Just wanted to retweet this excellent video published by Maritime and Coastguard Agency back in May. It shows just how vulnerable you are both at the top and bottom of a cliff. Take care.

Please RT if you approve of this style of planting in parks and gardens #NativeWildflowers

Please #retweet if

1) You are at home
2) obeying the lockdown rules
3) wearing a mask if you go out.

Fantastic set of #insect stamps from @royalmail, developed with our President Helen Roy Helen Roy & illustrator Richard Lewington FRES Richard Lewington.

#entomology #pollinators

Vaccines have the potential to end the #COVID19 pandemic, but despite progress it may be some time before they can make a difference, says a new report from DELVE, the independent multi-disciplinary group convened by the Royal Society. Find out more: royalsociety.org/news/2020/10/c…

'Johnson's pledges on the environment are worthless...These promises are not made to be kept. They are made to assure us, to distract us, to persuade us to put away our banners & go home quietly like good citizens, because the situation is under control.'
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Face shields did not protect people from the coronavirus in an outbreak in Switzerland, but masks did, health officials say insider.com/face-shields-d… via Insider

UK plan to undermine withdrawal treaty threatens Brexit trade talks on.ft.com/3jThuM0

Phenomenal

Blah blah black sheep have you any whatever

'maps provide much more than a window into the landscape, whether we are looking at a paper map from the 1900s or at the OS Maps API today.'
- National Library of Scotland's Chris Fleet shares his experience of the OS Data Hub: ow.ly/TCm250B1x1F #OSDeveloper

NEW: a statement from Independent SAGE on the abolition of PHE.

Check out this gorgeous wombat, zigzagging along a snow-covered track at Cradle Mountain, then stops for a little yawn half way along, before finding his warm burrow and popping in for a little nap 🐻🥰 video: Piotr Babis

Millennial world leaders ftw!

4,356,284… 4,356,285… 4,356,286… 4,356,2847… 4,356,288… 4,356,289… a… a… a… a… TCHOO!
Damn.
1… 2… 3… 4… 5
#pollencount

I've found today's exam thing pretty upsetting: unintelligent, ungenerous, and unfair.

It's made me a bit sour and angry, and I don't like that (especially now I'm following Paddington). So I'm going to take a week of my (generous) PhD holiday allowance, and...

For #ToothTuesday and #SharkWeek : Nurse shark jaws with rows of tiny, yet very sharp, teeth. The teeth are pointed backwards toward the inside of the mouth, which means prey essentially get hooked by attempting to escape. (1/4) Charleston Museum

Can anyone confirm ID please
Think it is a #hornetrobberfly

Canada’s last fully intact Arctic ice shelf has collapsed.

The Milne Ice Shelf lost some 40 percent of its area — and the last known epishelf lake in the northern hemisphere — over two days late last month arctictoday.com/canadas-last-f…