World's largest spider web found in Balkan cave www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...

BBC (in Salford) interviewing BBC correspondent (in London) outside the BBC (in London) about the departure of the BBC Director General and what it means for the future of the BBC

twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.

It’s been bonkers recently in Dunkeld really noticeably busy This is backed up in the stats for the hermitage ‘NTS, which manages the site, estimates 350,000 people have visited in just 8 months this year – compared to 88,000 in all of 2023’ Think it’s Insta/Tik Tok 🤷‍♀️ news.stv.tv/north/dunkel...

A short video of the nursery pod of Bottlenose Dolphins in Vidlin Voe, Shetland yesterday. Check out some of those tiny calves! Only the fourth confirmed record of this species in Shetland waters. #MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife

Amble. The site of an unusual memorial to casualties of war. Suffered the greatest loss of civilian life in the district in WW2. 5 children. Sylvia, aged 9, Ethel 7, Margery 5, William 3 and Sheila 18 months. The family of William & Norah Robson of Cliffe House Fm.

From Feb to Oct 1644, Newcastle was besieged by a Scot army while Royalist defenders held out under Sir Marlay. Traveller William Lithgow recorded the drama in vivid detail, and Miriam has done an incredible job capturing it. On the site now! www.northeastheritagelibrary.co.uk/post/the-sie...

Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight? I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Takeoffs, here is a Tufted Puffin at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, taking the short flight down to the water in his outdoor enclosure. 📷🪶🚀

#Science #Entomology #Arachnids #Spiders Scientists Found a Half-Male, Half-Female Spider in Thailand and It’s Fascinating www.zmescience.com/science/news...

The sheer cheek of writing "oop north" when you pronounce it "ap north".

You can upload bird pics of areas you visited to birdingplaces.com, for others to enjoy them. Picture of a Red-necked Phalarope made by M. Wintermayr on the island of Hrísey in Iceland and uploaded to Birdingplaces. For description of the area see www.birdingplaces.eu/birdingplace...

Pirri-Pirri Bur, Pampas grass, Wireweed: all plants from the S Hemisphere that are establishing in the UK. Can we explain current and predict future invasions by S Hemisphere plants? Apply for this NERC ACCE+ PhD project to find out: tinyurl.com/374ty2b7 Please Repost! @acce-dla.bsky.social

A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales. Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊 #Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...

@nickoctopus.bsky.social were we going on about amazing/ridic beauty pageant stuff the other day? Here's Miss Chile singing death metal www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZXu...

We're now starting to get reports of dead Whooper Swans with rings. If you find a dead bird & feel comfortable doing so - check for rings using the below @btobirds.bsky.social advice 👇🏻 Collecting information on ringed birds helps better understand the impact on different age groups.

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

Is it just us or was Alan Carr KILLING IT in last night's #CelebrityTraitors? Like a true butterfly, he transformed to show his true colours! 1/6: #TheTraitors

Out now in Behavioral Ecology. We built weigh bridges that allow us automatically to track the energetics of a sensitive, nocturnal seabird. We show how these devices can help answer fundamental questions about parental care. doi.org/10.1093/behe...

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Absolute peak enshittification, here. Unbelievable. "We've decided to hide the standard functionality of our previous product – you know, the thing you depend on – and put it in a drop-down menu that you're unlikely to find"

I prefer to uncover good news with drones, however, I uncovered that a child has been injured by a police drone, which was difficult as I was initially misled on FOIA, the BBC are investigating. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Shetland's MSP @beatricewishartmsp.bsky.social has written to the boss of Channel 4 to criticise the misrepresentation of Fair Isle knitting in its new show Game of Wool. shet.news/dtwz6

OpenTopoMap is being retired, after 14 years of work by volunteers opentopomap.org/about#survival #OSM #OpenStreetMap #OpenTopoMap

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Need to "chill"? need to de-stress? Have a virtual wander in Northumberland by browsing my online shop crownstudiogallery.myshopify.com Ahhhhhhhh.......

Read 🧵…all of it, because it’s what I’m seeing at my institution too, and I’m sure everyone else is as well. Indigenous mentors are so important right now.

BBC Sport with the scoop of the century.

🦛 🐋 🐢 The Poole play sculptures have come out of hibernation! Originally installed in the town’s Dolphin Centre (formerly the Arndale Centre) in 1969, the wooden Hippo, Turtle, and Whale sculptures were by renowned artist Peter Hand (1929-2024). 🧵

The Trust have been MAPPING CALTON HILL to show the balance between the historic centre of the hill with its buildings & monuments (surrounded by GRASSLANDS), and the outer slopes with their natural and semi-natural wildlife habitats (SCRUB, 'under-scrub' and WOODLAND). 1/

Worrying reports of bird flu (avian influenza) are coming in, including an outbreak in Whooper Swans in the Fens. Other waterbirds are also being affected, and cases are rising. 📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides #UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland

Make a song Scottish Fly me to Dunoon Chanson Dalmuir That's A Moray Coming In the Ayr Tonight Twenty four Hours from Tolsta Naver Gonna Give You Up Born on the Forth of July

“But I’ll just ignore them and use FB to stay in touch with family and friends.” No, you won’t. Meta regularly moves the buttons for accessing your human connections to defeat your muscle memory and force you to spend time looking at ads. Then they use higher “engagement time” to sell more ads.

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

News | British Library chief executive steps down amid strike action – board member takes over as interim director after resignation of Rebecca Lawrence Public and Commercial Services Union

Investigation by Sky News showing that from the moment you join, Musk's X feeds you right-wing propaganda. The whole point of the place is to radicalise users to the far right. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

A great website. Full of crucial info and ideas for how to live in a way that gives us a fighting chance of avoiding catastrophe. I’ve threaded it to break it up a little… 1/17 #lowcarbonliving www.tudelft.nl/sustainabili...

Parthenon Marbles - a Chilean engineer reflects on how good doing the right thing feels www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

@wellreadpanda.bsky.social put together our new version of the Mothbox today for the Smithsonian bat lab.

If you’ve not seen this before, it’s well worth 2 minutes of your day. One take drone footage. Also a great soundtrack. #Bikes

BBC News - MSPs pass land reform which could force break up of huge estates www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hoopoes bred in Leicestershire & Rutland in 2023, the first confirmed breeding record in the UK since 1996. Here’s the family - parents and three offspring. Can you see them all? Read more about rare breeding birds in 2023 at rbbp.org.uk/2023-report-... 📸 Carl Baggott

I see the Greater Granton and Pilton fireworks control zones are working out as anticipated

The reason for this is multi-factorial, but the fact that Long Covid is not mentioned once is extremely telling. Especially since the article makes an explicit comparison with 2019. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to track #seabirds from Rathlin Island and analyse data to identify foraging areas (deadline 10 Nov): buff.ly/K0zcdH8

The way declining Swifts is always addressed is emblematic of our engagement with climate change. The RSPB almost never mention it, people read their output & think it’s all Swift bricks. It’s a mini industry. And Swifts keep declining while the huge problem is ignored. Anything but reality.

One of which was Baroness Young of Old Scone - RSPB Chief Executive from 1991 - 1998. You couldn't make it up.

Discussion of lots of people being on long term sick leave since 2019 without mentioning covid is like talking about wwii without mentioning bombs or guns. And yet....