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Rocking into Monday morning… Being on tour ain’t so bad! There are tickets left for Ocean Live at PORTSMOUTH Guildhall on Wednesday! Portsmouth Guildhall Come on, let’s make this final Ocean tour another sell out!!!!

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The Natural History GCSE is Happening!! Additional footafe sourced from Open Planet

Samples processed by Bangor University wastewater research, breakdown on insta Prof. Christian Dunn Teresa May MP Joy Morrissey MP The Guardian Feargal Sharkey theriverstrust RiverActionUK Bucks Free Press MaidenheadAdvertiser

The Last of Us; WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT?! We’ve filmed cordyceps fungus all over the world; even a Bhutan village where they drink them. And now @hbo HBO Max has made that idea into a series, and yet another chance to get rich gone forever! CBBC #deadly60

Will this year be the last, When your hand creeps into mine? Wanting reassurance, While we’re in the check out line, And will this be the last year, That we ever have you creep, Into our bed at midnight, cos a ghost disturbed your sleep? Are the days of ‘daddy’ done…

Thankyou to @officialthameswater for hosting residents. And thanks to Andrew for his honesty. For my own transparency, the unedited chat is on my YouTube. However… anyone who uses the Thames, listen to the whole chat. The last points are well worth taking on board. Sb

Calls from Liberal Democrats to put @officialthameswater into special measures; they are seeking £2.5billion bailout, want customer bills up by 40% have declined ANY funds to industry wide infrastructure improvements, and want to reduce penalties for sewage outages RiverActionUK

Restore Nature Now! This Saturday in London RSPCA (England & Wales) RSPB Buglife BBO Wildlife Trust The Wildlife Trusts

River update; what will the long term effects be of sewage releases? For paddlers etc I’d recommend washing your hands before eating. Use the Thames Water storm discharge map especially after heavy rains. RiverActionUK

Deep Blue; Three years work and it’s finally finished! #DeepBlue dives into the secrets of the seas through its most odd and iconic creatures! Publication date 21st September, pre-order from TODAY, on #WorldOceansDay !

Huge news! After a leviathan amount of work, the Shark fin bill is passed into law making a big difference for our border force, and a statement of intent for shark conservation. Heartfelt thanks to everyone who has battled to bring this home.

Waterway win! Thanks to my friends at Defra, the Environment Agency and London Mayor Sadik Khan for inviting me to Walthamstow Wetlands today, to talk positive plans for London’s rivers. The initial £1.8billion investment aims to clean up 41 of our capitals waterways starting NOW

The Bee Beard. The ultimate show of faith in your hard-working girls. It was loud, ticklish but I didn’t get stung even once, and left with an even greater appreciation of these little things that make the world work. From Secret Life of Bees, on Channel 5 22nd May 9pm.

New funnelweb spider species! The world’s most iconic spider just got supersized. The Newcastle funnelweb has vast potential for pharmacology, With my new friends at the Australian reptile park. From a paper by Kane Christensen and Dr Stephanie Loria

Heavy rainfall leads to big sewage releases into waterways. Please do keep informed about these using resources like water testing river Thames @riveractionuk @surfersagainstsewage and the water companies own interactive maps.

Rockfall is my worst nightmare on #Expedition For most climbers the routes we climb have been well used and everything loose long gone. But when you’re climbing of abbing down something for the first time you can pull off chunks of rock the size of a fridge… on @bbciplayer now

Australia tour! Ocean Live hits Deadly central in January; Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Newcastle, Perth, Adelaide

We’re off! Huge thanks to all the lovely people that’ve supported so far. Still tickets left for Bath, Dublin, Blackburn, Sheffield, Coventry, Bradford, Hull and Stockton. Ps ocean dad jokes urgently needed… please add below!

So what happened to the camera traps? For all new #deadly60 on CBBC these two lions nicked our trailcams… and the cameras both somehow still work!!!! BBC Earth #bbcearthonlocation

My first show in Dublin was very special; one of the most fun and involved crowds ever. Makes me sad to be coming to the end of the tour, though psyched to start filming #deadly60 again.