Wonderful news. A salutary reminder of the absolute benefits of scientific progress, and the absolute evil of conspiracist bollocks. Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...

It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.

#ClimateWeekNYC scene report: fusion is the new carbon dioxide removal (the "innovation" into which oil and gas are investing so they can help solve climate change) 🙄

@northages.bsky.social hia, really love your feed, thank you for posting - I would like to learn more, and was wondering if you had any particular favourite books on your list of sources or should I just work my way through?

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

If this came to pass, it would be absolutely devastating for National Parks and National Landscapes. The Protected Landacapes duty is the main power they have to secure action for nature. But the Times is reporting Ministers considering scrapping it. 1/3 www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...

So against my better judgment I'll probably watch this. I worry, though. www.hallmarkchannel.com/adventures-i...

5/ The UK Seabird Indicator, comprising 13 species, has declined by 37% since 1986. Showing a shallow decline since 2000, the index has taken a sharper downward turn in the last five years which likely reflects the impact of Avian Flu. #Seabirds

Heading to Denmark for a symposium about insect monitoring! If you aren't familiar with our work developing the #opensource Mothbox, you should watch our really cool video we made about our adventures thus far! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LGz...

what's funny to me about the british heritage sector, right, is how left-leaning most of the sector workforce is, because of global standards of best practice, and then how incredibly right-leaning the money- and I don't mean grant bodies, I mean donors and top brass- is. outstanding disconnect

If you need a break from your Tuesday menty b, or if you just want to learn more about the weird shit I get up to in my free time, have I got a distraction for you! An whole doc about The Galbatross Project, female bird science, and our quest to triumph over some toddlers www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...

Critics of renewables often point to land use as a reason not to invest in wind & solar. Land use IS a real issue for all energy assets incl renewables (unless on-site). But what critics conveniently forget is the huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Wickett, Texas. 👇

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

Today we are attending the Gull Summit in Inverness because gulls are in trouble and need help. You can read more about how we can learn to live with gulls here: www.rspb.org.uk/scotland/new... 📷: Ben Andrew (rspb-images.com)

In the late 80s the Conservative (!) government brought in stronger clean water rules in the UK. Through the 90s + 00s river health rose. Salmon returned to rivers like the Thames. Then, in 2010, the Cameron government, told regulators to ease up on enforcing environmental rules... 🧵 1/4

UK to Greece flight-free? It's quicker than you think... (Thanks to Iain from @skipedia.bsky.social for sharing his story with us). flightfree.co.uk/travel_artic...

The National Pigeon Advocacy Association just had their first conference in the UK nationalpigeonadvocacyassociation.co.uk What a wonderful and much-needed organisation, as @rosemarymosco.com says - the most misunderstood bird rosemarymosco.com/books/a-pock...

A mild legal proposal to harmonised #forest data collection in the EU could die today if @eppgroup.bsky.social decides to band together with the extreme right. As forests get hammered by climate change & out of control logging, we should at the very least have comparable data on what is going on.

ENOUGH.

@problemsdog.bsky.social can you recommend any good mobile games, I remember years ago you recommended me a bunch that were really great.. are you playing anything currently?

UK medicine regulator confirms there is no evidence paracetamol causes autism in children www.gov.uk/government/n...

Which is to say: If the LLM, given ALL OF THE TEXT as in it was given the dang science papers, cannot convey more than one point, overhypes it, and oversimplifies to the point of wrongness, when given ALL OF THE INFORMATION... Why are you using it to write your term paper?

I'm sure anything that comes out of the Seagull Summit, and the reactions by everyone else to it, will be calm, measured, and sensible www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For anyone interested in a 6 month post as an assistant with the Durham and Newcastle Finds Liaison Officers for the Portable Antiquities Scheme, please see www.northeastjobs.org.uk/job/Finds_Li...

Varied plumages makes identifying gulls tricky! This graphic identifies key features to look for on some of our common species. More tips on small gull identification can be found in the latest SMP news: www.bto.org/smp-news #seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

We're excited to launch a major #SaferParks: #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign in partnership with @suzylamplughtrust.bsky.social @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social #GreenFlagAward to build a community of active bystanders and make our parks safer, more inclusive spaces for all

The apex of Japanese cinema.

The jobs in the factories making undersea cables, they're against them. The factories and people welding jackets for offshore wind farms, they're against those too. The University doing research into undersea and offshore engineering. They're against it all. But can't say what they'd do.

Detection of HPAI in three Tristan skua carcasses on Gough Island in the central South Atlantic Ocean. Genomically linked to sequences from S. Georgia. Surveillance required to see if virus returns, or spreads? 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Diageo’s plan to demolish its Talisker distillery on the Isle of Skye and replace it with one that would be twice the size and run by robots is meeting fierce local resistance from the local community. @vickyallan.bsky.social

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Look at that, massive free public toilets for men AND women. Can you imagine ladies? Someone actually thinking about us when building public toilets? Again I can think of a few cities today that could learn from our medieval ancestors…

#GoodNews on #biodiversity, because we all need some. Get out of the way and let locals to defend their communities: it is not rocket science phys.org/news/2025-09...

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

A union that represents university professors published a guide tailored to help its members navigate social media during the “current climate.” The advice? Lock down your social media accounts, expect anything you post will be screenshotted. 🔗 www.404media.co/union-warns-...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wale... They don’t write headlines like this anymore

Fash overwhelmed by anti-fascists in Glasgow. As always, we're joyful, singing ABBA and chanting, and the fascists are just standing gloomily, not even bothering to chant or sing.

Do you find recognising gulls tricky? 🤔 Join our expert team for our Gull ID training sessions in November ➡️ www.bto.org/training Our two-part, online Gull ID course has been carefully crafted to build your knowledge and confidence and make gull ID easier! #Ornithology

Please share!🙏 🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦

NEW: ChatGPT is causing chaos in marriages, as one spouse becomes deeply fixated on AI therapy/advice/spiritual wisdom — alienating the other spouse and, often, resulting in divorce. In some cases, ChatGPT-enmeshed spouses are using the tech to bully their partners. futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

A raven turned up on our #LochArkaig ospreycam today, and had a lot to say for itself! 🔊 Sound up for some lovely kronking.🐦‍⬛ #raven

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

'More than 3,300 new houses were built in Dublin city last year. Just 155 were bought by households'. #SpeirGorm

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day, so here are some things you didn’t* know about pirates (*unless you already did), and which I didn’t know until I read my niece’s Masters dissertation a while back. Firstly – remarkably – pirate ships were democracies with a pretty flat management structure

@rspbcymru.bsky.social calls on Ministers to act on advice received from NRW 2 years ago (!) for proper controls & oversight of gamebird releases. They don't even know how many are released, other than 'millions'. Find out how you can help 🔽 #BirdingWales raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/18/w...

Pulp Friction is my personal favourite but Leaf-fall Weapon is also tremendous www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Job opp for Retained Lighthouse Keeper in Caithness, alas you don't get to spend your days on an isolated rock, scrimshawing and making friends with seagulls www.nlb.org.uk/vacancies/re...