Fantastic resource. The UK is a nation of #nature lovers. We need to make sure our public transport can give good access to the countryside if #car-free living is ever to become truly popular www.railwalks.co.uk/walks

Solar-powered lights integrated into fishing nets have been shown to reduce sea turtle entanglement by 63% without impacting target fish catch, offering a promising solution for sustainable fisheries.

Do you have a vision for what the world might look like in 2050? Would you like to discuss how we can prepare for this future or how we can make it better for all? Join us for our GSI Assembly to share your ideas with the wider Exeter community. Find out more and register here: buff.ly/p28cIEH

POSITIVE NEWS 🗣️ Green turtles move from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Least concern’ on the IUCN Red List, thanks to decades of hard work by conservationists globally. Read the full assessment - iucnredlist.org/fr/species/4615/285108125 Footage from Open Planet / @brendangodley.bsky.social 🦑🌍🌐🌊🐟🐢

Do you compose or publish music in the UK? 'Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores' with the British Library and other legal deposit libraries? www.bl.uk/stories/blog... Please share with any musicians you know!

Sketches of moths caught at light this week: Merveille du Jour, Common Marbled Carpet, The Vestal and Red-green Carpet, Buckfastleigh, Devon

Colchicum persicum Baker Colchicaceae Lorestan, Iran October 10, 2025 Elevation 2100m #Colchicum

Exeter is for everyone. Join us and groups for across Exeter and Devon to counter the hate and fill our high street with a celebration of diversity on Saturday 25th October. ❤

Cornwall Butterfly Conservation’s winter habitat management begins next week! This year, we have a packed programme of volunteer days around Bodmin Moor and Camborne-Redruth to restore habitat for threatened butterflies. Sign-up to get involved at tinyurl.com/2cbb2jzw @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Our satellite-tagged Cuckoos are moving across Africa! 🌍 Follow the tagged Cuckoos and sponsor a bird at www.bto.org/cuckoos #Ornithology #Birds

Really interesting article (and fab video) - rewrites the history of colour pigments and use and raises the question of what other colour pigments may have been used but not preserved? @pavementgeology.bsky.social

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This is absolutely beautiful...

#Callicarpabodinieri #autumn #berries

It's Friday. It's autumn. It must be time for the latest installment of our BTO Migration Blog! Find out what species to expect, and let us know if our predictions are up to scratch. www.bto.org/our-work/new... 📷 Grey Phalarope by Neil Calbrade/BTO @birdtrack.bsky.social

Does anyone have any experience of folding/collapsible kayaks? I'm thinking of getting one for trips to Wales and Scotland (need to be able to pack my photo gear) and have been looking at Oru and Trak2. #kayak #kayaks

Dionysia janthina Bornm. Primulaceae Endemic Fars, Iran April, 2400m #dionysia #Primulaceae #botany ‏

Thinking for a while about #poemsabout #candlelight and kept returning to this memory from childhood from the snow of 1987. This and playing with candle wax in restaurants, good times! Thanks as always for the prompt 🙏 and fab #writingcommunity @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

If you need more "accounts to follow that are better than what's going on right now," I have a list for that. Note: I make no guarantees as to the content of the listed accounts, but in my experience this list is, as per the name, a good break from ::all this:: 🔗 bsky.app/profile/did:...

These analogue collages made in 2021 are now available to purchase via the website shop. Goddesses, blooms, monstrous bodies and models all sliced and stuck back together with my gluey fingers in the studio.

Timeline cleanse

FYI UK-based creative people

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That messiness is where creativity lives, and creativity is the only path out of this. We need to be wildly imaginative. We need to envision a future and describe it in such vivid and insistent color that they simply cannot pave over it with their tacky, boring, grayscale hatred.

Each month, we deliver donations to an initial accommodation hotel in Devon. In July, we gave out hundreds of clothing items and toiletries – including a fab donation from LUSH Exeter. ❤We’re especially in need of mobile phones and toiletries. Can you help? 📧 [email protected]

Bluesky and the Internet are awesome. Thank you. 😊

Bluesky and the Internet are awesome. Thank you.

Can anyone identify this mountain range, please? Thank you! 🙂

OK, Internet, please do your thing: does anyone know where this pic was taken? Probably early 1960s, likely to be #Switzerland #Swissalps maybe not far from Château d'Oex Pic is my mother, who died when I was very young. I would love to recreate the image! #suisse #suisseromande #mountain #alpes

Right. This is serious. 🐝 Help me raise at least £1000 for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust‬ by donating to my campaign to draw 1000+ bumblebees in as short of time as I can (around 3 hours) www.justgiving.com/page/1000bum...

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. Please sign and share ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Is it still #nationalmothweek? Found this in my garden today. Tiny! About 8mm across. #smallbutperfectlyformed I'm just beginning to learn #moths does anyone know what it is, please?

Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚

Set up by a friend of a friend to bring Palestinian children to London for treatment. www.justgiving.com/page/project...

From www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/poem..., with all proceeds going to Medical Aid for Palestine

Here's an unclaimed #buyastrangerabook offer from last week. @catphoto.bsky.social has sent me some dosh and would like to buy someone a book up to £20 for anyone in a service industry/gig-economy job (restaurants, etc) If this is you and there's a book you'd like, get in touch. UK only.

Evening doodle (For Elizabeth) #art #artist #watercolour #sketch #paint #painting #paintbritain #woods #trees #forest

Afternoon doodle #mermaidspurse #sea #ocean #tide #beach #coast #coastpath #marinelife #marineecology #art #artist #watercolour #sketch #paint #painting #paintbritain

The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

Morning doodle #mermaidspurse #sea #ocean #tide #beach #coast #coastpath #marinelife #marineecology #art #artist #watercolour #sketch #paint #painting #paintbritain 🧪

Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.

You can now read our June Newsletter on our website. 🌤 It's been a busy couple of months at Refugee Support Devon! 🔗 Read all about it here: www.refugeesupportdevon.org.uk/news/june-re... 📧 Sign up to our mailing list to and get updates straight to you inbox here: eepurl.com/g8-xf9

Join the #BigButterflyCount today! 🦋 You dont have to be an expert to have a positive impact ✨️ @savebutterflies.bsky.social Find out more - share.google/GnglkRZRu6oA... #Butterfly #Nature #Wildlife #Moth #LoveNature #SaveButterflies #Wild #Conservation #CitizenScience

Absolutely delighted that my #nasturtium is getting decimated by #caterpillars. Enough left for my salads and feeding the next generation of #wildlife. I think these are #large white as there's one often around. Any #entomologists out there? 🧪 #bloomscrolling #garden #flowers #nature

What a gorgeous day for an opening! 'Arenicola defodiens' is part of @thelmahulbertgallery #thgopen2025 . A beautiful show with some stunning and sensitive work. You can vote for your favourite artwork (surely a muddy lugworm is a winner? 😉) #sea #bluecarbon #benthicinvertebrates #art #artist 🧪

What a gorgeous day for an opening! 'Arenicola defodiens' is part of @thelmahulbertgallery #thgopen2025 . A beautiful show with some stunning and sensitive work. You can vote for your favourite artwork (surely a muddy lugworm is a winner? 😉) #sea #bluecarbon #benthicinvertebrates #art #artist 🧪

Women bathing (Dieppe) #artbots #gauguin https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/11958

In my #happyplace Beautiful #snorkelling with huge compass #jellyfish, comber and gilthead, I think, as well as goby, myriad unidentifiable small silver fish, beadlet #anemone and #snakelocksanemone #art #sketchbook #sea #ocean #sketching #artist #watercolour #mixedmedia