Robbie Rowe
@privateshufti.bsky.social
Healthcare scientist, naturalist, spotterish
Omnivorous reader and book collector (modern firsts, nature writing, climate fiction)
Casual birder, insect enthusiast
Into food, travel, history, music
Fediverse presence: @[email protected]
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Omnivorous reader and book collector (modern firsts, nature writing, climate fiction)
Casual birder, insect enthusiast
Into food, travel, history, music
Fediverse presence: @[email protected]
No DMs
Reposted by Robbie Rowe
Reposted by Robbie Rowe
The brainiest orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca) I ever saw. Northwest Territories, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
December 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The brainiest orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca) I ever saw. Northwest Territories, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
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I heard so much in the early days of this book (ESPECIALLY from publishing industry people): that it was "too weird" & I was "asking too much of my reader". What they didn't realise was that I wasn't writing it for them or the other people they talked about.
I was writing it for people like Robbie.
I was writing it for people like Robbie.
Villager is a highly original, enjoyable, and trippy experience. I've read it twice & bought the paperback for a friend for Xmas. Thanks for writing it @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social 👏👏👏
December 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I heard so much in the early days of this book (ESPECIALLY from publishing industry people): that it was "too weird" & I was "asking too much of my reader". What they didn't realise was that I wasn't writing it for them or the other people they talked about.
I was writing it for people like Robbie.
I was writing it for people like Robbie.
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Thank you so much to everyone who has supported our Kickstarter! 🖤
If you would like to dance on strange, wild music with the witches of Flanders, consider backing our project! Every little bit helps! ✨
kck.st/492NqKt
If you would like to dance on strange, wild music with the witches of Flanders, consider backing our project! Every little bit helps! ✨
kck.st/492NqKt
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
kck.st
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Thank you so much to everyone who has supported our Kickstarter! 🖤
If you would like to dance on strange, wild music with the witches of Flanders, consider backing our project! Every little bit helps! ✨
kck.st/492NqKt
If you would like to dance on strange, wild music with the witches of Flanders, consider backing our project! Every little bit helps! ✨
kck.st/492NqKt
Went on a ramble yesterday from my house through the local woods and fields.
A late-flowering thistle still attracting bees.
A variety of fungi despite the dry weather.
Flocks of finches and tits patrolling the hedgerows in the former pasture between the M27 & Broadleaf Park, Rownhams
#NatureNotes
A late-flowering thistle still attracting bees.
A variety of fungi despite the dry weather.
Flocks of finches and tits patrolling the hedgerows in the former pasture between the M27 & Broadleaf Park, Rownhams
#NatureNotes
October 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Went on a ramble yesterday from my house through the local woods and fields.
A late-flowering thistle still attracting bees.
A variety of fungi despite the dry weather.
Flocks of finches and tits patrolling the hedgerows in the former pasture between the M27 & Broadleaf Park, Rownhams
#NatureNotes
A late-flowering thistle still attracting bees.
A variety of fungi despite the dry weather.
Flocks of finches and tits patrolling the hedgerows in the former pasture between the M27 & Broadleaf Park, Rownhams
#NatureNotes
"In this autumntime,
why do I so feel the years?
In the clouds a bird"
By Matsuo Basho, translation by Andrew Fitzsimons
Autumn Haiku Picks From Japan's Poetry Tradition | Tokyo Weekender share.google/LKSkMCotaksm...
#Autumn
#BookWormSat 📚🍁
why do I so feel the years?
In the clouds a bird"
By Matsuo Basho, translation by Andrew Fitzsimons
Autumn Haiku Picks From Japan's Poetry Tradition | Tokyo Weekender share.google/LKSkMCotaksm...
#Autumn
#BookWormSat 📚🍁
Autumn Haiku Picks From Japan's Poetry Tradition | Tokyo Weekender
The best autumn haiku selection by Matsuo Basho, Kobayashi Issa, Masaoka Shiki and Yosa Buson, in Japanese and English translation.
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October 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
"In this autumntime,
why do I so feel the years?
In the clouds a bird"
By Matsuo Basho, translation by Andrew Fitzsimons
Autumn Haiku Picks From Japan's Poetry Tradition | Tokyo Weekender share.google/LKSkMCotaksm...
#Autumn
#BookWormSat 📚🍁
why do I so feel the years?
In the clouds a bird"
By Matsuo Basho, translation by Andrew Fitzsimons
Autumn Haiku Picks From Japan's Poetry Tradition | Tokyo Weekender share.google/LKSkMCotaksm...
#Autumn
#BookWormSat 📚🍁
October 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
October 1, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Fragaria vesca, Wild Strawberry, Invert Associates
Native of woods, scrub & hedgerow, embankments & road verges, an important element of the ground flora. It supports 51 species of invert as a larval host, of which 14 are Coleoptera, 30 Lepidoptera.
📷 CAM Lindman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora
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Native of woods, scrub & hedgerow, embankments & road verges, an important element of the ground flora. It supports 51 species of invert as a larval host, of which 14 are Coleoptera, 30 Lepidoptera.
📷 CAM Lindman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora
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June 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Fragaria vesca, Wild Strawberry, Invert Associates
Native of woods, scrub & hedgerow, embankments & road verges, an important element of the ground flora. It supports 51 species of invert as a larval host, of which 14 are Coleoptera, 30 Lepidoptera.
📷 CAM Lindman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora
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Native of woods, scrub & hedgerow, embankments & road verges, an important element of the ground flora. It supports 51 species of invert as a larval host, of which 14 are Coleoptera, 30 Lepidoptera.
📷 CAM Lindman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora
🌱
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Edmund Berninger’s The Bay of Naples, with a hazy Vesuvius looming beyond, its smoky plume dwarfing the chimney smoke at far L (late 19C)
September 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Edmund Berninger’s The Bay of Naples, with a hazy Vesuvius looming beyond, its smoky plume dwarfing the chimney smoke at far L (late 19C)
Cemetery portal, Southampton Old Cemetery.
September 8, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Cemetery portal, Southampton Old Cemetery.
Gorgeous day with good views of several ospreys and marsh harriers. Finished with a large flock of spoonbills on Brownsea lagoon in the company of numerous waders, terns & gulls
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September 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Gorgeous day with good views of several ospreys and marsh harriers. Finished with a large flock of spoonbills on Brownsea lagoon in the company of numerous waders, terns & gulls
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Really looking forward to @harbourbirds.bsky.social Osprey cruise today, looks like the weather will be fine 🤞
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September 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Really looking forward to @harbourbirds.bsky.social Osprey cruise today, looks like the weather will be fine 🤞
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Great news!
For the record though, my current boss is lovely
For the record though, my current boss is lovely
Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, tribunal rules
Woman who was immediately sacked when she insulted her manager during a row wins unfair dismissal case
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Great news!
For the record though, my current boss is lovely
For the record though, my current boss is lovely
Fishlake Meadows, Romsey yesterday.
A breezy day with periods of light rain.
A huge flock of house & sand martins chattering & feeding above the marshes.
A tree creeper exploring the fissured bark of a giant poplar.
A pair of ravens patrolling.
A lesser stag beetle on the path.
#nature #UKBirding 🪶
A breezy day with periods of light rain.
A huge flock of house & sand martins chattering & feeding above the marshes.
A tree creeper exploring the fissured bark of a giant poplar.
A pair of ravens patrolling.
A lesser stag beetle on the path.
#nature #UKBirding 🪶
August 31, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Fishlake Meadows, Romsey yesterday.
A breezy day with periods of light rain.
A huge flock of house & sand martins chattering & feeding above the marshes.
A tree creeper exploring the fissured bark of a giant poplar.
A pair of ravens patrolling.
A lesser stag beetle on the path.
#nature #UKBirding 🪶
A breezy day with periods of light rain.
A huge flock of house & sand martins chattering & feeding above the marshes.
A tree creeper exploring the fissured bark of a giant poplar.
A pair of ravens patrolling.
A lesser stag beetle on the path.
#nature #UKBirding 🪶
'Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world'
The Road, Cormac McCarthy - the darkest of #dystopias for #BookWormSat
The Road, Cormac McCarthy - the darkest of #dystopias for #BookWormSat
August 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
'Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world'
The Road, Cormac McCarthy - the darkest of #dystopias for #BookWormSat
The Road, Cormac McCarthy - the darkest of #dystopias for #BookWormSat
Walked along the shore at Lepe on the Solent shore. Flocks of linnets twittering in the scrub. 2 wheatears and a whinchat showing autumn migration is underway. A couple of swallows hawking over the woodland.
#UKBirding
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#UKBirding
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August 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Walked along the shore at Lepe on the Solent shore. Flocks of linnets twittering in the scrub. 2 wheatears and a whinchat showing autumn migration is underway. A couple of swallows hawking over the woodland.
#UKBirding
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#UKBirding
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🦇🦎🐣 Important big news has been announced this week on Government planning reforms.
How will it affect nature?
It's not a clear picture, but some of it looks concerning...
Here’s a quick summary thread and brief thoughts, and some key concerns, with my environmental hat on as an ecologist.
How will it affect nature?
It's not a clear picture, but some of it looks concerning...
Here’s a quick summary thread and brief thoughts, and some key concerns, with my environmental hat on as an ecologist.
August 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
🦇🦎🐣 Important big news has been announced this week on Government planning reforms.
How will it affect nature?
It's not a clear picture, but some of it looks concerning...
Here’s a quick summary thread and brief thoughts, and some key concerns, with my environmental hat on as an ecologist.
How will it affect nature?
It's not a clear picture, but some of it looks concerning...
Here’s a quick summary thread and brief thoughts, and some key concerns, with my environmental hat on as an ecologist.
Reposted by Robbie Rowe
Green Carpet Moth - a multi-plate etching and aquatint print by Edinburgh artist, printmaker and scientist, Douglas Reed
What a beauty! 💚
More of this artist's work, here: douglasreed.uk
#art #printmaking #moths #lepidoptera #insects
What a beauty! 💚
More of this artist's work, here: douglasreed.uk
#art #printmaking #moths #lepidoptera #insects
August 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Green Carpet Moth - a multi-plate etching and aquatint print by Edinburgh artist, printmaker and scientist, Douglas Reed
What a beauty! 💚
More of this artist's work, here: douglasreed.uk
#art #printmaking #moths #lepidoptera #insects
What a beauty! 💚
More of this artist's work, here: douglasreed.uk
#art #printmaking #moths #lepidoptera #insects
At least 14 house martins chirruping and swooping above the copse earlier, with a sparrowhawk above them looking down
#UKBirding
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#UKBirding
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August 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
At least 14 house martins chirruping and swooping above the copse earlier, with a sparrowhawk above them looking down
#UKBirding
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#UKBirding
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Pumping from this stretch of 'protected' chalk stream has more than halved water flow, depriving the river's only remaining breeding population of brown trout of habitat & oxygen - in a waterway that ought to be a thriving lifeline for wildlife.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Feargal Sharkey accuses Environment Agency of illegally draining River Lea
Fishing club chaired by singer threatens court action over abstraction it says is putting rare trout population at risk
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Pumping from this stretch of 'protected' chalk stream has more than halved water flow, depriving the river's only remaining breeding population of brown trout of habitat & oxygen - in a waterway that ought to be a thriving lifeline for wildlife.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Sat in my parents' garden, listening to a very noisy juvenile peregrine begging for food somewhere by the abbey. Saw a kingfisher earlier from the bridge over one of the Test streams
#CasualBirding
#ukbirding
#Romsey
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#CasualBirding
#ukbirding
#Romsey
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August 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Sat in my parents' garden, listening to a very noisy juvenile peregrine begging for food somewhere by the abbey. Saw a kingfisher earlier from the bridge over one of the Test streams
#CasualBirding
#ukbirding
#Romsey
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#CasualBirding
#ukbirding
#Romsey
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