Love nature
@profstephaniejean.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor PhD Occupational Psychology, now more focused on citizen science and biodiversity, love animals, nature, astronomy, books especially science fiction speculative fantasy, and my family!
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Deck the halls with boughs of holly! Fa-la-la-la-laa!
Everybody up! It's Christmas week! 🎄
#MondayMotivation
Everybody up! It's Christmas week! 🎄
#MondayMotivation
December 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Deck the halls with boughs of holly! Fa-la-la-la-laa!
Everybody up! It's Christmas week! 🎄
#MondayMotivation
Everybody up! It's Christmas week! 🎄
#MondayMotivation
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Seabirds are vital indicators of ocean health. Yet the UK seabird indicator shows a 37% long-term decline, driven by mounting pressures
Further declines in the short-term demonstrate the need to protect our seas now in order to secure our seabirds' futures
Further declines in the short-term demonstrate the need to protect our seas now in order to secure our seabirds' futures
September 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Seabirds are vital indicators of ocean health. Yet the UK seabird indicator shows a 37% long-term decline, driven by mounting pressures
Further declines in the short-term demonstrate the need to protect our seas now in order to secure our seabirds' futures
Further declines in the short-term demonstrate the need to protect our seas now in order to secure our seabirds' futures
This book has so many brilliant ideas I could hardly put it down!
September 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This book has so many brilliant ideas I could hardly put it down!
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Great choice! PKD explores reality in such a unique way. "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." What’s your favorite PKD twist? 🪐📚 #SciFi #Valis
BOKS
Six-Hundred and Seven - Valis, Philip K. Dick.
"I am, by profession, a science fiction writer. I deal in fantasies. My life is a fantasy."
Fantasies have a lot to answer for. This is a rollicking and very entertaining bok.
Six-Hundred and Seven - Valis, Philip K. Dick.
"I am, by profession, a science fiction writer. I deal in fantasies. My life is a fantasy."
Fantasies have a lot to answer for. This is a rollicking and very entertaining bok.
September 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Great choice! PKD explores reality in such a unique way. "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." What’s your favorite PKD twist? 🪐📚 #SciFi #Valis
Great to see the University of Aberdeen doing so well in this!
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝 What was the result of Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025? 31 teams from UK and Ireland entered. Final overall winner was amazing team from University of Aberdeen who led in almost all the rounds. Runner-up was University of Plymouth team, so close behind.
August 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Great to see the University of Aberdeen doing so well in this!
Why? Do people use the countryside as a rubbish tip? Our garden is next to a country park, in the middle of beautiful countryside. Yet almost daily I have to clear rubbish from our drive and garden, often fast food packaging empty bottles and tins. Harmful to wildlife This is today's...please stop!
July 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Why? Do people use the countryside as a rubbish tip? Our garden is next to a country park, in the middle of beautiful countryside. Yet almost daily I have to clear rubbish from our drive and garden, often fast food packaging empty bottles and tins. Harmful to wildlife This is today's...please stop!
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This afternoon, the Planning Bill enters the House of Lords.
Within it is a proposal that would make it easier to destroy the woods, rivers and wildlife we all love - by weakening the laws that keep them safe.
If Part 3 isn’t changed or scrapped, nature will pay the price. ⚠️
Within it is a proposal that would make it easier to destroy the woods, rivers and wildlife we all love - by weakening the laws that keep them safe.
If Part 3 isn’t changed or scrapped, nature will pay the price. ⚠️
June 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This afternoon, the Planning Bill enters the House of Lords.
Within it is a proposal that would make it easier to destroy the woods, rivers and wildlife we all love - by weakening the laws that keep them safe.
If Part 3 isn’t changed or scrapped, nature will pay the price. ⚠️
Within it is a proposal that would make it easier to destroy the woods, rivers and wildlife we all love - by weakening the laws that keep them safe.
If Part 3 isn’t changed or scrapped, nature will pay the price. ⚠️
Love these authors!
#cymera
#cymera
Two of Britain's top science fiction writers, @aptshadow.bsky.social and Peter F Hamilton, discuss their future visions with @elianjmorgan.bsky.social at #Cymera.
#scifi #books #Edinburgh
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#scifi #books #Edinburgh
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June 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Love these authors!
#cymera
#cymera
Caterpillar eating my plum tree leaves, but will be eaten by the birds...if too many I will drop a few on the ground but far better to let nature take its course and so I encourage all wildlife to the garden to ensure predators and prey abound. #nature #gardening
May 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Caterpillar eating my plum tree leaves, but will be eaten by the birds...if too many I will drop a few on the ground but far better to let nature take its course and so I encourage all wildlife to the garden to ensure predators and prey abound. #nature #gardening
Just became a member and already learning so much! Great citizen science here too. Make a difference
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We'll update you with BTO news, including exclusive members content, so you can see the meaningful and measurable impact your support makes. We can build a better future for birds and people, together.
May 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Just became a member and already learning so much! Great citizen science here too. Make a difference
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This one is for Welsh 🏳️🌈 ! Honestly, couldn't be more grateful to be working with @elianjmorgan.bsky.social and the excellent Canelo.
@canelobooks.bsky.social has fallen for @elianjmorgan.bsky.social's queer Welsh romantasy trilogy in a three-book deal. The first book in the deal will be published in April 2026 👇 #BookSky
Canelo falls for Elian Morgan's 'entrancing' Welsh romantasy series
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May 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This one is for Welsh 🏳️🌈 ! Honestly, couldn't be more grateful to be working with @elianjmorgan.bsky.social and the excellent Canelo.
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#ThoughtForTheDay
There is not a single person on planet Earth that needs an Elephant tusk except an Elephant.
🇨🇳🇹🇭🇻🇳🇵🇭🇯🇵 ~ Ivory is not a trinket nor is it fake medicine! 🚫
There is not a single person on planet Earth that needs an Elephant tusk except an Elephant.
🇨🇳🇹🇭🇻🇳🇵🇭🇯🇵 ~ Ivory is not a trinket nor is it fake medicine! 🚫
April 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
#ThoughtForTheDay
There is not a single person on planet Earth that needs an Elephant tusk except an Elephant.
🇨🇳🇹🇭🇻🇳🇵🇭🇯🇵 ~ Ivory is not a trinket nor is it fake medicine! 🚫
There is not a single person on planet Earth that needs an Elephant tusk except an Elephant.
🇨🇳🇹🇭🇻🇳🇵🇭🇯🇵 ~ Ivory is not a trinket nor is it fake medicine! 🚫
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This is why you should let your lawns grow long, more grubs, and worms for the birds to collect. #Birds #food #lawns #garden #wildlifegarden #nature #leaveyourlawn #CheshireUK
April 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is why you should let your lawns grow long, more grubs, and worms for the birds to collect. #Birds #food #lawns #garden #wildlifegarden #nature #leaveyourlawn #CheshireUK
I love our universe!
#Astrophotography
#Astrophotography
Its towering pillars of gas and dust stretch across 100 light-years. A cradle of starbirth, it’s a testament to the universe’s relentless creativity—nature’s own monument to the eternal dance of chaos and beauty. #nebula
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Deep in the heart of the Carina-Sagittarius Arm, 9,000 light-years from Earth, lies a cosmic marvel: the Statue of Liberty Nebula (NGC 3576). Its towering pillars of gas and dust resemble a celestial torch of freedom against the infinite dark. #astrophotgraphy
April 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I love our universe!
#Astrophotography
#Astrophotography
The Camelias are starting to wake up. Along with the wild cherry plum, lesser celandines and all sorts of more native plants. Isn't nature beautiful 😍
#gardening
#gardening
March 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The Camelias are starting to wake up. Along with the wild cherry plum, lesser celandines and all sorts of more native plants. Isn't nature beautiful 😍
#gardening
#gardening
12 million light years away and we can now use computers to help us photograph in the back yard. Technology can be brilliant. Our universe is so amazing, we are lucky to have evolved enough to do this, let's try not to destroy our planet though...
#Astrophotography #universe
#Astrophotography #universe
In Ursa Major’s embrace, M81, Bode’s Galaxy, gleams—a grand spiral muse 12 million light-years distant. Her luminous arms dance with M82, a celestial duet, whispering secrets of the cosmos to starlit souls below. #Astrophotography #galaxy please ♥️RP and follow
March 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
12 million light years away and we can now use computers to help us photograph in the back yard. Technology can be brilliant. Our universe is so amazing, we are lucky to have evolved enough to do this, let's try not to destroy our planet though...
