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Stephen Mulvey
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Journalist and mature student (Conservation MSc at UCL). In the distant past reported from Kyiv and Baku.
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Stephen Mulvey @stephenmulvey.bsky.social · Jan 26
I made a starter pack of people involved in bat research and conservation. Please share. go.bsky.app/R4Etsza
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johnaltringham.bsky.social John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 7d
A bat we ringed 20 years ago. Study long since over, data analysed, published, a small chapter in a bigger story. We all moved on to new challenges, new jobs. To us it's history.
But this wee fella gets on with life, still doing what he did then. Surviving in a world we are fast turning upside down.
batworker.bsky.social Dave A @batworker.bsky.social · 7d
Massive influx of Natterer’s bats at valley level marks the official start of hibernation season (last week they were still swarming). And the cherry on top was the return of Z0266, a bat ringed as an adult in 2005. That makes four 21+ year old 🦇 still turning up ( @johnaltringham.bsky.social )
November 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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animalecology.bsky.social Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Sep 30
Beavers boost bats: Through habitat complexity and prey availability, beavers foster bat richness, activity, and feeding activity. 🦫
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/iVXQjl3
Image by @vmoser.bsky.social
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November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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"This is the first time we can say with certainty that European wildcats lived in prehistoric Ireland"

A stunning discovery and more evidence that there's a lot left to discover about Ireland's ecology!

www.rte.ie/news/munster...
Wildcat bones found in Co Clare dated to 5,500 years ago
The first directly dated wildcat bones found in Ireland have been identified, confirming that the species inhabited the island more than 5,500 years ago.
www.rte.ie
November 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Watercolour on Two Rivers handmade paper, the thick stuff. 79x56 cm.
Watercolour, 79x56cm. Scattered autumn leaves of many species on a white background. And a few seeds, berries and invertebrates.
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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lewissaunders.bsky.social
One-flowered glasswort (Salicornia disarticulata) still looking good on a North Norfolk saltmarsh. Distinctive little thing once known. The single flowers seem to typically turn reddish. Most other glassworts had died off for the winter already.
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I hope these “early signs of weak recovery” continue. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
France’s birds start to show signs of recovery after bee-harming pesticide ban
Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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commonseac.parliament.uk
Nature is not the blocker to 1.5 million homes, instead it’s a necessity for building resilient towns and neighbourhoods.

Read our new report on environmental sustainability and housing growth ⬇️

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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bernoid.bsky.social
So many Marasmius hudsonii in the woods. #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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jeffreymphd.bsky.social
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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shashj.bsky.social
"What Ukraine’s campaign has exposed about Russia is really a deeper vulnerability: an energy superpower whose strength lies in infrastructure built decades ago, maintained through improvisation, and preserved by command rather than innovation." www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/slow-...
The Slow Death of Russian Oil
Why Ukraine’s campaign against Moscow’s energy sector is working.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Natuur - jagers 1-0
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Always fascinating to see new @btobirds.bsky.social Ringing & Nest Recording report.
Willow Tits at new low, no nestlings ringed at all, just 6 nests monitored. Ringed Marsh Tit halved from 2010. No Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers ringed in UK for 2nd yr running.
www.bto.org/get-involved... #ornithology
Online Ringing and Nest Recording Report | BTO
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www.bto.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Conducting interviews by email has drawbacks
October 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Fantastic news
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Seven beavers released in Highlands' Glen Affric
Glen Affric is a large area of woodland, lochs and mountains near Cannich.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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In the 1840s the Galson estate on Lewis was cleared for sheep. Most people were put onto emigration ships to Canada. Finally in 2007 - a community buyout. This commemorative sculpture by Will Maclean & Marian Leven is shortlisted for Marsh Award. If it moves you pls vote. pssauk.org/2025-pssa-ma...
September 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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chrisbaraniuk.com Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · Oct 24
New - my first piece for @science.org !

Absolutely crazy footage of rat behaviour in Germany.

Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time | Science | AAAS share.google/WAsAIQ8j0MKp...
Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time
Stunning hunting behaviour captured in German cave
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October 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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New - my first piece for @science.org !

Absolutely crazy footage of rat behaviour in Germany.

Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time | Science | AAAS share.google/WAsAIQ8j0MKp...
Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time
Stunning hunting behaviour captured in German cave
share.google
October 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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ukceh.bsky.social
Many lichen species are sensitive to nitrogen pollution, making them natural indicators of air quality.

📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems.

buff.ly/AmWAOQB

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Side by side photos of a person looking at a picture of lichen on an app and comparing it to lichen on a tree trunk
October 4, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Mycorrhizal fungi provide plants with nitrogen, but in exchange they take up to half the carbon plants pull from the atmosphere. In a new study, researchers investigate how the environment influences this give-and-take. 🧪🌱🍄

eos.org/research-spo...
How Plant-Fungi Friendships Are Changing - Eos
A new framework shows how much carbon plants allocate to their endosymbionts and how that amount might change in the face of warming soil and rising carbon dioxide levels.
eos.org
October 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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banditelli.org
So pleasing. 🪶
A sanderling running on sand with a little hit of water with a little crab in it's beack. Shadow in the water
October 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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A 2nd bill?? "With rumours of a second planning bill also on the horizon, we will continue to do everything in our power to galvanise our supporters and to stop the environmentally, economically and politically disastrous assault on the wild spaces we all cherish" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Environment groups are anything but ‘mute’ on the planning bill | Letters
Letter: Craig Bennett, Hilary McGrady, Dr James Robinson and Richard Benwell say they have never stopped campaigning on the planning and infrastructure bill’s flaws
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Mushroom with scaly cap (possibly Amanita rubescens, the blusher) in Epping Forest.
Mushroom among fallen beech leaves Mushroom cap with pointed scales like tiny volcanoes
October 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social
Exasperated. Gutted. Furious. Terrified. Sometimes swear words are the only ones that fit.
Our delightful government - who we put our trust in - is u-turning on THE easiest Nature action *ever*.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes
Housing minister Steve Reed refuses to back mandating measure, despite giving support while in environment job
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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sophiecarr.bsky.social
Pretty glad I headed back up to the woods for sunset...

These are porcelain mushrooms, and a moveable log, so was able to get a photo from underneath!

#Hockeridge #Mushrooms #Fungi
Porcelain mushrooms at sunset, backlit from the light behind. There are about 5 visible mushrooms with distinctive gills. The mushrooms are actually white but look peachy-orange in the sunset light.
October 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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My wife Alison had these five Merveille du Jour moths in her moth trap this morning, here in SE Scotland.
Five Merveille du Jour moths found by Alison Averis in her moth trap here in SE Scotland on the morning of 14th October 2025. Background: bark with lichens.
October 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM