1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Last chance to co-sign our proposal to save the swifts before MSPs vote later today! It's a simple but crucial requirement for all new buildings above a certain size to include a swift nesting brick. Show your support here ✍️👇 greens.scot/saveourswifts

Hope is here, and this morning we've proved it. In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target But we're not done. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform this May. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere

More and more people from every corner of the country are joining the @scottishgreens.org We’re welcoming members from Shetland to Stranraer every day and we're very close to hitting record membership numbers. We’re seeing what happens when you inject hope into politics! members.greens.scot/join

Huge. And I meet more and more over 50s too who will be voting for the Green Party as well! Join.greenparty.org.uk

The Scottish Greens stand with trans people this week, next week and always. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

9️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣+ Welcome to all our new members! 👋

Something extraordinary is happening. +6000 new members in ONE SINGLE day. @greenparty.org.uk just hit 130,000 members and rising!!! Join.greenparty.org.uk

🚨New poll for @scotnational.bsky.social has the @scottishgreens.org in SECOND place! Our message is cutting through. Scotland can be a fairer, greener place if we fix the systems rigged by the super-rich. Join our movement to help turn record polls into real votes! 👉 greens.scot/join

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Survey of 8 countries including Spain and the US finds 82% of people support setting aside 30% land + sea for nature. All over the world, people WANT rewilding. Time our politicians started turning that clear wish into actual policy. Let's bring nature back!!! share.google/8lsJ5PfS2nau...

Telling it like it is, and cutting through.

Motherfucking wind farms…

I’ve joined @ecotalk.bsky.social as their new Chief Ecologist , working to rewild , replant and reintroduce some incredible native species into sites across the UK . You can support British wildlife too , just switch your SIM to Ecotalk– where profits go to nature , not shareholders ! #ad

🔊New post-nominal alert: Prof. Catherine Heymans FLS 😊 Dark Matter; Dark Energy; Galaxies; #Cosmology; Comedy; the Hubble, Rubin and Euclid Telescopes; #SciComm; Long Covid; Virtual Realities; @jimalkhalili.bsky.social and I talked about it all! 📻: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 🔭🧪👩‍🔬

Sending love and solidarity to trans people everywhere. We will always fight to protect human rights, dignity and respect for all people. We stand with the trans community today, tomorrow and always.

Clouds outside, live stream at the front, simulated view at the back 🤩 The cosmic ballet goes on 😋

Just in! 📸 The first images from yesterday’s #HeraMission flyby of Mars and its moon Deimos. 👇 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

Our Hera spacecraft science team, including Dr Brian May of Queen, were amazed as the first images came in from the spacecraft's gravity-assist flyby of Mars and martian moon Deimos - see why here: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism? Here is an answer: Good Things. Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine. Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it. The more we build community, the less it can take root. 🧵

That's 70.000 people who want to see driven grouse shooting banned. We're nearly 3/4 of the way there to our target of 100,000 signatures. Do you want a ban? If so, please like & share this post! Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

So much profound beauty in our world. But it seems the forces unable to see beyond their own wealth, power, and egos are in the ascendant right now. It's our duty to mind ourselves and each other in these tough times, which may well get much worse. The living world depends on us never giving up. 🌍

This is a veeryyyy good 3 minute explainer of how much power a data center consumes, visualised using Lego. Via John Hyland on LI www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHB...

"We are a society of altruists governed by psychopaths" The great @georgemonbiot.bsky.social dropping truth bombs on this weeks show. Check it out (and please subscribe) ✊️ youtu.be/l5_jS5SQfDQ?...

Annual release of millions of non-native gamebirds for shooting? Sure, no problem, no licences/permission required, fill yer boots, do what you like. Carefully managed & licensed reintroduction of a native species? Not if its got sharp claws and teeth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Are you ready to chase the Moon? 🌖 #NationalAstronomyWeek begins tomorrow, 1st February! You can find out more about how to get involved and an exciting line-up of events across the UK at astronomyweek.org.uk. However, whilst us Earthlings gaze up at the Moon, Euclid won't be joining us... (1/4)

Caught a piece of the aurora last night near Bergen. Thought it was overcast at first. I have to brush up on my skills! 😋

What a start to 2025! By coincidence, @notverymedieval.bsky.social was driving us to the Borders tonight. We saw the red alert. As I looked out the car window I could see the silhouetted clouds amongst a glowing white sky. We soon parked up at the roadside and got VERY lucky! #aurora #snow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

MIRI version of NGC 2566. This galaxy is located only 76 million light-years away from us. 🔭 🧪

For too long fossil fuel companies have had largely unlimited £££ to greenwash their dirty reputations whilst continuing to wreak havoc with our planet – it’s time for that to end . Add your name petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Hot-off-the-press news: this evening Dundee City Council voted to formally approve the recommendation that the Mills Observatory remains open for the public to use! Huge thanks go to Dr Gilchrist, chair of the Dundee Astronomical Society, who has worked tirelessly to secure this win 🥳🔭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Got three minutes ? Angry that 32 satellite-tagged Hen Harriers vanished or were confirmed as being illegally killed in England in 2023 , most on/near grouse moors ? Then please sign this @WildJustice_org petition . Be nice to get to 25K tonight ! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7000…

Exciting news for Edinburgh and Glasgow: Cosmology-Royalty @astrokatie.com is coming to town!! She'll be talking about the end of the Universe at Dynamic Earth & Glasgow Science Centre. 🔭🧪 ℹ️👇 22nd April: dynamicearth.org.uk/event/meet-t... 23rd April: www.glasgowsciencecentre.org/whats-on/dav...

*sniffs* seems alright in here... Hello lovely peeps 🤩