🔎 High-resolution multi-sensor technology reveals low collision risk to seabirds in offshore wind farms These results highlight the need to revise collision risk assessments by applying high meso-avoidance rates and very high micro-avoidance rates for seabirds🕊️ 🌍 Read more:https://buff.ly/VmQ7gGC

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

I am braving the horrors of rail replacement buses to get to this, so please come 😆

It's St Agnes Eve - traditionally the coldest night of the year. Here's to warmth + hope to come, & the promise that ice will melt.

Excellent discussion of native vs non-native garden plants for wildlife from @katebradbury.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

Not long to go… have you signed up for the #BigGardenBirdwatch yet? 👀 www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈

If fracking were to be permitted in the UK, as proposed by Reform, some of the country's most exquisite countryside would be impacted, as shown in the British Geological Survey diagram below: share.google/4iPmjendxnR7...

The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology." n.pr/4583d8f

Watery pleeps

Interview with Paul from the Chuckle Brothers in the Guardian asks if he'd ever like to do Shakespeare. He says, "To me, or not to me, that is the question."

🚨 BE IN THE AUDIENCE for Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics S12! Ticket application is NOW OPEN for our February 4th recording. Good luck, everyone! www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtour...

"‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock Intl Criminal Court judge out of daily life. Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards or access everyday services (Uber, Alexa, Ticketmaster...) in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary." www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

‘The potato’s imprint became a waxing moon, a row of beans, a set of scans, the inside of a skull. One single potato which held so much.’ In 2025, for Annie Lord, love and grief took the shape of wreaths, potato prints and frost flowers www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/01/shad...

Writers, send me all your energies - I’m diving into my huge draft and have two months to turn it into the finished book I’ve been planning for five years. Lucky I love editing!

A quiet happy new year to all from my favourite hill, looking out over the Sussex High Weald last night. In moonlight so bright we needed no torches, we found a perfect waiting moment for the turn of the year. I wish you all stillness and peace this mid winter.

Oh yes please to long, quiet, serious documentaries where we’re allowed time to absorb complex and surprising things without some bouncy narrator leaping from rock to rock and emoting about how amazing This Fact is for a second before rushing off

Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. We’re haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what it’s worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.

Every year, about this time, somewhere deep in the Perigord, it happens. Magdalenian spirit-reindeer awake from their deep, cavern-dark slumber, and take flight. 🦣🦌🎄

This morning I found a small glow of energy. Boots on, through the mud to the river. She’s struggled so much this year but look how beautiful, strong and full of life she still is (and there are Mayfly and Stonefly for sure beneath the ripples). Thank you, small river. #river #ecology #sussex

On the shortest day, have cheer - the light will return! This photo was given to me a few days ago by my friend Clare Nettleton. It shows winter sun lighting up the window I made for Grace’s Room, at Williton Hospital, Somerset. It is of Exmoor …

"The Hamoun wetland, straddling the Iran-Afghan border on the Helmand River, once covered some 1,500 square miles and was home to abundant wildlife, including a population of leopards. Now it is mostly lifeless salt flats." e360.yale.edu/features/ira...

My most reliable source of suggest of joy here brings us TWO owl pellets today ...

I'd like to chat to one or two people, ideally women (I've already talked to a load of men) who've got into the Merlin app for identifying birdsong this year. For a nice positive story. Please drop me a line, thank you!

Really Sir Keir? "Watering down" protections against torture and inhumane treatment? On #HumanRightsDay?

There have NEVER been ‘unrestricted’ taxis for asylum seekers. Travel to medical appointments has ALWAYS required Home Office approval. Many of the people we support miss urgent care because they can't get there. UK Gov must stop scapegoating people for its poor management ➡️ tinyurl.com/fzsk3aen

#AshmoleanAdvent Day 8: Black Bear Cub Painted by Japanese artist Mori Shūhō, this small bear looks directly out at the viewer while it sits uneasily on a ledge amid the snowflakes. Shūhō was a member of the Mori School of artists who specialised in lifelike depictions of animals. 🐻 EA1964.95.F

Crypto investor Christopher Harborne, who has just donated £9 million to Reform, is also an aviation fuel entrepreneur. In other news Reform, which has pledged to scrap all Net Zero plans, just declared a £36,000 donation from Heathrow bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

Not religious at all, but I want to congratulate this #Massachusetts Parish for their nativity display this year. This is how to resist fascism. Courage in the face of cowardice. A true stand against injustice. Perfect response to "What Would Jesus Do?" based on all I ever learned about that guy.

1/3 **MAYORAL ELECTIONS DELAYED TIL 2028!** Labour: incompetent, scared & zero regard for democracy. The devolution agenda they sprung on us a year ago is in utter chaos, they are terrified of their plummeting in the polls, and - most importantly...

The "100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025" list is out today on LitHub! I read creative nonfiction for this project and will share my reviews in this thread - but you should really check out the entire list, so much goodness. lithub.com/100-notable-...

MISSING: Closing tax loopholes for private jets, taxing airplane fuel, a frequent flyer levy. Why does the Chancellor have such a blind spot for anything that might tackle the excesses of the aviation industry? #Budget

“We are ramping up sanctions on Russia,” she said. “We are freezing known Russian assets.” Then the punchline: “But let me be clear, I don’t actually mean the right honourable member for Clacton!” Nice.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

“I’m not a serious thinker. I’m a writer: that’s very different. I think a writer’s intelligence has to be alive, has to be incomplete. It has to carry contradiction. It has to be sort of haphazard and amateur.” - Benjamín Labatut

wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do! www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...

TONIGHT at Manchester Poetry Library & ONLINE. Celebrating Jean Sprackland's new book, Night Vision.

This is a really nice font to have. In addition to being readable it hits that attractive-yet-unobtrusive sweet spot, and it’s TOTALLY FREE

Illegal immigration is not tearing Britain apart. A media-driven obsession with illegal immigration is tearing Britain apart.

This is the logical consequence of Labour’s appeasement of the far right - this is an arms race Labour should never seek to win

There is no difference in practice between removing rights of individuals and leaving the ECHR. The end outcome is still the same, people lose rights. If human rights are an obstacle to your policy it is not the rights which are the issue, it is your policy. Labour going full Reform at this stage.

"the fossil fuel industry has been lobbying the climate negotiations for 30 years now" ~ a flotilla of Indigenous people travels 3000km to ensure their voices are also heard at COP30. See the full story at: youtube.com/shorts/RAJRO...

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

If you live in an English town your sewage will likely be treated twice before being discharged into a river. If you live in a small village it may only be treated once. Neither is enough to destroy all the meds + pathogens in sewage. In Switzerland, they treat water 3x to destroy meds + pathogens🧵

yes the question is not "are the BBC perfect?" (obviously not, sometimes they are awful) it's "if we let them fall, will we like what comes next to fill the vacuum they leave?" (no. no one on Bluesky will like it unless they are purely on here to hate-read.)

Brilliant idea - when you're a tiny community group it can be so hard to cover those boring but essential costs like insurance!

Chris Packham on the political shift on climate change: “It’s no secret that the fossil fuel companies are funding Reform and The Conservatives - that’s a fact. These people are either denying something extremely dangerous or they’re puppet-ing it for their paymasters” #bbclaurak

If, like me, your energy or ability to exercise daily is limited do read this. Thank you @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk for not using a tracker and trusting your body. The reminder I needed right now!

PLEASE DO NOT ASK STAFF WHERE DRACULA’S GRAVE IS THERE ISN’T ONE. Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.