GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

Tried to water the baby asparagus but the spout was blocked so I tried to shove the blockage down into the can but the thing inside shoved back. Computer…enhance. #garden #gardening #oopsfrog

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The annoying thing here is that the Lib Dems talk policy quite a lot and get ignored by the media, which is what Davey's stunts were a response to in the first place. I don't think he's addicted to stunts. I'm sure he'd love it if his policies got covered www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

London's latest resident. Glossy ibis currently hanging around the London Wetland Centre! 🪶

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

this is what about 7.5kg of clay looks like in freshly thrown plate form 🥲

back on the wheel 🥰

Hey, that's today! Still some in-person tickets available, and you can stream for only £5. #ornithology #UKbirds #conservation

Positive news for #koalas! A single dose vaccine has been approved to tackle chlamydia in the iconic species.

I sat down for a cup of tea but got trapped 🥲

Plants phylogeny is a mess anyway Credit : @xkcd.com

Zuckerberg did one thing clever in his life, making a perving site he then pivoted into a site for your auntie to be racist on. Everything else has failed or he bought. He's not even proper evil, just an absolute dork with too much power.

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.

Migration Update Last week more of this year’s young storks crossed the Channel from Dungeness to France. Satellite tags show them south of Boulogne-sur-Mer, likely having travelled together after days along the South Coast. Our live map will be updated soon, so you can follow their journeys live!

Then and Now The Little Street Delft c.1658, painted by Johannes Vermeer; now identified by archival research as 40-42 Vlamingstraat, Delft, photographed (right) in 2017. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Same with stacking rocks on beaches and mountains. Rocks are where animals live! It also demonstrates a particularly unpleasant arrogance and lack of appreciation for nature IMO

the big garden spiders have appeared and the jumpers are out, my season is finally here 🙏🏻

whenever people get fatalistic about the ecological threats we're facing, i like to bring up some of these examples. we *can* do things that cause positive change! we have in the past! if we make the decisions to try and fix things, we can actually do it! we aren't in fact doomed until we give up!

For the first time in more than 10,000 years, wild horses once again roam Spain’s northwestern highlands. The 35 horses introduced by Rewilding Spain are bringing renewed resilience to the land, Mongabay senior editor Jeremy Hance reported.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

I’m not going to link to the article, or to engage with the claims, because that is part of their schtick, as they admit here:

What do studies on far-right vs far-left political violence in ths US show? Short answer: It's complicated. Most independent studies say the far-right commit more violence than the far-left, but as it's not easy to define motives and ideologies, it's hard to draw definitive conclusions.

British people:

Very firm statement on releases of captive-bred Turtle Doves, from Operation Turtle Dove inc @rspb.bsky.social & @naturalengland.bsky.social: *Doesn't meet IUCN guidelines *Risk of disease/genetic pollution *Irresponsible aims operationturtledove.org/captive-rele... 1/2 #ornithology #ukbirding

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

extremely conservative christian cafe opens with a “this is home” mural the “e” is also their logo, it is on everything

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honestly though who could be mad at these two little lesbian birds living the island life 😌

'Butterfly Trio' - Orange Tip, Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary and Red Admiral Butterflies -hand embroidery on satin artwork. The fabric was from a wedding dress. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p63/bu... #WildlifeArt #embroidery #butterfly

when I give presentations on queer natural history I usually include a slide with various journal articles highlighting the biases in scientific publishing over the years, and this one will be added! curious use of "unexpected" when it's been seen in 1000s of species (incl. other shearwaters!) 👀

... Is it though? Nearly everywhere we look we find non-hetero relations. Absence of anything queer would be the unexpected outcome!

Yes please do ask us any questions you have, either or Bluesky or in the YouTube comments or send us an email. Or tell us what you thought of choices - what would you have brought instead?

Ask us questions! Please! We need something to talk about!

Open Quaternary is looking for a new Editor in Chief! openquaternary.com/announcements If you have any questions about OQ, or the role, I am very happy to answer Qs >> [email protected]

I can't express how much I hate that google have done away with the shortcut "define [word]" which would also show a list of synonyms and now just gives an AI overview 😭

I thought I saw some auks, but it was just a skua flying backwards.

Might there have been hybrids between Mesozoic (non-bird) #dinosaurs, perhaps even between groups that had been separated for 10s of million of years? YES, the existence of such animals is very likely. But could we >identify< such animals? Let's see... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/9/...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

There are just a couple of places left on our Queer Ecology Evening with the brilliant @aquadan1.bsky.social. Join us for a thought-provoking tour, a quiz, and a relaxing drink in our library. 📍 Linnean Society, Burlington House 📆 Thursday 25 September, 6-8pm 🎟️ From £12

Precisely the case in the US. Young men with economic anxiety on net actually voted Dem in 2024. Young men with bad views about women, feminism, and trans people voted for the right. www.ymrp.org/polling

Why is it – when talking about Anopheles mosquitos – seemingly the convention to shorten the genus to eg 'An. gambiae' and not the more usual 'A. gambiae'? Is this just something that has developed within the tropical medicine sphere?

Science needs this kind of sponsorship. I am 100% open to posing with cheese or really most foods in exchange for social media posts, large logos on conferences presentations, and copiously talking about said food. Call me anytime. DMs are open.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

I am bravely asking:: defector.com/why-not-have...

September 12, 1940, the entrance to Lascaux Cave (#France) is discovered by 18-year-old Marcel Ravidat. The cave walls are covered with depictions of animals close to 20.000 years old. twilightbeasts.org/2019/06/26/t...

📢 Call for Papers! 📢 We're excited to announce that in 2026 we will again be hosting an Early Career Researcher Symposium, and that this time it will be a partnership with @linneansociety.bsky.social!🙌🏻 We'd love to hear from all ECRs, so find how to submit a proposal 👇🏻 shnh.org.uk/news/cfp-ear...