Stephen Mulvey
@stephenmulvey.bsky.social
Journalist and mature student (Conservation MSc at UCL). In the distant past reported from Kyiv and Baku.
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Stephen Mulvey
@stephenmulvey.bsky.social
· Jan 26
I made a starter pack of people involved in bat research and conservation. Please share. go.bsky.app/R4Etsza
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So many Marasmius hudsonii in the woods. #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
So many Marasmius hudsonii in the woods. #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday
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Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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"What Ukraine’s campaign has exposed about Russia is really a deeper vulnerability: an energy superpower whose strength lies in infrastructure built decades ago, maintained through improvisation, and preserved by command rather than innovation." www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/slow-...
The Slow Death of Russian Oil
Why Ukraine’s campaign against Moscow’s energy sector is working.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"What Ukraine’s campaign has exposed about Russia is really a deeper vulnerability: an energy superpower whose strength lies in infrastructure built decades ago, maintained through improvisation, and preserved by command rather than innovation." www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/slow-...
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Natuur - jagers 1-0
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Natuur - jagers 1-0
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Always fascinating to see new @btobirds.bsky.social Ringing & Nest Recording report.
Willow Tits at new low, no nestlings ringed at all, just 6 nests monitored. Ringed Marsh Tit halved from 2010. No Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers ringed in UK for 2nd yr running.
www.bto.org/get-involved... #ornithology
Willow Tits at new low, no nestlings ringed at all, just 6 nests monitored. Ringed Marsh Tit halved from 2010. No Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers ringed in UK for 2nd yr running.
www.bto.org/get-involved... #ornithology
Online Ringing and Nest Recording Report | BTO
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October 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Always fascinating to see new @btobirds.bsky.social Ringing & Nest Recording report.
Willow Tits at new low, no nestlings ringed at all, just 6 nests monitored. Ringed Marsh Tit halved from 2010. No Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers ringed in UK for 2nd yr running.
www.bto.org/get-involved... #ornithology
Willow Tits at new low, no nestlings ringed at all, just 6 nests monitored. Ringed Marsh Tit halved from 2010. No Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers ringed in UK for 2nd yr running.
www.bto.org/get-involved... #ornithology
Conducting interviews by email has drawbacks
October 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Conducting interviews by email has drawbacks
Fantastic news
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Seven beavers released in Highlands' Glen Affric
Glen Affric is a large area of woodland, lochs and mountains near Cannich.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Fantastic news
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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In the 1840s the Galson estate on Lewis was cleared for sheep. Most people were put onto emigration ships to Canada. Finally in 2007 - a community buyout. This commemorative sculpture by Will Maclean & Marian Leven is shortlisted for Marsh Award. If it moves you pls vote. pssauk.org/2025-pssa-ma...
September 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
In the 1840s the Galson estate on Lewis was cleared for sheep. Most people were put onto emigration ships to Canada. Finally in 2007 - a community buyout. This commemorative sculpture by Will Maclean & Marian Leven is shortlisted for Marsh Award. If it moves you pls vote. pssauk.org/2025-pssa-ma...
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New - my first piece for @science.org !
Absolutely crazy footage of rat behaviour in Germany.
Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time | Science | AAAS share.google/WAsAIQ8j0MKp...
Absolutely crazy footage of rat behaviour in Germany.
Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time | Science | AAAS share.google/WAsAIQ8j0MKp...
Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time
Stunning hunting behaviour captured in German cave
share.google
October 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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New - my first piece for @science.org !
Absolutely crazy footage of rat behaviour in Germany.
Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time | Science | AAAS share.google/WAsAIQ8j0MKp...
Absolutely crazy footage of rat behaviour in Germany.
Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time | Science | AAAS share.google/WAsAIQ8j0MKp...
Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time
Stunning hunting behaviour captured in German cave
share.google
October 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
New - my first piece for @science.org !
Absolutely crazy footage of rat behaviour in Germany.
Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time | Science | AAAS share.google/WAsAIQ8j0MKp...
Absolutely crazy footage of rat behaviour in Germany.
Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time | Science | AAAS share.google/WAsAIQ8j0MKp...
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Many lichen species are sensitive to nitrogen pollution, making them natural indicators of air quality.
📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems.
buff.ly/AmWAOQB
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📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems.
buff.ly/AmWAOQB
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October 4, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Many lichen species are sensitive to nitrogen pollution, making them natural indicators of air quality.
📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems.
buff.ly/AmWAOQB
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📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems.
buff.ly/AmWAOQB
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Mycorrhizal fungi provide plants with nitrogen, but in exchange they take up to half the carbon plants pull from the atmosphere. In a new study, researchers investigate how the environment influences this give-and-take. 🧪🌱🍄
eos.org/research-spo...
eos.org/research-spo...
How Plant-Fungi Friendships Are Changing - Eos
A new framework shows how much carbon plants allocate to their endosymbionts and how that amount might change in the face of warming soil and rising carbon dioxide levels.
eos.org
October 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Mycorrhizal fungi provide plants with nitrogen, but in exchange they take up to half the carbon plants pull from the atmosphere. In a new study, researchers investigate how the environment influences this give-and-take. 🧪🌱🍄
eos.org/research-spo...
eos.org/research-spo...
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So pleasing. 🪶
October 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
So pleasing. 🪶
A 2nd bill?? "With rumours of a second planning bill also on the horizon, we will continue to do everything in our power to galvanise our supporters and to stop the environmentally, economically and politically disastrous assault on the wild spaces we all cherish" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Environment groups are anything but ‘mute’ on the planning bill | Letters
Letter: Craig Bennett, Hilary McGrady, Dr James Robinson and Richard Benwell say they have never stopped campaigning on the planning and infrastructure bill’s flaws
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
A 2nd bill?? "With rumours of a second planning bill also on the horizon, we will continue to do everything in our power to galvanise our supporters and to stop the environmentally, economically and politically disastrous assault on the wild spaces we all cherish" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Mushroom with scaly cap (possibly Amanita rubescens, the blusher) in Epping Forest.
October 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Mushroom with scaly cap (possibly Amanita rubescens, the blusher) in Epping Forest.
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Exasperated. Gutted. Furious. Terrified. Sometimes swear words are the only ones that fit.
Our delightful government - who we put our trust in - is u-turning on THE easiest Nature action *ever*.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Our delightful government - who we put our trust in - is u-turning on THE easiest Nature action *ever*.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes
Housing minister Steve Reed refuses to back mandating measure, despite giving support while in environment job
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Exasperated. Gutted. Furious. Terrified. Sometimes swear words are the only ones that fit.
Our delightful government - who we put our trust in - is u-turning on THE easiest Nature action *ever*.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Our delightful government - who we put our trust in - is u-turning on THE easiest Nature action *ever*.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Pretty glad I headed back up to the woods for sunset...
These are porcelain mushrooms, and a moveable log, so was able to get a photo from underneath!
#Hockeridge #Mushrooms #Fungi
These are porcelain mushrooms, and a moveable log, so was able to get a photo from underneath!
#Hockeridge #Mushrooms #Fungi
October 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Pretty glad I headed back up to the woods for sunset...
These are porcelain mushrooms, and a moveable log, so was able to get a photo from underneath!
#Hockeridge #Mushrooms #Fungi
These are porcelain mushrooms, and a moveable log, so was able to get a photo from underneath!
#Hockeridge #Mushrooms #Fungi
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My wife Alison had these five Merveille du Jour moths in her moth trap this morning, here in SE Scotland.
October 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
My wife Alison had these five Merveille du Jour moths in her moth trap this morning, here in SE Scotland.
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Daubenton's bats are now entering hibernation a month earlier than 13 years ago without increasing fat reserves, highlighting shifting survival challenges linked to climate change. doi.org/g955mn
An unexpected reaction to climate change: Daubenton's bats are hibernating for longer
The days are getting shorter, the temperatures are dropping. Numerous animals are migrating south, others are seeking their hibernacula—including bats.
phys.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Daubenton's bats are now entering hibernation a month earlier than 13 years ago without increasing fat reserves, highlighting shifting survival challenges linked to climate change. doi.org/g955mn
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Triple terror.
In the Chernihiv region, a russian drone targeted a service car of engineers who came to repair an energy facility after russia's previous attack — killing two workers and injuring three.
When rescuers arrived, russians shelled them too.
Unspeakable horror. Don't look away.
In the Chernihiv region, a russian drone targeted a service car of engineers who came to repair an energy facility after russia's previous attack — killing two workers and injuring three.
When rescuers arrived, russians shelled them too.
Unspeakable horror. Don't look away.
October 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Triple terror.
In the Chernihiv region, a russian drone targeted a service car of engineers who came to repair an energy facility after russia's previous attack — killing two workers and injuring three.
When rescuers arrived, russians shelled them too.
Unspeakable horror. Don't look away.
In the Chernihiv region, a russian drone targeted a service car of engineers who came to repair an energy facility after russia's previous attack — killing two workers and injuring three.
When rescuers arrived, russians shelled them too.
Unspeakable horror. Don't look away.
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Bats just get cooler every day and another great example of the diversity of their diet (even in species that used to be considered insectivores!)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight
Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...
www.science.org
October 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Bats just get cooler every day and another great example of the diversity of their diet (even in species that used to be considered insectivores!)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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If you pick up the Guardian Weekend Magazine today, please read about my daughter Milly’s battle with Lyme disease. And if you’re feeling bold, drop your copy into your local GP. There are thousands of Millys out there. Most are currently not helped at all by the NHS or, worse, not believed.
September 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
If you pick up the Guardian Weekend Magazine today, please read about my daughter Milly’s battle with Lyme disease. And if you’re feeling bold, drop your copy into your local GP. There are thousands of Millys out there. Most are currently not helped at all by the NHS or, worse, not believed.
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Kudos to Bloomberg and @blkahn.bsky.social for not beating around the bush with this headline.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Trump Uses UN Speech to Spread Climate Misinformation
Yesterday, US President Donald Trump took the podium at the United Nations General Assembly and spoke for nearly an hour, lecturing world leaders about a variety of topics.
www.bloomberg.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Kudos to Bloomberg and @blkahn.bsky.social for not beating around the bush with this headline.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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This is just to say
I have eaten
the swans
that were in
the duck pond
and which
you were probably
saving
for the King
Forgive me
they were delicious
so white
and so necky
I have eaten
the swans
that were in
the duck pond
and which
you were probably
saving
for the King
Forgive me
they were delicious
so white
and so necky
September 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
This is just to say
I have eaten
the swans
that were in
the duck pond
and which
you were probably
saving
for the King
Forgive me
they were delicious
so white
and so necky
I have eaten
the swans
that were in
the duck pond
and which
you were probably
saving
for the King
Forgive me
they were delicious
so white
and so necky
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Presenting 'Damian' the Death's-head Hawkmoth, A. atropos, newly emerged this morning, after being lovingly tended and raised by our Assistant Warden, Johnny Bull, after the caterpillar was found on the SBBOT Middle Field reserve on 14th August. Marvelous Moth Metamorphosis 🤩 #TeamMoth #KentNature
September 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Presenting 'Damian' the Death's-head Hawkmoth, A. atropos, newly emerged this morning, after being lovingly tended and raised by our Assistant Warden, Johnny Bull, after the caterpillar was found on the SBBOT Middle Field reserve on 14th August. Marvelous Moth Metamorphosis 🤩 #TeamMoth #KentNature