Joe Shute
@joeshute.bsky.social
Writer and journalist. Daily Telegraph weather columnist. PhD researcher MMU. Author (Bloomsbury): Stowaway (2024) Forecast (2021) A Shadow Above (2018)
Reviewed the remarkable Tigers Between Empires for @telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...
The mission to save Putin’s favourite big cat
A conservationist charts the remarkable story of the efforts to protect the endangered Siberian tiger
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November 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Reviewed the remarkable Tigers Between Empires for @telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...
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Talk about an in-flight meal.
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Talk about an in-flight meal.
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
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Rats have a terrible reputation, but they are intelligent adept survivors, and their history is inextricably entangled with our own. @joeshute.bsky.social's Stowaway explores this history and unpicks the myths surrounding this fascinating tiny mammal 🐀 💙 📚
Now in paperback:
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#Rats
Now in paperback:
buff.ly/1Ek82nL
#Rats
October 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Rats have a terrible reputation, but they are intelligent adept survivors, and their history is inextricably entangled with our own. @joeshute.bsky.social's Stowaway explores this history and unpicks the myths surrounding this fascinating tiny mammal 🐀 💙 📚
Now in paperback:
buff.ly/1Ek82nL
#Rats
Now in paperback:
buff.ly/1Ek82nL
#Rats
🐀🐀🐀 My book Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat, is now available in paperback. Featuring an incredible new Rat-Zilla cover. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/stowaway-... 🐀🐀🐀
Stowaway
'Shows us that, ultimately, the history of rats is a history of ourselves.' THE SUNDAY TIMES'An intelligent and enlightening book' MICHAEL MORPURGO'Wonderful' T…
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October 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
🐀🐀🐀 My book Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat, is now available in paperback. Featuring an incredible new Rat-Zilla cover. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/stowaway-... 🐀🐀🐀
Wrote about de-extinction for @telegraphnews.bsky.social comment and addressing the current biodiversity crisis rather than bringing lost species back to life www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...
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September 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Wrote about de-extinction for @telegraphnews.bsky.social comment and addressing the current biodiversity crisis rather than bringing lost species back to life www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...
Wrote about rats as big as cats for @telegraphnews.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...
Rats as big as cats: The great rodent crisis of 2025
Experts say there could be up to 300 million of the critters gorging on our overflowing bins – and as our waistlines grow, so do theirs
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August 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Wrote about rats as big as cats for @telegraphnews.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...
Waterstones are running a pre-order offer on the new paperback of Stowaway - 25 per cent off til the end of the week 🐀🐀https://www.waterstones.com/book/stowaway/joe-shute/9781399402514
Stowaway by Joe Shute | Waterstones
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July 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Waterstones are running a pre-order offer on the new paperback of Stowaway - 25 per cent off til the end of the week 🐀🐀https://www.waterstones.com/book/stowaway/joe-shute/9781399402514
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04... Wrote about the need for proper legal protections for Britain’ ancient trees
Is it time to give our ancient trees the same protection as Stonehenge?
As Toby Carvery admits to chopping down a 400-year-old oak, experts tell The Telegraph that new environmental safeguards are needed
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April 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04... Wrote about the need for proper legal protections for Britain’ ancient trees
Interviewed the 'Human Swan' Sacha Dench about flying again and her new project attempting to reverse the catastrophic collapse in vulture populations across the world. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04...
The ‘Human Swan’ is taking flight again – this time with vultures
Conservationist Sacha Dench is airborne once more and on a mission to change the public perception of a much-maligned scavenger
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April 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Interviewed the 'Human Swan' Sacha Dench about flying again and her new project attempting to reverse the catastrophic collapse in vulture populations across the world. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04...
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Happy #WorldRatDay to rodent enthusiasts everywhere! This lovely drawing dates to 1798 and came to us with a paper by Capt. Thomas Hardwicke, "a brief description of a large species of rat", which was read at a meeting of the Linnean Society in 1804.
You can read it here:
academic.oup.com/tra...
You can read it here:
academic.oup.com/tra...
April 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Happy #WorldRatDay to rodent enthusiasts everywhere! This lovely drawing dates to 1798 and came to us with a paper by Capt. Thomas Hardwicke, "a brief description of a large species of rat", which was read at a meeting of the Linnean Society in 1804.
You can read it here:
academic.oup.com/tra...
You can read it here:
academic.oup.com/tra...
Wrote about Old Knobbley for the Telegraph Magazine www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/...
The disaster facing the majestic English oak tree
Our emblematic tree is in short supply and in danger of running out – is the idea of homegrown hardwood sunk forever?
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February 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Wrote about Old Knobbley for the Telegraph Magazine www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/...
