Sarah Hawkes
@sarahhawkes.bsky.social
Interests: invertebrate behaviour, species assemblages, environments, habitats.
Work for Buglife on the 'Scarce Yellow Sally (Isogenus nebucula) project'.
Work for Buglife on the 'Scarce Yellow Sally (Isogenus nebucula) project'.
"Love at first sight"
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"Love at first sight"
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The economic sense is so extremely in favour of renewables now, Pakistan is even paying Qatar penalties to rather NOT deliver the fossil gas that Pakistan already placed orders for, because their Solar PV and batteries make much more sense.
It saves them money to cancel their gas imports and pay!
It saves them money to cancel their gas imports and pay!
So Pakistan is *paying* Qatar to *not* deliver LNG because even including this penalty payment their solar PV and battery spending is much better value for money and saves them billions.
How fascinating!
How fascinating!
November 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The economic sense is so extremely in favour of renewables now, Pakistan is even paying Qatar penalties to rather NOT deliver the fossil gas that Pakistan already placed orders for, because their Solar PV and batteries make much more sense.
It saves them money to cancel their gas imports and pay!
It saves them money to cancel their gas imports and pay!
@riverflies.bsky.social What a great day - even on line I am still buzzing at the end of the Conference. Excellent speakers/topics and tons to think about. The lakefly sampling is going to be a great thing for farm ponds, very soon. I have no doubt. I'd love to trial it in the valley here.
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
@riverflies.bsky.social What a great day - even on line I am still buzzing at the end of the Conference. Excellent speakers/topics and tons to think about. The lakefly sampling is going to be a great thing for farm ponds, very soon. I have no doubt. I'd love to trial it in the valley here.
#applenerd. I forgot Court Plat Pendu what with the immense quantities of other apples in the garden this year. They are always a disappointment anyway…. But not this year!! Remembered just in time and picked the last few still on the tree. Rich and delicious😍
November 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
#applenerd. I forgot Court Plat Pendu what with the immense quantities of other apples in the garden this year. They are always a disappointment anyway…. But not this year!! Remembered just in time and picked the last few still on the tree. Rich and delicious😍
A grumpy leafy Hallowe'en to you all!
October 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A grumpy leafy Hallowe'en to you all!
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I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
October 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
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Please help combat BBC news blackout of Green Party!
@zackpolanski.bsky.social was the only party leader not interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their party conference.
So please RT his cracking conference speech..
@zackpolanski.bsky.social was the only party leader not interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their party conference.
So please RT his cracking conference speech..
Whatever your party politics, @zackpolanski.bsky.social leaders speech deserves to be heard..
www.youtube.com/live/TZx9Vng...
www.youtube.com/live/TZx9Vng...
Leader's Speech - Zack Polanski at Green Party Conference 2025
YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales
www.youtube.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Please help combat BBC news blackout of Green Party!
@zackpolanski.bsky.social was the only party leader not interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their party conference.
So please RT his cracking conference speech..
@zackpolanski.bsky.social was the only party leader not interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their party conference.
So please RT his cracking conference speech..
"They want to turn us into the British Isles. A huge meadow with only magpies and a few other birds"
I am shocked, most of all at how true it is about my country. @bioeaf.bsky.social cuts to the quick and speaks of our lack of care for our world, what we eat and the water we drink.
I am shocked, most of all at how true it is about my country. @bioeaf.bsky.social cuts to the quick and speaks of our lack of care for our world, what we eat and the water we drink.
Quieren convertir la cordillera en las islas britanicas. Un prao enorme domde solo haya urracas y pocas
El lobby mafioganadero ya tiene al oso en su punto de mira:
"La presencia del oso ya supone «un problema mayor» que el lobo en León":
www.leonoticias.com/comarcas/pre...
"La presencia del oso ya supone «un problema mayor» que el lobo en León":
www.leonoticias.com/comarcas/pre...
October 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"They want to turn us into the British Isles. A huge meadow with only magpies and a few other birds"
I am shocked, most of all at how true it is about my country. @bioeaf.bsky.social cuts to the quick and speaks of our lack of care for our world, what we eat and the water we drink.
I am shocked, most of all at how true it is about my country. @bioeaf.bsky.social cuts to the quick and speaks of our lack of care for our world, what we eat and the water we drink.
BBC interviewer this morning on synagogue raid
was a chance to foster understanding but -
conflated Palestine solidarity march w anti semitism,
Missed completely the reference to Palestininian generosity letting kids play with Kibbutz kids despite the terror their parents had inflicted.
was a chance to foster understanding but -
conflated Palestine solidarity march w anti semitism,
Missed completely the reference to Palestininian generosity letting kids play with Kibbutz kids despite the terror their parents had inflicted.
October 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
BBC interviewer this morning on synagogue raid
was a chance to foster understanding but -
conflated Palestine solidarity march w anti semitism,
Missed completely the reference to Palestininian generosity letting kids play with Kibbutz kids despite the terror their parents had inflicted.
was a chance to foster understanding but -
conflated Palestine solidarity march w anti semitism,
Missed completely the reference to Palestininian generosity letting kids play with Kibbutz kids despite the terror their parents had inflicted.
Despicable.
October 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Despicable.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
My son Will Hawkes is on BBC R4 tomorrow talking about insect migration! 😍 So proud!
My son Will Hawkes is on BBC R4 tomorrow talking about insect migration! 😍 So proud!
BBC Radio 4 - Rare Earth, Great Migrations
New technology gives fresh insights into the great animal migrations
www.bbc.co.uk
September 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
My son Will Hawkes is on BBC R4 tomorrow talking about insect migration! 😍 So proud!
My son Will Hawkes is on BBC R4 tomorrow talking about insect migration! 😍 So proud!
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Following a post by @norwichbirder.bsky.social I checked some duckweed in Upshire, Essex today and found numerous Water Lily Aphids (Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae) and a couple of 7-spot Ladybirds feasting on them. #UKAphids #EssexWildlife
September 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Following a post by @norwichbirder.bsky.social I checked some duckweed in Upshire, Essex today and found numerous Water Lily Aphids (Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae) and a couple of 7-spot Ladybirds feasting on them. #UKAphids #EssexWildlife
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Last year 100,000 people marched across London in support of nature and BBC News didn’t cover it, leading to complaints to Ofcom about political bias. Today BBC News covered a similar size march on front pages and every channel demonstrating fully its political bias. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Police hurt during Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally in London
Some 25 arrests are made after
www.bbc.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Last year 100,000 people marched across London in support of nature and BBC News didn’t cover it, leading to complaints to Ofcom about political bias. Today BBC News covered a similar size march on front pages and every channel demonstrating fully its political bias. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Find time to read this and talk about it if you can. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
I am a victim of nuclear testing. I have never been more afraid
Decades after Semipalatinsk, the collapse of arms control leaves the world on the edge again.
www.aljazeera.com
August 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Find time to read this and talk about it if you can. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars.
Even if those cars are electric.
And then there’s all the parking.
OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc.
Choices.
Simple.
Even if those cars are electric.
And then there’s all the parking.
OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc.
Choices.
Simple.
August 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars.
Even if those cars are electric.
And then there’s all the parking.
OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc.
Choices.
Simple.
Even if those cars are electric.
And then there’s all the parking.
OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc.
Choices.
Simple.
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When will the global community of states (incl Canada) stand up to the State of Israel & fulfil their obligations under Article I of the Genocide Convention.
That obligation is a duty "to PREVENT and to punish" the crime of genocide.
Let's focus on PREVENTION for now.
@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social
That obligation is a duty "to PREVENT and to punish" the crime of genocide.
Let's focus on PREVENTION for now.
@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
When will the global community of states (incl Canada) stand up to the State of Israel & fulfil their obligations under Article I of the Genocide Convention.
That obligation is a duty "to PREVENT and to punish" the crime of genocide.
Let's focus on PREVENTION for now.
@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social
That obligation is a duty "to PREVENT and to punish" the crime of genocide.
Let's focus on PREVENTION for now.
@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social
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“for barack, who dared the sky”
you wore your Black like a morning suit—
creased with hope, stitched in fire,
made the mic a pulpit
and the White House a choir.
they called it impossible.
you called it tuesday.
made yes we can
sound like truth on a school day.
your walk?
pure South Side sermon.👇🏾
you wore your Black like a morning suit—
creased with hope, stitched in fire,
made the mic a pulpit
and the White House a choir.
they called it impossible.
you called it tuesday.
made yes we can
sound like truth on a school day.
your walk?
pure South Side sermon.👇🏾
August 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
“for barack, who dared the sky”
you wore your Black like a morning suit—
creased with hope, stitched in fire,
made the mic a pulpit
and the White House a choir.
they called it impossible.
you called it tuesday.
made yes we can
sound like truth on a school day.
your walk?
pure South Side sermon.👇🏾
you wore your Black like a morning suit—
creased with hope, stitched in fire,
made the mic a pulpit
and the White House a choir.
they called it impossible.
you called it tuesday.
made yes we can
sound like truth on a school day.
your walk?
pure South Side sermon.👇🏾
Reposted by Sarah Hawkes
Taking part in the #BigButterflyCount? 🦋
Wales has only 1 colony of the High Brown Fritillary, found at Old Castle Down, Vale of Glamorgan📍
Right now, females are laying eggs near violet leaves & bracken🍃
Learn how #NaturamByth is protecting them: www.naturambyth.cymru/en/our-work/...
