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New blog: new paper on science denial. Combatting denialism depends on community approaches to scicomm. Experts need to be supported by academic and research institutions, policymakers, and journalists #academicsky #commsky wp.me/pF3Q3-TP

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There is a point at which wealth gives you too much power to shape politics, just as there is a point above which super-rich lifestyles cause extreme harm to the environment. @dhnnjyn.bsky.social on why we need an "extreme wealth line" in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Fuck the fuck off #eurovision #genocidedeniers

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Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for: "As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

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Israel has rapidly accelerated its destruction of Rafah in April and May. It's hard to understand the magnitude of this, even when spending time analyzing recent satellite imagery. From me, Samuel Granados, Aaron Boxerman, and @rileymellen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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"I look at Starmer's trajectory and it is immensely difficult not to notice the trail of devastation left behind. Disabled people, Palestinians, trans people, and now immigrants. All I can see is someone who is willing to throw anyone out of his hot air balloon, just so it can rise higher."

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We are witnessing ecocide’: Santander accused of funding vast deforestation The Spanish bank has funnelled $600m to firms clearing South America’s fragile Gran Chaco ecosystem for beef, palm oil and soya, Global Witness says www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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The ABC interviewed the @adriftlab.bsky.social team on Lord Howe Island last month. Even this article doesn't capture the feeling of heartbreak and grim reality of feeling plastic crunch inside a live seabird chick. #ornithology #PlasticPollution

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I also discuss the bizarre and disturbing association between the Starmer government and former special advisers to Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. I vaguely remember being told something about "Change". But this continuity is beyond our worst nightmares. Not just Tory policies, but actual Tories.

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Thank you so much @hrw.org for publishing this piece and helping bring international attention to the plight of trans & non-binary people in the UK. www.hrw.org/news/2025/05... If you want to liaise with UK trans orgs, I recommend: @scottishtrans.bsky.social @transactualuk.bsky.social

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Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Flowers with bad breath - a wonderfully titled Perspective based on the paper published today in @science.org on convergent evolution of disulfide synthase in plants that smell bad. #PlantScience Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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A red wing blackbird landing on a lillypad. #nature #birds #wildlife #photography

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🦈 @edinburghnapier.bsky.social is leading the #SharkScape Project - a collaborative research initiative to gather data to ensure the survival of sharks, skates & rays in Scottish waters & beyond! 🌊 Watch the video below with @jathorburn.bsky.social to learn more! 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmfK...

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Thread/Yesterday’s Impact Assessment Report lays bare the indefensible logic pushing Government’s #PlanningBill forward: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Or to put it another way, overseas students now subsidise the cost of teaching each UK undergraduate by an average of £2,500 each. Take them away and you've got an absolutely existential crisis for universities. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

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Spotted Spurge (Euphorbia maculata) sans spots, shot yesterday on a Pennsport sidewalk. #Weeds #SidewalkWeeds #UrbanWeeds

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📣 Join the conversation! 🌍🧪 Upcoming webinar explores how Indigenous Peoples' knowledge contributes to understanding biodiversity-water-food-health connections. 📅May 15, 2025 ✍️Register via ONet for "Indigenous Peoples and the #NexusAssessment" here: onet.ipbes.net/index.php/no...

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...The government has also described nature protections as “red tape” that needs to be cut. Tann said: “Why call that red tape? You wouldn’t call protecting St Paul’s Cathedral red tape. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Israeli plan is ‘total control’ in Gaza – Norwegian Refugee Council www.channel4.com/news/israeli...

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1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 23 days ago • 58 comments

Biggest demo I've seen in Edinburgh in years. Incredibly impressive turn out in solidarity with trans rights 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

Bee Hotels: do they work? How to get the best from them? Join me to hear the results of @The_Buzz_Club 's Big Bee Hotel Experiment, online, tuesday 1pm, free but please book a place! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/improving-...?

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"The end is in sight for the supremacy of trans ideology" The GC movement in the UK has marshalled billionaires, baronesses and basically ever major media outlet, but they still cast themselves as the underdogs waging war against imagined trans "elites" with a straight face.

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

This is hugely important - not just because: It improves food security (Dig for Democracy) It increases access to nutritious food Can increase biodiversity Increases awareness of how food is produced But also it can be a highly sociable activity, promote social cohesion and community building.

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It's been great to work with WHALE Arts in Wester Hailes and my students over the past couple of weeks on workshops for budding young birders and artists!

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Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism. Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism. The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.

submitted 31 days ago • 180 comments

right winger getting cancelled vs. trans person getting cancelled

submitted 32 days ago • 23 comments

FULLY-FUNDED residential insect ID and field surveying summer school, organised by @oxfordconted.bsky.social, @morethanadodo.bsky.social and @biology.ox.ac.uk, for PhD students or early career researchers. 📅14-18 July 2025 Apply by 9 May: www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/inse... 🧪 🌍 #academicsky 🐝

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People learn nothing. Arendt wrote so clearly about the increasing targetting of people, starting with non-nationals, then dual nationals, then a succession of undesirable nationals. Nothing will protect you. Fascism requires an ever larger circle of enemies to blame for its own failings.

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Greenpeace ordered to pay >$660m in damages to fossil fuel company Energy Transfer, a major Trump donor worth $70bn. This is catastrophic for first amendment rights and environmental justice. Greenpeace will appeal

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No fake plastic trees on these mountains! - Our first student keynote of the conference is @sarahwatts.bsky.social who is blending both research and practice to highlight how and why we can successfully restore mountain woodlands in Scotland #SNSC2025

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Do Sustainable Urban Drainage Ditches (SUDS) benefit hoverflies? - our first student talk from Andrada Opris looks at how pollinator assemblages vary in sites with and without SUDS, alongside comparing traditional trapping techniques and environmental DNA (eDNA) #SNSC2025

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Personal project: Mediterranean chameleon. I don't receive much commissions on reptiles... 🤔 #SciArt #art #herp #herps #reptiles

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Our new paper led by @manusaunders.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... takes stock of the evidence-base for global insect declines 🦋🐝🪳🪰🦗 and how uncertainty is being leveraged by science denialists to undermine efforts to reverse biodiversity loss 🌍🧪.

submitted 103 days ago • 7 comments

Practicing self care by lying on the forest floor until the roots of the trees and mushrooms pierce my body and accept me into their nutrient web

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Big flaw with Labour's 1.5m new homes – house-builders can't be trusted to add biodiversity, as this important @wildjustice.bsky.social study reveals: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Simple solution: funding for proper inspection/enforcement/penalties.

submitted 157 days ago • 6 comments

Here are some nice mushrooms

submitted 159 days ago • 30 comments

Just a shoutout for my website! #soilanimals #soil #macro #macrophotography

submitted 162 days ago • 5 comments

This healthcare ceo is hard to talk about because how much death can you cause indirectly before you’re a murderer who got murdered? How do you convince yourself it doesn’t count if you kill people with policy instead of a gun? What do you have to believe about life and systems and human worthiness?

submitted 163 days ago • 58 comments

Saving ‘old and wise’ animals vital for species’ survival, say scientists

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There are many non-honeybee insects that pollinate flowers, but not a lot of images showing it clearly. I got lucky to accidentally catch this beetle literally depositing pollen on a flower's pistil. #pollination #insects #bugs #photography #science #pollen

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This was fun to write - spaceports (where there's a will) can become haven for the natural world! www.iflscience.com/the-unlikely...

submitted 164 days ago • 3 comments

The long-term impacts of short-term events. ‘What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers. New research challenges us to look beyond the event to the devastating long-term impacts.

submitted 163 days ago • 4 comments

I’m finding more and more Marasmius hudsonii as the weather gets cooler. I love them. 🍄📷 #FungiFriends

submitted 177 days ago • 1 comment

Good afternoon. We've launched another petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting. Please sign & share! @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 177 days ago • 13 comments

Marasmius hudsonii- Holly Parachute 🍄📷 #FungiFriends

submitted 179 days ago • 10 comments

Great footage. There is too much focus on bees (especially honey bees) as pollinators of everything but pollination is 100% the outcome of a place-based interaction. So many other animals can pollinate flowers, and many of these interactions are location-specific 🌏

submitted 178 days ago • 2 comments

Clive is bang on here. This is very basic stuff that Labour are getting so completely wrong. People who are struggling are not benefiting from hawks like Blackrock being given partnerships. Not only are they not benefiting - they're a huge part of the reason that inequality is so huge.

submitted 177 days ago • 16 comments