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TMW @trevwi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's ridiculous to claim that a trap placed on a pole is intended to trap grey squirrels. If a pole is being used as a bird table an advantage taking squirrel is likely to climb that pole. A trap placed on such a pole will capture far more birds than any squirrels attracted to such a pole.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Eusebius said Constantine was a Christian. Because Jesus sponsored his victory over Maxentius. Whose head was then paraded on a pike into Rome. Some Christians may prefer a more pacific version of their faith, but it’s ahistorical not to recognise how many wars have been fought under that flag.

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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After saying I’d do it for years, I finally set up an online shop 🦑 Alongside my work as a biologist, I make lino cut art prints (often nature- inspired) that I have sold at art markets. I make some jewellery too… Check it out! www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Magp...

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TMW @trevwi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anglo-Saxon beautiful art and magnificent functional craft from c1500 years ago.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🏺 🦣 🧪 Been waiting YEARS for more deets on astonishing wooden objects used by #Neanderthals at Abric Romaní (a site which, as anyone who's read #Kindred knows, I rave about). Can't wait to dive in: bark(!) trays, wood tools inc poss spears, and structural objects www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Neanderthal woodworking at Abric Romaní: Insights into the role of wood in a Middle Palaeolithic domestic context

Wood technology likely played a key role in human evolution, yet it remains poorly documented because organic materials rarely preserve in archaeological contexts. The Middle Palaeolithic site of Abri...

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What exactly is “climate action” that ordinary people can take when the fucking billionaires and politicians are literally happy to burn the whole planet down for money and power? (Sorry, feeling very down about all this).

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You are right. Of course you are right. Our individual actions are immaterial in bringing about change. But sometimes we do things not because they are effective but because they are morally right. We can all make only a tiny difference: but if enough of us make that difference it can become a…

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

…movement and change the world. Like this (which, if you don’t know it, will help to cheer you up too): youtu.be/m57gzA2JCcM?...

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Alice's Restaurant - Original 1967 Recording

YouTube video by Stiletto

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TMW @trevwi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Everyday objects are the real archaeological treasures!"

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Plantlife @plantlifeuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thinking about sowing Yellow Rattle this autumn? 🍂 Hear from our botanical expert, Sarah, on the best way to sow Yellow Rattle seeds and give them the best chance of success. Watch now for her practical tips on getting started this season. 🌱

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20

Photograph of Pevensey Castle with an information board in the foreground showing an artists impression of how the view may have looked in 1066 when the sea came almost up to the walls.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An amazing glimpse into Mesolithic everyday life: this more than 7,500-year-old ring was made from heather roots, carefully rolled up and prepared for later use. It was discovered at the settlement of Motala/Sweden, where the same material was used for fish traps. Dating 5750–5550 BC. 🧵1/2 📷me

A thick bundle of dried plant roots, tightly rolled into a ring and secured with fibrous ties, displayed on a dark grey museum plinth.

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TMW @trevwi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Magnificent little movie of being moved by a Nature Spirit.

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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've finally sourced enough acorns to bring the Jays to the camera regularly. However in the mind of the Jay, not all acorns are equal. The largest green ones are taken promptly but there's a careful inspection regime after that, with a high rejection rate of the suboptimal. #Corvids #OakTrees 🦉🌿

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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Going through my videos of the Ravens to help with writing my book and I came across this one from last winter. Of all the Ravens vocalisations, this is the strangest! You almost can’t imagine it coming out of a bird! No idea what it means 😁

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 29/12/2024

Sure you've seen the famous #BayeuxTapestry, but have you seen it in all its sensational high-res thread-glory? Breathtaking online resource, a joint effort of the City of Bayeux, DRAC Normandie, Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie, University of Caen, & CNRS: www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...

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Explore the Bayeux Tapestry online - Bayeux Museum

For the first time, you will be able to freely explore the entire Bayeux Tapestry scene by scene with a never seen quality of images !

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TMW @trevwi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Functional and elegant artisanship.

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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am going to do an experiment! What it is that Ravens recognise about me. I change clothes but my most distinctive feature is my scruffy, curly dark hair 😁For a 70’s night recently I wore a blond wig. I am going to wear it for my walk & see if the Ravens still recognise me 🤣 Normal me, Blonde me!

Normal me out at the seaside with my scruffy dark hair!

Blonde me dressed up for a seventies night!

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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Here is a female Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae) trying to collect ivy nectar and pollen but being bombarded by males wanting to mate with her. She seems pretty good at kicking them away and carrying on!

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As reported #OTD in 1926, 100 years ago they were burning HG Wells' 'Outline of History' in Kentucky: "The outraged pastor told his flock that Mr. Wells' famous work contained even more propaganda for evolution than Professor Scopes had tried to foist upon the defenceless inhabitants of Tennessee"

Cutting from The Western Mail, 15 Sep 1926:
"'MONKEYVILLE' AGAIN
FUNDAMENTALISTS BURN MR. H. G. WELLS' HISTORY.
'TOO POISONOUS TO BE READ.'
AMAZING SCENES AT INCINERATION CEREMONY.
An episode which recalls the famous 'Monkeyville' trial of Tennessee has taken place in the neighbouring State of Kentucky, U.S.A.
With religious ceremony, H. G. Wells' 'Outline of History' was committed to the flames because of an alleged conflict with the Book of Genesis and Zane Grey's 'To the Last Man' (which the pastor considered too spicy) followed it, as did a pack of playing-cards and a Sunday newspaper.
The outraged pastor told his flock that Mr. Wells' famous work contained even more propaganda for evolution than Professor Scopes had tried to foist upon the defenceless inhabitants of Tennessee.
KENTUCKY EMULATES TENNESSEE
PARIS, Tuesday.
The renarkable scenes which attended the burning of Mr. H. G. Wells' 'Outline of History' and other books by the perfervid Fundamentalists of Harlan, Kentucky, while the Rev. J. R. Black, pastor of the Harlan Baptist Church, pronounced an anathema and prodded the offending literature with his stick to stir up the flames, are described in a cable to the Paris edition of the 'Chicago Tribune.' Because of an alleged conflict between Mr. Wells' text and that of the anonymous author of the Book of Genesis, Dr. Black admonished his followers, none of whom had read the lengthy and imposing volumes, that the book was 'poisonous and unfit to be read'..."

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TMW @trevwi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I sat late still and quietly one evening in a wood where 100s if not 1000s of Rooks often chose to roost through the night. Hearing and seeing their dark forms against the lighter sky as they flew in was a wonderful magical and even an other-wordly experience.

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Jane E. Hall @clothofnature.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A walk through Swaledale, retraced through memory — following the river, the heron, and the threads leading one remembered landscape into another. A new Long Line essay: The Cartography of Noticing. Nature is the compass of my travels. clothofnature.com/2026/09/11/t...

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The Cartography of Noticing

This morning, I follow the memory path back to Swaledale.I am powered down physically, but memory seems not to know this. Within it I feel confident in my stride. I step out unhindered, following t…

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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Berries of the Spindle Tree are beginning to swell & colour up. Long-tailed Tits are often found foraging in hedgerows containing Spindles - when the berries have been frosted the Long-tails like to eat the soft pulpy flesh, along with the aphids that overwinter on them. Poisonous to humans. 🦉🌿

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TMW @trevwi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In a statement on Monday, Church House, said: “An investigation into allegations of financial misconduct by the Bishop of Salisbury, Stephen Lake, has concluded. A disciplinary complaint under the Clergy Discipline Measure has now been brought against him.” www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

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Bishop of Salisbury subject to disciplinary complaint after financial audit

NST continues investigation into allegations about his conduct

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Too good not to share: a wooden floor of a #Neolithic house. Unearthed in Alleshausen-Grundwiesen, a wetland settlement at the western rim of the Federsee marshlands, 3020-2700 BC. 📷H. Schlichterle/Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden Württemberg 🏺 #archaeology

A lawn, squares of which have been dug out until a depth of around 30 cm. There are bicolor length indicators (red and white) and, on the flat uneathed bottom: a wooden floor : planks on joists. The wood is black and corroded.

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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This morning I was walking through the harvested Wheat field and was thinking, yet again, how amazing nature is. It’s only a few weeks since it was harvested and look at all the different plants that have started to grow. Amazing. I don’t really know my plants. It is something I should learn.

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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The stakes appeared to have formed something similar to a “dead hedge”, packing dead wood and detritus between/around the vertical stakes.

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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The insectivorous Chiffchaff maintains a healthy regard for the wasps when coming in to bathe. The only species I see taking wasps here are Great Tits and it appears that they always de-sting the wasp before consumption. #Birds

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TMW @trevwi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Devastation, a very sad sight. We can hope and trust natural regeneration and natural colonisation, and maybe with some sympathetic help from humans, natural habitats with great biodiversity will return. Nature operates over much longer time scales than us humans and Nature is also very dynamic.

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Portland Bird Observatory @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wryneck just trapped in the Crown Estate Field

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What I love about this, apart from the mind blowing skill and beauty, is the little hinges on the back that would ensure it could be easily put on the neck... #Archaeology #TorcTuesday #Gold 🏺

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TMW @trevwi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Looking up the bee featured in this lovely photo led me to thinking about the evolution of social insects such as Honeybees, Hornets and Ants and scanning through fascinating internet sites such as "Limited social plasticity in the socially polymorphic sweat bee Lasioglossum calceatum"

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Mehdi Hasan's open letter to Louise Haigh: "Under Article I of the Genocide Convention – which the UK acceded to back in 1970 – “contracting parties” have a duty “to prevent and to punish” genocide. It’s a “binding duty” per the UN, imposed on every state party" open.substack.com/pub/zeteouk/...

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You Called Gaza a Genocide Last Year, Louise Haigh. So Why Not Act Now You’re in Government?

Mehdi pens an open letter to the most powerful woman in the British government on the need for action – especially sanctions – against Israel’s ongoing genocidal crimes in Gaza.

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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Honeybees drinking moisture from algae and moss in a Welsh rainforest.

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TMW @trevwi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

From the gigantic to the microscopic Nature is wonderful, awesome and beautiful.

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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As the youngsters were no longer with the adult Ravens today I have written up a short report of the breeding season (If I ever do write a book I will write more about how it made me feel!) The video of them breeding, which I've shared before but some may not have seen, is in the comments.

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Tony Beales @tonybeales.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It's a Painted Lady summer for me, with patches of creeping thistle on our land - wilful neglect according to farmers, but it's their preferred caterpillar food plant. This new generation look spectacularly different to the faded and torn beauties which arrived in June. #UKwildlife #butterflies 🧵

Side view of a Painted Lady butterfly nectaring on creeping thistle with wings raised against a dark green, almost black background of blurred foliage. It has a mottled brown and white pattern on the underside of its hindwing with a row of small blue-centered eyespots along the margin, and bright orange-pink patches on the forewing underside.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🧪🦣 Rapid share* - new pre-prints ID-ing more Penghu remains as #Denisovan: v large leg bones, 14C date c 45 Ka, & isotopes suggesting C4 diet www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... *have not read yet as I'm currently working on later prehistory #Matriarcha chapters!

Screenshot of figure from paper. Black background, with photographs of two partial hominin long bones. They are dark brownish and quite shiny. Cross sections are shown.

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Mike Pitts @pittsmike.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Interesting & perceptive essay by Katie Meheux about Gordon Childe journals.uclpress.co.uk/ai/article/i...

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