Rob Thomas
@robthomasbirds.bsky.social
Bird-watcher & conservationist in and from Wales. Associate researcher at Cardiff Uni, co-director of Eco-explore Community Interest Company, trustee of Initiative for Nature Conservation Cymru & Craig y Rhondda. Received Marsh Award for Ornithology 2025.
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Part-time, permanent position.
Rare opportunity to work at one of the UK's premier wildlife/ecotourism sites (Ospreys, White-tailed Eagles, Peregrine, Marsh Harriers) with a fabulous team @harbourbirds.bsky.social
Closing date: 30 Jan.
#RaptorResearch
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Rare opportunity to work at one of the UK's premier wildlife/ecotourism sites (Ospreys, White-tailed Eagles, Peregrine, Marsh Harriers) with a fabulous team @harbourbirds.bsky.social
Closing date: 30 Jan.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/03/j...
Job opportunity: Engagement Assistant, Birds of Poole Harbour (Dorset)
The charity Birds of Poole Harbour (the fabulous team behind the Osprey Reintroduction Project, amongst many other things) is advertising for an Engagement Assistant to help them deliver a number o…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Part-time, permanent position.
Rare opportunity to work at one of the UK's premier wildlife/ecotourism sites (Ospreys, White-tailed Eagles, Peregrine, Marsh Harriers) with a fabulous team @harbourbirds.bsky.social
Closing date: 30 Jan.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/03/j...
Rare opportunity to work at one of the UK's premier wildlife/ecotourism sites (Ospreys, White-tailed Eagles, Peregrine, Marsh Harriers) with a fabulous team @harbourbirds.bsky.social
Closing date: 30 Jan.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/03/j...
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Conservation Scientist - Island Restoration - RSPB - environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/108572-...
Conservation Scientist - Island Restoration
The removal of invasive predators from island ecosystems delivers major conservation benefits. We are looking for an island restoration scientist to help realise these benefits by joining our ...
environmentjob.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Conservation Scientist - Island Restoration - RSPB - environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/108572-...
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Home student looking for a PhD & interested in AI, quantitative ecology & bridging the species to ecosystem divide? This ZSL project, entitled "AI-enabled construction of an ecosystem management framework that supports UK seabirds conservation", may be for you! See lnkd.in/edhp3_zy (deadline:12/1)
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Home student looking for a PhD & interested in AI, quantitative ecology & bridging the species to ecosystem divide? This ZSL project, entitled "AI-enabled construction of an ecosystem management framework that supports UK seabirds conservation", may be for you! See lnkd.in/edhp3_zy (deadline:12/1)
Lucy Dacus’ moving performance of “Bread and Roses” at the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York. youtu.be/SOaWApniIN8?...
Lucy Dacus Performs at NYC Inauguration as Mayor Zohran Mamdani Takes Office | AC1G
YouTube video by DRM News
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January 2, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Lucy Dacus’ moving performance of “Bread and Roses” at the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York. youtu.be/SOaWApniIN8?...
Cymru's Sustainable Farming Scheme has finally arrived. All eyes will be on how it now performs - for farmers and for nature. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Protest-hit post-Brexit sustainable farming scheme goes live
The post-Brexit subsidy scheme for farmers begins, almost a decade after the vote to leave the EU.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Cymru's Sustainable Farming Scheme has finally arrived. All eyes will be on how it now performs - for farmers and for nature. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Wild London review – honestly, telly does not get any better than this
Wild London review – honestly, telly does not get any better than this
Mischievous and glorious, David Attenborough brings his lifelong sense of wonder to the city’s wildlife, from foxes to peregrine falcons, in this exquisite and endlessly moving special
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Wild London review – honestly, telly does not get any better than this
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There are lots of lovely BBS squares in East Glamorgan looking for volunteers to take them on in 2026. Go on . . . you know you want to!
Ma nifer o sgwariau BBS ar gael sydd angen gwirfoddolwyr arnynt yn Nwyrain Morgannwg yn 2026. Ewch amdani!
Ma nifer o sgwariau BBS ar gael sydd angen gwirfoddolwyr arnynt yn Nwyrain Morgannwg yn 2026. Ewch amdani!
Happy New Year to you all! Why not make it your New Year’s resolution for 2026 to take on a BBS square near you! You can find out how to take part in the survey and sign up to survey a square here: www.bto.org/get-invo... @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social
January 1, 2026 at 10:45 AM
There are lots of lovely BBS squares in East Glamorgan looking for volunteers to take them on in 2026. Go on . . . you know you want to!
