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Donald Gray

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Emeritus Professor, environmentalist, academic, researcher, educator, husband, father, brother, climber, walker, gardener.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This case highlights the extreme inequality of the law and its enforcement. "Property" rights - in a lobster - pursued all the way to a police raid & strip searches. But we can do whatever the hell we want to marine wildlife. Take one step back and it all looks mad. theecologist.org/2026/apr/28/...
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I liberated a lobster and got crushed
How common wildlife myths were weaponised to crush a small act of resistance.
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TRG @q4nwspunk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%
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BlueSkyWarrior @blueskywarrior2020.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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University of Aberdeen @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A team of researchers led by the University of Aberdeen has found that private gardens played a vital role in supporting people's well-being during the UK's first Covid-19 lockdown, when access to public green spaces was significantly restricted. 🔗 www.abdn.ac.uk/news/...
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
time.com/7380309/iran...
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Did Trump Have the Legal Authority to Strike Iran?
As the U.S. joins Israel in a major attack, an expert explains why Trump lacks authority to strike Iran.
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran represent a further erosion of the international legal order. Under international law, these attacks are neither preemptive nor lawful. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
It's a fine morning on Corstorphine Hill!
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Came across a sleeping fox yesterday. It was a little high up on an old quarry ledge, but close enough to get a decent photo with the phone #foxoftheday
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Satya Tripathi and Ross Greer, Green MSP, at the Action for a Fairer World event at the Scottish Parliament "From vision to action: Global Insights with Satya Tripathi Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - What now and What Next?"
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years. CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years. But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures. Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
We heard the Cicada's "singing" in the trees opposite the holiday apartment in Liguria. On closer inspection today I found several exoskeletons from the Cicada nymphs, now emerged as adults, attached to the trunks of the trees. Possibly the ones we heard singing the past few days!
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Test print for my linocut red squirrel. My skills/technique coming along, but still early days and much to work on.
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Jemima's Garden - Flower Seeds for Wildlife @jemimasgarden.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
If this all sounds a bit risky and radical, don't just take my word for it - check out @davegoulson.bsky.social 's excellent video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ1a...
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Why you don't need pesticides in your garden!
YouTube video by Dave Goulson
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"Apologists for Israel might want to reject the charge of genocide [and] suggest its hyperbole or even antisemitic, but the actual experts on genocide know a genocide when they see one - and they see one in Gaza." My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide. zeteo.com/subscribe
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"Il Ciabot", my attempt at a linocut print. Still a bit to learn and improve. (A Ciabot is a Piemontese term in north west Italy, for a kind of hut/small building, often in the middle of vineyards).
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Today is World Bee day. www.un.org/en/observanc...
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World Bee Day | United Nations
The Day aims to raise awareness on the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development.
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Working in my garden office hut on this warm and sunny day with the door open. A nice sky!
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
It's time to reduce your meat consumption, if you haven't already done so. You don't have to give up completely, just reduce, although I've been vegetarian for 53 years now and I can vouch for it.
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
A quick experiment with home made ink (knopper oak gall - black) and beetroot (red). With acknowledgement to the Bridget Davies book for artistic expression
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Corstorphine wood is lively today - Merlin identifies.
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Scotland needs to do the same! Department for Education confirms launch of natural history GCSE www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Department for Education confirms launch of natural history GCSE
Campaigners have been calling for the qualification for years but plan stalled despite a curriculum being drawn up
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/02/2025
Do worms feel pain and are ants happy? Why the science on invertebrate feelings is evolving
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Do worms feel pain and are ants happy? Why the science on invertebrate feelings is evolving
For the next few weeks we’re asking readers to nominate their invertebrate of the year: click here to give us your suggestions
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”
The full front cover is dominated by a picture of Zelenskyy. The word BETRAYED is written in German (VERRATEN) across his chest in yellow. The rest of the subtitle is underneath.
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I’m back in sight of Monviso.
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK. The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned. This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
An excellent gift from my wife on my big birthday, following on from the pre-birthday lunch and the Whisky Experience yesterday. Looking forward to this.
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Found some photographs of self portraits I drew/painted many years ago: "but I was so much older then I’m younger than that now". The painting (colour) was called Mr Gray's School Daze! Whatever happened to it? I think I still have the other two drawing somewhere.
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
A Complete Unknown. Brilliant!
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Great keynote by Tami Spry at ECQI2025.
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Meta is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Meta is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner
Maria Ressa warns of ‘dangerous times’ for journalism and democracy after move to end factchecking in US
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Shooting birds is not a "sport"; it's a cruel and outdated pastime that has no place in a modern, compassionate society.
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise....
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Monviso again at sunset!
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Picturesque view of Monviso today.
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Boxing Day is the biggest day of the year for fox hunts across the country. So help us ruin their big day. Repost this and drop us a follow if you're against the sick pastime of fox hunting. Support wildlife this Boxing Day.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Support our call for an inquiry on our future relationship with Europe. "Tinkering around the edges of hard Brexit will not deliver for the British people. We need bold, clear, and informed action."
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Future UK-EU Relations - Petition
Support our call for an independent inquiry on our future relationship with Europe by signing our petition today.
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
For too long fossil fuel companies have had largely unlimited £££ to greenwash their dirty reputations whilst continuing to wreak havoc with our planet – it’s time for that to end . Add your name petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Looking forward to reading this. Theophrastus, the father of botany, and student of, and successor to, Aristotle.
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers | Devi Sridhar
New research challenges us to look beyond the initial event to the devastating long-term impacts. Governments must take note, says public health expert Devi Sridhar
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This will (hopefully) never cease to be staggering to everyone else in the world.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 04/12/2024
"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on) youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as
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Yes, it's a genocide
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
@gracedent.bsky.social We loved the article about French Christmas - but Ferrero Rocher is not French - originates in Alba, Italy in the Ferrero factory. Alba - my wife’s home town!
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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hey teachers (you brilliant people, you) - if you want to introduce the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries to school students aged 5 to 18 in a playful, embodied and adaptable way, we've got some great tools for you... pls RT! doughnuteconomics.org/foundational...
Four photos of school students of different ages, all introducing the Hello Doughnut tools by DEAL.
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This morning long shadow is on Cramond foreshore. Another crisp, cold Bluesky morning.
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged together out of various authors, but in opening their understanding to the outer world, so that a living stream may flow from their own minds" (John Amos Comenius, 1657)
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Arrest warrants issued for Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas commander over alleged war crimes www.bbc.com/news/article...
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ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas commander
International Criminal Court judges say there are “reasonable grounds” they bore "criminal responsibility" for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It was a month ago we visited Lomé in Togo to run a workshop with teachers on school gardens. Great time with the teachers and amazing experience visiting some of the schools and gardens. But the poverty and lack of amenities was stark. Togo, one of the poorest countries in the world.
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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
#Science teachers say the current curriculum is ‘overloaded’ and in need of urgent reform to better prepare young people for the workplace of tomorrow, according to a new @roysocchem.bsky.social survey
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Science teachers call for reform of ‘overloaded’ curriculum
Subject experts call on curriculum review to ensure science learning reflects students' interests in sustainability and climate change
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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A crisp, cold, Bluesky morning in the long shadow time of year. Good morning.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
BREAKING: The University of Edinburgh is to lay off staff due to Labour tax rises. The National Insurance hike has led to a 'multi-million pound' increase to its salary bill, the university said.
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