Entoloma atromadidum, sequenced find from a Cotswold Common. One of the Big Blue Pinkgill group that contains species yet to be determined. #FungiFriends #Mycology #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Naturalist #Nature

"don't unpack yer suitcase, Paddington" - Labour

The best plant family 🥰

"It's very important that it's Labour being racist and evil and not Reform being racist and evil!"

If you have a writer in your life and you'd like them to know that you care about their ambitions, may I suggest ordering a copy of my collaborative craft anthology, An Honour And A Privilege, as a Christmas present? (trust me, you'll get the MOST brownie points)

This is monstrous, evil. Anyone that supports this is similarly enthralled to and excited by the ritual abuse of the weak and suffering

We were not asylum seekers, but nearly 50 years on, my mum still wistfully talks of the jewellery she had to sell to pay for the plane tickets that got us here. Aside from this policy being unconscionable, it does make me wonder how many asylum seekers will have any such belongings to confiscate.

My dog always looks like he just wants a smoking jacket, a pipe, and a glass of stout

People in the comments saying "if I'd known this was what Labour would be like, there's no way I'd have voted for them" but they ran their coup on this, they campaigned like this, they spoke publicly like this, they gave interviews like this. Genuinely, how did you NOT know? How?!

100 PADDENSTOELEN Dit boek is aan het ontstaan! Ik maak tekeningen van de zwammen van Stadspark Groningen. Ik teken met de seizoenen mee met veel liefde en toewijding, om te laten zien hoe magisch mooi en biodivers stadsnatuur kan zijn. Uitgever: Blinuet/Palmslag Design: Airco Caravan

Such a shame that the University of Portsmouth Bombsight map appears to be irretrievably broken. I hope I'm wrong and it's fixable. It was an incredible resource for teaching about the Blitz. bombsight.org

I've even seeing formerly *Tory* older people on local groups saying Labour has gone so far right they'll never vote for them again and they're investigating the Lib Dems and the Greens. I can't stress enough how Tory they are? were? (their post history on the local groups is viewable).

Such a shame that the University of Portsmouth Bombsight map appears to be irretrievably broken. I hope I'm wrong and it's fixable. It was an incredible resource for teaching about the Blitz. bombsight.org

The total refusal of British nature groups to use GPS coordinates continues to be the bane of my existence 😅 The *entire world* uses GPS coordinates. They're free and non-proprietary! They translate everywhere! Trying to translate OS grid and w3w to an actual location that I can put in my phone 😅

Nuke the industry from orbit.

A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.

Stag, South-west London

My autumn field botany sessions for kids have kicked off to a great start, and now I'm preparing for spring nature photography sessions! This is going to be so fun.

My autumn field botany sessions for kids have kicked off to a great start, and now I'm preparing for spring nature photography sessions! This is going to be so fun.

It's been six years since I first watched Years and Years and there hasn't been a single week that I haven't thought about it. No show I've ever watched has affected me so deeply.

I sat down with perhaps the most level-headed man in rock music, Jon Bon Jovi, to talk about Trump, tennis and his return to touring after an atrophying vocal chord put his career at risk. this week's Lunch with the FT: www.ft.com/content/25f2...

I would say he probably is smart and thoughtful but the mess that is western schooling made him think he's not. But anyway, Jon Bon Jovi sure is one good egg.

When you hire a tutor for your chils just take a peek first in the Twinkl Private Tutors group and see how they talk about parents and kids. Because a lot of posts are like this 😳

Just led the first troop of this run of my Junior Botanists groups through torrential rain to learn about moss biology, biodiversity, and a bit of slime molds on the way! Some fantastic science and field skills were deployed by all kids #homeeducation

Another species of clearwing #butterfly, the Rusted Clearwing-Satyr (Cithaerias pireta) at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #butterflies #nature #bugsky

Ipomopsis aggregata, our Scarlet Gilia, blooming in Big Wash #nativeplants #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 13 🌿

"If you are informed and have empathy it is a terrible time to be alive." It's hard to argue with that.

The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.

Amazing @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social won the Mayor of Seattle gig! Zohran deserves his flowers in NYC but Katie Wilson also campaigned brilliantly! She shares with @zackpolanski.bsky.social the dubious honour of Daily Mail hit pieces so she must be doing something right! #katiewilson

One of the five "good things" they've done is ICE style "raids" on low paid "illegal workers". Amazed they didn't list as a good thing that within moments of winning they were targeting trans children and making their lives hell. Craven and amoral party. May they never win a single seat again.

Online lecture, open to all: 2 Dec 18:30 (GMT) Renée Bergland on her book 'Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science' Winner of @bshsnews.bsky.social Hughes Prize, for the best #histSTM book accessible to a broad audience www.bshs.org.uk/online-lectu...

The government has forgotten that we do not answer to them. They Answer To US! Please read this thread and share

Some moss sporophytes have teeth. Some have two rows of teeth!

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

I fear this bubble pop will be heard across the universe

Textbook Labour boy lol

I just love humans so much. We're so silly and creative. Hacker installs Minecraft server on a lightbulb www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/m...

Some moss sporophytes have teeth. Some have two rows of teeth!

"save your anger for 2026" wait you think I'll run out in a year this is why I hate amateurs

Lobeliads are a plant lineage that evolved on the Hawaiian Islands, likely from a single ancestor. An analysis of nuclear and plastid genomes tells a complex tale of island hopping and ecological divergence. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I think one of the main issues with the Corbyn cultists - and I don't mean generally progressive or leftist, but the actual cultists - is tha tthey've never encountered any politics or history before. Corbyn didn't invent or even popularise ANY of these principles!!! What on earth!

OK, I already posted tiny terrestrial snails, let's do a GIANT AQUATIC SNAIL. This is one of the largest marine snails in the world, a Horned helmet shell (C. cornuta). Helmet is right, that shell is THICK. #Snailposting #Invertebrates 🌿📷🐙

Moss season is here! #macrophotography #botany

I just saw an argument on a facebook nature group of people bickering over whether a plant was "native" or not but they were in two different countries. Genuinely losing the will here.

Vulture's circling this morning. The people who made Farage a household name, dress up right-wing grifters as academics, both sided the distinctly one-sided economic debate around Brexit, had Kuenssberg texting interview questions to Boris Johnson... need to stop being such lefties, apparently

Let's stop subsidising destruction. This Govenrment need to stop standing on the side of polluters and instead tackle the cost of living crisis. Some of my thoughts on COP 30 👇🏼 bestforbritain.substack.com/p/cop30-must...

A few generations ago, the phrase “when the eastern forest disappears” was Madagascar’s equivalent of “when pigs fly”. With the future of forests less certain, our Kew teams in Madagascar & the Millennium Seed Bank are using seeds to understand and restore them 👇 https://ow.ly/JrLK50Xl0vq #MSB25

I almost admire the hustle from these hypocritical reactionary centrist weathervanes. Almost.

Why is it that 50% of the time I come across a Lib Dem they're calling anyone who isn't them a cult and acting like we have a moral duty to vote for them? (He's talking ability the Greens here btw 😅)

Dogs got me up at 2:00 am this morning to warn me of intruders. #dogsofbluesky #raccoonsofbluesky #iNat 🌿 #naturalists