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Joanna Redfeather
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MSc Data Science student. BSc Hons Zoology grad.

Interests: Ecology, rewilding, nature recovery, behaviour, communication, wild HORSES! 🐴, data, coding, ML, EDI&A 🏳️‍🌈. Ex tech SEO & analytics.

Kindness.

Neurodivergent. #pwME. UK 🇬🇧

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zackpolanski.bsky.social
First they ignore you.

Then they attack you in the budget.

Etc.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
“The younger generation is the most ecologically informed ever."

They are also “the most emotionally involved in [nature loss], have contributed the least to [its] causing, and are going to suffer most as a result.”

The power of rewilding to transform our own lives, as well as nature.
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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coralcitycamera.bsky.social
The Speedy Beach Sand Delivery Service is at your service, parrotfish-owned and operated, same as it ever was!!🫡🪸🦜🐟💩🏝️ #stripedparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #howsandismade #parrotfishpoop #cropdusting #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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d2p.bsky.social
This blog post is a very accurate characterisation of the experience of living with #PostExertionalMalaise #PEM.

Recommended reading for healthcare professionals who want to understand #MECFS and #LongCovid.

You generally only see these patients when they're at their best — not in the aftermath.
darthfoo.bsky.social Fred Rossi @darthfoo.bsky.social · 10d
Here’s a quote from my piece, Why I Can’t Just Meet You for Dinner, about post-exertional malaise. This is after work while I’m in the middle of a PEM crash. #PEM #MECFS #LongCovid #ChronicIllness #Disabled

substack.com/home/post/p-...
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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kkjetelina.bsky.social
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
ddiamond.bsky.social Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 7d
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
Autism and Vaccines QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS PAGE 2 OF 9 | ALL PAGES J For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. HHS Research on Plausible Biologic Mechanisms between Vaccines and Autism HHS will evaluate plausible biologic mechanisms between early childhood vaccinations and autism. Mechanisms for further investigation include the impacts of aluminum adjuvants, risks for certain children with mitochondrial disorders, harms of neuroinflammation, and more. * The header "Vaccines do not cause autism" has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website.
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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erictopol.bsky.social
In agreement with my friend @kkjetelina.bsky.social who writes today: "I suggest the general public avoid the CDC website."
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/cdc-false-...

www.wsj.com/health/healt...
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Fantastic @ajeansu.bsky.social interview w/ @democracynow.org - transcript here -->>>>

www.democracynow.org/2025/11/19/j...
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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rspb.bsky.social
Monday?? No. Shan't.

#MondayMotivation

📷 Ted Smith
A Dipper stands on a mossy rock beside a stream, wings half open and chest puffed out as if making a firm declaration. Its stance and upward glare give the impression of a tiny bird dramatically refusing to participate in Monday.
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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guyshrubsole.bsky.social
Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban

UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study
Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
For those wondering how you get on and off a penny-farthing.

*A guy walking by said to his companion, “That looks incredibly dangerous.” 😅
November 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
joannaredfeather.bsky.social
Fantastic talk summarising where we’re at with “AI” and great discussions of the worrying challenges it presents us all.

Plus kudos for mention of Web Rings! Takes me back! But on a serious note, I hope for an authenticity infrastructure so AI can “touch grass”!
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10d
A month or so back I gave a public talk at the @salish-current.org's Voices of the Northwest knowledge festival, about our new course on how to live, learn, and thrive and a ChatGPT world. The evening was delightful; we had a great conversation with a marvelous audience.

Now you can watch it here.
Carl Bergstrom | Knowledge Festival | Sept. 17th, 2025
YouTube video by Salish Current
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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coralcitycamera.bsky.social
White Grunt vs French Grunt: An Interspecies Grunt-Off for the Ages!!! #whitegrunt #frenchgrunt #gruntoff #mouthtomouth #animalswillbeanimals #showdown #thrillaincoralcity #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
What usually gets lost in the focus on what an evil racist James Watson was is just how colossal of a dumbass he was and just how far he set the field back.

