Every time someone corrects my vocabulary it just makes me think fewer of them.

Extraordinary rainfall distribution in UK in September. Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire saw their wettest month in our 188 year series. But only 25% wetter than average overall despite many areas having 3x average rainfall. More details in Met Office press release www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Smartphone discussion is boring AF… but as a hobby photographer I’m genuinely really pleased with my new iPhone 16 Pro Max’s 5x lens (~105mm full frame equivalent). Knocked it out of the park in low-light

This is such a fun story! An ecologist in Wales found a striking moth flitting around her living room. After posting a picture of it on instagram, someone realised it was super unusual and it turned out they were right - it's a new species native to Guyana 😅🧪🦋 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

New species of tropical moth from Guyana discovered in Port Talbot living room

8am: publish article saying that support for women’s rights is a fundamental value. 11am:

hadn't come across this theory about why so many myths about the pleiades mention there being seven sisters when only six are visible: because the root story may be 100,000 years old theconversation.com/the-worlds-o...

The world’s oldest story? Astronomers say global myths about ‘seven sisters’ stars may reach back 100,000 years

Cultures around the world call the Pleiades constellation ‘seven sisters’, even though we can only see six stars today. But things looked quite different 100,000 years ago

Tell artists you like their work. It’s how they stay filled with life-giving art mucous.

They say the average marine biologist delivers 5 squid facts a day, but that is actually a statistical error. Sarah McAnulty, whose squid facts hotline texts 37,540 facts a day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

While the premise of this piece - that sm is heightening bad wildlife watching behaviours - is probably true, I feel like it is conflating a few different issues. I’m not saying that any of these are correct, but this implies they’re all equally culpable… 🧪🦉1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘You could single-handedly push it to extinction’: how social media is putting our rarest wildlife at risk

From breeding spots overrun by visitors to photographers disturbing endangered species, experts say the rarer the find is, the bigger the problem

If you don’t teach your kids about the dangers of LinkedIn, who will