It's worth reading in detail about how vested interests in the US & elsewhere (the agriculture-industrial complex) sought to character assassinate Carson, claim she was a commie, rubbish her claims as pseudoscience, and dismiss her as a hysterical woman. www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/...

Industrial and Agricultural Interests Fight Back

This is Chapter 3 of the exhibition "Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world" by historian Mark Stoll.

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This Many Years Ago@thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 11h ago

64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️

Still gathering signatures, still reaching new people, still receiving largely positive feedback and messages of support. Lots more to do of course but some meaningful activities planned. Compassionate cis women in the UK please keep signing, everyone self, please keep sharing notinourname.org.uk

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27th September 1936. Mosley did not pass in Leeds

The 90th anniversary of Cable St is marked on 3rd October but a week before Mosley’s fascists were stopped from rallying on Holbeck Moor in Leeds. Richard Burgon MP, whose grandfather was the…

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Happy #WorldRiversDay! 💧 Tune into BBC One tonight at 7pm to see us on #Countryfile! Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor visit Willington Wetlands to see how we’re restoring rivers for species like beavers 🦫 and white storks 🪶 📺 Don't miss it! Watch this space to find out about Rivers 2040!

We’re hiring! Join Froglife as Project Lead for 'Adders in Cornwall', leading an exciting Natural England-funded research project. - £30,000 | 35 hrs/week - Flexible/Newquay - Apply by 5pm, 5th Oct Find out more: https://ow.ly/aeNJ50ZQVhs

Poster of people being raptured on to the underground or something. No alt text as I don't quite know how else to describe it. People floating towards the entrance.

Sunday book review: Peasants by Maryam Aslany Publisher: @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Review: markavery.info/2026/09/27/s... 'a mind-expanding read - thoroughly recommended' @labouruk.bsky.social @nfudc.bsky.social @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social

Sunday book review: Doctors by Nature by @jaapderoode.bsky.social Publisher: @princetonupress.bsky.social Review: markavery.info/2026/09/27/s... 'a fascinating tale' @england.nhs.uk @lshtm.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @europebutterfly.bsky.social

A lovely bloke and a great cause www.justgiving.com/page/chris-m...

Chris's fundraiser for Under the Stars

Help Chris Morris raise money to support Under the Stars

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Deeply sobering www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

We followed five people in Gaza from dawn to dusk – this is what the headlines don’t tell us

Behind the stories of bombings and mass deaths, the everyday challenges facing Palestinians living under siege portray a quieter tragedy we rarely hear

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That's not a wall. THIS is a wall! 😍

Me and Ian Beesley on the cover of the Yorkshire Post magazine. Like two intellectual pot dogs on a mantlepiece.

Start your morning with a wild and wonderful @theguardian.com country diary by @katebradbury.bsky.social. #naturewriting #countrydiary

Country diary: I’m virtually living in the woods now. Wildlife is everywhere | Kate Bradbury

Owls, bats, badgers and countless birds are my new neighbours, but I’ve been particularly taken by a mystery tree – and its resident treecreeper

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Reform UK leader accused of making ‘racist statements’ whilst calling on Mayor to resign www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform UK leader accused of making ‘racist statements’ whilst calling on Mayor to resign

A meeting of the City of Doncaster Council turned into a tense, frosty debate after the leader of Reform UK called on senior Labour figures to resign.

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This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

Next #SheffieldSocials meet-up Thursday the 29th of October from 6.30pm at @heeleytap, 631-633 London Road, S2 4HT.Tickets coming soon. Free. Any Qs pls ask.

Gift yourself! 🎁 📚 🎨 There are 3 #MostGifted #FiveStarRated #BestSeller list womensart books to choose from! Via any bookshop... like here... bookshop.org/beta-search?... You'll love them ;)

bBadgers, badgers, badgers. Gaston Phoebus, Livre de la chasse, Avignon ca. 1375-1400. BnF, Français 619, fol. 23v. #medieval #MedievalArt

Haven’t finished it yet but this is my dad’s birthday card. I am rather proud of the way I have avoided national stereotypes.

Why wait for a log when you can float on a Croc?

Why we don't stock certain books... An example is this book. The retail price is £22.00 but you can buy a copy in Tesco for £11. We can't blame you for doing that. The price to us from the publisher would be £12.10 as they discriminate against small shops on discount.

Friday plug for my online shop, because it's never too early to think about you-know-what. You may find something here for friends and family who like #Detectorists, #SmallProphets, #DoctorWho, #InsideNo9, #Bookish, #Ludwig (and precisely 13 more TV Detectives). Right here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop

"I am having a very nice time with my friend. We have been down to Leeds this morning." @universityofleeds.bsky.social #HigherEducationPostcard

Oh btw. I'm doing a show called Spunk In My Eyes at the inaugural Plymouth Comedy Festival in February. It’s about dealing with ovarian cancer as an exhausted woman in my sixties with an intense hatred of positive mindsets and spiritual woo-woo. www.plymouthcomedyfestival.com/events/jane-...

Jane Hill: Spunk In My Eyes | Plymouth Comedy Festival, Plymouth Comedy Festival, University of Plymouth

Jane Hill brings Spunk In My Eyes to the SU Lounge at Plymouth University Students’ Union. Jane’s candid, blackly comic show tackles cancer, courage and the exhausting pressure to stay positive with h...

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1/ A slightly strange and lovely thing to be able to say, my book The Social Life of Justice is published tomorrow... www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Another finished piece -a needle felted Firecrest. Britains second smallest bird and one of the fiddles to make.

I was so proud to welcome my late husband's family to the @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social today. Seeing them, I stay connected to him. ♥️

Liberation Conversations with @holliemcnish.bsky.social and me is available here and should also be available at Spotify and Apple - next up is @chanda.blacksky.app www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po... #podcast #poetry #science

Liberation Conversations #1 Hollie McNish | Robin Ince

finally, here is episode one of Liberation Conversations with the fabulous poet Hollie McNish - we talk of creativity , misogyny , breastfee

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Happy World Gorilla Day! Find out more about these magnificent primates from @wwf.org.uk www.wwf.org.uk/learn/world-...

World Gorilla Day 2026

This World Gorilla Day, learn more about these incredible apes and what you can do to help them.

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