Merry Christmas!

it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set

In many ways humans are ridiculous

Nope, it’s not acceptable for dog walkers to allow their dogs to “chase rabbits, hares, deer and foxes” Farage showing that despite the image he tries to cultivate, he has no idea of what is normal behaviour in the countryside www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

haunted

just bought almost a kilo of local cheese 😌

It's pretty disgusting for the BBC to be using genAI slop images in an article about slavery of all things www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/1...

JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

ok what's the most rectangular animal you can think of

I certainly didn't expect to see a VHS down there. Bummer. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 884 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

"Its goal is to sell two million tonnes of carbon credits at well above the normal market rate, to prove that “regenerative capitalism” can work, he added." call me sceptical 🧐

On Friday 13 Feb I’ll be at the perfect place to talk about extinction in natural history museums: Oxford University Museum of Natural History @morethanadodo.bsky.social. Free tickets available for “Dead as a Dodo: The Haunted Heritage of Extinction” oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a... #extinction

within 30 minutes of getting off the train in Northumberland I already had my step-dad say "now this was a Roman road" straight men 🥲

it's that time of the year again to migrate North for winter 😌

MERRY FESTIVE SEASON! Please enjoy our last episode of 2025 m.youtube.com/watch?v=ekkC... Brilliant festive stories from around the world from @joshlukedavis.com and @nhcooper123.bsky.social illustrated by some incredible specimens, including some very historically important models. 🍄

The biggest story on the planet! 🌎 Renewables surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide. Solar/wind grew fast enough to cover the entire jump in new power demand. In the U.S., when Trump dismantled renewables, America lost so much more than a power source. My story forthcoming.

Have written for @financialtimes.com on the dangers of been see to pitch house building against nature. Britain desperately needs more homes, but if you force a nature/building binary, it is the latter that will lose in the court of public opinion. www.ft.com/content/f456...

Tiger conservation in Thailand is a rare bright spot. The country’s Western Forest Complex has helped grow the Indochinese tiger population from ~40 in 2007 to 140+ today, with new evidence of breeding in the south as corridors open up.

As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE

ProTEct truSTed LocAL nEWS This isn't even designed to wind people up and hope they share it. It's just an exploitation of Birmingham Live's privileged position on Google Discover/Apple News. The whole point is to deceive people into clicking. An industry built on total contempt for its audience.

Perhaps there should be a small fee for every time you post a screenshot on Bluesky of some bullshit happening on X. Like the original 10p carrier bag charge, it wouldn't be prohibitive but it would make you think, hang on, do I have to do this?

Metal bashing is good for the soul, if not neighbourly relations. I have been making lichen and brackets and am wondering if I can remain enthusiastic long enough to decorate a load of books, decorate an entire book case or create a jewellery collection. #fungilove #fungiart #coppersmithing

the other half has found the worst (best) snack in the shop which is caramelised nuts covered in sea salt, which is basically all the most delicious terrible things for you

#FossilFriday Stack of opalised vertebrae from an Early Cretaceous ichthyosaur. Another remarkable fossil on display in the South Australia Museum, Adelaide.

This is panning out in the way it’s being used to attack the BBC. The segment involving Beachy Head Woman in the documentary most are concerned with was removed when the findings were updated. They reported on the new paper on their news websites. But apparently it’s still a conspiracy.

Day 17 of #InsectAdvent.. Big day is almost upon us. Have you hung your baubles yet? What about this specimen belonging to the most bauble of flies Celyphidae (beetle flies or beetle-backed flies). Mostly metallic with their enlarged scutellum grown over their abdomen @royentsoc.bsky.social

I'm so sorry not meaning to dunk on them but I cannot see images like the first and not immediately think of the second

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

I put some bowls into glaze a few weekends ago and should be picking them up this saturday, but I havent stop thinking about them this entire time and part of me doesnt actually want to know because what if they look shit or have cracked 🥲

maybe there is a way of smuggling some of them onto a ferry or

Postcard from the field from our intrepid tour leader Dave Fairhurst. In the past few days Dave's been in the Netherlands, spending some time watching the burgeoning population of Wolf now resident in the country. Stunning views!

I just feel like every single article talking about shrinkflation and chocolate should be leading with 'this is the direct result of the climate crisis' (this article actually does a good job explaining this! I think more articles should be more explicit!) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

An illustration of the 'commission-based' theory of evolution. The Pilot Whale www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

You should be able to respond to reviewer comments with memes to liven up the peer review process.

YES PLEASE

THREE satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles disappear in suspicious circumstances in England, Wales & Scotland - two tags had been cut off. Press release from Isle of Wight WTE Project Team & additional commentary from me ⬇️⬇️ #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/17/t...

Do you remember this? Back in 2019 *this post* caused quite a stir on social media.

look, call me a scrooge, but one of the worst developments of christmas is all the increasingly inane and convoluted elf on a shelf jokes it wasnt funny the first time round, and now it just makes me want to drown myself in eggnog (or any other seasonally appropriate liquid)

𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐲 𝐎𝐰𝐥. 💔 For the first time in 20 years, a bird species has disappeared from the country.

Need a quick bookish present for a history lover? This history of the 18th-century Byrons includes shipwreck, a murder trial, adultery, approximately 100 elopements (slight exaggeration), incest, & a pig called Mad Pauline Signed pback copies here 🎁🎄> www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page...

Our scientists have been busy this year! From dinosaurs to diatoms, they have helped to describe an amazing 262 new species from all around the world! 🪸🐠🦎🦋🪱 Read more about this year’s new species list 👇🏻 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

There have been some wonderful queer-themed books published this year which would make *FABULOUS* Christmas presents. Here are my top picks (history first, then science below) . . . 📚 #booksky 🌈🗃️ #lgbtqhistory 🏳️‍⚧️🎄 #queerhistory 🎁

We've been up in York for @tag2025york.bsky.social conference where 3 of us met, Brenna gave a talk on the challenge of creating an accidental archive, AND... we only went & won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Archaeological Theory In Action 🏆! Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺

"Tests undertaken at Plymouth University’s labs have found a “cocktail” of metals on the biobeads, including lead, antimony, cadmium, barium and arsenic." AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *breathe* AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

🎉It's here!🎉 This year's annual roundup of new species described by @nhm-london.bsky.social's curators, researchers and scientific associates! We've got butterflies! We've got wasps! We've even got the odd dinosaur as I know people like those. Check it out! 🐝🧪🦕

🎉It's here!🎉 This year's annual roundup of new species described by @nhm-london.bsky.social's curators, researchers and scientific associates! We've got butterflies! We've got wasps! We've even got the odd dinosaur as I know people like those. Check it out! 🐝🧪🦕

A global assessment estimates more than 259,000 manta and devil rays die in fisheries each year, mostly in small-scale operations. Researchers warn true losses are likely higher and say CITES trade bans must be paired with stronger national protections, better data and fishery reforms.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.