancompassion.org/single-post/...

The only comment I have on the supposedly upcoming Rapture is that the Daily Fail article is written by their assistant science editor. AN ARTICLE ON A CHRISTIAN BELIEF WRITTEN BY A SUPPOSED SCIENCE JOURNO. I’m going to stop shouting and go and stare at the wall until it all goes away.

@jonpuritz.marineevoeco.com the syllabus reading test! I took this video of a ghost crab cleaning its corneas at my summer job. I find it interesting that they can tuck their eye stalks all the way into the orbits and unhook their mouthparts like this.

Couple of pints, some light perfume sampling and looking at buildings, home for a nap. Now that’s a Saturday

Happy Batman Day, to all who celebrate!

At the @linneansociety.bsky.social for Open House weekend and another look at the Naturalists’ Notebooks exhibition. Plus a wander round the absolutely gorgeous building!

Spoiler: I did not evolve into a duck, because I am too impatient clickhole.com/you-re-a-sin...

Ross writes, "The poetical descriptions that former navigators have given of this celebrated and dreaded promontory, occasioned us to feel a degree of disappointment when we first saw it...it is part only of a small island."

Owning pet sharks is a new fad but most home aquariums are inadequate and can lead to stunted growth, deformities and early death Leave the sharks alone news.mongabay.com/2025/09/pet-...

Just a note to all the Americans, no matter what you're seeing over there, we don't like your President. We don't want him here. He has been 100% kept away from the public here in UK & that's why it all looks rosy. They know allowing him to be face to face with British public would be messy. 1/3

Day one of The Event done, three more to go. On the bright side my way home took me down Surrey Street where Robert and Harry Goodsir (the latter quite briefly) lodged in 1845, so there’s that (the houses are gone but the site’s roughly where the red brick building starts, by the square white truck)

I really, really hate managing events. But more than that, I hate managing multi-day events.

Really looking forward to seeing this again this weekend as part of #OpenHouse2025

Suzuki Harunobu, “Hares and Autumn Full Moon.” #printmaking #woodblockprint #ukiyo-e #18thcentury #moon #SuzukiHarunobu

This is a juvenile Pseudogygites trilobite from the Ordovician Lindsay Fm. of Ontario. It's about 17 mm long. Some specimens reached 60-70 mm in length. #TrilobiteTuesday

"You've let me down, you've let the squadron down... and worst of of all you've let yourself down."

Spicy margarita at the hairdresser!

New tardigrade just dropped! 😍 (ngl, it took me four tries to type ‘tardigrade’ correctly because I was excited)

Once again I find myself considering doing the lottery www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

On Owain Glyndwr Day, here we have a writ of exigent issued by King Henry IV, dated 0ctober 13, 1405 - September 29, 1406, commanding a sheriff to summon Owen of Glyndordwy and his named supporters to deliver themselves up upon pain of outlawry. Letters Patent, PFA/14/305, 06 April 1414

St Michael & All Angels Church, #Waterford, #Hertfordshire Encaustic Milton style tiles in the sanctuary 1872 #TilesOnTuesday

#otd in 1815, Joseph Taylor Goodsir was born in Fife. The second of the Goodsir siblings, he entered the Church of Scotland as a minister in 1843, but left in 1850 after doubt and disillusionment about the doctrine and way it was run. 1/

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Just as written records from the lost Franklin Expedition were within reach, Canada is having to pull the plug on archaeological excavation of HMS Erebus & Terror. loganzachary.substack.com/p/illuminato...

In 1828, Covent Garden's 'select vestry' took an annual trip to look at the orphans put out to nurse at Norwood; their expenses claim for food & drink caused uproar and led to opening up of franchise for parish voting; not least because they decided to dine at a nice tavern in Greenwich

Not before time, news on 2024’s finds from the investigation on Erebus & Terror, with some very interesting items found including a raincoat! welcome is the news Parks Canada won’t be doing any further active research on the wrecks, at least for the time being. parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nu/e...

"After about eight seconds, they went on stimulating only the fake arm." "After about ten tickles" was right there.

Day 15 #SciArtSeptember prompt spawn. I’m sharing my portrait of self-taught trail-blazing Irish #marineBiologist Maude Delap (1866 – 1953), 1st to successfully breed jellyfish in captivity & document their full lifecycle. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci She is surrounded by blue jellyfish (Cyanea lamarckii) life 🧵

Remember those ‘what my family/friends/society think I do vs what I actually do’ job memes? Here’s one from 1845, for editors. By George Cruickshank, from his ‘Table Book’, 1845.

A very happy birthday to Alexander McDonald, born in Laurencekirk #OTD in 1817. Alexander was assistant surgeon on #HMSTerror and was lost with the #FranklinExpedition. And he was, without doubt, goth AF. @scottpolar.bsky.social holds some of his letters: each one sealed with a blood red skull.

BRB, just off to sing wantonly on the Wirral while building a bathing machine www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I wonder if the Prime Minister might have anything to say today about how the world's richest man urged a huge fascist mob to effect a change in government and incited them to violence, because I feel like that's not something we should encourage

Glad I’m spending the day outside London. Only seen a few flagshaggers on the way to King’s Cross but that’s quite enough. Stay safe, if you’re in the city today.

Wahey!!