Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social Defender of Darkness 🌌
Author of All Through the Night 📚
Lover of landscapes, wildlife and all round nature nerd ✨🐝🦇🐳🦉
Surfer and Marine Mammal Medic 🦭🌊
Work to make our National Parks/Landscapes thrive at night 🌌
Cymraeg 🏴
https://linktr.ee/danidarkskies
Lisa Williams @lisawilliams30.bsky.social Wildlife enthusiast and amateur entomologist specialising in bees and flies. Aerialist, vegan, nature girl, music lover. RSPB & Bumblebee conservation volunteer, NBN award finalist 2024.
HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social Hoverflies & Nature's Joy.
I am a Naturalist, Environmental Biologist & Data Analyst.
Trustee of the British Naturalists' & recipient of the Richard Fitter medal.
My sites are:
https://hoverflyspotter.substack.com
https://hoverflyspotter.blogspot.com
John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social Wildlife artist and ecologist based in Buckfastleigh, Devon, UK
The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond.
With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player.
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BSBI Ireland @bsbiireland.bsky.social I am the Ireland Officer at the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5qdqxst4ylza5myy6lbytwa) - promoting the enjoyment, study and recording of wild plants across Ireland.
https://bsbi.org/ireland
Prof Duncan Westbury @duncanwestbury.bsky.social Professor of Sustainable Agriculture. Nature-based Solutions; Grassland Specialist; Expert Wildlife Gardener, as seen on BBC’s ‘Gardeners’ World’. Views are my own.
Geoff Morgan @moorfoots2peasebay.bsky.social Birder and pan species lister based in Penicuik and most likely to be found in the Moorfoots in Midlothian or at Pease Bay in Scottish Borders
Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie Author of Nature’s Acre. Founder, Gardeningwell.ie — wildlife gardening in Ireland (Stamullen, Co Meath).
Walled garden + school/community projects.
Peat-free, pesticide-free. Native plants, pollinators. Media: gardeningwell.ie/press/media
Glenn Vowles @enviroman.bsky.social For equality, fairness, sustainability, humanism. Opposing over-exploitation of people & planet by the super-rich. Bristol based. Open University Tutor, Environment, 26+ yrs. Green advocate 46+ yrs. https://conserverliving.blogspot.com/
Ramalina @ramalina.bsky.social Naturalist, cider drinker, egalitarian, British Main Bastard.
Fully vaccinated.
Ian Jeffrey @iancjeffrey.bsky.social Doctoral candidate studying temperate rainforest bryophytes at Edge Hill University
Mosses and ferns @fernymoss.bsky.social Enjoying learning about mosses and ferns, liverworts, hornworts…
Devon
Michael Lueth @milueth.bsky.social bryophytes, photography, trampolin, painting, singing, living
born, study and work in Freiburg, Germany
Margaret Cahill @margaretcahillbsky.bsky.social Nature, gigs, books, art & theatre lover.
Short story writer: Irish Book Awards 2024/Irish Independent/The Honest Ulsterman/Idle Ink/Milk House/Bending Genres/Blood+Honey/Epoque Press/The Milk House/Turn&Work/Crannóg
https://linktr.ee/margaretcahill_
Charlotte Rankin @bumble-being.bsky.social Big love for invertebrates & wildflowers. Bonkers about #Bumblebees. Enjoys #WildlifeRecording 🐛🐝🔎 Northern England. Insta: charlotte.bumble
Martin Gammell @martingammell.bsky.social Lecturer and Researcher in Animal Behaviour, Conservation and Freshwater Biology at Atlantic Technological University (ATU), Galway. Joint coordinator of the MSc in Conservation Behaviour at ATU. Views my own.
WildBirdAcoustics.bsky.social @wildbirdacoustics.bsky.social My name is Alan Dalton. I am a Sound Recorder, Artist, Podcaster and generally avid Irish birder, now living in Sweden. All about sharing wild bird songs and calls, along with images and videos from the field, here in Scandinavia and beyond…
Rathlin Stickybeak @stickybeak.bsky.social
CIEEM @cieem.bsky.social We are the leading professional membership body for #Ecologists and #EnvironmentalManagers in the UK & Ireland
Chris Raper @chrisraper.bsky.social Entomologist/Dipterist (Tachinidae), ukiyo-e/yakusha-e (mainly Kunichika), fountain pen enthusiast, ancient Chinese coins, warden at Hartslock SSSI, manager of UKSI at the Natural History Museum, London
BirdWatch Ireland @birdwatchireland.bsky.social Ireland's largest and most active wildlife conservation charity, dedicated to the protection of wild birds and their habitats.
