Please help @soest.hawaii.edu have as many followers as @scrippsocean.bsky.social. Tell all your friends even if they hate the Earth, the environment, the atmosphere, or the ocean. I will try to post interesting things within the very narrow guidelines I was provided. 😄

For International Moon Day: the Declaration of the Rights of the Moon. #IMD2026

#SummerLovin is the theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay. It was so hot today, but I got this Common Yellowthroat in a shady tree. It's a summer visitor to Missouri and a #lifer for me.❤️

male mallards (molting) #birdoftheday #summerlovin #birds

Let's cleanse the palate with this real weirdo from Nautilus Live, a Dumbo Octopus.

Insightful essay on The Odyssey from Homerist @sentantiq.bsky.social in @hyperallergic.com. hyperallergic.com/a-homerist-r...

John Healey as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Interesting, especially as he resigned last month because of Starmer’s stupidly high defence budget.

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Today's #BirdOfTheDay #SummerLovin' is the sweet little black-capped chickadee that serenaded the neighborhood all day yesterday with its sweet calls. This is a very popular bird across the northern United States and southern Canada.☮️💙😎 Enjoy the day #Birds #Photography #Nature @alan678.bsky.social

The war on front gardens and our car-centric habits is causing a range of issues, including contributing to the heat that we are feeling during this heatwave. Front gardens (with a few shady trees) would go a long way to helping everyone cope with the heat, plus bring other benefits

Your cheat sheet for July 20-26 is here (early)! Make art, have fun. See details for host list & details #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Photography #DailyArt #Painting #Drawing #ArtChallenge #ArtPrompt #TraditionalArt

And the award to the prettiest bird of the day goes to … Gorgeous 😍😍

We would like to congratulate Andy Burnham on stepping into his new role as prime minister. As he begins setting the direction for this new term, we are asking him to prioritise #nature, #wildlife and #biodiversity.

'Authorities had restricted farmer access to water for crop irrigation in...Romania + ⁠controlled water reservoirs to ensure minimum levels...for cooling state nuclear power producer Nuclearelectrica's 2 reactors' Romania is one of Europe's biggest grain exporters: www.reuters.com/business/env...

"Larry likes his breakfast at 9, brunch at 1030 and lunch at noon with plenty of snacks in between. The rest of the job is a doddle"

Herring gull throwing a tantrum Whitstable, 17 July This guy really needs to be a meme 🤣 So, BlueSky peeps, go for it!!!! #BirdOfTheDay #SummerLovin #Birds #Gulls #Photography #ECK #MemeThis

We do love summer: the nights are light and there is no city as pretty (ooh that rhymes) as York on an evening. One of the pictures in our collection captures a twilight scene in King's Square heading towards the Shambles. Unusually it looks to be a quiet scene...let's take a closer look.

Well, thank f*** for this post. Why? Well, a few weeks ago, in London, before this long heatwave, kiddo & I were walking out by the lake. She asks for the time and I say, ‘You know, you can always tell it’s noon in the summer because vertical objects don’t cast a shadow.’ With such confidence. 1/

Got some actual triplets - three juvie crows :)) (I posted this shot-through-the-window photo before, thinking there was one parent and two kids. Found out the other day, there are three kids! The quiet one, the loud one & the one who moons everyone) #BirdOfTheDay #Triplets #Birds #BirdingFromBed

No. It’s a computer programme. Instead of grappling with the ‘ethics’ of AI ‘consciousness’, maybe these ‘experts’ should be grappling with the ethics of the large-scale destruction of the environment and negative impact on people that AI has.

#Connect2Nature #Birds #BirdoftheDay #Blue These are notoriously difficult birds to photograph since they are shy and never stop moving. This Belted Kingfisher apparently didn't get the memo. It sat on a post 20 feet from me for about 10 minutes. I was delighted.

