Kiera Chapman
@kierachapman.bsky.social
Nature writer, research fellow University of Oxford, Co-I Planning for Nature kierachapman.com / www.planningfornature.org
Just had a meeting about our exhibition, Plain Things Wonders, which will be at the Weston in Oxford in the autumn, and I have decided to stuff a case with straw things 🍞
The history of wheat is a fascinating one.
The history of wheat is a fascinating one.
a picture of a field of wheat with the sun shining through it
ALT: a picture of a field of wheat with the sun shining through it
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January 29, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Just had a meeting about our exhibition, Plain Things Wonders, which will be at the Weston in Oxford in the autumn, and I have decided to stuff a case with straw things 🍞
The history of wheat is a fascinating one.
The history of wheat is a fascinating one.
I am squeeing with delight at the cover for our new book! It's SO SHINY!
Out in August.
Out in August.
January 29, 2026 at 8:16 AM
I am squeeing with delight at the cover for our new book! It's SO SHINY!
Out in August.
Out in August.
So @dennispatton.bsky.social asked yesterday: why are the Greens (and other environmentalists) supporting the Local Plan in Sheffield?
The answer to this goes to the heart of everything that's wrong with the current planning system and its relationship to nature.
The answer to this goes to the heart of everything that's wrong with the current planning system and its relationship to nature.
the sun is shining through the trees and a fern is in the foreground
ALT: the sun is shining through the trees and a fern is in the foreground
media.tenor.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:28 AM
So @dennispatton.bsky.social asked yesterday: why are the Greens (and other environmentalists) supporting the Local Plan in Sheffield?
The answer to this goes to the heart of everything that's wrong with the current planning system and its relationship to nature.
The answer to this goes to the heart of everything that's wrong with the current planning system and its relationship to nature.
First up - let me tell you about this event tomorrow night with @thelrm.bsky.social
I'm like the Ancient Mariner about this book - grasping people by the arm, and telling them with a glittering, paranoid, neurotic eye that THEY MUST READ IT!
I'm like the Ancient Mariner about this book - grasping people by the arm, and telling them with a glittering, paranoid, neurotic eye that THEY MUST READ IT!
January 27, 2026 at 11:42 AM
First up - let me tell you about this event tomorrow night with @thelrm.bsky.social
I'm like the Ancient Mariner about this book - grasping people by the arm, and telling them with a glittering, paranoid, neurotic eye that THEY MUST READ IT!
I'm like the Ancient Mariner about this book - grasping people by the arm, and telling them with a glittering, paranoid, neurotic eye that THEY MUST READ IT!
I'm so sorry - I've been absent for way longer than I ever intended. I needed a break from social media to process everything that's happened in the last year. And I'm feeling much better and more positive now!
I've got so much to tell you guys too!
I've got so much to tell you guys too!
January 27, 2026 at 11:40 AM
I'm so sorry - I've been absent for way longer than I ever intended. I needed a break from social media to process everything that's happened in the last year. And I'm feeling much better and more positive now!
I've got so much to tell you guys too!
I've got so much to tell you guys too!
Just want to share my joy in this incredible book. Morag is the person I know with the most sensitive and critical antennae for place. And she writes with power and beauty.
December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Just want to share my joy in this incredible book. Morag is the person I know with the most sensitive and critical antennae for place. And she writes with power and beauty.
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Jessie Newbery (186-.1948), Scottish artist and embroiderer and one of the artists known as the Glasgow Girls. She created the Department of Embroidery at the Glasgow School of Art where she was able to establish needlework as a form of unique artistic design. #womensart
December 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Jessie Newbery (186-.1948), Scottish artist and embroiderer and one of the artists known as the Glasgow Girls. She created the Department of Embroidery at the Glasgow School of Art where she was able to establish needlework as a form of unique artistic design. #womensart
@davewragg.com are you the person currently talking to me on a thread about authorship on The Independent's Facebook?
December 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
@davewragg.com are you the person currently talking to me on a thread about authorship on The Independent's Facebook?
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Israel bombed a hospital.
Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded.
Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV.
Read that again.
Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded.
Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV.
Read that again.
Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
August 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Israel bombed a hospital.
Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded.
Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV.
Read that again.
Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded.
Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV.
Read that again.
Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
When you walk into a bar, and the landlady looks you up and down and says "I got you, I'm pouring a big one".
This is what a day of sorting out footnotes does. Good news: it's nearly ready to go off to Granta. Bad news: I'm going to have the worst hangover tomorrow.
This is what a day of sorting out footnotes does. Good news: it's nearly ready to go off to Granta. Bad news: I'm going to have the worst hangover tomorrow.
August 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
When you walk into a bar, and the landlady looks you up and down and says "I got you, I'm pouring a big one".
This is what a day of sorting out footnotes does. Good news: it's nearly ready to go off to Granta. Bad news: I'm going to have the worst hangover tomorrow.
This is what a day of sorting out footnotes does. Good news: it's nearly ready to go off to Granta. Bad news: I'm going to have the worst hangover tomorrow.
Check out my state of the art greywater recycling system! Cost: £3 from Screwfix.
Now I can reuse the water from my washing machine and kitchen sink in the garden during the hosepipe ban. (Obviously I'll be using ecofriendly detergents to try to protect the soil and plants as much as I can).
Now I can reuse the water from my washing machine and kitchen sink in the garden during the hosepipe ban. (Obviously I'll be using ecofriendly detergents to try to protect the soil and plants as much as I can).
August 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Check out my state of the art greywater recycling system! Cost: £3 from Screwfix.
Now I can reuse the water from my washing machine and kitchen sink in the garden during the hosepipe ban. (Obviously I'll be using ecofriendly detergents to try to protect the soil and plants as much as I can).
