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Bex (RebeccaComms)

@rebeccabroad.com
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Writer, Devon Wildlife Trust Trustee, non-exec director, freelance comms person 🌿 BSc Bio, Exeter alumna. Chatting nature, equality, charity comms, VAWG, governance etc

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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 16/11/2025
THIRTY-THREE THOUSAND FROM FIVE FISH
The River Torridge is one of the main catchments where our Northern Devon Natural
Solutions project has focussed its work.
So it's very encouraging to hear of the success of a local initiative which is boosting salmon populations in the river. Volunteers from the Torridge Rivers Association have established a hatchery where they are now raising young fish which in coming years should help salmon recover after decades of falling numbers.
Last December five adult female salmon, known as hens, were caught during their migration up the river. Their fertilised eggs were then stored in tanks and left to develop. One of the greatest obstacles to successful salmon spawning and egg hatching is the absence of clean unpolluted river water and clean gravels free from a covering of sediment. The tanks provided the ideal conditions - largely free of pollution and with predators absent. In January the eggs began to hatch and the baby fish, known as alevin, were fed and allowed to grow.
Then in spring came the moment of release. Volunteers were able to put out a grand total of 33.000 young salmon into areas of the river where the conditions are known to be most favourable.
In a few years - all going well - some of these fish will make their journey to the sea where they will mature, before returning as adults to their 'home' river, the Torridge.
There they will breed and begin the lifecycle once more.
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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
MOH is looking for a marketing professional to help us bring even more people into the Museum to hear the stories of those experiencing homelessness. Apply now, or share with your freelancer friends! Deadline 10th November. For details, click below: museumofhomelessness.org/news/opportu...
4 people stand in front of a brick building with one speaking to the group and the others smiling. Overlayed is the Museum’s logo, with text reading ‘SUPPORT OUR AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT’ and ‘CALLING ALL MARKETING PROFESSIONALS!’
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 08/10/2025
Every year I feel sad about summer's passing And every year I fall in love with autumn all over again
Purple clouds with pink underneaths streak across a light blue sky. Some building outlines visible, clouds reflected in a bus window.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/02/2025
The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 28/04/2025
The swifts are back in Exeter! 28 April 😎
A very blue sky with wispy white clouds. Some terraced houses' roofs are just visible at the bottom.
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 25/04/2025
Devon County Council elections coming up! @andyketchin.bsky.social @roselell.bsky.social if elected how will you commit to a pesticide-free, greener urban environment in Exeter? (None of my other candidates are on this platform) More info: www.devonwildlifetrust.org/blog/nick-br...
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Vote for Nature: Demand Action on Pesticide Reduction This Election | Devon Wildlife Trust
On Thursday 1 May 2025, the Devon County Council local election is an opportunity to vote with nature in mind and call for a reduction in the widespread use of toxic pesticides.
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Debbie Tann MBE @debbietann.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
There’s a very good reason why “growth” seems to be eluding most mature economies including ours. The economy depends on natural capital and ours is severely depleted.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 05/04/2025
Not all activism is meant for public consumption. If you think all activism requires that everyone know what you're doing, are you doing work for others or for yourself?
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 11/03/2025
Ah, West Wales. Clear skies, endless beaches, squeaky choughs and oystercatchers and buzzards
A beach at sunset, taken near where the water is lapping at the sand. Tide is out, so the sand is wet and reflecting the pink clouds above. A headland is visible in the background.
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 16/02/2025
Plenty of Brent geese nibbling along Sandy Bay (around from Devon’s Orcombe Point) #BrantaBernicla
Small geese on rocks in front of a stormy sea, a coastline just visible in the background
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 18/01/2025
I'm just a girl, standing in front of regional businesses, asking them to date their press releases
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Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Amen to this whole thread. And if you hear anyone complaining about this delaying the next Wingspan expansion, tell them they now owe a $50 donation to their local hospice organization for being an asshole. Findpan doesn't have a thing to do with the delay but my dad's cancer sure as hell does.
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 17/01/2025
I'm enjoying spying signs of life in between the grey days
Yellowey green buds on a bare branch with some housing in the background
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
AI term is used for anything that employs an algorithm. There’s no distinction between statistical analysis and autocorrect and llm generative… Makes it meaningless with everyone talking at cross purpose
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 20/12/2024
Working in comms & social media can make it extra challenging to have a long stretch offline, but in the tenth year of my business I’ve got the process down. So this is me signing off for the year. Catch you ~6 Jan, 2025!
