Spooky season has arrived! 👻 We held our annual Pumpkin Carving Competition at The Sainsbury Laboratory—vote for your favourite carve! 🎃🕯️

Something very special about dusk/dewpoint that makes the calves skip #happy #calves

Three little maids: Daniel Simpson's yows at Borrowdale Shepherds Meet #SheepOfTheDay

#lewesbonfire Cliffe Bonfire summing up many people’s thoughts on #lewes tonight #farmers

We're tackling #blackgrass using #AI 👇 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

A couple of friends came out to chat about my new book, “Fawlty Towers: Fawlts and All.” It was marvelous. 🐀🛎️🚗🌿 bit.ly/FawltyBook #FawltyTowers #books

Sounder of wild boar passing trail camera, Carpathian forest, Transylvania, Romania. #cameratrap #trailcam #wildlife

A new serious market has emerged for lithium ion batteries: energy storage #BESS 2025 will see it become 20% of a huge 1,700GWh battery market. That’s bigger than the entire battery market in 2020/2021. And main drivers growth isn’t just about China, it’s in the US as well.

This little bird survived a volcanic eruption! Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago! Villa Poppaea, Oplontis, Italy. 📷 by me #Archaeology

The moon looking amazing, just after dawn this morning 8/11/25 #moon

White Saddle - Helvella crispa in the Cherry Wood, Bourton Downs this morning. #fungi #FungiFriday

Even 2,500 years ago, people loved a novelty cup! 🦞 🍷 😄 It’s suggested this Ancient Greek terracotta vessel in the shape of a lobster claw was used as a drinking horn at parties! The Met metmuseum.org/art/collecti... 📷 by me #Archaeology

Michel , agriculteur.

Congratulations to Kevin Hartley, champion at Stoneside Shepherds Meet today #SheepOfTheDay

The flowers of Remembrance. Hour after hour an unceasing pilgrimage of bereaved mothers, wives, daughters, and sweethearts lay floral offerings on the Cenotaph. Armistice Day, 1920.

Another chapter in our farming journey, first cut of lucerne from our newest lease block. We didn’t use the seeder parked in the paddock to sow it!

Moar on the affordable combine ZoomLion T7

I keep warning that so many of our systems are still built around the assumption that quality writing and analysis are costly and therefore meaningful signals. Our systems are very much not ready for the revelation that this is no longer true, as this planning objection AI shows

I took a picture of this scene in town this morning. It has a really Canadian feel to it

Jack Snipe in typical habitat and in typical 'you cannot see me' pose. Amazing birds! Pic taken over the weekend here in Shetland.