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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

#ArtDD2025 Humboldt penguin Not brilliant art but I couldn't resist this little fellow. 📷 by @darrensmithphotos.bsky.social with thanks.

Painting of black/brown backed penguin with white belly, black beak, and pale yellow eyes. One foot lifted up in mid-stride (ok, mid-shuffle!)

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Dreamcatcher @dreamcatcher01.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Eastern Bluebird Studies in blue...

A blue, tan, and white Eastern Bluebird is perched on a thin branch.

A blue, tan, and white Eastern Bluebird is perched on a branch facing away from the camera.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Appeal Court *very slightly* reduces sentences on some of the 16 peaceful climate protesters, jailed for total of 41 years. This isn’t justice. People desperate for climate action to save lives treated like organised criminals, while big oil & gas get away with ecocide @defendourjuries.bsky.social

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Just Stop Oil: Co-founder's sentence reduced in Court of Appeal

Sixteen climate protesters were jailed last year for their roles in Just Stop Oil demonstrations.

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CuriousCalendars @curiouscalendars.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Today is Shrove Tuesday - or Pancake Day! It marks the beginning of Lent, when, historically, the church expected people to give up eggs, meat, cheese, and sex! The exact list of restrictions has varied over time, but in early medieval times you were expected to fast all day too, a bit like Ramadan.

Medieval painting of a cockerel and a hen, the hen eating grain off the ground, the cockerel standing upright.

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Kiera Chapman @kierachapman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

These spiders at Ebbsfleet are going to be the new bat tunnel, aren't they? A stick used to beat those who keep pointing out that people and nature do not live in different worlds, and that habitat degradation has very significant economic impacts.

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Blow to Reeves as endangered spiders halt Government’s plans for 1,300 new homes

A small colony of endangered spiders has halted the development of more than a thousand new homes in a blow to the Government’s growth plans.

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.

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CuriousCalendars @curiouscalendars.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

So, today is St Valentine's Day! The origins of Valentine's Day are unclear but by the C14th there was an established association of the day with 'love', and people were referring to their lovers as 'valentines'. It was believed that birds chose their mates on the 14th Feb.

1880's Valentine's card with young woman in red dress, holding 6 cherubs floating like balloons above her head. A banner next to her reads Prang's Valentine Cards.

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CuriousCalendars @curiouscalendars.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

2nd of Feb is Candlemas, or the Feast of the Purification of St Mary, in the Christian calendar, when churches were filled with candles. Candlemas is closely associated with snowdrops, in bloom now, the white flowers symbolising Mary's return to 'purity', 40 days after Christ's birth.

Clump of white snowdrops in centre of picture, grass in front, brown twigs behind, light coming through from left highlighting the petals of the snowdrops.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

We can easily spare a tenth of England for nature without affecting food production! 20% of our land produces just 3% of our food. Vast swathes of our uplands are owned by about 150 wealthy landowners who use it for shooting grouse, and set fire to our biggest carbon sink, our peat bogs...

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 01/02/2025

30M users 1B posts 🤝 bluesky milestone achieved this week

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 01/02/2025

Imagine if we could stop offshore drilling at the dawn of the oil age. This is exactly where we’re at with the deep sea mining industry. We must not let history repeat itself. Let’s #StopDeepSeaMining 🎨 @maxgustafson.bsky.social

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Today is World Wetlands Day, where we celebrate this remarkable habit. This is Rye Harbour Nature Reserve #WorldWetlandsDay Saltmarshes are coastal wetlands that are flooded & drained by salt water brought in by the tides - an incredible habitat for wildlife and carbon capture. 📷 Stuart Conway

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Trump's inauguration should mark a turning point. Time for the UK to stop trying to ride the US's coattails and start working with those who share our values and want the things we want.

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Kiera Chapman @kierachapman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The tide is right out, and Dungeness's relentless shingle suddenly edges an expanse of surprising, shining sand. Here I find big, weighty hagstones, like dragon's teeth, where water meets sky meets rock.

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Kiera Chapman @kierachapman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I'm still absolutely wiped out from flu. I'm lucky though, one of my friends is in hospital with pneumonia. 😱 It clearly needs repeating: seeing people when you know you have flu or COVID, and giving them no choice to swerve it, is massively selfish and puts their health at risk. Do not do it.

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

“It was the clearest, coldest day I have ever known....Roads were ridged and fanged with ice, opaque and shiny as frozen rivers. Goldfinches sparkled in snow-lit hedges. …Horizons were misty, the sun cold with blue sky above, the north wind light.” January entries, J.A. Baker, The Peregrine (1967)

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CuriousCalendars @curiouscalendars.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

We're with Susan here: Plough Monday was the 1st Monday after Epiphany, but if Epiphany fell on a Monday, then Plough Monday should be the next week. Here she talks about an alternative 'back to work' day after Epiphany. We don't know of any customs still practiced to celebrate St Distaff's though!

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CuriousCalendars @curiouscalendars.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

6th Jan or Twelfth Night sees the rough & tumble custom of the Haxey Hood game in Haxey, Lincs. The 'hood' is a leather tube, 'said' to represent the hood of Lady de Mowbray, which fell off her head & was saved by local farmworkers in the middle ages. Today it's an excuse for ...

Man in brown tunic top with red letter 'H's and red neckerchief, holding a leather tube in his right hand and laughing.

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CuriousCalendars @curiouscalendars.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Is it Twelfth Night yet! In the past, 12th Night was usually taken to be the evening *before* Epiphany (ie, on the 5th Jan), but now most people view 12th Night as the evening *of* the 6th of Jan (Epiphany) itself. Either way, it's bad luck to leave the Xmas decs up beyond this date!

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a pixel art drawing of a cat sitting next to a christmas tree

Alt: a pixel art drawing of a cat sitting next to a christmas tree

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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Applications for the Granta Writers’ Workshops close soon. In each course students learn and develop their technical skills by drafting new work and engaging critically with the work of their peers. Apply to Short Fiction, Memoir and Nature Writing here: workshops.granta.com/courses/

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CuriousCalendars @curiouscalendars.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Hello Bluesky! Three of the authors of Nature's Calendar are at it again, but this time we are charting the curious world of the British customary year. If you don't know your Whuppity Scoorie from your Hare Pie Scramble, then follow along for the wonderful weirdness of British customs, old & new.

Pen and ink drawing of a pair of antlers and a skull with round googley eyes looking to the left, on a pole.

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CuriousCalendars @curiouscalendars.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

The 5th or 6th of January is Twelfth Night (depending on your calculations😏) so in advance, here's a recipe for 12th Night cake, once a more important fruity, sugary, spicy delight than Christmas cake. Anyone still make 12th Night cake? This one's from The Diary Book of British Food (Ebury Press)

Recipe and photograph of iced cake with dried fruit in a crescent shape on top.

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