Reuben Singleton
@bordersnaturalist.bsky.social
📍Peebles, Scottish Borders - Director of Tweed Ecology - 30 years experience of protected species/habitat surveys, Ecological Impact Assessment, Ecological Clerk of Works. Botany, Lepidoptera.
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This month I'm sharing my Botanical Advent Calendar - a plant a day til Xmas, which have helped make my 2025 an amazing year botanically!
As I'm a day late kicking off, here are two species of samphire at Aberlady Bay - Yellow Glasswort and Purple Glasswort. Guess which is which! #wildflowerhour
As I'm a day late kicking off, here are two species of samphire at Aberlady Bay - Yellow Glasswort and Purple Glasswort. Guess which is which! #wildflowerhour
December 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This month I'm sharing my Botanical Advent Calendar - a plant a day til Xmas, which have helped make my 2025 an amazing year botanically!
As I'm a day late kicking off, here are two species of samphire at Aberlady Bay - Yellow Glasswort and Purple Glasswort. Guess which is which! #wildflowerhour
As I'm a day late kicking off, here are two species of samphire at Aberlady Bay - Yellow Glasswort and Purple Glasswort. Guess which is which! #wildflowerhour
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The seminal paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted.
RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans
www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans
www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
December 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The seminal paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted.
RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans
www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans
www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Wed's trip to SW Shrops turned up a big surprise - tiny larvae of the Land Caddis, Enoicyla pusilla. Britain's only terrestrial caddisfly, it is confined entirely to the Wyre Forest area. This discovery is a long way west of that & v. unexpected. So small (<2mm) we nearly missed them. Amazing.
November 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Wed's trip to SW Shrops turned up a big surprise - tiny larvae of the Land Caddis, Enoicyla pusilla. Britain's only terrestrial caddisfly, it is confined entirely to the Wyre Forest area. This discovery is a long way west of that & v. unexpected. So small (<2mm) we nearly missed them. Amazing.
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So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin.
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 AM
So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin.
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
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Quick check on the Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles today, in 60 mph winds. Extremely proud that this important ancient site is now fully community owned.
#Orkney 🧪🏺💀
#Orkney 🧪🏺💀
November 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Quick check on the Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles today, in 60 mph winds. Extremely proud that this important ancient site is now fully community owned.
#Orkney 🧪🏺💀
#Orkney 🧪🏺💀
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A brief visit to the Caiy Stane in South Edinburgh today.I left the back of a van in the photo for scale.
@stoneclub.bsky.social
@megalithic.bsky.social
@stoneclub.bsky.social
@megalithic.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Winter gives no fucks
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Winter gives no fucks
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🦋 🧬 Feature review @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social: "Project Psyche @projectpsyche.bsky.social : reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe", with @erebiologa.bsky.social and @entomoprofessor.bsky.social from @universidadoviedo.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe
Project Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level
reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found
in Europe. Here, we describe t...
www.cell.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🦋 🧬 Feature review @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social: "Project Psyche @projectpsyche.bsky.social : reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe", with @erebiologa.bsky.social and @entomoprofessor.bsky.social from @universidadoviedo.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Exactly the same as the new Met Office website in the UK. #changeitback www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bom: Why Australians are furious with their beloved weather website
Nicknamed the Bom, the country's weather agency has been heavily criticised over a recent redesign.
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Exactly the same as the new Met Office website in the UK. #changeitback www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Nathan Gill's social media bio...
They claim to love the country they would sell down the river for a stuffed brown envelope.
He was the head of Reform in Wales.
How do you think Reform would react if any other party leader had been found to have committed such crimes?
They claim to love the country they would sell down the river for a stuffed brown envelope.
He was the head of Reform in Wales.
How do you think Reform would react if any other party leader had been found to have committed such crimes?
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Nathan Gill's social media bio...
They claim to love the country they would sell down the river for a stuffed brown envelope.
He was the head of Reform in Wales.
How do you think Reform would react if any other party leader had been found to have committed such crimes?
They claim to love the country they would sell down the river for a stuffed brown envelope.
He was the head of Reform in Wales.
How do you think Reform would react if any other party leader had been found to have committed such crimes?
It’s all a big joke for Farage
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It’s all a big joke for Farage
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For sale - £20 inc P&P
Rohan Icelander fleece-lined trousers. Dark blue. In very good condition. Medium = W32 and L32.
Not worn since I moved to Westray as I only wear waterproof trousers here. So these are surplus to requirements so someone else may as well get some use out of them.
#BirdingGear
Rohan Icelander fleece-lined trousers. Dark blue. In very good condition. Medium = W32 and L32.
Not worn since I moved to Westray as I only wear waterproof trousers here. So these are surplus to requirements so someone else may as well get some use out of them.
#BirdingGear
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
For sale - £20 inc P&P
Rohan Icelander fleece-lined trousers. Dark blue. In very good condition. Medium = W32 and L32.
Not worn since I moved to Westray as I only wear waterproof trousers here. So these are surplus to requirements so someone else may as well get some use out of them.
#BirdingGear
Rohan Icelander fleece-lined trousers. Dark blue. In very good condition. Medium = W32 and L32.
Not worn since I moved to Westray as I only wear waterproof trousers here. So these are surplus to requirements so someone else may as well get some use out of them.
#BirdingGear
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They made nature out to be an enemy of housing, with the rivers still open sewers and fly tipping an epidemic. All the while ruminating daily on migrants.
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
They made nature out to be an enemy of housing, with the rivers still open sewers and fly tipping an epidemic. All the while ruminating daily on migrants.
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Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
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Appalling, illegal, unethical, disgusting. Oh, and in the midst of a severe outbreak of Avian Influenza #BirdFlu #H5N1 where free-range poultry are in mandatory lockdown to prevent viral spread.
#Ornithology #UKBirding
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#Ornithology #UKBirding
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Shot Pheasants found dumped in Dorset
Another week and another pile of shot and dumped gamebirds. Thanks to the blog reader who sent in this photo of a pile of dead, shot Pheasants he found yesterday, dumped on the road (B3081) running…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Appalling, illegal, unethical, disgusting. Oh, and in the midst of a severe outbreak of Avian Influenza #BirdFlu #H5N1 where free-range poultry are in mandatory lockdown to prevent viral spread.
#Ornithology #UKBirding
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/12/s...
#Ornithology #UKBirding
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/12/s...
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I don’t remember the disgusting human dustbin apologising for this, amongst many lies about the UK
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Donald Trump tells UN meeting London wants "to go to sharia law" - BBC News
President Trump tells the United Nations London has "been changed" and has a "terrible mayor".
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I don’t remember the disgusting human dustbin apologising for this, amongst many lies about the UK
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
What a surprise-after posting yesterday that there was very little about Prescott or Hanover Communications online, @bylinetimes.bsky.social have been doing some digging and guess what? The so called independent advisor to the BBC is anything but…
🔴 The Pro-Trump Bias of the ‘Neutral’ Sources in the Leaked BBC ‘Prescott Dossier’
Byline Times’ analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan, Trump-aligned organisations.
@nafeez.bsky.social
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Byline Times’ analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan, Trump-aligned organisations.
@nafeez.bsky.social
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The Pro-Trump Bias of the 'Neutral' Sources in the Leaked BBC 'Prescott Dossier'
Byline Times’ analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan right-wing, Trump-aligned organisations
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
What a surprise-after posting yesterday that there was very little about Prescott or Hanover Communications online, @bylinetimes.bsky.social have been doing some digging and guess what? The so called independent advisor to the BBC is anything but…
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The ability to change your mind in response to better evidence is a hallmark of human cognition. Experiments now show that chimps are capable of rational thought too
go.nature.com/3JVLhGk
go.nature.com/3JVLhGk
Be rational: chimp decision-making is guided by the strongest evidence
The ability to change your mind in response to better evidence is a hallmark of human cognition. Experiments now show that chimps are capable of rational thought too.
go.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The ability to change your mind in response to better evidence is a hallmark of human cognition. Experiments now show that chimps are capable of rational thought too
go.nature.com/3JVLhGk
go.nature.com/3JVLhGk
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Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
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Donald Trump’s demand for a billion dollars from the BBC comes from a local Florida law firm. It was sent to the wrong address, and the writer didn’t know what ‘salacious’ really means: ‘Due to their salacious nature, the fabricated statements that were aired by the BBC…’
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Donald Trump’s demand for a billion dollars from the BBC comes from a local Florida law firm. It was sent to the wrong address, and the writer didn’t know what ‘salacious’ really means: ‘Due to their salacious nature, the fabricated statements that were aired by the BBC…’
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“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
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November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com
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Two highlights at Pease Bay yesterday both patch firsts for me: Cuckoo Ray - sadly dead - but not commonly reported at the shore otherwise as it is a deeper water species. Little Egret rockpooling with me 😁
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Two highlights at Pease Bay yesterday both patch firsts for me: Cuckoo Ray - sadly dead - but not commonly reported at the shore otherwise as it is a deeper water species. Little Egret rockpooling with me 😁
Why is Farage openly siding with a foreign power against Britain? Surely this is TREASON.
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Why is Farage openly siding with a foreign power against Britain? Surely this is TREASON.
Who is Michael Prescott - the so called ex independent advisor to the BBC? Former political editor of the Sunday Times, Boris Johnson appointee and currently works for Hanover Communications. Funny there is NOTHING online about Prescott and/or Hanover’s clients. Funny that - a large rat is smelt.
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Who is Michael Prescott - the so called ex independent advisor to the BBC? Former political editor of the Sunday Times, Boris Johnson appointee and currently works for Hanover Communications. Funny there is NOTHING online about Prescott and/or Hanover’s clients. Funny that - a large rat is smelt.