Ma nifer o sgwariau BBS ar gael sydd angen gwirfoddolwyr arnynt yn Nwyrain Morgannwg yn 2026. Ewch amdani!
Ma nifer o sgwariau BBS ar gael sydd angen gwirfoddolwyr arnynt yn Nwyrain Morgannwg yn 2026. Ewch amdani!
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Happy New Year!
It's time to kick off #RecordEveryDayJanuary 🍾
Submit a species sighting each day this month to get your wildlife recording year started and be entered into a prize draw for book tokens 📚
It's time to kick off #RecordEveryDayJanuary 🍾
Submit a species sighting each day this month to get your wildlife recording year started and be entered into a prize draw for book tokens 📚
January 1, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Happy New Year!
It's time to kick off #RecordEveryDayJanuary 🍾
Submit a species sighting each day this month to get your wildlife recording year started and be entered into a prize draw for book tokens 📚
It's time to kick off #RecordEveryDayJanuary 🍾
Submit a species sighting each day this month to get your wildlife recording year started and be entered into a prize draw for book tokens 📚
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Here’s a snapshot of the services MSF provided in #Gaza in 2025. We’ve received no updates on our Israeli registration process for 2026 and it is unclear if we will be able to continue activities.
- 800,000 consultations
- 22,700 surgical operations
- 700 million litres of water
- 800,000 consultations
- 22,700 surgical operations
- 700 million litres of water
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Here’s a snapshot of the services MSF provided in #Gaza in 2025. We’ve received no updates on our Israeli registration process for 2026 and it is unclear if we will be able to continue activities.
- 800,000 consultations
- 22,700 surgical operations
- 700 million litres of water
- 800,000 consultations
- 22,700 surgical operations
- 700 million litres of water
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New Year, new job. Come and join the @ukceh.bsky.social team on the Isle of May
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Avian Ecologist
Salary - £31,942 - £33,898 Depending on experience Hybrid working (50/50) Location: Edinburgh Closing date: 16th January 2026 We are looking for an enthusiastic Avian Ecologist to join our team in Edi...
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December 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
New Year, new job. Come and join the @ukceh.bsky.social team on the Isle of May
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...
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Please donate to this important project by Northumberland Wildlife Trust if you can.
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
#rewilding
#restorenature
#curlews
#rothburyestate
www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
#rewilding
#restorenature
#curlews
#rothburyestate
www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
Donate to Secure the Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife Trusts
Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...
www.wildlifetrusts.org
December 31, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Please donate to this important project by Northumberland Wildlife Trust if you can.
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
#rewilding
#restorenature
#curlews
#rothburyestate
www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
#rewilding
#restorenature
#curlews
#rothburyestate
www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
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Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t. www.wired.com/story/people...
People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year
Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who...
www.wired.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t. www.wired.com/story/people...
Beautiful work - bravo!
Yes, my wedding has a website
Yes, I have also included modelling of the expected temperature on the day
Yes, I did this by fitting a Bayesian model to 45 years of temperature data
Yes, the wedding website has an easter egg with a little link to find a writeup of how I got the numbers
Yes, I have also included modelling of the expected temperature on the day
Yes, I did this by fitting a Bayesian model to 45 years of temperature data
Yes, the wedding website has an easter egg with a little link to find a writeup of how I got the numbers
December 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Beautiful work - bravo!
Great fun this afternoon at @rspbcymru.bsky.social Newport Wetlands reserve, with a very jolly crowd watching murmurating starlings, and fly-by marsh harrier and sparrowhawk.
December 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Great fun this afternoon at @rspbcymru.bsky.social Newport Wetlands reserve, with a very jolly crowd watching murmurating starlings, and fly-by marsh harrier and sparrowhawk.
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Quite how shore nets like these are legal is beyond me. Two turnstones were trapped this morning at Rhos Point. I untangled both and they were able to fly off unharmed before being drowned by the rising tide.
December 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Quite how shore nets like these are legal is beyond me. Two turnstones were trapped this morning at Rhos Point. I untangled both and they were able to fly off unharmed before being drowned by the rising tide.
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The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14
December 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14
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🦇 Interested in pursuing a bat related PhD or you're interested in genetics?
See this fantastic opportunity to work with @orlyrazgour.bsky.social and @bfraser.bsky.social at @exeter.ac.uk : www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
Deadline 8 Jan.
See this fantastic opportunity to work with @orlyrazgour.bsky.social and @bfraser.bsky.social at @exeter.ac.uk : www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
Deadline 8 Jan.
Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🦇 Interested in pursuing a bat related PhD or you're interested in genetics?
See this fantastic opportunity to work with @orlyrazgour.bsky.social and @bfraser.bsky.social at @exeter.ac.uk : www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
Deadline 8 Jan.
See this fantastic opportunity to work with @orlyrazgour.bsky.social and @bfraser.bsky.social at @exeter.ac.uk : www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
Deadline 8 Jan.
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What do you think of when you hear the name ''Papua New Guinea''? 'Paradise'? Or 'paradise birds'?
Watch e.g. here:
youtu.be/QPFksbpH-1M?...
It punches the belly to think that this paradise is being demolished to make space for more plantations.
What can we do to stop this?
Watch e.g. here:
youtu.be/QPFksbpH-1M?...
It punches the belly to think that this paradise is being demolished to make space for more plantations.
What can we do to stop this?
New Guinea Tropical Birds - Tropical Island Rare Bird Species (Documentary)
YouTube video by Birds Documentary PARADISE
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December 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
What do you think of when you hear the name ''Papua New Guinea''? 'Paradise'? Or 'paradise birds'?
Watch e.g. here:
youtu.be/QPFksbpH-1M?...
It punches the belly to think that this paradise is being demolished to make space for more plantations.
What can we do to stop this?
Watch e.g. here:
youtu.be/QPFksbpH-1M?...
It punches the belly to think that this paradise is being demolished to make space for more plantations.
What can we do to stop this?
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📢 Competition funded PhD with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social: Occupancy, density & the ecology of terrestrial British mammals - what can years of systematic camera trapping tell us?
Apply by 5th January 2026. 👇
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
@mammalweb.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk #phd
Apply by 5th January 2026. 👇
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
@mammalweb.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk #phd
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
📢 Competition funded PhD with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social: Occupancy, density & the ecology of terrestrial British mammals - what can years of systematic camera trapping tell us?
Apply by 5th January 2026. 👇
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
@mammalweb.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk #phd
Apply by 5th January 2026. 👇
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
@mammalweb.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk #phd
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'Every woman knows what I’m talking about.'
Yes, we do, sadly. Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social.
www.guernicamag.com/rebecca-soln...
Yes, we do, sadly. Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social.
www.guernicamag.com/rebecca-soln...
Men Explain Things to Me
<p>Before there was <em>mansplaining</em>, there was Rebecca Solnit's 2008 critique of male arrogance. Reprinted here with a new introduction.</p>
www.guernicamag.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
'Every woman knows what I’m talking about.'
Yes, we do, sadly. Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social.
www.guernicamag.com/rebecca-soln...
Yes, we do, sadly. Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social.
www.guernicamag.com/rebecca-soln...
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West Papua Indonesia Earth's oldest living eco system existing for at least 70 million years
Look at the 292 square Kilometers of ancient forest cleared in just 21 months
Now army brought in to fast track 5 million more acres
www.ft.com/content/27a6...
Look at the 292 square Kilometers of ancient forest cleared in just 21 months
Now army brought in to fast track 5 million more acres
www.ft.com/content/27a6...
December 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
West Papua Indonesia Earth's oldest living eco system existing for at least 70 million years
Look at the 292 square Kilometers of ancient forest cleared in just 21 months
Now army brought in to fast track 5 million more acres
www.ft.com/content/27a6...
Look at the 292 square Kilometers of ancient forest cleared in just 21 months
Now army brought in to fast track 5 million more acres
www.ft.com/content/27a6...
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Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered…
news.mongabay.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
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Finally caught up with “Listers: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching”, and quite enjoyed it! While a bit baggy in parts and could use better editing to tighten it up, it does a good job of capturing the absurd charms of birds and birdwatching, and the extremes some go to find n list birds they see!
LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
YouTube video by owen reiser
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December 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Finally caught up with “Listers: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching”, and quite enjoyed it! While a bit baggy in parts and could use better editing to tighten it up, it does a good job of capturing the absurd charms of birds and birdwatching, and the extremes some go to find n list birds they see!
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Save this, it's perfect.
December 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Save this, it's perfect.
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The arrest of Greta Thunberg for peacefully opposing genocide and supporting those on hunger strike is wrongful and disturbing.
This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.
This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.
December 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The arrest of Greta Thunberg for peacefully opposing genocide and supporting those on hunger strike is wrongful and disturbing.
This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.
This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.