Joanna Redfeather
@joannaredfeather.bsky.social
MSc Data Science student. BSc Hons Zoology grad.
Interests: Ecology, rewilding, nature recovery, behaviour, communication, wild HORSES! 🐴, data, coding, ML, EDI&A 🏳️🌈. Ex tech SEO & analytics.
Kindness.
Neurodivergent. #pwME. UK 🇬🇧
JoannaRedfeather.com
Interests: Ecology, rewilding, nature recovery, behaviour, communication, wild HORSES! 🐴, data, coding, ML, EDI&A 🏳️🌈. Ex tech SEO & analytics.
Kindness.
Neurodivergent. #pwME. UK 🇬🇧
JoannaRedfeather.com
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Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
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it’s crazy because no one knows what the aim of science is
November 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
it’s crazy because no one knows what the aim of science is
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Plant a wildlife hedge instead of building a fence! It could help hedgehogs, bumblebees, blue tits, robins, frogs, bats, toads, dunnocks, butterflies, moths, blackbirds, solitary bees, wrens, hoverflies...
A quick guide to hedges:
littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/hed...
A quick guide to hedges:
littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/hed...
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Plant a wildlife hedge instead of building a fence! It could help hedgehogs, bumblebees, blue tits, robins, frogs, bats, toads, dunnocks, butterflies, moths, blackbirds, solitary bees, wrens, hoverflies...
A quick guide to hedges:
littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/hed...
A quick guide to hedges:
littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/hed...
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"An ecologist who shot to fame after discovering that spiders have human-like personalities"
Umm...think it was a little while later that we all heard of Pruitt. And "infamy" is probably a more appropriate noun.
Umm...think it was a little while later that we all heard of Pruitt. And "infamy" is probably a more appropriate noun.
I hadnt seen this particular take on this story till now. A minimalist apology. Not impressed.
nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...
nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...
Shamed Scientist Apologises For The First Time About The Academic Scandal That Destroyed His Career And Shocked The World
An ecologist who shot to fame after discovering that spiders have human-like personalities has made an emotional apology after being
nationalnews.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"An ecologist who shot to fame after discovering that spiders have human-like personalities"
Umm...think it was a little while later that we all heard of Pruitt. And "infamy" is probably a more appropriate noun.
Umm...think it was a little while later that we all heard of Pruitt. And "infamy" is probably a more appropriate noun.
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For anyone interested in Nature in the UK, this is really, really depressing reading. Despite all our efforts over the past decades (site protection, farming schemes), wild plants, an essential element of the natural world, are disappearing before our eyes. britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bi...
A new vascular plant Red List for Great Britain
| British & Irish Botany
britishandirishbotany.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
For anyone interested in Nature in the UK, this is really, really depressing reading. Despite all our efforts over the past decades (site protection, farming schemes), wild plants, an essential element of the natural world, are disappearing before our eyes. britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bi...
I’ve always hoped for an app like this! Lichens are great indicators of air quality:
Many lichen species are sensitive to nitrogen pollution, making them natural indicators of air quality.
📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems.
buff.ly/AmWAOQB
🧪 1/
📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems.
buff.ly/AmWAOQB
🧪 1/
November 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I’ve always hoped for an app like this! Lichens are great indicators of air quality:
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Here's a map of UK fire activity in 2025.
2025 was a record year for both number of fires and burnt area in the UK, according to the satellite record.
Data from EFFIS, based on MODIS and Sentinel observations.
🔥#ukwildfires #wildfires
2025 was a record year for both number of fires and burnt area in the UK, according to the satellite record.
Data from EFFIS, based on MODIS and Sentinel observations.
🔥#ukwildfires #wildfires
October 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Here's a map of UK fire activity in 2025.
2025 was a record year for both number of fires and burnt area in the UK, according to the satellite record.
Data from EFFIS, based on MODIS and Sentinel observations.
🔥#ukwildfires #wildfires
2025 was a record year for both number of fires and burnt area in the UK, according to the satellite record.
Data from EFFIS, based on MODIS and Sentinel observations.
🔥#ukwildfires #wildfires
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Interested in ME/CFS research?
Want to do a PhD with @aryback.bsky.social, @avakhamseh.bsky.social, @sjoerdvbeentjes.bsky.social & @cgatist.bsky.social?
Then apply for a *funded* Future Medicine PhD Fellowship.
See: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please contact us to discuss before applying.
Want to do a PhD with @aryback.bsky.social, @avakhamseh.bsky.social, @sjoerdvbeentjes.bsky.social & @cgatist.bsky.social?
Then apply for a *funded* Future Medicine PhD Fellowship.
See: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please contact us to discuss before applying.
Personalised blood-based biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) symptom severity at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Personalised blood-based biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) symptom severity at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Interested in ME/CFS research?
Want to do a PhD with @aryback.bsky.social, @avakhamseh.bsky.social, @sjoerdvbeentjes.bsky.social & @cgatist.bsky.social?
Then apply for a *funded* Future Medicine PhD Fellowship.
See: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please contact us to discuss before applying.
Want to do a PhD with @aryback.bsky.social, @avakhamseh.bsky.social, @sjoerdvbeentjes.bsky.social & @cgatist.bsky.social?
Then apply for a *funded* Future Medicine PhD Fellowship.
See: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please contact us to discuss before applying.
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Assistant Ranger with Nattergal, based at Boothby Pagnell, Grantham, full-time, permanent position c-js.uk/4oy9WPW
October 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Assistant Ranger with Nattergal, based at Boothby Pagnell, Grantham, full-time, permanent position c-js.uk/4oy9WPW
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#RightsofNature - delighted to be hosting this event in #HouseofLords today
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK campaigners launch bill to give nature legal rights
Private member’s bill backed by Chris Packham and Natalie Bennett would impose a duty of care on government and business
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#RightsofNature - delighted to be hosting this event in #HouseofLords today
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Do you know any medical students who might like to win £250 by writing a 500 word essay about #ME ?
I can provide lots of info to help any interested student and access to high quality resources and lived experience.
I can provide lots of info to help any interested student and access to high quality resources and lived experience.
Our medical student essay competition is back!
We are hosting an essay competition open to all medical students at any Medical School in the UK.
Students who take part will have an improved understanding of ME and, we hope, be better able to diagnose and support people with ME.
We are hosting an essay competition open to all medical students at any Medical School in the UK.
Students who take part will have an improved understanding of ME and, we hope, be better able to diagnose and support people with ME.
October 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Do you know any medical students who might like to win £250 by writing a 500 word essay about #ME ?
I can provide lots of info to help any interested student and access to high quality resources and lived experience.
I can provide lots of info to help any interested student and access to high quality resources and lived experience.
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Our medical student essay competition is back!
We are hosting an essay competition open to all medical students at any Medical School in the UK.
Students who take part will have an improved understanding of ME and, we hope, be better able to diagnose and support people with ME.
We are hosting an essay competition open to all medical students at any Medical School in the UK.
Students who take part will have an improved understanding of ME and, we hope, be better able to diagnose and support people with ME.
October 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Our medical student essay competition is back!
We are hosting an essay competition open to all medical students at any Medical School in the UK.
Students who take part will have an improved understanding of ME and, we hope, be better able to diagnose and support people with ME.
We are hosting an essay competition open to all medical students at any Medical School in the UK.
Students who take part will have an improved understanding of ME and, we hope, be better able to diagnose and support people with ME.
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Tackling the cost of living crisis goes hand in hand with tackling the climate crisis.
We need food security, insulated homes, and cheap renewable energy.
We need food security, insulated homes, and cheap renewable energy.
UK food inflation is being driven by climate change-induced extreme weather, driving up price of butter, milk, beef, chocolate & coffee
The price rises in those staples is contributing 40% of overall food inflation
Climate change is hitting peoples' pockets, right now
www.ft.com/content/ced8...
The price rises in those staples is contributing 40% of overall food inflation
Climate change is hitting peoples' pockets, right now
www.ft.com/content/ced8...
Five staples fuelling UK food inflation as climate risks rise, study finds
Findings challenge narrative that food price growth is being driven by higher taxes and wage costs
www.ft.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Tackling the cost of living crisis goes hand in hand with tackling the climate crisis.
We need food security, insulated homes, and cheap renewable energy.
We need food security, insulated homes, and cheap renewable energy.
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Flagging this both because it's cool research, and because the graphs shown here illustrate a very important best-practice of showing both the curves/confidence intervals and the raw data points themselves whenever possible.
Colours of urban selection: carotenoid-based signals reveal divergent urban/rural evolutionary trajectories in two closely related passerines | doi.org/10.1002/oik.... | Oikos | #ornithology 🪶
October 21, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Flagging this both because it's cool research, and because the graphs shown here illustrate a very important best-practice of showing both the curves/confidence intervals and the raw data points themselves whenever possible.
AWS is down, post hog
October 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
AWS is down, post hog
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🎉AND HERE IT IS!🎉
This year's ✨Wildlife Photographer of the Year✨ is won by Wim van den Heever's rather haunting image of a brown hyena emerging from the darkness in the abandoned mining town of Kolmanskop, Namibia! Just in time for spooky season 📸🧪🐕
This year's ✨Wildlife Photographer of the Year✨ is won by Wim van den Heever's rather haunting image of a brown hyena emerging from the darkness in the abandoned mining town of Kolmanskop, Namibia! Just in time for spooky season 📸🧪🐕
October 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
🎉AND HERE IT IS!🎉
This year's ✨Wildlife Photographer of the Year✨ is won by Wim van den Heever's rather haunting image of a brown hyena emerging from the darkness in the abandoned mining town of Kolmanskop, Namibia! Just in time for spooky season 📸🧪🐕
This year's ✨Wildlife Photographer of the Year✨ is won by Wim van den Heever's rather haunting image of a brown hyena emerging from the darkness in the abandoned mining town of Kolmanskop, Namibia! Just in time for spooky season 📸🧪🐕
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We have been given a chance to purchase Middleton Moor. But we must raise £1.2 million by 30 November!
