Next year is the centenary of the publication of Elton's Animal Ecology - excellent idea for a Special Issue of @animalecology.bsky.social animalecologyinfocus.com/2026/06/30/2...

Celebrating 100 years since the publication of Charles Elton’s Animal Ecology

Reflections from our Executive Editor, Dr Nate Sanders Image of Charles Elton. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Nearly 100 years ago, a 27-year-old Charles Elton published Animal Ecology, a foundational b…

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Computer scientist Frances Allen was a pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. + 1st woman to win the Turing Award + Her research directly shaped compiler design, code optimization & automatic parallel processing Born #OTD in 1932 & died #OTD in 2020. #WomenInSTEM #CompSci

The article also contains this quotation from the Telegraph’s world economy editor, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: “There comes a point when you have to conclude that the Tories have gone Trumpian on the existential issue of our time" #ClimateEmergency

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 12h ago

I'm quoted in this Guardian article about the Telegraph's rollercoaster week of comment pieces about climate change www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

#FactoryFarming, on sea and land: many reasons to stop it. #AMR is a big one. What could go wrong, tossing antibiotics at scale into the sea?😟 phys.org/news/2026-08...

Antibiotic-resistant seafood bacterium found in Vietnam fish farming waters near popular island destination

A bacterium linked to seafood-related illness and capable of resisting multiple antibiotics has been detected in fish-farming waters near Cat Ba Island, Vietnam, according to a new study highlighting ...

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Cool #biology fact of the day! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘When you kill it, it doesn’t die’: the jellyfish that has cracked the secret of immortality

Turritopsis dohrnii has the ability to turn back into a baby jellyfish and grow up all over again

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Coolest read today! “The whole point of this is not to name a random #species that 10 people read about in a journal. I want to show that #taxonomy is the frontline of #biodiversity research. Researching #habitat loss and native species is nothing without it" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘I have an understanding housemate’: the student who makes videos of fungus on faeces

Alfred Drummond-Herdman’s extraordinary timelapses have been viewed by millions – and led him to identify new species

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I see we've reached the point in this particular summer of extremes where we are now having to BLOW UP rocks in drought-striken rivers to help send water towards gasping nuclear power plants www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

South-eastern Europe faces heatwave energy crunch as Romania detonates Danube rock to increase water flow – Europe live

Explosives used to move a large rock and let more water flow to cool nuclear power plant

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“The climate emergency kills,” he said on Monday. “And that’s why it’s not enough to address the consequences, which we do; what we have to do is reduce its causes, anticipate its effects, and, consequently, better prepare our country to protect people’s lives.”

‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers

PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved

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"When we can create wetlands and beaver wetlands, it creates resilient landscapes to drought but also to the extremes of drought such as wildfires." Beaver dams "helping boost drought resilience" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Beavers helping to reduce drought with wetlands

Research shows beavers are creating more wetland areas since being reintroduced to the wild.

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Strikes me that more effort has gone into putting scientists on the stand to defend themselves against a lab leak conspiracy than fossil fuel polluters for decades of knowingly hastening climate breakdown and blatant crimes against humanity.

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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Watching this juvenile Hyllus Diardi carefully explore my hands is a reminder that even the smallest creatures are full of personality. Every little step is curiosity in action, and moments like these make it impossible not to fall in love with jumping spiders 🥹 #jumpingspider

I’m helping save Coul Links. Will you? Coul Links is a beautiful and unique wildlife habitat in the Scottish Highlands. But it is threatened once again with development. Join me in urging Scottish Ministers to say no to this damaging application. action.rspb.org.uk/page/166270/...

Save Coul Links!

Your voice could help save this precious habitat from a new threat of development.

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"The rules-based global order, if not dead, is resting, parrot-like, on the floor of its cage." app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/160065...

Trump has made his biggest, most dangerous mistake yet

His deal to let Saudi Arabia develop a domestic, unregulated nuclear programme is a landmark moment in the disintegration of global order

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"[If] you want to spot #AI writing, look for bland, pretentious prose lavished with Latinate words—at least for now." How to spot AI writing Gift article www.economist.com/culture/2026...

How to spot AI writing

Large language models like long words and em-dashes—or do they?

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wanted this to be a spoof so so bad, hate that it's real, hideously depressing

Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 5d ago

This must be so head-spinning for them... Here's the Daily Mail trying to cover the wildfires ('Evacuate!') and record heat deaths in UK, while also trying to maintain its climate denial by running a highly misleading comment piece by Matt Ridley and an editorial focused on "water companies"

Clive Lewis, the Labour MP, said there was “no legitimate reason” to press ahead with #Jackdaw because it would make only a negligible difference to energy prices while sending the wrong signal as Europe experienced record heat Too right! #ClimateEmergency www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling

Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns

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Central heating? In the UK it is generally natural gas i.e. methane. 100% fossil fuelled, so shifting to electric heating automatically cuts carbon emissions. Electrify everything....

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

Just in case you've seen climate sceptics posting highly misleading charts on social media about wildfires, here's our new factcheck...

Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · 6d ago

NEW – Factcheck: No, Europe is not having its ‘quietest’ year for wildfires ✍️ @giulianaviglione.bsky.social and @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org 💬 With comments from @calxcunningham.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/pDQGTR3

“Sure, there are climate scientists telling it like it is, making a lot of noise & often putting their livelihoods & career prospects on the line, but they remain the exception Far too many individuals still keep silent, heads below the parapet” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wildfires are raging – and the world has junked 45 climate pledges. Disaster looms, and little wonder | Bill McGuire

Five years ago, I wrote an open letter asking climate scientists to speak out. Now governments are in retreat, it is surely time to act, says climate professor Bill McGuire

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Instead of using a photo of the current conflagrations caused by climate breakdown, the Telegraph uses a pic of a wind turbine burning ... in February 2025. Because that's the important thing: 17 months ago a turbine ignited. Caption: "It’s time to cease building wind turbines". #FossilFuelStooges

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7d ago

I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.

“Once we know that we can sell and distribute the repellent at a low cost, that should generate a self-sustaining system where the money is flowing back to everybody at each stage in the development,” said Scofield. #malaria #mosquitos www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes, study finds

Researchers testing a cheap, homegrown oil in Uganda found what cats knew all along – it worked as well as the artificial chemical used globally

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Some good news to the end the week #ClimateEmergency londondaily.com/court-rules-...

Court Rules Approval for Rosebank and Jackdaw Oil Fields Unlawful - London Daily

Environmental campaigners win case against UK government's approval of two major oil and gas projects, with new approval needed before production can begin.

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First test of whether this is serious will be whether the #Rosebank and #Jackdaw oil and gas fields are approved #ClimateEmergency

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 7d ago

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

I know it's not news Kemi Badenoch is not across the detail, but this is an absolute shocker. She says the UK's net zero plans are 'perversely increasing carbon emissions'. In 2019 when net zero targets were adopted emissions were 45% below 1990 levels. Last year they were 54% below 1990 levels.

So inspired to see the London premiere of NO TREES, NO SEAS - a breathtakingly shot, beautifully told story of how forests and oceans are a deeply intertwined ecosystem, & how ‘if you want to catch a fish, plant a tree’ Ace work @plantonecic.bsky.social & Sam Manning plantone.co.uk/no-trees-no-...

So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...

Our last, best chance to cool the Earth

We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...

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"Wildfires are not purely a matter of climate, but #climate does matter. The frequency and extremity of fire-friendly weather has been increasing for 40 years; conditions very unlikely before climate change are being seen with increasing frequency" Gift article www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

Europe’s fires are just the start

They are not a new normal. But worse can nonetheless be expected

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