History and Heritage Yorkshire

handhyorkshire.bsky.social

18 October 2026 07:47

In 1904, the people of Sheffield responded to an appeal for funds to establish an independent university, with over £50,000 raised through penny donations from local steel and factory workers and other Sheffield residents, equivalent to more than £15 million today. The University of Sheffield

Moriaki Yasuhara

moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social

17 October 2026 12:20

We are in the Anthropocene… Nearly half of reef-building corals face elevated relative risk of extinction. Obura et al www.nature.com/articles/s41...

UK Seabird Monitoring Programme

smp-seabirds.bsky.social

16 October 2026 10:28

The UK Wild Bird Indicators have been published, with the UK Seabird Indicator utilising data from the Seabird Monitoring Programme. Read more about the continued declines in the post below. #Seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Steve Portugal

sjportugal.bsky.social

15 October 2026 22:24

New big collaborative paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters. "Frequency of plastic occurrence varies across phylogeny but not ecology in seabirds". Title says it all really. Congrats @saverygo.bsky.social and @nhcooper123.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Kirsty Grainger

kirstygrainger.bsky.social

15 October 2026 20:27

These are excellent and instead of what hugely resonates although I'm always afraid the answer will be lunch or your weekend.