As it is #BatAppreciationDay and I certainly appreciate bats, here are some lovely medieval riders of the night.

Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 - which does it pick?
(by Leniolabs_)

It’s #LongCovidAwarenessDay , so we're sharing this blog post by our Curator, Jody Joy. It explores his experience of the condition, the benefits he has found in short walks & Trumpington Meadows' hidden stories!

Read more here: museums.cam.ac.uk/blog/2023/02/1…

📸Courtesy of Jody Joy

yorkarchaeology.co.uk/microplastics-…. Depressing but not surprising! Questions include: what this might mean for heritage protection and the nature of the arch record. Jeanette Rotchell 💙 York Archaeology Archaeology UoYork #PlasticPollution European Association of Archaeologists ArchaeologyUK CHATArch UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures

We're devastated that our maintenance workshop has been broken into for the second time in 6 months

17 items were stolen and significant damage was caused to a window & internal door💔

If you can, please donate towards the recovery of lost items bit.ly/3Ry93JU

Many thanks to the fantastic WWT Welney team for hosting Cambridge University Foundation Year today. We learnt about flood water management, the importance of wetlands for biodiversity and absorbing CO2, the impacts of climate change, and also benefited from some #WetlandWellbeing !

Pine martens caught on camera playing on children's swingset in Ardnamurchan, Scotland. The owner of the video, Les Humphreys, tells us this is a nightly occurence in his garden.

Credit: Les Humphreys, Ardnamurchan Wildlife Watch Facebook Group

#pinemarten #wildlifephotography

Enjoyed Robin McKie's excellent piece on the problems of not routinely using evidence in conservation in today’s@ObserverUK. A thread 1/12 theguardian.com/environment/20…

Ooft- it's a Woodcock boogie to brighten your Tuesday! Superb footage Sam Goddard

After years of putting some of Darwin's wisest quotes on cakes, this year I chose his most relatable. Let us never forget that Darwin was human. Masterpiece, no? 😂 Happy Darwin Day.

Peregrine next to Edward Carter Preston’s ’East Wind’ (1933) on the Tower Cambridge University Library yesterday and the statue itself seems almost birdlike, fingers as feathers, chest flecked, ‘the whole structure … admirably adapted for aërial progression’ (Gould, ‘Falco peregrinus’).

hopping around Kings College Chapel earlier today and even feeling a bit batty too
Corinne Roughley

Simon Bening, [from the Da Costa Book of Hours, Belgium] (c. 1515), December, Hunting Wild Boar - (more to the point, a nice depiction of medieval woodland management, coppice hazel with oak standards.

'In excess of 100 dead pheasants' dumped in Wales.

Media outlets are describing this as a 'mystery' and 'baffling'. It's far from that - it's been happening for years across UK because shooting industry knows it can get away with it.

Details⬇️
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2023/12/29/in-…

THREAD: News from Scotland’s skies! A paper published by The SOC on the diet of breeding White-tailed Eagles, released today, provides crucial insights for conservation.

It addresses long-standing concerns and offers new information on these majestic birds. 🦅🌊

this is a picture not of the British Museum but of the Natural History Museum*

*and sadly the facts of the return of the Parthenon Sculptures are even more abused when you get to the actual article

Best of luck to our first-ever #FoundationYear alumni as they start their undergraduate degrees this term!

Find out more about the programme and its remarkable students👇

What with the movement on the Heritage Bill and the State purchase of the Dowth estate this has been a very positive couple of days for Irish heritage

One for Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft 🐦‍⬛

‘Poetry, paths, and peatlands: integrating poetic inquiry within landscape heritage research’: fascinating new Landscape Research article by Dr Abbi Flint on ‘poetic transcription’ as ‘method’ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…