I have never been prouder to be from Hawai’i Judge Eddins is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #HawaiiNoKaOi

It feels like every few months someone relearns that ecosystems are eco *systems*. It's important, but i wish we'd start communicating it with the public a bit more holistically, so we came to expect it

Makes you wonder how single working parents do it… or really, any parents. Also ‘low joy’? Potty training, learning to ride a bike - those are fucking milestones! And reading to your kid? Bonding time, precious time, fun times. My god, why bother having kids if you can’t bother to parent them?

The artwork for The House Sparrows’ debut album just dropped. Includes their top ten hit, ‘Chirp chirp cheep cheep chirp’… #SmallBirdSaturday #Birds #ClassicMono #SaturdaySilliness

Fantastic sequence of captures #Invertebrates #SciArt

Sketch of a centipede (Lithobius sp) Crocheted globular springtail Crocheted triops #ArtRepostJuly #Invertebrate #SciArt #Crochet

I am a wind turbine! Cormorant Whitstable, yesterday #Birds #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBForBehind #Scape #Coasts

So, Harry the Herring Gull is mad I didn’t use him for today’s BotD 😬 #BirdOfTheDay #ScreenFiller #Gulls #Birds #Photography

Greylag London, 1 July #BirdOfTheDay #ScreenFiller #Birds

New paper from Centre researcher Dale Leorke asks how location-based games might cultivate care for more-than-human worlds—without reproducing extractive logics. “The Forest as Playground”, published open access in Media+Environment: doi.org/10.1525/001c...

Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

With apologies to Lyell: the key to the present and future is the past. As someone with feet in both human palaeoecology and nature conservation, I am so excited about this accord. This is the way forward. Fantastic news!

The #FestivalofArchaeology starts tomorrow, Saturday 18 July and runs until Sunday 2 August. Lots of @nationaltrust.org.uk properties are taking part, with staff and volunteers offering a huge range of activities including guided walks, mini excavations, heritage spotter trails and finds handling.

i first met sam neill in the late 80's on the set of jeremy brett's sherlock holmes. i think it was manchester studios. he and jeremy were pals. i was moving a light wi'out gloves cause i'm a tosser. i burned my hand. yelled "FUCK!" jeremy came right over, sam (who was visiting) in tow. (1/4)

Another photo of the wee bee and its butt. Didn’t realise it was #InsectThursday :)) #Bees #Pollinators #Photography #Invertebrates

Maybe don’t read through this thread just before going to bed like me. But do read it. Informative and horrifying in equal parts I’m now going to look at capybara and kitten photos

The answer is simple. Don’t accept AI generated papers and don’t use AI to check the papers. And actively try to find ways to ensure that published papers aren’t scraped by AI

Feral Pigeon London, 1 July #BirdOfTheDay #RSVP #Birds

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

Oasis Taken yesterday, Hampton Court Palace gardens #WaterFountain #Water #Drought #Birds #ColorADay #YellowThu #Scape

Green-eyed Flower Bee on the Hyssop (Anthophora bimaculata) These wee bees are fairly common in the southeast of England but this is the first one I’ve seen. Gorgeous little thing London, 14 July #Bees #Pollinators #Invertebrates #SciArt #MacroPhotography #Nature #Wildlife

Reposted from earlier. Relevant.

Mallard family - this is brood number 6 (!) at the lake London, 29 June #BirdOfTheDay #NewLife #Wetlands

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

New blog post up! More Mandarin ducks because why not? Read, enjoy, share, sign up (it’s free!) #NatureBlog #NatureWriting #Ducks #Photography #Wetlands #Birds

We're honoured to announce that our investigation into landfill sites across Europe with @investigate-europe.eu has been nominated for the Prix de Journalisme Environmental 2026, awarded by the Association JNE des journalistes écrivains pour la nature et l'écologie + Université Paris Dauphine 🏆

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #PerfectPoise Photographs where balance and posture tell a story. Alt #MomentsOfMajesty Elegant, regal or commanding poses. Both, here, for the "aren't I amazing" stance of a great egret in breeding plumage., Gatorland Orlando FL #birds #birding #ECK #FloridaBirds

You might need this little soapstone carving of a whale today… (1200-1600 CE, Chumash culture, California, held at Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal)

Normally wouldn’t link to the Torygraph, but here we are: