Josh Luke Davis 🏳️🌈
@joshlukedavis.com
Science writer, editor and author @ the Natural History Museum, London | Queer animals, birds and embroidery | he/him | ✏️🏛🦦 | joshlukedavis.com
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I guess it's probably time to re-introduce myself!
Hi everyone! I'm Josh, and I work at the Natural History Museum, London 🎉 where I write about natural history and badger curators into letting me nose about their collections.
I also wrote an entire book on ✨queer✨ nature! 🙌🌈🦆
Hi everyone! I'm Josh, and I work at the Natural History Museum, London 🎉 where I write about natural history and badger curators into letting me nose about their collections.
I also wrote an entire book on ✨queer✨ nature! 🙌🌈🦆
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🎄Merry Christmas everyone🎄
If you're lying in a food coma and need some entertainment, then look no further! Me and @nhcooper123.bsky.social filmed a fun-filled festive episode with singer rather special specimens 🍄🪱🦆
youtu.be/ekkC636bC34?...
If you're lying in a food coma and need some entertainment, then look no further! Me and @nhcooper123.bsky.social filmed a fun-filled festive episode with singer rather special specimens 🍄🪱🦆
youtu.be/ekkC636bC34?...
Natalie is not allowed to pick up our most delicate specimen yet | The 'Perfect' Specimen Ep16
YouTube video by Natural History Museum
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
🎄Merry Christmas everyone🎄
If you're lying in a food coma and need some entertainment, then look no further! Me and @nhcooper123.bsky.social filmed a fun-filled festive episode with singer rather special specimens 🍄🪱🦆
youtu.be/ekkC636bC34?...
If you're lying in a food coma and need some entertainment, then look no further! Me and @nhcooper123.bsky.social filmed a fun-filled festive episode with singer rather special specimens 🍄🪱🦆
youtu.be/ekkC636bC34?...
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The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
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Doubt raised about whether Rice's whale (close relative of Bryde's and Eden's whale) should be a species given that genetic divergence could be caused by a recent bottleneck from whaling, and not true inability to interbreed with other species onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
December 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Doubt raised about whether Rice's whale (close relative of Bryde's and Eden's whale) should be a species given that genetic divergence could be caused by a recent bottleneck from whaling, and not true inability to interbreed with other species onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
🎄Merry Christmas everyone🎄
If you're lying in a food coma and need some entertainment, then look no further! Me and @nhcooper123.bsky.social filmed a fun-filled festive episode with singer rather special specimens 🍄🪱🦆
youtu.be/ekkC636bC34?...
If you're lying in a food coma and need some entertainment, then look no further! Me and @nhcooper123.bsky.social filmed a fun-filled festive episode with singer rather special specimens 🍄🪱🦆
youtu.be/ekkC636bC34?...
Natalie is not allowed to pick up our most delicate specimen yet | The 'Perfect' Specimen Ep16
YouTube video by Natural History Museum
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
🎄Merry Christmas everyone🎄
If you're lying in a food coma and need some entertainment, then look no further! Me and @nhcooper123.bsky.social filmed a fun-filled festive episode with singer rather special specimens 🍄🪱🦆
youtu.be/ekkC636bC34?...
If you're lying in a food coma and need some entertainment, then look no further! Me and @nhcooper123.bsky.social filmed a fun-filled festive episode with singer rather special specimens 🍄🪱🦆
youtu.be/ekkC636bC34?...
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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Merry Christmas!
December 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Merry Christmas!
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it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set
December 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set
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In many ways humans are ridiculous
How good a year do Britons say 2025 was for...
Themselves personally
Good: 36%
Average: 35%
Bad: 27%
The UK
Good: 6%
Average: 24%
Bad: 66%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
Themselves personally
Good: 36%
Average: 35%
Bad: 27%
The UK
Good: 6%
Average: 24%
Bad: 66%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
December 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
In many ways humans are ridiculous
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Nope, it’s not acceptable for dog walkers to allow their dogs to “chase rabbits, hares, deer and foxes”
Farage showing that despite the image he tries to cultivate, he has no idea of what is normal behaviour in the countryside
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Farage showing that despite the image he tries to cultivate, he has no idea of what is normal behaviour in the countryside
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Boiling lobsters alive to be banned in UK animal cruelty crackdown
Move is part of a long-awaited Labour strategy including outlawing hen cages and ending puppy farming
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Nope, it’s not acceptable for dog walkers to allow their dogs to “chase rabbits, hares, deer and foxes”
Farage showing that despite the image he tries to cultivate, he has no idea of what is normal behaviour in the countryside
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Farage showing that despite the image he tries to cultivate, he has no idea of what is normal behaviour in the countryside
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
haunted
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
haunted
just bought almost a kilo of local cheese 😌
December 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
just bought almost a kilo of local cheese 😌
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It's pretty disgusting for the BBC to be using genAI slop images in an article about slavery of all things
www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/1...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/1...
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It's pretty disgusting for the BBC to be using genAI slop images in an article about slavery of all things
www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/1...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/1...
