Our #microbiome is us. We are holobionts, as Lynn Margulis understood. Thinking must be ecological, for every complex being is an ecology, as well as living in one. #microbiotoxicity, the threat of damage to microbes, has to be on regulatory agendas www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tesla have approved a $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk. That's 20 billion times more than a nurse in the UK earns. Don't let anyone tell you immigrants or disabled people are the problem. It's the richest 1% hoarding all the wealth. Time to tax the super-rich properly.

🍄 It's #FungusFriday at Hampton Heath... Sessile Earthstar is the find of the week, and waxcaps finally showing in numbers. Join the litter-picking + habitat volunteers, Saturday, 10am. Sign up for our weekly newsletter at hamptonheath.org @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @habsandheritage.bsky.social

@munirawilson.bsky.social As my MP, could you please have a word? LDs have a record of reasonably well-informed environment and biodiversity policy. Please review the links @guyshrubsole.bsky.social has posted, before vote-chasing prominent LDs discredit LDs' reputation with outdated myths. Thanks!

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments

Wasn't expecting to get the first Clouded Yellow record at Hampton Heath... in November. Red Admiral, grasshoppers, 24 spot ladybird and more all enjoying the sunshine between showers... fungi gradually coming to the fore, but still (almost) no waxcaps.

Reminder: Here's what Nigel Farage tried to take away from you this week...

Private Eye nailing it.

Traffic calming, Devon style 💪

Utterly appalling. Rewarding clickbait racism c/o The Spectator + Conservative Party. The one positive is that showing us "who they really are" makes them even more backward + unelectable... the stupidity of Truss, with the hate of Tebbit and Powell. They belong in dark chapters of history books.

Two CHEGD fungi species spotted today at Hampton Heath: Our first "H" of the autumn... a very slimy #Hygrocybe conica (Blackening Waxcap), and a 2nd "E" #Entoloma species (Pinkgill). 2 of approx 15 CHEGD species recorded at this site. @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

For every 100 calories of grain fed to farmed animals, just 3–25 calories of meat are produced. This system is wasting food & land while also causing animal suffering. We could feed another 2 billion people by choosing #FoodNotFeed. Learn more: buff.ly/ft7zDCB

At last! Hampton Heath has - at last - had enough rain for its first #CHEGD ( #waxcap ) grassland fungi of the autumn. Silky Pinkgill (Entoloma sericeum) - unless any actual #mycologists know better! @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk

Pleased to be part of this hugely significant legal challenge. The Boris Johnson Govt first suppressed the Russia report & then refused to act on it. As evidence mounts of Putin’s hybrid warfare, it’s vital that we can be confident in the robustness of our democratic systems

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can.

"Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050" by @thecccuk.bsky.social . Sadly we have no confidence that they will act on this as they are too busy expanding airports and competing with Reform in a race to the bottom. Tell your MP that this matters to you. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

Moving to renewable energy doesn't *only* bring down carbon emissions and direct air pollution, it also leads to a LOT less mining/drilling for resources and a LOT less shipping

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia. I disagree. RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

Well done to all the brilliant local councillors who have lowered the speed limits their roads to 20mph - often in the face of much hostility. There is now irrefutable evidence to show your bold decisions are saving lives. Thank you!

Thanks to everyone who brought this event (and a packed house) together. Informative and positive look at how agriculture can maintain productivity without the chemicals, toxins and carbon emissions, and while improving biodiversity. Soil health is the key. It's not new, but it still needs saying.

A project to reintroduce Black Grouse to the North York Moors has enjoyed early success, with the species successfully breeding in the national park for the first time since the 1840s:

As the world moves forwards and embraces renewable energy, At Conference, the Tories plot to drag us back — abolishing the Climate Change Act and ‘maximising extraction’ of North Sea oil and gas.

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Nigel Farage & Alex Phillips have been awfully quiet about Nathan Gill pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in European parliament and articles. Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.

How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

@lisanandymp.bsky.social How long is this Farage sycophancy from the BBC board going to poison OUR #BBCnews? Gibb, Davie and the rest of the cabal have to go. I despair. I have no idea what Labour are for any more 😡 Right now, it's @greenparty.org.uk or goodbye tolerant, civil democratic society

I’m not sure guys, I think maybe Oxford Street was better when it was full of motor traffic, I think people liked it better that way 😂

Defying everything you were ever taught about genetics and biology. How little we understand about the #biodiversity we are fast trashing. And reminding us that we shouldn't muck around with genetic systems we don't understand www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

Great to meet @davegoulson.bsky.social and hear him speak at a really well attended event at the wonderful Hanworth Air Parks Biodiversity Project yesterday. The work of HABP and @cambeauty.bsky.social is clearly hugely valued in the community, and I look forward to reading Silent Earth.

Failing to address climate change is very expensive.

"In Denmark, well-established heat planning mandates that gas and district heating networks do not overlap. The country has a decommissioning fund to cover the costs of removing gas supplies from homes and offers a scheme for free disconnections for private residences." medium.com/@jan.rosenow...

Latest on the live blog: Transport for London has launched a new poster campaign to raise awareness of Highway Code rules on its road network. Some of the comments about it on social media are as informed as ever... road.cc/315919

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation – study

@lisanandymp.bsky.social How much longer is Labour going to be under the thumb of a news agenda driven by the rightward drift of the BBC. Get the political appointees OUT!

This is thinly disguised homophobia by Farage. The same far-right figures who have spent years coming for my trans friends & colleagues are emboldened again against anything different from their "normal." Today and everyday I stand with the whole LGBTQIA+ community. Your struggle is my struggle.

#banksy Apologies if this contravenes the original artist's or photographer's copyright. As many others have said, it is the law that is the ass - not those required to implement it. Credit: David O'Brien

A great turn of phrase: "Following Farage around like a lost puppy" absolutely sums up BBC political coverage - relentless, desperate to please, despite obvious cruelty. @lisanandymp.bsky.social Could LDs and Greens finally make Labour leadership understand just how badly they've handled so much.

Invisible Hand of the Market latest:

The richest fifth of households have benefited twice as much from the fuel duty freeze as the poorest fifth. How does that make you feel? Surprised?

"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress

🎬 Six Inches of Soil – free screening at The Exchange, Twickenham, Tue 8 Oct, 7 PM. Inspiring film on young farmers transforming food & soil health + panel discussion. Organised by Do Something Green and chaired by Habitats & Heritage. Free but please register at bit.ly/sios-twicken...

Quite apart from Tice going out to defend Farage's shady house purhcase and making things ten times worse, for the guy who says he will be the next UK Chancellor of the Exchequer to end on: "I'm not a tax expert - you're asking the wrong guy," is objectively hilarious. ~AA

Perhaps National Highways’ most blatant misuse of Designated Funds as a sweetener for roadbuilding is to gain local support for the £16bn Lower Thames Crossing. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/highway-robb...

Tice: "I'm not a tax expert" EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK's Richard Tice piled millions of pounds into offshore tax haven property empire www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Just gonna leave this here..

He didn't "misspeak". He lied. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...