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Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯

Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke...

A thread. 🧵

Bar chart of survey responses from about 1,000 UK adults in 2022 where most respondents rate a range of common farming practices for chickens, cows and pigs as "not acceptable," highlighting a gap between public concern for farm animals and current practices. Data source: Bryant Research (2022). License: CC BY.

In a world that often feels deeply polarized, it is rare to find a topic where almost everyone agrees. The treatment of farm animals is one of them.

Surveys across many countries show that a strong majority of people, regardless of their diet, oppose common practices in animal agriculture.

Some people feel they can learn a lot from the expertise that universities nurture and maintain, while others feel they have nothing to learn and it's the universities who should listen to them.

For obvious reasons it's the latter, not the former, who are vulnerable to ideology and misinformation

Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.

In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.

Most people have no idea. 🧵

From a Surrey oil well to the supreme court: how an activist changed UK climate law Sarah Finch’s fight against drilling led to a landmark ruling on fossil fuel emissions – and a leading environmental prize

From a Surrey oil well to the supreme court: how an activist changed UK climate law

We're all free to choose whether to tell ourselves little stories or to find things out.

It's a long way from my subject area, but it isn't difficult to find lots of papers investigating this.

There are dozens of studies summarised on pages 96-98 of this review article if you're interested

www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucy...

Yes, and not just bird flu. When populations are maintained at overly high density, it's always an elevated infectious disease risk.

What did you mean by 'not really about pheasants at all'?

That's nice, but I thought the conversation was about whether or not it's a problem that an artificial population of tens of millions of pheasants released into the environment eat large quantities of wildlife

You'd need billions of tonnes of buttercream icing for it to be visible from that altitude

But the wildlife is not there. Not in anything like the amounts it was a few decades ago.

There are some exceptional success stories, sure. But the majority of what we're doing is slowly killing the natural world around us.

Industrial pheasant production has a very clear negative impact.

Estimating the number and biomass of pheasants in Britain The RSPB's Pat Thompson claimed on the BBC Radio 4's More or Less that at the beginning of the shooting season, the biomass of pheasants comprises 1.5 to 2 times the total biomass of all of birds in t...

By September each year, pheasants outweigh the entire breeding bird population (estimated in spring) by a factor of 1.6 to 1.7

It's a huge imbalance, and a huge impact

www.whatthesciencesays.org/estimating-t...

David Attenborough takes on PHEASANTS!

“Native to Asia, but now released into our countryside on an industrial scale, over 30 million every year… eating vast numbers of insects, reptiles and amphibians every day.”

Time for the Government to regulate this out-of-control industry

#SecretGarden

An image of a person with a pushchair down a residential street near inconsiderately parked cars. The person is wearing striped clothing and walking past a black car. The setting includes brick buildings and a view of houses on a hill in the background.

It's happening! 📢

On Tuesday, MPs will consider an amendment to enable local leaders to ban pavement parking in their area. We need you to help us get this amendment on to the Bill.

Ask your MP to agree to Amendment 265 when it's considered on Tuesday: https://bitly.livingstreets.org.uk/4tMU2Uq

Another record year for UK Common Cranes A record 87 pairs of Common Crane bred in the UK in 2025, highlighting the species' continued recovery following centuries of absence.

Common Crane enjoyed a record breeding season in the UK in 2025, with 87 pairs raising 37 chicks and bringing the total population to some 250 individuals:

Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds Experts say mass-produced AI misinformation is the “new Cambridge Analytica scandal”.

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

Experts say mass-produced AI misinformation is the “new Cambridge Analytica scandal”.

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I know it's important.

If you're set on imagining someone thinks this and doesn't think that, and you feel you must explain things to the person you've imagined - regardless of what the actual person in front of you is saying - then there isn't much scope for communication.

Please try not to do it

it seems rude to make a video disecting an immoral business model I wouldn't have known about it you didn't email me all the details. but you emailed me all the details!

We live in a country where the two most dynamic, charismatic, eloquent politicians of this century have the first names Barack and Zohran. This is what bothers the white supremacists so much.

You seem to be imagining that I'm thinking in a particular way and trying to 'splain' me out of it. There's no need.

We're talking about different things.

I posted measured temperatures and noted the slopes for the past 15-20 years. You're talking about claims about the underlying warming trend. That's fair enough – it's obviously the more relevant value – but I was posting what we have, not what we don't have.

Those are the observed temperatures.

For the last 15 years, it's the lower end of measurements

It's averaged at least 0.35°C/decade over the last 15 years, so this isn't a stretch

This is good to see...

@joeygrostern.bsky.social at @desmog.com has just published an investigation into these AI slop posts from fake accounts..

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

Ugh

Greenpeace International @greenpeace.org has initiated the first test of the European Union’s anti-SLAPP Directive by filing a lawsuit in Dutch court against US-based pipeline company Energy Transfer.
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Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer The term - kokushobi - translates to

Kokushobi

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We Need To Talk About The Risks Of Cycling YouTube video by Global Cycling Network

Active travel: health, mental health, financial health, cost of living... Active travel is a social justice issue. We can't wait for governments to make changes... it may feel scary at first, but the benefit of active travel far outweighs the risk...
youtu.be/vDhGHPHCgqI