Thanks to everyone for the supportive comments. I would say though - a lot of people are blaming the bbc for the cuts. The terrible funding situation is not of its making. Write to your MP if you are angry! I love the Beeb and will always be proud of the work I have done here.

So many billionaires and trillionaires and so little money for public services. 🤔

Norway's greatest World Cup qualifying moment was of course Bjorge Lillelien's 1981 commentary after the shock victory over England. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqZT...

Norway fans are rowing their way up the escalators in Boston

The Isle Martin Museum for #TinShedTuesday with added Very Good Girl.

"Whose Larva Is This?" A quick guide to figure out what you're looking at when you find something that resembles a worm or a Zerg unit crawling around. #insect #bug #education #SciArt

Perth has a giant hogweed problem 🫣

Behold! The first badger parade. Albino finding a banana by smell and touch alone.

Scrap metal jellyfish sculpture, Isle Martin for #AllMetalMonday

Will someone make several volumes of coffee table books of Roman glass. Please.

Never ceases to astonish. The first time we heard the Sérénade mélancolique by Elman was sitting in the car on a rainy morning listening to Radio 3 waiting for my mother in law to emege from the Sunday service at Roslin Chapel.

Neighbourhood peacocks! How jealous am I? Spotted by alert #PeacocksOfBluesky spotter @jomonty.bsky.social

Let me tell you about the granite building stones of Aberdeen...

There are places left on our Basic Archive Skills Training sessions on 20th July, 14th September and 23rd November. Courses are online and designed to provide participants with a basic grounding in the fundamental understanding and skills required www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/archive-sk...

Glad to live in a time where I have to verify I am human every time I want to read an academic paper. 😑

This is one of my all time favourite memes, and bumblebee memes in particular. Thank you @nocsclipboard.bsky.social 🥰

#TeamBumblebee (what did you expect!?)

What a lovely word for #TeamDragon ...dragonesque

Quite relieved to have seen a red-tailed worker in the garden today. First year I've not seen a queen, so good to know there's a B. lapidarius nest somewhere about.

What have I missed?

Everyday is Nation Biscuit Day - thanks to alert #biscuiteer @fidaisyg.bsky.social

A Friday evening phwoar for #TeamDragon spotted by alert contributor @moirakstone.bsky.social 🤩

The main point about the weather is that we should be really, really concerned about what it's doing to plants, insects and other tiny creatures. They aren't built for this heat and the health of soil, water, (other) vegetation and more depends on them.

My trips to Edinburgh are a constant battle of remembering which stop to get off depending whose hospitality I'm trespassing on. Thank you all for your support.

Don't alight at Haymarket. Don't alight at Haymarket. Don't alight at Haymarket. Don't alight at Haymarket.

🌾 Common carder bumblebees nest on the ground, often in tangled grass1️⃣ 🐦 Tree bumblebees prefer to nest above the ground and will seek out nest boxes2️⃣ 🐀 Buff-tailed bumblebees nest underground in abandoned rodent nests3️⃣ ⛲ Some bumblebees nest in more creative places, like under the edge of a pond4️⃣

I must to Bedfordshire without delay www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I must encourage you to watch. It is genuinely hilarious.

#BiscuitAppreciation on public transport. #TheBiscuitAppreciationSociety (that is, everyone) approves.

In little over 24 hours, the petition for government to stage a UK-wide briefing on the climate & nature crisis has passed the 10,000 milestone. Please help us get this to 100,000 to secure a parliamentary debate - by sharing widely. #NationalEmergencyBriefing #TimeToStepUp

As it turns out, folks sometimes do surgery on invertebrates -- including butterflies. So researchers wanted to find the best way to anesthetize them. Thus, this research finding. And, friends, I find that delightful. 🧪🦋 news.ncsu.edu/2026/05/if-y...

First year I've not seen a red-tailed queen in our garden. Not much hope we'll have a colony 😥

Couldn't resist the promise pf production goodies, frankly.

Happy World Bee Day! Here’s a list of how bees buzz in ten different languages… 10. Bzzz (Czech) 9. Bzzz (Bulgarian) 8. Bzzz (French) 7. Bzzz (Slovene) 6. Bzzz (Catalan) 5. Bzzz (Polish) 4. Bzzz (Portuguese) 3. Bzzz (Italian) 2. Bzzz (Spanish) 1. Wing wing (Korean)

Reminds me of Juliet Shor's groundbreaking research - medieval 'peasants' had more holidays than we do. And more recent research shows evidence of generous sick leave as well as other benefits. www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...

Awkward thread for #TeamDragon

A poem for World Bee Day.

This was quite painful to read, and I gasped audibly at one point. Underlined how we've ceased to care and to take care of so many things.

🌿This alien-brain thing is cryptobiotic soil crust, or biocrust. It's a critical part of dry places like deserts. The crusts resemble lichen, but are a variable mixed community of cynanobacteria, algae, lichen, bacteria, and/or fungi. See the network of filaments at the base? Those are how crusts--

Bill Clappering meet Heather Bagworm #ifykyk 🫣 @everyheron.bsky.social

#TeamDragon 🙄

#TramDragon 👀

I have just discovered a recording of Studs Terkel interviewing Monica Dickens in 1981 and nothing will surprise me ever again studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/mon...

i’m about to save so much money you guys