Ellen Wilson
@ellenwilson.bsky.social
Love all wildlife and discovering insects, especially sawflies, flies, bugs and beetles plus moths from our garden moth trap; East Lothian
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Some butterflies from a recent trip to New Orleans. These were all taken in the sculpture garden and botanical garden in City Park.
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Some butterflies from a recent trip to New Orleans. These were all taken in the sculpture garden and botanical garden in City Park.
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Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
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Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
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The roadside 'flight diverters' cut monarch deaths by about 50 percent.
Texas' new 'butterfly nets' are saving monarchs from becoming roadkill
The roadside 'flight diverters' cut monarch deaths by about 50 percent.
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The roadside 'flight diverters' cut monarch deaths by about 50 percent.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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🦇Our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge campaign, 'A voice for bats' goes live in 3 weeks! This is a match-funding campaign - every donation we receive up to £10,000 will be doubled - but we only have 1 week to raise funds!
Register to be notified when we go live: forms.office.com/e/84S5utrSYH
Register to be notified when we go live: forms.office.com/e/84S5utrSYH
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🦇Our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge campaign, 'A voice for bats' goes live in 3 weeks! This is a match-funding campaign - every donation we receive up to £10,000 will be doubled - but we only have 1 week to raise funds!
Register to be notified when we go live: forms.office.com/e/84S5utrSYH
Register to be notified when we go live: forms.office.com/e/84S5utrSYH
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NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that some #seabirds are doing very well on tropical #islands - especially when you can count them all with a #drone: buff.ly/4ngJ3ze
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that some #seabirds are doing very well on tropical #islands - especially when you can count them all with a #drone: buff.ly/4ngJ3ze
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This has to be one of the most photogenic hibernation sites. Mineral rich, glittering and full of Brandt’s bats 🦇
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This has to be one of the most photogenic hibernation sites. Mineral rich, glittering and full of Brandt’s bats 🦇
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As Clinical Psychologists we have to (thankfully) take part in regular supervision - a confidential space to learn, think & reflect with another psychologist. Good supervision both nourishes and challenges.
Surely we’d have a better politics if politicians had a space like that?
Surely we’d have a better politics if politicians had a space like that?
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
As Clinical Psychologists we have to (thankfully) take part in regular supervision - a confidential space to learn, think & reflect with another psychologist. Good supervision both nourishes and challenges.
Surely we’d have a better politics if politicians had a space like that?
Surely we’d have a better politics if politicians had a space like that?
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One week to go!
Join us at Cruinn Còmhla - Gaelic community day in Edinburgh
Classes · Music · Conversation · Culture · Café
Further info: www.ionaddhuneideann.org
Saturday 15 November 2025 10.00 – 16.00
Darroch, 7 Gillespie Street, Edinburgh EH3 9NH
Join us at Cruinn Còmhla - Gaelic community day in Edinburgh
Classes · Music · Conversation · Culture · Café
Further info: www.ionaddhuneideann.org
Saturday 15 November 2025 10.00 – 16.00
Darroch, 7 Gillespie Street, Edinburgh EH3 9NH
November 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
One week to go!
Join us at Cruinn Còmhla - Gaelic community day in Edinburgh
Classes · Music · Conversation · Culture · Café
Further info: www.ionaddhuneideann.org
Saturday 15 November 2025 10.00 – 16.00
Darroch, 7 Gillespie Street, Edinburgh EH3 9NH
Join us at Cruinn Còmhla - Gaelic community day in Edinburgh
Classes · Music · Conversation · Culture · Café
Further info: www.ionaddhuneideann.org
Saturday 15 November 2025 10.00 – 16.00
Darroch, 7 Gillespie Street, Edinburgh EH3 9NH
A busy morning for Pink-footed Geese today, one of several skeins going by
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
A busy morning for Pink-footed Geese today, one of several skeins going by
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Labour were broken a long time ago.
Time to replace them with a party that actually represents everyone - not just the billionaires.
A party that rejects Reform - rather than copies them.
Time to make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Time to replace them with a party that actually represents everyone - not just the billionaires.
A party that rejects Reform - rather than copies them.
Time to make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Labour were broken a long time ago.
Time to replace them with a party that actually represents everyone - not just the billionaires.
A party that rejects Reform - rather than copies them.
Time to make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Time to replace them with a party that actually represents everyone - not just the billionaires.
A party that rejects Reform - rather than copies them.
Time to make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 33% (+1)
GRN: 18% (+1)
CON: 16% (=)
LAB: 15% (-1)
LDM: 11% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 5-6 Nov.
Changes w/ 29 Oct.
RFM: 33% (+1)
GRN: 18% (+1)
CON: 16% (=)
LAB: 15% (-1)
LDM: 11% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 5-6 Nov.
Changes w/ 29 Oct.
November 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 33% (+1)
GRN: 18% (+1)
CON: 16% (=)
LAB: 15% (-1)
LDM: 11% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 5-6 Nov.
Changes w/ 29 Oct.
RFM: 33% (+1)
GRN: 18% (+1)
CON: 16% (=)
LAB: 15% (-1)
LDM: 11% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 5-6 Nov.
Changes w/ 29 Oct.
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Petition: Stop the Guga Hunt. Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend Section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to remove the power to grant licences for killing young Gannets.
Please sign and Repost.
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife
Please sign and Repost.
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife
PE2202 Stop the Guga Hunt
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend Section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to remove the power to grant licences for taking Gannets on Sula Sgeir.
www.parliament.scot
November 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Petition: Stop the Guga Hunt. Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend Section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to remove the power to grant licences for killing young Gannets.
Please sign and Repost.
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife
Please sign and Repost.
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife
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Send me records: I am excited to be taking on the role of national springtail recorder. I have huge shoes to fill, but I hope to continue the progress Peter Shaw made in understanding the taxonomy and biology of the UK's #springtails.
www.brc.ac.uk/scheme/colle...
www.brc.ac.uk/scheme/colle...
January 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Send me records: I am excited to be taking on the role of national springtail recorder. I have huge shoes to fill, but I hope to continue the progress Peter Shaw made in understanding the taxonomy and biology of the UK's #springtails.
www.brc.ac.uk/scheme/colle...
www.brc.ac.uk/scheme/colle...
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🌾 What is a hay meadow?
Once common across the UK, these wildflower-rich grasslands support incredible biodiversity but have declined by 97% since the 1930s.
Learn how to restore and create them in our webinar on 29 Jan 2026:
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1821584400...
@forestofbowlandnl.bsky.social
Once common across the UK, these wildflower-rich grasslands support incredible biodiversity but have declined by 97% since the 1930s.
Learn how to restore and create them in our webinar on 29 Jan 2026:
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1821584400...
@forestofbowlandnl.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🌾 What is a hay meadow?
Once common across the UK, these wildflower-rich grasslands support incredible biodiversity but have declined by 97% since the 1930s.
Learn how to restore and create them in our webinar on 29 Jan 2026:
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1821584400...
@forestofbowlandnl.bsky.social
Once common across the UK, these wildflower-rich grasslands support incredible biodiversity but have declined by 97% since the 1930s.
Learn how to restore and create them in our webinar on 29 Jan 2026:
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1821584400...
@forestofbowlandnl.bsky.social
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You can always send them to my blog here and my campaign analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2021/08/why-...
Why English names of species should ALWAYS be capitalised
So this has been a pet hate of mine for years. And after a rant on Twitter recently, I thought it was best to put all my thoughts down on th...
analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:57 AM
You can always send them to my blog here and my campaign analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2021/08/why-...
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The new leafmine site update is now out. Has many excellent photos including some rarely seen eg Dialectica imperialella, Scrobipalpula tusdilaginis and Stigmella spinosissimae. Others more common. The amazing spiracles of Cerodontha iraeaos - like cow horns! www.leafmines.co.uk/html/updates...
October 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The new leafmine site update is now out. Has many excellent photos including some rarely seen eg Dialectica imperialella, Scrobipalpula tusdilaginis and Stigmella spinosissimae. Others more common. The amazing spiracles of Cerodontha iraeaos - like cow horns! www.leafmines.co.uk/html/updates...
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team of Canadian engineers on October 28 unveiled a fully electrified home
The project combines a system that eliminates fossil fuel use and dramatically reduces energy costs and emissions.
Canada’s self-powered solar home cuts energy use, emissions by half share.google/uDA643ogROMR...
The project combines a system that eliminates fossil fuel use and dramatically reduces energy costs and emissions.
Canada’s self-powered solar home cuts energy use, emissions by half share.google/uDA643ogROMR...
Canada’s self-powered solar home cuts energy use, emissions by half
Engineers in Canada have built a fully electrified solar-powered home that cuts electricity bills by 45% and carbon emissions by 55%.
share.google
October 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
team of Canadian engineers on October 28 unveiled a fully electrified home
The project combines a system that eliminates fossil fuel use and dramatically reduces energy costs and emissions.
Canada’s self-powered solar home cuts energy use, emissions by half share.google/uDA643ogROMR...
The project combines a system that eliminates fossil fuel use and dramatically reduces energy costs and emissions.
Canada’s self-powered solar home cuts energy use, emissions by half share.google/uDA643ogROMR...
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So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform....
Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.
It's time for Proportional Representation.
www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.
It's time for Proportional Representation.
www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
'Just getting started': Zack Polanski reacts as Greens SECOND in new poll
ZACK Polanski has welcomed a new poll putting his party in second place at Westminster.
www.thenational.scot
October 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform....
Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.
It's time for Proportional Representation.
www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.
It's time for Proportional Representation.
www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
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@yougov.co.uk latest has @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social polling in FIRST for all voters under 50
Blimey! Green Party now polling in FIRST for all voters under 50
YouGov’s latest polling shows a collapse in support for Labour and the Tories, stagnation for Reform… and historic highs for the Green Party.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
@yougov.co.uk latest has @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social polling in FIRST for all voters under 50
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To see these beeflies, Australoechus sp, flying around in the Fynbos, SA, has to be 1 of my life’s highlights
Many were buzzing around Micrdon capitatus, the heady catstailbush - a rare endemic to this region. Rare because of habitat loss (land clearance) & invasive species.
Brilliant #beeflies
Many were buzzing around Micrdon capitatus, the heady catstailbush - a rare endemic to this region. Rare because of habitat loss (land clearance) & invasive species.
Brilliant #beeflies
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
To see these beeflies, Australoechus sp, flying around in the Fynbos, SA, has to be 1 of my life’s highlights
Many were buzzing around Micrdon capitatus, the heady catstailbush - a rare endemic to this region. Rare because of habitat loss (land clearance) & invasive species.
Brilliant #beeflies
Many were buzzing around Micrdon capitatus, the heady catstailbush - a rare endemic to this region. Rare because of habitat loss (land clearance) & invasive species.
Brilliant #beeflies