Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerUK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Looking back at last year's drought, spring and summer 2025 combined saw less than 40% of 1991–2020 average rainfall in the driest areas. The total flow of rivers in England in Mar-Aug 2025 was the 2nd lowest since 1961, lower than several summer droughts except 1976. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yhhsymy8 2/ 142
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerJuliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet) @craftygreenpoet.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Not content with cancelling Autumnwatch a few years ago, the BBC now want to get rid of Winterwatch! Don't let them do it! Please sign the petition! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...you.38degrees.org.ukTell the BBC: Save Winterwatch!The UK is losing its wildlife, and shows like Winterwatch are vital for connecting us to nature. The BBC's decision to cancel it makes no sense. Let's ask them to rethink this! Add your name here: 0124
Sarah Jane Butler @sarahjanebutler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026So many stories about our rivers are grim (I’m as guilty as anyone) but this day with ceramic artist Laurie Jeanne was magical. Her work involves bringing clay, river and artist together to make an unpote - this, a vessel for the pilgrims of Friends of the River Medway to carry later this month 000
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerWATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 30/06/2026England is predicted to have a 5bn litre a day shortfall of water supply within the next 3 decades. Currently, we're losing 3bn litres a day in leaks - fixing that would take us a long way toward water security. 🧵 58445
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerDeborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Midsummer, Louise Glück www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...poetryfoundation.orgMidsummerOn nights like this we used to swim in the quarry, the boys making up games requiring them to tear off the girls’ clothes and the girls cooperating,… 131
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here. 19746692343
Sarah Jane Butler @sarahjanebutler.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I just love to watch the Beautiful Demoiselle dragonflies partying on down around my local stream - total gorgeousness, and a sign of another year’s life to come 100
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerSusan E Barsby @susanebarsby.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Standing in Kent right now. My 76-year old mother's house has no running water but you get your priorities straight, eh? It's not like it's hot here at all. 819075
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerLorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 21/05/2026This is an utterly, pointlessly cruel policy and cis folks need to do whatever we can stand up against it. Solidarity with our trans and NB siblings 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 532296
Sarah Jane Butler @sarahjanebutler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Fairlight published my first novel - and they’re totally lovely. Not only that, they love to hear from unagented authors of literary fiction (and it doesn’t have to be super high lit, whatever that is) 040
Sarah Jane Butler @sarahjanebutler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I’ve been away for a while, writing a book about rivers and people through time, and how we’ve lost and can regain our vital connections to rivers. It took six years so this is me recovering for a week in France by the Cernon. It was cold! And glorious! And clean! 100
Reposted by Sarah Jane Butlerchloelewis.bsky.social @chloelewis.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Charity collecting donations for refugee charities for every metre walked by Yaxley-Lennon + his thugs yesterday has already raised £149,000 + rising. Link to donate in article: www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...mirror.co.ukTommy Robinson march to raise money for refugees - without far right knowingAround 4,000 police will take a 'zero-tolerance approach' during anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson's hate-filled march, but the rally has already raised over £100,000 for refugees 04416
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerBuckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Some relationship advice from this early 20th century postcard: Don't keep telling her about how much you love tomatoes dude she's clearly over it. 57115
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerNina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 01/04/2026WOW, I just hit 19k followers! When I joined Bluesky in July 2023, I never imagined things would take off like this. The exodus from X was clearly waiting to happen, I’m so glad it did. It’s great to see such a large community of archaeology enthusiasts here! Thank you all! This figurine...🧵1/2 📷me 2971799
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerSheaf Poetry @sheafpoetry.bsky.social · 25/03/2026"Sheaf is the river that flows through the side of Sheffield where I live; it’s brimming with wildlife, herons and kingfishers and dippers. It’s also gathered wheat, or gathered paper..." 'The Story of Sheaf' by @suzannahevans.bsky.social suzannahevans.substack.com/p/the-story-...suzannahevans.substack.comThe Story of Sheafthe life and death and then a bit of life and then death and then maybe life idk of a poetry festival 0117
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerJustsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 25/03/2026🌿☕ Celandine (the yellow ones) are mentioned in C. S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe. When Aslan returns, the woodland turns from winter to spring, the ground covered in all directions with 💛 celandine flowers 📸 Taken on a walk around Battledown, Cheltenham. No lions were however seen..🌿 322224
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerGaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Good to see this no-brainer policy finally. Imagine if it happened a decade ago…bbc.co.ukHeat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech driveSolar panels that can be plugged in at home could be available to buy in supermarkets in the coming months. 3438
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/03/2026The Green Party doesn't believe pensioners holding signs are terrorists. Nor does about 80% of the UK. The Telegraph try to portray this as being 'soft on terrorists'. No it is just not being a terrorist. 17353101
Sarah Jane Butler @sarahjanebutler.bsky.social · 21/03/2026A UK state school is banning books in its library based on ignorance and AI. Totally appalling and - it seems - allowed??? www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...indexoncensorship.orgSchool book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on CensorshipA school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women 000
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Early Morning Shift, 1959, painting by Tom McGuinness, 1926-2006, County Durham coal miner and artist (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art). 05712
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerPeter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 15/03/2026As its not on today's theme, I'm going early with #bsbi #wildflowerhour. These are completely native daffs in a small reserve in Gloucestershire in the golden triangle, which was stunning yesterday. One person seeing this was nearly in tears... 3419
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives. 24348681780
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026TIL that hair shaved from the heads of convict women incarcerated at the Parramatta Female Factory in the 19th century was used as a binding agent in the mortar in the building's stonework. Convicts often had to build their own prisons, but the corporeal aspect of this is particularly poignant. 66014
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerTaylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 03/03/20261908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health 32648915
Sarah Jane Butler @sarahjanebutler.bsky.social · 01/03/2026I’m going to be looking out for a shoe shop that sells cheese now (department stores don’t count - you have to pass the awful makeup counters) but this is great wisdom from Naomi’s therapist 030
Sarah Jane Butler @sarahjanebutler.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Pepys clambers over fences to escape arrest - never a dull day for Sam! 030
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 12/08/2023Aw, how lovely! A rare sighting of a telegraph pole with its young. 1134131
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerEmily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 12/12/2024A brief escape to the 17th century, where one writer is giving his suggestions for heartfelt inscriptions on poesy rings to a lover Truly a lost golden age of roman-... oh wait no never mind #17c 213132
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Artists have always loved to sketch! Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC. Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone as sketchpads! MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology 10891232
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerAbdohassan @abdohassan.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Hannah is the Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton. She is also a plumber and dog rescuer🐕💪 11483129
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerSteve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 30/01/20261903: Don't build a fire station! It will arouse desire for a library. 13333104
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerKiera Chapman @kierachapman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026First up - let me tell you about this event tomorrow night with @thelrm.bsky.social I'm like the Ancient Mariner about this book - grasping people by the arm, and telling them with a glittering, paranoid, neurotic eye that THEY MUST READ IT! 193
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerJournal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 22/01/2026🔎 High-resolution multi-sensor technology reveals low collision risk to seabirds in offshore wind farms These results highlight the need to revise collision risk assessments by applying high meso-avoidance rates and very high micro-avoidance rates for seabirds🕊️ 🌍 Read more:https://buff.ly/VmQ7gGC 186
Reposted by Sarah Jane Butlerℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted. 5550021896
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerLorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026I am braving the horrors of rail replacement buses to get to this, so please come 😆 2176
Reposted by Sarah Jane Butlerchloelewis.bsky.social @chloelewis.bsky.social · 20/01/2026It's St Agnes Eve - traditionally the coldest night of the year. Here's to warmth + hope to come, & the promise that ice will melt. 1659
Sarah Jane Butler @sarahjanebutler.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Excellent discussion of native vs non-native garden plants for wildlife from @katebradbury.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...open.substack.comShould we grow native or non-native plants for wildlife?Hello :) 010
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerKit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/ 111043475
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerRSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Not long to go… have you signed up for the #BigGardenBirdwatch yet? 👀 www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈 616635
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerWATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 14/01/2026If fracking were to be permitted in the UK, as proposed by Reform, some of the country's most exquisite countryside would be impacted, as shown in the British Geological Survey diagram below: share.google/4iPmjendxnR7... 77347
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerNPR @npr.org · 13/01/2026The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology." n.pr/4583d8fn.prToday is the Smithsonian's deadline to give thousands of documents to the White HouseThe White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology." 38218681131
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerRónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Interview with Paul from the Chuckle Brothers in the Guardian asks if he'd ever like to do Shakespeare. He says, "To me, or not to me, that is the question." 16210
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerNatalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🚨 BE IN THE AUDIENCE for Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics S12! Ticket application is NOW OPEN for our February 4th recording. Good luck, everyone! www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtour...bbc.co.ukNatalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics | Shows and toursJoin Natalie Haynes for an evening of comedy and the classics.'Rockstar mythologist' Natalie Haynes is the best-selling author of Divine Might, Stone Blind, and A Thousand Ships as well as a reformed ... 0309
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerSocial Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 13/12/2025"‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock Intl Criminal Court judge out of daily life. Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards or access everyday services (Uber, Alexa, Ticketmaster...) in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary." www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...irishtimes.com‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily lifeCanadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary 24668445
Reposted by Sarah Jane ButlerCaught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 03/01/2026‘The potato’s imprint became a waxing moon, a row of beans, a set of scans, the inside of a skull. One single potato which held so much.’ In 2025, for Annie Lord, love and grief took the shape of wreaths, potato prints and frost flowers www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/01/shad... 064
Sarah Jane Butler @sarahjanebutler.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Writers, send me all your energies - I’m diving into my huge draft and have two months to turn it into the finished book I’ve been planning for five years. Lucky I love editing! 030
Sarah Jane Butler @sarahjanebutler.bsky.social · 01/01/2026A quiet happy new year to all from my favourite hill, looking out over the Sussex High Weald last night. In moonlight so bright we needed no torches, we found a perfect waiting moment for the turn of the year. I wish you all stillness and peace this mid winter. 020
Sarah Jane Butler @sarahjanebutler.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Oh yes please to long, quiet, serious documentaries where we’re allowed time to absorb complex and surprising things without some bouncy narrator leaping from rock to rock and emoting about how amazing This Fact is for a second before rushing off 031