Today's welcome rain was the most I have recorded in a day since 18th February. It was a rather wet January and Feb, like 2025. The first 9 months of 2022 were really dry!

Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit. British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit. Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit. It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.

It's a fantastic time of year blossom, bird song, butterflies and sunshine 🌞 Lots of Dingy skipper, Grizzled skipper, Wall brown, Comon and Holly blue at Malling Down. Nightingale too. Surprisingly no Painted Lady. A good butterfly year so far 🦋

Yay, Corfe Common is alive with Painted Ladies! Here are 4 of 20+ in 30 mins at 17:45, several getting stuck into Bluebell as the only nectar source! Assume these have come direct from Africa seeing as my car is covered in Saharan dust! @savebutterflies.bsky.social @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social

Significantly below-average temperatures will linger through the weekend for much of the eastern & southern regions of the U.S. Temperatures in the Southern Plains & Southern Rockies could drop around 30 degrees below the seasonal average potentially setting record-low daily maximum temperatures.

I think I just saw a Meadow Brown! That's crazy early! Has anyone else seen one so far this year? I guess it could be the earliest ever? Definitely seen Painted Lady, Red Admiral and Peacock

New University of Sussex research finds pesticides in 100% of garden birds tested — including eggs & chicks. The source? Common pet flea & tick treatments. Researchers are calling for better regulation and more awareness to protect both pets & the environment. Read more: https://ow.ly/f8X550YOnOx

Butterflies on the @sussex.ac.uk campus today: Orange Tips, Small Whites,Large White, Green Hairstreak Red Admiral, Peacock and Speckled Wood. It's a fantastic day on a beautiful campus

The Green Party propose a 1% wealth tax on people with over £10m that would bring in £50-60bn a year for our Public Services. RT if you would like to see it.

I'm still astonished by the fact some Hawthorns have berries on from last year and are in bloom almost a month early. This isn't normal! When will the berries drop? Photos taken Falmer village and university of Sussex campus

Will Elon Musk appear before the French courts?

Did you know that a male Emperor Moth (Saturnia pavonia) can smell a female more than 7 miles away? 👃 These winged wonders can be seen across the UK in open countryside such as heathland and moorland between April and May. 📷: Julian Dowding #MothMonday #MothsMatter #TeamMoth

People in Britain want energy security that doesn't depend on what's happening thousands of miles away... 🧵 (1/4) @financialtimes.com

Malling Down @sussexwildlife.bsky.social reserve. Loads of Brimstone, Grizzled Skipper, Peacock, St Marks fly and lots of Greater whitethroat singing.

Why are they waiting months? Are they too stupid to figure out how? Spain and Germany have been doing it for some time already.

HOTTEST 2026 DAY IN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE 45.4C at Banda in INDIA on Friday Brutal heat from Turkey to China In SE Asia deadly humid heat worsens with 43.5C in THAILAND. On the weekend historic warmth also in Koreas and Japan.

I wonder, if like last year, we will get early berries? Hawthorn berries developing in June and turning colour by July? Perhaps 🤔 Along with the amount of blossom, the conditions in spring 2025 was perfect for pollinators- sunny settled and dry. So this year? And will berries remain on bushes again?

Amazing to see so much Hawthorn in bloom already! Some still have berries from last year! Even some Blackthorn and Dog rose at Knepp have 2025 sloes and rosehips! Wayfaring in bloom at the same time as Blackthorn peak! Also apple a d cherry in bloom now. So advanced and together!

The best B movie ever made: My Garden of a Thousand Bees www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002t686 via @bbciplayer

I was really suprisised to find this Woodcock in the greenhouse compound at work.

Excited to share that @lucyholland.bsky.social and I are hosting the revamped @britishecologicalsociety.org Conservation Ecology SIG podcast! 🌱 For our first episode in #ConservationConversations we interviewed Professor Helen Roy, covering all things ladybirds and more! Listen here: bit.ly/4sxf6xz

Does anyone know how I can schedule my FoxESS battery to charge from the grid at night when energy is cheapest? Since the fox app was updated I can't see how to set it to charge at night. It was easy to set before the update! #FoxESS, #FoxCloud2.0

Not sure I remember a year when there's been so many Hawthorn berries on the trees as leaf buds are opening! One with flower buds and a lot of them! Not what I expected after the dry summer and autumn.

Great Britain wastes £180,000 every hour switching off wind turbines and overpaying gas generators to switch on. That's £1,467,023,332 so far this year! wastedwind.energy

For folks in #Ecology and #Evolution, we are hosting a conference here in Cornwall UK! Great chance for a summer staycation June 29-July 3. Plus, we've managed to make it affordable: £250 + £49/night for accommodation. #EvolBiol #EcoEvo sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/

A30 Devon, bullace plum in bloom, Sallow in bloom (month early), some Hawthorn in 1st leaf (month early), some Hawthorn still have berries from last year and I saw an Apple tree at the side of the road with loads of Apple still on it! #spring2026

The latest Hydrological Summary for the UK looks back at warm and wet December 🌧️.  🔗 Full detail (PDF): https://f.mtr.cool/dupyophozf #rivers #rainfall

🧵2/5 A recent study by Chase et al. @royentsoc.bsky.social provides compelling evidence that soil properties — specifically sand content — can strongly shape bee communities. It challenges the widespread assumption that flowers alone determine where bees live and thrive. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/icad...

Here is my interpretation of how last year’s weather affected nature. 🌿 A year of contrasts, recoveries, and surprises—from blossom and berries to butterflies and slugs! I’d love to hear your thoughts, memories, or observations. What did you notice where you live? www.facebook.com/crispin.holl...

Netanyahu getting absolutely cooked. It's hilarious how he melts when he meets any journalists he doesn't own.

So much about X is unacceptable which is why many of us left ages ago. Not something that govt departments and quangos have done. Why not! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I will say this once on the matter, I might catch shit for it, but here it goes: For those who say “but my audience is on X” I think it’s time to twist said audience’s arm and say “too bad”. Things are criminal on x now and you need to tell your followers you’re leaving, and they need too as well

UKBMS data feeds into UK government statistics to measure biodiversity. Each year, @jncc publish Biodiversity Indicators - giving a snapshot of how our biodiveristy is faring buff.ly/Cw71ZAY You can view the latest Biodiversity Indicators here - buff.ly/cyuIo2G

I was lucky enough to see some of these frogs last month. Rights of Nature are still alive and kicking in Ecuador, despite government efforts to undermine them. 🌎🦤🐸

Essentially every country in the world in a party to the UN Convention on Climate Change. Including autocracies, coal and oil producers All except one, now Hard to have better evidence that the USA has become a rogue state www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Butterfly numbers booming in St Albans! Managing meadows with low mow techniques and sowing wildflower seeds have resulted in a big increase in butterfly number. Congratulations to St Albans Council @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Was thinking of taking out an Economist digital subscription until I realised I already had one through my local, tax-funded public library. Sometimes you forget how great these things are #publiclibrariesFTW

#moths #tropics Is anyone able to ID?

People sharing on social media made the petition impossible to ignore. Through shares and reposts, the call for an inquiry into Russian influence became a national demand. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Congratulations to Professors Dave Goulson, Felix Creutzig, Florian Kern, Ian Scoones and Benjamin Sovacool for being named in the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers List 2025. Find out more here: https://ow.ly/KfXF50Xu5SC

Why don’t apes talk? Professor Gillian Forrester looks beyond speech to gesture, tools and cognition, and what this reveals about the origins of human language. Read more: https://ow.ly/CmWs50Xtnj1 #WednesdayWisdom

We’ve been ranked joint first in the world in ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2025 for research impact in Physics. Four other academic subjects - Business Administration, Sociology, Economics, and Political Sciences - also feature in the global top 100.

University of Sussex scientists have begun a research project to measure the amount of carbon captured by different natural landscapes. Read more about the Nature Sense initiative: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr43yzq62rgo Chris Sandom Caroline Lucas

Just a few of the microplastics we've been finding in the beetles and bugs eaten by hedgehogs. Great to be joined by almost 200 people for this morning's webinar about our research @emilyzoologist1.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @biologicalrecording.co.uk 🦔🌍 #plasticpollution #hedgehogs

Loads of Hawthorn berries this year, but I why are there fewer Hawthorn in Cornwall compared to Sussex, Hampshire, Dorset Somerset....? Soil type?

First Dog Vilot bloom and remaining Pink Campion. Par #Cornwall #wildflowerhour

Indeed. Yet one of the problems is that carbon markets, biodiversity credits, and many other funding streams specifically exclude conservation of existing forest.

Have seen a lot of focus and press about the high potential for tropical reforestation. All well and good, but *primary tropical forests* continue to be felled at astronomical rates almost everywhere. Safeguarding these is where the focus needs to be. 🌎 www.yahoo.com/news/article...