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aislingirwin.bsky.social @aislingirwin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great talking to MattPhelps, @liamcrowley.bsky.social & HarryWitts about the spectacular, if "unnerving", summer for new &migrating insects. Also to hear from those who found them in their traps &even living rooms @mostlyscarce.bsky.social @hwitts.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social bit.ly/4xNrNGI
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Big-eyed bugs and praying mantises: climate crisis drives new visitors to UK shores
Britain has seen an explosion of migrating insects – in some cases from as far as northern Africa
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aislingirwin.bsky.social @aislingirwin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Big-eyed bugs and praying mantises: climate crisis drives new visitors to UK shores
Britain has seen an explosion of migrating insects – in some cases from as far as northern Africa
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Tereza Pultarova @terezapultarova.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Reflect Orbital's mirrors could appear forty times brighter than the full moon in the night sky, according to a study accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. #reflectorbital #lightpollution www.space.com/space-explor...
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Massive space mirrors could be 40 times brighter than the full moon, astronomers warn. 'It will be worse than big cities like London'
Sun-reflecting space mirrors proposed by U.S. startup Reflect Orbital will have an even more devastating effect on the night sky around the world than previously thought, a study has found.
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Helen Pearson @helenpearson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Pleased to say that @slate.com has published an excerpt of BEYOND BELIEF. This part of the book looks at how critical decisions on how to save species are often made with little regard for evidence of whether they work. Includes two of my fave stories: bats + caribou. slate.com/technology/2...
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Some Weird Looking Wires Showed Up on a Road in England. They Didn’t Do What They Were Meant To. They Were a Sign of a Larger Problem.
In conservation, it can be difficult to simply consult the evidence.
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aislingirwin.bsky.social @aislingirwin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Loved researching this for @nature.com. A mist of DNA engulfs us & ecologists are figuring out how to grab it to measure biodiversity. @jlittlefair.bsky.social @richardmleggett.bsky.social @profbatgirl.bsky.social @erinhahn.bsky.social @drbarnes.org www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for
Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify humans.
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Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Also, this is maddening. The authors could have *asked* why even zero-profit-margin journals is the AAS Journals cost so much to produce. No need to imagine! There's a lot more to producing a real, archived, edited, typeset, scientific article with data than peer reviewer labor.
Almost all primary journals are digital only - there are no hardcopy prints of the publications. It is hard to imagine how it is justified
to charge thousands of USD for a single article. Especially when considering that current peer-review journals would not exist without the
main ingredient: free reviewers.
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Dr. Sabine Metzger 🦇 @drsabinemetzger.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/01/stri...
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Striped Eel Catfish Traverse the Ocean Floor as a Strategically Rotating Mass
For young striped eel catfish, there really is safety in numbers. A recent Instagram post shares a video by Marie-Laure Vergne of about one hundred juvenile fish moving across the bottom of the ocean....
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aislingirwin.bsky.social @aislingirwin.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The ecologists who study nature without going outside bit.ly/3YtoSnu @tadeorp.bsky.social @sarabssethi.bsky.social @tokehoye.bsky.social @billsutherland.bsky.social @bessonmarc.bsky.social @laura-pollock.bsky.social @kevinjgaston.bsky.social
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‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
In the race to embrace new technologies, some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
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Tereza Pultarova @terezapultarova.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
NVIDIA and Starcloud have just taken a big step toward moving power-hungry, polluting data centers from Earth to space. Starcloud think they can have a commercial scale data center in orbit in the early 2030s. It does seem to make sense. What do you think? spectrum.ieee.org/nvidia-h100-...
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NVIDIA's H100 GPU Takes Data Centers to Space
Could space-based data centers be the answer to Earth's energy and cooling challenges? NVIDIA's H100 GPU is leading the charge in orbit.
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Attacks on healthcare facilities in #Gaza across 2024 (play gif). “I’ve not seen anything like it... In my work on human rights and healthcare attacks over decades, I have not seen anything like the almost daily attacks on hospitals.” More: buff.ly/u02hKUp (free to access)
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage? 🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social
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A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?
Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 09/10/2025
after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
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What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports
Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 03/12/2024
Bleak account of working in local papers for Newsquest, which continues to send millions of pounds a year to its US private equity owners, while producing "cheap, synthetic, low-quality fare" and using AI reporters to cover councils. westcountryvoices.co.uk/ultra-proces...
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