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Brian Eversham
@brianecambs.bsky.social
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Wildlife enthusiast, photographer, elms/lichens/beetles/molluscs/protozoa and much else. CEO of Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, occasional leader for Wildlife Travel, visiting prof., Cranfield Uni. Views my own. He/him
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robinince.bsky.social
More seats available at #CAMBRIDGE gig #comedy #poetry #science #love
#solidarity
www.junction.co.uk/events/robin...
Robin Ince: The Universe and the Neurodiverse | Cambridge Junction
Book tickets for Robin Ince: The Universe and the Neurodiverse at J2 at Cambridge Junction. The Universe and the Neurodiverse is a journey from the outermost planets to our innermost thoughts.  Robin...
www.junction.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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averisben.bsky.social
Fiddling with the filters!
Fiddling with the filters A sherry or two on a day of rain That’s our cue to play this game of editing an image on a mobile phone Fiddle with the filter, with the hue and the tone Dandelion. Turn it red? Option 2: blue instead Red or blue? Which for you? Choosing on a whim, or a point of view? We’re getting colour critical, over-analytical or just a bit political What’ll we do? Dice says red Now for bed
January 11, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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robinbobcat.bsky.social
For those unfamiliar with the quote:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupT...
Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot
YouTube video by carlsagandotcom
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December 31, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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debbietann.bsky.social
Three fantastic jobs available now.

Two land management jobs working across our nature reserves and rewilding sites on the wonderful Isle of Wight.

One business transformation role to help us modernise our operations & improve sustainability.

Apply!

hiwwt.current-vacancies.com/Careers/HIWW...
Careers
Find your perfect job at Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust. Apply today for jobs with Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, or create alerts for future vacancies with Hampshire & Isle of Wi...
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January 9, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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palustris.bsky.social
Congratulations to Dr Margaret Bradshaw, who has done more than anyone to promote understanding and conservation of Upper Teesdale's unique arctic-alpine flora.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Teesdale botanist and mountain rescue team founder turns 100
Dr Margaret Bradshaw receives a card from King Charles and Queen Camilla on her 100th birthday.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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royalsociety.org
Alfred Russel Wallace FRS was born #OnThisDay in 1823. He independently conceived of the theory of evolution by natural selection and his work prompted Darwin to publish 'On the Origin of Species'. Wallace laid the foundations of modern biogeography.
Portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace seated in a chair, wearing a suit and tie, and sporting a full, white beard.
January 8, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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andrewspotts.bsky.social
The USA can withdraw from @ipbes.net but, IPBES Chair @davidobura.bsky.social observes, “unfortunately, we cannot withdraw from the fact that more than 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 😞😠
ipbes.net IPBES @ipbes.net · 5d
“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.”

IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors.

— @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair
Split-screen image on a deep green background. Left side contains a statement from Dr David Obura, IPBES Chair, regarding the US withdrawal from IPBES and extinction threats to over 1 million species. Right side shows a photograph of a man wearing glasses, dressed in a dark jacket and grey shirt, seated at a conference table with a microphone. The IPBES logo appears at the bottom with the tagline "Science and Policy for People and Nature". The design features white typography on the dark green background, creating a professional contrast. Several small pins or badges are visible on the speaker's jacket.
January 8, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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markmiodownik.bsky.social
Silent majority want more climate and environmental action. Time for us all to speak up? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A silent majority’: MPs underestimate support for green policies, study reveals
Exclusive: From solar subsidies to meat taxes, minority rightwing voices appear to drown out the consensus
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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robthomasbirds.bsky.social
The Wildlife Trusts of South and West Wales are looking to appoint a communications officer. Be part of the resistance to the attacks on nature in Wales! www.welshwildlife.org/jobs/communi...
Communications Officer | The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Communications Officer! We're looking for a creative individual with an eye for design and flair for storytelling to create engaging content acros...
www.welshwildlife.org
January 7, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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marcusrhodes.bsky.social
Frogspawn and the first Daffodil fields in bloom down on the Lizard around Goonhilly this afternoon. Quite the contrast to snowy Norfolk!
A clump of frogspawn in a shallow puddle. A field of yellow Daffodils in bloom. The wet heaths of Goonhilly Downs looking towards Croft Pascoe.
January 6, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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adamrutherford.bsky.social
We need to establish an acceptable proper timeline for the late 20th/early 21st C.

* 'Last year' = 2023-2025
* 'A couple of years ago' = after Lockdown
* 'A few years ago' = between 2004 and Lockdown
* 'About ten years ago' = 1994-2014
hpsvanessa.bsky.social Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 8d
doing a quick lit review and wrote something along the lines of "this was published in 1994 so it is over 20 years old now" and then realised my maths error and did the oblig. crumble into dust.
January 5, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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ryanclarkecology.bsky.social
Interested in getting started with identifying mosses? I'm running an online talk tomorrow evening. If you can't make it live, then purchasing a ticket allows you to get access to the recording 😀

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/identifyin...
Identifying Mosses
Join us for an introduction to moss morphology and identification with Ryan Clark.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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markavery.bsky.social
Sunday book review: Pan-species Listing by @graemelyons.bsky.social
Publisher: @pelagic.bsky.social
Review: markavery.info/2026/01/04/s...

"Hardly anyone has the knowledge to write this book & even fewer could write it so well!"
January 4, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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lrylandepton.bsky.social
It is John Aubrey’s 400th anniversary this year! My next book publishes his Natural History in full for the 1st time. It is not the quaint collection of random anecdotes suggested by the heavily edited 1847 version, but cutting edge c17 science all penned with Aubrey’s characteristic brilliance.
January 4, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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keithbalmer.bsky.social
Would you like to start the New Year with a quiz? Those familiar with Bedfordshire Wildlife Trust BCN nature reserves (@wildlifebcn.org) may like to have a go at solving these cryptic clues to their identities. @brianecambs.bsky.social
A set of cryptic clues to Bedfordshire Wildlife Trust reserves. 1. A dyslexic inhabitant from The Shire? 2. A Rosaceaen uprising 3. Arthur's knight is missing the Spanish grassland 4. Brief decline by a tit 5. Cautiously plead with black bird 6. Complexion issues? 7. Confused imp shaves one beard 8. Damon cooperates without having eaten first 9. Deranged Andrew hides in ancient burrow 10. Dibbler would include "me-own" in this reserve's name 11. Enthusiast has company at the race 12. Fly in, then leave vehicle at a club 13. Fly to soak up the extra? It sounds like it. 14. Hangs teacher on high ground 15. Look at superb art on gravel pitch 16. Lutra and Sterna are present in name only? 17. Pipes clot somehow 18. Priest's allotment run wild? 19. Punching below the belt(s) 20. Rockets procured covers 21. Turning off water supply from the south-east 22. Use XL foot to reach the top
January 1, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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iand777.bsky.social
These long nights with very hard frosts are the times when Wrens are triggered to nest communally. Take care not to disturb sheds or outbuildings as night time approaches, if you have Wrens in the garden.
They only approach in the deepest gloaming & can be hard to spot.
@lizaadamczewski.bsky.social
iand777.bsky.social Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · Oct 3
3/4 On really cold nights, wrens are triggered into communal roosting to conserve body heat. You'll notice that I placed a temperature probe in this nest box and the differential in ext/int temperature was remarkable.
As soon as milder weather arrives the birds revert to roosting singly or in pairs.
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
brianecambs.bsky.social
The whole set were regular library-borrowings in my early teens... answered a lot of questions about invertebrates that nowhere else did. A wonderful series.
ianbeavis.bsky.social Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social · 12d
Volumes like Woodland Life and Field & Meadow Life in the 1960s Blandford 'in Colour' series were - & are still - unusual among general insect/invertebrate guides in featuring larvae other than butterfly/moth caterpillars, plus galls & leaf-mines
January 1, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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schmidtocean.bsky.social
Let your party streamers fly like a ctenophore! As the year draws to an end, we’re celebrating a year of supporting international teams of scientists on board R/V Falkor (too) off the coasts of Antarctica, the South Sandwich Islands, Argentina, & Uruguay. Happy New Year to all!

January 1, 2026 at 12:07 AM
brianecambs.bsky.social
A happy new year to anyone I know (and to the rest of you!), here's an evilly grinning (or possibly screaming - I imagine they do it in ultrasound) lichen, which seems to sum up 2025 rather well
Cladonia cenotea, a rare lichen found in Scottish pinewoods, grey-green powder-covered spikes which end in narrow cups, with a small opening that looks worryingly like a grinning or screaming mouth.
January 1, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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ellisjrosen.bsky.social
Here are four of my most popular cartoons on 2025
December 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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nicwilson.bsky.social
How lovely to see the small-leaved lime in today's @theguardian.com country diary by @sarahlambert7.bsky.social

#countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: A rare giant in the quiet of the wood | Sarah Lambert
Old Sulehay Forest, Northamptonshire: Distant church bells are about all I can hear as I stand below a 500-year-old small-leaved lime – a tree that may be making an unlikely comeback
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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yorksfella59.bsky.social
Be aware! I didn't know this...

"With one of those treatments you could remove every single invertebrate out of 25 Olympic swimming pools of water".

So a polite request to dog owners... Please be careful what anti-flea treatments you use on your pets.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environ...
The hidden menace polluting Yorkshire's rivers every dog owner should know about
Campaigners are seeking to raise the profile of a source of pollution unwittingly being introduced to rivers and lakes. Stuart Minting reports.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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mattsheridan.bsky.social
This is a great expression of the thing I keep saying about text-generating algorithms: “Hallucination” isn’t some kind of glitch. ALL their responses are hallucinations. Sometimes they align with reality, sometimes they don’t.
barrydeutsch.bsky.social Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · Aug 14
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen. Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?" If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing! But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else. It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.
December 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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sphagnums.bsky.social
Sphagnum cuspidatum and drosera intermedia #moss #bryophyte #carnivorousplants
December 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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sphagnums.bsky.social
Sphagnum fallax, rubellum and divinum #moss #bryophyte
December 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM