Alick Simmons
@parliamentarygoose.bsky.social
Amateur naturalist || Animal ethicist || Aspiring conservationist || Erstwhile veterinarian ||
Author of ‘Treated Like Animals’: https://tinyurl.com/5a3cut5p
See my photo galleries: https://pbase.com/alick_simmons
Author of ‘Treated Like Animals’: https://tinyurl.com/5a3cut5p
See my photo galleries: https://pbase.com/alick_simmons
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Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧
We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.
Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.
Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
January 5, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧
We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.
Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.
Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
Many minor roads are not gritted. So let’s be careful out there, folks.
January 5, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Many minor roads are not gritted. So let’s be careful out there, folks.
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There will be people in Downing Street arguing that the public don’t care about international affairs or high politics - all I would say is that they will care if you explain to them why it matters, and it is your job to lead. It will be salient if you make it salient.
January 3, 2026 at 5:43 PM
There will be people in Downing Street arguing that the public don’t care about international affairs or high politics - all I would say is that they will care if you explain to them why it matters, and it is your job to lead. It will be salient if you make it salient.
Yesterday’s gloom on the Somerset Moors.
January 2, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Yesterday’s gloom on the Somerset Moors.
When it comes to INNS in the UK, it is always too little, too late. See Reeves’ muntjac, Chinese water deer, etc, etc.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rapid expansion of ring-necked parakeets in UK sparks concern
Bird organisations say more research on the species needed to control impact on other wildlife
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:45 PM
When it comes to INNS in the UK, it is always too little, too late. See Reeves’ muntjac, Chinese water deer, etc, etc.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Happy New Year you lovely people.
A reminder that 2026 should be the year you leave X (if you haven’t already!)
A reminder that 2026 should be the year you leave X (if you haven’t already!)
Why you should leave X
A rallying cry to progressives everywhere...
writesbright.substack.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Happy New Year you lovely people.
A reminder that 2026 should be the year you leave X (if you haven’t already!)
A reminder that 2026 should be the year you leave X (if you haven’t already!)
December 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
38 Russian White-fronted Geese, 5 Tundra Bean Geese, 1 Barnacle Goose and a few Canada and Greylag Geese in the first field east of Ridge along the Arne Road @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Auks in flight. #SuperSeabirdSunday #birds
December 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Auks in flight. #SuperSeabirdSunday #birds
Winter trees from an abandoned arboretum in South Somerset.
December 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Winter trees from an abandoned arboretum in South Somerset.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
My letter on the UK Government’s recently-published animal welfare strategy - in the @theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
My letter on the UK Government’s recently-published animal welfare strategy - in the @theguardian.com
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Modest #GoodNews on #biodiversity, because we could all do with some
www.bangkokpost.com/life/travel/...
www.bangkokpost.com/life/travel/...
EXCLUSIVE: Endangered flat-headed cat sighted after 29 years
The endangered flat-headed cat, also one of the world's rarest wild felines, has been rediscovered in southern Thailand for the first time in nearly three decades, Thailand's Department of National Pa...
www.bangkokpost.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Modest #GoodNews on #biodiversity, because we could all do with some
www.bangkokpost.com/life/travel/...
www.bangkokpost.com/life/travel/...
I’ve just eaten Santa’s mince pie.
December 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I’ve just eaten Santa’s mince pie.
Nigel Farage, the world’s second greediest politician. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage criticised for £400,000 job promoting physical gold as pension investment
Exclusive: Reform leader promotes Direct Bullion – but experts say commodity is not for everyday investors
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Nigel Farage, the world’s second greediest politician. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Want to avoid paying your fair share of tax? Get some land and choke up the roads with an obscenely large tractor. Simples.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government waters down farm inheritance tax plan
The government has now said it will lift the intended threshold from £1m to £2.5m.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Want to avoid paying your fair share of tax? Get some land and choke up the roads with an obscenely large tractor. Simples.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
December 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
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Happy Festivus, one and all!
May your Feats of Strength be brutal, your aluminium pole undecorated and your Airings of Grievances prolonged.
A Festivus for the Rest of Us!
May your Feats of Strength be brutal, your aluminium pole undecorated and your Airings of Grievances prolonged.
A Festivus for the Rest of Us!
an older man in a red cardigan says i got a lot of problems
ALT: an older man in a red cardigan says i got a lot of problems
media.tenor.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Happy Festivus, one and all!
May your Feats of Strength be brutal, your aluminium pole undecorated and your Airings of Grievances prolonged.
A Festivus for the Rest of Us!
May your Feats of Strength be brutal, your aluminium pole undecorated and your Airings of Grievances prolonged.
A Festivus for the Rest of Us!
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1/ Can you help us count Bewick's and Whooper Swans for the International Swan Census on 17-18 January 2026? 🦢
Visit the vacant site map to request a site at app.bto.org/gsmp/pub...
#Ornithology @webs-gsmp.bsky.social
Visit the vacant site map to request a site at app.bto.org/gsmp/pub...
#Ornithology @webs-gsmp.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
1/ Can you help us count Bewick's and Whooper Swans for the International Swan Census on 17-18 January 2026? 🦢
Visit the vacant site map to request a site at app.bto.org/gsmp/pub...
#Ornithology @webs-gsmp.bsky.social
Visit the vacant site map to request a site at app.bto.org/gsmp/pub...
#Ornithology @webs-gsmp.bsky.social
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New blog! With the help of volunteers, #MartensOnTheMove has carried out den box maintenance work in the Tweed Valley. Project Officer, Victoria Chanin, and volunteer Elaine Rainey discuss what this involved and what they found. Full blog here bit.ly/48Zl7MR #NationalLotteryHeritageFund
December 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
New blog! With the help of volunteers, #MartensOnTheMove has carried out den box maintenance work in the Tweed Valley. Project Officer, Victoria Chanin, and volunteer Elaine Rainey discuss what this involved and what they found. Full blog here bit.ly/48Zl7MR #NationalLotteryHeritageFund
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🧑🎓 Are you an undergraduate or master's level student carrying out #animalwelfare research? Would you benefit from guidance and support in the early stages of project planning? If this sounds like you, then apply to join the UFAW Mentoring Scheme!
Apply here: ufaw.org.uk/mentor
Deadline: 15 January
Apply here: ufaw.org.uk/mentor
Deadline: 15 January
December 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
🧑🎓 Are you an undergraduate or master's level student carrying out #animalwelfare research? Would you benefit from guidance and support in the early stages of project planning? If this sounds like you, then apply to join the UFAW Mentoring Scheme!
Apply here: ufaw.org.uk/mentor
Deadline: 15 January
Apply here: ufaw.org.uk/mentor
Deadline: 15 January
Four species of albatross, South Atlantic Ocean, August 2019. #SuperSeabirdSunday #birds
December 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Four species of albatross, South Atlantic Ocean, August 2019. #SuperSeabirdSunday #birds
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FOURTH White-tailed Eagle disappears - RSPB offers reward for information leading to a conviction for this one or any of the other three.
New blog ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/f...
New blog ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/f...
Fourth White-tailed Eagle ‘disappears’ & RSPB offers £10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction
Following the appalling news over the last couple of days about the highly suspicious, and almost certainly criminal, disappearance of three satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles here, here and here…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
FOURTH White-tailed Eagle disappears - RSPB offers reward for information leading to a conviction for this one or any of the other three.
New blog ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/f...
New blog ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/f...