Markus Wagner

Our Biological Flora on Wood Crane's-bill is out in @journalofecology.bsky.social. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... A team effort w/ @ruthsk.bsky.social @sandravarga.bsky.social @spp-rich.bsky.social @duncanwestbury.bsky.social, irina Tatarenko & artist Lucy Hulmes on pen and ink.

Stark inequalities in access to green space must urgently be addressed. We were promised legislation so where is it? New legal mechanisms could give local communities access to unused public land for food growing & parks - great report from @globalfuturefndtn.bsky.social @friends-earth.bsky.social

Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

Congratulations, Alexia Putellas and Harry Kane for winning this year's Ballon D'Or! Particularly happy for first-time winner Harry Kane, so well-deserved, and not just an excellent footballer, but also a great sportsman, and by the looks of it also a genuinely very nice person.

A recent post by a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Aktuell ist eine sehr interessante Doku in der ARD-Mediathek zu sehen: "Nach dem Feuer - Was wird aus dem Hohen Venn". Kann ich sehr empfehlen! www.ardmediathek.de/video/doku-u...

Trump's waiver of energy sanctions on Russia has an even darker, more corrupt, side that initially thought. Trump is planning to allow a Russian energy giant to control a big chunk of energy exports from Alaska. Trump and his cronies profit; America loses. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

We have until Thursday 29th October to stop Thames Water from being bailed out yet again at our expense Andy Burnham, block the bailout, remove their licence, TAKE IT BACK. Sign the petition 👇 weownit.org.uk/act-now/tham...

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Botany Bluesky - are there specialised branches of botany that have names most people won't have heard of, such as batology?@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @naturelark.bsky.social @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social @jameshardingmorris.bsky.social

Our programme of winter talks & webinars is live! From evolutionary adaptations of plants to forensic botany' from Mistletoe to Water Sedge; from queer botany to urban botany. Talks every Wednesday evening from 28 Oct through to spring. Love plants? Book for our winter talks bsbi.org/take-part/ev...

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

“If Putin gets his way, the great dictators will carve up Ukraine, with America – once Europe’s ally – a willing handmaiden to European borders being redrawn to suit Moscow” Analyst and former diplomat @snellarthur.bsky.social on Maga’s masterplan to stoke unrest in Europe

‘Washington Post photojournalist who was attacked & seriously injured by Israeli settlers on th West Bank on Fri has described how she ws saved w/ help of local Palestinians. Heidi Levine sustained four fractured vertebrae, two broken ribs and four puncture wounds when she was knocked to the ground’

“I probably would have been dead, because for sure it doesn’t take much to kill a person with blows to the head. “Every single journalist who looked at [the attack on me] are thinking they and I have gone to so many funerals of Palestinians killed by settlers. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

Chaos in Washington The new Private Eye is out now.

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

We are sensing a pattern

RESEARCH ARTICLE Climatic Niche Shifts During Biological Invasions Decrease With Genetic Diversity Loss 🔗 buff.ly/q7wQEKq

As a member of the Committee scrutinising this awful Bill, I am calling on the Govt to abandon its plans for a Refugee Tax. Demanding refugees pay for the vital support received during their hardest days will push them into long-term poverty and there is no benefit for the country in doing this.

New paper alert How can a system-wide approach help us better understand the potential climate impacts of regenerative agriculture? Read on for a summary Full paper here: doi.org/10.1088/1748... @clr-cambridge.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social 📷Ben Andrew

In case it still needs saying, the tech-bros do not believe in "free speech". They believe in "power": power to lift themselves above any limits on or consequences for their own speech, and power to determine what speech can be seen or heard by others.

Not sure what the point is of one party to this conflict discussing this with two of its allies. Who represents Ukraine?

Isn't the real question why they were able to do so in the first place? IT systems that are not fit to protect patient confidentiality should have no place within the NHS.

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On 16 November, members of the UK Parliament will debate a petition on "holding a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks". It's still possible to sign the petition, so please do if you haven't yet! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Yay, #Publication Alert! 🥳📣 A new article published in Ecological Economics in which we conduct a cross-country discrete choice experiment (#DCE). We investigate whether 767 French, Dutch, and UK farmers prefer public or private funding options for conservation measures. 1/5

Masked settlers attack European diplomats in occupied West Bank

Just finished reading this in my print copy of today's @theguardian.com. Well worth a read!

Four years after the promises of Cop15, our biodiversity targets are slipping away

A “Fake Linda” has been impersonating me, pitching stories & even managed to get published in the New York Post. This ‘professional identity hijacking’ is a growing problem across many fields, fuelled by AI... tinyurl.com/4zjt7rhv

British Vogue calls NAZA a “brilliant & harrowing film” that outlines the “restrained, meticulous, bone-chilling depiction of the progressive erasure of Gaza”. Th magazine says th film “feels destined to become an enduring historical document, one which will & should be seen by generations to come”.

Honeybees are barging aside wild pollinators in hunt for pollen and nectar, study finds

📢 PhD opportunity in Edinburgh: Soil carbon change and fungal-bacterial mechanisms in tree planted upland ecosystems. Funded by NERC E5 DTP for September 2027 start. Apply before Dec 2nd. Please share. e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...

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Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

Award-winning American photojournalist Heidi Levine describes being violently attacked by a mob of Israeli settlers while covering the olive harvest in Turmus Ayya near Ramallah this morning. By Oren Ziv @mekomit.bsky.social

Zelensky is asked if Trump is scapegoating him because the USA is in such deep shit back home due to the disastrous Iran War. Watch Ze's response.

An issue that needs discussion in the context of ecological and biodiversity data...

Israeli settlers attack olive farmers and Washington Post journalist in West Bank

Our lunchtime #webinar with Tim King from @ox.ac.uk on the Aston Rowant #LongTermExperiment #LTE that has been going since 1969 is now available to watch on our YouTube channel. Watch it here:

Overview of the fantastic partnership between wildlife recorders, voluntary recording and monitoring schemes, @ukceh.bsky.social and many partner organisations including @jncc.bsky.social

Jonathan Glazer says Israel’s retaliation over NAZA ‘more venal’ than anticipated

Sod’s law: what can two turf swaps 40 years apart tell us about Britain’s biodiversity crisis? www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Really stoked to see NIU’s news story about this impactful paper! newsroom.niu.edu/my-heart-is-...

To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️

sobering analysis of Trump's recent show of unbridled love for Putin, from @phillipspobrien.bsky.social phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

Trump taking his pal Vladimir as a role model. The upcoming midterm elections are getting more and more of a Nov.ember 1932 Reichstagswahl vibe, in as far as this may be the last time where the playing field is still +/- even before MAGA will take control of literally everything including the media.

Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists