Tony Blair tells Radio 4 that the £257 million his institute has received from a billionaire AI investor has absolutely nothing to with his lobbying for the AI industry

The only population of great green bush-crickets that we know about in #Worcestershire is buzzing with nymphs at the moment. 🦗👀 We’d love to know if they’re anywhere else in the county. If you spot one, take a photo and upload it via www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/wildlife-sig...

Tony Blair needs to take his money-addled brain and fuck off

Male yellow-face bees - probably Large Yellow-face Bee, Hylaeus signatus - on Weld (Reseda luteola) flowers at the allotment today. www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2020/07/09/w... With apologies to Louis Armstrong, “And I think to myself what a wonderful Weld“. #SolitaryBees #WildFlowerHour #UKWildlife

Help from #Harvestmen #Opiliones fans requested! I am looking for photos of Leiobunum limbatum, Leiobunum gracile (tisciae) & Dasylobus graniferus for a project I'm working on. These are European species that have recently been recorded in the UK. Reply to this post or message me if you can help.

>6 Painted Lady #butterflies have been feeding on the everlasting wall flower the last few days. This one was the most aggressive, chasing any other insects off, & also the most faded & battered. Presumably it's travelled further than the one in the background. #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates

A ♂️ Flower Crab #spider just wanting to give someone (preferably bite sized) a hug. He was hanging out on a Flag Iris in the margins of the pond. Not spotted any ♀️ yet this year. #macromonday #wildlifefrommywindow #arachnids #invertebrates

I'd lost hope of my aubergine Melanzana Prosperosa seeds germinating. I guess a heatwave has its advantages! But now the instructions say I should reduce their temperature to about 20ºC. That's going to be tricky. Gardeners, any tips about what teeny tiny aubergine seedlings will tolerate, please?

“The injustice of it, I couldn’t believe it.” Former Team GB rower @oonaghcousins.bsky.social talking about the #MECFS “scandal” where patients were told they were deconditioned and needed Graded Exercise and CBT. It is the “opposite of what they needed” and that legacy still runs “super deep”.

Not a spectacular #wildflowershow for #wildflowerhour, but the meadow patch in the garden is trying! #wildlifefrommywindow

Here’s where to start: bsky.app/profile/mosa...

For anyone wanting to improve their search and ID skills for these tiny, rarely seen but often present arachnids, this FREE new guide from @vannabartlett.bsky.social via @norfolknats.bsky.social is a must have... #pseudoscorpions #falsescorpions #arachnids

My first Fox Moth seen recently in Corfe Castle village, drawn to synergetic. She said some eggs in the egg tray What a beauty, so big. The texture, the shades #UKMoths #TeamMoth #mothsMatter

📢 Join the PRIME ME/CFS Research Involvement Hub! Today, PRIME have launched their new ME/CFS Research Involvement Hub which aims to build a virtual network of people with lived experience of ME and match them with research projects to help shape the delivery of those projects.

#WildflowerHour is featuring #TinyPlants this week. So here’s some tiny blue Veronica arvensis flowers from mid Wales.

A true #wildlifefrommywindow post

Fossil fuel chaos is harming the planet and putting us out of pocket. I’m calling on the UK government to go all in on renewable energy. Add your name too: action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/bre... @friends-earth.bsky.social

Recently I started focusing on my daily successes, rather than seeing myself as a failure for what I've not managed. Some days even making a cup of tea can be a major feat, I now recognise. What small achievement can you focus on to reframe today as a success? #chronicillness #bekindtoyourself

Long Covid and #MECFS is a workers rights issue. People catch this on the job. Then all they have strength to do is their job, nothing else. Then they get sicker and lose their job anyway. Then SSD is denied. #MillionsMissing

Yay! I found a Painted Lady in the park. #butterfly

After months of work my Norfolk Pseudoscorpion guide for @norfolknats.bsky.social is now on the website free to see/download. Covers 20 species recorded in Norfolk so hopefully useful for other areas of UK. norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/wp-conten...

Some chitons have aragonite eyes (“ocelli”) embedded in their plates! Maybe this would be like having eyes on your vertebral column? it would make it harder for someone to sneak up behind you… #MolluskMonday #MolluscMonday #MarineLife 🦑🌊

A Common Water Measurer, an interesting #insect for #MacroMonday. This one was on our pond, stalking around on the water surface, on the hunt for small underwater #invertebrates to stab with its mouth parts! #wildlifefrommywindow #ukwildlife #gardenwildlife

Did you know UK rules let companies get away with slave labour, illegal deforestation and more? A new law could end this - please join me and sign the petition to stop corporate abuses now👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

Cobaea scandens is commonly known as the “cup-and-saucer” vine because its cup-shaped flowers sit within a saucer-like calyx. In the Victorian language of flowers it symbolised “gossip”; perhaps because when tea cups came out, so too did all the latest scandal! #FolkloreSunday

The House Sparrows have been nabbing tadpoles from the pond, so I set the camera up to catch them in action. Only to find that the avian assault on amphipians was greater than I thought! The Heron didn't swallow the frog, so perhaps has a nest nearby? #wildlifefrommywindow #amphibians #ukwildlife

Decided to take a trip to some North London gardens on my day off. Wasn't expecting many insects in the overcast conditions, so the specialist Large Scissor Bee (Chelostoma florisomne) at Myddelton House and my 1st adult Bronze Shieldbug at Culpeper Community Gardens were nice surprises!

Governments of the world: Cut ties with Palantir and Peter Thiel now. actions.eko.org/a/government...

#me/cfs #longcovid I couldn't get the gadget on the page to work, but the link is www.crowdjustice.com/case/justice...

I just signed Dame Judi Dench's petition, calling on the urgent restoration of our ancient woodlands. Please sign this important cause and share it: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

Can’t beat a fresh Chocolate-tip, what a gorgeous moth 😍 A favourite from last nights 21/17, Brilley, North Herefordshire #TeamMoth

Another mural visitor 😍

Eating disorders are rampant in racing, especially motorcycle racing. Bradley Smith told that when they were racing 125s, he and Tito Rabat use to compete over who could go longest without food. In Moto2, Scott Redding would eat 800 calories a day during the winter. And, well, Aleix Espargaro /1

Needed some garden time this afternoon so went and sat by the bee nest boxes. This female Red Mason #Bee was resting up in one of the bricks I put out for the Hairy Footed Flower #bees. What a tongue! #invertefest #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #gardenwildlife

This little marsh fly in the genus dictya is one of my favorite spring insects. I like their flat faces and freckly patterns. Throwback to last spring, this week has been cold and damp. #InverteFest

How many people out there are giving wildflowers a chance by leaving areas of their gardens uncut this year? Please repost if you are offering a lifeline to pollinators like bees, butterflies, moths, hoverflies and bats by mowing less!

#invertefest Rusty #crayfish - Faxonius rusticus (Shot near Cincinnati 3-21-26) 🦞 #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #invertebrate #crustacean #crawdad

Lovely encounter with Ant Lion larvae at Holkham yesterday.

There's no debate which is improved by the intervention of Tony Blair. This is ableism. It frames anxiety, depression and ADHD as things people just need to get on with, with no acknowledgement of how damaging that attitude is, or how hard it can be to be recognised and diagnosed in the first place.

A rare 'day off' for me and a chance to indulge in some drawing. These were sketched from a series of photos taken by @jeremybartlett.bsky.social of Segestria senoculata that I managed to lure out of their retreat by tickling the 'trip wire' with a piece of grass. Gone over in black ink.

Is this the world's worst photo of a Wasp-banded Combhorn Cranefly (Ctenophora flaveolata)? Quite possibly. Am I dead chuffed to have spotted it way up in a standing dead oak? Absolutely! My first encounter with this striking, scarce species on our Herts Invertebrate Project outing to Hudnall Park.

I am absolutely made up about this 'Flyble' review in British Wildlife by none other than Brett Westwood! A publication and a naturalist I've had a huge amount of respect for since my uni days. It's really gratifying to see the reception of this book after so much hard work.

Surfacing for a moment; saying hey; sending love, & hoping a bumper show of hedgehogs brightens your day. Meet 8 of the 10 regulars to the feeder atm. Missing is young Brook (who’s just back from a 4 wk stay in hogspital) & Merlin (who’s shy, lol). /1 💙 #pwME #pwLC @warksmammalgroup.bsky.social

What birds have you heard or seen from your bedroom window and have they lifted your spirits? #chronicillness #birdingfrombed

Good morning

The NHS can improve, we have nothing to gain from US system, we should reject US interference in the UK. www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

A mindful birding moment with the parents yesterday. There's always time to stop and watch a Little Egret on the river (and to appreciate Mum's homemade jumper!).