But @sramach.bsky.social and @cbo.bsky.social kept their eye on the ball.
November 15, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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benjaminfallow.bsky.social
'We’re here asking you to listen to the children, to fight for our planet, and our future.’ 🌎 The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is in parliament tomorrow, and it could be devastating for wildlife and wild places 💔
Please help 🙏 ask your MP to support Amendment 130 for nature 🙏💚
November 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
A six-panel comic. In panel 1, text says "People often wonder, why don't I see baby pigeons? Here's where they're hiding:" and there's an egg with an arrow pointing to a question mark, then an arrow pointing to an adult pigeon. Panel 2 says "Pigeons don't nest in trees. They nest in sheltered spaces on or in buildings. This keeps their babies safe from weather and predators." There's a pigeon nesting in a sheltered cavity in the side of a building. Panel 3 says "The hidden babies look like this: like moldy potatoes, but cute" and there are two baby pigeons looking, well, like moldy pink and gray potatoes with yellow fuzz. Panel 4 says "Older baby pigeons hide in plain sight. When they leave the nest, they're adult-sized, but they're still young and learning" and a fledgling pigeon is flying out of a building saying "aaaaaa". Panel 5 says "Here's how to identify these young pigeons" and shows a fledgling pigeon with arrows pointing to these features: eyes may be gray-brown, pale-edged feathers, smaller "nose" (cere), subdued hues, and looks worried. Panel 6 says "Scientifically speaking, though, all pigeons are sweet babies" and there are three very cute round pigeons, a gray, white, and red one, with arrows pointing to them to make things look scientific.
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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joshlukedavis.com
🌿🐟🌈🐝🦕
The words "Queers for Natural History" in the same style as the Zohran for New York City campaign slogan.
November 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
it’s crazy because no one knows what the aim of science is
November 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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lgspace.bsky.social
Plant a wildlife hedge instead of building a fence! It could help hedgehogs, bumblebees, blue tits, robins, frogs, bats, toads, dunnocks, butterflies, moths, blackbirds, solitary bees, wrens, hoverflies...
A quick guide to hedges:
littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/hed...
Countryside hedgerow with holly and hawthorn
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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sevans.bsky.social
"An ecologist who shot to fame after discovering that spiders have human-like personalities"

Umm...think it was a little while later that we all heard of Pruitt. And "infamy" is probably a more appropriate noun.
November 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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milesking.bsky.social
For anyone interested in Nature in the UK, this is really, really depressing reading. Despite all our efforts over the past decades (site protection, farming schemes), wild plants, an essential element of the natural world, are disappearing before our eyes. britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bi...
A new vascular plant Red List for Great Britain | British & Irish Botany
britishandirishbotany.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
joannaredfeather.bsky.social
I’ve always hoped for an app like this! Lichens are great indicators of air quality:
ukceh.bsky.social UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Oct 4
Many lichen species are sensitive to nitrogen pollution, making them natural indicators of air quality.

📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems.

buff.ly/AmWAOQB

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Side by side photos of a person looking at a picture of lichen on an app and comparing it to lichen on a tree trunk
November 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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drtels.bsky.social
Here's a map of UK fire activity in 2025.
2025 was a record year for both number of fires and burnt area in the UK, according to the satellite record.
Data from EFFIS, based on MODIS and Sentinel observations.
🔥#ukwildfires #wildfires
October 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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cgatist.bsky.social
Interested in ME/CFS research?
Want to do a PhD with @aryback.bsky.social, @avakhamseh.bsky.social, @sjoerdvbeentjes.bsky.social & @cgatist.bsky.social?
Then apply for a *funded* Future Medicine PhD Fellowship.
See: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please contact us to discuss before applying.
Personalised blood-based biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) symptom severity at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Personalised blood-based biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) symptom severity at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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countrysidejobs.bsky.social
Assistant Ranger with Nattergal, based at Boothby Pagnell, Grantham, full-time, permanent position c-js.uk/4oy9WPW
October 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM