📷 Snapping the bugs in my garden. The Cinnabar moth caterpillar, a Small Heath butterfly, and a photogenic grasshopper. Also saw a gorgeous Narrow-winged Damselfly but my phone failed to catch it. 💚 #wildlife #invertebrates #nomowmayjunejuly

Be careful out there, London friends. 🔥 #moretreesplease 🌳 @treesforcities.bsky.social

In 1856, Eunice Newton Foote, conducted experiments on the warming abilities of the gases in the Earth’s atm. When she filled a glass vessel with CO2 & placed it in the sun, it warmed much higher than when the vessel was in the shade. 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋 a thread 🧵 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsnr/article...

😠 This is the story… ‘The DfE is expected to announce that its strategic priorities grant for 2026-27 will be cut by £100m to about £1.25bn. The grant is the main remaining source of direct funding for universities, and subsidises high-cost courses such as healthcare.’ #HE @ucu.org.uk

Amazing 🤩🐝🪱🦉🐋🐰🦋🦇🐸🪲🦈🦎🦔🐦‍⬛🌱🫛🫚🌺🌻☘️🌲🥀🍀🌸🌹🌳🍁🍂🍃🌵🍄🪻🪷🍄‍🟫🎋🪏🪾🌾

I’ve voted. Have you? 💷🦊🐬🐰🐸🦋🦅🦉🦈🦭🦢🦡🦔🦇🐋🦎🪲🐝🪱🐦‍⬛💷 www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...

Each cubic meter of wood extracted consumed 3 liters of diesel. "Wood has become, in part, fossil fuel," writes JB Fressoz in More and More and More. Europe now consumes three times as much wood for energy as it did at the start of the 20th century.

📣 Baroness Bennett’s Nature’s Rights Bill got almost top spot out of the PMB hat on Friday! 🌱 Introduction (first reading) is on 1 June. Here we go! 🤩 @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @rightsofnatureuk.bsky.social www.parliament.uk/business/new...

CLOSING SOON! Two Post‑Doctoral Research Associates for MoonRISE, an interdisciplinary Moon research project Roles available in: • Physical sciences and engineering • Social sciences and governance Apply here: buff.ly/8rUzx3c buff.ly/OVH7QFh #Postdoc #TheMoon #AcademicJobs

👏 This is great news 💚 ‘EU officials have conceded that the UK can keep its ban on live animal exports as part of any joint deal on food and agricultural products, even though the EU has not imposed such a ban.’ #animalwelfare

👏 Well done to #RiverMoleRiverWatch for your outstanding work this year. Just back from a v successful AGM. Great speakers, clear (& mercifully rapid) trustee reporting, tea on tap, & a walk with picnic by the river. 🏞️ @sirgeogy.bsky.social #loveyourriver

🇬🇮 Gibraltar is dumping ALL its raw sewage into the Mediterranean sea. Every. Single. Day. 🤢 🐟 💩 🐠 💩 🦀 💩 🦞 💩 🦐

This is #ecocide

🎉 I just sent the first draft of the first chapter of my thesis to my supervisors. Eeek. Technically it’s the fourth chapter (as I am not writing them in the order they will eventually appear in the tome.) Can I get a ‘woop-woop yay’? 🙌

There’s low public awareness of how research is funded.

This is #ecocide

🔥 The Exxon Valdez wasn’t on fire though 😭 #ClimateCatastrophe

I agree. War is #ecocide. A stomach-churning, heart-rending, human and more-than-human, climate and ecological catastrophe. #NoToWar #YesToDiplomacy

🙌 Seven hundred years of hereditary peers having the right to sit in the House of Lords has - finally - ended. This v interesting Lords Library briefing on female peerages will need an update… 😝 lordslibrary.parliament.uk/women-heredi...

💡#genius

More spraying of likely glyphosate, a herbicide, by #Israel now also taking place over agricultural areas in border areas with #Lebanon, affecting livelihoods of farmers and posing additional health risk to civilians. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Isreal's herbicide use also violates the sovereignity of the states, and impacts livelihoods of civilians in post-conflict zones. @paxforpeace.nl calls for an immediate stop and compensation for affected farmers. Read our full report and findings here 9/x: paxforpeace.nl/news/israel-...

Glyphosate is a weed killer and its potential health and environmental risks makes this a controversial substance, in particular as Israel did not provide any warning ahead to communities, resulting in civilian exposure risks and wider impacts on ecosystems. 8/x

Similar incidents occidents occured in southern Lebanon, where environmental groups such as the Green Southeners, documented similar crop duster planes spraying substances across the southern border with #Israel. 7/x

Additional confirmation came from the ground, where journalist visited the areas and took photos of affected land, with yellow vegetation indicating herbicide use, and they talked with farmers on the impacts on agriculture and livelihoods 6/x

A large area at the town of Kudnah was affected. This particular area was a small forest which was cut down in January 2025, likely due to need for firewood by local civilians, as seen on @planet.com imagery. But now the complete areas is affected by herbicide 4/x

The spraying continues for days, and the expectation is that Israel is using glyphosate, an herbicide, to kill the vegetation along the border areas. After a few days, the impacts showed up in Sentinel-2 satellite imagery showing degraded vegetation from the spraying lines 3/x

On January 25, 2026, several local Syrian social media accounts started posting images of crop duster planes flying across Syrian border areas spraying a substance on the fields there. With support of @obretix.bsky.social we geolocated this filming locations in and around Quneitra 2/x

End of January #Israel illegally sprayed herbicide across its borders into #Syria and #Lebanon. Affected communities are concerned over the impacts on agriculture and health. We used satellite imagery to track the 55km long affected area. A thread 🧵1/x paxforpeace.nl/news/israel-...

Also @lemonde.fr: According to Beirut, the Israeli military dropped highly concentrated glyphosate near the demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel. The spraying of this herbicide, which threatens soil fertility, could prevent people from returning to the area. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it. The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

#NoToWar #YesToDiplomacy

The answer was yes then… #ISawItComing

🚨 The Ecocide (Scotland) Bill is dead*. Long live the Bill. 😵 *Ok, well, it’s not quite dead - rather the Bill is ‘paused’ - but who will carry it over the line if its current bearer loses their seat. 😬 #ecocideinScotland #Holyroodelections www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

💩 Great article in @theconversation.com by @dralexford.bsky.social 🚨

💚 Spotted a nightingale today on a walk in a local nature reserve in #Surrey and then a redwing in our garden when I got home! Spring has definitely sprung round these parts! Roll on #Springwatch 🪻🌷 #birdspotting #LNR #birds #nature #gardens @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

🤯 I need to speak to a #SketchEngine expert. I have been running ‘compare corpora’ tests on legal texts & am not sure what it’s telling me. 😳 #corpuslinguistics #PhDproblems @openuniversity.bsky.social

🤔 Is the Scottish Ecocide Bill going the way of the UK Ecocide Bill? It’s rapidly running out of parliamentary time and may fall before consensus can be reached. #ecocideinScotland #EcocideLaw

Here is the link to the first-ever online screening of RAVE ON FOR THE AVON - a joyous, defiant documentary about a community fighting to protect the river they love. The film also features Kim Kaos aka Goddess of the Wye. Thursday Feb 19 7:30 PM via this link: www.eightysita.com/event-detail...

🧐 Today I shall be mostly conducting (Phase 4) reflexive thematic analysis of parliamentary discourse around criminalising ecocide in Britain. 💚 #phd #postgradresearch @ginnybraun.bsky.social @vicclarke.bsky.social @openspaceou.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social

China — China! — has signed off on a report that warns focusing on unchecked economic growth is contributing to the destruction of global biodiversity. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

📢 New IPBES report… ‘Current conditions perpetuate business-as-usual and do not support the transformative change necessary to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.’ www.ipbes.net/node/97532

We must confront the reality that we may have reached the limits of a solely fines-based model. The new water regulator, must have the necessary tools to hold companies & individual members to account for serious & persistent failings; otherwise it will not succeed, just as other regulators have not

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Thanks for all your support, Jodie!

Critical win for the Ecocide (Scotland) Bill as MSPs vote to progress it to Stage 2 ⬇️ Congratulations and thanks to @monicalennon.bsky.social for her unrelenting work! We look forward to the next steps. Press release: www.ercs.scot/news/landmar...

NEW: MSPs have voted 90-26 in favour of Monica Lennon's legislation to criminalise ecocide at the stage one vote. Amendments drawn up by net zero secretary Gilliam Martin and Monica Lennon will be "streamlined" at stage 2, with the final vote taking place before the election.

Scotland moves one step closer to making history as MSPs vote to advance the #Ecocide (Scotland) Bill! The bill would make Scotland the first UK nation to introduce #EcocideLaw. Learn more: www.stopecocide.earth/bn-2025/scot... #StopEcocide

🎉 The Ecocide (Scotland) Bill passed Stage 1 Votes = Yes 90, No 26, 4 abstentions. Motion AGREED. Onwards to Stage 2! #ecocideinScotland

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