Katherine Latham

Journalist: Writing @BBCNews, @Guardian, @RTB_Cheerful, @TWJSciNat, etc / Writing & editing @BBC_Future/ Author: @Summersdale, @BeachyBooks / 🧘‍♀️ 🌊 🏃‍♀️

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

Hope the wind picks up today for all the GB windsurfers! Here's how we can all help protect the #ocean – according to Olympic and Paralympic athletes. #Olympics #Paralympics #Paris2024 #INNS #windsurfing #Rowing

https://t.co/BX3qthpNqn

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

"We're at base camp. This is a new place for humans to be, just give us a few years" – @ProjectCETI researchers, using AI to study decades of whale recordings, have found complexities in whale communication never before observed. https://t.co/VgTO1ZGbnt

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

Thousands of predators feast on sardine mega-shoals – but now changes in the sardine run are resulting in a "phenological mismatch" #worldoceansday https://t.co/MZninns1SE

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

What the masters of the skies can teach us about turbulence - “one of the most unpredictable of all weather phenomena” https://t.co/WCiPolkm6c

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

@BChahal96 Sorry I think I’m too late to help you out 🤦‍♀️

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

Love this ❤️

[The Week Junior Science+Nature @TWJSciNat]

What have you been doing to mark #NationalNumeracyDay?

We asked our readers what their favourite number was. Their responses are 😍

"All odd numbers, because they remind me that everyone is different and that is okay." Kara

@Nat_Numeracy

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

This this this. Finally it's being spoken about. https://t.co/jcKCcWZIcY

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

“Birds flow through the world… They see objects in front of them, and flowing past – and they see the world retreating behind them” - my latest for @BBC_Future

[BBC Future @BBC_Future]

These tricks make wind farms more bird-friendly https://t.co/A1i3CxLvWS

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

"Each time we look, we find deeper complexity and structure in their communication" - I loved writing this on the scientists attempting decode whale vocalisations for BBC Future (and my first go at narrating!).

[BBC Future @BBC_Future]

The scientists learning to speak whale https://t.co/V9ebUeEa8T

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

And another from yesterday (also @BBC_Future) - the kick ass bumblebees taking down invasive Asian hornets 🐝 💪 https://t.co/7vUERwkWPR

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

Welcome to the year of the #dragon! At @BBC_Future we looked at the history of dragon myths from across the world 🐉 One from England is the “wyrm” which “has no legs, but slithers like a serpent” - https://t.co/S7rnJzBUfk

[Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics]

If we met extraterrestrials, could we talk to them? Asks @Kath_La for @BBC_Future. https://t.co/EqMXh9on76

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

The final frontier? How humans could live underwater in 'ocean stations' – I went to talk to the people at DEEP to find out about plans for an International Space Station of the sea.

https://t.co/H9jpX6oIep

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

“We see our colleagues trapped within kiosks, while criminals help themselves to cigarettes and alcohol” - my latest for @BBCTech

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Shop owners hope that tech can deter thieves https://t.co/0A2C0ibxvu

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

The Lathams (including the furred and feathered ones) are trying to do better by the world! My latest for @BBC_Future 🌎 🐓 🐈 🐕

[BBC Future @BBC_Future]

How I made my pets more environmentally friendly https://t.co/CUlhRIOCyL

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

And one from last week I didn’t get round to tweeting - how different could alien language really be? https://t.co/7wefA1Lsmc

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

More than 300 million people around the world now rely on desalinated water - but how can we take salt of seawater sustainably? My latest for @BBCNews https://t.co/xGBBU6bhqN

[UN Ocean Decade @UNOceanDecade]

#SundayMood📺Meet the leaf sheep🐑 This tiny, colorful sea slug, scientifically known as Costasiella kuroshimae, can use algae for photosynthesis getting its energy from the sun, just like plants.✨Astonishing, right?🌱Join the #OceanDecade revolution➡️https://t.co/bnt4qIBrs4

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

"It can highlight a potentially viable sperm before a human can even process what they're looking at" - my latest for @BBCNews

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

How AI may be a powerful tool in treating male infertility https://t.co/CxqtdBv5aS

[Katherine Latham @Kath_La]

Water firms illegally spilled sewage on dry days - data suggests - BBC News https://t.co/Dju8Ejv92v