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20-Feb: On this day in 1835, Charles Darwin witnessed a major earthquake in Valvidia, Southern Chile. #HistSci

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19-Feb: On this day in 1872, the final edition of Darwin’s ‘The Origin of Species’ was published. As I explained in a newsletter last year, this edition was quickly put together primarily to address recent criticisms by St George Jackson Mivart. #HistSci friendsofdarwin.com/newsletter/u...

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The good news is, in the same way you can only walk half-way into a wood, we are definitely now heading out of February!

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The annual Valentine's cleaning of the nest-box in preparation for next season.

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The latest edition of my free Friends of Charles Darwin newsletter went out earlier today (Darwin's 216th birthday). You can read it here… #HistSci

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12-Feb: How Darwin spent his 25th birthday in Patagonia, on this day in 1834… #HistSci

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After something of a hiatus, I'm working on the next edition of my totally free Friends of Charles Darwin newsletter, which will go out later this week. Those of you who have inexplicably neglected to subscribe can do so here: https://richardcarter.substack.com #HistSci

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I am deeply saddened to have learned of the death, on Feb 5, 2025, of Elisabeth Vrba—a fantastically creative scientist and a warm, wonderful human being. She leaves us a legacy of original macroevolutionary thinking that is still fresh and illuminating.

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New book review: ‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf, volume 5: 1936–41’…

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Love it when Jehovah's Witnesses doorstep me, and I get to show them the Charles Darwin wallpaper on my phone. Crucifixes have a similar effect on vampires, I've heard.

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06-Feb: On this day in 1796, Charles Darwin's friend and tutor John Stevens Henslow was born in Rochester, Kent. #HistSci

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Five roe deer in the field behind our house early this morning… That's practically a herd!

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Missed opportunity. #SoNotACatPerson

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A few thoughts on #worldwetlandsday from the extraordinary Lesser Prespa Lake in northern Greece.

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(Drumroll…) Ladies, gentlemen, or whatever label rocks your boat, they said it would never happen, but I have FINALLY completed the first draft of my book ‘Through Darwin’s Eyes’! #AmWriting

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On the last day of January, the books I've read so far in 2025. Follow this link to read my reviews: http://richardcarter.com/books-2025/

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This year's two batches of the orangey amber nectar. #DomesticGoddess

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the most cursed place on the interwebs isn’t 4ch, it’s the “for you” tab in threads

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Who says AI intellectual property thieves don't do irony?

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Book review: ‘Rare Singles’ by Benjamin Myers…

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Book review: 'Blythe Spirit: the remarkable life of Ronald Blythe’ by Ian Collins. #NatureWriting

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29-Jan: On this date in 1839, Charles Darwin married his cousin Emma Wedgwood (and vice versa). #HistSci

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At the local bookshop… Me: I'd like to order a book, please. Bookshop owner: Is it about Darwin?

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New petition: Ban wind farms on protected peat land petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Press release in my blog markavery.info/2025/01/27/n... I've signed 'cos turbines on deep peat make no sense. #hebden #bridge #haworth #calderdale #bronte #walshaw

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Mats, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and Earth all showing well from #HebdenBridge at the moment.

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Totally ignoring the news and (mostly) avoiding reading social media over the last two days, I find, hasn't half improved my word-count. #AmWriting

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He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.

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#BellEnds

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15-Jan: OTD in 1892, a mysterious hand penned a morbid inscription in their copy of the latest book of essays by scientist John Tyndall that I now own. A few years ago, assisted by the ghost of John Tyndall(!), I was able to track down the likely identity of the mystery inscriber…

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13-Jan: On this day in 1833, HMS Beagle (with a young Charles Darwin on board), very nearly sank off Cape Horn. #HistSci

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Absolute fucking bell-ends.

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Mark E Smith at The Foresters in Prestwich, Manchester, by Charles Gordon Montgomery, early 1980s.

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Wheelie bins, fag packets, and 6am songthrushes: postman Kevin Boniface shares a year of highlights from his daily Huddersfield round https://buff.ly/4h7V47h

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My next book, LIFELINES, will be published this spring, so I thought I'd put together a short post about it. It's a story, in part, about a place where three countries meet around two ancient lakes. And where pelicans, people, borders and bears share the watershed. julian-hoffman.com/2025/01/10/l...

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11-Jan: On this day in 1844, Charles Darwin wrote to his new (and future best) friend Joseph Dalton Hooker explaining he was ‘almost convinced’ that species were not immutable, jokingly comparing this admission to ‘confessing a murder’… #HistSci

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10-Jan: On this day in 1860, Charles Darwin wrote to his good friend the geologist Charles Lyell humorously describing our species' ancestor… #HistSci

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My BlueSky ‘Mutuals’ feed is how feeds ought to be: high signal; very little noise. (Thanks, Mutuals!)

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08-Jan: Born on this day in 1823, the man who independently of Darwin came up with the idea of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace. Here's a post I wrote two years ago about Darwin's and Wallace's friendship: #HistSci

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06-Jan: On this day in 1831, HMS Beagle arrived at Tenerife, but was prevented from landing due to a cholera scare back in England. Rather that go through quarantine, Captain FitzRoy decided not to land. Darwin was devastated. #HistSci

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