Robert Pell

That is where I am from: Lincs bird club have a presence on Bluesky. Appreciate the intersection of waders and Sleaford mods signature tune ”tied up in Notts”

Slender-billed Curlew: shorebird lost forever Three decades on from the last documented sighting, Slender-billed Curlew was declared extinct a year ago. Arnoud van den Berg reflects on his experiences with this iconic bird at its final known wint...

This is a fascinating and utterly heartbreaking read. #ornithology #ukbirding

www.birdguides.com/articles/sle...

Our new paper 👇🏻

Peter Mandelson embroiled in scandal on Groundhog Day. Apt.

Grauniad strikes again

In the Sharpe novels, Harper is revealed to be a superb birder and Sharpe laments not being able to ID some of the standard Iberian avifauna without him

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

A Curlew, a wading bird with a long downcurved bill, stands on an estuary shoreline with water in the background. Wording below reads: PhD opportunity with BTO and Liverpool John Moores University. BTO logo is top right of the image.

📢 We're looking for a PhD student to focus on habitat use of wintering Curlew in and around coastal SPAs. Apply now ➡️ bit.ly/CurlewPhD

The student will be based at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social and BTO, starting in October 2026 for four years.

📆 Deadline to apply: Wednesday 18 February #Ornithology

An excellent opportunity to study one of our key study species including analysis of data collected on Wash Curlew. Follow the link for more details.

”the most relentlessly curious man in history“?

I need to triage my unread book list, with my 2005 edition paperback of this towards the top of the pile

I recall having a (relatively young) respiratory consultant do a ward round on a swivel chair with wheels as an emergency measure when I was doing core medicine in 2009….

Note price tag

This video encapsulates 2025 for me.

I must've watched it 100 times already. It just gets better.

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Screenshot of a long post attributed to Donald J. Trump on X claiming that filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife have died, using mocking and inflammatory language and referencing “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” The post appears satirical or false and is presented as a block of text on a white background with Trump’s profile name and handle at the top.

Just when you think Trump can’t sink any lower… Rob Reiner and his talented wife Michele were friends of ours. We collaborated on projects. Brad and I are devastated. We are in shock and grief. Sure, Rob opposed Trump, but this is so beyond the pale.

🚨Hoylake beach update🚨

After a LONG six years, we’re finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel!! An agreement has finally been reached between @NaturalEngland and @WirralCouncil which means around 2% of the 41ha of vegetated foreshore at Hoylake will be cleared.

Skegness had one but it was replaced by the dinosaur park

Presumably you have Babbacombe model village near Torquay?

When in doubt, follow your nose (the restaurant is near the exit in UK stores)

The IKEA thing is so batshit. When I was in America it was considered college student furniture or like basic stuff you buy when you are renting why is the PM there. Our country is so painfully parochial sometimes it hurts. Please find some dignity please I beg it’s a corporation. Please.

Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest.
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird

Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...

2014: “I admire Putin as an operator”
2010-14: Appeared on Russia today 17 times
2017: Knighted by a 7 year old girl on RT
2022: blames EU for Russian invasion
2024: “We provoked this war … of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse”

Is this not dodgy?

I'm thrilled that Upon A White Horse is going to be Radio 4's Book Of The Week. The first episode, which is on Stonehenge, will be on December 8 at 11.45am – and then there will be a reading from a different part of the book every day up to and including December 12. I hope you'll enjoy listening.

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”

—FDR, 1944

That’s like 90 in Betta years!

Yes, however standing down to get Burnham elected and failing because you lose a load of votes to the Greens and Reform is very AP!

The Greens also have a strong base in Norwich, so could definitely be a Partridge moment if the vote is split….