Florence
@florencewilkinson.bsky.social
Writer & Filmmaker 🖊🎥🌹| Warblr Founder 🐦📱| Governor at EGA 🎓| BOOK: Wild City, Orion Spring (c/o Curtis Brown)
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Women are 65% more likely to read a nonfiction book by the opposite sex than men are. And I know so many women who have felt excluded from conversations around #nature. So here’s a starter pack for women nature writers. Please send recommendations - I want it to be much fuller! go.bsky.app/PVHJMXS
Just received my annual summary from Public Lending Right - Wild City was taken out of libraries 571 times last year!
I use our local library more than ever now I have a little one and could not be more grateful for it. Reminder to other authors to sign up for PLR too! Register at plr.bl.uk/login
I use our local library more than ever now I have a little one and could not be more grateful for it. Reminder to other authors to sign up for PLR too! Register at plr.bl.uk/login
Public Lending Right
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January 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Just received my annual summary from Public Lending Right - Wild City was taken out of libraries 571 times last year!
I use our local library more than ever now I have a little one and could not be more grateful for it. Reminder to other authors to sign up for PLR too! Register at plr.bl.uk/login
I use our local library more than ever now I have a little one and could not be more grateful for it. Reminder to other authors to sign up for PLR too! Register at plr.bl.uk/login
Thank you so much to all the teachers who spoke to me for this piece. I’m constantly bowled over by how impressive the teachers are in our state schools. They deserve a lot more recognition than they get much of the time.
The 20% raised on fees will be funnelled into the state sector, but teachers say it’s not enough to repair the system
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January 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Thank you so much to all the teachers who spoke to me for this piece. I’m constantly bowled over by how impressive the teachers are in our state schools. They deserve a lot more recognition than they get much of the time.
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Great advice here for anyone who wants to help #bats 🦇
www.bats.org.uk/advice/garde...
#wildlife #nature 🌿
www.bats.org.uk/advice/garde...
#wildlife #nature 🌿
Gardening for bats - Advice - Bat Conservation Trust
Many people enjoy spending long summer evenings sitting in their gardens, watching as daylight turns to dusk and bats begin to fill the night sky.
These...
www.bats.org.uk
January 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Great advice here for anyone who wants to help #bats 🦇
www.bats.org.uk/advice/garde...
#wildlife #nature 🌿
www.bats.org.uk/advice/garde...
#wildlife #nature 🌿
Writing a book takes so much of you, and then you release it into a world full of influencers and noise, and *whispers* you wonder whether anyone will read it, never mind whether it’ll have an impact. But just one email like this makes it all worthwhile.
January 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Writing a book takes so much of you, and then you release it into a world full of influencers and noise, and *whispers* you wonder whether anyone will read it, never mind whether it’ll have an impact. But just one email like this makes it all worthwhile.
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Happy New Year, all you wonderful people in my phone! I’m starting the year with a good book - thank you @florencewilkinson.bsky.social it arrived yesterday - a lovely candle and a small joy in shape of a cherry wood carved fox that was a Midwinter gift from my parents. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy
January 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Happy New Year, all you wonderful people in my phone! I’m starting the year with a good book - thank you @florencewilkinson.bsky.social it arrived yesterday - a lovely candle and a small joy in shape of a cherry wood carved fox that was a Midwinter gift from my parents. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy
Or perhaps Britain’s deer have a people problem 🤔 - my latest for @inews.co.uk (photography also mine! 📷)
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
Britain, we have a deer problem
Numbers are at their highest since records began - they're causing car crashes, and harm to wildlife and our ecosystems
inews.co.uk
December 24, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Or perhaps Britain’s deer have a people problem 🤔 - my latest for @inews.co.uk (photography also mine! 📷)
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
Thanks so much to everyone for entering and congrats to the winner @kizzia.bsky.social - will DM you to get your address!
