A woman involved in organising a protest against migrants has been banned from entering Wrexham football club’s ground for five years for posting an allegedly racist message on Facebook ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-1eEE

Post a banger not in English Adwaith - Eto m.youtube.com/watch?v=_fp7...

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From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵

"Rob, you once spent a day following Peter Mandelson round Blackpool. Did you take any pictures that, even at the time, you thought might one day come in handy?"

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

To be fair, it’s unusually honest for a party leader to admit none of his members in the Senedd, or even the whole country, are up to the job.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Hypothesis: Some emergency medical lines use deliberately offensive musak to weed out the non-emergencies after a quarter of an hour.

I stand by this, from a previous winter. If you feel January is going to drag, set yourself a tough project with a Jan 31 deadline and watch that fucker RACE away from you. Also works with any other month and with the whole of life. (Thanks to @vixleyton.bsky.social for the image.)

Last week no living person had seen a #kakapo lay an egg. Now you can watch it on our webcam: Rakiura laid her second today (15:01 on 25/1/2025). She'll probably lay another in 3 days' time. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...

Snowstorm #Goals from the @squirrel_boxes instagram 🥰😴 #sqrlpix

Key overlooked storm prep is cleaning your space ahead of time. Do laundry, run the dishwasher, vacuum, wipe down bathrooms, clean pet bowls and boxes, change bedding. Being without power can be miserable enough but doing it while things are dirty amplifies the misery.

US deaths per million: 7.96 Cymru deaths per million: 10.32

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

What I find interesting is that Macron, who's obviously in a much better position to know than me, thinks that Trump is in charge.

in the plus side, watching the president of the United States destroy the entire geopolitical order because he didn't get a shiny award has successfully cured all my hangups about subtle character motivation in writing

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

Mildly annoyed to find I can't order a Greenland football shirt from Hummel as they don't ship to the UK. A pity as it's quite a nice design.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

There are always Trumps. And so that is why the United States constitution has checks and balances for the misuse of presidential power. The real story of Trump’s presidency is not only what he has done, but also what Congress and the Supreme Court have not done.

For non-speakers Ynyslas, a village name, translates as Greenland.

📣 Registration is open for Auxin 2026!! Join us as we delve into the latest advancements in auxin biology by the sea in the beautiful Algarve! 🦞 4 - 8th October 🌊 Albufeira, Portugal Register now 👉 auxin2026.info #plantscience #auxin2026

I am going to kindly share, as a Black person used to dodging these types of things, if you have your settings set to autoplay video, today is a great day to turn them off. You can be very informed without having to witness murder.

Starmer has declared his ambivalence in the strongest possible terms and announced that the British government will equivocate with immediate effect.

The view of the Diamond Light Source from the Rutherford Appleton Lab at Harwell.

First mating of the 2026 #kakapo breeding season! True to form, it was Pearl and Boss on Whenua Hou, who mated on the night of 28th Dec. They were also the first two to mate in the last two breeding seasons. We're expecting a bumper year, so follow for updates! #conservation #parrots

My biweekly chapter-by-chapter reread of The Lord of the Rings gets into the book proper this week with a discussion of "A Long-Expected Party". Click through to learn how J.R.R. Tolkien is (and is not) like Jane Austen. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Giving to the poor “sets worrying precedent” say MPs at Christmastime.

Wife thought we had at least two hedgehogs still visiting. I thought it could be just one. That puzzle was solved last night. #ukwildlife

Machlud Bae Ceredigion

Do you hear ghostly hooves, cantering through the night? Our Mari is stirring… she races to sunset on Alban Arthur, the Winter Solstice tomorrow ❤️ So lucky to see this little piece of Welsh heritage bought back to life and celebrated in the here and now, even if her beginnings are a mystery

Wow @thetimes.com, that’s impressive An entire article about “freak heat” in the Dolomites causing mayhem amongst skiers without once mentioning climate change…🤷🏼‍♀️ 🧵 1/5

#SundaySquirrel seems to have a bit of a knowing look in this shot 🤔 I hope he is safely tucked up in a well built drey today as we enter a 36 hour amber rain warning - time for me to go and move my hide further away from the river in case of flooding Cumbrian red squirrel #UKwildlife #mammals

Not easy to get to sleep tonight - have burnt the bridge of whatever career I had left and really don’t feel that my opinions are so extreme that that should have been necessary

For the record, Robin Ince is a superb comedian, an absolute mensch, a remarkable thinker and the kindest human you’ll ever meet. And the BBC is a genuinely great and globally unique institution that needs to stop being afraid. I think that’s where most of its faults and issues stem from.

Our department's Quantitative Botany Journal Club has chosen its best paper of the year. 🥁🥁🥁🥁 It is "Using machine learning to link climate, phylogeny and leaf area in eucalypts through a 50-fold expansion of leaf trait datasets" by Guo et al besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

the tl,dr version of the review: imagine a review written which is a cross between Father Ted's golden cleric winning speech and the editorial commentary in Pale Fire. It is magnificent. Highly recommended. Take an afternoon off and really revel in it.

Goldfinch flying to thistle. 😍 Taken last weekend at the Huntspill seawall in Somerset. 😊🐦 Lots of Christmas gift ideas for nature lovers in my shop here; www.carlbovis.com/shop-3

I've mentioned this quietly, but - since the summer my hobby has been making this ambitious murder mystery podcast. A story. Narrated by me, with a mouthwatering cast. Partly interactive. Trailer is coming tomorrow but if you like the sound of this, please follow @murderbastard.bsky.social.

My students have set up a petition to persuade the University of Nottingham not to close our Plant Biology BSc course c.org/VPhzVVrHPS Please consider signing

"The Perception of trees matters more than the reality" (in UK) 🌳🤔🌍 >PR: findingnature.org.uk/2025/10/24/g... >​Paper: ​Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well-being and distress besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Join iNaturalist for a webinar to learn more about how you can help others, even if you're not an expert. Rather than doomscroll on social media, you can positively contribute to improving our knowledge about biodiversity! Nov 6, 2025 @ 1700 in London / Midday EST botany.fyi/diq8zn

Best time to join the growing ranks of #BSBImembers? In October to get 15 months of benefits for price of 12: that's when 100s of people inc @markavery.bsky.social & @alunsalt.bsky.social joined! 2nd best time? In November, to enjoy 14 months of benefits: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/bsbi...

"At a writing conference, you attend an 'Empowering Women Writers' discussion panel, but when you arrive, it is composed entirely of men. Describe, in detail, how you would burn this motherfucker down."

My first rainbow diffraction shot of the season can’t wait to see what happens next. Taken with the fab OM System 50-200 - f2.8 gives great background! @omsystem.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @bto-gbw.bsky.social @shropshirewildlife.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social

Great Tit arriving in style! 😍 Taken at the weekend at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊🐦 #birds 🪶 You can buy my 2026 Birds calendars here; www.carlbovis.com/2026-birds-c...

I'm trying to use Bluesky to sell tickets to my comedy special taping. Don't make me promote on Twitter. I'd rather have an empty house. But it'd be so much nicer if it were full.

Have you ever seen a wren have a bath? No? Nor had I till just now. Filmed through a rain-spotted window & on my phone, so not perfect, but hope it brings you a spot of delight nonetheless 🪶