This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Delighted to find more Snow Fleas (Boreus hyemalis) at Felbrigg today. Train from Norwich to Roughton Road then walk to Felbrigg in smarring rain. Spent nearly 3 hours staring at moss getting cold & damp, finally found 2 females on the last mossy stump as we were leaving, just when the sun came out.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/th...

Great advice here which I hope users will adopt. I verify records and often have to look at uncroped phone pics with a tiny dot in the centre that I'm supposed to identify. I've had to discard recs from my database as grid ref given as 2 letters with no numbers.

Hairy Curtain Crust, Stereum hirsutum. NWT Sweet Briar Marshes, Norwich, today. www.first-nature.com/fungi/stereu... #Fungi #FungiFriends

One of the biggest tells of gen-AI ants is the waist. I think this is because most ants belong to one of two subfamilies- Myrmicinae and Formicinae- that have very different waist structures, but the algorithms often average them into fake ants in a non-existent morphospace in between.

Here is an AI monstrosity that blends features from both groups- a single node, but the abdomen positioned as though it had a double node:

Yellow Brain, Tremella mesenterica. NWT Sweet Briar Marshes, Norwich, today. Parasitic on Peniophora crust fungi (themselves growing on dead wood). www.first-nature.com/fungi/tremel... #Fungi #FungiFriends

Witches' Butter, Exidia glandulosa. On a dead oak log at NWT Sweet Briar Marshes today. www.first-nature.com/fungi/exidia... #Fungi #FungiFriends

I just supported this case! Loch Ness threatened! www.crowdjustice.com/case/protect...

"Oh??? Well hello! Imagine running into you amid the autumn clematis, you sexy beast. Reoooowwww!" #PhotoHour #insects #bugs #InsectPhotography #macro #MacroPhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #photography #AltText

An alternative photo of the Orange Vented Mason #bee that I recovered from the nest tubes. I think this lighting, and background is better for showing off the details of his mouthparts. #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #insects #solitarybee #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife

When I cleaned out the bee nests in Oct this ♂️ Orange Vented Mason #bee (correct me if I'm wrong!) was in a tube, having died at the back. I kept him for some 📷, this is a focus-stacked composite of 40+ pics. I love the detail on his tongue! #wildlifefrommywindow #solitarybee #invertebrates #insects

A little wander round Earlham Cemetery in Norwich today produced 5 species of harvestman, 4 shown here. It was rather chilly and we had snow lying just a couple of days ago - shows how hardy these arachnids are. IDs in alt text. #harvestmen #opiliones #arachnids

I saw the moon this morning. Have been in hospital 7weeks now almost. It’s tough. I am forever amazed by my courage, my bravery, but it takes a lot. 47days since I breathed outside air from a window or door. 7weeks since I felt the cold on my face. Thinking of you all. Keep going.

The jobs data was leaked to get people to stop talking about the shooting of an innocent woman by a man too unstable to own a gun who happened to be a stooge of the US government.

Venezuela - a question I asked in the #HouseofLords last month. Hoping we will get a stronger, clearer reaction this time from the UK government about the US attack, which cannot conceivably be legal under international law nataliebennett.org/latest/venez...

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

I am taking the flight free challenge! Could you join me? #FlightFree2026 @flightfreeuk.bsky.social www.flightfree.co.uk

My teenage daughter masked long after our state’s mandate had been dropped. I never asked her to, but she did it to protect my health. She ignored all the ignorant bullies who made fun of her.

As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find! An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea. ✨ Happy New Year all! ✨ National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

Pod save the world

2025 in one 🖼️, taken as a very #longexposure using a #pinholecamera. Click for the full shot. 12mths in one 🖼️ is a strange thing. The top fifth of the suns tracks mark my best health in 7yrs, the rest of it, not so much. The bar is set for 2026, it better meet the challenge! HNY to you all!

My wife & our kids are off visiting family today, travel I'm not quite up to. So Mum and I have been passing time watching wildlife documentaries and doing word games. One crossword left us musing how many people have the intersection of specific knowledge required to complete them... 1/2

The mention of #MECFS threw me. This is a LOVELY story.

This thread. I wish everyone could internalize this, but mysteriously people keep thinking they're the exception to the xenophobic, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic rule.

This year I did a little study of the visitors to the globe thistles in my garden, and counted 11 species of bee, 4 species of wasp, 3 species butterfly, 2 species moth, 11 species hoverfly, 8 species other flies, 4 species spiders, 3 bugs and 2 beetles - 48 total! 😄🪲🐝 #LentoAdvent #Invertebrates

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

Tate just lost against a no-name boxer (badly). Guess violence isn't so easy to enact when you don't have a fifty-pound advantage and the element of surprise. It doesn't make up for the damage he's done, but it's heartening his seized assets will be used to combat violence against women and girls.

A big thank you for all of your support this year and I wish you a very Happy Yule 🎅 🐦‍⬛🦇🦋🐛🐝 We're now closed for a bit of a break until 29th Dec. but if you get really bored, our Seed Catalogue is available to download via our website😂🎄💚 #MHHSBD www.jemimasgarden.co.uk

YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME. I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center. People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.

A barbaric attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. Our thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones. Please go gently. False claims and click-driven posts are spreading fast. Don’t let them exploit you.

The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants: toxic pesticides could stay on the market forever, with no safety tests at all. Yes, forever approvals. Yes, this is real. Sign now to stop it. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...

Safety pins and lapel symbols can start a conversation. Turning them into action is how they matter. If you can, consider volunteering in your community or helping a disadvantaged person this season. Many people struggle through the holidays and who knows, maybe you'll change someone's life.

The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants: toxic pesticides could stay on the market forever, with no safety tests at all. Yes, forever approvals. Yes, this is real. Sign now to stop it. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...

60% of the British public agree: our voting system is not fit for purpose. The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it. I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...

It's time for the "How to do ALT text" image again. Writing a perfect ALT text is impossible, but please try 💚! Visually impairment is a wide spectrum and doesn't keep people from loving the visual arts. 🐡 #art #kleinekunstklasse #artadventcalendar

Royal Mail has announced its last posting day to arrive before Christmas using 48 hour tracked will be 19th December. (Delivery date, not guaranteed). To give me time to get orders packed and to the Post Office ​the last day to order from me will be end of business on Wednesday 17th. 🎄🎅🎁 ​

Delighted how @precisionlife.bsky.social and @actionforme.bsky.social et al used consented @decodemestudy.bsky.social data to -replicate #MEcfs genetic signal & -show its shared/distinct genetics with Long Covid. Next: replicate ME/CFS subtypes w/ targeted therapies www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Pseudoscorpions have been a bit thin on the ground lately, I've drawn a blank at 8 churchyards in a row now so finding this little Roncus lubricus on yesterday's bike ride was even more special than usual. Only 3rd one I've found.

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Citrus and Cinnamon - perfect fragrances for Yule 🎅 Have you seen our Dangles and Garlands? Slices of dried Oranges and Limes with spicy Cinnamon and Bay Leaves 💛💚🧡🤎 Yuletide top-up oil available too 🍊 #EcoFriendly #plasticFree #Biodegradable #MHHSBD #Christmas www.jemimasgarden.co.uk ​

Make your Christmas cards even more special by slipping a packet of seeds inside 😊 Our packets of seeds are just the right size and will also make the wildlife happy🐝🦋🌱🦇🐛 Most are only £2 each, available from www.jemimasgarden.co.uk #MHHSBD

If you place an order for £25 (or over), between now and 18th December, I'll send you a voucher for £5 to be spent on any future order over £25.00. The voucher can be used any time in the next year so perfect for using next spring 🐝 🦋 🌱 #MHHSBD jemimasgarden.co.uk

Opportunistic snap of a Fleecy Jumping #spider (Pseudeuophrys lanigera) which has taken up residence on our front door (least I think it is, corrections welcome!). It's tiny, about 2mm head to tail! Will try to get better 📸 on a day when I've more 🪫. #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #arachnids

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

What a fascinating set of data!

Small gardens can boost biodiversity just as much as large ones – and when little green spaces join together with others, it creates a network of wildlife-friendly areas that benefits many different species. Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/sma...

Climate change doesn’t stop at borders, and neither should we. The UK and EU must work together to protect our planet. Watch One Earth, One Team and see why cooperation matters: bsky.app/profile/euro...

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