RIP Dr Jane Goodall "You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what difference you want to make."

July 24, 2024

Ink and watercolour drawings of various invertebrates that I’ve seen in the garden during September. Definitely getting the autumn feeling. 🐡 #invertebrates

Proud to announce international publication of my first book for children, The Stuff that Stuff is Made Of, about the things we make with plants. My proceeds to Kew and WWF. More here: jondrori.co.uk/ssmo #botany #plantscience #history #folklore #kidsbooks #kidsreads #STEM #STEMfun #booksky

Good. This is an important victory. It's a stain on our democracy for Michelle Mone to remain in the House of Lords. But it's even more important that the Tory ministers who set up the corrupt PPE VIP lane in the first place are properly and fully held to account for the scandal

"Investing in Gatwick expansion is a choice. It is a choice to prioritise frequent flyers over repairing the UK’s broken transport system, strengthening the NHS, or investing in climate resilience. More flights mean more emissions, worsening climate change for everyone."

How many people think to themselves, "I'd vote Labour, if only they could be more like Trump." I would guess it's a number close to zero. But Labour seems to be chasing a figment of its imagination, and this is perhaps the most grotesque example so far. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...

"No more climate change worship", Hegseth tells US military leaders 🙄. They know a lot better. I know that first hand, having been invited to speak at a NATO workshop on Climate Change Security. Climate science is not woke or religion or whatever, it’s hard-core physics and data analysis.

Today, a company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone was told it must repay the government £122m for breaching a contract for medical gowns during the Covid pandemic. Read our special report online on some of the other fat cats who made a mint during covid. ➡️ www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/spe...

October sees the peak of the #Orionids. With the Moon out of the way, this year is a good one for viewing this meteor shower. The best night is the 21st to 22nd, but good rates will also be seen on the 20th to 21st and 22nd to 23rd. Orionid meteors are fast moving and often colourful. #Astronomy

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This ruling is a joke. PPE Medpro will go bankrupt and the Government won't get a penny. Michelle Mone should have to pay the £122m personally. RT if you want to see her pay it all back.

and frankly it takes a mind-blowing lack of self-awareness for the woman who openly and obscenely profiteered from the Covid crisis to use the words “shame on you” towards anybody

Ladies and gentlemen, reintroducing the Scrawled Filefish! #scrawledfilefish #filefish #elegantoddball #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

She should be in prison. Making money out of death and other people’s suffering is an abominable crime! But make her the first and not the last to be brought to account.

Will we ever know the scale of the corruption among Conservative politicians who profited while people died during covid pandemic? The Government has just won a case against one corrupt deal - now our money must be repaid www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Deloitte UK’s chief executive receives £700,000 pay rise to £4.9m. Firm has a history of delivering dud audits. Rewards for failure. In common with other LLPs, the firm avoids paying employer national insurance on partners' profit share. Govt silence on fat-cattery. archive.ph/Z1h6H

Fire has burnt a third of one of Africa's largest game reserves - Etosha National Park in Namibia -- home to 114 species of mammals, notably the critically endangered black rhinoceros, and a major tourist attraction. Hundreds of soldiers joined the fight to contain the spread of the fire

Gosh, what a mystery. Whatever could have happened to them? No bodies, no tags, no prosecutions, no accountability, no deterrent. This will continue. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/29/t...

Trump & family grifting off of genocide. No hyperbole.

There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41. Here’s the President of the United States of America.

Utilities, groceries, health care premiums all going sky high, and he’s blabbering on like he’s Louis XIV in Versailles.

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Might as well put this up again as Duolingo is in the news.

This Buzzard was poisoned by a large dose of second generation rodenticide. I discovered it in a Dorset Bluebell wood this April. Please find some time today to complete the consultation. These poisons are such a clear and present danger to our wildlife.

Another stunning Yellow-browed Warbler sampled for @joewynnbirds.bsky.social Trans-Siberian genoscape project today at @flamboroughbird.bsky.social caught & ringed under license from @btobirds.bsky.social #ukbirding #yorkshirebirding

With kindness ⬇️ It's not "unraveling". It's being executed by humans~ condition and modernity. *Note. That is a 7% decline added to the global 60% decline since the 1970's. #industrialagriculture bsky.app/profile/fath...

Unfortunately, looking at the political polls suggests that almost 50% are willing to vote for anti-climate, anti-truth politicians. We are in the age of stupid.

i told my landlord they're releasing the amelia earhart files and he lowered my rent 50%. i told my grocer and he gave me a free nectarine. i told my doctor and he said i didn't have to pay for the visit. try it. you never know who out there has been waiting for this moment.

Our planet literally being run by a bunch of abusers. Well done everyone.

Nigel Farage & Alex Phillips have been awfully quiet about Nathan Gill pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in European parliament and articles. Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.

Former leader of Reform UK in Wales pleads guilty to bribery charges relating to statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament. But Reform UK want to get rid of regulators and cut govt spending ... leading to less investigation and enforcement ... more bribery and security threats.

Is it "move to Dubai"?

Someone was asking me exactly this question recently! Worrying for #BirdingScotland population tho despite expansion of recent years.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏

Cuckoo Frederic is on the move and has crossed the Sahara! 🙌 Frederic had been hanging around in France while his fellow satellite-tagged Cuckoos had made it to Africa. He finally set off south around 17 September & he’s now conquered crossing the Sahara Desert in Africa! 🌍 #Ornithology #Birds

“To be a good scientist, I have to take emotions out of work. Still, I would say looking at this data, when I allow myself to connect to it emotionally, then I am afraid. This really scares me” - Dr. Levke Caesar, co-lead of Planetary Boundaries Science Lab

Threatening a network and boasting about past payoffs? That sounds a lot like extortion.

Need a summary of all the ways the White House has gutted science? 🧪Or are you scientist who needs to hear your work valorized in song? From brilliant songwriter, Elle Cordova: “If they don’t like the data in your graphs/they’ll just turn the lights out in your lab” youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w...

This speech is such an extraordinary combination of lies, delusions, narcissism, hatefulness, ignorance and lunacy that it could have been given by no other person than the president of the United States. It could well be the low point of US public diplomacy in our history.

He's not a sensible politician though, is he? He's just a destabilising actor.

3. Dirty Dairy. How much dirtier in climate destructive methane is the milk you drink? John Gibbons has the answer. TL;DR it’s a lot dirtier than you think.

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

It’s outrageous & yet somehow, allowed to happen. All because of too much voter disinterest & truth apathy.

In a corporate owned care home, charging £1,800 a week. Residents face neglect/cruelty. Left in urine-soaked clothes, wet bedsheets, calls for help ignored, not showered for weeks, excrement in corridors, staff shortages. Cruelty is the norm when profits come before people.

If you don't think we are being bombarded with bullshit & propaganda, think about this: Recently the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives said that the POTUS is a former FBI informant. The Speaker of the House said that. A few weeks ago. Does anyone even remember that? How did THAT go away?🤔

The latest news is Rupert Murdoch may be involved in the TikTok sale, to keep the American part of that business flowing. The United States wants control of all social media. It's the only way that they can control the propaganda.