Jo Bibby
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Fairly sober testing report from the AI Security Institute: they gave internet access and removed some guardrails from latest AI models and found without them they were capable of potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
Around 12% of UK households are both officially in poverty and paying income tax. UK is now a country that actually taxes its poor ifs.org.uk/articles/unf...
Unfreezing the personal allowance | Institute for Fiscal Studies
What would unfreezing the personal allowance mean for taxpayers and how much would it cost?
ifs.org.uk
To survive, women sleeping rough often avoid being seen. They stay on buses, in A&E, in all-night cafés – anywhere they might feel less exposed. But staying out of sight to stay safe comes at a cost: it keeps them invisible to the services that should be there to help. www.shp.org.uk/information-...
Women’s Rough Sleeping Census - Single Homeless Project
Women’s rough sleeping is hidden and underreported. Our annual census aims to reveal the true scale and drive change for better services.
shp.org.uk
The Vaughan Williams Foundation online database of correspondence relating to the composer's life and works includes transcripts of more than 5,000 fully indexed and searchable items. Explore it here: vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/discover/let...
Three General Elections, a pandemic, inflation crisis and rising geopolitical tensions have all left their mark on what Brits see as the biggest issues facing the country. The latest in over fifty years of our Ipsos issues index 👉 https://tinyurl.com/yn6jeps3
"Renewable energy generated 52.1% of the UK’s electricity in 2025, exceeding half of total generation for the second consecutive year, according to government statistics." www.renews.biz/other-news/u....
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They say the best time to plant a tree is 40 years ago… so I’m off on a mini adventure to fact-check that 40 years ago this summer, as a sixth-former, some friends and I volunteered on a conservation project in Snowdonia (Eryri) Now we’re heading back to climb a mountain and see whether it worked…
A huge amount of work to improve health and wellbeing is done by smaller charities. The GSK Community Health programme offers small charities tackling health inequalities up to £10,000 funding plus training and development to support their leaders. Find out more: https://bit.ly/49Iz80t
Plug-in solar panels are coming to the UK from August 27th! It's been in the pipeline for a while & it's already common in Germany. But it's BRILLIANT because it opens up these technologies to renters & ppl w/o their own roof. Plugs into a normal socket & supplies ~ 10-20% of household needs. ☀️🎉
UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August
Law change means renters and flat owners may be able to cut bills as energy costs soar amid Iran war
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Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
bbc.co.uk
Everyone I know here has been in total disbelief, to the point that they literally don’t believe the government will actually allow it. Mind you we’ve been here before at least twice. The STFC clearly don’t like the big telescope
If I was an agency wanting to be disbanded, I would choose the moment just after a new man of the ppl PM from the NW arrived - with a defining mission to rebalance the country and make agencies accountable - to pull £ from the world renowned telescope visited by generation upon generation of NW kids
Chuffed to see my article on feminist responses to the unemployment crisis of the 1980s out in JBS:
“Women, Where Are Your Jobs Going?”: Feminism and the Problem of Unemployment in Thatcher’s Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
“Women, Where Are Your Jobs Going?”: Feminism and the Problem of Unemployment in Thatcher’s Britain - Volume 65
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Nighttime light magic in the Coral Museum #coralmorphologic #cerianthusanemone #miami
For #StandingStoneSunday, the skyline of the Callanish stones on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, on a bright morning last year 📸 Mine 🏺 #archaeology
When a company is selling dresses for £3 someone, somewhere, is being exploited www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Primark cuts prices as it feels pressure from Shein and Temu
Competition from ultra-cheap Chinese retailers and the cost of living crisis could be putting some people off shopping at the store, analysts say.
bbc.co.uk
I’m a big fan of that publicity photo staple - film stars reading books. There are some surprises here, though we'll never know if some of the choices are those of the star - or of the publicist. 1/10. The greatest of them all: Eve Arnold’s photo of Marilyn Monroe reading James Joyce’s Ulysses.
If you're caring for someone who is disabled, older, or seriously ill, we want to hear your views and experiences. The #StateOfCaring survey 2026 is open. Tell us what matters to you and help build a powerful case for better support for unpaid carers: www.surveymonkey.com/r/8GX7Z5T
1/ Four people die on UK roads every day. Someone is killed or injured every 18 minutes. 1,600 deaths and 28,000 serious injuries a year. This isn't statistics. This is normalised violence in our public space. 🧵
Need a break from the heat? Cool spaces across London will welcome you in for a cool down, rest, and some respite from the sun. Find your nearest one with our Cool Spaces map:
Cool Spaces
Cool Spaces Map displays indoor venues open to all where Londoners can take respite on hot days.
apps.london.gov.uk
Is welfare spending ''out of control''? It's estimated to be 11.1 per cent of GDP this financial year. That's just 1.1 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen by 0.9 per cent of GDP since 2012-13 ⤵️
New: OECD report on Long COVID #longcovid www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
Addressing the Costs and Care for Long COVID
Long COVID is a post-acute infection syndrome characterised by the persistence of symptoms following a COVID-19 illness. This novel and complex condition has a debilitating and often disabling impact ...
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![Comic. [chessboard with red dotted line and flag at second line. Highlighted rook is positioned next to King behind the red line.] [caption] I thought I had checkmate, but I didn’t realize my rook was offside.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreif4par7z6yterrvkhvlnemtc37rpb4yvretekqzpqnxl7gjio7fju)