Darren Archer
@dunnock67.bsky.social
Moving in for #birds #bats #Hoverflies #butterflies. NE England
Worried about the climate
https://curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com/
Worried about the climate
https://curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com/
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Darren Archer
@dunnock67.bsky.social
· Feb 5
Letter From Gaza. Ghassan Kanafani
YouTube video by Palestine Diary
m.youtube.com
The late john Berger reads A Letter from Gaza from the late Ghassan Kanafani Still as relevant today 🇵🇸
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_msu...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_msu...
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LIVE: Explosions in Gaza, 54 wounded in West Bank settler attacks https://aje.news/t34y2z
February 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
LIVE: Explosions in Gaza, 54 wounded in West Bank settler attacks https://aje.news/t34y2z
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Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
February 13, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
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This morning we will hear the result of the judicial review of the government's ban on Palestine Action, on the grounds that it's a "terrorist" organisation. An important moment, which could have a major influence on freedom of speech and association in this country.
February 13, 2026 at 9:09 AM
This morning we will hear the result of the judicial review of the government's ban on Palestine Action, on the grounds that it's a "terrorist" organisation. An important moment, which could have a major influence on freedom of speech and association in this country.
Next up in Northumberland Bat Group Winter Talks is yours truly on Wednesday 18th. 🦇
www.northumberlandbats.org.uk/home/events/
A talk about who I found calling in Hedley Woods Gateshead last year submitted to British Island Bats Vol 6 and also on my curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/w...
www.northumberlandbats.org.uk/home/events/
A talk about who I found calling in Hedley Woods Gateshead last year submitted to British Island Bats Vol 6 and also on my curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/w...
What I learnt in ‘my’ bat wood. Rhythms of the night -eight months of echolocations and social calls in NE England.
If you have read any of my 2025 blogs most centre on my near obsession with recording bat sounds and other night time creatures in a wood in North East England. The recordings have now finished and…
curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Next up in Northumberland Bat Group Winter Talks is yours truly on Wednesday 18th. 🦇
www.northumberlandbats.org.uk/home/events/
A talk about who I found calling in Hedley Woods Gateshead last year submitted to British Island Bats Vol 6 and also on my curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/w...
www.northumberlandbats.org.uk/home/events/
A talk about who I found calling in Hedley Woods Gateshead last year submitted to British Island Bats Vol 6 and also on my curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/w...
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¡Buenos días! 🌧🌧
a man with an umbrella is walking through a puddle
ALT: a man with an umbrella is walking through a puddle
media.tenor.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:45 AM
¡Buenos días! 🌧🌧
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🦇A new episode of #BatChat is out now: From Aberdeen to Madagascar with Paul Racey!
Steve chats with Emeritus Professor Paul Racey, one of the best-known figures in bat ecology and conservation.
Available in your usual place or online here: batchat.buzzsprout.com/680561/episo...
Steve chats with Emeritus Professor Paul Racey, one of the best-known figures in bat ecology and conservation.
Available in your usual place or online here: batchat.buzzsprout.com/680561/episo...
February 11, 2026 at 2:01 PM
🦇A new episode of #BatChat is out now: From Aberdeen to Madagascar with Paul Racey!
Steve chats with Emeritus Professor Paul Racey, one of the best-known figures in bat ecology and conservation.
Available in your usual place or online here: batchat.buzzsprout.com/680561/episo...
Steve chats with Emeritus Professor Paul Racey, one of the best-known figures in bat ecology and conservation.
Available in your usual place or online here: batchat.buzzsprout.com/680561/episo...
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Perhaps why places like Spain have so few deniers left?
We getting it yet?
3/3
www.eib.org/en/press/all...
We getting it yet?
3/3
www.eib.org/en/press/all...
95% of Spaniards support measures to adapt to climate change, according to EIB survey
Residents of Spain surveyed in August 2024 view climate change as one of the biggest challenges facing their country, according to the annual Climate Survey commissioned by the European Investment Ban...
www.eib.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Perhaps why places like Spain have so few deniers left?
We getting it yet?
3/3
www.eib.org/en/press/all...
We getting it yet?
3/3
www.eib.org/en/press/all...
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I love doing podcasts!
Here’s my latest one – on wasps of course - with UCL’s Professor Philip Schofield, Director of the Bentham Project on his #Climate Extinction Politics podcast series, with @uclpress.bsky.social
soundcloud.com/uclsound/why...
#WaspLove #Biodiversity
@uclcber.bsky.social
Here’s my latest one – on wasps of course - with UCL’s Professor Philip Schofield, Director of the Bentham Project on his #Climate Extinction Politics podcast series, with @uclpress.bsky.social
soundcloud.com/uclsound/why...
#WaspLove #Biodiversity
@uclcber.bsky.social
Season 3, Episode 6 - Why We Should Love Wasps, featuring Professor Seirian Sumner
More than just picnic pests, wasps are vital to our ecosystems, but are deeply misunderstood. Joining Professor Philip Schofield in this episode is Professor Seirian Sumner, Professor of Behavioural E
soundcloud.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:19 AM
I love doing podcasts!
Here’s my latest one – on wasps of course - with UCL’s Professor Philip Schofield, Director of the Bentham Project on his #Climate Extinction Politics podcast series, with @uclpress.bsky.social
soundcloud.com/uclsound/why...
#WaspLove #Biodiversity
@uclcber.bsky.social
Here’s my latest one – on wasps of course - with UCL’s Professor Philip Schofield, Director of the Bentham Project on his #Climate Extinction Politics podcast series, with @uclpress.bsky.social
soundcloud.com/uclsound/why...
#WaspLove #Biodiversity
@uclcber.bsky.social
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Reader: do you understand? Are you seeing it yet?
Israel is continuing the Nakba: >across< Palestine, not just in Gaza.
They want it ‘swept clean’. This is the resumption of #OperationMatateh: (Look it up.)
The long term goal?: the annexing of it all.
Israel is continuing the Nakba: >across< Palestine, not just in Gaza.
They want it ‘swept clean’. This is the resumption of #OperationMatateh: (Look it up.)
The long term goal?: the annexing of it all.
Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says the #ICC is necessary to “expose those responsible” and address atrocities - ethnic cleansing - in the West Bank 👇
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026... #WestBank
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026... #WestBank
Israel's security apparatus is complicit in the ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinians | Opinion
A Militia of Hundreds of Jews Is Operating in the West Bank With Direct and Indirect Backing From Israeli Government Officials, While Security Agencies Have Deliberately Chosen Not to Take Action Agai...
www.haaretz.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Reader: do you understand? Are you seeing it yet?
Israel is continuing the Nakba: >across< Palestine, not just in Gaza.
They want it ‘swept clean’. This is the resumption of #OperationMatateh: (Look it up.)
The long term goal?: the annexing of it all.
Israel is continuing the Nakba: >across< Palestine, not just in Gaza.
They want it ‘swept clean’. This is the resumption of #OperationMatateh: (Look it up.)
The long term goal?: the annexing of it all.
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Happy bday Charles Darwin (born #OTD 1809)! 🎉 Check out Charles Darwin’s Library on #BHLib, a virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Darwin, drawing on original copies & surrogates, providing full transcriptions of his annotations & marks: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/d...
February 12, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Happy bday Charles Darwin (born #OTD 1809)! 🎉 Check out Charles Darwin’s Library on #BHLib, a virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Darwin, drawing on original copies & surrogates, providing full transcriptions of his annotations & marks: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/d...
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... let's sonify this again: xeno-canto.org/collection/s...
Three decades on from the last documented sighting, Slender-billed Curlew was declared extinct a year ago. Arnoud van den Berg reflects on his experiences with this iconic bird at its final known winter refuge:
Slender-billed Curlew: shorebird lost forever
Three decades on from the last documented sighting, Slender-billed Curlew was declared extinct a year ago. Arnoud van den Berg reflects on his experiences with this iconic bird at its final known winter refuge.
bit.ly
February 11, 2026 at 9:32 PM
... let's sonify this again: xeno-canto.org/collection/s...
Surely saving our current wetlands from pollution and creating new wetland corridors should be the priority before dubious stretch introductions
Conservation groups are exploring whether Dalmatian Pelican – a species extinct in Britain for millennia – could be reintroduced to British wetlands, in what would be one of the most ambitious rewilding projects proposed in recent years:
Ambitious Dalmatian Pelican reintroduction plans weighed up
A panel is assessing whether Dalmatian Pelican could be reintroduced to British wetlands, a prospect that excites some conservationists but raises practical and ecological questions over habitat suitability and long-term viability.
bit.ly
February 12, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Surely saving our current wetlands from pollution and creating new wetland corridors should be the priority before dubious stretch introductions
Great resources here if 🦇 people you havent come across @gbatnet.bsky.social before
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Great resources here if 🦇 people you havent come across @gbatnet.bsky.social before
@gbatnet.bsky.social be good for you to contact Dave and get you in this feed so 🦇 people here see your work and next years #yearofbats
📌Welcome to the bat-feed! A place for posts by bat-scientists, ecologists, photographers etc.
DM me to ask to be added as a contributor. Then use the 🦇 emoji for posts you want to show up in the feed. Rules in the next post:
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DM me to ask to be added as a contributor. Then use the 🦇 emoji for posts you want to show up in the feed. Rules in the next post:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
February 11, 2026 at 5:13 PM
@gbatnet.bsky.social be good for you to contact Dave and get you in this feed so 🦇 people here see your work and next years #yearofbats
🦇
Bats to benefit from New Forest nature recovery project - @newforestnpa.bsky.social
A New Forest nature recovery project is shedding new light on local bat populations and improving habitat for these elusive nocturnal hunters.
c-js.co.uk/4rO6WAM
A New Forest nature recovery project is shedding new light on local bat populations and improving habitat for these elusive nocturnal hunters.
c-js.co.uk/4rO6WAM
Bats to benefit from New Forest nature recovery project
A New Forest nature recovery project is shedding new light on local bat populations and improving habitat for these elusive nocturnal hunters.
c-js.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 4:13 PM
🦇
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1) Who runs the world? 🌍✨ Girls in #STEM!
Today on International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the incredible contributions of women across our global biodiversity community.
Today on International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the incredible contributions of women across our global biodiversity community.
February 11, 2026 at 3:15 PM
1) Who runs the world? 🌍✨ Girls in #STEM!
Today on International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the incredible contributions of women across our global biodiversity community.
Today on International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the incredible contributions of women across our global biodiversity community.
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Israel is increasingly using glyphosate herbicide against Lebanese and Syrian agricultural lands, threatening food security, water supplies, and long-term soil fertility in both countries ⬇️
Israeli chemical attacks devastates Lebanese, Syrian farms
Glyphosate is a non-selective, systemic herbicide that attacks plant roots, preventing regrowth for two to three years.
www.newarab.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Israel is increasingly using glyphosate herbicide against Lebanese and Syrian agricultural lands, threatening food security, water supplies, and long-term soil fertility in both countries ⬇️
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4 Tundra Beans and 54 Russian Whitefronts still in the field adjacent to the flood, Washington, here...
#NEbirding @durhambirdclub.bsky.social
#NEbirding @durhambirdclub.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 9:57 AM
4 Tundra Beans and 54 Russian Whitefronts still in the field adjacent to the flood, Washington, here...
#NEbirding @durhambirdclub.bsky.social
#NEbirding @durhambirdclub.bsky.social
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More Palestinians return to Gaza via Rafah as Israeli attacks continue https://aje.news/lcey1u
February 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM
More Palestinians return to Gaza via Rafah as Israeli attacks continue https://aje.news/lcey1u
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They evaporated people.
Evaporated.
Evaporated.
Thousands of People.
They evaporated thousands of people.
And our government gave them the weapons to do it.
Evaporated.
Evaporated.
Thousands of People.
They evaporated thousands of people.
And our government gave them the weapons to do it.
Al Jazeera investigation reveals how US-supplied thermal and thermobaric munitions burning at 3,500ºC have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:58 PM
They evaporated people.
Evaporated.
Evaporated.
Thousands of People.
They evaporated thousands of people.
And our government gave them the weapons to do it.
Evaporated.
Evaporated.
Thousands of People.
They evaporated thousands of people.
And our government gave them the weapons to do it.
Wow a report on @skynewsrss.bsky.social talking of the blocking anticyclone delivering the rain and flooding without mentioning climate change
That takes talent
That takes talent
February 11, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Wow a report on @skynewsrss.bsky.social talking of the blocking anticyclone delivering the rain and flooding without mentioning climate change
That takes talent
That takes talent
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1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it.
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i...
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Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i...
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Is our Government Complicit in Genocide?
The Genocide Convention imposes obligations on states and individuals not just to punish the crime of genocide but to actively prevent it. Two years into the war in Gaza and over 20 months since th…
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:31 AM
1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it.
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i...
🧵
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i...
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It's Feb. Some places in Spain have already had a yr's worth of rain, eg Grazalema, 78 inches.
When I checked on location, g00gle thought "typical nature tourist" and offered mecheap flights.
Thanks but no thanks g00gle. Your weather forecast also says it's still raining🤔
(We getting it yet?)
When I checked on location, g00gle thought "typical nature tourist" and offered mecheap flights.
Thanks but no thanks g00gle. Your weather forecast also says it's still raining🤔
(We getting it yet?)
February 10, 2026 at 11:30 AM
It's Feb. Some places in Spain have already had a yr's worth of rain, eg Grazalema, 78 inches.
When I checked on location, g00gle thought "typical nature tourist" and offered mecheap flights.
Thanks but no thanks g00gle. Your weather forecast also says it's still raining🤔
(We getting it yet?)
When I checked on location, g00gle thought "typical nature tourist" and offered mecheap flights.
Thanks but no thanks g00gle. Your weather forecast also says it's still raining🤔
(We getting it yet?)
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🦇 Joining the Bat Conservation Trust is the ideal way to show your support for bats. By becoming a member, you will be directly helping to protect bats and their habitats.
You can join today with a monthly, yearly or a one off donation. Explore the range of memberships we have here: buff.ly/wcUeVI7
You can join today with a monthly, yearly or a one off donation. Explore the range of memberships we have here: buff.ly/wcUeVI7
February 10, 2026 at 9:48 AM
🦇 Joining the Bat Conservation Trust is the ideal way to show your support for bats. By becoming a member, you will be directly helping to protect bats and their habitats.
You can join today with a monthly, yearly or a one off donation. Explore the range of memberships we have here: buff.ly/wcUeVI7
You can join today with a monthly, yearly or a one off donation. Explore the range of memberships we have here: buff.ly/wcUeVI7
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Grey-headed Flying-foxes:
Pollinates native trees ✅
Seed dispersers ✅
Keystone species ✅
Helps regenerate forests ✅
Takes exceptional band photos ✅✅
#bats #🦇 #australianwildlife #flyingfox
Pollinates native trees ✅
Seed dispersers ✅
Keystone species ✅
Helps regenerate forests ✅
Takes exceptional band photos ✅✅
#bats #🦇 #australianwildlife #flyingfox
February 9, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Grey-headed Flying-foxes:
Pollinates native trees ✅
Seed dispersers ✅
Keystone species ✅
Helps regenerate forests ✅
Takes exceptional band photos ✅✅
#bats #🦇 #australianwildlife #flyingfox
Pollinates native trees ✅
Seed dispersers ✅
Keystone species ✅
Helps regenerate forests ✅
Takes exceptional band photos ✅✅
#bats #🦇 #australianwildlife #flyingfox