Our manuscript looking at how #CitizenScience data can help us understand associations between 🦆 wild bird abundance and 🦠 HPAI outbreaks in🐔poultry across Great Britain is now out #OpenAccess in Royal Society Publishing! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… 1/8 #ornithology

EXCELLENT NEWS!!! Scotland's landmark ban on snares will commence 25 November 2024. The ban will be immediate, no 'phase-out' period. Well done to all those campaigners who have worked for decades for this result 👏 Details 👇👇 raptorpersecutionuk.org/2024/09/25/sco…

This is getting silly now. Leave his kids out of it, and stop blowing things out of proportion. There is bad behaviour amongst some politicians, but this constant pearl clutching at everything undermines trust to an unjustified and dangerous extent. Try reporting some news.

Keir Starmer receiving 100 times the scrutiny for getting a pair of specs (that were properly disclosed) than Boris Johnson did for putting the son of an ex KGB spy in The House of Lords isn't normal. And if you think it is you're a fucking danger.

In the studio today - ‘East Neuk’ series of matchbox paintings beginning with this one #matchbox #painting #contemporaryart #miniature

BBC News reporting on how deadly Scottish Sea Farms - exclusive supplier to M&S - duped the Scottish Parliament Rural Affairs and Islands Committee Ariane Burgess Finlay Carson MSP Edward Mountain Scot Gov Marine Thanks to Animal Equality UK for exposing the scam of Scottish salmon Salmon Scotland

Just wondering how much that trip to Italy would have cost… You know The one where Johnson stayed & partied at the mansion belonging to the son of a KGB agent who he then put in the Lords But no one bothered to find out This is GB News style journalism and we deserve better.

Remember when Sky’s Beth Rigby interviewed Boris Johnson and grilled him on free holidays, free food for a year courtesy of Bamford’s, flat refurb paid for by donor, or his £230,000 wedding paid for by JCB? No. Me neither.

I’m sure Sky editors aren’t being consciously dishonest, merely lazy. but they don’t ask why Starmer borrowed a friend’s flat to hide his boy for GCSE : because the media pack was on the pavement outside: that’s upsetting, I wonder if a Sky crew was there?

Matt Forde: Boris Johnson broke the law & I think that's different to getting a jacket. Tim Stanley(Telegraph): Fair enough. #PoliticsLive

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It’s a fact that since we ran this front page, our engagement on this platform has collapsed. It’s not a great concern to the ongoing success of our business model which is entirely reliant on subscribers and newspaper buyers … but it’s an interesting coincidence!

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I'm no longer posting on here as Bluesky is clearly the #1 platform for UK birders. The increased number of Feeds from reserve to national level makes it such a great platform for communities to grow and thrive. The #Ornithology Feed is also now very active 👏 Come join us!

Marc Petty shroppiemon 8>< BlueSky appears to be suffering technical problems after an exodus of users from X, formerly known as Twitter. The issues come after Elon Musk, X’s owner, announced that the site would be changing how its “block” button works. ICYMI Steve Dudley 🕷 independent.co.uk/tech/bluesky-x…

The X-odus from here to Bluesky continues apace. Come and join the ever burgeoning birding community up in the sky! We have a birder starter pack to kick you off too. What you waiting for? Please feel free to RT! #birding #ornithology #birds