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Nice coverage of the pet flea treatments in bird's nests issue by @channel4news.bsky.social www.channel4.com/news/scienti...

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📝 The Secret of a Plant's Sexual Attraction Is Betrayed by the Shadow of Its Scent 🧵 doi.org/phng Botanists discover that plants seeking to sexually attract a pollinator may be hiding their stocks of potent perfumes in overlooked alkenes. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief

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“The value of one Smartie is negligible, so it’s fine if I steal all the chocolate in the world.”

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The Suffolk Punch Trust has installed their Swift Community Set by their café. SOSSwifts have more sets available for suitable prominent elevations of public buildings around the county, please do ask if you know of a location @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social

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NEW ISSUE: The NJB March issue is out! The cover image shows Braconidae pollinating Neottia cordata from the paper by Claessens et al. A bunch of pollinia, collected by the insect, sticks to the stigma and prevents the parasitoid wasp from getting away. vist.ly/3mwmbf9 @nordicoikos.bsky.social

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Why pay tax when you can send Katy Perry to space for 11 minutes? 📍 Amazon store, London

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'Hare and Bluebells' linocut by printmaker Mariann Johansen-Ellis #womensart #Spring

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NOAA has quietly reported that they will soon decommission 14 datasets, data products, and catalogs related to marine, coastal, and estuary science and earthquakes. Story by @astrokimcartier.bsky.social. eos.org/research-and...

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The hospital admissions officer we saw today said something that we can't say enough: Hospitals shouldn't be expected to make money.

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Govt has launched a review of our water industry, but there's one thing we're not allowed to talk about - PUBLIC OWNERSHIP. Research shows public ownership could save £5bn a year. Demand public ownership is on the table. Sign our petition. Link below 👇

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Number of UK homes overheating soars to 80% in a decade, study finds - Deadly heatwaves are rising as the #climatecrisis intensifies, with the use of air conditioning also shooting up Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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#InTheNews: Read in @reuters.com about how high UK visa fees for scientists are impacting our research institutes and our mission to beat cancer 👇 www.reuters.com/world/uk/hig...

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Bylines Network takes on corporations and fat cats! This article from last year looks at whether Thames Water ever had shareholder support or were simply misleading the public /1 #TruthToPower @westenglandbylines.co.uk westenglandbylines.co.uk/region/was-t...

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I have a chapter on Mary Delany’s Landscapes of Improvement, focusing on the time she spent in Ireland, in the forthcoming Bluestockings and Landscape in 18th-Century Britain: The Prospect of Improvement (Boydell & Brewer, July 2025). Preorder now! boydellandbrewer.com/978183765050...

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🧪I can’t even begin to describe this situation. Institutions are facing funding cuts. Scientists can’t work. Harvard faces losing its non-profit status. Scientists coming here are canceling trips. Bobby thinks he can find the cause of autism. Broken is the word. www.nature.com/articlesd415...

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A wonderful time to be a polluting industry.... inews.co.uk/news/inside-...

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Private Eye nails Trump, trade and Brexit......

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The site of the West Gate of the City of Exeter, close to the House that Moved #thursgate #Tudor #housethatmoved #exeter

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In the UK, we hear the Chancellor is including flood defence budgets in her spending review, even as the Environment Secretary argues it's ok to build in flood risk zones because they're building flood barriers. Are we laying the foundations of a future disaster? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Clearly, shame is not enough to stop water companies discharging filth into our rivers & paying our bill money to shareholders. The EA & Ofwat need to enforce the law. Hard to see how this will happen when the government has just cut their funding. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Fed up with fish caught by supertrawlers & fleets owned by corporate giants? Meet the companies delivering fish caught by small scale UK fishing fleets fresh from the dock to your door. @hugotagholm.bsky.social @oceanauk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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600 further job cuts in a department already stripped to the bone for 14 years: regulators left unable to function, a government reveling in slashing red tape while labelling conservation groups "blockers" - it's a wonderful time to be a polluting industry inews.co.uk/news/inside-...

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Hello––my book Underland has been adapted into a feature film & the world premiere is at Tribeca in June. It's taken 4.5 years––& the team’s created something astonishing. A documentary that's groundbreaking in form, voice & tone. I hope you might see it one day. Full account on IG (@robgmacfarlane)

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Our beautiful birds of prey are routinely and illegally slaughtered on driven grouse moors . If you are as sick of this criminal persecution as me then please sign this ⁦‪@wildjustice.bsky.social petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Please RT

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Our new paper!! Led by @drpauldijkstra.bsky.social with @jessrmorley.bsky.social and awesome medical student Yosra Mekki. #digitalhealth #medsky #episky How to Read a Paper Involving AI. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/...

