Nick Crumpton - Taking a break from social media.👋🏻

Woah. I mean this is amazing. And Yara as first author. AND JAVIER! Very very very cool work by extremely cool scientists. :)

YES. More of these weirdos please

Goooood morning. Here's a little introduction to my terribly grafted ginseng ficus. I bought them upon moving to London ten years ago, it's survived it's first repotting - and a few months of neglect. Hoping this fellow's going to be my life-long photosynthesising buddy.

#TakashiKashiwagi carving based on a #ShinjiTsuchimochi drawing. Tsuchimochi is a Tokyo based illustrator who creates modern landscapes in the Ukiyo style.
Title:Ginza in the rain
Kashiwagi is an author who graduated from a school specializing in woodblock carving.

Sweeeet. Thank you!

These are so glorious.
1) Do you ship to the UK?
2) Do you have the links to the articles anywhere?
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Drawing of a squirrel and a turtle

Drawing of a hippo

A Leopard

Have you heard of Michał Piotr Boym? A Pole, born in Lwow (1612), died in Guanxi. Considered to be the first European Natural History Researcher in China. Responsible for creating the first map of China, coining the word "flora" and introducing Europe to fruit such as lychee 🧵

Alex de Waal | Starvation in Gaza Twice already during this war, the people of Gaza have pulled back from the brink of categorical famine – both times...

Alex de Waal (world expert on famine) on the weaponisation of famine in Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

13 years after deadly attack, an okapi returns to Epulu in DRC reserve In February 2025, rangers at Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in partnership with the Okapi Conservation Project, successfully brought an okapi to Epulu, site of the…

In 2012, an armed group of poachers killed seven people and 14 okapis at Epulu wildlife facility.

13 years later, Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the DRC, in partnership with the Okapi Conservation Project, has announced the return of an okapi to the reserve area.

Sometimes I turn Radio 4 on and marvel at the extraordinary breadth and range of it's content: an astonishing array of intelligent, curious cultural, political, and scientific programming. But then sometimes I turn it on and it's The Archers.

Added benefit of WFH: being able to take deliveries of new book proofs. Sure, it looked amazing on the PDFs, but its size in the hand, the foil on the cover, the SMELL of the ink!
Here's a detail from p27 of my main character feeling subtly chuffed she's going on an adventure. #kidslitUK #kidlit 🦕

Awesome. Thanks Lisa!

Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright.

Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."

The Puffin Graphic Novel Competition The Puffin Graphic Novel Competition aims to seek out, nurture and publish new graphic novel creators from communities under-represented on the nation’s bookshelves.

For anyone interested, Puffin books UK have a children’s Graphic Novel arm. 🙂
It’s really new and it’s running a competition for new and aspiring graphic novel creators.

Hit the link below for more info.
☺️

www.penguin.co.uk/discover/chi...

Woo! Congratulations folks!! 🎉🎉

Oh wow. That looks lovely. Thanks Jack!

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Ok #kidslitUK #kidlitUK gang. My 5 year old has come back from school so inspired about #space and I've realised I have tonnes of natural history #books in the house but no kickass books with facts about the solar system... Apart from astrocat, what are your favourites?

Greater London National Park.
(Commuting out of NW)

I caught this last night and stopped what I was doing to listen to it. So of course it was a @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social programme. Continued to fuel my resistance to the capital concept of "progress" 🫣🌕

This scene focusses on the fish. But the seafloor is also full of the things I work on. Small (and some surprisingly large) invertebrates. Slow growing and slow moving ones. Relatively fast hunting and burrowing ones. As well as micro-size but important places where biogeochemical reactions occur.

Hello from Patagonia and Patagotitan!

I was super lucky to have co-organised an event at @rbgkew.bsky.social yesterday with a heap of majorly talented PhD students from there and the @nhm-london.bsky.social. And yeesh, this was the view behind the lecture theatre 🤩

YES this is amazing

Trunk Records re-released it like 15 years ago and it's properly brilliant/weird/as far away from Zimmer bombast you can get.

And the muuuuuuusic!

He just keeps going! I always expect it to erupt at the end. I love The Living Planet so much.

"Electric flames played over the rigging".
So, this is my favourite #Attenborough moment. It's from The Living Planet (which is amazing) and it's just him giving an amazing piece to camera. It's really something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxv...

Happy birthday, big man. Have a good one, baby. 💚

Tyrannosaurus rex’s ancestors were predatory Asian dinosaurs | Natural History Museum The ‘king’ of the dinosaurs might not be the all-American predator it appears to be.

You've heard of the tyrannosaurs - but have you heard of the megaraptors?

These large-clawed carnivores are pretty mysterious - but new research has shed light on where they, and T. rex, came from.

Find out more about their Asian origins 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

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The feeling when you think you've just spotted an otter but it turns out it's just a nutria.
But then you realise you're not from mainland Europe and a nutria is still really exciting #mammal spot.