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Tim Holt-Wilson
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The story of the Earth - geoconservation, museums, the poetry of things old & wild - based in East Anglia, UK.
https://futureheritage.wordpress.com/
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neilfadams.bsky.social
All 25 specimens from the @nhm-london.bsky.social fossil mammal collection scanned for this project are publicly available on MorphoSource: www.morphosource.org/projects/000.... Thanks to National Lottery Heritage Fund support @lotterygoodcauses.bsky.social
Making sure you're not a bot!
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February 10, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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geolsocnorfolk.bsky.social
Awesome 3D printing brings a fossil Stephanorhinus jaw from the West Runton Freshwater Bed out of @nhm.org stores - thanks to Peter Stibbons and Cromer Savin Project team www.cromer-savin.co.uk, and special thanks to @lotterygoodcauses.bsky.social for funding.
#Norfolk #Pleistocene #Geology
A 3D-printed replica in brown plastic of a fossil mandible of Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis. It shows two mandibular rami with rows of molar teeth in. The original is in the Natural History Museum, London. Peter Stibbons holding a 3D-printed replica in brown plastic of a fossil mandible of Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis. It shows two mandibular rami with rows of molar teeth in. The original is in the Natural History Museum, London. Peter is driving forward a project to digitise fossil collections relating to the Victorian collectors Alfred Savin and Anna Gurney - see https://www.cromer-savin.co.uk/. Members of the Norfolk Museums team and fossil collectors discussing the 3D-printed rhinoceros jaw, seated around a table at Cromer Museum. The jaw is made of brown plastic.
February 10, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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royalsocietypublishing.org
New in #PhilTransB - theme issue explores the #biosphere in the #Anthropocene. All #OA. Read: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
January 27, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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unravellingpalaeo.bsky.social
Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026!

Join us for two days of all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June.

Call for papers is now open and tickets are on sale! Check out our website for more information.

sites.google.com/view/unravel...
Unravelling the Palaeolithic
Welcome to the website for the Unravelling the Palaeolithic conference 2026! Unravelling the Palaeolithic is an ECR and student-led conference with a history of showcasing excellence in research in P...
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February 9, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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eastangliabylines.co.uk
According to Prof Richard Murphy, neoliberalism is dead – and Labour hasn’t noticed. Competence without purpose, growth without care, markets without limits. His verdict on today’s politics is unsparing.

eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/pol...
Exit signs pointing left and right
February 8, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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siliconrepublic.bsky.social
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.
New Mozilla Firefox version to allow AI features to be blocked
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser.
www.siliconrepublic.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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February 5, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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e360.yale.edu/digest/india...
India Says Its Grasslands Are 'Wastelands.' Medieval Folklore Suggests Otherwise
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February 4, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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curlewaction.bsky.social
Echoes Of A Vanishing Song is a beautiful new guest blog by our ambassador, Sarah Marles, exploring the call of the Curlew and why its future matters. Read now and feel connected to the wild places we’re fighting to protect.

www.curlewaction.org/echoes-of-a-...
February 2, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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norfolkmoths.bsky.social
If I may make one request this year please do NOT use iNaturalist for recording moths in Norfolk. Please record directly on the website norfolkmoths.co.uk Thank you! #norfolkmoths #teammoth
Norfolk Moths
The Moths of Norfolk. In association with the Norfolk Moth Survey.
norfolkmoths.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 11:26 AM
timholtwilson.bsky.social
Solar blue is reflected in the placid water of a Bodham pond while @norfolkponds.bsky.social minions strip its brambley banks bare of scrub. Great pond restoration works are under way this weekend. Work will resume on an even more thorny pond today.
A pond with its banks cleared of willow, bramble and thorn scrub. Blue sky is reflected in deeper blue colour on the pond surface. There are piles of brash in the background as well as people wearing day-glo reflective yellow tabards, two of whom can be seen reflected in the water. A pond in farmland with thickets invading its banks. A person with day-glow reflective yellow tabard is working with a saw nearby. There is a pile of brash on the right.
February 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
BREAKING: A federal judge has just ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father from the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas!
January 31, 2026 at 7:14 PM
timholtwilson.bsky.social
'Hypertropical' is a new word in my lexicon.
Research published @nature.com shows that Amazon forests are slipping towards a new, pernicious ecological equilibrium, with knock-on effects for global climate.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #Amazonia
Hot droughts in the Amazon provide a window to a future hypertropical climate - Nature
Thirty years of forest demographic data, combined with recent ecophysiological measurements, reveal that intense Amazon droughts sharply increase tree mortality once soil moisture falls below a thresh...
www.nature.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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brucespringsteen.net
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst

Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 29, 2026 at 5:22 PM
timholtwilson.bsky.social
Agile Frog - cautious 👍🏼
Moor Frog - cautious 👍🏼
Euro Tree Frog - sceptical 👎🏼

