Strong candidate for the best cycling photo ever.

The thing is, if they wanted to accurately reflect what immigrants coming here on work visas look like, they would be showing pictures of people queuing up at the airport. But then migrants would look so... normal. They'd look exactly like everyone else. And we can't have that, can we?

I’m really excited to have some of my cards on sale at Kingfisher’s Bridge, a beautiful nature reserve between Cambridge and Ely. They do lovely coffee and cake, too! ☕️

💗 We're thrilled to stock some of @katiefullerart.bsky.social beautiful greetings cards in our Visitor Centre shop! 👩‍🎨 Katie is a really talented local printmaker who uses innovative techniques and inks to highlight Fenland wildlife. All printed on sustainable materials in compostable packaging too!

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

⚠️ We've only got a few places left on this season's Bat Walks, so if you're keen to come, you'd better grab 'em fast! 🦇 this Sunday, 29 September, 6:45 pm — FIVE tickets left 🦇 Saturday 4 October, 6:3pm — just TWO remaining 🗓️ Book at kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/even...

Autumn migration is in full swing! 🍁 Have you noticed any of our winter visitors arriving? Stay tuned: we'll be shining a daily spotlight on the birds joining us for the colder months. Check out the Arrival Boards to see who’s flying in and when! 👇

❎ Sat 11/10 and Sat 25/10 already SOLD OUT! ✅ Still plenty of availability on Sunday 28 September and Saturday 4 October. 🛼 But get your skates on if you're interested in booking, as our Bat Walks always sell out fast. Details below ⤵️ 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇

🦇 Bat walks are BACK 🌙🦇 🙋If you're bats about bats, book right now, as our ever-popular twilight trips into the Reserve always sell fast: 🗓️ Sun 28/9, 6:45pm Sat 4/10, 6:30 pm Sat 11/10, 6:15pm Sat 25/10, 5:45pm — only 3 places left! kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/even...

Feeding time on the River Lea. Watch as this female kingfisher down on Hackney Marshes tries to feed a fish to one of her youngsters. You can also clearly see how much brighter the plumage of the adult is. #LondonBirds #nature #wildlife #kingfisher #kingfishers #hackney #riverlea #ukbirds #birds

In order to delete your account without first agreeing to these terms you have to 1) login on desktop or desktop mode on the phone. 2) Click privacy policy (and not "agree") 3) click the profile icon and scroll down & click delete account. I had to do this cycle twice before it let me fully delete

THIS but London Nocturne (RIP), Tour of Britain (Hommes et Femmes), Paris-Roubaix, the lovely new Cambridge crit — and track cycling x 1,000,000 🔔 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴

September splendour in @fenlandstation.bsky.social garden

🐃 Visitors often ask why we keep Asian Water Buffalo on the Reserve. We explain that they fill a vital ecological niche left by extinct wild cattle, managing fenland habitat. 🦬 It’s hard to believe that Steppe Bison once roamed East Anglia, but here’s some wonderful evidence that they did ⬇️

I fitted a cat flap in the door of my garden office FOUR YEARS AGO for this ridiculous animal. And she has a shoe-box step on the inside. Yet here we are, every single day… 🤷‍♀️ #eliza

It's a NEW feature

Sunday vibes #tobm #crochet #eliza #patiolife

😎 What a glorious day to be out on the Reserve! 👒 Bring sun cream, water, a hat and binoculars, and make the most of our woodland walks and riverside willows as well as the big open skies 🏞️ 👀 What will you see on your visit? 🐴🦋🐃🌸🐝🌿🪶 ☕️🍦🍰🌮 And @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social is open 10-4 every day!

Some people call the Fens ‘big skies’ country. Great clouds on a beautiful morning at @kingfishersbridge.bsky.social today, plus ☑️ 3 ravens ☑️ prolonged bittern fly-past ☑️ spotted flycatcher ☑️ lesser whitethroat ☑️ marsh harrier

Not entirely unrelated to my earlier posts today ⬇️ Academic institutions’ complicity in exacerbating climate breakdown, while paying lip service to “green” initiatives is unconscionable. Window boxes on campus won’t fix this catastrophe

🥳 My first day as a USS pensioner! 💕Mighty thanks to all @ucu.org.uk and beyond for your collective action that made this self-liberation financially viable 💪 📚🏡🥰😸Now I can focus on what really matters to me… thinking of it as going freelance, leaving all the bullshit behind 🧶🪴🐃🛤️💐

can everyone sharing that Lehrer/NSA thread take a moment to reflect on what it means that the likely largest employer of mathematicians in the world has secret math research journals only viewable by a subset of US citizens

Fen Diagram A cartoon for the mathematically-minded lovers of flatlands, a particular Venn diagram in itself. www.worldofmoose.com/products/fen...

