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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈
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Science writer, editor and author @ the Natural History Museum, London | Queer animals, birds and embroidery | he/him | ✏️🏛🦦 | joshlukedavis.com
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · Nov 8
I guess it's probably time to re-introduce myself!

Hi everyone! I'm Josh, and I work at the Natural History Museum, London 🎉 where I write about natural history and badger curators into letting me nose about their collections.

I also wrote an entire book on ✨queer✨ nature! 🙌🌈🦆
A picture of me stood behind a bench. I'm staring at the camera smiling, with one arm out to the side in a relaxed pose. I'm wearing glasses and a sweater with a stags head on it. In front of me are various animal eye balls in jars.
joshlukedavis.com
oh look, the monkeys are at it again 🐒🌈🦍

(and a little quote from me)
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Primates’ same-sex sexual behaviour ‘may reinforce bonds amid environmental stress’
Behaviour among non-human species could help keep groups together in face of social challenges, says study
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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katiefullerart.bsky.social
✂️ Yesterday I finally responded to @agakowalska.bsky.social’s challenge to make a collage from a single piece of packaging. I present to you a green (tea) woodpecker, made from a big Yorkshire Tea box. It was fun and I’ll be rooting through our recycling bin for more materials later on ♻️
Green woodpecker collage, made from a Yorkshire Tea cardboard box. Collage assembly in progress - scissors used to dismantle box and cut pieces to form woodpecker shapes, and Pritt-stick used to fix pieces to paper
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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jenncoughlan.bsky.social
This seems like a really great initiative! If you know any Trans scientists who might be interested in joining a broader community, please pass along!

transscientistcollective.carrd.co
trans scientist collective
Trans Scientist Collective Landing Page and Interest From
transscientistcollective.carrd.co
January 12, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero

1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!

1/10
January 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM
joshlukedavis.com
yeah ok I actually cackled out loud in the office at this
A screen grab of an article reading "I have just consulted young Chalamet’s Instagram and it’s exhaustingly high energy. How can he be ‘OFFICIALLY UNC’? Remember, 30 is ancient for gen Alpha. On Instagram, one teacher asked his teen students how old you needed to be for unc status and one of them said 20. Also, “Anyone … can be called ‘unc’ if they carry a certain older-sibling or uncle-like energy,” according to Preply" with the words "one of them said 20" highlighted in yellow.
January 12, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Are you in UK and want to hear about my book Ghosts Behind Glass? 3 public talks in Feb:
Cambridge Museum of Zoology, 11 Feb www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events/talk-...
M Shed Bristol, 12 Feb  www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/m-s...
Oxford NatHist Museum, 13 Feb www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a...
Ghosts Behind Glass
How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us.   While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...
press.uchicago.edu
January 12, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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petition to stop referring to all archaeology that unearths a building as "pompeii"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii'
The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam Country Park.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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reshetz.bsky.social
As of today the full scale invasion (3 day special military operation) officially lasts longer than the entire eastern front of ww2
January 11, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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liburghal.bsky.social
There is always an XKCD
January 12, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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wildlife.nathan.fun
Illustrations of Indian zoology London, Treuttel, Wurtz, Treuttel, Jun. and Richter, 1830-34 [i.e. 1835] (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45959710) #nature #illustration #art
Illustrations of Indian zoology London, Treuttel, Wurtz, Treuttel, Jun. and Richter, 1830-34 [i.e. 1835] https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45959710�
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 AM
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jamesdaustin.bsky.social
The first point here is she isn't his girlfriend; she's a sycophantic computer programme he's set up to praise him.

We need to stop indulging this
January 11, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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pete-m.bsky.social
The rewilding movement needs to distance itself from bigots like Goldsmith.

There is no climate (and environmental) justice without social justice.

When these people show us who they are, we need to pay attention.
December 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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rodger.bsky.social
if you're surprised to learn that the Winter Olympics are just a month away, don't worry, you're not alone, the people building all the venues in Italy also appear to be surprised the Olympics are just a month away
January 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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danielfountain.bsky.social
Out now! Queer Crafts: Material Practices and the Making of Identity available via the Bloomsbury website and all good bookstores! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-cra...
A copy of a book called Queer Crafts. It is a pink cover with images of blue and white ceramic vessels on it.
January 7, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
what an image
KTLA screenshot of the bear coming out from under the house and a chyron “basement bear evicted”
January 10, 2026 at 3:31 AM
joshlukedavis.com
genuinely first read this as meaning an actual fish 🥲
January 10, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
I'm sad to have to reveal that the prophecy has not come true.

The Miami News, 1935:
www.newspapers.com/article/the-...
January 9, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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rvbdrm.com
BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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owenblacker.bsky.social
In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.
www.theverge.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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pavlovforgoths.com
the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence lies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't. By magicmosshka, yesterday's
January 9, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social
We are looking to hire a Seabird Field Assistant for 2026 for our Manx Shearwater research project.

Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.

drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...
Last years field assistant holding a Manx Shearwater on the isle of Rum (under a towel), retrieving a GPS device after a bird has returned from a foraging trip!
January 5, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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birdsmove.bsky.social
📢📢PhD opportunity!
We are looking for enthusiastic researchers to develop a project looking at the ontogeny of migratory behaviour!
Deadline for expression of interest: 8 February 2026
👉Check details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wow2...
#migration #ornithology #GPStracking
January 6, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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linneansociety.bsky.social
The programme is out for our Symposium, Exploring Queerness in Natural History, on 5 February.

We're excited to hear from our Symposium Curators, Connor Butler and @aquadan1.bsky.social, as well as talks from Simon Goldhill, @canopyrobin.com and @rossbrooks.co.uk. (1/3)

buff.ly/jc6Unz7
Symposium | Exploring Queerness in Natural History
A one-day, interdisciplinary symposium centring LGBTQ+ inclusion in the environmental sector.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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newschambers.bsky.social
There are real people, real women, real girls whose images have been edited by grok at the request of users.

This is not some fictionalised, nebulous harm.

That the 'adults in the room' and 'rules-based order' governments are humming and hawwing over taking a firm line on this is extraordinary
January 8, 2026 at 9:38 AM
joshlukedavis.com
are they holding the talks with the penguins
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sea Life London holds talks on future of its gentoo penguins - BBC News
The discussions follow a campaign against the captivity of 15 gentoo penguins at the site.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 11:49 PM