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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime & #Arachtober ! And here are the drawings of the first week of #Spideroctober, with a quick sheet for each species after the main page! Next update for the drawing challenge next sunday! #spider #sciart

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Bogshuffler 🪿📷 @bogshuffler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Woohoo, my gosling made The Guardian 🪿📷

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Alula Designs @aluladesigns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Still time to get your lucky birding t-shirt for autumn, plus it's FREEPOST on all UK orders this weekend. How high are you aiming? #UKBirding #BirdArt

Yellow-browed Warbler call spectrogram t-shirt by Alula Designs

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Neil @uk-wildlife.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I tested out the 960fps mode on my new toy (a GoPro Mission 1 ILS) at a Hornet's nest. Came out pretty well I think! #ukwildlife #nature #wildlife #insects @royentsoc.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today is the *final day* to submit your entries for the Botanical Photographer of the Year competition. It's easy to send us your photos - if you aren't sure on the identification for a plant, simply tell us that on your entry. Make sure you are in the running! Go, go, go! bsbi.org/take-part/ac...

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Botanical Photographer of the Year

The BSBI is for everyone who cares about the wild plants of Britain and Ireland.

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Double Z @doublezcreative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

39 years ago today!! Zig and Zag made their first appearance on Dempsey’s Den on @rteone.rte.ie

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Laughing Ladies" Oil on Linen • 48 x 48 inches Created in 2024 By American Painter "Jeffrey T. Larson" (b.1962) #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

TOP CAT debuted on ABC #OTD in 1961. Hanna-Barbera’s 2nd prime-time cartoon (after THE FLINTSTONES) aired for just one season, but the 30 episodes were rerun for decades. #TVSky #Animation

Top Cat on the cover of The Detroit News TV Magazine from this week in 1961.

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Dom Barker @dakuan808.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is hosted by @helenbennett.bsky.social and the themes are #BokehBirds, birds with soft, muted or blurry backgrounds. Have yerselves a Kingfisher at dusk, settings etc: dombarker.co.uk/posts/965

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Aoife @aoifeb1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Alder Catkins. The long male catkins will produce pollen next spring. The round catkins are female. #WildflowerHour

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RadioJottings @radiojottings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Something for fans of the Shipping Forecast and pharophiles tomorrow on BBC Radio 3 in Where the Light Sings.

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nectar chemistry & floral shape are important adaptations to bird pollination. Some plants add another assurance: viscin threads that stick pollen together & attach to feathers. Here’s the pollen of Delonix regia demonstrating viscin’s role. #Fabaceae #ornithophily #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Close-up photo of a feather drawing away from a stamen with a pollen-laden anther. The pollen is clumped together by threads of viscin. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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martinswarren.bsky.social @martinswarren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Painted Ladies are gathering along the Dorset coast today, having vanished from my garden a few weeks ago. They will head south to France at altitude, probably waiting for favourable winds that are due tomorrow @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social

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Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) | Goose & Swan Monitoring (GSMP) @webs-gsmp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We need your help!🫡 The NEWS IV survey period runs again from 1 December 2026 - 31 January 2027 🎉 If you'd like to take part in a single-visit waterbird count along a stretch of coastline this winter, visit www.bto.org/webs-news for more info on how you can get involved🦆 #Ornithology #UKBirding

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Aoife @aoifeb1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What I think is Welted Thistle 🤔 in a Dublin garden lawn. #WildflowerHour

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Aoife @aoifeb1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Autumn Hawkbit in Dublin for the changing season #WildflowerHour

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Gentlemen! Are you in want of a wife? Allow our algorithm to assist!

Image: a series of yes/no questions for that lead to different outcomes.

Questions include “are you rich?”, “are you dashing?”, “are you a rake” and “are you a vicar?”

Outcomes include “You win the most beautiful daughter of the richest man in the county!”, “You remain a bachelor”, “You marry a dowdy cousin” and “You rescue a 23-year-old from Spinsterhood”.

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Jen Gill @jengill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Love this quote (from the fab Sara Goodacre): “The ones you see in your home at the minute, the really big, fat, hairy ones, they’re usually teenage males that are lost – emotionally, geographically – and are just hoping they might find a female ...” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Spider season! Ten species you’ll see scuttling across Britain’s carpets and lawns this autumn

The world is suddenly full of webs and hairy legs. But why? And what do they belong to? Meet the spiders you’re most likely to encounter, from cardinals to false wolves

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dublinbookfest.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We’re delighted to be back out in TU Dublin’s Grangegorman campus this year for a brilliant day of author talks, workshops, and a poetry and music walking tour, in partnership with @tudublinsustain.bsky.social and @greenfoundationirl.bsky.social. Full details and bookings ➡️ bit.ly/4y277M4

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Green-Schools Ireland @greenschoolsire.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Join us for a FREE beach workshop to explore the coast and learn about the marine environment through hands-on activities. Activities will include beach cleaning, rockpool exploration, beach combing and more! 🌊🐚 📍 Register for Mayo here: l1nq.com/0bzsz0h 📍Register for Dublin here: l1nq.com/gucnxvq

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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Found another #FungiFriends! Special thanks to @lukaslarge.bsky.social for his identification yesterday that the ‘frill’ is another fungi, Syzygites megalocarpus, a mould with an impressive mycelium which delights in the common name of Troll-doll Fungus! How cool is that! Zoom in to see the flies!

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Aoife @aoifeb1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Another #FavouritePlant this year is Common Knapweed. It flourished in the summer heat and was a super source of food for pollinators. #WildflowerHour

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Aoife @aoifeb1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My favourite wildflowers change throughout the seasons 😊. So I have many 😉. This is Blue Eyed Grass from my holiday in Kerry. #WildflowerHour #FavouritePlant

A delicate blue flower with bright yellow centre

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Nige Jarman @nigej.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A short video of a few of the 10000+ House Martins #Bockhill this morning, gathering on the Monument.

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Pinetencolin @pinetencolin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Makes me smile 🤗

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🔎 Advanced Sources in Genealogy Take your family history research further with professional genealogist Seán Murphy in this 8-week course 📅 16 Sept–4 Nov | Wednesdays | 2–4.15pm ow.ly/Mr7w50ZKnRN Explore wills, deeds, estate papers, prison records, memorial inscriptions, manuscripts & more

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Course | Advanced Sources in Genealogy

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The spectacular technical ability of this little being, knowing that they must nibble out the tiny leaf section to enable the fold predictably - then realising it needs a little more nibbled out to do the job, then tightening all the threads. And this, from a tiny creature only a few weeks old. 😍💚

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Donogh Sweeney @donoghsweeney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨Upcoming Outing 🚨 Joint Limerick & Clare branch @birdwatchireland.bsky.social outing this Saturday 12th of September. Meeting at Robertstown Church Co Limerick @ 9.00am. Suitable for all ages. Always a fantastic outing.

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For the last weekly challenge, we want to know what was your favourite plant that you’ve spotted from across Britain and Ireland this year? Share your pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #favouriteplant and we’ll celebrate it with you! 🥳🌿🌸

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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

325 #kakapo! The chicks from this year's record breeding season are now juveniles and so have been added to the population. In 1995 there were just 51 kākāpō left. Recovery of critically endangered species _is_ possible with sustained effort. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

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Nigel Monaghan @nigelmonaghan-nh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If your family has an unusual rock that followed you home from the holidays, or anything else curious, meet the team from the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History at ‘the ploughing’

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It is back to school everyone! And to mark that, we have here William Keble Martin's paintbox which was used for his well loved Concise British Flora in Colour (1965) published when Martin was 88. It has 1,400 species of plants and has been the inspiration for many budding botanists ever since.

Antique watercolor kit with brushes and squeezed paint tubes in an open velvet-lined case set before an open botanical reference showing detailed plant illustrations and labels.

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Aoife @aoifeb1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#Fruits for #WildflowerHour in September has to be Blackberries. These were tasty, juicy and sweet dreams 😋

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My wife was in Ballyboughal in North County Dublin yesterday. There's a sunflower field run by St Francis Hospice there where you can walk among the flowers and pick some to bring home, in return for a donation to the hospice.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026

This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...

a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet

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TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Saibhriú ar an scéalaíocht 🗣️ #Fómhar26 ✨

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hips, haws, nuts and berries! It’s starting to look a bit autumnal out there! So this week’s challenge is #fruits! Share your finds of wild & naturalised fruits for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm. Happy fruit hunting! ☺️🍒

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A crow casually removing several metal anti-bird spikes from a building ledge. Original post

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Aoife @aoifeb1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The best coffee truck conversion ever 🚒🚒🚒☕️☕️☕️

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Aoife @aoifeb1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Autumn Lady's Tresses in Galway. Little sparklers amongst the grass. #WildflowerHour

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Aoife @aoifeb1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Field Gentian in Galway. Enjoying the sunshine while the rest of the country has rain #WildflowerHour

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Aoife @aoifeb1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Greater Sea Spurrey flowers and seed capsules in Galway. 10 sepaks in flowers and wings on seeds identify it as Greater, rather than Lesser, Sea Spurrey #WildflowerHour #Seeheads

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Oske. @oske.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Broken Dog. Had to grab a quick phone snap of this daft animal laid outside its owners shop. The owner called out and told us his dog was broken. ( It turns out he sleeps like this sometimes.) #Dog

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Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Presenting the Biodiversity Challenge initiative. Are you doing a degree in biology, zoology, marine biology, ecology & conservation or something similar? Then Biodiversity Challenge might be for you. analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2026/08/biod... Artwork by Unorthodox Sketch!

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Steve Rogers 🟰🟰 @runnelstone.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Juv Common Ringed Plover at Hayle Estuary (27th Aug).

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