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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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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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✨ your regular reminder to give blood if you can✨

www.blood.co.uk
A picture of my arm giving blood, with a monkey face covering the needle.
January 7, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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AAAHHHHHHH
A quote from a guardian article reading "An earlier statement from Grok announcing that it had “identified lapses in safeguards” and was “urgently fixing them” turned out to have been generated by artificial intelligence; it was not clear whether the company was actually taking action to fix safeguarding lapses.".
January 6, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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I rather ambitiously thought that I might go for a run this morning, but I might delay that for the time being lol
Screenshot of the weather in London right now, showing a temperature of -6.
January 6, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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write to your local politicians, folks
A screen shot of the guardian article reading "“The interventions are competing in an information environment where the politicians are being bombarded with conflicting information and loud opposition,” Tanase said. They told her that in gauging public opinion, they most trusted direct interactions with citizens from their constituencies and their letters, a finding supported by earlier research. “The people more likely to engage with politicians are very specific types politically – they don’t necessarily represent the majority,” she said." with the second sentence about listening to citizens' letters highlighted in yellow.
January 5, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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spot the kingfisher 🧐

nice if incredibly chilly afternoon at the wetlands, with the highlight being this little kingfisher posing for a good five minutes 💙
A zoomed in photo of dense branches, where in the bottom left a small splash of blue from a kingfisher can be seen.
January 2, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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obviously the highlight was the pigeon taking the tube and I'll be taking no further questions
A screen shot of TV wildlife documentary Wild London showing a pigeon getting on the tube.
January 1, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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happy new year, sausages ✨💙
A picture of the London fireworks on a big screen with the silhouette of a cat in front of them.
January 1, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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found some festive crustaceans in London ✨🦀🦞🎄
A picture outside the front of a restaurant which is decorated with Christmas tree branches covered in red baubles and red glittery crabs and lobsters.
December 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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today I saw some nice birds (goldeneye! eider! turnstones!), and a headless seal
View over a coastal marsh. A man wearing a red raincoat looking through binoculars standing on a rocky foreshore. A little group of turnstones stood on rocks with the sea in the background. A dead headless seal on the beach.
December 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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I'm so sorry not meaning to dunk on them but I cannot see images like the first and not immediately think of the second
A screen grab of a news article with the headline "UK actors vote to refuse to be digitally scanned in pushback against AI" with a picture of people stood and say around holding signs that say "we demand better pay" and "we demand better on AI". Meme from Arrested Development in which The Alliance of Magicians stage a protest with the sign "we demand to be taken seriously".
December 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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YES PLEASE
A framed poster at the Tate Britain. It shows an oven bird standing on its oven nest, with text underneath reading "lecture on nesting".
December 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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the actual report gives some detail of how it has shifted over the last few years, although not as far back as a decade (and also worth noting that even this report is from 2023, so would be interesting/depressing to see how that has changed again into 2025...)

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
Infographic showing that "While seven in ten Britons say they have a positive or neutral view of transgender people, there has been a 10pt increase in the number of Britons with a negative view since 2021 - and Britons think the wider public tends to have a negative view"
December 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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three different pieces of information from the same article 🙃

(for the record, the last one is the correct as the project has literally just been announced)
Screen grab a of BBC article social card that reads "White storks nest at Dagenham" with nest highlighted in yellow. Screen grab a the BBC article on their website that reads "White storks back in London" with back in London highlighted in yellow. Screen grab of the first sentence and paragraph of the same article with the words "white storks will be re-introduced" and "from October next year" highlighted in yellow.
December 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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if these bowls don't turn out as I expect I'm going to be so mad lol
Two newly glazed bowls waiting to be fired.
December 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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the fact that it is the year 2025 and yet Gordon McKee is considered a "pioneer" for hiring a digital content creator probably goes a long way to explaining why labour are so crap at comms 🙃
A screen grab of a guardian article that reads: "But in the parliamentary Labour party McKee is a pioneer, and the only backbencher known to have hired a digital content creator. The decision has paid off, with a series of professional-grade videos using grabby analogies designed to go viral. In recent weeks a few of his colleagues have began to emulate him, including the Leeds East MP Richard Burgon."
December 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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love the museum at this time of year 🥲
A picture of the interior natural history museum, London, in the evening with the spine of the blue whale curving over the top.
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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🫠
Screenshot from guardian politics live blog reading "No 10 says Starmer has been told by Downing Street staff that none of them briefed against Streeting Keir Starmer has been told by his No 10 staff that none of them were involved in briefing against Wes Streeting, Downing Street said this morning." A still from the "we're all just trying to find the guy who did this" meme.
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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somehow love that this wiki page has a section titled "Arguably venomous mammals"
Screen grab of a wiki section titled Arguably venomous mammals.
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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JUST LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL GROUND SQUIRREL I WAS GIVEN FOR THE EPISODE ISN'T IT A THING OF WONDER
A top down photo of a thirteen lined ground squirrel skin showing its gorgeous coat pattern of caramel lines and dots on a chocolate background.
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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this is absolutely wild framing of a story which should read 'eating meat to blame for Amazon tree-felling and polluting UK rivers'
A BBC article with the headline "Amazon tree-felling blamed for polluting UK rivers" and intro text "Tree-felling in the Amazon rainforest is partly to blame for pollution that is plaguing UK rivers such as the Wye, a new report suggests. It points the finger of blame at soy which is imported from vast plantations overseas and used as livestock feed, calling this a "hidden link" to the poor state of many waterways in Wales, and around the UK. The report from environment groups Size of Wales, external and WWF Cymru, external says the soy is high in phosphorus, and becomes a pollutant when animal manure spread on land runs off into rivers.".
November 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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🌿🐟🌈🐝🦕
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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haaaa also just realised that the photo they used was pulled from her Facebook account 😭

justice for Amelia!
A screen grab from the article showing that the top image of the sculpture with googly eyes was taken from the teenagers facebook account.
November 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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absolutely insane single person supplement from @naturetrek.bsky.social lol
A screen grab of a naturetrek holiday in which the "single room supplement" is £1,295.
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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never forget
A still from the One Show in which the puppet of the Cookie Monster has a red poppy pinned on it.
November 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM