This is amazing.

12th Florian Drum Festival Florianópolis Santa Catarina, Brazil

Funny chat with a Lib Dem MP tonight. They got a message from a local group warning that England flags were going up in a very posh village. "The far right are organising here" It was a village fete. This is the problem MPs and councils are grappling with: it's hard to tell the meaning of flags...

Hypholoma fasciculare - Sulphurtuft. #FungiFriends

Anyone know of any other moments of celebrating nature like this? Where it’s part of local culture? I’d be interested to hear of them.

Amazing Swift show tonight in Portland! Every year migrating Vaux's swifts gather by the thousands and roost in chimneys like this SE Portland elementary school. And neighbors come out to watch them and cheer them on. It's a true delight.

Two babies have died of Whooping cough in Louisiana, a vaccine preventable disease. All pregnant patients and their families should be vaccinated to protect the newborn. This is Louisiana's worst Whooping cough (pertussis) outbreak in 30 years. buff.ly/pez25q3 #medsky #pedsky🛟😷

rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/news/positive-step-forward-for-peatlands-as-ban-on-burning-extended?utm_source=20250920_ActionforNature_ENG_preheader Thanks to @rspb.bsky.social, DEFRA GovUK and a and all involved for getting the ban on burning peatland extended. Good news for nature.

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 [2506.08872] Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task - LLM use caused decline in mental capacity cf ‘brain only’ working. Who’d have thought it?

If you are a Pink Footed Goose reading this, and planning to come south from Iceland or Greenland to Norfolk UK, looks like you have a good tail wind this weekend. @wildernorfolk.bsky.social @jakefiennes.bsky.social @tonyjuniper.bsky.social @themarshtit.bsky.social

TW: Suicide Matthew Raine gave a heartbreaking testimony on losing his son Adam to online harms. Adam's story shows the real-life consequences of ChatGPT's failure to protect kids. CCDH also found that ChatGPT is encouraging dangerous behavior in kids. More ⤵️ counterhate.com/research/fak...

President Trump and King Charles discover that someone has swept Peter Mandelson under the red carpet.

Here's a plot of fertiliser imports into #Ireland over recent years. By far the greatest tonnage is for N-compounds, with a marked up tick in 2023-'24. Intensive ruminant production sucks nitrogen & our rivers/lakes show it, but let's hold onto the #NitratesDerogation & sacred cows. [Data CSO]

Trump says Afghanistan’s Bagram air base should be returned to US control on.ft.com/4ndJNWv

It seems the UK has surpassed ChatGPT as the world's greatest exponent of strategic sycophancy. Very fitting before a 'big tech' gathering at Chequers. I knew we were still good at something.

'Tens of £ bns' pledged, boosting UK (& US) econ & thousands of 'AI jobs' but how many, and which demographic will get them, and whose jobs will go (nos.?) in 'increased productivity'? by replacing jobs. Anyone counting? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com urdoch @luketryl.bsky.social l @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... free speech?

www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/h... Chagas disease, a potentially deadly condition caused by a parasite carried by insects called kissing bugs, should now be considered endemic in the US, experts say – and without recognition that it’s a constant presence in some parts of country more people will suffer.

Is the FT being edited by AI? Strange stuff in this report on an upcoming AI meeting between HMG and Big Tech bosses. LLMs perhaps? www.ft.com/content/522c... @data.ft.com

First pink scene about an hour ago 30 strong a bit late but always welcome

Last year, we found that X was amplifying hateful influencer Tommy Robinson's posts filled with anti-Muslim and anti-migrant hate & potentially making millions from this content. More in @theobserveruk.bsky.social 👇

🌊 Mobula mobular (Giant Devil Ray) in Bycatch Fisheries 🐋 An giant of the oceans, facing mounting threats from unsustainable fishing practices. Protecting them is protecting the health of our seas. ✋ #MobulaMobular #GiantDevilRay #Bycatch #EndangeredSpecies #SaveOurRays #MarineConservation #SDG14

🌍 Rising jellyfish blooms are disrupting coastal fisheries — clogging nets, damaging gear & cutting fishers’ incomes. 🌊🐟 #Jellyfish #Fisheries #ClimateChange #OceanJustice #BlueEconomy #MarineConservation #OneOcean #SDG14

Good news. UK National Grid now generating 79% of its electricity from wind. NG data via iamkate.com

About 40 small birds in a mixed feeding flock just visited our garden in Wells next the Sea. Definitely autumn. About 20 long tailed-tits + blue & great tits, 2 chiffchaff, blackcaps. Now where are the Pink footed geese? @jakefiennes.bsky.social @themarshtit.bsky.social @wildernorfolk.bsky.social

www.newscientist.com/article/mg26... by @annaleen.bsky.social

Some of the story behind the ICJ ruling. #ClimateHeritage #ClimateJustice #ClimateLitigation 🌏 (Gift article).

Climate scientists are declaring victory after Trump dissolved a working group of 5 climate contrarians who authored a DoE report questioning the severity of climate change. The group’s end was a lawsuit filed by @envdefensefund.bsky.social and @ucs.org: www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/c.... 🌎

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 🦑🧪🌍🐟

Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules www.theguardian.com/environment/... Huh. 🧪🦑🌎🐠

Last November Mr Farage said he had "just exchanged contracts on a house that I'll be living in there". Now Farage says he has no financial stake in Clacton home.. Via BBC News

Summer tour of #fairylandtrust fairylandtrust.org Wildflower Fortunes Caravan from #Boomtown to Norfolk libraries - a unique way for ppl to get into wildflowers + their own 'spirit wildflower' #shambala #latitude @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @tonyjuniper.bsky.social mailchi.mp/c715f5882107...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... As GWB said, “some weird shit”.

Grand Juries in D.C. Reject Wave of Charges Under Trump’s Crackdown www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202.... Oh dear

If they can no longer use Alligator Auschwitz as a concentration camp, maybe they can use it for the iron lung facility after polio returns to Florida. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A federal judge in Boston said she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law]."

Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u.... So I guess this is a good reason to ensure your family's measles vaccinations are up to date before that flight to Disneyland? Or possibly head to a different location?

An important report which, from my experience, rings absolutely true. Explains a lot. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has committed to a new five-year policy to help rough sleepers and those at risk of becoming homeless @centralbylines.co.uk

Worrying stuff, with apparent implications for many pesticides. www.sciencealert.com/common-pesti...

The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters open.substack.com/pub/natesnew... 'treat it like a rental car' - check what's changed in the T&Cs says Nate Jones. Free Chatbots are using users data to train AI (but Anthropic allows big companies to retain data ownership).

There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life

Wow. Check this out. Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Here’s another one, Uig, Isle of Lewis in mid July this year. Some of the eels in the river were up to 18”. (They were all put back where they came from!)

A school friend of mine in the Isle of Lewis and me also when visiting this summer saw a return of eels that were abundant in our childhoods, and then we’d not seen them for several decades.