In the spirit of Christmas (and seeing as I’m new here) I thought I’d host a little #giveaway. For the chance to win* a signed copy of my book, Wild City, which came out in paperback this year:
1. Share this post
2. Comment with your favourite wild species that you’ve spotted in an urban setting!
1. Share this post
2. Comment with your favourite wild species that you’ve spotted in an urban setting!
December 21, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Thanks so much to everyone for entering and congrats to the winner @kizzia.bsky.social - will DM you to get your address!
Just a few hours left to enter! 🤶🐸🐌🦆🐝
In the spirit of Christmas (and seeing as I’m new here) I thought I’d host a little #giveaway. For the chance to win* a signed copy of my book, Wild City, which came out in paperback this year:
1. Share this post
2. Comment with your favourite wild species that you’ve spotted in an urban setting!
1. Share this post
2. Comment with your favourite wild species that you’ve spotted in an urban setting!
December 20, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Just a few hours left to enter! 🤶🐸🐌🦆🐝
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It can't get much more urban than this beautiful Red Underwing which I found inside a 2nd floor department of Lewisham Hospital last September! I managed to catch it, to the bemusement of medical staff, and released it that evening in a location with plenty of trees.
December 19, 2024 at 12:01 PM
It can't get much more urban than this beautiful Red Underwing which I found inside a 2nd floor department of Lewisham Hospital last September! I managed to catch it, to the bemusement of medical staff, and released it that evening in a location with plenty of trees.
Last day to enter for the chance to win a signed copy of Wild City (or it’s available to buy in all good bookshops ;-) Online too, but do support your local bookshop if you can!)
In the spirit of Christmas (and seeing as I’m new here) I thought I’d host a little #giveaway. For the chance to win* a signed copy of my book, Wild City, which came out in paperback this year:
1. Share this post
2. Comment with your favourite wild species that you’ve spotted in an urban setting!
1. Share this post
2. Comment with your favourite wild species that you’ve spotted in an urban setting!
December 19, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Last day to enter for the chance to win a signed copy of Wild City (or it’s available to buy in all good bookshops ;-) Online too, but do support your local bookshop if you can!)
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In the spirit of Christmas (and seeing as I’m new here) I thought I’d host a little #giveaway. For the chance to win* a signed copy of my book, Wild City, which came out in paperback this year:
1. Share this post
2. Comment with your favourite wild species that you’ve spotted in an urban setting!
1. Share this post
2. Comment with your favourite wild species that you’ve spotted in an urban setting!
December 17, 2024 at 9:40 AM
In the spirit of Christmas (and seeing as I’m new here) I thought I’d host a little #giveaway. For the chance to win* a signed copy of my book, Wild City, which came out in paperback this year:
1. Share this post
2. Comment with your favourite wild species that you’ve spotted in an urban setting!
1. Share this post
2. Comment with your favourite wild species that you’ve spotted in an urban setting!
In the spirit of Christmas (and seeing as I’m new here) I thought I’d host a little #giveaway. For the chance to win* a signed copy of my book, Wild City, which came out in paperback this year:
1. Share this post
2. Comment with your favourite wild species that you’ve spotted in an urban setting!
1. Share this post
2. Comment with your favourite wild species that you’ve spotted in an urban setting!
December 17, 2024 at 9:40 AM
In the spirit of Christmas (and seeing as I’m new here) I thought I’d host a little #giveaway. For the chance to win* a signed copy of my book, Wild City, which came out in paperback this year:
1. Share this post
2. Comment with your favourite wild species that you’ve spotted in an urban setting!
1. Share this post
2. Comment with your favourite wild species that you’ve spotted in an urban setting!
Months before Sara Sharif died, AFTER her teachers recorded concerns, she was withdrawn for “homeschooling”. The lack of oversight when it comes to home educated children urgently needs addressing. My latest for @inews.co.uk:
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
When home-schooling is used to hide abuse
Sara Sharif was withdrawn from school and home-educated in the months before her death. Experts say we urgently need a register of children taught this way
inews.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Months before Sara Sharif died, AFTER her teachers recorded concerns, she was withdrawn for “homeschooling”. The lack of oversight when it comes to home educated children urgently needs addressing. My latest for @inews.co.uk:
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
Women are 65% more likely to read a nonfiction book by the opposite sex than men are. And I know so many women who have felt excluded from conversations around #nature. So here’s a starter pack for women nature writers. Please send recommendations - I want it to be much fuller! go.bsky.app/PVHJMXS
December 6, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Women are 65% more likely to read a nonfiction book by the opposite sex than men are. And I know so many women who have felt excluded from conversations around #nature. So here’s a starter pack for women nature writers. Please send recommendations - I want it to be much fuller! go.bsky.app/PVHJMXS
And while we’re on the subject of complicated coitus, here’s one of the things I’ve most enjoyed writing this year. Yup - slug sex. In my own back yard, too.
www.naturalnavigator.com/news/2024/06...
www.naturalnavigator.com/news/2024/06...
The Weird World of Slug Sex
A guest blog by Florence Wilkinson The thing about wildlife is that it always has the capacity to surprise you; to hit you with something…
www.naturalnavigator.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:26 PM
And while we’re on the subject of complicated coitus, here’s one of the things I’ve most enjoyed writing this year. Yup - slug sex. In my own back yard, too.
www.naturalnavigator.com/news/2024/06...
www.naturalnavigator.com/news/2024/06...
This all sounds like way too much effort.
Ludicrous end-point of sexually antagonistic coevolution: The male of Aleochara tristis has a penis-flagella with which he reaches deep into the equally long female sperm storage organ. It's so long that, post-coitus, he has to clamp it under his shoulder and carefully roll it up again.
December 5, 2024 at 2:20 PM
This all sounds like way too much effort.
Not in any way procrastinating today making Christmas wreaths when I’ve got a mountain of work to do…
December 4, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Not in any way procrastinating today making Christmas wreaths when I’ve got a mountain of work to do…
@hunterw.bsky.social thanks so much for verifying me from over the pond - what a mammoth undertaking! 🙏
December 3, 2024 at 9:55 PM
@hunterw.bsky.social thanks so much for verifying me from over the pond - what a mammoth undertaking! 🙏
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December 2, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Caption contest…
November 26, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Caption contest…
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Thanks. I lead wildlife walks in my local cemetery, showing people insects, arachnids and plant galls.
November 24, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Thanks. I lead wildlife walks in my local cemetery, showing people insects, arachnids and plant galls.
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@johnclare.bsky.social Good evening, John. This is a relative of that noisy family sharing the cottage with you. The ones that are always first in the queue for the communal outhouse. But we do share our milk with you when you need it. Would you like to be added to the nature writing starter pack?
November 22, 2024 at 7:17 PM
@johnclare.bsky.social Good evening, John. This is a relative of that noisy family sharing the cottage with you. The ones that are always first in the queue for the communal outhouse. But we do share our milk with you when you need it. Would you like to be added to the nature writing starter pack?
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Crumbles! The first nature writing starter pack (go.bsky.app/NXoPc6D) is full! So I've created another, the imaginatively titled: nature writing 2 starter pack. Do keep sending me your suggestions & please share widely. Many thanks.😊
November 22, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Crumbles! The first nature writing starter pack (go.bsky.app/NXoPc6D) is full! So I've created another, the imaginatively titled: nature writing 2 starter pack. Do keep sending me your suggestions & please share widely. Many thanks.😊
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Today's #dailybat pic. This is a common noctules (Nyctalus noctula) from one of my UK study sites. This is one of the species I work with most, and I'm studying roosting ecology and chemical signalling. They are chonky bois, strong, and can be a bit grumpy. 🦇
November 23, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Today's #dailybat pic. This is a common noctules (Nyctalus noctula) from one of my UK study sites. This is one of the species I work with most, and I'm studying roosting ecology and chemical signalling. They are chonky bois, strong, and can be a bit grumpy. 🦇