Dramatic scenes at BBC Breakfast.

Dartmoor has been deliberately set ablaze tonight. An apocalyptic photo of swaling (moorland burning) that I’ve been sent, of the moor alight at Corndon Down, Spitchwick Common. All burning is meant to end on Dartmoor today, 31st March - and many birds will already be nesting this early spring. 😢

i'm really sorry but i just don't care what people posted on twitter ten years ago

You can't fool me, that's a man in some kind of suit

"Jonathan the tortoise is very much alive. I believe on X the person purporting to be me is asking for crypto donations" ok ok I unreposted the news article about the death of Jonathan the tortoise because apparently it was a twitter scam??? 🐢🧪 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

my I add another to this excellent list of queer natural history books 🙏🏻🌈🐧

This #TransDayOfVisibility, we’re highlighting our favorite queer ecology reads. These books, essays, and memoirs break down binaries and explore the expansiveness of gender & identity in nature.

We're accepting proposals for our Special Feature! We invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't go to plan, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species🌱 ⏰Submit by 30th April More here👇 buff.ly/EXXBFsJ

Am not an energy analyst but why does seem every interview with a U.K. minister this week included a pointed question about why not drilling more in North Sea and almost none about renewables/net zero as an energy security imperative? It’s bizarre, frankly

standing in front of a beaver dam watching a herd of bison grazing while a white-tailed eagle flies overhead 😌

Kemi Badenoch has been in Aberdeen today to launch her "Fuel Britannia" campaign to extract "every last drop" of oil and gas from North Sea. She has been photographed visiting "Well Safe Solutions". Guess who their non-exec director is? Alasdair Locke - who has given £1.2m to the Tories

standing in front of a beaver dam watching a herd of bison grazing while a white-tailed eagle flies overhead 😌

today I found a European bison sleeping in someone's front yard 🥲

HURRAH! I am so pleased that this has gone to Lyme Regis Museum, but would also love to know what it going on in the head of whoever was bidding against a small (but perfectly formed) museum in ANNING’S OWN TOWN, driving up the price for them to bring the letter home www.bbc.com/news/article...

NEW: Have YOU seen these FALSE OR MISLEADING CLAIMS about the NORTH SEA? Find out more: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Seeing people online getting very weird about the ways people repurpose and recycle old books again and this is a gentle reminder that nobody is ever going to sit down and read that 1930's encyclopedia, it's either becoming decor or going in the skip. Please be normal about this.

This picture!! A newborn baby whale being held above water by a team of midwifes www.newscientist.com/article/2521...

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

So in summary: all that nonsense talk about young people suddenly turning to Jesus was nonsense and church attendance remains in long-term, near-existential decline. Still, they got nearly a year of utterly baseless headlines out of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

cats in medieval paintings at the National Museum in Warsaw

Every time I post about endometriosis and dare to make it, gender inclusive, I always get a lot of comments from people angry that I didn’t just say “women” And every time, I think about how Rowling has enough money to cure endometriosis forever. But she doesn’t actually give a fuck about women.

I look at pregnant people as young as 15 in my research. I say people because aside from being gender inclusive, I will not refer to pregnant children as "women".

NEW FACTCHECK: There has been A LOT of debate in the UK on the North Sea Sadly much of it is built on false or misleading claims Me+ @carbonbrief.org colleagues tried to straighten things out www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-ni...

A 15,800-year-old fossil discovered in Türkiye is the oldest evidence of domestic dogs! 😮 Similar-aged fossils found at multiple sites across Europe, including in the UK, show that dogs were widespread by at least 14,000 years ago. Find out more about this discovery 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

📣 Call for writers! Are you an early career researcher? University student? Science communicator? Know someone who is? We're always looking for new Guest Bloggers to contribute to our journal blog The Paper Trail! Have a read below, or check out our vacancies page to apply. buff.ly/7IohkLQ

Turns out cloning clones eventually fails, just like photocopying photocopies. Which means clones aren't really clones - they're not genetically identical 🧪 Teruhiko Wakayama thinks the cloning process induces lots of mutations 🧬 tho he hasn't proved it yet www.newscientist.com/article/2520...

Even though it’s ugly to read I think publishing offensive remarks at the heart of a scandal is the only way you can understand the scandal. Euphemisms and paraphrases whitewash the offence

they honestly should have paid her for improving it smh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🦧Very sad news that Dr Birutė Galdikas, world-renowned anthropologist and orangutan researcher, has died at the age of 80 One of the Leakey Trimates she was the first scientist in the world to begin in-depth studies of orangutans The Loss of Professor Birutė Galdikas 👩‍🔬🏺🧪 www.vdu.lt/en/vmu-commu...

The correct way to deal with Maya Forstater and the Sex Matters ghouls

Perfection was achieved 30 years ago today and it's been stuck in my head ever since

I've got the pre-travel nervies 🥲

Water not big missiles shoot far.

you see dubious political chicanery, I see admirable proof that the Met doesn't discriminate when it comes to its abject failure to investigate phone theft, even if the phone in question was being used to run the government

Fantastic news! 🦋🦋 Link to full report in 🧵 www.worldwildlife.org/news/stories...

Every time I hear about #eel smuggling, I'm surprised at how incredibly lucrative it is. 3 *Billion* euros!?!? "Europol intelligence estimates that up to 100 tonnes of glass eels are smuggled each year, generating EUR 2.5–3 billion annually in peak years." www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/...

Wake up, my lovely weirdos, new sea bugs from the abyss just dropped

the fossil fuel industry desperately pivoting to try and argue that north sea oil and gas is greener, actually, is quite funny to watch

Deadline this Friday, 27 April: fully-funded Bloomsbury Scholarship on 'Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives'. Due to start in 2026-7; supervised by Anandi Rao at SOAS and me. bloomsbury.ac.uk/queer-meanin... 🌈🎓

the fossil fuel industry desperately pivoting to try and argue that north sea oil and gas is greener, actually, is quite funny to watch

🦅 The birds of Europe.. London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author, 1837.. [Source]

I've found that when I share info, people who have a depth of knowledge that goes past what I shared feel the need to tell me additional info. I usually already know it. I get the drive to share, obviously. but sometimes there are reasons I chose the depth of information I shared, ya know?

🚨New species of dinosaur alert🚨 Say hello to Doolysaurus! Only the third named dinosaur from South Korea, this little baby has been named after the famous South Korean cartoon character Dooly. Find out what this new discovery means 👇🏻 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

ok but this is just a bit funny now

Nice zooms on this Deepstaria. Looks like it has a little isopod passenger inside as well. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 556 #ventunderworld #MarineLife

NEW - I asked the UK government if they had assessed energy demand/emissions resulting from plans to make the UK an "AI superpower". The analysis they pointed me to seemed... pretty implausible. Just 0.1m tonnes of CO2 a year. My calculations suggest emissions could be 100s of times higher.

At least I get to repost the greatest headline the Independent has ever run.

Razorbill fans, rejoice! 🌊 Today's #SpringArrivalSpotlight celebrates these striking seabirds, returning to our shores to nest in colonies within cliff ledges and crevices. Spot them by their distinctive thick, blunt bill with white stripe.

Seaweed collecting and pressing and then today I got to make some cyanotypes to gain an appreciation of Anna Atkins’ process for her Cyanotypes of British Algae [1843-53]. A big thank you to @tomberryart for his expertise and creativity and for making it a most fun day! #cyanotype #printing #blue