We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

Strelitzia nicolai is bird-pollinated in an unusual way. Perching birds, like this Cape weaver (Ploceus capensis), pick up the pollen on their feet! 📷: Andrew Core CCBYNC4. #Strelitziaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱 Want more #ornithophily? Prof. Jeff Ollerton wrote an excellent book about it.

I've written Joe Harkness's obituary for the Guardian. I hope it pays good tribute to a wonderful man who was brave, honest and made the world a better place. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Joe Harkness obituary

Writer, teacher and naturalist who explored the effects of the natural world on neurodivergency

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Beautiful Plume pursued by small shadow dragons - dramatic scenes on my kitchen wall last night #TeamMoth

Uploading the Dot Ladybird (Stethorus pusillus) with 7-spot Ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata) again, just because I like it!! 😆 From August in Shropshire #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

I remember seeing Margaret Attwood at the IOC in Vancouver in 2018 - the closest thing to Canadian royalty?! Excellent to see a chair in Ornithology being endowed - see quoted tweet for direct details & more background in this @theguardian.com article www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

‘Birdwatching is close to rapture’: Margaret Atwood on why she has given C$1m to avian research

Award-winning novelist celebrates late partner’s love of birds with gift to establish the Graeme Gibson chair in avian biology

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Alice Boyle@birdfiddler.bsky.social · 5d ago

We are all SO EXCITED to announce that @margaretatwood.bsky.social has chosen to support the centre for @animalsonthemove.bsky.social and @westernu.ca with this incredibly generous gift! news.westernu.ca/2026/09/grae...

I nearly didn't post this one from Private Eye. Then thought 'Go on. @justrena.bsky.social would have loved it'. I hope so.

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Quite emotional to report that we've just found our amazing survivor Marsh Tit, still here in his ancient woodland kingdom. He's now 11 yrs 4 months old, survived the 2026 heatwaves/drought and smelt the wildfires of nearby Holme Fen. I ringed him in my 30s and I'm now in my 50s.

Richard K Broughton@richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 12mo ago

May 2015. David Cameron was Prime Minister, UK an EU member, Barack Obama was US President, and this male Marsh Tit hatched in Monks Wood. Colour-ringed 28 August 2015. Photo 2 April 2016. Observed every year since. @martamaziarz.bsky.social & I saw him again today, 10 yrs 5 mo old, still surviving.

An account of a book scam markavery.info/2026/09/20/b... #naturewriting #books #authors

Interesting fungal find: This parasitic plant fungus (Exobasidium karstenii) lives exclusively on bog-rosemary (Andromeda polifolia) and makes some of the leaves much broader, and purple. The green and the purple leaves here are the same plant! #naturephotography #fungifriends

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

My goodness, that looks like a nice bit of lowland spring fen. What was the moss? Thatchy & tall dead reed means it could do with a good cut & collect, then goodness knows what good things may return, perhaps grazing later on happens? Sweep netting in May & June needed for soldierflies...

Good luck with the appeal and wouldn't it be great to, one day, join it to Flitwick Moor.... (understand it is 5 fields away).

Thanks so much for your support. This really is a wonderful site - a chalk spring, a neutral spring and an acidic spring from the Greensand meet in the central marsh - I can't think of a site of this size with such diversity, and the plants and invertebrates to prove ti.

Terry & Judy Wood@tandjwood.bsky.social · 2w ago

Please help save the precious habitat of Pulloxhill Marsh. We have.😊 www.wildlifebcn.org/pulloxhill

Thrips are tiny creatures that lay very tiny eggs, into which these astonishingly tiny wasps lay their own minuscule eggs. What an amazing form of life 🔬

DB@arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 2w ago

A beautiful 0.22mm long female Megaphragma noyesi wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found at Castle Water of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in July. This wasp is a parasitoid of the eggs of thrips, but we don't yet know which species of thrips. #wasps #RyeHarbour

9,500 years old! And still intact! A Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry. Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000. 🧵/1/2 📷 me

The Government is asking for views about the good causes National Lottery funding should support. But in the 'call for evidence', nature is not included in the description of 'heritage' anymore. This is potentially BAD NEWS. You can help here:

Nature could miss out from Lottery funding – have your say

Respond to the call to action to share nature IS heritage and the National Lottery needs to continue to support nature.

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Donations to buy the Rothbury Estate for the nation via the Wildlife Trust are currently being match funded. So hurry over now, bung them a few bob, and see your donation doubled.

Rothbury Estate Match Appeal August 2026 | The Wildlife Trusts

The Rothbury Estate is more than a beautiful place. It's 3,800 hectares of rivers, woodlands, grasslands, peatlands and open moorland, where wildlife still has the chance to thrive at a scale rarely s...

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Need to harness the power of Bluesky, so reposts are appreciated. If anyone here, or anyone you know attends Bangor University (the Welsh one) and needs a room for the upcoming year, get in touch. One of my son's housemates has dropped out at the last minute, so their house is one short.

📸 Could your photo be our next Header Photo of the Month? 🌿 Send us your favourite photo taken on one of our reserves for a chance to feature on our Facebook & Bluesky headers! 📅 Deadline: 20th September 📧 communicationsteam@wildlifebcn.org We can't wait to see your photos!

Celebrating receiving an advance copy of my new Magnum Opus (with 4,000 images), by catching a Clifden Nonpareil on the same day.

A species can be common in an ecosystem and still be doomed. If it can no longer reproduce, e.g. due to degradation or climate change, it's likely already facing extinctioning. Sometimes ecosystems reflect land-use decisions from 50y ago as much as today's. New piece on ghosts, debts, and credits.

Ghosts, debts, and credits

The hidden lags between what we do and what it costs

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Wonderful ancient artistry! About 40,000 years ago, this small, graceful horse figurine was carved from mammoth ivory! Imagine the #IceAge artist at work, sitting by the warmth of a fire, creating what is the world’s oldest known figure of a horse! 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller Monday, September 07,1953

Deacon in local Catholic Church went full Ezekiel in homily today, re climate crisis and the horrors being visited on those least responsible: "seen recently in Nepal and Tibet. The blood of more than 1,300 people is on our hands, from this one incident of climate injustice alone."

It is back to school everyone! And to mark that, we have here William Keble Martin's paintbox which was used for his well loved Concise British Flora in Colour (1965) published when Martin was 88. It has 1,400 species of plants and has been the inspiration for many budding botanists ever since.

As Europe slouches back towards fascism, a reminder where it leads.

John Cocker@joecocker.bsky.social · 3w ago

On this day in 1931, a Czech Jewish girl was born. On the 8 Sep 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt with mother and brother (11) and then on the 15 May 1944 to Auschwitz where they were most probably murdered on arrival. Her name was Nina Ledererová Support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

Art by Jonatan Maldonado