#Astrophotography #universe
#Astrophotography #universe
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It’s #NationalButterflyDay - can you help protect them?
Last year, a Butterfly emergency was declared. Numbers hit a record low. A big reason? PESTICIDES!!
Please Sign & Share the @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social petition at
action.greenpeace.org.uk/protect-our-...
#Nature #Butterflies 🦋
Last year, a Butterfly emergency was declared. Numbers hit a record low. A big reason? PESTICIDES!!
Please Sign & Share the @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social petition at
action.greenpeace.org.uk/protect-our-...
#Nature #Butterflies 🦋
March 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
It’s #NationalButterflyDay - can you help protect them?
Last year, a Butterfly emergency was declared. Numbers hit a record low. A big reason? PESTICIDES!!
Please Sign & Share the @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social petition at
action.greenpeace.org.uk/protect-our-...
#Nature #Butterflies 🦋
Last year, a Butterfly emergency was declared. Numbers hit a record low. A big reason? PESTICIDES!!
Please Sign & Share the @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social petition at
action.greenpeace.org.uk/protect-our-...
#Nature #Butterflies 🦋
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Today is #WorldWildlifeDay
I think this quote from the wonderful Dame Jane Goodall is very appropriate...
'What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.'
I think this quote from the wonderful Dame Jane Goodall is very appropriate...
'What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.'
March 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Today is #WorldWildlifeDay
I think this quote from the wonderful Dame Jane Goodall is very appropriate...
'What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.'
I think this quote from the wonderful Dame Jane Goodall is very appropriate...
'What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.'
One of the many reasons I enjoy reading novels is the mind and person inventing the story. I also recognise how much hard work goes into a good work of fiction. I don't want to read what a computer has produced thanks, and don't want hard working writers cheated upon.
#booksky
#booksky
Saw something this weekend about accepting that authors will write with AI. No. Don’t accept it, don’t forgive them.
I’m seeing a lot of soft takes from industry mutuals at the moment that we shouldn’t be so hard on those who use generative AI because it’s becoming harder and harder to resist.
Wrong. Betraying your ethics (and your peers) because ‘everyone else is doing it’ does not suddenly make it acceptable.
Wrong. Betraying your ethics (and your peers) because ‘everyone else is doing it’ does not suddenly make it acceptable.
February 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
One of the many reasons I enjoy reading novels is the mind and person inventing the story. I also recognise how much hard work goes into a good work of fiction. I don't want to read what a computer has produced thanks, and don't want hard working writers cheated upon.
#booksky
#booksky
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This is a depressing list of United facing shortages and, calling for staff redundancies with courses closing. You cannot fix the economy without a healthy university sector. 🧵
UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
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January 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is a depressing list of United facing shortages and, calling for staff redundancies with courses closing. You cannot fix the economy without a healthy university sector. 🧵
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#ThoughtForTheDay from @mrrickygervais.bsky.social.
"Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors. We are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them."
There is NO excuse for #AnimalAbuse EVER!!
⬇️ Ricky with his adopted cat @pickliciousf.bsky.social ❤️.
"Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors. We are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them."
There is NO excuse for #AnimalAbuse EVER!!
⬇️ Ricky with his adopted cat @pickliciousf.bsky.social ❤️.
January 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
#ThoughtForTheDay from @mrrickygervais.bsky.social.
"Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors. We are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them."
There is NO excuse for #AnimalAbuse EVER!!
⬇️ Ricky with his adopted cat @pickliciousf.bsky.social ❤️.
"Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors. We are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them."
There is NO excuse for #AnimalAbuse EVER!!
⬇️ Ricky with his adopted cat @pickliciousf.bsky.social ❤️.
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As I mentioned earlier, I will never understand how anyone can derive so much pleasure from killing beautiful creatures?!?
"BookYourHunt.com offers trips to slaughter animals including giraffes, hippos and camels, via an Amazon-style shopping website. Opportunities to shoot seals for “sport” in Finland and Sweden are available for just over £700 a day."
Disgusting 😡
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Disgusting 😡
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Disgusting seal shooting package holidays on sale to British hunters
Horrific package holidays to shoot seals include accommodation, as well as food and drink - and hunters can even stay in an exclusive cottage on a private island
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January 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
As I mentioned earlier, I will never understand how anyone can derive so much pleasure from killing beautiful creatures?!?