Wales has only 1 colony of the High Brown Fritillary, found at Old Castle Down, Vale of Glamorgan📍
Right now, females are laying eggs near violet leaves & bracken🍃
Learn how #NaturamByth is protecting them: www.naturambyth.cymru/en/our-work/...
July 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Taking part in the #BigButterflyCount? 🦋
Wales has only 1 colony of the High Brown Fritillary, found at Old Castle Down, Vale of Glamorgan📍
Right now, females are laying eggs near violet leaves & bracken🍃
Learn how #NaturamByth is protecting them: www.naturambyth.cymru/en/our-work/...
Wales has only 1 colony of the High Brown Fritillary, found at Old Castle Down, Vale of Glamorgan📍
Right now, females are laying eggs near violet leaves & bracken🍃
Learn how #NaturamByth is protecting them: www.naturambyth.cymru/en/our-work/...
Reposted by Sarah Hawkes
Jo Grady of UCU has spoken out in support of Gaza students with offers at UK universities who are being blocked by the Home Office www.timeshighereducation.com/news/visa-ru...
Visa rules ‘obstructing’ Gazan students from UK universities
UCU’s Jo Grady urges Home Office to ‘do everything it can’ to ensure students with offers to study in the UK are able to do so
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Jo Grady of UCU has spoken out in support of Gaza students with offers at UK universities who are being blocked by the Home Office www.timeshighereducation.com/news/visa-ru...
Seemingly unremarkable human interventions on rivers can be immensely destructive to wildlife & pass unseen for years. Asking questions about rivers is vital. Not all answers cost millions & restoration has benefits for the whole ecosystem on land, in river and our oceans.
This is the Llynor.
It's one of the cleanest tributaries on the Dee.
No farmyards or sewage treatment works upstream.
And it's mostly forest, a big section being restored to ancient woodland.
But it has a major problem.
It's one of the cleanest tributaries on the Dee.
No farmyards or sewage treatment works upstream.
And it's mostly forest, a big section being restored to ancient woodland.
But it has a major problem.
July 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Seemingly unremarkable human interventions on rivers can be immensely destructive to wildlife & pass unseen for years. Asking questions about rivers is vital. Not all answers cost millions & restoration has benefits for the whole ecosystem on land, in river and our oceans.
Thanks for sharing this, it is so important. There are ways to clean plastic from the ocean, there needs to be a 'flying squad' to do the best we can (as we do for oils spills that affect us more directly).
Plastic nurdles may sound harmless - but, when a spill of nurdles occurs, as in the X-Press Pearl disaster, or off the coast of East Yorkshire this year, these tiny pieces of plastic can absorb other pollutants, & are eaten by sea creatures who cannot digest them, as Dr Megson explains here:
July 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Thanks for sharing this, it is so important. There are ways to clean plastic from the ocean, there needs to be a 'flying squad' to do the best we can (as we do for oils spills that affect us more directly).
A fabulous bee mimic from a wild bee orchid I found on sands and gravels in Wrexham county yesterday @ukorchids.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 5:18 AM
A fabulous bee mimic from a wild bee orchid I found on sands and gravels in Wrexham county yesterday @ukorchids.bsky.social
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Do you know a young person with an interest in insects? 🦋
The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽
The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽
Douglas Boyes Fund - Royal Entomological Society
The Douglas Boyes Fund has been established in honour of Douglas Boyes (1996-2021), an esteemed entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. The Fund aims to provide young people aged 14-18 with access…
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June 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Do you know a young person with an interest in insects? 🦋
The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽
The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽
Lovely.
Only today I learned about the shrine in Tokyo to insects killed for science.
Mushizuka at Kan'ei-ji Temple
A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.
www.atlasobscura.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Lovely.
www.pan-uk.org/period-produ... That something so basic and normal to half of us functioning in our society has caused so much harm is shocking. We need to know this stuff and have the power to make good choices. I wish I had known.
Blood, Sweat and Pesticides
Period products can contain pesticides and other harmful substances, such as heavy metals and PFAS ‘forever chemicals’.
www.pan-uk.org
May 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
www.pan-uk.org/period-produ... That something so basic and normal to half of us functioning in our society has caused so much harm is shocking. We need to know this stuff and have the power to make good choices. I wish I had known.