Dani Dark Skies ✨
@danidarkskies.bsky.social
Defender of Darkness 🌌
Author of All Through the Night 📚
Lover of landscapes, wildlife and all round nature nerd ✨🐝🦇🐳🦉
Surfer and Marine Mammal Medic 🦭🌊
Work to make our National Parks/Landscapes thrive at night 🌌
Cymraeg 🏴
https://linktr.ee/danidarkskies
Author of All Through the Night 📚
Lover of landscapes, wildlife and all round nature nerd ✨🐝🦇🐳🦉
Surfer and Marine Mammal Medic 🦭🌊
Work to make our National Parks/Landscapes thrive at night 🌌
Cymraeg 🏴
https://linktr.ee/danidarkskies
If you care for wildlife -
Do not book with Marriott hotels.
They built a luxury hotel in Masai Mara National Park on a known migration corridor and it is now blocking the path of migrating wildlife. The videos online are so distressing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t...
Do not book with Marriott hotels.
They built a luxury hotel in Masai Mara National Park on a known migration corridor and it is now blocking the path of migrating wildlife. The videos online are so distressing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t...
Is a New $3,500-a-Night Safari Camp Blocking a Wildlife Corridor?
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
If you care for wildlife -
Do not book with Marriott hotels.
They built a luxury hotel in Masai Mara National Park on a known migration corridor and it is now blocking the path of migrating wildlife. The videos online are so distressing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t...
Do not book with Marriott hotels.
They built a luxury hotel in Masai Mara National Park on a known migration corridor and it is now blocking the path of migrating wildlife. The videos online are so distressing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t...
We must do more in Cymru to ensure wildlife recovers from this current state and is able to thrive in the future. We need to think big and act fast. This rate of loss cannot continue
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A precarious position’: almost 3,000 species at risk of disappearing from Wales, report finds
Environmental body says modest investment and changes can help preserve long list of animals, fungi and lichen
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
We must do more in Cymru to ensure wildlife recovers from this current state and is able to thrive in the future. We need to think big and act fast. This rate of loss cannot continue
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
There’s so gorgeously clear skies above me tonight, if that’s the case for you too, this time of year is PERFECT for anyone wanting to see the stars ✨
The big fan faves are all there to see.
Right now, Taurus is visible, including the asterism which makes part of this constellation: the Pleiades
The big fan faves are all there to see.
Right now, Taurus is visible, including the asterism which makes part of this constellation: the Pleiades
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
There’s so gorgeously clear skies above me tonight, if that’s the case for you too, this time of year is PERFECT for anyone wanting to see the stars ✨
The big fan faves are all there to see.
Right now, Taurus is visible, including the asterism which makes part of this constellation: the Pleiades
The big fan faves are all there to see.
Right now, Taurus is visible, including the asterism which makes part of this constellation: the Pleiades
Reposted by Dani Dark Skies ✨
Encouraging people to use their Welsh in daily situations is the aim of the Welsh Language Commissioner’s annual campaign, and this year’s campaign includes a special anniversary celebration
Use your Welsh every day celebrating two decades of Iaith Gwaith
Encouraging people to use their Welsh in daily situations is the aim of the Welsh Language Commissioner’s annual campaign, and this year’s campaign includes a special anniversary celebration. The camp...
nation.cymru
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Encouraging people to use their Welsh in daily situations is the aim of the Welsh Language Commissioner’s annual campaign, and this year’s campaign includes a special anniversary celebration
Reposted by Dani Dark Skies ✨
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
People wonder why there’s a cost of living crisis, but I just did a little budget check.
For all my bills, that are all necessary (electric, internet, insurance, rent etc) every one has gone up in the last 6 months to the point I’m down £206 extra a month without doing anything.
For all my bills, that are all necessary (electric, internet, insurance, rent etc) every one has gone up in the last 6 months to the point I’m down £206 extra a month without doing anything.
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
People wonder why there’s a cost of living crisis, but I just did a little budget check.
For all my bills, that are all necessary (electric, internet, insurance, rent etc) every one has gone up in the last 6 months to the point I’m down £206 extra a month without doing anything.
For all my bills, that are all necessary (electric, internet, insurance, rent etc) every one has gone up in the last 6 months to the point I’m down £206 extra a month without doing anything.
I love this time of year, when Orion appears at a reasonable time in the sky 🌌
Jupiter is there shining bright like a beacon too!
Jupiter is there shining bright like a beacon too!
