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
Websitehttps://richardcarter.com
Newsletterhttps://richardcarter.com/newsletter/
Friends of Darwin 🐒https://friendsofdarwin.com
Richard Carter, FCD 🪲🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺16h ago
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
Richard Carter, FCD 🪲🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺2d ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwjxx5eyn1o
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
Richard Carter, FCD 🪲🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺2d ago
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
Richard Carter, FCD 🪲🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺3d ago
Just received a letter from my bank sent on 20 June 2025… Now that’s what I call snail mail!
Richard Carter, FCD 🪲🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺5d ago
Geffrey van der Bos5d ago

Excellent video by Bernie Sanders on how AI influences privacy and politics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3AtWdeu_G0&feature=youtu.be

Bernie vs. Claude

YouTube
Richard Carter, FCD 🪲🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺6d ago

Jee-zuss! Instagram *really* wants me to try to capitalise on some minor, random, uncharacteristic popularity with complete strangers… I’m not playing ball: I’m old enough to remember when the Internet wasn’t interested in brand metrics.

(Meanwhile, in other news, please subscribe to my newsletters.)

Richard Carter, FCD 🪲🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺Mar 20
Oh, fab! It's Comic Relief Day. #irony
Richard Carter, FCD 🪲🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺Mar 20
With the possible exception of Apple’s Mac Settings app, Apple’s Mac Contacts app is the biggest bag of shit on the planet.
Richard Carter, FCD 🪲🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺Mar 17
New post… https://richardcarter.com/sidelines/st-patricks-day/
St Patrick’s Day

On St Patrick’s connection with North Wales, and the debunking of a famous biogeographical myth.

Richard Carter
Richard Carter, FCD 🪲🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺Mar 16

Recent reading…

https://richardcarter.com/reviews/book-review-a-year-with-gilbert-white-by-jenny-uglow/

Book review: ‘A Year with Gilbert White’ by Jenny Uglow

A year in the life of the revered eighteenth-century country curate and naturalist Gilbert White.

Richard Carter