@DiggedyDan

Editor of @TWJSciNat Science+Nature. Vice Chair and Head of Comms for @BSMEinfo. Writer of bestselling @BasherScience series.

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Joined January 2012
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🔥 Ask the Experts LIVE! 🔥 Join our editor @diggedydan at @cheltfestivals with historian Greg Jenner, zoologist @Zoologist_Jess and gaming guru Alice Bell for a quiz-packed session of mind-blowing facts! 🧠💫 🎟️ Book now 👉 cheltenhamfestivals.org/even…
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motorik krautrock thursday morning open.spotify.com/playlist/37…
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Massive congratulations @benhoarewild. We absolutely adored this book. So bright, so beautiful, so appealing, so interesting, and so important. 🐝🔥🥂 #WainwrightPrize #naturewriting #childrensnonfiction #NatureBeauty #beeloved
The Wainwright Prizes@wainwrightprize10 Sep 2025
Replying to @wainwrightprize @ABRAMSbooks @LanishaNicole14 @PuffinBooks @chloedaltonuk @canongatebooks
The WINNER of the 2025 Children's Wainwright Prize for Non-Fiction is... University of Cambridge: Think Big: Secrets of Bees, @benhoarewild, illustrated by Nina Chakrabarti (@NosyCrow) #WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect
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Replying to @wainwrightprize @ABRAMSbooks @LanishaNicole14 @PuffinBooks @chloedaltonuk @canongatebooks
The WINNER of the 2025 Children's Wainwright Prize for Non-Fiction is... University of Cambridge: Think Big: Secrets of Bees, @benhoarewild, illustrated by Nina Chakrabarti (@NosyCrow) #WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect
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RIP Tom Lehrer. This tune has followed me around for a lot of my working life. It soundtracked successive books on the period table of elements for @MacmillanKidsUK @BasherScience @scholasticuk and @QuercusBooks @HachetteUK youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3NOQn… #genius #ThrowbackThursday

Tom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

Tom Lehrer on public domain (2020):https://tomlehrersongs.com/T...

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Seen this a lot. Still good tho.
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The art of sentence length by Gary Provost
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I love chewing the fat over some great #kidsnonfiction books. A thoroughly enjoyable sesh, thanks to @SaturnSheila @millzymai and @AdamRutherford for insights and strong opinions! @theweekjunior #TWJBookAwards
Anna Bassi@mrsb_dda15 Jul 2025
A great start to this year's @theweekjunior Book Awards judging! Thank you so much to @AdamRutherford @SaturnSheila @millzymai and Dan Green @TWJSciNat for your time, expertise and thoughtful feedback on the four books shortlisted for our STEM book award. theweekjuniorbookawards.co.u…
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🐝 It takes around 1,150 bees to produce a single pot of honey. Our #FororAgainst this month, to celebrate #WorldBeeDay on 20 May, asks your child to weigh in – should humans stop eating honey? ✉️ They can cast their vote at sciencenature.theweekjunior.… #sciencemagazine #debate
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Enjoying this more than I probably should: theguardian.com/football/202…

David Beckham at 50: his gorgeous, outrageous life in 50 pictures

One of the most photographed men in the world, he has gone from captain of the England football team to elder statesman. We look back at the red cards, redemption, scandals, fashion and family life

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There's at least 6 of my books in the Library Genesis catalogue of pirated books – the dataset of stolen goods that @Meta fed to its Llama 3 LLM. Now, I don't count myself as a proper author, but there are two big facts I can't get beyond ... #LibGen #MakeitFair #thievery #ai
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Hats of to @TheAtlantic for making the searchable LibGen resource available for free. Check for your books here: ic.com/technology/archive/20…
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The @Soc_of_Authors has written to @lisanandy demanding that Meta is held to account by the UK government. Add your name to the petition here: authr.uk/sp40

Sign the Petition

Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

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Surely Paul McCartney, Kate Bush and Damon Albarn's music-free album is some kind of reverse Betteridge's law?
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rubik's cube secrets xitter.cf/tannokasa3/status/1744…
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Why we need magazines like @TWJSciNat #stem #facts
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