Dara McAnulty
@naturalistdara.bsky.social
20 ~ autistic ~ award winning author of ‘Diary of a Young Naturalist’ and the ‘Wild Child’ series ~ Nature Nerd and biology student ~ University of Cambridge. He/him
📍Co Down / Cambridge
https://daramcanulty.com/
📍Co Down / Cambridge
https://daramcanulty.com/
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For those of your outside of Ireland - Birdsong is still available to view online for a little while, as is the live Q&A we did after the online screening! It was a really lovely chat.
We had a wonderful virtual international premiere screening of BIRDSONG last night. If you’d like to see the film and check out the recorded Q&A, it’s still available for a little while here… watch.eventive.org/fd08ja/play/...
Birdsong | BIRDSONG International Watch Party - Screening + Q&A | Special Premiere Event
Ornithologist Seán Ronayne is on a mission to record the call of every bird species in Ireland - that’s nearly 200 birds. At once inspiring and cautionary, his journey reveals the beauty and importanc...
watch.eventive.org
November 26, 2024 at 12:08 AM
For those of your outside of Ireland - Birdsong is still available to view online for a little while, as is the live Q&A we did after the online screening! It was a really lovely chat.
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We've just published our latest report: COLLATERAL DAMAGE, highlighting the widespread poisoning of birds of prey in England by the misuse & abuse of rodenticides.
Govt scheme to reduce exposure has failed.
Read the report: wildjustice.org.uk/general/coll...
Govt scheme to reduce exposure has failed.
Read the report: wildjustice.org.uk/general/coll...
November 14, 2024 at 11:14 AM
We've just published our latest report: COLLATERAL DAMAGE, highlighting the widespread poisoning of birds of prey in England by the misuse & abuse of rodenticides.
Govt scheme to reduce exposure has failed.
Read the report: wildjustice.org.uk/general/coll...
Govt scheme to reduce exposure has failed.
Read the report: wildjustice.org.uk/general/coll...
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"We don’t need astronauts to tell us that there is no such thing as infinite growth on a (tiny, fragile) finite planet. [Yet] we march on, lemming-like, towards overshoot and collapse."
Great @irishtimes.bsky.social piece by Sadhbh O'Neill.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Great @irishtimes.bsky.social piece by Sadhbh O'Neill.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Limits to Growth reports vindicated as Earth faces overshoot and collapse
The critical lesson of the Limits to Growth reports – that there is no such thing as infinite growth on a tiny, fragile, finite planet – has escaped our consciousness
www.irishtimes.com
September 29, 2023 at 9:29 AM
"We don’t need astronauts to tell us that there is no such thing as infinite growth on a (tiny, fragile) finite planet. [Yet] we march on, lemming-like, towards overshoot and collapse."
Great @irishtimes.bsky.social piece by Sadhbh O'Neill.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Great @irishtimes.bsky.social piece by Sadhbh O'Neill.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
I will truly miss the depth, contours and ever changing landscape of Co Down when I return to horizontal Cambridge this week. It’s always so hard to leave but 2nd year student life awaits after crossing the sea on the Stena Line & the long drive to Queens’ College. Bittersweet yet very exciting 🌿
September 25, 2023 at 2:28 PM
I will truly miss the depth, contours and ever changing landscape of Co Down when I return to horizontal Cambridge this week. It’s always so hard to leave but 2nd year student life awaits after crossing the sea on the Stena Line & the long drive to Queens’ College. Bittersweet yet very exciting 🌿
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Here is a brief primer on permafrost carbon. Permafrost (frozen soil) stores a HUGE amount of carbon because ancient life took up carbon dioxide, built biomass, then died. These organisms' organic matter (~50% C) slowly accrued in Earth's best freezer for 1000s of yrs. 1/
September 23, 2023 at 10:08 PM
Here is a brief primer on permafrost carbon. Permafrost (frozen soil) stores a HUGE amount of carbon because ancient life took up carbon dioxide, built biomass, then died. These organisms' organic matter (~50% C) slowly accrued in Earth's best freezer for 1000s of yrs. 1/
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Hey I made a quick welcome guide to BlueSky :)
There's tons more, but I think these few steps will get you up and enjoying it quickly.
There's tons more, but I think these few steps will get you up and enjoying it quickly.
![So you decided to join BLUE SKY
[it's not twitter]
#1 upload an avatar
#2 set Moderation Settings
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![#4 Go to My Feeds
Go to "Discover New Feeds" to search for interesting feeds like "Only Posts"
Click the "+" to add the feed
(box) Go to the (gear icon) [edit my feeds] here you can pin and unpin feeds
(side note) pinned feed will appear at the top of your TL
Don't forget to "♥" the feed when you click on it to preview, this helps others find it!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n5f7w4v7l65vjfaljp4727ng/bafkreibcj3whin4lnxnch7auvdmnsnbwyegiyrb6aa7tmctv5uc6tbb4gi@jpeg)
August 21, 2023 at 10:35 PM
Hey I made a quick welcome guide to BlueSky :)
There's tons more, but I think these few steps will get you up and enjoying it quickly.
There's tons more, but I think these few steps will get you up and enjoying it quickly.
Happy Autumn Equinox! I prefer the shadows to the intense glare of summer, dodging between darkness and light until winter comes: when I enter my most contented state. Surely I mustn’t be alone in this?!
September 23, 2023 at 2:13 PM
Happy Autumn Equinox! I prefer the shadows to the intense glare of summer, dodging between darkness and light until winter comes: when I enter my most contented state. Surely I mustn’t be alone in this?!
On some walks you just get really, really lucky. A gorgeous Jay Feather. Incandescent joy! 🪶#birds #nature #walking
September 23, 2023 at 2:03 PM
On some walks you just get really, really lucky. A gorgeous Jay Feather. Incandescent joy! 🪶#birds #nature #walking
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I do like it here but it has got an air of being in jail.
You’re a bit isolated, always on the lookout for trouble and the people you love only turn up once every couple of months.
You’re a bit isolated, always on the lookout for trouble and the people you love only turn up once every couple of months.
September 23, 2023 at 7:05 AM
I do like it here but it has got an air of being in jail.
You’re a bit isolated, always on the lookout for trouble and the people you love only turn up once every couple of months.
You’re a bit isolated, always on the lookout for trouble and the people you love only turn up once every couple of months.
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Cumbria, as winter truly bit.
September 22, 2023 at 2:40 PM
Cumbria, as winter truly bit.
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"I come every day to our burned house to water the trees that either died or partially survived."
Heartbreaking and extraordinary images and interviews of life in the aftermath of the terrible wildfires that swept across Rhodes in July. #climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/s...
Heartbreaking and extraordinary images and interviews of life in the aftermath of the terrible wildfires that swept across Rhodes in July. #climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/s...
‘So many precious things were lost’: Rhodes after the fires – photo essay
The photographer Gideon Mendel travelled to Rhodes a month after the fires, seeking to document the impact on lives and landscapes
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2023 at 9:15 AM
"I come every day to our burned house to water the trees that either died or partially survived."
Heartbreaking and extraordinary images and interviews of life in the aftermath of the terrible wildfires that swept across Rhodes in July. #climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/s...
Heartbreaking and extraordinary images and interviews of life in the aftermath of the terrible wildfires that swept across Rhodes in July. #climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/s...
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This BBC radio documentary is a thing of beauty. It’s about a sound recordist in the primeval Polish forest, Białoweiza. Listen to it in the bath. Listen to it in the car alone, with the windows wound up. Turn up the volume. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
September 6, 2023 at 12:58 PM
This BBC radio documentary is a thing of beauty. It’s about a sound recordist in the primeval Polish forest, Białoweiza. Listen to it in the bath. Listen to it in the car alone, with the windows wound up. Turn up the volume. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
My recent children’s book has been long-listed for the 2024 UK Literacy Association Awards!! Chuffed to bits!
ukla.org/news/outstan...
ukla.org/news/outstan...
September 22, 2023 at 3:40 PM
My recent children’s book has been long-listed for the 2024 UK Literacy Association Awards!! Chuffed to bits!
ukla.org/news/outstan...
ukla.org/news/outstan...
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Night Time Economy is the title of Floodgate's next collection of original writing to be published in June next year and you could be part of it. Send unpublished fiction and creative non-fiction that uses this title as a stimulus to: floodgatepress.co.uk/submissions
September 19, 2023 at 10:39 PM
Night Time Economy is the title of Floodgate's next collection of original writing to be published in June next year and you could be part of it. Send unpublished fiction and creative non-fiction that uses this title as a stimulus to: floodgatepress.co.uk/submissions
I feel like I’ve walked from an dangerously unfriendly bar in a western movie to a very nice welcoming establishment, happy to leave the Twitter doors swinging on their hinges 👋 (no offence to western movies obvs - so no pile-ons - do people do this here?)
September 22, 2023 at 3:21 PM
I feel like I’ve walked from an dangerously unfriendly bar in a western movie to a very nice welcoming establishment, happy to leave the Twitter doors swinging on their hinges 👋 (no offence to western movies obvs - so no pile-ons - do people do this here?)
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SO excited for 'No Limits' festival this weekend run by incredible Rabbit Hole Independent Bookshop 🥳
I'll be there ALL weekend & running 2x workshops too!
Sat 11:45-12:45
🦇 #AmaraAndTheBats🦇
Story&Draw
Sun 11:45-12:45
🌿 #DrawnToChangeTheWorld
Comic Making!
I'll be there ALL weekend & running 2x workshops too!
Sat 11:45-12:45
🦇 #AmaraAndTheBats🦇
Story&Draw
Sun 11:45-12:45
🌿 #DrawnToChangeTheWorld
Comic Making!
September 22, 2023 at 1:58 PM
SO excited for 'No Limits' festival this weekend run by incredible Rabbit Hole Independent Bookshop 🥳
I'll be there ALL weekend & running 2x workshops too!
Sat 11:45-12:45
🦇 #AmaraAndTheBats🦇
Story&Draw
Sun 11:45-12:45
🌿 #DrawnToChangeTheWorld
Comic Making!
I'll be there ALL weekend & running 2x workshops too!
Sat 11:45-12:45
🦇 #AmaraAndTheBats🦇
Story&Draw
Sun 11:45-12:45
🌿 #DrawnToChangeTheWorld
Comic Making!
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'Raven and Sparrows' - Kubo Shunman.
September 22, 2023 at 11:19 AM
'Raven and Sparrows' - Kubo Shunman.
I haven’t seen enough #birds here yet! As it’s Friday and I am completely obsessed with birds, I’ll start by sharing a joyful Robin in full song! Share your birdy pictures! #nature
September 22, 2023 at 12:09 PM
I haven’t seen enough #birds here yet! As it’s Friday and I am completely obsessed with birds, I’ll start by sharing a joyful Robin in full song! Share your birdy pictures! #nature
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New to wildflowerhour and want to join in? It’s easy! Find wild or naturalised plants (not planted ones) in flower from across Britain and Ireland in the last week. Share your pics on Sunday’s 8-9pm and tag us @wildflowerhour.bsky.social so we can see your finds!
Happy flower hunting! 🌿🌸
Happy flower hunting! 🌿🌸
September 20, 2023 at 6:53 PM
New to wildflowerhour and want to join in? It’s easy! Find wild or naturalised plants (not planted ones) in flower from across Britain and Ireland in the last week. Share your pics on Sunday’s 8-9pm and tag us @wildflowerhour.bsky.social so we can see your finds!
Happy flower hunting! 🌿🌸
Happy flower hunting! 🌿🌸
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“The work of library defense right now is unapologetically queer.”
Great, rousing piece by @melissagiragrant.com
newrepublic.com/article/1755...
Great, rousing piece by @melissagiragrant.com
newrepublic.com/article/1755...
Librarians Didn’t Sign Up to Be Queer Activists—but This Year, They Are
Anti-LGBTQ activists are increasingly targeting public reading spaces—and librarians are our best defenders.
newrepublic.com
September 17, 2023 at 3:36 PM
“The work of library defense right now is unapologetically queer.”
Great, rousing piece by @melissagiragrant.com
newrepublic.com/article/1755...
Great, rousing piece by @melissagiragrant.com
newrepublic.com/article/1755...
Wow. I am so delighted to receive a copy of #DrawnToChangeTheWorld by
Emma Reynolds!
This book is everything we need to inspire, educate and illuminate the next generation of activists & adults too!
It is exceptional!
emmareynoldsillustration.com/drawntochang...
Emma Reynolds!
This book is everything we need to inspire, educate and illuminate the next generation of activists & adults too!
It is exceptional!
emmareynoldsillustration.com/drawntochang...
September 20, 2023 at 5:51 PM
Wow. I am so delighted to receive a copy of #DrawnToChangeTheWorld by
Emma Reynolds!
This book is everything we need to inspire, educate and illuminate the next generation of activists & adults too!
It is exceptional!
emmareynoldsillustration.com/drawntochang...
Emma Reynolds!
This book is everything we need to inspire, educate and illuminate the next generation of activists & adults too!
It is exceptional!
emmareynoldsillustration.com/drawntochang...
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🧡🌿 Our book #DrawnToChangeTheWorld is out today!!
3 Years of work, 16 incredible artists & activists, amazing HarperAlley team 😭
The need to centre Indigenous solutions, intersectional climate justice, & how art can manifest a transformed future 🧡
I'm so proud of what we've made together 🥰 💭🗯
3 Years of work, 16 incredible artists & activists, amazing HarperAlley team 😭
The need to centre Indigenous solutions, intersectional climate justice, & how art can manifest a transformed future 🧡
I'm so proud of what we've made together 🥰 💭🗯
September 12, 2023 at 2:47 PM
🧡🌿 Our book #DrawnToChangeTheWorld is out today!!
3 Years of work, 16 incredible artists & activists, amazing HarperAlley team 😭
The need to centre Indigenous solutions, intersectional climate justice, & how art can manifest a transformed future 🧡
I'm so proud of what we've made together 🥰 💭🗯
3 Years of work, 16 incredible artists & activists, amazing HarperAlley team 😭
The need to centre Indigenous solutions, intersectional climate justice, & how art can manifest a transformed future 🧡
I'm so proud of what we've made together 🥰 💭🗯
I’m happiest outdoors exploring, getting respectfully close to nature to better understand it…and myself. I have always tried and will continue to do all I can to raise awareness of the threats it faces and how we can better protect our beautiful planet 🌿
September 20, 2023 at 3:54 PM
I’m happiest outdoors exploring, getting respectfully close to nature to better understand it…and myself. I have always tried and will continue to do all I can to raise awareness of the threats it faces and how we can better protect our beautiful planet 🌿
Hello!! Hopefully I’m not posting into the darkness!
If you don’t know me, I’m a 19 year old autistic author, I’m studying Natural Sciences at university and I’m passionate about nature, science and books! #authors
If you don’t know me, I’m a 19 year old autistic author, I’m studying Natural Sciences at university and I’m passionate about nature, science and books! #authors
September 20, 2023 at 3:44 PM
Hello!! Hopefully I’m not posting into the darkness!
If you don’t know me, I’m a 19 year old autistic author, I’m studying Natural Sciences at university and I’m passionate about nature, science and books! #authors
If you don’t know me, I’m a 19 year old autistic author, I’m studying Natural Sciences at university and I’m passionate about nature, science and books! #authors