This is part of our ambitious Wilder 2030 Fund, a five-year plan to raise £5 million to support the our vision for a Wilder Derbyshire by 2030.
Make a donation here - https://pulse.ly/acoipz6zk7
This is part of our ambitious Wilder 2030 Fund, a five-year plan to raise £5 million to support the our vision for a Wilder Derbyshire by 2030.
Make a donation here - https://pulse.ly/acoipz6zk7
October 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
We have been given a chance to purchase Middleton Moor. But we must raise £1.2 million by 30 November!
This is part of our ambitious Wilder 2030 Fund, a five-year plan to raise £5 million to support the our vision for a Wilder Derbyshire by 2030.
Make a donation here - https://pulse.ly/acoipz6zk7
This is part of our ambitious Wilder 2030 Fund, a five-year plan to raise £5 million to support the our vision for a Wilder Derbyshire by 2030.
Make a donation here - https://pulse.ly/acoipz6zk7
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Women in the US are now being forced to have babies and carry in the most painful way possible.
The #autism announcement yesterday was not based at all on science. The correlations found in that 1 study are not sound: the follow up times were unbalanced, leading to bias and misleading associations.
The #autism announcement yesterday was not based at all on science. The correlations found in that 1 study are not sound: the follow up times were unbalanced, leading to bias and misleading associations.
September 23, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Women in the US are now being forced to have babies and carry in the most painful way possible.
The #autism announcement yesterday was not based at all on science. The correlations found in that 1 study are not sound: the follow up times were unbalanced, leading to bias and misleading associations.
The #autism announcement yesterday was not based at all on science. The correlations found in that 1 study are not sound: the follow up times were unbalanced, leading to bias and misleading associations.
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It’s fall- you know what that means.
(Monarch butterflies migrating to Southern California, Mexico, and Florida)
(Monarch butterflies migrating to Southern California, Mexico, and Florida)
September 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It’s fall- you know what that means.
(Monarch butterflies migrating to Southern California, Mexico, and Florida)
(Monarch butterflies migrating to Southern California, Mexico, and Florida)
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Found the most adorable tiny crimped gill mushrooms. Each one is only about a centimetre in diametre. We've had a ton of rain this fall, so the fungi are thriving right now. 🌿
September 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Found the most adorable tiny crimped gill mushrooms. Each one is only about a centimetre in diametre. We've had a ton of rain this fall, so the fungi are thriving right now. 🌿
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I strongly second this! 👏🏾
When talking about science communication, I also always stress that *all* forms and forums of communication matter 🔄
Whether it’s a big, factually correct but details-lite TV show or movie…or just chatting to granny or your mates in a pub 🗣️
When talking about science communication, I also always stress that *all* forms and forums of communication matter 🔄
Whether it’s a big, factually correct but details-lite TV show or movie…or just chatting to granny or your mates in a pub 🗣️
Fantastic piece in Nature Reviews Neuro by @nicolecrust.bsky.social on the importance of science communication. My take? Everything matters - just do something. It will make a difference for how science is valued and trusted, how community understands. Let's get out there and communicate! 👏
The unexpected value of communicating science to the public
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - As a group, our scientific community has a responsibility to unpack the ‘what’ and ‘why’ behind our work for the public, not least because much...
rdcu.be
September 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I strongly second this! 👏🏾
When talking about science communication, I also always stress that *all* forms and forums of communication matter 🔄
Whether it’s a big, factually correct but details-lite TV show or movie…or just chatting to granny or your mates in a pub 🗣️
When talking about science communication, I also always stress that *all* forms and forums of communication matter 🔄
Whether it’s a big, factually correct but details-lite TV show or movie…or just chatting to granny or your mates in a pub 🗣️
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Disney’s collapse following the most successful boycott in human history opens up the streaming market, and Bluesky spins up a streaming service.
What are the hit shows on BlueSky Max?
What are the hit shows on BlueSky Max?
September 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Disney’s collapse following the most successful boycott in human history opens up the streaming market, and Bluesky spins up a streaming service.
What are the hit shows on BlueSky Max?
What are the hit shows on BlueSky Max?
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Migration Update
Last week more of this year’s young storks crossed the Channel from Dungeness to France. Satellite tags show them south of Boulogne-sur-Mer, likely having travelled together after days along the South Coast. Our live map will be updated soon, so you can follow their journeys live!
Last week more of this year’s young storks crossed the Channel from Dungeness to France. Satellite tags show them south of Boulogne-sur-Mer, likely having travelled together after days along the South Coast. Our live map will be updated soon, so you can follow their journeys live!
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Migration Update
Last week more of this year’s young storks crossed the Channel from Dungeness to France. Satellite tags show them south of Boulogne-sur-Mer, likely having travelled together after days along the South Coast. Our live map will be updated soon, so you can follow their journeys live!
Last week more of this year’s young storks crossed the Channel from Dungeness to France. Satellite tags show them south of Boulogne-sur-Mer, likely having travelled together after days along the South Coast. Our live map will be updated soon, so you can follow their journeys live!