Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

@billybragg.bsky.social will send you stickers.

Happy Ctenophore day! Its a perfect day to celebrate such a small yet beautifully diverse phyla that comes in a wide array of shapes and colors. #Ctenophoreday

In continued celebration of a decade of GW detections, some of the @vanderbilt.edu astrophysicists made this fun explainer video. We had a great time making this; just the right amount of cheesy delivery. My students have already gotten a kick out of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmkt...

A Poem by Jack D. Forbes, Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wétiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism

I hope Greta is okay. She is an inspiring young woman. The Israeli military are denying that they’re mistreating her. But they’ve told so many blatant lies that it’s impossible to believe them anymore. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power. REPOST to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury. My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

A baby platypus is called a puggle (or 'platypup' 😁) And anytime you post a video like this one, someone always points out they have venomous spurs. The adult males DO, but *only* the adult males! Let's talk about the amazing venom cocktail produced by this adorable little beaver-duck.

In honor of Filipino American History Month, I highly recommend reading, How to Stand Up to a Dictator by @mariaressa.bsky.social Her fight against corruption and disinformation in the Philippines speaks directly to what we face in the U.S. today. A must-read on combating online misinformation.

You are not seeing this slaughter live-streamed to your devices because Israel has murdered most of Gaza’s most prominent journalists in targeted assassinations.

4 October (today) is International Observe the Moon night! It's super easy to do - just head out and look up at our celestial companion who has been with us for nearly all of our time. Without it, our world would be very different. *There's a whole other world that just hangs in our sky for us*

A lovely story about Dr Jane Goodall's career & legacy, from Rachel Fieldhouse & Mohana Basu, in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41.... Includes some comments from me about how researchers _can also_ be advocates and science communicators, and still be taken seriously (I hope)! Vale, Jane.

There's a really great MinutePhysics video about the aesthetics- and physics-based reasons for the number of wind turbine blades: youtu.be/pgqkti7yePk

Introducing my favourite feminist from history - the rebellious, clever & unashamed #MaryWollstonecraft - at the launch of my new book, #Economica: A Global history of Women, Wealth & Power @headlinebooks.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social. It goes to show that women have never been #tradwives.

"the image of white men... devoting their lives to saving wild animals...[is] used to drive the point home that as the planet experiences immense destruction of species, habitats, & ecosystems, it is only white people who really care. Conservation is now almost exclusively associated with whiteness"

"Enceladus ticks all the boxes to be a habitable environment that could support life: the presence of liquid water, a source of energy, a specific set of chemical elements and complex organic molecules." 🧪🪐🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: NASA’s next-gen Habitable Worlds Observatory may be our best chance to find alien life. But can a nation busy ripping itself apart unite to launch a mission to solve life’s cosmic mysteries? By @nadiadrake.bsky.social (and me). www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-...

AUTHORS: It’s time to submit your claims for the Anthropic copyright settlement. 1. Look yourself up here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup 2. File your claim here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com Form asks for ISBN and copyright reg # for each work. Can find in step 1.

Platypuses hunt underwater (their bills detect the electricity given off by their preys' muscles), and cram the food into cheek-pouches, then come to the surface to chew it up. #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #platypuses

Lastly, Andrew & I will be co-hosting an online launch event on *October 14 at 12 noon (UK time)*. Do join us for a presentation & discussion of the latest Doughnut update - bring your questions, comments & suggestions! More info & registration👇 7/ doughnuteconomics.org/events/launc...

Big Doughnutty News. Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

RIP Queen

Dr. Jane made an indelible mark on our understanding of chimpanzees and other species, and also of humankind and the environments we all share. She inspired curiosity, hope, and compassion in countless people, and paved the way for many others. #ThankYouJane #RememberingJane Photo: Marko Zlousic

This October I am going to use the #SpacetoberChallenge prompts on IG as inspiration for sharing both new work & space art from my portfolio. Starting with my #linocut portrait of Félicette for the prompt “launch”. 🧪🐡 #histsci Félicette was a Parisian stray tuxedo cat who was recruited into the 🧵

@pc.gov.au getting the kicking it deserves Sen. SH-Y: “you consulted with Microsoft, you consulted with Meta, you consulted with OpenAI[..]but you didn’t consult with the creative industries ... who[..]told you this was a problem, that there needed to be an exemption,or that copyright was an issue”

This new podcast, Overshoot, promises to be both vital and fascinating, given that it's from @laurielaybourn.bsky.social

Personal milestone ✅ So proud to share this article / research, which has been accepted for publication in @pasajournal.bsky.social This is several years of my PhD work so far, so here's a little thread about it. The BIG question: Are millisecond #pulsar profiles stable? Strap in! 1/n 🔭🧪📡

"The internet needs compassion - and I have a solution." 🙏 to @standard.co.uk.web.brid.gy for this extract from my new memoir 'This Is for Everyone' 📖 www.standard.co.uk/comment/inte...

I will take no further questions

Do you sometimes see/report/handle dead wildlife as a scientist (including volunteer community scientists)? If so, do you have any strategies for dealing with the stress and grief that these encounters can cause? I'm building a toolkit for myself and for some other stressed out folks! context:

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

For the people of Tuvalu, climate change isn't a distant threat. The whole country could disappear below rising sea levels within decades. But its people are fighting to save their home and their future. @stephenlongaus.bsky.social #auspol

My friend took this picture and I think people need to see it.

"Violent conduct includes anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, gender; hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality." this is bad. very bad.

Australian doctor Nada Abu Alrub says “Gaza is a slaughterhouse,” where people are awaiting to die in countless ways. “What the people of Gaza are living through, no one can tolerate,” she says.

Open call: Resonance Geneva-based artists and collectives are invited to submit proposals for a fully funded, two-month residency at CERN. The selected artist will expand their practice and develop new work in dialogue with CERN’s scientific community. Deadline: 3 November 2025

Meet the oceans remarkable see-through animals! 🦑https://lithub.com/meet-the-oceans-remarkable-see-through-animals/

🎉 Update from me: I've just sent my editor the first draft of my second book, "How to Build a Universe"! ⚛️ ➡️ 🌌 It's probably still about a year from publication, but even just getting this draft together has been a journey. Really looking forward to sharing more with you! #HowToBuildAUniverse 🧪🔭🎢

I'm so grateful to all the Indivisible groups showing "The Last Class" film to their members. I hope you leave feeling inspired, hopeful, and more connected to one another. If you'd like to organize a screening where you live, here's how: robertreich.substack.com/p/you-can-br...

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

3 days ago, this campaign to ban Israel had ~364K supporters It's now at >405K supporters❗ STEP UP THE PRESSURE ON ⚽UEFA MEMBERS⚽❗ Sign the petition👇 & write a follow-up letter to UEFA members like Italy, Spain, France, Ireland, Belgium, Iceland, Norway Share the hell out of this on ur sm❗

RIP Aaron Swartz 🥺

“Year after year, land and environmental defenders—those protecting our forests, rivers, and lands across the world—continue to be met with unspeakable violence.” 146 environmental and land defenders were murdered or disappeared in 2024

What would happen if someone out there found the Voyager golden record? Filmmaker Akos Papp has a whimsical answer. Via Keith Cowing. youtu.be/ukACPBPriNc

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.