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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · 15d

Seabirds are vital indicators of ocean health. Yet the UK seabird indicator shows a 37% long-term decline, driven by mounting pressures

Further declines in the short-term demonstrate the need to protect our seas now in order to secure our seabirds' futures

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Love nature @profstephaniejean.bsky.social · 26d

This book has so many brilliant ideas I could hardly put it down!

Gabe @pedalsandpages.com · 26d

Just finished. Review will be out later this month! #booksky #scifi

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Scifi Reader @scifireader.bsky.social · 26d

Great choice! PKD explores reality in such a unique way. "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." What’s your favorite PKD twist? 🪐📚 #SciFi #Valis

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · 26d

BOKS

Six-Hundred and Seven - Valis, Philip K. Dick.

"I am, by profession, a science fiction writer. I deal in fantasies. My life is a fantasy."

Fantasies have a lot to answer for. This is a rollicking and very entertaining bok.

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Love nature @profstephaniejean.bsky.social · Aug 24

Great to see the University of Aberdeen doing so well in this!

Botanical University Challenge @bucbotany.bsky.social · Aug 24

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝 What was the result of Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025? 31 teams from UK and Ireland entered. Final overall winner was amazing team from University of Aberdeen who led in almost all the rounds. Runner-up was University of Plymouth team, so close behind.

Final outcome of Botanical University Challenge 2025. Logos of the 31 universities & institutions that entered teams. Background picture of part of Cambridge University Botanic Garden where the semifinals and final were held. Four semifinalists were Universities of Aberdeen, Reading, Plymouth and Eden Project University Centre. Overall winner was team from University of Aberdeen with team from University of Plymouth close runner up. Also logos of our Gold-level sponsor, Gatsby Foundation and Silver-level sponsors New Phytologist Foundation, The Company of Biologists, University of Cambridge & Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Also grateful to our many Bronze-level sponsors and many others who supported the competition and 3rd Student Botany Festival that followed with their help-in-kind, knowledge and assistance.

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Love nature @profstephaniejean.bsky.social · Jul 3

Why? Do people use the countryside as a rubbish tip? Our garden is next to a country park, in the middle of beautiful countryside. Yet almost daily I have to clear rubbish from our drive and garden, often fast food packaging empty bottles and tins. Harmful to wildlife This is today's...please stop!

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · Jun 25

This afternoon, the Planning Bill enters the House of Lords.

Within it is a proposal that would make it easier to destroy the woods, rivers and wildlife we all love - by weakening the laws that keep them safe.

If Part 3 isn’t changed or scrapped, nature will pay the price. ⚠️

A clear stream winds through lush, green woodland, flanked by mossy tree trunks and overhanging branches. The kind of precious habitat that could be lost without strong environmental protections.

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Kim @voxlyra.bsky.social · Jun 8

I have always thought that flowers are a language that everyone can speak and intuitively knows:
They can say I love you,
They can say I'm sorry,
They can convey happiness,
They can express sadness,
And to me, they also represent peace, and can bring joy to
the soul just by looking at them...

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Love nature @profstephaniejean.bsky.social · Jun 8

Love these authors!
#cymera

Geek Chocolate @geekchocolate.bsky.social · Jun 8

Two of Britain's top science fiction writers, @aptshadow.bsky.social and Peter F Hamilton, discuss their future visions with @elianjmorgan.bsky.social at #Cymera.

#scifi #books #Edinburgh
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Love nature @profstephaniejean.bsky.social · Jun 8

I love these authors, such imagination! Looks like great fun too.
#Cymera

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Love nature @profstephaniejean.bsky.social · May 19

Caterpillar eating my plum tree leaves, but will be eaten by the birds...if too many I will drop a few on the ground but far better to let nature take its course and so I encourage all wildlife to the garden to ensure predators and prey abound. #nature #gardening

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Love nature @profstephaniejean.bsky.social · May 6

Just became a member and already learning so much! Great citizen science here too. Make a difference

BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · Apr 26

Support our work in an ever-changing world by becoming a BTO member. ➡️ www.bto.org/how-you-...

We'll update you with BTO news, including exclusive members content, so you can see the meaningful and measurable impact your support makes. We can build a better future for birds and people, together.

Cut out image of a Kingfisher diving. To the left on a teal background white wording reads: A better future for birds and people. Join us. Image credit: Kingfisher by Sarah Kelman/BTO.

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Love nature @profstephaniejean.bsky.social · May 6

The Mallards have successfully hatched 6 chicks. Fingers crossed some will survive. We leave this big pond to nature, lots of places they can hide. It is so lovely to see them swimming around their Mom.
#nature
#ducks
#mallards

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John Baker, Literary Agent @jjbker.bsky.social · May 2

This one is for Welsh 🏳️‍🌈 ! Honestly, couldn't be more grateful to be working with @elianjmorgan.bsky.social and the excellent Canelo.

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · May 1

@canelobooks.bsky.social has fallen for @elianjmorgan.bsky.social's queer Welsh romantasy trilogy in a three-book deal. The first book in the deal will be published in April 2026 👇 #BookSky

Canelo falls for Elian Morgan's 'entrancing' Welsh romantasy series

www.thebookseller.com

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Protect All Wildlife @protectallwildlife.bsky.social · Apr 28

#ThoughtForTheDay

There is not a single person on planet Earth that needs an Elephant tusk except an Elephant.

🇨🇳🇹🇭🇻🇳🇵🇭🇯🇵 ~ Ivory is not a trinket nor is it fake medicine! 🚫

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Dave Harazny @dharazny.bsky.social · Apr 25

This is why you should let your lawns grow long, more grubs, and worms for the birds to collect. #Birds #food #lawns #garden #wildlifegarden #nature #leaveyourlawn #CheshireUK

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Love nature @profstephaniejean.bsky.social · Apr 3

I love our universe!
#Astrophotography

DrRoy @dragonsoaring.com · Apr 1

Its towering pillars of gas and dust stretch across 100 light-years. A cradle of starbirth, it’s a testament to the universe’s relentless creativity—nature’s own monument to the eternal dance of chaos and beauty. #nebula
@bot.astronomy.blue signup

DrRoy @dragonsoaring.com · Apr 1

Deep in the heart of the Carina-Sagittarius Arm, 9,000 light-years from Earth, lies a cosmic marvel: the Statue of Liberty Nebula (NGC 3576). Its towering pillars of gas and dust resemble a celestial torch of freedom against the infinite dark. #astrophotgraphy

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Love nature @profstephaniejean.bsky.social · Apr 3

The daffodils and forsythia do complement each other well I think. And a few pollinators around them. Spring joy.
#garden

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Love nature @profstephaniejean.bsky.social · Apr 3

Why can't they just enjoy watching them and allow others to do the same? How about a photograph instead? Where is the skill in shooting like this! So sad.

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Love nature @profstephaniejean.bsky.social · Mar 30

The Camelias are starting to wake up. Along with the wild cherry plum, lesser celandines and all sorts of more native plants. Isn't nature beautiful 😍
#gardening

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Love nature @profstephaniejean.bsky.social · Mar 16

12 million light years away and we can now use computers to help us photograph in the back yard. Technology can be brilliant. Our universe is so amazing, we are lucky to have evolved enough to do this, let's try not to destroy our planet though...
#Astrophotography #universe

DrRoy @dragonsoaring.com · Mar 16

In Ursa Major’s embrace, M81, Bode’s Galaxy, gleams—a grand spiral muse 12 million light-years distant. Her luminous arms dance with M82, a celestial duet, whispering secrets of the cosmos to starlit souls below. #Astrophotography #galaxy please ♥️RP and follow

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Protect All Wildlife @protectallwildlife.bsky.social · Mar 14

It’s #NationalButterflyDay - can you help protect them?

Last year, a Butterfly emergency was declared. Numbers hit a record low. A big reason? PESTICIDES!!

Please Sign & Share the @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social petition at
action.greenpeace.org.uk/protect-our-...

#Nature #Butterflies 🦋

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Protect All Wildlife @protectallwildlife.bsky.social · Mar 3

Today is #WorldWildlifeDay

I think this quote from the wonderful Dame Jane Goodall is very appropriate...

'What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.'

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Love nature @profstephaniejean.bsky.social · Feb 10

One of the many reasons I enjoy reading novels is the mind and person inventing the story. I also recognise how much hard work goes into a good work of fiction. I don't want to read what a computer has produced thanks, and don't want hard working writers cheated upon.
#booksky

Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · Feb 10

Saw something this weekend about accepting that authors will write with AI. No. Don’t accept it, don’t forgive them.

Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · Feb 9

I’m seeing a lot of soft takes from industry mutuals at the moment that we shouldn’t be so hard on those who use generative AI because it’s becoming harder and harder to resist.
Wrong. Betraying your ethics (and your peers) because ‘everyone else is doing it’ does not suddenly make it acceptable.

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Love nature @profstephaniejean.bsky.social · Jan 30

Item 5 on the what to do list is vital. Most of the recent financial problems are due to government changes in student visas. They do not understand the value of our HE sector and the contribution students make. The collapse in international student numbers will hit research too. And sadly, jobs.

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · Jan 29

This is a depressing list of United facing shortages and, calling for staff redundancies with courses closing. You cannot fix the economy without a healthy university sector. 🧵

UK HE shrinking

This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…

qmucu.org

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