The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

Birding friends, I need your help. A few months ago, someone told me that German birders have their own equivalent of the term LBJ (little brown job). It was something like "small, fast, gone". Does anyone know what that term is?

AHHHHHHHHHH

An AI-generated image of a UK petrol station with cars queuing in the forecourt. In the background an image of a billboard that reads "Support UK Fuel Production." Text on top of the image reads "Should the UK produce its own fuel again?" above "yes" and "no" text with the 'like' and 'heart' symbols to encourage Facebook users to 'vote'

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Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds

▶️ Meta pays grifters to post AI slop Facebook, this Sri Lankan group cashed in by pushing UK-themed climate slop about UK 'fuel production'

My latest for @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2026/04/17/s...

Have you ever found yourself quoted online for something you never said?

We've seen a few examples of academics having their voice used for quotes they never said in fake news websites and in AI chatbots – but think there's a lot more

If that's you shoot me a DM or comment here

#journorequest

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Naming my security company after the giant evil eye that, crucially, was too distracted to see the actual threat sneaking in

The Priest: *asks me a question about bird lifespans*

Me: "I have no idea... But do you know who does? Our Ornithologist in residence!" *phones Alex and puts him on speakerphone*

I love you both so much 😌

I've often said that following marriage equality, thing just sort of.... fell apart. It's not really coalesced since despite all the other challenges (applicable to stonewall in the UK and Egale in Canada)

Arsinoitherium skull with two giant horns

We’re looking for researchers in any discipline of natural history: if you have a paper coming out and you want to pitch @pbseons.bsky.social on a potential episode about it, send me a DM! #scicomm #paleosky #FossilFriday

(Arsinoitherium says please and thank you!)

think this is wise in theory (why not try to appease your opponents by finding common ground away from what you disagree on!) but in practice, gender critical campaigners just won't listen to what Stonewall has to say anyway so no real point in trying to reach out and alienate allies by doing so

I was admiring this old oak, then realised I was being watched. 👀

So cool to see our work highlighted here! Thanks @botany.one ! And, re: the question “were you one of the observers in our dataset,” besides in the paper supplement, there’s a full list of them here: github.com/pmckenz1/mon...

returned to The North and found the swallows had beaten me to it 😌

In Tasmania, the mines have closed but the rivers remember The King River snakes through some of Tasmania’s most dramatic and diverse landscape, flowing past rainforest, button grass plains and the rugged peaks of the West Coast Range before emptying into a…

After 100 years of copper mining, parts of Tasmania’s King River are "biologically dead."

As the demand for minerals for EVs and AI surges, these rivers serve as a stark warning: the cost of mining lasts centuries.

@slovgren.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.

This Monks Wood #rewilding (natural colonisation) plot is 30 years old this year. It's taken that long for this single Bluebell to migrate 20m from adjacent ancient woodland to colonise the plot. But now it's here, joining the growing trees & shrubs: future ancient woodland in the making.

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

returned to The North and found the swallows had beaten me to it 😌

Peter mandelsons entire career is like a cursed pharaohs amulet that kills everyone that tries to use its power and every other week some Labour party idiot picks up and goes have we tried using the pharaohs amulet

In the footsteps of Linnaeus: scientists share their passion for species from tiny wasps to hairy plants – in pictures For his project ‘De Oförtrutna’ (The Relentless), photographer Christer Björkman pictured Swedish scientists working in the spirit of Carl Linneaus, the botanist who created the modern taxonomic syste...

well these are cute 🥲
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

LOVE these (and the neues museum and their silly hats)

In the footsteps of Linnaeus: scientists share their passion for species from tiny wasps to hairy plants – in pictures For his project ‘De Oförtrutna’ (The Relentless), photographer Christer Björkman pictured Swedish scientists working in the spirit of Carl Linneaus, the botanist who created the modern taxonomic syste...

well these are cute 🥲
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

WE ALL KNOW IT DAVE

oh god it's obviously parasaurolophus and we all know it we can stop this now

bsky:

The head of a Sable Shearwater being held, illuminated with a headtorch light

New paper with @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social in ES&T: We know Sable Shearwaters show measurable harm from plastic ingestion but this isn't just a story about one species. 🧵 1/3

📄 doi.org/10.1021/acs....

they will basically keep feeding you snacks if you ask them in the UK 😅

"Hi! I'm your Starbucks AI. What are you in the mood to--"

"WASP CUP"

Rat eradication sparks record-breaking seabird breeding in Hawai’i A multi-agency effort to remove invasive rodents has let native species thrive in Hawai’i, including seabirds and entire forest ecosystems

Native seabird populations are making a remarkable recovery on Wake Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, one year on from the removal of invasive rats from the islets.Sixteen species of nesting native birds are reappearing and increasing in numbers. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/rat-era...