Kiera Chapman
kierachapman.bsky.social
Kiera Chapman
@kierachapman.bsky.social
Nature writer, research fellow University of Oxford, Co-I Planning for Nature kierachapman.com / www.planningfornature.org
Thank you so much, that's so kind. I will be back very soon. I have some leave coming up which I'm hoping will get my head straight. There's been lots to shoulder this year and I could do with some rest.
September 11, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Helloooo you! Thanks so much for asking.

Have been struggling a bit. I don't post much about it but my Mum's dementia worsened significantly this year and my Dad had a stroke. She is now in a care home and it's all hitting me now the immediate crisis is over. It's been a brutal few months.
September 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
You're not wrong Dennis. The ambition is so low, and the delivery doesn't even match up to that.
August 21, 2025 at 5:54 AM
At the moment, we have this idea that we can deliver housing OR we can deliver environmental benefits. It's a false binary, we can do both. But to achieve it, we need to focus on outcomes on the ground!
August 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Wishing I had that cocktail elegance!
August 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🙂‍↕️this morning
August 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
They're amazing, so lucky to be working with them. The book is the successor to Nature's Calendar, which they also published!
August 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I am supporting, I was at our protest here in Sheffield on Saturday and I have donated many times. You are not alone. Millions stand with you.
August 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Constantly! I call it the phantom DM
August 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Yep, or domesticated honeybees for stories about wild bees!
July 31, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Now I'm no expert on your lepidoptera across the pond but that's not even the same vague colourscheme is it?
July 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Oh yay! That's brilliant!

I am not criticising the picture editors at all because everyone makes mistakes, but it would be nice to draw attention to the beautiful species that *are* here instead of one that is a very rare migrant.
July 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
That is so interesting that you guys have this issue too.

We get the occasional one, blown over in a storm, but this doesn't stop graphic designers and picture editors using them as the generic UK butterfly. I mean, they are GORGEOUS but we do have other lovely lepidoptera here...
July 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Yet another glorious day in the annals of South Yorkshire Police, a force shamed only by the superior corruption of the Met.
July 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In relation to police and power, this is shocking yet unsurprising:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Police officers ‘also abused’ Rotherham grooming gang victims
One says she was raped from the age of 12 by a South Yorkshire Police officer in a marked police car.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM