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The U.K. paperback of 🐉Enchanted Creatures🐉 is out two weeks today! Preorder if you can 🙏 waterstones.com/book/enchanted…

If you haven't seen the talk yet, you can do so here. (It'll be up on YouTube in a few weeks too.) ted.com/talks/lewis_bo…

Why were pangolins monsters?

Excited to be giving an online workshop for Seed Talks November 3rd: ‘The Psychology of Monsters’ 👹 Early bird tix here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-psycholo…

In her essay “Spontaneous Revolutions” Natalie Lawrence delves into a lesser-known chapter of Darwin’s research, his fascination with tracking the movement of plants — publicdomainreview.org/essay/darwins-…

The beautiful monster distracting me from work this afternoon- Loki.

Do join me for a deep dive into the monstrous underbelly of our minds with Seed Talks! Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-psycholo…

God help us!

#Pangolins Historic day for pangolins: Today, October 1, 2025, China’s pharmacopeia update will no longer include any pangolin-based TCM, either as raw ingredients or in formula.

Jane Goodall inspired me. I especially admired how she extended her empathy for some animals into advocating for compassion to all animals. This is not the normal reaction. Most people bond with their cat or their dog and think "we really ought to protect cats and dogs." Or they

Trappers just like to trap and harm animals. They only do it because for them it is fun. Trapping should be banned everywhere. #BanTrapping

“I find it hard to imagine the living elephant that possessed these tusks. I've never seen elephants with tusks anything like this size, and now, I never will. They are all gone, dead, almost all killed by man for their ivory. The elephant was killed by poachers in Tsavo in

Hedgehog, c. 1650 (Rijksmuseum) I love its expression.

LOCATING A VAMPIRE GRAVE according to folk belief, you should lead a WHITE HORSE around the graveyard. Horses are thought to be sensitive to spirits thus the horse will refuse to step over the grave of a VAMPIRE. Ideally, a virgin boy should ride the horse! #31DaysOfHalloween

New episode!! 🎉😱 A conversation with Surekha Davies & Natalie Lawrence about monsters of all kinds. Monsters are everywhere—our myths, our maps, our children's books, our political discourse. What do they tell us about ourselves? Listen: disi.org/monsters-and...