Richard Carter, FCD 🪲🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺

@richardcarter
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#Writer · #HebdenBridge offcumden · #Darwin fanboy · European
Founder of the Friends of Charles Darwin. Interested in where #Science, #History and #Nature intersect.
Currently writing a book about looking at the world through Darwin’s eyes. Previous book about encountering science, history and nature on a country walk.
Favourite topics: #HistSci · #NatureWriting · #CharlesDarwin · #NonFiction
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Robert Dawley of Exurbs of Philadelphia, PA , USA just became a Friend of Charles Darwin.
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TFW you’re writing about Charles Darwin (obviously), and you type the words, “He also showed how…”, and you realise you need to read up a bit more on this, and, a week later, you’ve read and made copious notes on his book about the fertilisation of orchids, and you now feel ready to finish your damn sentence. #AmWriting #HistSci
01-Apr: (This is not a trick!) On this day in 1832, Charles Darwin fell for a pretty pathetic April Fools’ Day trick courtesy of his HMS Beagle shipmates…
https://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/april-fools-hms-beagle/
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01-Apr-1832: Darwin falls for an old tradition

April Fools’ Day aboard HMS Beagle, 1832.

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Rowan Alexander Wise of Lambeg, Lisburn, County Antrim, Northern Ireland just became a Friend of Charles Darwin.
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Wonderful piece describing shifting baseline syndrome in modern politics.
Spring back; Fall forwards… Let official British Summertime commence! 🇬🇧 🌧️ ☔️
Wonderful! Plant illustrations by Charles Darwin’s botanical mentor Rev. John Stevens Henslow (a thoroughly good egg) have been rediscovered in Cambridge. #histsci https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/28/cambridge-university-botany-course-charles-darwin-john-stevens-henslow
Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered

University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago

The Guardian
Church attendance report pulled after YouGov finds 'fraudulent' responses

The original report claimed a rise in young people attending church in England and Wales.

BBC News
Currently working on a chapter about pollination—of primroses, orchids and foxgloves, rather than daffs, but daffs were closest to hand for the photo. #AmWriting