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I love this time of year, when Orion appears at a reasonable time in the sky 🌌
Jupiter is there shining bright like a beacon too!
Jupiter is there shining bright like a beacon too!
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Campaigners from Eryri have launched a new campaign against the 'colonial aspect' of the Ordnance Survey - targeting the use of names such as 'The Mushroom Garden' and 'The Nameless Cwm'
Campaign group criticise the 'colonial aspect' of the Ordnance Survey
Stephen Price Campaigners from Eryri have launched a new campaign against the ‘colonial aspect’ of the Ordnance Survey – targeting the use of names such as The Mushroom Garden and ‘The Nameless Cwm’. ...
nation.cymru
November 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Campaigners from Eryri have launched a new campaign against the 'colonial aspect' of the Ordnance Survey - targeting the use of names such as 'The Mushroom Garden' and 'The Nameless Cwm'
The importance of place and native names always seems to cause such hateful division in Cymru, which I don’t understand.
It’s so sad people cannot grasp what magic it brings to landscapes to embrace their native Cymraeg names.
Let’s look at ‘The Spinnies’. A local nature reserve 🏴
It’s so sad people cannot grasp what magic it brings to landscapes to embrace their native Cymraeg names.
Let’s look at ‘The Spinnies’. A local nature reserve 🏴
November 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The importance of place and native names always seems to cause such hateful division in Cymru, which I don’t understand.
It’s so sad people cannot grasp what magic it brings to landscapes to embrace their native Cymraeg names.
Let’s look at ‘The Spinnies’. A local nature reserve 🏴
It’s so sad people cannot grasp what magic it brings to landscapes to embrace their native Cymraeg names.
Let’s look at ‘The Spinnies’. A local nature reserve 🏴
Can you help this research on light, noise and air pollution?
Please fill this quick survey (you could win a €50 voucher!) and you will be helping research on these topics!
It only took me a few minutes. Survey available in many languages 🇮🇹🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇵🇹🇫🇷🇬🇧
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Please fill this quick survey (you could win a €50 voucher!) and you will be helping research on these topics!
It only took me a few minutes. Survey available in many languages 🇮🇹🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇵🇹🇫🇷🇬🇧
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Survey on perceptions of environmental pollution
Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Can you help this research on light, noise and air pollution?
Please fill this quick survey (you could win a €50 voucher!) and you will be helping research on these topics!
It only took me a few minutes. Survey available in many languages 🇮🇹🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇵🇹🇫🇷🇬🇧
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/pl...
Please fill this quick survey (you could win a €50 voucher!) and you will be helping research on these topics!
It only took me a few minutes. Survey available in many languages 🇮🇹🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇵🇹🇫🇷🇬🇧
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/pl...
My neighbour blocked me in today…
November 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
My neighbour blocked me in today…
First snow of the season this morning on the Carneddau ❄️❄️❄️
Feeling very wintery all of a sudden…
Feeling very wintery all of a sudden…
November 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
First snow of the season this morning on the Carneddau ❄️❄️❄️
Feeling very wintery all of a sudden…
Feeling very wintery all of a sudden…
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After an exceptionally mild week across many areas, we are going to get a taste of winter as cold Arctic air plunges down from the north
So it's probably time to get the big coat out 🥶
So it's probably time to get the big coat out 🥶
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
After an exceptionally mild week across many areas, we are going to get a taste of winter as cold Arctic air plunges down from the north
So it's probably time to get the big coat out 🥶
So it's probably time to get the big coat out 🥶
So much rain coming down relentlessly all day. A5 between Tregarth and Bethesda was barely passable. A BMW started to smoke just after this and got a bit buoyant.
1.5C exceeded. More scenes like this to come, more frequently, and closer and closer to home.
1.5C exceeded. More scenes like this to come, more frequently, and closer and closer to home.
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
So much rain coming down relentlessly all day. A5 between Tregarth and Bethesda was barely passable. A BMW started to smoke just after this and got a bit buoyant.
1.5C exceeded. More scenes like this to come, more frequently, and closer and closer to home.
1.5C exceeded. More scenes like this to come, more frequently, and closer and closer to home.
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Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Did you know corals time their spawning perfectly with a particular moon phase?
They wait for a few days after a full moon, in the dark of the night before spawning.
Light pollution can have huge consequences for our coral reefs, and with coastal artificial light increasing, it’s a serious issue
They wait for a few days after a full moon, in the dark of the night before spawning.
Light pollution can have huge consequences for our coral reefs, and with coastal artificial light increasing, it’s a serious issue
The Great Barrier Reef is spawning. 🪸 ✨
A phenomenon Sir David Attenborough once described as “one of the greatest of all natural spectacles,” the annual event is a dazzling display presenting hope for bigger, stronger coral reefs. 💙
Here's what spawning looks like👇
A phenomenon Sir David Attenborough once described as “one of the greatest of all natural spectacles,” the annual event is a dazzling display presenting hope for bigger, stronger coral reefs. 💙
Here's what spawning looks like👇
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Did you know corals time their spawning perfectly with a particular moon phase?
They wait for a few days after a full moon, in the dark of the night before spawning.
Light pollution can have huge consequences for our coral reefs, and with coastal artificial light increasing, it’s a serious issue
They wait for a few days after a full moon, in the dark of the night before spawning.
Light pollution can have huge consequences for our coral reefs, and with coastal artificial light increasing, it’s a serious issue
Storm Claudia is about to sweep the nation and NOBODY has made a joke about a ‘fringe front’ moving in. Come on @metoffice.gov.uk
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Storm Claudia is about to sweep the nation and NOBODY has made a joke about a ‘fringe front’ moving in. Come on @metoffice.gov.uk
It’s me. Again.
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It’s me. Again.
If this is you in a camper van, parked at Eshaness lighthouse, for the love of God, switch your lights off!
You’ve been sat with your headlights on for over 45 mins 😂
You can’t see aurora if you sit in a van with all your lights on…
You’ve been sat with your headlights on for over 45 mins 😂
You can’t see aurora if you sit in a van with all your lights on…
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If this is you in a camper van, parked at Eshaness lighthouse, for the love of God, switch your lights off!
You’ve been sat with your headlights on for over 45 mins 😂
You can’t see aurora if you sit in a van with all your lights on…
You’ve been sat with your headlights on for over 45 mins 😂
You can’t see aurora if you sit in a van with all your lights on…
🚨AURORA🚨
Currently active and visible from the UK! If (and it’s a big if!) you have clear skies, pop out and take a look.
This is a screenshot from Shetland Webcam. I’d be very annoyed by the campervan with all its lights on!
Currently active and visible from the UK! If (and it’s a big if!) you have clear skies, pop out and take a look.
This is a screenshot from Shetland Webcam. I’d be very annoyed by the campervan with all its lights on!
November 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
🚨AURORA🚨
Currently active and visible from the UK! If (and it’s a big if!) you have clear skies, pop out and take a look.
This is a screenshot from Shetland Webcam. I’d be very annoyed by the campervan with all its lights on!
Currently active and visible from the UK! If (and it’s a big if!) you have clear skies, pop out and take a look.
This is a screenshot from Shetland Webcam. I’d be very annoyed by the campervan with all its lights on!
If you have clear skies around you (unlike me 😭) now would be a good time to go out and look north for aurora!
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
If you have clear skies around you (unlike me 😭) now would be a good time to go out and look north for aurora!
The skies went a little bit biblical just after sunset this evening!
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The skies went a little bit biblical just after sunset this evening!
I worry about AI illiteracy. Over 6k people liked, shared and commented on these images and the vast majority are not questioning what they see and accept them as real, which I find utterly astounding but there we are. If people believe this bollocks is real, what won’t they believe?
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I worry about AI illiteracy. Over 6k people liked, shared and commented on these images and the vast majority are not questioning what they see and accept them as real, which I find utterly astounding but there we are. If people believe this bollocks is real, what won’t they believe?
After another grey day the sky tonight erupted as the sun set ☀️
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
After another grey day the sky tonight erupted as the sun set ☀️
My dad isn’t one for phones, so I was surprised to get a call from him yesterday, and panicked that something was wrong.
He was just calling because he was really excited about seeing a bird and wanted to tell me ❤️
(Great Northern Diver, for those interested.)
He was just calling because he was really excited about seeing a bird and wanted to tell me ❤️
(Great Northern Diver, for those interested.)
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
My dad isn’t one for phones, so I was surprised to get a call from him yesterday, and panicked that something was wrong.
He was just calling because he was really excited about seeing a bird and wanted to tell me ❤️
(Great Northern Diver, for those interested.)
He was just calling because he was really excited about seeing a bird and wanted to tell me ❤️
(Great Northern Diver, for those interested.)