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Dr Anke Marsh
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Palaeoecology, natural history, science, flora, fauna, microfossils. Researcher, writer, editor, photographer she/her

Also @lnhs.bsky.social for London based natural history
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And then there were two 😀

#Crochet #Turtles #SciArt #Amigurumi
A photograph of two small amigurumi turtles. They are both light green with black eyes and have brown shells (one lighter than the other. They are posed next to each other, looking into the camera. They are very small, smaller than the palm of my hand.
January 21, 2026 at 11:55 PM
ankemarsh.bsky.social
Singing is today’s theme so I’ve got a singing linnet from last summer in Fishbourne - probably singing about the fab @romanpalace.bsky.social :))

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Singing #EastCoastKin
A photograph of a female linnet. She is sitting on a branch that is sticking out from the hawthorn. Lots of berries on the hawthorn and a beautiful blue sky behind her.
January 21, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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antiquity.ac.uk
Wooden remains of a later prehistoric trackway at Lisheen, Ireland, damaged during industrial peat extraction #Woodensday
Peatlands preserve organic archaeological remains but face many threats. We need to act now to save this fragile heritage.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
Excavated area of peatland with a wooden trackway made from branches running through it.
January 21, 2026 at 2:25 PM
ankemarsh.bsky.social
So, I’m gonna assume that the delivery guy’s hand slipped on the box he was carrying and not that he let one rip in the stairwell 😳🤣
January 21, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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rowsby.bsky.social
Racism is taught. From Parent to Child... MAGA is influencing Children's behavior. 😡
January 21, 2026 at 1:46 PM
ankemarsh.bsky.social
Important read. And note, this report was written by UK’s JIC, using available climate/environmental data. If security chiefs are worried, shouldn’t gov’ts be as well? Rather than focusing on AI implementation (hugely detrimental to the environment) and carbon neutrality (only), we should be 1/
rupertread.bsky.social Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 1d
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The UK Govt has quietly published - without announcement - the Joint Intelligence Committee/DEFRA report it suppressed last October. They tried to sneak it out in the midst of crisis. Read and share:

“Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse & National Security.”
(link below)
January 21, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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matttomic.bsky.social
Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
January 20, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.
No Kings is projected on to a mountainside above the town’s lights
January 20, 2026 at 10:16 PM
ankemarsh.bsky.social
Mood today

#B&W #ClassicMono #GreyWeather #Landscape #Scape #Photography
A black and white landscape photograph with trees. The sky is grey, with darker grey clouds and some brighter spots on the horizon (hope that’s an omen!). In the foreground is dead grass and sorrel, waiting for spring and new growth. The trees on the midground stand tall, even if still bare. Life eating to happen and it will.
January 20, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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Rob’s theme today is feeding time so of course I gotta repost this greedy piglet. Tufted duck juvie with a massive stickleback with algae salad lunch

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Ducks #FeedingTime #LondonBirds #Photography #EastCoastKin
A photograph of a tufted duck in a lake. This is a juvenile, with varying shades of brown feathers and a dark beak. He’s just come up from a dive, with a massive mouthful of tasty morsels - algae goop and a stickleback fish. The algae is slopping back into the lake from the duck’s open bill, the stickleback on top, about to be consumed by the greedy bird. The duck’s eyes are wide open with sheer gluttonous glee.
January 20, 2026 at 9:17 PM
ankemarsh.bsky.social
I like this idea! Let’s show off some beautiful blue bugs :)))

Black-tailed skimmer (Orthetrum cancellatum), London June 2025

#BlueBugs #Invertebrates #Dragonflies #Photography
A photograph of a dragonfly resting on the ground. The lovely dragonfly has deep green eyes, dark thorax and clear wings. His tail is a light blue fading into black at the end. He was resting on the dried muddy bank of the lake and let me take a few photos before flying off again to look for his soul mate.
January 19, 2026 at 11:36 PM
ankemarsh.bsky.social
Posting this coal tit again for Alan’s winter light/birds you love themes. Rarely catch this wee bird but managed this photo a few days ago, in the dappled light of the wooded wetlands area, bordered by a field

#BirdOfTheDay #Winterlight #BirdsYouLove #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin
A photograph of a coal tit perched on a branch. The small bird with a black head, grey-black wings and whitish cheeks and abdomen, is perched on a small branch in an alder, somewhat obscured by other branches and highlighted by gentle winter sunlight. Above him is a shower bundle of alder seed heads that he’d been munching on a few minutes before.
January 19, 2026 at 11:30 PM
ankemarsh.bsky.social
Doomscroll break. The world is beautiful, despite everything that’s going on. This is why we can’t lose hope and we need to keep fighting those who seek to destroy it.

Enjoy this video, breathe and hope
ramsgatebirds.bsky.social Keith Ross @ramsgatebirds.bsky.social · 2d
While we were in the Reedbed hide at #Stodmarsh a Canada goose flew in with its Greylag hybrid mate. 🎥⛅️💚👍 #winter #wildlife
January 19, 2026 at 8:47 PM
ankemarsh.bsky.social
Exactly this. And related to something I’m writing up atm. Writing, creating, learning are all about the process. We learn, question, go off on tangents, make mistakes, change our minds and do so much more during the process. We actively learn and engage during the process. 1/2
profaliceroberts.bsky.social Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2d
And that is: asking a student to do a literature review isn’t really about the output, the final product. It’s about learning the process - assessing the quality of the evidence as you read it, learning how your question may evolve as you engage with the literature, learning how to spot SALIENCE 1/2
January 19, 2026 at 9:25 AM
ankemarsh.bsky.social
Today’s theme is two of a kind - pairs of the same bird, alt of Paridae. I’ve got canoodling coots, a cranky corvid kid with mum, tufted synchronised swim team and a pair of long tail tits (thank god for the words in between there…)

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #LondonBirds #Photography #EastCoastKin
A photograph of a pair of coots on a lake. Coots are black birds with white beaks and face plates and very red eyes. They are in the centre of the image, greenish lake water around them. They are facing each other, heads together almost forming a heart shape. A photograph of two crow on a grass field. One crow, to the left, is screaming at the other one for food. The screaming one is a juvenile and has a red mouth. The adult is standing, head down as if done with her kid’s behaviour. A photograph of two tufted ducks. They are both all brown and juveniles. They are rolling around in the water, one is slightly behind the other. They both are sideways, with their heads out of the water, beaks open, as if inhaling air before continue their roll in the water. A photograph of two long tail tits. They are perched on small twigs that have some buds on them. Behind, the background is blurred.
January 18, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Reposted by Dr Anke Marsh
john-abernathy.bsky.social
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
ankemarsh.bsky.social
One squirrel with one red berry and one robin with one sloe berry. Spring can’t come soon enough 🥺

#SquirrelSaturday #One #BlueSkyArtShow #Mammals #Birds #Robin
A photograph of a grey squirrel. He is sitting on a branch, with loads of other branches and twigs in front and around him. The background is blurred. There is a single red berry by his nose. A photograph of a European robin. She has mostly grey-brown feathers on her back and head, a white abdomen and a very orange chest and face. She is perched on a twig, which is going up at an angle, and she is facing forwards. Around her are more twigs from the blackthorn bush and the background is blurred. There is a single blue sloe berry that she is looking at. Spoiler alert: she did indeed eat that berry!
January 18, 2026 at 12:00 AM
ankemarsh.bsky.social
This is a bad sign… 😬

#One #BlueSkyArtShow
A photograph of an illuminated sign. This was taken at Lift 109, a lift that takes you up the stack at Battersea Power Station. It is a dark sign with a strap of red on top. In the red, in white text, it says: lift on fire service. In the black part, there is a red circle with a drawing of people in a lift with flames. There is a red slash through the drawing. Then there is the number 1 on the right of it and the Battersea logo below.
January 17, 2026 at 12:35 PM
ankemarsh.bsky.social
Today’s theme is perfectly perched. Going with this treecreeper from a few days ago. He’s perfectly perched on the tree. His curled claws are designed to cling on to trunks and branches and allow the wee guy to perch at ridiculous angles without falling off

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #PerfectlyPerched 📸
A photograph of a treecreeper. He is a small brown bird with a white chest and a longish beak. He is attached to a branch that is almost vertical, looking up for some tasty morsels. In front and behind him is a jumble of branches and twigs, with a blurred blue sky in the background.
January 17, 2026 at 12:24 PM
ankemarsh.bsky.social
Hahaha yes, so much this 👇
drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 4d
A motto for editors and proofreaders everywhere
January 17, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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Look who's here? Instantly Blocked! Verified by Bluesky. It's ICE. I hope they read my posts!
January 17, 2026 at 12:49 AM
ankemarsh.bsky.social
Results of rage crocheting - a big basket and Turtle thinks he’s got a big pool to swim in 🤣
A photograph of a crocheted basket. It is made of super chinky teal yarn, edged at the top with mottled brown and orange chunky yarn. A photograph of the same basket with a wee crochet turtle hanging on the edge. The turtle is green with a brown shell.
January 16, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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klhkhistorian.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'This mysterious little beast is returning to our forests': Rare images of Europe's 'ghost cat'
Wildcats are so elusive, they were thought to be extinct in parts of Europe. But they are making a comeback in some areas.
www.bbc.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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peoplingthepast.bsky.social
Peopling the Past is planning Season 5 of our podcast! We are looking for folks who are interested in appearing as episode guests: the theme of Season 5 will be the relevance of the ancient world to our understanding of important but challenging contemporary issues
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Peopling Podcast logo with additional text reading "Season 5: Call for Contributors"
January 16, 2026 at 5:49 PM
ankemarsh.bsky.social
BotD theme is short beaks. Have a robin, dunnock and coal tit. All with short beaks. Throwing in a starling. Longer beak (proportional to body) but way shorter than, say, a pelican’s. Right? 🤣 All from today

#BirdOfTheDay #ShortBeaks #LondonBirds #Birds #Photography
A photograph of a robin. It is perched on a bramble, facing to the left. It’s mainly greyish-brown with a distinctive orange chest. Behind it is blurred vegetation. A photograph of a dunnock. It is a mainly grey bird with some brown, finch-like patterning. It is perched on a thin, bare twig, looking to the right. Not sure how the twig supports this bird to be honest. Lots of other bare twigs around it, with blurred vegetation and blue sky in the background. A photograph of a coal tit. It is a black and grey bird, small. It is standing on a branch, under some alder seeds and is obscured by some other branches. A total nightmare to get this guy in focus. A photograph of a starling. It is a smallish, dark bird with speckles. There is also some iridescence - green in this case. The bird is perched on a thin bare branch, obscured by other twigs. Behind is a tree branch and sky, blurred.
January 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM