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A great opportunity here to join Nature's news team on a paid internship >>
This book made me go to St Albans by accident. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
This is well worth a read
"Precarity is the one constant of academic science. Themes of instability thread themselves through everything we do."
A brief blog post from me about the @ukri.org funding pause and who the real victims will be.
occamstypewriter.org/mindthegap/2...
#AcademicSky
Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt.
Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2
The Climate Fiction Prize 2026 longlist is here! 🤩📚
This longlist shows the limitless scope of climate fiction, from gripping thrillers to experimental literary works, folklore and reimagined myths to science fiction and generational family saga.
Full list here: climatefictionprize.co.uk
Killer tortoises! I showed this in my island biology lecture yesterday and it shocked the students 😱 Here's the paper describing the behaviour: www.cell.com/current-biol... 🧪🌏
‘Well, look, if I’m going to import the cars anyway, then I’d rather import less oil. We may as well import the one that cleans up local air quality and is cheaper to buy.’
The Great Story of the Extraordinary EV boom in Ethiopia www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
This is King Ferdinand VI of Spain
Besides ruling one of the largest empires on Earth or attempting a full genocide on Spanish gipsy people, he hunted. A lot. And recorded the killings
OA PAPER Building historical biodiversity databases from royal hunts
Thread below
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
More accurate, but a bit harder for Michael Franti to declaim with the same force.
I was on a year abroad at UC Berkeley when that record was getting heavy rotation on college radio. I still get earworms from it - not sure television still qualifies for drug-of-the-nation status, though.
This is a fascinating and utterly heartbreaking read. #ornithology #ukbirding
www.birdguides.com/articles/sle...
Times Magazine cover preview, Peter Mandelaon at home in his Wiltshire kitchen, with dog. "I've had a lot of bad luck, no doubt some of it my own making."
Feel like I'm going mad.
British Library staff accept pay offer, ending industrial dispute.
We have followed this story from the very beginning, right through to what appears to be its conclusion.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
As a spreadsheet and data geek, this is a lovely story. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Image of a deceased Puffin lying on the ground. White wording on an orange background reads: Please report sightings of dead birds.
⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. ⬇️
📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/...
📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/...
📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv...
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
Beautiful copies of In Search of Now, just arrived from @canongate.co.uk! Very excited to finally see it out in the world
I’m so honored to receive the "Impact on Public Opinion" award from Research!America @researchamerica.bsky.social
Information feels especially muddy right now, lots of noise from on high. I try to provide a little clarity, grounded in science.
ICYMI 🧵
www.researchamerica.org/advocacy-awa...
Free-to-read opinion: The European Research Area act should "focus on 2-3 areas where [it] can make a substantive difference" rather than include "a smorgasbord of relatively superficial changes", writes @palmowski.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
Funny how hard these guys are for Return To Office, but when it’s time for the mass firings we have to be absolutely sure there are no possible gatherings
‘The court has closed off the possibility of states withdrawing from the Paris Agreement framework without exposing themselves to being found to be committing internationally wrongful acts.’
@tomrhickman.bsky.social on the ICJ opinion on climate justice, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Some thoughts on the select committee appearance by the boss of UKRI, Ian Chapman yesterday. It’s a long watch but can be seen here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
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Some thoughts about xAI and SpaceX
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The newspaper's first take is here
www.economist.com/business/202...
"The fall of Hindawi should not be understood solely as an extraordinary event, but as a signal of how ordinary pressures—scale, incentives, automation, and uneven accountability—can converge into systemic risk when left unexamined. Integrity breakdowns of this magnitude do not emerge overnight..."
Mysterious emails, incessant demands and a fake lawyer — read our editor’s note about a serious threat we’re facing
www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-londoner...
AI fake camera trap image of a tiger
Warnings about realistic but inaccurate #AI wildlife images & videos aren't slowing their spread which also provoke fear, panic & hostility, beside clicks: news.mongabay.com/2026/01/wild...
Almost worse, gen AI is also invading the value of camera trapping images, as many fakes are now surfacing:
Ban on ads for carbon intensive products, including meat! This is progressive
New book on rewilding!
A curated collection of 27 articles published in British Wildlife over the last 5 yrs
So, accessible & nicely produced for a broad readership
And I’m one of the authors. Cheap at the price (£16.99)!
www.britishwildlife.com/wilding/
Hope is not a policy, nor is “innovation” a magic trick. As our podcast of the week argues, the idea that climate salvation will come through breakthrough technologies is a myth that serves as an alibi for inaction.
With @davidedgerton.bsky.social on @the-breakdown.bsky.social
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