Nikita Arora
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Sorry, but book is out next week & promo I must. You know - 3 yrs work & all that, & through some big stuff. And the wonderfully kind @joannacdobson.bsky.social has said this about it; & I’m utterly made up: “there’s a universality about it …I’ve never read anything quite like it.’ #booksky
September 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Sorry, but book is out next week & promo I must. You know - 3 yrs work & all that, & through some big stuff. And the wonderfully kind @joannacdobson.bsky.social has said this about it; & I’m utterly made up: “there’s a universality about it …I’ve never read anything quite like it.’ #booksky
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I hope this summer's wildlife spectacles show more of us the wonders of (relative) abundance, and why it's worth fighting for. I wrote this for the Guardian comment pages... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This summer brought an abundance of butterflies and birds. Nature is ready to spring back – if we let it | Patrick Barkham
The recent hopeful surge of some wildlife isn’t down to us. But in an era of climatic decline, it shows the resilience of our fellow species, says Guardian nature writer Patrick Barkham
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August 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I hope this summer's wildlife spectacles show more of us the wonders of (relative) abundance, and why it's worth fighting for. I wrote this for the Guardian comment pages... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
2 days to go!
3 days until #BigButterflyCount 2025 lifts off! 🦋
The Large White took the third spot in last year's count with 138,424 sightings, down 38% from 2023.
📷: Mark Searle
The Large White took the third spot in last year's count with 138,424 sightings, down 38% from 2023.
📷: Mark Searle
July 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
2 days to go!
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In Stavanger airport and they have birdsong serenading you in the bathrooms, with an ID chart of the local birds.
What a lovely, simple idea to connect people with the wildlife around them.
What a lovely, simple idea to connect people with the wildlife around them.
July 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
In Stavanger airport and they have birdsong serenading you in the bathrooms, with an ID chart of the local birds.
What a lovely, simple idea to connect people with the wildlife around them.
What a lovely, simple idea to connect people with the wildlife around them.
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Another in the series of moths monoprints celebrating the camouflage of moths
July 4, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Another in the series of moths monoprints celebrating the camouflage of moths
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Historical hottie du jour: Portrait of a man, showing that piety does not preclude being insanely handsome. Can intensify it! By Hugo van der Goes, whose day is today.
July 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Historical hottie du jour: Portrait of a man, showing that piety does not preclude being insanely handsome. Can intensify it! By Hugo van der Goes, whose day is today.
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Word of the day is ‘forwallowed’ (15th century): extremely weary from tossing and turning all night.
July 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Word of the day is ‘forwallowed’ (15th century): extremely weary from tossing and turning all night.
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The folk horror is real, where there’s a shoot. It brings the predators in. A gruesome & strange danse macabre for my @theguardian.com Country Diary today. ‘A jewel-bright partridge’s head, tops the beads of its neck vertebrae like an umbrella handle’ & someone is playing curious games..
Country diary: Like wrecked prizes, the body parts of pheasants litter the landscape | Nicola Chester
North Wessex Downs, Hampshire: Predators are increasingly drawn by the shooting-season escapees. But, miserably, other ground-nesting birds and their eggs are being taken, too
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July 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The folk horror is real, where there’s a shoot. It brings the predators in. A gruesome & strange danse macabre for my @theguardian.com Country Diary today. ‘A jewel-bright partridge’s head, tops the beads of its neck vertebrae like an umbrella handle’ & someone is playing curious games..
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I'm excited to be running a 5-day course for the @faberacademy.bsky.social on Crafting the Personal Essay. Last week of August. Online. A chance to act and write that essay that won't leave you alone.
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June 29, 2025 at 6:50 AM
I'm excited to be running a 5-day course for the @faberacademy.bsky.social on Crafting the Personal Essay. Last week of August. Online. A chance to act and write that essay that won't leave you alone.
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On the importance of finding your literary obsession—and getting lost in it...
I’m Obsessed: On the Importance of Getting Lost in Your Writing
This is the first in a five-part series on the craft of writing by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante. For writers, obsessions—personal, aesthetic, emotional, intellectual—are not something t…
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June 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
On the importance of finding your literary obsession—and getting lost in it...
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Here is an otter learning to get your day off to the right start.
June 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Here is an otter learning to get your day off to the right start.