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Leicester friends! Join me at @stnicholasleics.bsky.social next Saturday at 11am for a bird walk around the parish. Free event (bring your binoculars!). Details: stnicholasleicester.com/whats-on/urb...

A guy we know pitched a story to a mag about former skateboarders going back to their old haunt in middle age. My BIL(52)went with him as part of the story. BIL is now back home with a broken ankle and the writer is home with a broken vertebrae. The only possible way the story could have gone.

Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right

🇵🇬 declares 🇬🇧 size MPA in the Bismarck Sea. #30x30 #OceanOptimism oceanographicmagazine.com/news/papua-n...

this is the last photo on my parents' video birdfeeder before it was mysteriously destroyed we may never know what happened

Turns out, if you stop tearing up the seabed, wildlife thrives: ten years after banning bottom trawl fishing, there are 3 times the number of sea creatures + double the number of species in the South Arran MPA, Scotland, than there were before the ban 👏🦪🐟 share.google/2M5WqP3CXwSH...

oh god do we really have to call aerodynamics a "hack"

Good to see this, I'm chuf– [a single shot rings out] www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you're in Cambridge next week, why not drop by the @pintofscience.uk festival? On Wednesday 20th at The Tivoli I'll be talking about 'Edwardian Women in Palaeontology: The Art of Graptolites', which is enough to make anyone reach for an Aperol spritz (pintofscience.co.uk/event/small-...) #pint26

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“oh so u think posting on Bluesky is any bett-“ let me stop you

Let them learn 🥹

Analysis of centuries-old Swedish newspapers shows harbor porpoises once ranged widely across the Baltic Sea, highlighting significant declines in their historic distribution. doi.org/hb3rn3

Last chance to vote for me - voting closes on Wednesday! Thank you to those who have voted for me so far, it's much appreciated.

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

Surely they've suffered enough?

It's important that you always shoot your shot, because you'll never know unless you try. Like my friend in our "bimonthly crafternoons" group chat just asked if anybody wants to go stand in a river and count glass eels next month and her problem now is actually that too many of us want to go

🐵 Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig /. Frankfurt am Main: S. Schmerber, 1835-1840.. [Source]

Wind and solar have now beaten fossil fuels in Great Britain for a record 15 months in a row Just a decade ago, fossil fuels were generating four times more than wind + solar Now that's flipped: Since the Iran war, wind and solar generated twice as much as fossil fuels

Today is election day! 🗳️ 🌳 Your vote has the power to shape the future of our green spaces, rivers, wildlife and neighbourhoods 🤳 Remember to take valid photo ID ⏲️ Polling stations are open until 10pm for London’s borough elections. Find your polling station here: https://wheredoivote.co.uk

I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).

My seasonal portrait of the most characterful tree in Tooting, if not London... She's an Eastern Plane, or Baobab Plane dancing her spring welcome.

do think one of the big problems of the era is that a lot of mainstream politicians have forgotten that you just can't convince everyone; the point of successful electoral politics is to convince the people you can convince and to *defeat the rest*

Result from the Milia 5 #paleostream! This locality, from the late Pliocene of Greece, got a lot of attention in the early 2000s for the discovery of giant probocidean remains, most notably 5 m long tusks of Mammut borsoni, the European Mastodon.

Recently we had a history event at the church, and lots of visitors came by, and I was explaining to one of them that the guys helping out with refreshments were from Iran and so might hold out their phones for her to speak into to get it translated and help them understand what she was saying.

Nothing like a Mary Anning letter at the @theul.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social to close off a sunny #FossilFriday.

THE SWIFTS ARE BACK I REPEAT: THE SWIFTS ARE BACK

doing one last call—if you are a trans entomologist/trans researcher studying bugs (in the most capacious sense) please dm me, I'd love to interview you!

THREAD: A heat-pump tumble dryer could save households more than £700 Lots of overblown reaction to govt phasing out standard dryers – reminds me of when 2009 Mail frontpage wailed about "beloved" incandescent bulbs But heat pump dryers are just a much better technology 1/5

THE SWIFTS ARE BACK I REPEAT: THE SWIFTS ARE BACK

This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already

If you work on fossil birds and you are willing to review a paper, please give me a thumbs up! Because honestly, the fossil bird community are the *worst* at agreeing to do reviews for each other's work, and there are only so many reviewers we can ask before we have to reject a paper. It's not cool.

I can't believe they got this interview with the walrus

This is the issue in a nutshell, isn’t it? No. Rental properties are not there to “supplement your pension”. They are there to provide people with the most basic human necessity and it should be a full time job.

Here’s the reality: Unless you’re Richard Osman, there is ZERO marketing budget in publishing. Literally nothing. So if you love a book, recommend it. That’s how any of us survive. Otherwise it’s just Richard Osman, forever.

Oh. My. God.

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

Can someone help #translate this postcard sent by my grandfather to his Aunt, from Ukrainian to English?

Pine Marten (Martes martes) at a site in Co. Leitrim this week. This once-threatened native species has made a remarkable recovery and is now present in every county in Ireland.

Snipe update! Lots more tagged Snipe have flown from Ireland to Iceland Please read linked thread. Data from @tomasgunnarsson.bsky.social @joseaalves.bsky.social #ornithology

the only way to spend a sunny saturday afternoon in London 😌

Resharing for #InverteFest. Haven't worked out chafer species yet

I did the run please clap

Pride in STEM is 10, so we had to throw ourselves a little party! prideinstem.org/2026/04/23/p...

honestly hate to admit it, but I've really got into the snooker 😭

have to admit 'Unilever operating Nazi whaling ships' was not on my cards