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Why humpback whales are flocking to the UK
Sightings of humpback whales cruising the British coast are rising – and causing debate amongst conservationists researching the cause
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February 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Wrote about 🐳 www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/...
Excellent - and alarming - work by @jamie-woodward.bsky.social and colleagues on water companies attempts to deflect blame over river pollution www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Water industry strategies to manufacture doubt and deflect blame for sewage pollution in England - Nature Water
In the past 5 years, a huge amount of untreated wastewater has been released into English waterways. An analysis of the communication used by the water utilities shows that they have employed strategi...
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January 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Excellent - and alarming - work by @jamie-woodward.bsky.social and colleagues on water companies attempts to deflect blame over river pollution www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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A brilliant new paper from @joeshute.bsky.social - one of our Post Graduate Researchers. Joe has been researching #Manchester's #River Irk & is based with the Leverhulme Unit for the Design of Cities of the Future (LUDeC).
#AcademicSky #WaysOfKnowingWater #Waterways
#AcademicSky #WaysOfKnowingWater #Waterways
My first academic journal article is now published in the latest issue of Folklore. It’s about using stories and storytelling to connect people to ‘lost’ rivers and focused on Manchester’s River Irk www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cultural Daylighting: Using Stories of the Past and Present to Reimagine Manchester’s ‘Lost’ River Irk
Like many post-industrial urban waterways, Manchester’s River Irk was once central to the lives of the communities it flowed through. Over the past century, however, it has been built over, culvert...
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January 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A brilliant new paper from @joeshute.bsky.social - one of our Post Graduate Researchers. Joe has been researching #Manchester's #River Irk & is based with the Leverhulme Unit for the Design of Cities of the Future (LUDeC).
#AcademicSky #WaysOfKnowingWater #Waterways
#AcademicSky #WaysOfKnowingWater #Waterways
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Further flavours: Ghosted by @alicevernon10.bsky.social (Sept), Mesozoic Art III by @tetzoo.bsky.social and @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social (Sept), Nightjars of the World by Nigel Cleere (Oct), Stowaway by @joeshute.bsky.social (Nov). Among many others.
December 24, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Further flavours: Ghosted by @alicevernon10.bsky.social (Sept), Mesozoic Art III by @tetzoo.bsky.social and @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social (Sept), Nightjars of the World by Nigel Cleere (Oct), Stowaway by @joeshute.bsky.social (Nov). Among many others.
My first academic journal article is now published in the latest issue of Folklore. It’s about using stories and storytelling to connect people to ‘lost’ rivers and focused on Manchester’s River Irk www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cultural Daylighting: Using Stories of the Past and Present to Reimagine Manchester’s ‘Lost’ River Irk
Like many post-industrial urban waterways, Manchester’s River Irk was once central to the lives of the communities it flowed through. Over the past century, however, it has been built over, culvert...
www.tandfonline.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:36 PM
My first academic journal article is now published in the latest issue of Folklore. It’s about using stories and storytelling to connect people to ‘lost’ rivers and focused on Manchester’s River Irk www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Farewell John Tinniswood, Britain's oldest man, who has died today. Interviewed him 2 years ago and he was a lovely chap. Radio 4 and toast every morning. Fish and chips every Friday. No booze and no biscuits. Got him to 112.. www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitne...
The secret to living past 110, according to Britain's supercentenarians
As Jeff Bezos and the super rich go to ever wilder lengths to prolong their lives, what on earth do the UK's oldest members think of it all?
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November 26, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Farewell John Tinniswood, Britain's oldest man, who has died today. Interviewed him 2 years ago and he was a lovely chap. Radio 4 and toast every morning. Fish and chips every Friday. No booze and no biscuits. Got him to 112.. www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitne...
Talking rats and other wild things at Folkestone Book Festival this weekend. Can't wait @sophiehaydock.bsky.social www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/joe...
Joe Shute & Jonathan Hollins: The Wild Side - Creative Folkestone
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November 19, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Talking rats and other wild things at Folkestone Book Festival this weekend. Can't wait @sophiehaydock.bsky.social www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/joe...
A few tickets remaining for the launch of our new pamphlet tonight at Manchester Poetry Library... Words From the Water - an anthology of poetry and prose celebrating maligned waterways in Manchester and beyond... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/words-from...
Words from the Water: Launch Event
A Pamphlet of Poetry and Prose at Manchester Poetry Library
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November 15, 2024 at 1:44 PM
A few tickets remaining for the launch of our new pamphlet tonight at Manchester Poetry Library... Words From the Water - an anthology of poetry and prose celebrating maligned waterways in Manchester and beyond... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/words-from...