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Palantir (Wes Streeting's partner of choice for your private medical data) is helping Donald Trump draw up a list of targets for deportation. Are you still relaxed about it holding your medical data? www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...

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I've just filled out my response to Defra's Land Use consultation. If you care about changing how land is used in England, esp re: climate resilience and communal ownership, then this is a rare chance to have your say: consult.defra.gov.uk/land-use-fra...

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In Zuckerberg's second day of testifying in the federal antitrust trial, he defended Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The U.S. government wants Meta to bust up the two companies.

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5200 people die from asbestos related illness every year in the UK. Among construction workers, it's the most common work related cause of death. @benadamsmith.bsky.social talks to Greg Byrne about reducing risk from asbestos in your home. 🧵 1/2 www.houseplanninghelp.com/hph363-is-it...

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A 450-yo oak is felled without permission by a Toby Carvery (don’t eat there), who falsely claimed it was "dead". A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces. Legal protection for heritage trees needed. enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...

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This is your 60-minute warning to get ready for Paris! Join me at 9pm on BBC Two in the UK for REBUILDING NOTRE DAME: THE LAST CHAPTER! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Just a reminder of what Keir Starmer once said 👇 We need to let him and all our politicians know that we don't want airport expansion! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

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This red kite was illegally shot and miraculously survived , only to be to targeted again , with poison . Driven grouse shooting must end – please sign @wildjustice.bsky.social’s petition now govpetition.uk/700036

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Planning to buy plants over #Easter? Check out the #PeatFree Nurseries List for over 140 #UK growers who don't destroy precious carbon-capturing #peatland habitat by using #peat to grow their plants. Pls let me know if your favourite #nursery isn't listed. Pls repost & let your friends know. Ta 🙏🌱💚

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A private equity firm just bought £1.6 BILLION worth of the NHS. It will make bigger profits by hiking rents for hospitals and NHS facilities. Previous govts privatized the estate. That means less money for frontline healthcare. NHS already drained by PFI and private contractors.

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Did you know it takes at least five years for a bluebell seed to grow into a bulb? In the coming weeks, wide seas of violet will appear across ancient and semi-ancient woodland. 📷 Steven Brookwell 📍 Wiston Estate #SouthDowns #Spring #Easter

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So, it seems requests to remove books from library shelves are also on the rise in the UK now! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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Hitchhiked through Paris in 2008, and all I remember about the place was a noisy, dirty, and pretty boring city of asphalt, cars, and uninviting apartments. Went back last year, and it was completely changed, you could feel a civic spirit that had seemed completely absent.

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From the 'Shared Sky' exhibition, 'Jupiter and Ten Moons' by Indigenous Australian artist Barbara Merritt #WomensArt

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Improving habitat connectivity is an essential step to combatting the biodiversity crisis📢 Our latest guidance provides support for local authorities in Scotland creating Nature Networks that benefit plants,fungi & planet Read it now 👉 www.plantlife.org.uk/learning-res... @naturescot.bsky.social

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Imagine a vote where every candidate is BRILLIANT. Imagine a vote with no corruption, lobby groups or dodgy polls. Imagine a vote that boosts your mental health. Imagine no longer – the polling booths are open for Invertebrate of the Year 2025. Vote here! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The closing date for the People’s Book Prize is 30 April! THANKS to all who have voted. If you haven’t, I would love you to - this would give a book about climate and biodiversity a push, which could lead to more flowers, hedgehog holes, ponds and more. Thanks! peoplesbookprize.com/2024-cat/non...

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It's very very dry out there. PLEASE leave water out for wildlife, as they will be struggling – at a time when many species are nesting (or attempting to): www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

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Put this in your ears: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... And then put up a swift box or 3. I have 4. @katebradbury.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

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For UK folk who claim a disability benefit or Carers Allowance, please also fill out this survey from Carers UK. They're aiming to put together the UK's largest researched response to the govt's proposals. The page also links to info on all the proposals. www.carersuk.org/news-and-cam...

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🔴 NEW 🔴 We have uncovered the mining magnates behind the new Reform think tank ‘Resolute 1850’ - which has already raised £1 million and is seeking more from MAGA donors. 📝 @desmog.bsky.social report with @adambarnett.bsky.social

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