The renowned Sir Thos. Brown has things to say about Hyla arborea. Perhaps Sedimentary Ancient DNA techniques could investigate 'ghost pond' sediment profiles for any frog signatures @norfolkponds.bsky.social
A quotation from Book 3 of Sir Thomas Brown's work 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1686 edition). "Concerning the generation of frogs, we shall briefly deliver that account which observation hath taught us. By Frogs I understand not such as arising from putrefaction, are bred without copulation, and because they subsist not long, are called Temporariae. Nor do I mean a little frog of an excellent Parrot-green, that usually sits on trees and bushes and is therefore the Ranunculus viridis or Arboreous, but hereby I understand the the aquatile or Water Frog whereof in Ditches and standing Plashes we may behold many millions every spring in England.
January 29, 2026 at 1:11 PM
timholtwilson.bsky.social
Pity the River Blyth in Suffolk - it deserves better.
《The current target for the Laxfield [Combined Storm Overflow] is to reduce the number of spills to 10 a year by – wait for it – the year 2050. Ye gods!》
William Harvey is on top form.
January 29, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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biologicalrecording.co.uk
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This is a huge opportunity for nature enthusiasts🌿

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January 28, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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caryocatactes.bsky.social
Horsey - The only spot in Norfolk for Cladonia rangiferina. A northern reindeer moss usually found in montane heaths, moorland, dunes & woodlands in the north North & West. And something as yet unidentified. @norfolknats.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 8:40 AM
timholtwilson.bsky.social
HM Government. 'Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security. A national security assessment'. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...
Some people claim this is scaremongering or (worse) pure misinformation - a special place in Tartarus is reserved for them. 🧵
A photo of the UK from space, showing clear skies. Ireland is looking very green and the Scottish Highlands are looking craggy . The seas are dark blue, though pale green patches are showing through, possibly shallow water or sand banks. This is a European Space Agency image taken by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite on 2nd April 2025. See https://www.copernicus.eu/en/media/image-day-gallery/clear-skies-over-uk-and-ireland.
January 26, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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chloelewis.bsky.social
Went for a walk on Dartmoor yesterday & found these little water spouts bubbling up in a place that's bone dry in Spring & Summer. Today, an ecologist has explained to me these are 'ephemeral springs': where the bedrock on Dartmoor is impermeable granite, the water can't sink past the bedrock.
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January 26, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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markwitton.bsky.social
Another John Martin-style #paleoart piece painted for fun. This riffs on 1830s views of the British Wealden, where giant dinosaurs (Iguanodon and Megalosaurus here) engaged in violent combat in grand natural amphitheatres. Pterosaurs and other animals watch on. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? #sciart
Enormous reptiles, neither quite lizard nor mammal-like in form, rear, grapple and tear at one another in front of a setting sun at a rocky, foreboding shore. One, the horned Iguanodon, roars so widely that its grotesque tongue protrudes from its mouth like a tentacle; the other, a Megalosaurus, tears a string of dark flesh from its opponents' chest. They are surrounded by other snarling, roaring beasts: plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs and a distant, spike-backed Hylaeosaurus. Palm trees and ferns dot the top of rocky escarpments alongside perching pterosaurs with translucent, bat-like wings. The remains of ammonites and skulls of reptiles decay into water and rocks.
January 26, 2026 at 3:04 PM
timholtwilson.bsky.social
Who doesn't love the sea?
NB global sea levels have risen by c.10 cm (4“) since 1990, and the rate is now accelerating to >4 mm / year.
Watch out #NewYork #London #Bangkok #Tokyo #Shanghai...
What's our long-term strategy for coastal cities: protection, mitigation, denial of risk?
#climatechange
A rainstorm and rainbow tracking out off the Suffolk coast at Shingle Street, October 2013. In the foreground, a sailing boat with reefed sails is moving along the placid water of the Ore estuary. Banks of sand and shingle can be seen emerging from the water in the middle distance. Rain clouds tracking out off the Suffolk coast at Shingle Street, October 2013. Banks of sand and shingle can be seen emerging from the water in the middle distance; one of them is dotted by the white figures of gulls caught in a patch of sunlight.
January 26, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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adrianramsay.bsky.social
Green-led Mid Suffolk District Council is calling on groups to apply for their new Community Nature Recovery Grant. The Council is offering up to £50,000 for projects that protect and expand wildlife corridors and habitats, including tree planting and the creation of wildflower meadows.
Funding opportunities and support - Mid Suffolk District Council - babergh.gov.uk / midsuffolk.gov.uk
Learn about the funding and support available to VCFSE organisations within our district
www.midsuffolk.gov.uk
January 25, 2026 at 12:05 PM
timholtwilson.bsky.social
"Once citizens understand that ecological collapse threatens food security, migration stability, economic resilience and peace, pressure for meaningful action becomes unavoidable".
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Originally presented at COBRA, this report shows that ecosystem collapse is a strategic emergency capable of destabilising entire regions and food systems. Rupert Read reviews a shocking new government assessment.

eastangliabylines.co.uk/opinion/a-su...
A suppressed warning finally appears: ecosystem collapse as a national security threat
A government report on the national security implications of ecosystem collapse is finally out, and it’s even more shocking than feared
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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argroupsuk.bsky.social
Responding to questions about ongoing media coverage of proposed amphibian reintroductions, ARG UK wishes to clarify its position, building on our Policy Statement Concerning Reintroductions, and ARG UK Advice Note 12 Amphibian and Reptile Reintroduction Guidelines.

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January 7, 2026 at 3:06 PM