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Frog Pavarotti.

Very much enjoying the colour variation here. (Don't mind me, I'm basically just shooting frog porn at this point.)

Fourteen frogs! Fourteen! (Not all illustrated here.) #SpawnWatch

Frogs frogs frogs.

The pondful of frogs last week gave up when temperatures plummeted. Now it's warm and sunny, and my pond is basically an orgy. Hurrah!

The Frog Chorus is currently performing an opera in the garden. It is glorious. Sometimes it's very hard to be a good and responsible pond owner, giving wildlife its space, when I very much want to be out there with my nose an inch from the surface. #SpawnWatch countdown begins now.

I JUST SAW A NEWT!! I've not been pond-watching much recently, partly so as not to disturb frogspawning, and partly because of the dire weather, but I had to go past it, and timed it just right to see a newt grab a breath. All is right with the world when there are newts. Well, nearly all.

Post a banger not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XA2...

My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏 UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈📚🐵 US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗃️🦋

Share a bird photo you've taken. The photo you want, vs the one you usually get!

y’all wanna see some ice-on-ice violence? 🥰

There's an episode of Bod on BBC4 tonight! At 8:15! Bod! Alert, alert, this is not a drill!

I may have had this wrapping paper for some time.

Yuletide felicitations! The 1975 Christmas 'Radio TV Times' magazine is now available! 🎁 Explore 10 days of December 1975’s TV listings across both BBC and ITV. Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms. 🤶 visualmutterings.com/1975-christm...

These are real faces, aren't they. Sculptures moulded from real people. Your actual 13th century Nigerians, looking right back at you. Blimey.

Well honestly, who hasn't at some point. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...

Dunnock doing its best impression of a red grouse, in order to reach a bird feeder that I put in a stupid place.

Once again, for #blackhistorymonth I'll be highlighting some of the all time greats from the world of sport and performance in a month-long thread. Trailblazers, record breakers, game-changers. One every day. Settle in.... Let's start with...

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It’s truly baffling to me that so many of these stories focus on “wow big fish” and not “this is an IUCN Red List Critically Endangered species that is extremely physiologically fragile and often does not survive fishing practices like this” www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t... 🦑🧪🌎🦈🐠

I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine. And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide. Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.

Flappy 50th Hatty Sower

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

Frog by torchlight.

IT IS THE GOD OF SPIKES, GIVE ME MORE! Although I don't want to think about how they made baby Spicomellus, because ow. (Clearly I am thinking about it though because of course I am.) BUT LOOK AT THOSE SPIKES! 😎

DON'T MOVE THE ROCKS! Rocks in & around rivers are important habitats for salamanders, macro-invertebrates, fish and more! When you move these rocks for useless internet points on social media, you change the flow & increase sedimentation, which affects what can survive there. #RockStacking sux.

I started using DuckDuckGo when Google got so awful. Now in the last few days I've had to turn off AI assist and AI images. Why would anybody want AI images in a search?! They are the opposite of helpful. Even Ecosia (the eco choice!) pushes AI now. I'm running out of search options.

Information relating to the M&S complaint, reportedly from the trans woman whom the complaint was about. Almost everything claimed in recent articles is extremely inaccurate. 1/

Love it when reposts align.

If you see this, post a TV ident.

Tiny tiny frog. 💚

Tiny frog is tiny. So tiny it is too tiny to eat even the tiniest of snails. Poor tiny frog.

You’ll all have seen the many announcements and PR pieces from #ColossalBiosciences. There are reasons to be concerned about the general message promoted by CB, one being that it is seen >by some< (US politicians in particular) as meaning that we can devalue conservation. A 🧵 1/n

A white-tailed bumble bee just flew down my t-shirt while I was pruning the buddleia out on the street. It's very difficult to coax a bee out of your t-shirt without looking very strange! And there's a *lot* of walkers this evening. (The bee is fine.)

One of the saddest things about ponding is when a dragonfly fails to emerge successfully. This one has a badly deformed body, and the wings have hardened without separating. Usually this happens when they emerge in a cramped space, though that doesn't seem to have been the case here.

From The Sea Of Adventure, very much not by Enid Blyton.

Josh always was my favourite in 'The West Wing'. 😎 www.instagram.com/p/DLDnp6ENtS1/ (The thumbnail says you need an Insta account, but you don't.)

TW: harm to children. My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review. It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban. Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...

Was at a charity football match with my family many years ago, and Keith Chegwin trod on my sister's foot. Best thing is, last time this meme went around and I mentioned it, about three other people said "Me too!" Don't know if he was having a particularly clumsy day, or if it happened regularly.

To mark Pride Month, I interviewed Stonewall founder Lord Michael Cashman 🏳️‍🌈 The actor-turned-activist and former Labour peer told me: - Why he thinks the 'Blue Labour' approach is the wrong way to win back the Red Wall - Why despite losing the whip, he believes Starmer is a "good leader"

Amazon is preparing to test humanoid robots for deliveries: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRQe...

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Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

@libdemcam.bsky.social Have you been made aware of this event tomorrow, Mr Thomas? bsky.app/profile/nanc... It's intended to allow MPs to educate themselves on trans issues from experts, rather than merely hearing the manufactured panic from certain sections of the media and the government.

🧵 UK trans ppl feel powerless & abandoned. It’s not surprising, given how the media & politicians Other them relentlessly; how the ‘official’ UK human rights watchdog was issuing anti-trans illegal guidance for years & how the UK Supreme Court found against them, without listening to them [1]

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

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It's a very newty day in the pond today.

Don't get to go on walks much now I'm a full time carer, but on the eve of #NoMowMay, here's part of my 'lawn' for #WildFlowerHour. Speedwell, dandelions, forget-me-nots, and loads of yellow rattle coming. Also, for this week's Brassicaeae challenge, a cuckoo flower.