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...

America is responsible for the largest volume of carbon dioxide currently sitting in the atmosphere, trapping heat and causing disasters and death robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/

Four years after the European Union banned neonicotinoid use in fields, researchers observed that France’s population of insect-eating birds had increased by 2%-3% www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The eyes of the world should be on Ecuador tomorrow. The Trump-backed government is holding a referendum to permit US military bases in the Galapagos, and allow changes to the country's unique constitution to facilitate mining, threatening the rights of nature and indigenous people. Disastrous! 🦤🐢🌎

How wonderful that our thermal stress research from the University of Sussex is having such fantastic reach around the world with this latest piece for kids in The Week Junior 😃 #kidsinstem #stemeducation #biology #stress #wellbeing

Broadcaster @claudiahammond.bsky.social takes us on a tour of the Psychology of Laughter, Lies and Gambling with psychologists Tom Ormerod, Bryan Singer and me 😃 to reveal why we laugh, what happens in the brain when we gamble and how to spot a liar www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/think-agai...

My friend Penny Green has started a new podcast over the last few months, I recorded this with her back in July and it's just been released. I was surveying the arable margins for invertebrates on the Wiston Estate. It's a great listen.

My book has got a great endorsement from Chris Packham: "This clever and immensely resourceful book is an overdue gem". There's also a few pages up on the website too! It's up for pre-order here with publication set for January pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan...

Crop yields in England 2nd lowest on record as climate chaos kicks in - exactly as scientists have been predicting for years www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Excellent new video from PBS Terra about the long term climate change impact on the probability of death across the USA:

Thousands of hoverfly on migration and taking a rest on oil rigs. Clearly migrating more than 500km theconversation.com/thousands-of...

Here's Aidan with 5 things you should know about the weather this week!

There's a 90% chance of a tropical depression or something greater developing in the next week. Weather models suggest this may eventually end up as a hurricane that curves across the Atlantic. This is likely to bring a lot of uncertainty to the UK forecast in 10-14 days.

Farage admits breaching parliamentary rules over Trump event, blames his office for ‘error’. Collects full £93,904+exp as MP but isn't in the Commons often enough. Previously claimed to have bought a house in his constituency, but after press investigation now tells a different story.

Male Common Blue and Probably an Adonis at a site I haven't seen Adonis since 2021 and then a certain female Adonis. Kingston near Lewes Sussex 😊

NEW Summer 2025 was the UK's hottest on record This year's average summer temperature of 16.1C was made around 70 times more likely because of climate change, the @metoffice.gov.uk has found www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

As we guessed, it has been the hottest summer on record, even surpassing 1976 which we thought was extraordinary, now appears ordinary. What will this do to butterflies? Small Tortoiseshell has been a victim, but Silver-spotted Skipper and Silver-studded Blue have benefitted. Its a complex picture

The party on the left has 72 MPs - more than any liberal party has had for 100yrs. party on right has been around a tiny fraction of that time & has just 4 seats. Greens also have 4 - more than ever 72 v 4 v 4 Demand fairer coverage now Sign and pass on.. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage. Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants. Don't fall for it.

Ivy blooms out and attracting bees, hoverfly and Red Admirals. So early for Ivy to be in bloom! #Lanteglos Cornwall

A quick read on how Hurricane Erin could affect the UK's weather next week.

Mega! 2 Death's-Head Hawk-moth caterpillars found in the In-laws garden today in Sleights, North Yorkshire. @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bcyorkshire.bsky.social @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @msj99.bsky.social

Excited to be talking about the importance and wonder of insects at Earthed Summit, London, 18th Sept. Lots of great speakers plus other events, pls share.

Just like it’s water and privatised public utilities.

HARSH HEAT IN JAPAN again The new week starts with temperatures up to 39.2C at Toyota: It's the beginning of a new heat wave with temperatures close to 40C the whole week with high humidity and hot nights. Records might fall in some areas. Stay tuned

The agricultural industry is the largest user of freshwater, making up nearly 70 percent of global withdrawals, according to @un-water.bsky.social. At the heart of this issue are the meat and dairy industries.

Up to July numbers of Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) were good on Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects, but since then they plumeted and now mid-August we have a negative record, as never before there were so few of them counted. This is most probably linked to poor nettle quality.

We had a large 1st gen of the Common Blue (P icarus, icarusblauwtje) on Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects. But where the 2nd gen is usually twice as big, in 2025 it was even smaller, probably because of poor foodplant quality as a result of dry conditions in spring. Will we have a 3rd gen?

High Pressure Dominates this Week [Published 06:25 18/08/2025] #ukweather www.theweatheroutlook.com/uk-weather/7...