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JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
CT Data and Micro CT Specialist :South Kensington
jobs.nhm.ac.uk
December 23, 2025 at 6:39 AM
JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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ok what's the most rectangular animal you can think of
December 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
ok what's the most rectangular animal you can think of
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I certainly didn't expect to see a VHS down there. Bummer. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 884 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET
December 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I certainly didn't expect to see a VHS down there. Bummer. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 884 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET
"Its goal is to sell two million tonnes of carbon credits at well above the normal market rate, to prove that “regenerative capitalism” can work, he added."
call me sceptical 🧐
call me sceptical 🧐
When Brewdog admitted failure and sold off their rewilding project, there was at least hope that it had passed into competent hands. No such luck.
‘Unashamedly capitalist’ rewilders claim ‘Moneyball’ approach could make millions – but experts sceptical
Rich Stockdale says model of ‘regenerative capitalism’ would maximise profits by planting trees, restoring peatlands, and installing windfarms across its estates
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Its goal is to sell two million tonnes of carbon credits at well above the normal market rate, to prove that “regenerative capitalism” can work, he added."
call me sceptical 🧐
call me sceptical 🧐
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On Friday 13 Feb I’ll be at the perfect place to talk about extinction in natural history museums: Oxford University Museum of Natural History @morethanadodo.bsky.social.
Free tickets available for “Dead as a Dodo: The Haunted Heritage of Extinction”
oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a...
#extinction
Free tickets available for “Dead as a Dodo: The Haunted Heritage of Extinction”
oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a...
#extinction
Dead as a Dodo: The Haunted Heritage of Extinction’
In the halls of natural history museums all over the world, you can peer through the glass and come face-to-face with the ghosts of extinction.
oumnh.ox.ac.uk
December 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
On Friday 13 Feb I’ll be at the perfect place to talk about extinction in natural history museums: Oxford University Museum of Natural History @morethanadodo.bsky.social.
Free tickets available for “Dead as a Dodo: The Haunted Heritage of Extinction”
oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a...
#extinction
Free tickets available for “Dead as a Dodo: The Haunted Heritage of Extinction”
oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a...
#extinction
within 30 minutes of getting off the train in Northumberland I already had my step-dad say "now this was a Roman road"
straight men 🥲
straight men 🥲
December 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
within 30 minutes of getting off the train in Northumberland I already had my step-dad say "now this was a Roman road"
straight men 🥲
straight men 🥲
it's that time of the year again to migrate North for winter 😌
December 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
it's that time of the year again to migrate North for winter 😌
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MERRY FESTIVE SEASON! Please enjoy our last episode of 2025 m.youtube.com/watch?v=ekkC... Brilliant festive stories from around the world from @joshlukedavis.com and @nhcooper123.bsky.social illustrated by some incredible specimens, including some very historically important models. 🍄
Natalie is not allowed to pick up our most delicate specimen yet | The 'Perfect' Specimen Ep16
YouTube video by Natural History Museum
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
MERRY FESTIVE SEASON! Please enjoy our last episode of 2025 m.youtube.com/watch?v=ekkC... Brilliant festive stories from around the world from @joshlukedavis.com and @nhcooper123.bsky.social illustrated by some incredible specimens, including some very historically important models. 🍄
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The biggest story on the planet! 🌎
Renewables surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide. Solar/wind grew fast enough to cover the entire jump in new power demand.
In the U.S., when Trump dismantled renewables, America lost so much more than a power source. My story forthcoming.
Renewables surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide. Solar/wind grew fast enough to cover the entire jump in new power demand.
In the U.S., when Trump dismantled renewables, America lost so much more than a power source. My story forthcoming.
December 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The biggest story on the planet! 🌎
Renewables surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide. Solar/wind grew fast enough to cover the entire jump in new power demand.
In the U.S., when Trump dismantled renewables, America lost so much more than a power source. My story forthcoming.
Renewables surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide. Solar/wind grew fast enough to cover the entire jump in new power demand.
In the U.S., when Trump dismantled renewables, America lost so much more than a power source. My story forthcoming.
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Have written for @financialtimes.com on the dangers of been see to pitch house building against nature. Britain desperately needs more homes, but if you force a nature/building binary, it is the latter that will lose in the court of public opinion. www.ft.com/content/f456...
December 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Have written for @financialtimes.com on the dangers of been see to pitch house building against nature. Britain desperately needs more homes, but if you force a nature/building binary, it is the latter that will lose in the court of public opinion. www.ft.com/content/f456...
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Tiger conservation in Thailand is a rare bright spot.
The country’s Western Forest Complex has helped grow the Indochinese tiger population from ~40 in 2007 to 140+ today, with new evidence of breeding in the south as corridors open up.
The country’s Western Forest Complex has helped grow the Indochinese tiger population from ~40 in 2007 to 140+ today, with new evidence of breeding in the south as corridors open up.
Hope for tigers grows as Thailand safeguards a key link in their habitat
KANCHANABURI, Thailand — Following the path of the tiger isn’t easy. Yet the three rangers, clad in camouflage, move lithely through the steep bamboo thicket, tracking the muddy hoofprints of a…
news.mongabay.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Tiger conservation in Thailand is a rare bright spot.
The country’s Western Forest Complex has helped grow the Indochinese tiger population from ~40 in 2007 to 140+ today, with new evidence of breeding in the south as corridors open up.
The country’s Western Forest Complex has helped grow the Indochinese tiger population from ~40 in 2007 to 140+ today, with new evidence of breeding in the south as corridors open up.
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As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE
December 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE