A Noh interpretation of my 'On Rona'. Japanese tradition meets the outermost Hebrides. This is what the Edinburgh festivals are for! Thank you EIBF.

💚 Glasgow

Tickets for my event with fellow University of Edinburgh prof @david-farrier.bsky.social on evolution. Sunday June 14, 17:45 Please come! They've scheduled us opposite Nicola Sturgeon! bordersbookfestival.citizenticket.com/events/borde...

It was such a pleasure to talk to @racheldonald.bsky.social for the Planet Critical podcast!

I'm losing 100% of my pay this month, and for the foreseeable future, because of management's punitive response to the marking and assessment boycott launched by @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social to try and stop compulsory redundancies. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1448...

Sir Tom Devine: "Edinburgh’s plight is mainly due to inept decisions taken by the current Principal and his senior management group" Scatching words from one of Scotland's preeminent historians on Edinbugh Uni's financial woes. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2611944...

Wild white bluebell

Happy Earth Day! To celebrate, we’ve curated a selection of shop favourites to kickstart your reading. Tonight we’re also hosting David Farrier and Louise Gray for a discussion about Farrier’s latest, Nature’s Genius! You can browse our picks here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/news/earth-d...

This is happening this Wednesday! Join me @portybooks.bsky.social!

Join me @portybooks.bsky.social on Earth Day to celebrate the genius of our living world!

Reposting this for the weekend crowd: I wrote about Basil Bunting's poem Briggflatts and what it has to teach us about the value of deep listening.

Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, David Farrier Rec from @markdway.bsky.social, deep time told in reverse, how our civilization might be recorded by the planet. Each chapter covers a geologic archive, paired w a reflection through literature (like ice cores/Borges Library of Babel). 20/

Echoing @kellyhereid.bsky.social's recommendation here, @david-farrier.bsky.social Footprints is an excellent read! Also on the subject of long timescales amidst our daily chaos, I tremendously enjoyed Marcia Bjornerud's Timefulness: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... @princetonupress.bsky.social

@david-farrier.bsky.social revisits “Briggflatts,” Basil Bunting’s presicent poem warning us all of the loss of the world’s precious soundscapes.

To mark the paperback launch of NATURE'S GENIUS I wrote about how poetry can help us pay attention to an increasingly silent world. lithub.com/on-the-1966-...

NATURE'S GENIUS is out in paperback TODAY! Join me to find out how the living world can be our mentor for change on Earth Day, 22nd April, @portybooks.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mpwnphbh @canongate.co.uk

Come to the paperback launch of NATURE'S GENIUS on World Earth Day! @portybooks.bsky.social Tickets: tinyurl.com/mpwnphbh

Come to the paperback launch of NATURE'S GENIUS on World Earth Day! @portybooks.bsky.social Tickets: tinyurl.com/mpwnphbh

Lovely to see the wonderful Nature’s Genius by @david-farrier.bsky.social is out in paperback!

We can’t wait for this event! Tickets available below 💚 www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/david...

One week until the paperback of NATURE'S GENIUS is out! What an amazing year it's been! Help me celebrate @portybooks.bsky.social on World Earth Day! tinyurl.com/yj8dxh52

What an amazing day! Half a million people turned out to say No to the far right.

I'm soon looking forward to this! Come along and celebrate World Earth Day with stories of extraordinary animal genius and human possibility.

Just finished watching Alien: Earth and feel a bit cheated that the eye-squid-thing didn't infect the repellant tech-bro character.

Earth Spotlight 12-1pm 24 Feb! Please join us with the brilliant David Farrier, author of Nature’s Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet. Can we remake the world to be fit for all life to thrive once more? 💚🦋 @david-farrier.bsky.social www.ticketsource.co.uk/cccibathspa

I have some hot compost news

We have some exciting events for you and they’re free! First up, please join us with brilliant colleagues @davidfarrier.bsky.social @servanemouazan.bsky.social 💚🦋 www.ticketsource.co.uk/cccibathspa

Nature's Genius is out today in Spanish!

Giving this a boost, if you need a little light in the darkest month

Reading about Kash Patel prioritising workouts over security meetings and the whole MAGA-bro obsession with strength and body-sculpting "The men are weeping in the gym ... they don't hear the thousands of tiny fracturings needed to build something stronger"

Bravo @ben-cooke.bsky.social. Brilliant scoop, and hard to imagine a more important one. “This government is hiding the true danger of climate change from the people”. Spooks don’t mess about when they leak. www.thetimes.com/article/4a1c...

Would you believe me if I told you a new international law dedicated to environmental protection is coming into force today? And that it covers nearly half the surface of the planet? 🌊

Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...

I had the great pleasure of chatting with @mandascott.bsky.social for the Accidental Gods podcast. Listen here! accidentalgods.life/what-ought-w...

We live in an ever-changing world, but how thin is the ice on which we are skating? And how can we change the ways we do things so we don’t fall into the void of extinction. accidentalgods.life/what-ought-w... #AccidentalGods #Podcast

The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Blow-by-blow account of an extrajudicial killing. Chilling that the shooter is close enough to look the driver in the eyes as he opens fire.

2026 looking good already @calflyn.bsky.social

We did Jolabokaflod for the first time this year. Not a bad haul.

🔊New Podcast out now: a conversation with @david-farrier.bsky.social on how we might learn to live in “The what ought to be.” He talks about adaptation, resilience, and what nature can teach us about recovery in a changing world. 🎧https://naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/ @ecioxford.bsky.social

1000 people turned up in Falkirk today to say no to Nigel Farage's message of hate and division

I was thrilled to take part in the Nature Recovery podcast @naturerecovery.bsky.social Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2135393/epis...

@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social One more to add to the list 🍾

Amazing turn out of Edinburgh University staff outside the parliament building right now to defend education against needless cuts @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

If Edinburgh Uni, with no operational deficit, gets to sack 1800 people, imagine what this will signal to more fiscally challenged Scottish universities? MSPs need to realise that this is more than a local crisis – we need urgent public scrutiny of Edinburgh’s governance.

I wrote about why we need to grow food in cities for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

What can evolution teaches about how life will adapt to our changing planet? Find out at the seminar on Friday…

If you're in Oxford next Friday, come along!

Still can't quite believe it, but Vanity Fair Italy interviewed me about Nature's Genius www.vanityfair.it/article/davi...