My top 9 reads of 2024 1 Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen 2 Rathlin: A Wild Life- Ruby Free 3 Enlightenment- Sarah Perry 4 Rembrandt is in the wind- Russ Ramsey 5 The Western Wind- Samantha Harvey

Thank you Shauna ☺️🫶

Crazy to think this was so long ago now… feels like just yesterday 🥹🤍✨

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For the final session of our #BlueHorizons2025 conference we invite Libby Keatley, QUB, Ruby Free, QUB, and Jane Clarke, OEP, to share their knowledge on invertebrate DNA barcoding, cetacean protection, and how we hold the government to account in the marine environment.

Yesssssss, it's what we've been waiting for - our favourite birds are back on the cliffs!!! A good scattering of Common Guillemots present today, and more out on the sea. Also loads of Fulmars on their ledges and circling around

RIP Michael Longley. What a poet and inspiration. Last year, we went to see his film 'Where Poems Come From' and it stuck with me for ages afterwards; the insights, nature, beauty, profound thoughts, how he saw the world, language but especially his poem 'The Ice-Cream Man.'

#StormÉowyn is what happens when you pack the climate system with energy. 2024 was the hottest year humans have ever recorded. Scientists say it is likely the hottest year in over 100,000 years

Maybe run this past all the people living in Ireland , Northern Ireland and Scotland tomorrow night after Storm Eowyn has done its worst . . . or all those of us who won’t get any flood/storm damage insurance ever again for our homes and businesses theguardian.com/business/2025/…

Here's our view from Northern Ireland:

Delighted to be doing an event later this month with the awe-inspiring Kerri! 🤍

I’ve been prepping so hard for this one! Beyond excited to talk at the launch of the new Seabird Report 🤍🪶🙏🏻

🎉 PUFFIN PUFFIN PUFFIN 🎉 Windy, wet and cold out here currently, but what a breathtaking scene! Gazillions of Guillemots and Razorbills, and very briefly our first Puffin of the year 🥳

You can't, on one hand, promote intensive farming policies that drench ALL our peatlands in ammonia, slowly killing them, and at same time celebrate their biodiversity and carbon sequestration Or can you? Welcome to Daera Doublespeak #WorldPeatlandsDay x.com/daera_ni/statu…

Hard to believe but today marks the 8 year anniversary of free soloing el cap! Time flies. I’m still so grateful to the whole team for working on the climb with me and documenting it in the film. It was such an all star crew and such a great adventure (though obviously stressful

A stunning razorbill I captured today at Rathlin West Light Seabird Centre ✨ BBC Springwatch 🪶