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Hayley Dunning

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Climate communicator / Fiction writer / Cat wrangler Have all my own teeth hayleydunning.com

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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Still chuckling at the book I found at a secondhand stall yesterday. Still mad at myself for not buying it
Cover of a book called 'The book of the bitch: a complete guide to understanding and caring for bitches' with a photo of a dog and puppies
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A rat ran across my toes while I was waiting for the bus so I guess I'm never wearing sandals again
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I had the privilege of doing some freelance pieces for my old employer @nhm-london.bsky.social recently. This one is my favourite - everything from the earliest amino acids to the evolution of humans! www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/ori...
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The origin of life on Earth | Natural History Museum
Explore the history of life on Earth, from 3.5-billion-year-old fossils to the vast diversity of species on our planet today.
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Was an absolute DORK over @janicehallett.bsky.social at the @chilternkills.bsky.social festival just now. I always said she's who I want to be when I grow up, and that's still mostly true, but just a tiny bit less after she said she's a 100% pantser!!😱
Signed title page of The Killer Question by Janice HalletFive women on a panel on stage
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
There's this true crime advert that ends with someone saying, "How do you know the person sitting next to you right now isn't a psychopath?" and it makes me laugh every time because whose sitting next to me is him
My hand holding the paw of a sweet black cat
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Got a new purse and trying to answer the eternal question: do I fill the purse with loyalty cards or my phone with loyalty apps?
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I finished my book and now I'm too sad to do anything else (Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro)
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I bought a new plants and it wasn't in my flat 2mins before Copper got at it...
A cat chomping on a spider plantA cat chomping on a spider plant
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Happy #InternationalCatDay! Peanut is off his face on catnip
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Oh I am SO pleased to see this. I worked with Prof Dougherty a lot at Imperial and she is one of those people you really want to be when you grow up. Smart, dedicated, kind and funny. A true inspiration. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years
Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I read a LOT more now than I did 10 years ago, and yet I've still only heard of one of the Booker longlist again this year. It used to make me feel uncultured, but I think the type of book favoured is just not for me! 🤷‍♀️
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Just beautiful work there. The disclaimer really earning its place
People also ask
Is The Great British Sewing Bee on tonight?
AI Overview
No, The Great British Sewing Bee is not on tonight. It airs on Tuesdays at 9 pm on BBC One. The current date is Saturday, so it will not be on tonight. The most recent episode aired on Tuesday, July 22. 
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
So how many books did you buy in the @waterstones.bsky.social pre-order sale? I managed to restrict myself to six 😁
6 books: 
Murder at the Black Cat Cafe - Seishi Yokomizo
The Witching Hour - Bridget Collins, Imogen Hermes Gowar
Of the Flesh: 18 Stories of Modern Horror - Susan Barker, J K Chukwu
The Killer Question - Janice Hallett
The Chesil Beach Murders - Rachel McLean
Barrowbeck - Andrew Michael Hurley
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I'm hiring! Love communicating complex topics and are handy with tools like Canva, Premiere Pro, LinkedIn and WordPress? Come join me and the incredible @degrees.ngo team as we navigate a fascinating interface between climate change and international development: www.degrees.ngo/careers/job-...
degrees.ngo
Job Opportunity: Digital Communications Officer
The Degrees Initiative seeks a Digital Communications Officer to join a growing, dynamic charity working on climate change and development.
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Honestly, how disrespectful is this? Not only have they already told us two different values since April, they can't even be bothered to pretend to explain why the new figure is, naturally, higher (Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing, MTVH)
A letter about service charges rising. A sentence offering to explain why is unfinished
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
When I gave blood last week, one of the nurses found a 2hr video of silly cats on YouTube to put on the TV in the donation room. And my nurse gave me an extra bag of Mini Cheddars 'for the road' 💪🩸
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Why did this make me want to do homework again. I miss doing assignments. Grown-up job work just doesn't hit the same
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
‘Useful phrases for the murder mystery writer abroad’ (my cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books)
Title:
Useful phrases for the murder mystery writer abroad 

An eight-panel cartoon showing a writer in a series of situations in a foreign country.

Panel 1: looking at historic buildings saying
"Kia bela vilaĝo!" which is translated below as "What a lovely village!"

Panel 2: in a pretty garden asking the gardener "Ĉu ĉi tiuj estas venenaj" meaning "Are any of these plants poisonous? 

Panel 3: in a bar asking the server “Kie oni povas aĉeti pafilon?" meaning "
Can one purchase a firearm nearby?"

Panel 4: on a beach asking a fisherman "Ĉu la tajdo povus forporti kadavron?" meaning "Could the tide carry a dead body away?"

Panel 5: approached by a police officer and saying "Saluton, oficiro." which is translated below as "Hello officer."

Panel 6: being marched to the police station protesting "Okazis miskompreno!" meaning "There has been a misunderstanding!"

Panel 7: in the interrogation room the officer holds up a moleskine notebook, the writer explains "La murdo en mia notlibro estas fikcia." meaning  "The murder planned in my notebook is fictional."

Panel 8: locked in a cell asking "Mi ŝatus telefoni al la Brita konsulejo." which means "I would like to telephone the British consulate."

Note: The foreign language used by the writer in the cartoon is Esperanto. It has not been proofread by an Esperanto speaker so there may be errors.
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Every summer I think about leaving London
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
What a beautiful thing to arrive on the solstice from Jackie Morris and @tamsintheshed.bsky.social 🌅 Tinged with sadness tho as it's probably the last book I'll receive from #Unbound - 2 others are still on order but one (another folk title) was cancelled by the author this week
Cover of the book Wild Folk
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Happy solstice from Stonehenge! I sang in the dawn this year 😊
People dressed in red within the stonesSelfie inside the stonesView of the stones with lots of peoplePoppies in a field lit by the early sun
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This is 39
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
What's weirder? Black holes, human consciousness, or quantum spookiness? Join the debate (and me) tomorrow as three @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social scientists fight it out to have their 'thing' crowned the weirdest! www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/event/weirde...
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Weirdest Object in the Universe - The Great Exhibition Road Festival
From black holes to human consciousness, Imperial scientists compete for public votes as they pitch what they think is the strangest object in the cosmos.
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
A small selection of the wonderful animals I got to say 'hi' to in South Africa :-)
A buffalo tries to look menacing but looks cuteOne elephant rests their trunk on the back of two othersA weaver bird sits in the sling of grasses he has constructed in a thorny bushAn African penguin huddles in the sand with their two babies
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
!!!!!
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Cecil Sharp House @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
STATEMENT FROM ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY
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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Puffin's Bluff
A puffin stands on the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean. "I always thought I'd get wiser and braver with time... but I'm only becoming more neurotic". We see its perspective, looking down at the rough water below. "Why am I like this? Does it help me?" A close up of the puffin's face, looking momentarily cheerful. "Maybe overthinking IS wisdom! I AM the contemplative figure, gifted with great insight". They look down again "...and nervous bowels".
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
"She's been sleeping diagonally in her bed for years" YES I HAVE
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Can you believe I'm on this list?! I almost can't, but there I am in black and white!
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Met a sentient potato
A pug asleep in someone's lap. His tongue is sticking out
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Really enjoyed hearing from @ginarippon.bsky.social tonight about her foray in autism in women. Lots more to learn as I delve into the book. Thanks @conwayhall.bsky.social for putting it on 🌟
Screen with a silhouette of a woman and the title 'the lost girls of autism'Gina signing booksFront cover of the book The Lost Girls of Autism by Gina Rippon
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
It is a good day for trees
Sun through a budding oakSun through birchesSun through... trees I can't identify yetBlossom
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
my HORRIFYING cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books
Title: Modern Folk horrors of the British Isles 

Five images of various characters:

A coven of murderous witches...
Who play loud youtube videos on public transport.

An ancient malevolent demon... 
With a three-hour podcast interviewing entrepreneurs.

A flock of bloodthirsty ravens...
Who think absolutely everything is "Woke". 

A primordial shambling beast... 
Wearing a "Make albion great again" baseball cap. 

A mob of satanic villagers... 
Who give bad reviews to books they haven't read.
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Extract 2/18
A plump Woodpigeon perched lazily on a fence, chest puffed out like it forgot what it was doing. The translated phrase: 

“Mate. Maate. MAATEE?”
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Am I mad at the lost hour today? Of course I am, I'm not in thrall to Big Daylight
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Joined two magpies on a walk today ☺️ 🪶
Two magpies on a woodland path
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
An English spring is one of the things I missed the most when I lived abroad. Nothing like it 🌷
A tree-lined path in the woodsA pond full of spawnA bush of lovely white flowersA daffodil
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Me and my bank account had a grand time at #StitchFest today 🪡 😍
Overview of an exhibition centre with loads of fibrecraft stallsCloth with a bonsai design, surrounded by embroidery paraphernaliaKits, hoops, thread and accessories
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Couldn't agree with this more. I loathe leadership that looks at mental health issues rising and fails to examine their role in that. I've seen it in previous jobs and it creates an extremely toxic environment
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is the most intricate and complex cross-stitch / embroidery I've done so far. A lot of work for a Christmas stocking gift from my Mum! Now what should I name him?
Cross-stitch goldfinch on a branch surrounded by leaves and berries
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
My top two women role models (my cat Copper and Jessica Fletcher) #Caturday
A tortoiseshell cat on a cushion covered in a collage of Jessica Fletcher portraits
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
London Book Fair! Me and @clotimms.bsky.social are here, it's overwhelming but amazing. Chloe will be speaking soon with @kitdewaal.bsky.social #LBF2025
Overview of large convention centreChloe outside the London Book FairMe and Chloe on the balconyChloe on the stage with Kit de Waal
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I love that Peanut is such a chill cat I can embroider on him
A black cat in a lap with an embroidery hoop on top
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Went to an extremely dystopian co-working place today. I thought Ex Machina but people keep saying Severance vibes (I've not seen it). Either way, everything in this corridor looked like it was easy to wipe blood off of
A shiny white corridor with many white strip lights
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Awh I love coots (and their chunky, dinosaur-like feet) - this study is as fascinating as it is disturbing www.science.org/content/arti...
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman buying cranberry juice must be in possession of a UTI
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"Despite multiple attacks by the eagle, the goose remained unbowed. The raptor, defeated, flew off." www.theguardian.com/environment/... Never mess with a Canada Goose.
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Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice
Photographer captures 20-minute clash between birds emblematic of Canada and US amid high trade tensions
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Sure the scientific value is questionable, but on the other hand: “Adorability was one of the unintended consequences that we did not expect.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Meet the ‘woolly mouse’: why scientists doubt it’s a big step towards recreating mammoths
De-extinction company Colossal mixed mammoth and mouse mutations in a single strain to create a shaggy-haired rodent.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
typical book project timeline
Detail from a map of the A23a iceberg's progress since being calved in 1986; after 30 years stuck on the seafloor it made rapid progress in 2022-2023 but rotated on a water column for 8 months and has now run aground off South Georgia. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20d1xp6046o
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Hayley Dunning @hdunning.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
BOOOOO!
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