Now I can reuse the water from my washing machine and kitchen sink in the garden during the hosepipe ban. (Obviously I'll be using ecofriendly detergents to try to protect the soil and plants as much as I can).
Not a surprising finding, but that doesn't diminish the importance of research that draws attention to this unfolding problem. Green and blue spaces can be important in mitigating this.
Low-income and minority ethnic people in England most at risk from dangerously hot homes
Exclusive: Homes are heating up as summers get hotter but least well-off are shouldering greatest risk, study finds
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Not a surprising finding, but that doesn't diminish the importance of research that draws attention to this unfolding problem. Green and blue spaces can be important in mitigating this.
Am I right in thinking this is a popular site for water sports and wild swimming?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show
Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog
www.theguardian.com
August 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Am I right in thinking this is a popular site for water sports and wild swimming?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Novel ways to spend a gap yah: living as a goat.
August 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Novel ways to spend a gap yah: living as a goat.
Enforcement action over landscaping!! 👀
Developer fined £20,000 after 'burying their head in the sand' over unfinished work
Chatsworth Homes Ltd has been fined £20,000 after not completing the landscaping for a housing development in Badwell Ash.
www.eadt.co.uk
August 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Enforcement action over landscaping!! 👀
For some reason I get a LOT of scam calls. I have started telling the person on the other end that I am placing a sickness curse on their whole family. I don't name disorders, I go full Bruegel on symptoms.
Every single one of them has hung up on me, and not called back.
Every single one of them has hung up on me, and not called back.
August 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
For some reason I get a LOT of scam calls. I have started telling the person on the other end that I am placing a sickness curse on their whole family. I don't name disorders, I go full Bruegel on symptoms.
Every single one of them has hung up on me, and not called back.
Every single one of them has hung up on me, and not called back.
This remains the single most persuasive explanation I've read for US fiscal policy right now:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s one key thing you should know about Trump’s shock to the world economy: it could work | James Meadway
It’s hard to say if the president truly knows what he’s doing. But there is a precedent for the US causing short-term chaos and reaping long-term gain, says economist James Meadway
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This remains the single most persuasive explanation I've read for US fiscal policy right now:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
At school, James Quinton & I loved Alan Ahlberg's Jolly Postman, with its neatly folded collection of letters.
James became a poet. After years apart, he wrote me.
I read the words. I missed what sat between them.
Ahlberg's death, a black-edged envelope, with another loss tucked quietly inside.
James became a poet. After years apart, he wrote me.
I read the words. I missed what sat between them.
Ahlberg's death, a black-edged envelope, with another loss tucked quietly inside.
July 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
At school, James Quinton & I loved Alan Ahlberg's Jolly Postman, with its neatly folded collection of letters.
James became a poet. After years apart, he wrote me.
I read the words. I missed what sat between them.
Ahlberg's death, a black-edged envelope, with another loss tucked quietly inside.
James became a poet. After years apart, he wrote me.
I read the words. I missed what sat between them.
Ahlberg's death, a black-edged envelope, with another loss tucked quietly inside.
Things that make me go all Larry David #452: people who linger around at the top of escalators, checking their phones, finding tickets, doing up shoelaces etc. oblivious to the massive pile up they are causing below.
July 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Things that make me go all Larry David #452: people who linger around at the top of escalators, checking their phones, finding tickets, doing up shoelaces etc. oblivious to the massive pile up they are causing below.
This is ridiculous. Either these people are too dumb to be given power, or they are flagrantly abusing it to bully innocent people. Extremely worrying either way.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester
Samuel Rowe, who was returning from allotment, seeking to overturn caution for possession of offensive weapon
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This is ridiculous. Either these people are too dumb to be given power, or they are flagrantly abusing it to bully innocent people. Extremely worrying either way.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Last day of Tour de France and leader Today Focaccia looks set to beat second place John Ass-Vinegar though noone knows if it is already over or if today is an actual race. It depends on whether it it rains or not.
July 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Last day of Tour de France and leader Today Focaccia looks set to beat second place John Ass-Vinegar though noone knows if it is already over or if today is an actual race. It depends on whether it it rains or not.
#MonarchMadness spreads to France.
And another example from the French Alps where the marmots gamble, but where there aren't meadows full of Monarch butterflies!
July 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
#MonarchMadness spreads to France.
Understanding the basics for human and more-than-human ecoflourishing (and the economic impacts of biodiversity loss) should be a prerequisite for any political office. Especially the Treasury.
This is just pathetic drivel. It's honestly embarrassing.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
This is just pathetic drivel. It's honestly embarrassing.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
I care more about getting a family on the housing ladder than snails – Reeves
The Chancellor was facing questions on Government amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill designed to strengthen environmental protections.
www.independent.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Understanding the basics for human and more-than-human ecoflourishing (and the economic impacts of biodiversity loss) should be a prerequisite for any political office. Especially the Treasury.
This is just pathetic drivel. It's honestly embarrassing.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
This is just pathetic drivel. It's honestly embarrassing.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Fungi are hugely important to ecosystems but not accounted for *at all* in systems like Biodiversity Net Gain.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Earth’s underground network of fungi needs urgent protection, say researchers
Study finds that only 9.5% of fungal biodiversity hotspots fell within existing protected areas
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Fungi are hugely important to ecosystems but not accounted for *at all* in systems like Biodiversity Net Gain.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Man whose profile says he's retired, and formerly worked as a journalist, advises end of holidays for entire country "to be more productive"...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
July 21, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Man whose profile says he's retired, and formerly worked as a journalist, advises end of holidays for entire country "to be more productive"...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...