Hanging on for dear life while pigeons crap on your knees. Fortunately I’m doing better than these two, who lurk outside my hotel window #praguefacades

Prague facade

🌡️ It'll be hot again this weekend! 🐃 You could make like a Water Buffalo and cover yourself in cooling mud... 🌳 or you could walk in our shady woodlands with water and a hat... 🍰 then treat yourself to an ice-cold drink and a scrumptious lunch in our lovely cafe garden. 🤔 Which would you choose?

Friday afternoon vibes #Eliza

Did you know duckduckgo lets you turn off AI summaries permanently and for ever? :)

THIS is the guy you want writing your lesson plans because it will ‘save time’?

Looking for a wild adventure? Then come to our Family Open Weekend on 12-13 July, 10 am - 4 pm Bug hunting • Pond dipping • Owl pellet dissection • Bird ringing • Guided tours of the Reserve • Face painting • Live music • Fab food ... and much, much more, with lots of local nature organisations

Come down to @kingfishersbridge.bsky.social this weekend for delicious home-made food, hot & cold drinks & ice-cream! We're open 10-4:30 Saturday-Sunday, offering: • Scrumptious sausage rolls • Freshly baked filled baguettes • Cookie-dough & vegan Biscoff brownies We can't wait to welcome you! 🥰

A huge thanks to the brilliant Maya Goodfellow who recently interviewed me for @theguardian.com about my book, and the entangled histories of extinction and empire more broadly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📰 Read all about it! We're in @elystandard.bsky.social today ahead of our 30th Anniversary Open Weekend on 12-13 July: www.elystandard.co.uk/news/2522881... Tickets are just £6 per person per day, under 4s free. www.kingfishersbridge.org/store/p42/30...

Oooh...An Oystercatcher is taking a paddle through your feed, nice! 📷 @jl-photography.bsky.social

🐦🎶 Do you need more birdsong in your life? Honestly, who doesn't? This Bank Holiday weekend, all through the Reserve, from woodland to wetland, meadow to riverbank, you'll see or hear birds from tiny wrens to majestic marsh harriers, blackcaps to whitethroats, cuckoos to Cetti's warblers 🔊Sound ON

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Do you have a sewing machine you no longer use? If you live in Cambridgeshire, would you consider donating it to CRRC to pass on to one of our refugee families? If YES to both questions, please email [email protected]

May Day morning in Cow Hollow Wood

Working from Hammock today. I am insanely fortunate

CRRC is honoured to be the beneficiary charity for Cambridge Philharmonic's special concert on 24th May. For more info and tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cambridge-ph...

Big news from the mudflats! The UK’s oldest known Oystercatchers - aged 41 and 43 - have been discovered on The Wash. That’s three times their species’ average lifespan! Legends wade amongst us... 😎 A reminder of why the East Coast Wetlands are so special: buff.ly/rgnjIeg

By car and on foot in #Baghdad historic city centre today

Out in #Baghdad with my friend Sadiq tonight. He’s led highly popular and successful rehabilitation projects for several public spaces here so it’s always fascinating to see the changing city through his eyes.

Out and about in #Baghdad today: mid-century modern, mosques, and a secret archive…

#Baghdad apartment blocks

Dinner with friends old and new 😻, #Baghdad style Masgouf (fresh barbecued carp) has been a Tigris delicacy since Sumerian times 🌿🐟🐟🐟🌿

Once upon a time on the Bird app, I regularly posted about my research trips to #Iraq for #NahreinNetwork @uclhistory.bsky.social. Let's try again here... Since 2017 I've led this Network, fostering Iraqi-led research into the country's history, heritage and the humanities www.ucl.ac.uk/nahrein/

🎶 Carwash, yeah! 🎶

Snaps from yesterday’s long run. Perfect weather for it: sunny but cool, though the headwind was a beast 😬 #FenEdgeLife