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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Neil Burt @neilburt.bsky.social 
Debbie Alston @debbie1alston.bsky.social Early retired ecologist, nature enthusiast and conservation volunteer now living in Sussex. Botany, butterflies, birds and mammals mostly. Monty Python and Michael Palin fan.
Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social 
Connie and Kevin Murk @kevinmurk.bsky.social You’ll find us in the garden.
Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland.bsky.social Rights of nature & climate campaigner. Barrister & river guardian. Love trees & rivers; & working to defend, protect & restore them. Founder of @lawyersfornature.bsky.social & @riverroding.bsky.social
Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social Research Curator at the Amelia, Tunbridge Wells. Entomologist. Natural historian. Local historian. Ecology & heritage of Scilly & the Channel Islands
Stevie P @stevieparsons.bsky.social Mostly orchids, flowers and fungi (with the odd bird and insect thrown in)
Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social I write, act, sing, broadcast and cook. Occasionally, even for money. One third of the @quietriotpod.bsky.social with @pimlicat.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
Support me on https://ko-fi.com/quietriotpod
Anna Shergold @annashergold.bsky.social Retired IT professional, living in Hampshire. Trying out where the skies are blue, and the sun always shines. Any photos, unless reposts are my own. Interests: crafts, wild flowers, orchids, nature, the environment, #Wilder, Fluffy Buffy the Berner 🐶💐📚🐝
babsspence.bsky.social @babsspence.bsky.social Mainly interested in botany (including bryophytes, though a beginner on these).
Southeastern @serailway.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account for Southeastern. Providing real-time information about Southeastern services 24/7. Also available via WhatsApp; message: 07866 002690, channel: http://bit.ly/seWAchannel
Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth |
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
Jules @jules2101.bsky.social Loves UK wildlife especially wildflowers, fungi & birds
Pennyjs @pennyjs.bsky.social I love this amazing beautiful planet.
Garden with passion. Ecology, wild places, climate, nutrition, origami art. Introspective. Mindful. Live with gratitude. Former science teacher, traveler. Politics blue. Try kindness. Photos mine unless reposted.
Jo Stephen @jostephen.bsky.social Haunter of woodlands, field ecologist, botanist & photographer.
https://linktr.ee/JoStephen
Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social UK project to raise awareness and interest in plants, highlighting species interactions (plants and inverts, galls, fungi etc) & encouraging plant recording during the Big Meadow Search (1st June-31st Aug). All welcome #nature #plants bigmeadowsearch.co.uk
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.
MJBW @mjbw66.bsky.social Heading for the hills; hopefully.
wild-life-ranger @wild-life-ranger.bsky.social All things Natural History Wild Flowers Plants Birds Butterflies Moths Insects and Photography
Lesley @lesleylovesnature.bsky.social Loves all nature
@Dolly&DJ on Twitter
Lesley4Nature@mastodonapp.uk
@mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social Botanist/Ecologist based in north west England. Botany got me hooked but now Interested in all groups.
TrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social Botanist, conservationist, gardener & author. Endlessly curious about green things. Creator of #NoMowMay.
Author of ‘Urban Plants’ (Bloomsbury British Wildlife Collection). Currently with the Species Recovery Trust & BSBI Trustee.
Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social Still Curious
Editor, author, biologist, horticulturist. FLS
Dilettante now, with interests in
Scientific Latin
Plant-invertebrate interactions
Colours of Nature
Truth and Beauty
naturallatin.com
The Species Recovery Trust @speciesrecovery.bsky.social Giving a helping hand to some of the UK’s most endangered species 🪲🐌🌿
linktr.ee/speciesrecoverytrust
Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social currently writing 'Finding England's Ancient Grassland'
Botanical surveyor and artist based in the Tees Valley, England.
If it's about plants, I'll be interested.
http://theintermingledpot.wordpress.com
James Common @commonbynature.bsky.social Botanist & naturalist | BSBI joint recorder (VC68) | Ouse Burn Naturalist, NHSN | Yardener & occasional writer | Fanatical about our flora - especially ferns 🌿👀
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
Dr Astrid Biddle @astridbiddle.bsky.social Senior Plant Ecologist Freshwater Habitats Trust
BSBI Recorder for Buckinghamshire. BBS Joint Recorder Herts.
Views my own.❤️Aquatic plants & many others.
David Bentley @sussextangerine.bsky.social Birds, wildlife, words, East Sussex.
Almost always on🚶🚴 or 🚌
All photos are phone photos (some with a cheapo macro lens)
I'm Green, I'm Green 💚
I'm Tangerine, BFC 🧡
Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social Promoting SciComm, teaching, equity & inclusion in plant biology. #PlantScience
PI NSF RCN: ROOT&SHOOT. https://rootandshoot.org/
Features Editor ThePlantCell, PlantPhysiology
@PlantTeaching@genomic.social
https://linktr.ee/PlantTeaching 🏴
Ben Averis @averisben.bsky.social Botany, bryology, lichens, habitat classification, ecology, biodiversity (http://www.benandalisonaveris.co.uk/), art (http://www.benaverisart.co.uk/), music, poetry... Lives near Edinburgh, Scotland.
Plantlife @plantlifeuk.bsky.social The global charity working to secure a world rich in wild plants and fungi🌱🍄
🏠Home of #NoMowMay & #WaxcapWatch
Website 👉 www.plantlife.org.uk
Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social The official account for UK wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation. Saving butterflies, moths and our environment. 🦋
https://butterfly-conservation.org/
Cover photo 📷: Pale Tussock by Julia Martin
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
The Wildlife Trusts @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social Sharing nature stuff, stories & news from The Wildlife Trusts - our goal is nature's recovery on land and at sea. Posts by The Wildlife Trusts comms team.
Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
zoegardner.net
RSPB @rspb.bsky.social Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it.
🦅🦆🦉🐦🐤🐧
Our Website: https://brnw.ch/21wQQ1O
Cover photo: Aintright 📷
BBC Springwatch Fans @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social Welcome to the #Springwatch, #Autumnwatch & #Winterwatch fan page. Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan & Iolo Williams bring you the best of #BritishWildlife.
Admin: DanFWildlife.bsky.social
#BBCSpringwatch #BBCWinterwatch #Springwatch2026 #nature #wildlife
Ploddingbirder @ploddingbirder.bsky.social Mainly Dungeness birds and moths, sea watching. 
BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social BTO is the UK's leading Registered Charity working with volunteers to improve our knowledge of birds through monitoring and research. www.bto.org
The Rare Breeding Birds Panel @ukrbbp.bsky.social We encourage and support the recording of rare breeding birds in the UK, collate data in order to report annually on their numbers, trends and distribution, and maintain a secure archive to support conservation and research on these species.
Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk Official UK Met Office account. Get the weather in your hand with our app: http://linktr.ee/MOContent
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social Our Planet. Decoded.
🎙️ Counting The Earth podcast: https://tinyurl.com/CTEarthpodcast
📰 Newsletter sign-up: https://tinyurl.com/ukceh-news
Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social Conservationist, campaigner, author, columnist, blogger, grandpa
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
VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social Sharing the wonders of flowers and nature, gardening, plant history, folklore, art, and poetry. Bedfordshire photographer for the National Garden Scheme charity. #SolaceInNature #DailyBotanicalBeauty
https://www.venetiajane.co.uk
@njgard.bsky.social @njgard.bsky.social Husband of Bath in pursuit of cultivation & relaxation. Flowers are never wild, merely misunderstood.
Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social Fae Dundee 🏴 but now in South London. Choral singing, botany, butterflies, birds, wee beasties, crochet, cups of tea, G&T. Larking about in nature. Ooh look, there's a thing... 🤔
#WildflowerHour
All my posts from X came too.
https://linktr.ee/naturelark
Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social Dragonfly-obsessed environmental consultant
Ria @rianor.bsky.social Wildflowers!
John Martin @pilning.bsky.social Birds, botany, insects and stuff mainly but not always in Shropshire and often Venus Pool
Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
Neil Forbes @treebeard793.bsky.social Ecologist, based in South Cumbria, working across NW England and SW Scotland. Mostly focused on coastal, wetland, limestone and upland habitats; botany, birds & Natterjacks. Views my own.
Jamie Walton @nettlesandpetals.bsky.social Growing Food & Flowers Ecologically 🌱🐝
Enquires: Grow@nettlesandpetals.garden
Pre-Order my Book 👇😊📗
https://geni.us/nettlesandpetals
Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social Plants, flowers, gardening, growing.
Always my own pic (android phone cam) from my garden, botanical gardens, other people's gardens, garden centres, woods, fields, parks, car parks, cracks in the pavement...
I repost a lot too
North West England
eepy 🍂🥧🥀 @eepy.bsky.social Jade she/her
I make feeds!
Sussex Traffic Watch @sussextw.bsky.social Hi, we are Sussex based volunteers providing traffic and travel updates to followers across East and West Sussex
The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social Enjoy The Observer journalism in print every Sunday, and digitally, seven days a week 🗞️
Subscribe now at Observer.co.uk/subscribe
Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org Art, Activism and Accountability
https://linktr.ee/ledbydonkeys?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
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 🐸
David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social Trade wonk, Brexit bore, globalisation defender, music lover, cricketer, gardener, supporter of mediocre football teams, who knows where the time goes?
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social Obsessed with the natural world, especially #fungi, #wildflowers and #orchids. 🍄
Wildlife gardener and Forest School Practitioner.
Leads @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Love needle-felting and always trying to recreate my nature finds in wool felt #SciArt
wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social The home of #WildflowerHour: 8-9pm every Sunday.
Wild Flowers you find across Britain & Ireland in the last week.
The biggest cheerleader for our wild plants!
Posts by @botanybeck.bsky.social
https://wildflowerhouruk.weebly.com/
Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social Studying, appreciating, recording and conserving our wild plants, and supporting the botanists who care about them.
bsbi.org
#PlantAtlas2020
#100Plants2026
#WildFlowerHour
Direct messages are not checked.
Volcaholic @volcaholic1.bsky.social Sharing the wildest volcano eruptions, extreme weather, disasters, breaking news and anything I find amusing & interesting.
You can buy me a coffee at - https://ko-fi.com/volcaholic
Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social Economics editor at the Guardian. Former political editor, former Observer economics editor. Londoner, Mum.
heather.stewart@theguardian.com
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com
🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
Your East Sussex @your-east-sussex.bsky.social Official account of Your East Sussex owned by East Sussex County Council.
East Sussex County Council @eastsussexcc.bsky.social Official account of East Sussex County Council.
Sussex Bylines @sussexbylines.co.uk www.sussexbylines.co.uk Powerful citizen journalism: contributing to a connected society, combatting political polarisation editor@sussexbylines.co.uk
Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social Sussex Wildlife Trust. For everyone who cares about nature in Sussex. Become a member, volunteer & support our campaigns. Header photo - Sprat shoal © Paul Parsons
https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/
Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social Self taught botanist living in Cornwall, formerly Kent. Hoping to spread the joys of nature to others through my posts.
Cornwall blog at: https://sylvatica2022.blogspot.com/
Kent blog at: https://barbus59.blogspot.com/
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app