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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17h

'Passion flower' by Mary Delany (1700-1788), English Bluestocking and artist, known for her botanical flower collages or 'paper-mosaicks' #WomensArt

Collage featuring a close-up of a pink blossom with feathery thin petals forming a circular shape, all against a black background

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ludwigia x kentiana (False Hampshire Purslane) with those tiny petals that clearly separate it from the native L. palustris. #wildflowerhour

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Going through my videos of the Ravens to help with writing my book and I came across this one from last winter. Of all the Ravens vocalisations, this is the strangest! You almost can’t imagine it coming out of a bird! No idea what it means 😁

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?

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British Arachnological Society @britishspiders.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's a good time of year to be looking out for the distinctively-shaped Trashline Spider Cyclosa conica. It often embellishes its closely-woven orb web with a line (stabilimentum) of food remains or other debris ('trash'). Widespread, usually in shaded shrubs and trees, across Britain.

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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Can anyone help with this tiny thing I found on rotten wood today? Looks like a mini version of an Oak apple gall, literally a couple of mm in size.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Reform MP Danny Kruger went on Question Time to deliver a furious moral lecture about how wrong it is for governments to pass retrospective laws, only for Fiona Bruce to instantly point out Reform’s own official policy involves retroactively stripping settled status from migrants" via The Poke +1

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

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The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes

I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The thing with Trump is you just need to convince him he's won and he'll give you what you want. Danish foreign minister be like 'oh yeah Mr. President, really hard negotiations they were' while the Prime Minister of Greenland is behind him grinning like a maniac

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Doctors Without Borders @doctorswithoutborders.org · 18/09/2026

While transmission is slowing in parts of Ituri province, Ebola is spreading into new and less-prepared areas, making containment increasingly difficult. The latest: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/lates…

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.

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Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A wonderful spectacle of the thousands of House Martins gathering on wires and on the Power Station at Dungeness early this morning I reckon 8,000+ #KentBirding

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BSBI Ireland @bsbiireland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Bookings open for the Irish Autumn Meeting & AGM, 3 Oct in Enniskillen! Highlights incl. talks & workshops on Sorbus; Irish ferns; Fermanagh flora; beginners' recording & our BSBI database: an exciting day! Book at bsbi.org/take-part/ev... @bsbibotany.bsky.social @cedarrecordsni.bsky.social #Botany

Irish Whitebeam (Sorbus hibernica) in Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

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Belfast Hills Partnership @belfasthills.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Belfast Hills Partnership welcome the recent decision by a judge to prevent a seized e-bike from being returned following a recent court case. It is illegal to enter publicly accessible sites and farmland in the Belfast hills on scramblers. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

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Landmark court judgement could help end scourge of scramblers on Northern Ireland streets

The PSNI took a case to prevent the return of an e-bike following a seizure in north Belfast

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Reuben Singleton @bordersnaturalist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Back to SW France which retains much of the nature of my youth in the Cotswolds. The gathering of house martins on and around the church in Puycelsi this morning was mind-blowing.

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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 17/09/2026

Whether you're a geological enthusiast, researcher, or just curious about your area, BGS offers a suite of interactive mapping tools that allow you to: 🪨 Explore bedrock and superficial geology 🗺️ Access onshore and marine datasets 🌱 Track soil types and groundwater www.bgs.ac.uk/geological-d...

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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

How many foraged mushrooms would you say is a personal amount? I've always gone with 10%-15% of a patch tops. I've just seen someone emerge from the woods with 2, yes 2, bags for life filled TO THE BRIM with boletes. That's not a personal amount. That's a greedy bastard amount.

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We were represented at the Third National Meadows Conference at Kew:Wakehurst in June with a stand and flashtalk. Videos of all the sessions are now available if you fancy taking a look highweald.org/news/meadows...

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Meadows: Putting Science into Practice - High Weald National Landscape

The third annual National Meadows Conference was held at Kew Wakehurst on 19-20 June 2026. The theme of the event was 'Science into Practice', with a focus on sharing practical knowledge that anyone c...

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Lindsay @lindsayhere.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Frank Brangwyn "The Swans," c. 1921

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Black Bulgar, Bulgaria inquinans. On a recently fallen oak tree. West Acre, Norfolk, today. #Fungi #FungiFriends

Black Bulgar, Bulgaria inquinans.
A dark brown to black thick-fleshed cup- or disc-shaped gelatinous fungus, attaching in large numbers to the bark of decaying Oaks.

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Standout abstract quote for me is 'Locally, patch quality (floral cover and species richness) was more important than patch size in promoting species richness of all pollinator groups and density of butterflies and wild bees'. Gives hope for small urban/suburban grassland patches.

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Common Flame-back woodpecker 29cm S and SE Asia Lifespan 11 years Diet ants, termites, larvae inside bark, fruit and nectar Pair are monogamous sharing equally all duties, incubating for 28days, feeding 28 days, and 3 more weeks after the fledge until they are fully independent Beautiful video

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Looks like a certain petulant brat got his saggy ass handed to him by a strong woman. You know how much he must have delighted in that. Thank you, President Connolly!

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Would love to hear why too... was it super rare?👀 first time seeing it?😍 under your nose for 30 years & you never noticed 🤦 walk past it everyday 💚 the dog wee-ed on it & it survived 💅 tiny? size of a small house? 🏠 divine scent? 👃 just because #ImSoRandomMe 😜

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

THIS 👇 HERE.......

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Fabulous Ice Age spear thrower handle carved in the form of an animal. Known as the ‘Creeping Hyena’ it was carved from mammoth ivory around 15,000 years ago. The shaft is missing, but the hook to propel the spear is still visible. From La Madeleine rock shelter, France. 📷 by me #Archaeology

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

English stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott, who is inspired by folklore and nature #WomensArt ##September

Stained glass artwork featuring a green hilly landscape with fields and a house, with a hare in the foreground and swallows flying in the sky

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one

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The Species Recovery Trust @speciesrecovery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Field Gentians feeling climate breakdown in the New Forest 💔

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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This was the video I was looking for yesterday to post. I follow Joshua Wright on instagram because we are both passionate about saving old trees. This was an ancient forest valley that was recently logged on Vancouver Island. They cut down one of the largest Yellow Cedar tree in Canada. 😢

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Museums now project lifelike 3D dinosaurs onto real fossil skeletons, using melanosome studies to recreate their actual skin and feather colors.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The ‘British values’ brigade in action.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Reform UK Conference 2026 This is all it will be remembered for.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Let me get this right: if you're a retired vicar and peacefully hold up a sign opposing genocide, you're a terrorist. But if 1200 morons put on balaclavas and close half of Dover to stop people *escaping* genocide, police "constructively engage." Is that it? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent

Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns

A photo from the BBC of an older woman, with grey hair, being led away by police.

A photograph of a line of men in black clothes and balaclavas blocking the port at Dover.

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Jen Farrar @botany-jen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Utterly appalling behaviour and reaction

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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Across Uig Sands

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Wildlife Trust BCN @wildlifebcn.org · 01/09/2026

☢️❌ This is what greeted one of our reserve officers at Fancott Wood & Meadows nature reserve in Bedfordshire this weekend. Protecting these special places is already a challenge, but fly-tipping & antisocial behaviour make it even tougher.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This magnificent rhyton is in the shape of a lioness’s head. It was found at the palace of Knossos & is made from a very fine limestone that can appear - in certain light - as somewhat translucent. It is craftsmanship of the highest order. 🕰️C17th-16thBC 🏛️📷 Heraklion Archaeological Museum

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is when Ocean Ramsey and her team encountered what is possibly the largest great white shark ever recorded, approximately 6 meters long (~ 20 feet). Original post

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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Incredible insect columns seen today, towering above the trees as I was passing by, had to do a double take! Zoomed in views show thousands of insects.

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