AffirmationCoyote.bsky.social @affirmationcoyote.bsky.social Affirmation Coyote is a metaphysical construct of thought and energy, and their posts should not be considered as a substitute for actual support and approval.
They/Them
Photos of Affirmation Coyote's physical manifestations found on @OnlyYote
Ruth Newby @ruthnewby.bsky.social Officially moth-obsessed, also easily distracted by birds, butterflies, flies, wasps and spiders. Musically devoted to an (un)holy trinity of Bruce Springsteen, Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen.
Pinetencolin @pinetencolin.bsky.social
Photography and trail cameras, mostly monitoring my pinemarten families. Love Ravens as well!
Flyfishing, fly tying, tenkara, salmon.
South West Scotland.
Married to Meg, Pip is my wee old Border Terrier He's 15🧡...
Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social I have Grandkids - so no longer use Airport Departure Lounges.
Natural History has been the unbroken story of my life.
Watching wildlife, mostly under Dorset skies.
Wrens; Greenfinches; Little Owls; Raptors & Adders are a preoccupation.
David W. Williams @vc40orthops.bsky.social Amateur entomologist, naturalist & photographer. Shropshire County Recorder & national iRecord verifier for Orthopteroid insects. Author of 'Orthoptera and Dermaptera' & co-author of 'Micro Ladybirds of Britain and Ireland' FSC Publications AIDGAP Guides.
Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social I eavesdrop on birds (& spy on moths)
Studying biodiversity loss on landscape scales using bioacoustics & machine learning. PhD student in the Kitzes Lab - @kitzeslab.bsky.social
Ollie Metcalf @ollie333.bsky.social Birds, ecoacoustics, ecology, and conservation. Live in the UK. Postdoc at Lancaster University.
Sheelagh na Gig: Books Coffee Gifts Wholefoods in Cloughjordan @sheelaghnagig.bsky.social Independent book and wholefoods shop offering the best in fiction for all ages and nonfiction on permaculture, sustainability, activism. Local and organic foods too. Open 6 days 1pm to 6pm. Closed Tuesdays.
Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social Ireland’s biggest independent bookstore - new, secondhand & bargain books - where you find what you didn’t know you were looking for!
An Post Bookshop of the Year 🏆
Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social Independent bookshop and art gallery in Galway, Ireland. Free delivery in Ireland and we ship worldwide. New, used and rare books.
www.kennys.ie | www.thekennygallery.ie
Little Acorns Bookstore @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social Award-winning Indie bookshop, Derry, North of Ireland. 70k new & used books. Est 2011. Two LegenDerry Chairs (380 signatures). Typewriter Museum due to open 2025. Donegal owner💚📚
Bridge Books Dromore @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social A tiny world of books and bookish gifts. Come visit, bring chocolate! Owner is a delight, at times. Drinker of terrible tea (allegedly)
Www.bridgebooksdromore.co.uk
Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com Lichenologist - FRGS - Mountain Leader
Working with NTS and RBGE
Blog: www.thevagrantlichenologist.com
Insta: www.instagram.com/cragology/
Web: www.cragology.rocks
Emily @emilyloulou.bsky.social Mother to a feral daughter, Insect enthusiast, VC57 Moths. Bone and book collector. Hoping to build a better natural world for my child.
Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
Stuart Roberts FLS @eucera.bsky.social Bee specialist (not honey bees) and ecologist, Irish/UK dual national, humanist, optimist, Europhile
Botanical University Challenge @bucbotany.bsky.social Annual plant knowledge quiz among UK and Irish Universities. For more information https://botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/
Ecological Continuity Trust (ECT) @ect-uk.bsky.social We are an ecology charity that preserves long-term experiments (LTEs) to understand how environmental changes affect different habitats over long timescales. #LongTermExperiments #Ecology
https://www.ecologicalcontinuitytrust.org/
Eoin Lettice @eoinlettice.bsky.social Plant Scientist at UCC, Ireland. Sustainable agriculture; rhizospheres; plant pathology; trees & green infrastructure.
www.tree-explorers.ie
www.ucc.ie/en/arboretum/
www.lettice.eu
'We're all smart. Distinguish yourself by being kind'.
Peter Head @peterheadcbe.bsky.social Bridge engineer-land use planner-innovator-sustainable development-systems modelling-solutions focussed. Volunteer for last 15 years. Keen gardener and nature lover. Chair of several charity Boards. https://resiliencebrokers.org/about/team/
Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery @naturerecovery.bsky.social Working to understand & support what it takes to deliver effective, inclusive & scalable nature recovery. https://naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk
Our talks in person & online: https://bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiversitynetwork
Kirstine Lund Christiansen @klchristiansen.bsky.social PhD Student in political ecology at University of Copenhagen. Researches net-zero nature-based solutions, carbon markets, and corporate climate action. She/her.
Contact: klc@ifro.ku.dk // https://ifro.ku.dk/english/staff/?pure=en/persons/479850
British Nature Guide @britishnatureguide.bsky.social Interested in all the natural world has to offer, with a particular focus on Birds, Moths and Butterflies. Also quite keen on Fungi, Plants, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Fish and Insects. Did I leave anything out? Supporting #BirdsSeenIn2026
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social Cartoonist/Illustrator/Doodlemonger | Sí/í/YerWan | "Keer-ee-uhk" | 🇮🇪
📨 Work Queries: ciaraioch.art@gmail.com
🎨 Prints: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
📜 Newsletter: https://www.ciaraioch.com/newsletter
🫙 Tip Jar: https://www.ciaraioch.com/tip-jar
Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social Naturalist, writer, artist, and educator with a Ph.D. in Ecology. I make interpretive signs, illustrations, murals, and books. Sometimes, I chase polar bears and belugas. #scicomm #sciart http://www.discoversecondnature.ca
Irish Wildlife Trust @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social Protecting Ireland's wildlife for all. Join today at http://iwt.ie to make a real difference!
Registered Charity Number: 20010966
Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social Minimus sum, mus sum. (I am Minimus, I am a mouse.) I live at Vindolanda with my Roman family, and in Suffolk with Dr Helen Forte. We like to make Latin fun!
Irish Birds @irishbirds.bsky.social Irish Birds is published by BirdWatch Ireland and is the only all-Ireland, peer-reviewed journal devoted to ornithology on the island of Ireland. Buy the latest issue from shorturl.at/qUTBe.
https://birdwatchireland.ie/publications-list/irish-birds
Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social Artist, naturalist, author, cyclist. Loves insects/invertebrates especially solitary bees & harvestmen. County Recorder for Harvestmen and Pseudoscorpions. Hefted to Norfolk.
Website https://arthropedia.co.uk/
BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social We are the only global Partnership conserving birds and all life on our planet.🦜 125 Partners in 120 Countries.📍🌍 Follow us to join the flock!
Mawddach walks @maffro2000.bsky.social Nature from Meirionnydd.
Coed Cadw habitat restoration volunteer group leader and walking guide.
Richard Fox @richardfoxbc.bsky.social Head of Science at Butterfly Conservation - moth & butterfly sightings, science & conservation. Honorary Prof at University of Exeter. (He/his)
Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social An organisation of healthcare professionals and students in Ireland dedicated to promoting good health by addressing the health impacts of the climate and biodiversity crises through environmental care.
Registered charity (#20205893)
🔗 https://ide.ie
Jaswinder Boparai @jasboparai.bsky.social
David Smyth 🦇🌳 @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social Research Ireland PhD Student
Lesser Horseshoe Bat Conservation
Bioacoustics, DNA Metabarcoding & Habitat Analysis 🦇
ATU Galway 📍
Interests; Landscape Ecology, IAS, wild woodlands, rewilding, camera traps & bioacoustics
Views/reposts my own
He/Him
Jules Howard @juleshoward.bsky.social Zoology up-close. Revealing everyday wonders from a simple wildlife pond.
📚 Author of Infinite Life, MEGA and more.
🎙️ BBC Radio 4 and Radio 5 Live.
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social Ecologist. Meadows, mires & meres. Wetland beetles, fen creation, Teesside birds. Against Trump, Putin & Farage.
RangerToby @rangertoby.bsky.social Area #RangerLife @NTMountStewart | N Ireland Rep for Countryside Mangement Association | Ards #RedSquirrels Grp + Binevenagh Red Group, North Coast NI
#TeamMoth #TeamDUMP #VanLife #NFFN + dodgy typos
Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social Biogeochemist at University of Liverpool & SLU Uppsala. Greenhouse gases and water chemistry in peatlands, lakes, streams, ditches and ponds. Lover of mountains and wild places.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GXE28xwAAAAJ&hl=en
Dr. Hannah Robson @hjrobson2.bsky.social Head of Wetland Science @WWTconservation. All things wetlands but esp. palaeolimnology #morethanjustmud & invertebrates #morethanjustbirdfood
Freshwater Habitats Trust @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social National UK wildlife conservation charity dedicated to reversing the decline in freshwater biodiversity.
www.freshwaterhabitats.org.uk
Sim Elliott @sim-elliott.bsky.social Amateur naturalist & eco-socialist. Fascinated by lichens, botany and insects; the Sussex Downs & Weald; woodland, landscape & architecture. Only travel by bus, train & foot. https://simelliottnaturenotes.blog
Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social Sharing the joy of nature: especially butterflies, moths, hoverflies, garden birds, fungi, wildflowers. Most sightings from Laois, (mid ROI), some in Dublin, Ireland.
PhD Food Microbiology UoR
#teammoth #wildflowerhour #fungifriday
Wildlife Clothing @wildlifeclothing.bsky.social Birds, Mammals, Marine Life, Wildlife Tee Shirts & Clothing, Sustainably sourced through Teemill..
Wildlife.teemill.co.uk
Aoife @aoifeb1.bsky.social Galway, Ireland. Nature, birdwatching, wildflowers.
@rewildyourland.bsky.social @rewildyourland.bsky.social Join a growing network of people in Ireland who are taking action in the face of the biodiversity crisis.
https://www.rewildyourland.ie/
Dan Brown @danbrownnature.bsky.social Naturalist & Wildlife Addict
🦉🦆🐋🪲🐛🦋🍄🐨🦫🦇🪼🌵🌳🐸
Happiest Outdoors
Founder: http://www.Wild-Discovery.com (the best wildlife watching company - i’m biased)
Expedition Leader & Lecturer
Photographer (OM1) & Author
UK Butterflies @ukbutterflies.bsky.social UK Butterflies is a community website providing comprehensive information on all butterfly species in Britain & Ireland. Posts by Pete Eeles. https://linktr.ee/ukbutterflies
Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social Semi-retired ecologist/nature restoration advocate.
Not retired from working to restore nature.
Enjoying loads of good projects in West Cork.
Ann Haigh @irishwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife enthusiast living in West Cork, Ireland, and showcasing local nature.
(Suitably qualified 😉)
Dan Hoare @danhoare.bsky.social Wetland management and aquatic ecology. Based in the Broads National Park. Chair of UK & Ireland Lakes Network. Norfolk recorder for freshwater invertebrates
Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social Norfolk-based consultant ecologist (semi-retired, in order to spend more time looking at plants). Hobbies/Interests: looking at plants. Oh, & I cook things, too (mainly plants). #BSBI VC28 Jt Recorder. Woke Lefty.
Need help with a plant? Try #WildFlowerID
@cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social Ecologist and botanist/Eiceolaí agus luibheolaí neamhspleách - interested in vascular plants, bryophytes, conservation and invasive species @rhodorangers.bsky.social
Tá Gaeilge agam
@caitrionalee.bsky.social @caitrionalee.bsky.social Health librarian. Ní neart go cur le chéile. Beatha teanga í a labhairt. Fáilte roimh chách! Sos cogaidh anois - Ceasefire now. Stop an cinedhíothú. Éiceolaíocht, Gaeilge, evidence synthesis, leabharlanna, medlibs. ♥️ ALT text
Community Wetlands Forum @communitywetlands.bsky.social A network for community-led wetland groups and other stakeholders to share knowledge, ideas, research, and best practices to protect, manage, and wisely use Ireland’s wetlands.
Learn More: https://communitywetlandsforum.ie/
Joanne Denyer @joannedenyer.bsky.social Wetland ecologist, bryologist and botanist based in Ireland. Usually found looking at the ground. Autistic + ADHD
@bbsbryology.bsky.social @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Breeding Waders EIP @breedingwaderseip.bsky.social Passionate about securing existing Breeding Wader populations. Actively supporting population recovery via landscape management & policy development.
British Dragonfly Society @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social The Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme - Promoting the recording of #CarrionBeetles in the U.K. 🔎
http://www.coleoptera.org.uk/silphidae/home
CEDaR @cedarrecordsni.bsky.social Northern Ireland’s Environmental Record Centre:
In partnership with NIEA, National Museums NI & the recording community.
https://www2.habitas.org.uk/records/home
Breeding Bird Surveys (BBS) @bbs-birds.bsky.social The UK Breeding Bird Survey & Waterways Breeding Bird Survey; monitoring bird species with skilled volunteers. A @btobirds.bsky.social, @jncc.bsky.social and @rspb.bsky.social partnership. https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/breeding-bird-survey
NBN Trust: National Biodiversity Network Trust @nbntrust.bsky.social Our mission - "making data work for nature". Our vision - "nature thriving everywhere, in all its diversity".
www.nbn.org.uk - main website
https://nbnatlas.org/ - search 312 million+ UK wildlife records
https://uk.inaturalist.org - record wildlife
BENHS @britentsoc.bsky.social British Entomological and Natural History Society
www.benhs.org.uk
West Midlands Ringing Group @westmidlandsrg.bsky.social National Award Winning Bird Ringing Group. Pioneered Thermal Imaging Technology for bird surveys, specialising in Farmland species #thermalimaging #bewareofimitations
https://www.westmidlandsringinggroup.co.uk/
Tristan Bantock @britishbugs.bsky.social Ecologist/Entomologist
Wil J. Heeney @theponker.bsky.social Naturalist, all taxa biological recorder. Longhorn Recording Scheme. ColSoc. RIP NoFX. Be happy.
A self-employed Freelance Entomologist, wait, is that a beetle...
@wildersensing.com @wildersensing.com Actionable biodiversity insights through bioacoustics, data analytics, and AI
We develop Software Solution for the Ecology sector
https://wildersensing.com/
Garden Moth Scheme @gardenmothscheme.bsky.social A UK, Ireland & Channel Islands recording scheme aiming to record moth trends using data created by weekly moth-trapping volunteers.
Open to all, find out more here: https://gardenmothscheme.org.uk
Proud member of #TeamMoth #MothsMatter #GardenMothScheme
The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social I’m campaigning for more messy spaces for nature, join our messy mission and let’s Rewild together by doing less- and letting nature do the rest!
PhD researcher - Rewilding with Beavers 🦫
Founder of the Wee Pond Project 🐸
Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social Presenter: @BBCRadio3’s The Early Music Show & Saturday Breakfast
Author: Sir Henry Wood Champion of JS Bach and The Rolling Year: Listening to the seasons with Vivaldi
UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social A partnership working with many volunteers to gather data on insect pollinator populations in the UK. Led by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Find out more at https://ukpoms.org.uk/
Jeremy Biggs @jeremybiggs.bsky.social CEO at Freshwater Habitats Trust and a Director of the Newt Conservation Partnership; co-author of Ponds, Pools and Puddles: https://www.harperreach.com/products/ponds-pools-and-puddles-collins-new-naturalist-library-jeremy-biggspenny-williams-978000870300
James McCulloch @jamesimcc.bsky.social Evolutionary genomics PhD student at the Wellcome Sanger Institute/University of Cambridge. National recorder for springtails. Evolutionary biology, entomology, taxonomy, natural history...
https://www.sanger.ac.uk/person/mcculloch-james/
Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social 🌎 Former MP for Brighton Pavilion, former Leader @greenparty.org.uk Professor of Practice, University of Sussex. Author of 'Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story'. Writing & campaigning on climate & nature 🌎 linktr.ee/carolinelucasbrighton
John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social Entries from the journal that C19th English poet John Clare kept from Sep 1824 - Sep 1825, posted on the day of the year they were written.
Built by @adriantoll.bsky.social
See johnclaretweets.org for more info.
Also see @gilbertwhite.bsky.social