‘Right now, the trans and nonbinary community is fighting many of the same tabloid lies and legal obstacles thrown at lesbians, gay men and bisexuals since for ever. We are unnatural, we are a danger to children, we spy on you in toilets.‘ On solidarity, Pride and visibility.

Damian Barr@damianbarr.bsky.social · 4d ago

I wrote about Berlin and Pride and solidarity, especially within our community. I hope it helps. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Rod Liddle called his ex-wife a “slut and a slattern” in print before marrying a 22-year old Spectator receptionist who he was cautioned by the police after assaulting her when she was 20 weeks pregnant. But he was anti-trans, so these “protectors of women” overlook everything.

The policy take-home of our new study, in 15 words: 🏭 Fossil fuels kill children 🔋 Decarbonization will slow malaria expansion 🦟 Malaria eradication will save lives everywhere 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The past and future impact of climate change on childhood malaria in Africa - Nature

Climate and econometric modelling reveal that human-induced climate change is shifting the burden of childhood malaria in Africa.

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Jason is the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history. Rightwing newspapers are trying to smear him with fake accusations of plagiarism. We can't let them. Stand up to their hate and division by adding your name. goodlawproject.org/s/3ec4c0

Stand up to hate and division by adding your name.

Jason is the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history. Rightwing newspapers are trying to smear him with fake accusations of plagiarism. We can't let them.

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An estimated 150,000 people marched through central London on Saturday for London Trans+ Pride, with organizers calling it the world's largest Trans+ Pride event #NOH8

10s of thousands attended London trans+ pride today for an afternoon of love & rage 🏳️‍⚧️ Loved to see so many non-binary people as well 💛🤍💜🖤 #transpride #nonbinary

🚨 BREAKING We've filed a complaint to the Charity Commission about Sex Matters, detailing 46 incidents which we think, together, amount to misconduct and mismanagement. But we also need wider action against charities spreading hate - help us tell the government & Commission they must step up 👇

Sex Matters are breaking charity law with transphobic hate – we’re taking action | Good Law Project

We’ve made a formal complaint to the Charity Commission and the government, citing 46 examples of offensive transphobia

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1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment

The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.

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Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

Song track to my final years at school!! RIP Bonnie Tyler youtu.be/lcOxhH8N3Bo?...

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (Turn Around) (Official Video)

YouTube video by bonnietylerVEVO

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Did you know? Renewables have just overtaken coal as the world's largest source of electricity 34% – global renewable share, up 2x in 20yrs 48% – EU 37% – China 26% – US 24% – India

Read this account by James on what is known so far about Exeter’s destructive round of job losses. The use of NDAs by senior management is pretty insidious too

James Dyke@jamesgdyke.info · last mo.

www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-...

This is remarkable.

Oh do fuck off @slate.com with this garbage! These kind of takes are part of the problem in increasing violence towards #LGBTQI+ people - blaming the minority not the perpetuators

Slate@slate.com · last mo.

Was the LGBTQ+ movement’s pursuit of “visibility” a mistake? slate.trib.al/VSFkbOe

Great video, but while "management burns" are hugely important, drivers like grouse management was not, IMO, highlighted strongly enough as source of many of those burns. Also air pollution such an nitrogen is also probematic for sphagna, both requiring stronger top-down policy scale changes

Mike Shewring @mikeshewring.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Nice blog post from Tom Aspinall at @rspb.bsky.social for the @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social on how we can build landscapes that are resilient to fire www.iucn-uk-peatland programme.org/blog/tom-aspinall/building-fire-resilience-natures-way

What can the 3D structure of a forest tell us about ecosystem resilience? 🌳 @mokros.bsky.social secured ARIA funding for 3DTreePrint, using low-cost LiDAR to create detailed 3D forest measurements for conservation and environmental management. #UCLGeography #RemoteSensing #Biodiversity @ucl.ac.uk

UCL researcher secures ARIA funding to transform ecosystem resilience monitoring

A project led by Dr Martin Mokroš has been awarded seed funding through the Advanced Research and Invention Agency's (ARIA) Engineering Ecosystem Resilience opportunity space.

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This is brilliant news - a new GCSE in Natural History will bring #nature and its benefits to new generations of young adults in the UK 🍎 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Natural history GCSE to teach teenagers to plant wildflower-friendly gardens

Long-awaited course to examine human effects on natural world and explore everyday ways to aid biodiversity

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Saturday run ✔️ #runsky

It is devastating to keep reading news like the below, and we've been working to rethink water weaponisation to capture events like this and the myriad other ways conflict is violently exploiting water. Our new paper is out today: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.ft.com/content/155d...

Iran says 20,000 people left without water after US hits reservoir tanks

Washington says its jets targeted air defence and radar sites after Iranian forces downed American helicopter

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Like a ritual, before I start counting #diatoms from a new core, I always draw my own library of images of key taxa from that site. It makes research really slow going at first, but I find it quite cathartic. These are diatoms from a Lesotho wetland 🧪 🦠

Not part of #lawnflowers challenge, but not the less interesting for it - Orobanche hederae, or ivy broomrape, growing amongst, well ivy, on an unmown verge in east London! #wildflowerhour

🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

Phenomenal results being reported for a clinical trial for injections of the drug Amivantamab for people with advanced / metastatic head and neck cancers resistant to chemotherapy and immunotherapy. From a personal perspective this brings me great hope #cansky www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Cancer jab can eradicate entire tumours in patients, trial shows

Jab brought ‘unprecedentedly strong responses’ in patients whose disease had become resistant to chemotherapy and immunotherapy

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Oh Matt, I've been in much more terrifying backrooms... 😂 www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

‘I found a place’: how Backrooms captures the horror of sinister architecture

Buzzy new thriller Backrooms takes us on an unknowable journey through liminal spaces, the latest film to turn a building into a horror villain

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This is glorious. (From the British Museum, Midsummer 1939.)

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

TACC@tacc.org.uk · 2mo ago

"Forty-nine votes were cast against the new rules, whilst only one vote was cast in their favour", yet still they went ahead with the ban. Clearly, women's opinions do not count!

This post is a tiny window into the fascinating research done by Beth Williamson on orthography, #maps and the @rgs.org , a CDA project between @rhulgeography.bsky.social and the RGS. #skystorians 🗃️

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)@rgs.org · 2mo ago

Why did place names on a map of Canada matter to geographers in London? In the 1880s, a new railroad connected eastern Canada to British Columbia. As the railway expanded, Indigenous place names were added to official maps - including this 1886 map - which became a point of contention at the RGS.