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Brian Eversham
@brianecambs.bsky.social
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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Fiddling with the filters!
January 11, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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For those unfamiliar with the quote:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupT...
Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot
YouTube video by carlsagandotcom
www.youtube.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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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...
hiwwt.current-vacancies.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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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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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.
January 8, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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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.” 😞😠
“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
January 8, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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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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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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Frogspawn and the first Daffodil fields in bloom down on the Lizard around Goonhilly this afternoon. Quite the contrast to snowy Norfolk!
January 6, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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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
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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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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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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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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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
January 1, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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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
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
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.
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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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
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
January 1, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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Here are four of my most popular cartoons on 2025
December 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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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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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.
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
December 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Sphagnum cuspidatum and drosera intermedia #moss #bryophyte #carnivorousplants
December 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Sphagnum fallax, rubellum and divinum #moss #bryophyte
December 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM