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03.03.2026 12:46
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A victory for hope over hate. Excellent to see. More please.
A blackbird singing! A bumblebee buzzing! A random cat shuffling out of its house to crap on some gravel. HARK! SPRING COMETH!
A species of barkfly, right? 2-3mm. It just feels a bit... wide ... and ... regal-looking.
WOODPECKER TODAY MY FELLOW THRILLSEEKERS
It's a great list! Not quite as observable as most of these, but some tortoises throw caution to the wind and go for it in a very public way. Thinking of Hermann's tortoise, for example? And flying ant swarms are, I guess, pretty explosive too, if no-one has said that?
We're so excited about this year's #Bookspark books!
Here's Emma from our Books team to tell us about Choose Your Own Evolution by @juleshoward.bsky.social and @gordywright.bsky.social - one of 15 brilliant books included in the 2026 pack.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4r4FfmI
Hello school librarians! Got a few spare copies of THE MARTIAN MUSEUM OF EARTH ANIMALS I'm happy to post out to schools for free. DM me if interested.
Day 1: Our first book in the Non-Fiction category is 'Choose Your Own Evolution' by @juleshoward.bsky.social & @gordywright.bsky.social - an innovative and highly engaging approach to the topic of evolution! @nosycrow.bsky.social
🎄🎁📚 #Spark12BooksofChristmas
Hey! Thanks Josh! Hope you're well!
British Audio Awards last night! So happy for the @nosycrow.bsky.social team who turned CHOOSE YOUR OWN EVOLUTION into a thing of audio beauty and were rewarded!
CYOE was one of only two titles in the whole show to be given a 'HIGHLY COMMENDED' - ours was for the Best Children's Book category.
Yay! We absolutely love this book and know that students will too!
Really wonderful to hear that Choose Your Own Evolution is part of #Bookspark this year!
The book was specially selected to be included in this really inspiring @booktrust.org.uk programme, which helps KS3 students share reading experiences.
more info: 👉 booktrust.org.uk/bookspark-authors
Thank you for this lovely, thoughtful review. Much appreciated!
Background image of the book cover of "Wonderdog" by Jules Howard. Overlaid text: Book Review - Wonderdog, by Jules Howard A personal pick from my bookshelf, for anyone interested in dogs and/or science.
A new post on my Substack - this time, a book recommendation from a dog researcher, but more importantly, a dog and science lover to all other dog or science lovers that may be on here.
everythingisdata.substack.com/p/book-revie...
Wonderdog, by @juleshoward.bsky.social
Big nod to @froglife.bsky.social who are among a few charities to really push for wetlands in urban areas. Give them a follow!
Have often written about my feeling that urban parts of London (and all cities) have the potential to become a lifeline for amphibians (just add a pond) so I was pleased that the universe manifested this frog at the top of Wembley Way. Happy, healthy and in good health. Put a skip (hop) in my step!
Congratulations Rob!
Slimy porcelain mushrooms on an old beech tree.
Porcelain mushrooms. Slimy.
MONEY (SPIDERS) MAKE THE WORLD GO AROUND. The dewdrops from this nice October mist we're having have brought out the little web-gardens of the money spider Lepthyphantes tenuis (mostly, l think).
Thousands. Ridiculously abundant. You probably past about a million on your commute today. Say hi!
MONEY (SPIDERS) MAKE THE WORLD GO AROUND. The dewdrops from this nice October mist we're having have brought out the little web-gardens of the money spider Lepthyphantes tenuis (mostly, l think).
Thousands. Ridiculously abundant. You probably past about a million on your commute today. Say hi!
Clever. I like it!
Instead of clubs paying gazillions of £££ for players they could buy some land & protect threatened species...
The pitch: standard annual IUCN Red List announcement day, but we apply the same rabid intensity normally reserved for transfer deadline day.
EXTREMELY COOL BAT STUFF: A study out in Science today found that the greater noctule bat, Europe's largest, hunts and catches *migrating birds* while in flight. In at least one case, a bat climbed to more than 1200 feet, then chased a robin downward FAST until it caught it near the ground.
What should I talk about at this, gang? Hullo birds, hullo sky? The history of eco-fascism? The joys of freelancing, har har har? The problems with nature writing (but bear in mind we've only got a couple of hours)? Coffee photography?
Sudden urge to pitch an event called 'STOP BEING A FANNY ABOUT INSECTS' to a major festival. 'Jules Howard and special guest tell the audience to stop being fannies about wasps and flies and bloody well just replant their front driveway spaces to make a home for earwigs'. Too much? Yes. Yes it is.
Extraordinarily numerous, right?
Good year for ladybirds.
*pulls ladybirds out of hair, teeth, armpits, nails, between toes, earholes... etc.*
Dead frog lying on back at the bottom of a pond. It looks like the painting 'Ophelia'.
'Fate of Ophelia' #frogs #taylorswift
