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Skying here in primarily from dom the obscure @hstiles1.bsky.social with very occasional quips from Dr Jenny @jennyrohn.bsky.social You can find the email on the Lablit web pages! #booksky

(1/2) Ever wonder how climate impacts bats? 🌍 Cold, wet springs leave them underweight, extreme heat can turn bat boxes into ovens, and humid roosts make cooling tough. Let's support them with diverse roost options! What else can we do to help our flying friends? #BatWeek

This reminds me how I have been slacking & have to prepare the lablit list update. Not as good this year but I have not done enough research... 😬

#lablit fans - there is a new short story on the by Valentina Unakafova "Lab notes" on the @lablit.bsky.social website lablit.com/lab-notes/ #booksky #shortstories

Astonishing!

It's cold and dark and damp and I'm tired. OH WELL. Cheers, gang.

Hello world

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Wrote the story. The story is out. Shoutout to the fearless residents along the river's edge who reported the problem, went looking through toxic fumes, and who won't shut up until there is real accountability for what happened. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Pitched a story to the Guardian about a massive pollution incident in the river that forms the main artery of my city. Went stomping around in Japanese knotweed looking at ducks and oily culverts.

(1/4) Introducing Coralee Johns and Jolene Patrick, the 2026 cohort of First Nations Women Transforming Conservation fellowship!

Garden #roses seem to be enjoying one final hurrah. (The green vine just behind them is a mad sweet potato that we potted up which is now going full “feed me, Seymour”) #bloomscrolling

The research article is www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Changes with Friday’s low #StormAusten a track through English Channel is now favoured with Channel Islands/northern French coast taking brunt perhaps near 80mph gusts. Cornwall and parts of Devon look to see damaging winds >70mph around 7am, but generally 40-45mph gusts not that impactful. (1/2)

Great new paper on our cousins! Or, to be honest, just us. From a tooth and a tiny metatarsal in 2011 to a face and lots of bones! This latest study is based on the power of proteomics, first imagined by Francis Crick in 1957!

The jet stream is playing a key role in Storm Austen's development. As the storm interacts with a powerful Atlantic jet stream, conditions are helping it deepen rapidly as it approaches the UK. Our meteorologists explain the science behind it 👇 www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/ho...

www.theguardian.com/ It's nice, but not a patch on the Roman sarcophagi that mediaeval Sicilians re-used for their archbishops My photo of one of dozens in crypt of catedrale di #Palermo Vs www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

📚 #NZ author wins top imaginative fiction prize 😊 – Well done @pipadam.bsky.social ! The award honours authors who, “can imagine real grounds for hope and see alternatives to how we live now.” #booksky

"The Alberta Tar Sands have the largest carbon footprint of any industrial infrastructure in the world." 😬 www.fossilfuelconnections.org/alberta-tar-...

Wood Buffalo is the only place wild migratory Whooping Cranes nest 🪽 Now a KBA, this UNESCO World Heritage site supports globally significant biodiversity but faces threats → https://wcscanada.org/newsroom/news/the-worlds-only-wild-whooping-crane-nesting-ground-is-now-a-key-biodiversity-area-kba

A bit like the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottis...

Anyone who knows Norwich will surely remember the brutalist HMSO building - well, this week the demolition has begun

A friend for many years is visiting - we have been out to eat then to 4 pubs. Yes I know! Anyway... When we got back she could not remember the second one fro 1 1/2 hrs before 😬 She is 69 & has a seriously bad short term memory.

wouldn't it be lovely if Vlad Putin actually gave a toss about the #Russian children... maybe he would not sacrifice so many of their fathers to his own vanity... bookaid.org/support-us/t...

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Just okay… A small, independent island off US coast begins banning the use of alphabetical letters. A fun concept, it just became tedious to me. 💙📚🖋️ #BookSky #Books #Review #BookRec #LitFic #Novel #Letters #Literature #Parable

I am enchanted with French space words. I cannot wait for the return of the échantillons martiens to Australia in 2031! #mmx 🧪

Today was an exciting day in lab! Genevieve became a PhD candidate! Very excited for the science (& writing) to come! #MgFl 🤓📝🖥️🪸🌊🧫🧪

For example - I thought this might amuse a few people...

New Blog! 🚨 How do we decide which rare plants are worthy of protection? Can a Eucalyptus be lonely? I'm sure these are burning questions you have on a Sunday morning...and funnily enough guest blogger Kelly Kirkland has answered them (and more) in her blog! Read it here 👇🧪🌱 buff.ly/2G1VUjg

Nightjars migrate between Southern Africa and Europe, but have wings built more for slow hover-feeding than long-distance flight. They compensate by generating forward thrust on each wing upstroke, a rare trait in birds that is more common in bats and insects! 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The consequences of #oligodendrocyte involvement in #Alzheimer’s disease are poorly understood. This Perspective by Charles ffrench-Constant suggests that activity-dependent adaptive myelination by these cells could be perturbed, leading to cognitive loss. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/47iYNMq

I respect Kew Gardens on plants, but less so on arthropods. 🧪🕷️

Had the opportunity to observe the banding of 2 northern saw-whet owls last night! 😍🪶🌿🧪 All banding, marking, & sampling conducted under a federally authorized Bird Banding Permit issued by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Bird Banding Laboratory.

#NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity 2026-10-18 Sol 5047: Right Navigation Camera mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1... NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger

YOU DO NOT DRINK RADIOACTIVE URANIUM WATER TO CLEAR “VACCINE TOXICITY” This is why we need science literacy to counteract these "alternative health influencer" jackasses. This is 2026 y’all 🧪 futurism.com/future-socie...

Microbes, enzymes, and synthetic chemistry might be able to help remove bad-tasting molecules in pea and other plant protein: cen.acs.org/food/food-in... #chemsky 🧪

NASA is accelerating the development of three helicopters that will be deployed into the sky above Mars after a voyage aboard NASA's Space Reactor‑1 Freedom spacecraft. 🧪 🔭

Back from a beach clean at Chessel Bay Nature Reserve. My time was limited but still collected two bags of trash plus several big pieces of beach junk. Zoom in on the photos of salt marsh to see how much crap litters this environment (the last stretch of tidal salt marsh along the Itchen). Cont...

Went for a wander round the old home town.

Good morning from the woods of Cape Breton

Getting ready for #starmusVIII on Teneriffe. It's a hard job but someone has to do it.

#SundayPixHarvest The closest we’ve ever come to harvesting a butternut squash

Some #SundayYellow to start the day 🌱 #Gardening #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport

Oh but the consequences! Space ruined forever.

#birdsky Featuring #NZ birds and their conservation, by a visitor ⬇️

Is it really #theinfinitemonkeycage if it doesn't have @robinince.bsky.social and #briancox. I think not.

It is almost time for the Imprint Art Fair (formerly the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair): Oct 29 - Nov 1 at the Lawrence Hall, Westminster. I have several pieces on show, including these Scottish landscapes. imprintartfair.com I have 5 free tickets available - shout if you'd like one.