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Joanna Redfeather
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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 🇬🇧

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davidrvetter.bsky.social Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d
"Maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation ... potentially a good thing for the species." - Jeffrey Epstein
richard.wickedproblems.earth Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 1d
"From: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: Joscha Bach
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016
re taboo , maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation. the earths forest fire. potentailly a
good thing for the species".. 1/2
February 16, 2026 at 8:50 AM
joannaredfeather.bsky.social
This whole thread is a must-read.

P.S. Christopher Pike! ♿️
nome.bsky.social Nome @nome.bsky.social · 4d
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."

That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
Lines of academy cadets, one in command red seated but at attention while in a wheelchair.
February 13, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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gravesjl55.bsky.social
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...
Congress: Stop Funding ICE’s Violence
Masked, unidentified federal agents have been militarizing our cities and brutalizing our communities in order to carry out Trump’s extreme deportation agenda. These agents—outfitted for war—are showi...
sign.moveon.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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coralcitycamera.bsky.social
We are proud to unveil the world’s longest underwater timelapse, starting May 1st 2023 and running 1,000 days through January 28, 2026. This 10fps period covers summer 2023’s coral bleaching mortality event, but then recovering and growing through ‘24 & ‘25 into ‘26 #coralcitycamera
February 9, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
NZ shorebird and seabird thread.

I'm going to go ahead and post some shots before carefully editing and sorting; I'm already falling hopelessly behind.

Let's start with a variable oystercatcher chick and parent. 🪶
Dark oystercatcher chick facing the camera, spread down against the rock, as a watchful parent with bright orange bill and red eye-circle looks over it.
February 9, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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animalphotorefs.bsky.social
Photos of the Day: Gharial teeth

All photos on the repository are free-to-use for artists creating derivative/transformative works (sans AI).
A gharial resting in water, nose pointed towards the camera A side view of a gharial resting n water with its mouth open A close-up of the knob on the end of a gharial snout
February 2, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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tessmachling.bsky.social
Why I love the #Greens, what I like about @zackpolanski.bsky.social & folks like Hannah Spencer is that they mightn't be perfect, they mightn't be polished, they mightn't be always right, but what they do have is pots of humanity & integrity.

In Epstein Files/Trump era those qualities are golden.
February 2, 2026 at 1:58 PM
joannaredfeather.bsky.social
“Brooks radically exposes us to the hidden queerness of Georgian and Victorian science—and shows how nature has always been more sexually diverse than we’ve been told.”

This book sounds like a great read! Looking forward to it!

🏳️‍🌈🌍
rossbrooks.co.uk 🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 18d
My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏

UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈📚🐵

US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗃️🦋
Jacket design for Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science by Ross Brooks. It features a historic, drawn image of a gynandromorph gypsy moth, with distinctive female patterning on its left side and male on its right. Against a black background, the image and text (title and author's name) are brightly rendered in a spectrum of colours resonant of the Progress Pride Flag.
February 1, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
“When we see the hazel catkins turn yellow, we know that spring is not far off”

Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
A blackbird is purchased on the ground of a wooded bank near a lake on a misty winter day. Overhead, hazel catkins droop.
February 1, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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joshlukedavis.com
"Volunteers for Butterfly Conservation this winter counted 276 brown hairstreak eggs on blackthorn hedges... west of Llandeilo and 117 eggs on the south verge – both record counts and a 50% increase on the previous year."

🥳🧪🦋
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rare butterflies bounce back after landowners in Wales cut back on flailing hedges
More than 300 brown hairstreak butterfly eggs were recorded in hedgerows near Llandeilo this winter after decade of decline
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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rru.bsky.social
Goodmorning! My world is all snowy today. Have a beaver dam to celebrate!
River running past a frosty beaver dam, it is half a meter high, 2m wide roughly, and the water flows over in one part, while the sticks are covered in ice on the rest of the dam. By contrast the pines in the back are dark green, and the grass only lightly frosted.
January 29, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
And I think this is the one strength of large language models. They let us instruct computers in our own natural language, instead of having to learn to speak their language.

Quote below from our lesson 4:
thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-4-com...
PRINCIPLE Large language models make computing radically more accessible, by allowing untrained users to converse with the machine in their own natural language. Look for places where that ability solves real problems.
January 29, 2026 at 6:46 AM
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katjathieme.bsky.social
"The reason these aspects of our jobs have been so challenging to automate is that they rely on something even more precious than our time: namely, our capacity for scientific decision-making. It is worth considering what we lose when we cede that—and our agency—to machines."
January 27, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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rspb.bsky.social
"Everybody - wake up! It's the #BigGardenBirdwatch!"

Will you be taking part today? 👀🌳
A Robin is perched on a weathered wooden surface, its bright orange-red breast puffed up and beak wide open in full song. The blurred background creates a soft gradient of earthy tones, making the Robin stand out. With its legs firmly planted and feathers fluffed, it looks as if it’s passionately delivering an important message to the world.
January 24, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
And just like that, the US has left the World Health Organization.

Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard.

www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...
United States Completes WHO Withdrawal WASHINGTON —  January 22, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of State today announced the United States’ completion of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a joint statement on the termination of U.S. membership in the WHO.President Trump on January 20, 2025, announced the U.S. plan to leave the WHO. During the yearlong process, the U.S. stopped funding WHO, withdrew all personnel from WHO, and began pivoting activities previously conducted with WHO to direct bilateral engagements with other countries and organizations. With the exit from WHO, the U.S. will be coordinating with WHO solely in a limited fashion to effectuate withdrawal.  The WHO delayed declaring a global public health emergency and a pandemic during the early stages of COVID-19, costing the world critical weeks as the virus spread. During that period, WHO leadership echoed and praised China's response despite evidence of early underreporting, suppression of information and delays in confirming human-to-human transmission. The organization also downplayed asymptomatic transmission risks and failed to promptly acknowledge airborne spread.After the pandemic, the WHO did not adopt meaningful reforms to address political influence, governance weaknesses or poor coordination, reinforcing concerns that politics took priority over rapid, independent public health action and eroding global trust. Its report evaluating the possible origins of COVID-19 rejected the possibility that scientists cre…
January 23, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘Goldfinch’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
A cluster of goldfinch tackle some very fluffy thistle heads
January 21, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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maxplanck.de
Female scientists have to wait longer for their articles to be reviewed than their male colleagues. An analysis of 36.5 million papers in the life sciences shows that for females it took 115 days to reach a decision, compared to 101 days for men journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @plosbiology.org
Median time under review (time intervened from submission to acceptance) of articles indexed in PubMed with a female first author (n = 2,562,262), a male first author (n = 3,405,821), a female corresponding author (n = 975,010), a male corresponding author (n = 1,946,469), a female first author and a female corresponding author (n = 757,878), a male first author and a male corresponding author (n = 1,357,835), all-female authors (n = 650,280), and all-male authors (n = 2,146,799)
January 22, 2026 at 8:43 AM
joannaredfeather.bsky.social
This UK government report was just published yesterday. 🌍

High confidence in several areas including: Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity.

Moderate confidence in some others including risks to UK food security.

www.gov.uk/government/p...
January 21, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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claesdevreese.bsky.social
Not the most important move in the world…. BUT it *is* significant when commercial companies also decide to leave X.

Next: all airlines using Amsterdam airport also saying 👋🏼 to X ??
January 20, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
How to get into nature.
A four-panel comic titled "how to get into nature". In panel 1, a person kneels in the woods, looking down at a red-backed salamander, and the text says "notice a living thing." In panel 2, the text says "notice some other things that live near it," and there's a starflower, springtail, ant, little wood satyr butterfly, and salamander on the leaf litter. In panel 3, covered in creatures, plants, and a colorful starburst, the text says "Notice the connections between them, discover the wider ecosystem, learn about its histories, and find yourself following links from bedrock to stratosphere, between biotic and abiotic, at scales both microbial and massive, until you’re hopelessly overwhelmed by the wonder of it all." In panel 4, the text says "Fall into a daze and let moss engulf you." The person from the first panel is still kneeling in the woods, looking happy as moss slowly engulfs them, and they're saying "This is for the best."
January 20, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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anamariecox.bsky.social
TIMELINE CLEANSE

When's a time that a stranger helped you in an unexpected, maybe even small way?
January 19, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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inkfish.bsky.social
Amazing visual. I'll only add that this species is holding on by a THREAD. 🧪
whysharksmatter.bsky.social David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Jan 14
The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states.

The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor.

One collision and the whale is dead.

We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍
January 14, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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rspbengland.bsky.social
Register now for the Big Garden Birdwatch 23-26 January to take part in the world's largest garden wildlife survey
Who will be this year's garden faithfuls and traitors?
One hour to sit, chill & watch the birds, recording the highest number of each species seen at any one time
Link in the comments
A Robin with a bright red chest stood on vivid green grass next to wet brown leaves - Jo Taylor
January 13, 2026 at 11:19 AM
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derbyswildlife.bsky.social
Nature needs urgent action.

Right now, 1 in 10 UK species is at risk of being lost forever.

You can help reverse nature's decline 💚

Act swiftly! Time is running out to secure 50% off membership for the whole year.

Join from just £1.75: https://pulse.ly/fdfgx5xdon

#WilderDerbyshire
A swift bird in flight against a yellow and blue background, with text reading "Act swiftly" and "Half price memberships from £1.75 / month" in bold lettering.
January 10, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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jmbecologist.bsky.social
Many words are written about the calm & peace from being in ‘nature’

But in this part of the world, nature is has been hugely modified & simplified

A wilder nature would be more edgy & even have dangers

Still restorative to be in, but less sanitised
January 10, 2026 at 10:15 AM