Julie Walkling 🏳️‍🌈
juliewalkling.bsky.social
Julie Walkling 🏳️‍🌈
@juliewalkling.bsky.social
Higher Ed roles since ‘95 🤩 UNL/LondonMet, ARU, RAU, UWS, JSGroup, Cardiff. Council Member @uniofglos 🎓 Organic gardener, wildlife and pet lover 🐸🐝🦔 🐕
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚨Gillian Martin repping the Scottish Gov said the SNP would NOT embrace swift bricks. The vote is next week. Email her asking the SNP to save swifts by saying yes to swift bricks would be a good thing to do: Gillian.Martin.msp@parliament.scot
November 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Yes! @gloswildlife.bsky.social I was driving from S Cerney on A417 just now and before Cricklade at 7.05am thousands and thousands of #starlings were flying over east to west as I drove about half a mile! AMAZING! 🤩 Never seen that in my whole birdwatching life!!! Such a spectacle! 🤓
Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight shines on the Starling!

Forget fireworks...Autumn’s skies come alive with magnificent murmurations: vast, swirling clouds of Starlings dancing at dusk.

One of nature's greatest spectacles. 😍
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Flexible estates ‘the future’ as high street site opens to public www.timeshighereducation.com/news/flexibl... This is brilliant! Highly agree with the concept plus @uniofglos.bsky.social now has a great City Campus that is highly praised in the region and beyond 🎉
Flexible estates ‘the future’ as high street site opens to public
Gloucestershire eyes civic engagement and new revenue streams after saving department store building
www.timeshighereducation.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Shocking, depressing, distressing and our government wants to destroy our environment. I have had respect for Labour before, but no longer. @rozsavage.bsky.social please do what you can with your colleagues to stop this 🙏@gloswildlife.bsky.social
Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
www.froglife.org/2025/06/01/p... 👏👏👏 🏳️‍🌈 @froglife.bsky.social are a wonderful charity carrying out much needed help for our amphibian community and also including our LGBTQ community too! Thanks @katebradbury.bsky.social from a fellow L who is also long term Froglife member 🐸
Pride: A message from our Patron Kate Bradbury
www.froglife.org
June 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
No! Appalling. Why does our government not care about the environment? We are all part of nature and as humans we keep destroying it - morally wrong and practically will negatively impact us too down the line. Protect it! And that means our Swifts too.
Breaking news!The government has just voted against the same swift brick amendment they voted for 2 years ago. We can only save our swifts if we all act. Email your MP. Ask them to sign edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... MEET your MP. Tell them how much this matters or we’ll lose them
May 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Hurray! 20 is plenty! Delighted that my local councillor is now leading Gloucestershire County Council. She’s great! 👍
Gloucestershire County Council leader to consider more 20mph zones
Lisa Spivey makes three pledges as she takes up her new role leading Gloucestershire County Council.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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A short note by me on the secret bailouts that Philip Augar hinted at in today's Financial Times

wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
Are there secret government bailouts?
And if there are, why are they secret?
wonkhe.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
@gloswildlife.bsky.social Hi great Wildlife Trust! Have just written to our MP Roz Savage re ‘No future without nature’ as requested. Just noticed that you ask on your email to be followed on social media but don’t mention Bluesky! You do mention X - their owner doesn’t give a toss about nature…
April 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Great 🙄 thanks @dobbies.bsky.social You stopped doing Melcourt compost in reusable bags and now you don’t recycle at all. Won’t bother to go in and shop too now as I planned. 👎
March 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Was a great hour, even had a Sparrowhawk and 3 Reed Buntings visit! Submitted my report and look forward to hearing the results in April 🐦‍⬛🦅🦉🦜
Did you take part in the Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend?

Tell us what you saw! 👀

You've got 'til 23rd Feb to submit your results: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
January 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Wow! 1,000 followers have flocked here to #Winterwatch on Bluesky 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ Can we make it 3,000 before #Winterwatch2025 finishes on Friday?

Share this & spread the word so our #murmuration grows like these #Starlings filmed by @DanFWildlife.bsky.social

#wildlife #nature #birds
bsky.app/profile/danf...
January 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect the climate, by putting an end to new oil and gas projects. Will you join me in signing the petition? www.stopcambo.org.uk/p/no-new-oil...
ACT NOW: No New Oil!
A once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect the climate.
www.stopcambo.org.uk
January 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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🐍✨ Exciting news from Crickley Hill! Our team installed a stunning adder-themed bench and sculpture, celebrating these incredible creatures & their habitats. Funded by @naturalengland.bsky.social's Species Recovery Programme. Share your photos! 📸 #Adders #crickleyhill

💚 ow.ly/7Keg50TXp9k
December 10, 2024 at 4:23 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Fabulous launch! Was so inspiring to be there. So proud of University of Gloucestershire!
GCHQ chief opens £5.8m cyber and digital centre in Cheltenham
Anne Keast-Butler says the new centre can
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 10:03 PM
people.com/ellen-degene... Delighted she’s joining us in the Cotswolds! Have been a fan of hers for decades 👏
Ellen DeGeneres Has Moved to England After Finding 'a House She Loved' in the Countryside: Source
The former talk show host and her wife, Portia de Rossi, have recently been spotted out and about in the celeb-favorite Cotswalds region
people.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
-Plato
November 21, 2024 at 9:04 PM