Awesome article. She's such a rock star. 😍

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 11mo ago

‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir

New OA 🦇 research 📄 What a perfect day for this brilliant paper to come out from my colleagues at @batconservation.bsky.social 🎃 Understanding bats in English churches: A citizen science approach besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Understanding bats in English churches: A citizen science approach

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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A beautiful afternoon along Hudson Bay with a bunch of polar bears. It was much too warm for this time of year, so the bears were resting up and saving their energy. #mammals 🌿

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

This is where I'm posting from.

Behold the #caturday toe beans

📢 New paper from my PhD! 🦇 Using 3D reconstructions of barbastelle bat flight paths over roads, we found that increasing canopy cover leads to lower flight heights, elevating collision risk. @vincentwt.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk #PhD #Bats #Ecology #Conservation 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Increasing canopy cover elevates vehicle collision risk for barbastelle bats (Barbastella barbastellus) at roads - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Increasing canopy cover elevates vehicle collision risk for barbastelle bats (Barbastella barbastellus) at roads

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I am re-watching Downton, and Maggie Smith just fills my heart with happiness. I miss her.

Maybe you need something different than doomscrolling? How about a banger about disco snails? youtu.be/oAZBKlVSLkU?...

Vulfmon & Zachary Barker - Disco Snails (Official Video)

YouTube video by Vulf

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New OA 🦇 research 📄 In this review we assess the state of knowledge surrounding #bat #migration across the British Isles and evaluate the impacts of their interactions with #offshore wind infrastructure. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Impacts of offshore wind farms on migratory bats in British waters

Offshore wind energy projects are developing at pace with ambitious Net Zero targets in place across Europe and understanding the evidence base for th…

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that was a long day.

Schrödinger's douchebag A person who makes offensive or inflammatory remarks and characterizes these statements as either sincere or joking based on the reactions of others.

Doing penance with RATM

On the train platform listening to Toad The Wet Sprocket. Fight me.

Today is the birthday of the late Ursula K Le Guin, whose books you should really read. Especially Earthsea. #booksky

❤️🦇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s madness’: bat enthusiasts fear planning bill will derail years of conservation

Research project team say Labour’s proposed nature restoration fund would end up being a ‘pay-to-destroy system’

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Flagging this both because it's cool research, and because the graphs shown here illustrate a very important best-practice of showing both the curves/confidence intervals and the raw data points themselves whenever possible.

British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU)@bou.org.uk · 12mo ago

Colours of urban selection: carotenoid-based signals reveal divergent urban/rural evolutionary trajectories in two closely related passerines | doi.org/10.1002/oik.... | Oikos | #ornithology 🪶

My cats are obsessed with "upstairs" as they have never had an upstairs before.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Raman was one of our @opwall.bsky.social research assistants in Croatia a couple of years ago, and watching her impact as a young conservationist makes me so proud!!

BTO | British Trust for Ornithology@btobirds.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Winner of The Marsh Award for Young Ornithologist is Ramandeep Nijjar! Ramandeep has put tremendous effort into promoting ornithology through various platforms including as a BTO Youth Rep, an organiser of local events and through public speaking, podcasts and webinars. @marshawards.bsky.social

Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot

The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Dear Green Frogs & other inflatable heroes in Portland, You have made this week BEARable & I’m so grateful. Authoritarianism fucks with our heads. Your activism provides a grounding, loving & peaceful vibe during a horrific time. Don’t ever quit! Love, Me

In honor of spooky month, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: Accepted with major revisions.

Despite the chaos of moving back to the UK this week, I managed to squeeze in a bit of trapping. We caught and ringed five bats of three species before the temperature dropped and ended the survey early. 🦇

May I offer you a borb in these trying times? 🪶

Officially extinct yesterday, RIP slender-billed curlew

This is all I needed in my life today 😍

nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir)@nora.zone · last yr.

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war