Donna Ferguson
@donnalferguson.bsky.social
Multiple award-winning freelance journalist, with over 950 bylines in The Guardian. Head of the Freelance Chapter of Women in Journalism, which campaigns for equality and diversity in journalism.
Here is the full article! Thank you so much @donnalferguson.bsky.social for the mention 🙇♂️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt
theguardian.com
Revealed: cover-up of attempted rape that let Lord Palmerston into No 10
Revealed: cover-up of attempted rape that let Lord Palmerston into No 10
thetimes.com
Native Australian plants – including kangaroo paw, bottlebrush and emu bushes will be swapping the outback for central London next month, when a Chelsea flower show display is replanted in Kensington Gardens. ✍️ @donnalferguson.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4dpuxmW
Chelsea flower show’s Australian garden to put down roots...
Banksias, bottlebrushes and emu bushes will bloom in Kensington Gardens as part of a research project into how antipodean flora copes with the capital’s changing microclimate
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A new official Cambridge City Council e-petition is calling for stronger planning safeguards on HMOs in Cambridge, including a 10% threshold and Article 4 protections for family homes. Sign and share: bit.ly/HMOPetition #Cambridge #CambridgeUK #Cambs
#Chelseaflowershow’s Australian garden to put down roots in London park. Banksias and emu bushes will bloom in Kensington Gardens as part of a research project into how antipodean flora copes with the capital’s changing microclimate. ✍️ @donnalferguson.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4dpuxmW
Chelsea flower show’s Australian garden to put down roots...
Banksias, bottlebrushes and emu bushes will bloom in Kensington Gardens as part of a research project into how antipodean flora copes with the capital’s changing microclimate
bit.ly
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... Huge congratulations to @cprecountryside.bsky.social and Sarah Eberle on winning Garden of the Year at Chelsea - and thanks to @theguardian.com for commissioning me to write about it last week.
‘A weed is only a plant in the wrong place’: RHS Chelsea garden celebrates England’s edgelands
Sarah Eberle hopes to inspire people to nurture where town and countryside meet and nature is need of protection
theguardian.com
Great article by @donnalferguson.bsky.social in today's @theguardian.com about Darwin & Henslow's plant specimens & illustrations and the fab new @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social Certificate in Botany: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Links for this course & many others here: bsbi.org/learn/traini...
Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered
University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago
theguardian.com
My latest article for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
From young men looking for no-strings sex to the 92-year-old who lied about his age: older women on the truth about dating in later life
Five women on both sides of the Atlantic reveal what it’s like trying to find a partner in your 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s
theguardian.com
Otter is Cambridge University’s latest furry fresher. The apex predator has taken up residence along the banks of the river Cam in big win for local conservation efforts. ✍️ @donnalferguson.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4rhFHhU
Otter is Cambridge University's latest furry fresher
The apex predator has taken up residence along the banks of the river Cam in big win for local conservation efforts
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🌿 When was the last time you stopped to listen to a plant? Our new exhibition Talking Plants gives AI voices to plants - and it’s featured in today’s Sunday Times. 🗓 11 Feb–12 Apr | Glasshouse Range 🔗 https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/talking-plants/ #TalkingPlants #CambridgeUniversityBotanicGarden
New search begins for missing flight MH370. This from @donnalferguson.bsky.social 👇 What has been learnt about oceanography, surface currents, waves, atmosphere, ... since 2014 that could aid the search ? Do previously held assumptions still stand ? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The mystery of flight MH370: will a new search find the missing airliner after more than a decade?
In 2014 the Malaysian Airlines jet vanished over the Indian Ocean. Now the team that located Shackleton’s Endurance is looking again with the latest undersea robots
theguardian.com
Delighted to see this recent article in the @smithsonianmag.bsky.social by @donnalferguson.bsky.social on some of the research outputs for the Naming Species in the South Pacific project: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl... With thanks to our collaborators, @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social
Newly Digitized Records Reveal How Indigenous People Shared Their Knowledge of New Zealand's Plants With Captain Cook's Crew
Long-overlooked documents housed at London's Natural History Museum testify to the exchange of information between 18th-century European botanists and their Indigenous counterparts
smithsonianmag.com
Some good news. “A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years
Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve
theguardian.com
I spent hours listening to Sabrina Carpenter this year. So why do I have a Spotify ‘listening age’ of 86?
I spent hours listening to Sabrina Carpenter this year. So why do I have a Spotify ‘listening age’ of 86?
Many users of the app were shocked, this week, by this addition to the Spotify Wrapped roundup – especially twentysomethings who were judged to be 100
theguardian.com
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I spent hours listening to Sabrina Carpenter this year. So why do I have a Spotify ‘listening age’ of 86?
Many users of the app were shocked, this week, by this addition to the Spotify Wrapped roundup – especially twentysomethings who were judged to be 100
theguardian.com
I love this interview by @donnalferguson.bsky.social about the sad story of the fate of the sea cow and why what happened resonates today. I’m looking forward to reading the book www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Beasts of the Sea: the tragic story of how the ‘gentle, lovable’ sea cow became the perfect victim
Iida Turpeinen’s novel has been a sensation in her native Finland. On the eve of its UK publication, she talks about her compulsion to tell of the sociable giant’s plight
theguardian.com
‘Directors would be like: this is the Asian part’: Slow Horses’ Christopher Chung on battling to become a leading man
‘Directors would be like: this is the Asian part’: Slow Horses’ Christopher Chung on battling to become a leading man
Sarky hacker Roddy in the espionage drama was a dream role, but before that, the actor had years of hard graft. He talks odd jobs, busting stereotypes and holding his own opposite Gary Oldman
theguardian.com
Donna is great so you’d be learning from an absolute expert
Donna Ferguson@donnalferguson.bsky.social · 11mo agoFeeling stuck? Worried about freelancing? Join my masterclass: 'Starting out in Freelancing' Aimed at people who are new to print journalism & experienced freelancers who want a fresh start. 🗓️ Tue 23 Sept, 7-8pm 📍Online 🎫Book now: t.co/5wVYojQf4f
@wijuk.bsky.social looking forward to this!
Donna Ferguson@donnalferguson.bsky.social · 11mo agoFeeling stuck? Worried about freelancing? Join my masterclass: 'Starting out in Freelancing' Aimed at people who are new to print journalism & experienced freelancers who want a fresh start. 🗓️ Tue 23 Sept, 7-8pm 📍Online 🎫Book now: t.co/5wVYojQf4f
Feeling stuck? Worried about freelancing? Join my masterclass: 'Starting out in Freelancing' Aimed at people who are new to print journalism & experienced freelancers who want a fresh start. 🗓️ Tue 23 Sept, 7-8pm 📍Online 🎫Book now: t.co/5wVYojQf4f
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@wijuk.bsky.social FYI :)
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