#BREAKINGNEWS 🦇🌍 The world now has 1,500 recognized bat species! 🎉 The global list at www.batnames.org just hit this milestone. New bats are found through fieldwork in remote places & genetic discoveries. Amazing biodiversity news! #Bats #Biodiversity #BatsNeedFriends

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Xmas emails and adverts!!! IT'S SEPTEMBER FFS! Why why why.

This just arrived: a review by none other than Slash!

Last year 100,000 people marched across London in support of nature and BBC News didn’t cover it, leading to complaints to Ofcom about political bias. Today BBC News covered a similar size march on front pages and every channel demonstrating fully its political bias. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW RESEARCH Application of spatially robust stereo-BRUV sampling for quantifying fish assemblages in UK marine protected areas Watch the video to learn more, and find the paper here - esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @owenexeter.bsky.social @kristianmetcalfe.bsky.social 🦑🧪🌍🐟

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.

The job of CEO of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust is now being advertised, as the wonderful Gill Perkins has announced she is stepping down. Fab opportunity for the right person: www.bumblebeeconservation.org/what-we-do/v...

Green leader Zack Polanski calls for Farage’s resignation over tax, on BBC Any Questions: "Farage has changed his personal business to make sure he could avoid tax for his appearances on GBNews. That’s perfectly legal, but is that in the Nolan Principles? Absolutely not. [He should] step down too.”

Britain remains a vital stronghold for the protected great crested newt—but habitat assessments need updating. Research by @emilyseccombe.bsky.social and @robsalgo.bsky.social introduces refined methods to evaluate pond suitability and safeguard these amphibians. Read more ⬇️ bit.ly/46jLnQt

Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓 I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction. 👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates! Reposts appreciated 🙏

When you cover a field in solar panels, you don’t cover everything. And in a warming world, that leftover shaded space is invaluable, says @billmckibben.bsky.social.

What the... !!!

roses are red gold is the key

Well that's just ridiculous value - now you have no excuse not to open #TheJewelBox and find out how the natural world works (assuming you have a kindle obvs).

*Thread! 😀 Here are my brand new 2026 Birds calendars! 🐦❤️ This is the Double A4 version. 😊 You can buy it here; www.carlbovis.com/product-page... 🐦

Wholesome. Jazzy. And I want one. Or five.

Oooooh!

"I was listening to it last week, and no one sounds like that. Discovering him and everything he’s made, it felt like a door into another world. In that sense, it’s monumental for me." Dev Hynes (Blood Orange) on Arthur Russell - Calling Out Of Context buff.ly/veqOyZx

Wonderful stuff 😊

WHOA!!!

OH GREAT NOW THE SWAMP IS WOKE www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...

*starts campaign for England to become part of Scotland

‘Try walking a mile in their shoes.’

Reptile Alphabet - nice one Zach

Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!

Casually grabbing breakfast Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park, B.C. 🇨🇦

I am starving, brother! defector.com/brother-may-...

This is a great little piece about Public Enemy, The Bomb Squad and how they made their sound that changed the sound of Hip Hop 💣💣💣💣💣 youtu.be/eRGH3Y1zc8E?...

Dingoes are NOT domestic dogs, and we show why in theconversation.com/dingoes-are-... @aunz.theconversation.com. Research www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM24052 published today in Australian Mammalogy (@ausmammals.bsky.social) and led by @drcairns.bsky.social.

More of this please

Nailed it

So fab to hear these stories of dining with wasps! PLEASE submit your observations on the #HamOrJam #WaspPicnicSurvey to help us learn more about how wasp preferences change with season and location. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @uclnews.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social #WaspLove

Like dementia? Me neither. Mounting evidence shows that long-term exposure to air pollution contributes to dementia. Big picture: Clean energy—>Better health. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @fossilfueltreaty.bsky.social @who.int @momscleanairforce.org

Millions of 'Ghost' Pheasants Go Unregistered as Shooting Estates Flout Rules www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/M...

Garden bats innit

The result of a huge amount of effort (by my co-authors) – "a comprehensive global assessment of the status and trends of alien species for major taxonomic groups (including Bacteria, Protozoa, fungi, plants, and animals) for IPBES regions." #BioInvasions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

After a historic land buyback by the US Forest Service, Tlingit crew members are demolishing culverts to restore streams, salmon runs and cultural history deep in the Tongass national forest www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

AWESOME!

🎶 Larry Levan's Birthday Stream now on YouTube where you can watch it in its entirety: bit.ly/larry71 It aired on July 20, 2025 to celebrate Larry Levan's 71st birthday. Joining me on the program were David Depino and Joey Llanos, both long-time friends of Larry.

The emergence of Ida, who knows from rugged experience that nothing gets paved for good.