Weak winter sun shining through dark clouds over Exeter Quay, looking downstream from opposite Topsham Brewery. The water is glassy and the sky and its reflection has some orangey streaks in it.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“It's amazing how pollution has dropped in #Paris in 15 years. @annehidalgo.bsky.social has filled the city with bike-lanes & not only has she reduced pollution by 40% but she’s also been re-elected.” Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 18/12/2024
2024 is peak silly season for pre-Christmas work requests IMO we should all be calming down, slowing down, downing tools, DOWN is the theme Not up up up upload this to the website and LinkedIn and the Drive and the Canva and you get the idea
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 16/12/2024
Why is it so disconcerting to watch someone watch ChatGPT spew out its answer? Like, have some self respect, click onto another tab at least
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 14/12/2024
Nice to meet @exetergreens.bsky.social’s Councillor Andy Ketchin on the doorstep this morning. We chatted glyphosate, vehicle rat running, and what measures might help reduce city centre speeding 🌿
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 12/12/2024
On my second migraine in six days. Wishing back the calm and sunny skies and the time to walk beneath them.
The blue sky between two trees in a park, rows of houses in the background
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 12/12/2024
2025 is not my year! I’m thinking I may pop over to Brighton anyway in case anyone fancies meeting for coffee or dinner
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 12/12/2024
Happy about this! Better for wildlife, better for me — they seem SO bright in Exeter at the minute. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Devon street lights to be dimmed to save millions
Street lights will be dimmed to 40% at different times across the county, but not on main roads.
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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Solstice may not be for another 11 days, but the sun is already ‘standing still’ ☀️ The word ‘solstice’ comes from the Latin ‘solstitium’ meaning ‘Sun Stands Still’ as the Sun appears to stop at its most southerly point Your sunsets won’t get any later, but your dawn still creeps in 🌌
The winter sun sets over the sea. The sea is steely and flat with a golden hue over the top from a very golden sky. A person is in the middle of the frame, a shilouette on a paddle board.
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 09/12/2024
If you absentmindedly whistle you are not allowed in an open plan coworking space It's me, I make the rules
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Florence @florencewilkinson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Women are 65% more likely to read a nonfiction book by the opposite sex than men are. And I know so many women who have felt excluded from conversations around #nature. So here’s a starter pack for women nature writers. Please send recommendations - I want it to be much fuller! go.bsky.app/PVHJMXS
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 06/12/2024
I struggle to leave the house sometimes, so have started scheduling things for earlier in the morning. 8am haircut got me walking the streets of Exeter as the sun rose. A good decision.
A rippled cloudy sky at sunrise, with orange bands between buildings and trees
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 05/12/2024
Next year is my 30th birthday, AND my business turns 10! Dreaming up celebration ideas… thoughts welcomed
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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 05/12/2024
The peatland of high Dartmoor acts like a massive sponge - continuing to release water for days after heavy rain. The Teign this morning is still looking pretty high from the rains last week- with Storm Darragh incoming I think we could be seeing some more significant flooding locally...
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Maret @maret.net · 05/12/2024
✨ This past weekend was something special and I'm still not over it. ✨ Hanging out with 21 incredibly talented, self-employed digital marketers. Rather than diving into "work", it was a space that felt effortless and meaningful at the same time. I came away feeling like I've found "my people".
A muddle of marketers, sitting together like it's their school year's photo.Four excited runners and one runner's forehead (mine).Fireside chats with marshmallowsPut a bunch of digital marketers together in the country side and what you get is jaunty photos.
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Campaign for National Parks @campaign4parks.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
📢 Last chance to apply! We're looking for two passionate and committed Trustees to join our board. Would you like to make a difference for the #NationalParks of England and Wales? Apply today www.cnp.org.uk/about/jobs/
We're hiring two trustees to join our board
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Suzanne Bearne @sbearne.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
After five years of not flying for environmental reasons, I’m off on a big adventure to Latin America. My place in Margate (two mins from the Turner and the sea) will be available from Jan 9 for a minimum of two months. DM for more info. Please share.
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 04/12/2024
Still thinking about how awesome last weekend was at the Digital Marketing Union retreat. Some of the best minds across SEO, content, PPC, e-commerce, webdev, advertising, link building. And what was extra lovely is that most discussions had nothing to do with marketing. We just hung out.
A big group of people, all digital marketers, posing behind a table and in front of an interior wall of a converted barn.
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 04/12/2024
I've never been to #brightonSEO. Can you believe that? Anyway, just entered the free ticket ballot, and you can too: forms.gle/UNEnkmLPsLyC... (closes noon, Friday 6 Dec)
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brightonSEO & Hero Conf UK, April 2025: Free Ticket Ballot
brightonSEO started out as a small meet up in a pub and now attracts 4500+ attendees from 50+ different countries in the UK and the US. In April 2025 we are bringing both brightonSEO and Hero Conf und...
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 03/12/2024
I so rarely find myself on Exeter’s high street but was pleasantly surprised this evening by how sparkly and light it was
Looking down Exeter high street with banners of lights across the road, some trees with leaves on, and a sunset in the background
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 03/12/2024
The tree is up. Earliest ever. No regrets, never delay joy, etc
A close up of two ornaments hanging from a tree — one is a wooden bauble, another is a badger
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
It is a while since I posted this, but just your annual reminder that Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) will never scale to compensate all emissions (& it would be a ludicrously expensive alternative to reductions). If you like your money, then the razor-sharp focus would be on reducing emissions!
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 28/11/2024
Looking out of train windows is one of the most underrated everyday experiences You mean I can just… look into someone’s back garden with geese on a pond? Glimpse a charm of goldfinch zipping along a riverbank? Marvel at the full floodplain? Watch birds of prey flap, soar, dive?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/11/2024
‘In the distance I see tiny glowing silhouettes sprinkled like salt’: birdwatching on Devon’s Exe estuary
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‘In the distance I see tiny glowing silhouettes sprinkled like salt’: birdwatching on Devon’s Exe estuary
The spectacular estuary is a haven for thousands of migrant birds each winter, and perfect to explore on foot and by boat The Christmas market doesn’t know what’s hit it. At 8.30 on a mid-November morning Exeter is a whirl of white, a city half-blinded…
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Madeleine Sugden @madlinsudn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
NEW post looking at some Bluesky success stories and tips about how to grow here!
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The growth of charity Bluesky
Examples of charities doing well on Bluesky and tips so you can do the same.
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Maret @maret.net · 27/11/2024
🐑 Getting into digital bleeting (as opposed to my normal analogue bleeting).
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Francesco Garzon @garzonfrancesco.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
What do you do when an orca eats your research project? Why, you continue tracking of course! #trackingNotSlacking 🌊 New paper describes how orcas catch bluefin tuna, and shows the longest high-resolution tracking of an orca ever! @exetermarine.bsky.social 🦑🐠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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High-resolution biologging of an Atlantic bluefin tuna captured and eaten by a supposed orca - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - High-resolution biologging of an Atlantic bluefin tuna captured and eaten by a supposed orca
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 27/11/2024
Sorry the discussion shouldn’t be whether we call a post on Bluesky a post or a skeet They’re bleets
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a sheep behind a fence with its tongue out
Alt: A sheep behind a fence going baaaa
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 27/11/2024
I live on a terraced street and it’s fascinating how many people drive cars that are longer than their houses are wide
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 26/11/2024
not many people have heard of vestibular neuritis / labyrinthitis but it sure is validating when people have because anyone who knows its impacts immediately offers something along the lines of: “oh wow oh my god I’m so sorry that’s like one of the worst things to have” and it’s true! 😇
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
#Microplastics #PlasticPollution - there is no escape “This is our whole lives that we are breathing them in. So what happens as they accumulate?” #PublicHealth - in a world where #PFAS, #pesticides and other threats are also accumulating - the #CocktailEffect news.sky.com/story/daily-...
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Daily home activities - like folding clothes and sitting on a sofa - could give off clouds of microplastics, scientists warn
Ahead of urgent United Nations talks on reducing plastic pollution, new research holds a workout on a synthetic carpet could mean people breathe in up to 110 plastic fibres every minute.
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Richard Fox @richardfoxbc.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Nice new paper from Butterfly Conservation & Exeter University on habitat management for Lulworth Skipper (Thymelicus acteon) where grazing is not possible link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🌍
Lulworth Skipper (📷 Mark Searle)
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 24/11/2024
I’m usually a stickler for restricting anything Christmassy to December, but this year I’ve already happily indulged in lebkuchen, sparkly nail varnish and, today, the jumper ✨
A selfie of the poster, a white woman in her late twenties with brown curly hair, wearing a grey sweatshirt with mistletoe embroidered on in shiny green and white thread
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Peter Cox @coxypm.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
New article by @jamesgyke.bsky.social, Jamie Shutler, and me @gsiexeter.bsky.social, explaining why carbon offsetting should be removed from Net Zero plans. theconversation.com/we-have-offi...
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We have officially advised our university to ditch carbon offsets – and focus on cutting emissions
Your organisation should probably ditch offsets too.
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 21/11/2024
Thanks for the follow @terrymakewell.com — by checking out your profile I learned RNID support people with tinnitus too! A fairly recent addition to my life and one that’s particularly pesky this week. Checking out the resources now 😌
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Bex (RebeccaComms) @rebeccabroad.com · 21/11/2024
I cannot explain how happy the snow in Exeter made me feel today. Spent hours just wandering around, watching birds, photographing leaves, enjoying the sun on my face and the crunch beneath my boots.
A red leaf lies in half melted snow, with other leaves in the backgroundA robin sits on a branch. Other branches are visible, some with snow on, and the sky is blue behind. Bird footprints in the snow on a wooden benchA yellow leaf resting on its side in the snow, with the sun behind, illuminating its green veins
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