If this gets established it will be the first site with Small, Chalkhill, and Adonis Blue in Cambs. Sharing the site with Dingy Skipper, Dark Green Fritillary, Marbled White and more.

I am scanning some old slides, 25+ years old, and they have obviously lost colour, are scratched, have fungus, and some are a bit out of focus. I used ChatGPT to clean and enhance them and I am extremely impressed! I will make sure to say they have been AI-processed if I use them., but wow!

EAMON JAVERS Do you think the negotiations are over now? PRESIDENT TRUMP I don’t care if they’re over, honestly. I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less. If they’re over, they’re over. If they’re not, you know, I think they took too much time. Frankly, I thought they started to get very boring.

The first white-tailed eagle to fledge in Dorset for more than 240 years has gone missing on the North York Moors “The disappearance is being treated as suspicious” “Birds of prey regularly go missing in areas associated with game shooting” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ancestral Genomes xkcd.com/3252/

I dropped by Edinburgh for a workshop on 'rewilding the web', with participation from philosophers, technologists, ecologists, architects, mathematicians, authors and landscape planners. anil.recoil.org/notes/rewild... @kathrynnave.eurosky.social @mariafarrell.eurosky.social @robin.berjon.com 🌎

It’s lovely to see folk here sharing their favourite footpaths in woods, and enjoying nature. The ecologist in me though, automatically tries to identify if it’s a primary or at least very old woodland , with big established trees and nice undergrowth. In most posts that’s not the case 😕

Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true.

Rockhoppers, Falklands, 1999.

Trump’s behavior on social media today is so unhinged even by his standards that I can’t help but wonder what the doctors really told him the other day. This is a deeply unwell person.

New in #BirdStudy When surveying birds, older people detect fewer birds and species than younger people. Middle-aged observers have least bias in long-term recording: Age-dependent observer effects in Austrian long-term monitoring data of common breeding birds doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology

Twat

Amazing story!

Flavio Bolsonaro wants a US intervention in Brazil. It’s worth noting that he has given medals to criminals involved with drug trafficking, in the past, when he was a state congressman in Rio de Janeiro. It would be funny if he was sanctioned under this law 🤣 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Flavio Bozo quer que os EUA faça o mesmo que estão fazendo no Caribe e Venezuela: o ataque à soberania nacional. Deve estar torcendo por uma invasão americana no Brasil. www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/2026...

After some hours reviewing an article, a needed break at my local: The George, in Girton.

Very interesting piece on anxiety. It makes sense. It reminded me of a line manager who asked me to explain what I felt when having an anxiety attack, as if I wanted to go through that with the twat🤬 www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

New in PN: Trump has no way out on Iran "To sum up, if Trump escalates, people are going to hate him. If he surrenders, people are going to hate him. If he dithers, people are going to hate him. He has no good options, which is why he’s spinning in place, hoping someone, anyone, will rescue him."

Can somebody start this process against Trump, pretty please? 😕 At the International Criminal Court, information can be submitted by: * victims; * NGOs; * lawyers; * journalists; * governments; * UN bodies; * whistleblowers; * ordinary individuals with credible evidence.

The United States before and after the orange felon seized power. I’ll never forgive anyone who voted for destruction, corruption and chaos.

The utv ring and the ballroom construction must be a nightmare to the secret service. And very expensive!

Comatose Don confuses Oman with Iran and threatens to blow them up… “It’s international waters and Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we will have to blow them up.””

Update: the Met station at Monks Wood recorded 32.9C max air temperature yesterday, but temperature on concrete exceeded 50C for >2 hours - the blank cells are because it was off the scale: designers of Met Office stations didn't imagine 50C was likely in UK. Even 10cm deep in soil it was 28C.

⚖️🎙 "Ora, se a punição é uma aposentadoria compulsória, quem está suportando o ônus da punição dele? A sociedade. Porque o magistrado que matou alguém será sustentado pela coletividade, enquanto viver. É uma punição que não pune" ~ Dino sobre fim da aposentadoria compulsória de juízes

📖Published📖 Authors present a practical drone-based acoustic sensing system that combines targeted hardware noise mitigation with a deep-learning noise reduction workflow to recover bird vocal activity from highly noisy UAV recordings 🐦️ Read here 👇 buff.ly/YYp4UfU

Trump: "Oman will behave just like everyone else, or we'll have to blow them up"

I feel incredibly honoured (but a bit of an imposter) to have been elected today as a Fellow of the Royal Society today. Fantastic recognition for the conservation science that we do at BirdLife & testament to all my brilliant colleagues in BirdLife’s Science Division. @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social

It’s nice, but they should call these National Cultural Reserves or Landscapes. Would this count as part of the 30x30 target? 🧐 www.gov.uk/government/n...

I second this!

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social setting out why Trump is the most corrupt president in US history and might even be aiming for the world title! Plus some fascinating polling on Gen Z attitudes to life, the state of the world and politics podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Donate to his Super PAC? He'll boost your online casino. Donate to his Super PAC? He'll pardon your crimes. Donate to his Super PAC? He'll appoint you to a government position. Donate to his Super PAC? He'll grant you favorable regulatory rulings that help your business. Everything is for sale.

Evidence-based approaches to conservation have 2 problems 1) Generalised evidence doesn’t take account of context 2) Specific information isn’t transferable Precision Ecology addresses these problems And we’re now starting a grant to test PE & provide guidance! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In winter, it's dark outside and cold. In summer, it's dark inside, and hot. 🤬

"In the end, American consumers paid $159b in nat'l sales taxes for which most will never be reimbursed a penny. And rather than those taxes being used by the federal govt to, say, repave roads or build bridges, most of the money will instead provide corporate windfalls." — @schaller67.bsky.social

Terrific day with Master Butcher Miles and his crew from Morgan’s Butchery. Nice chat with regenerative farmers and lovely food! At Wandlebury.

The art of the deal 🤣🤣🤣🤣 “The deal reportedly offers Iran sanctions relief and the unlocking of as much as $20bn frozen assets in return for Iran reopening the strait of Hormuz and agreeing to negotiate on its nuclear programme over the next 60 days starting on 5 June in Pakistan” @theguardian.com

It’s a lovely book, I recommend it!

Saturday BBQ with friends, beer, wine and lots of yummy food! I had never done a pork belly with cracking before. Delicious!