Dr Calonddu
@drcalonddu.bsky.social
Cymraes 🏴, Nyctogender, Filthy Casual, ADHD, exJW, Communication, community, cults #HumanisticallySpeaking #FaithToFaithless 🌈 Any/all Unrhyw/i gyd
The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now in force, telling organisations that provide services they can no longer be trans inclusive. This will have a devastating impact on the everyday lives of trans people. So we’re backing a legal challenge against it: https://goodlaw.social/pmbo
We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project
The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back
goodlaw.social
Work with us! 🚨 We are looking for an Events Officer to help support the design and co-ordination of our programme of public and private events. ⏰ Applications close on Friday 7 August at 11:00. Find out more www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/about-us/car...
Crumbling infrastructure & lack of water jeopardising govt plans for new homes. Privatisation of England's water prioritised shareholder returns. No new reservoirs, desalination plants, or national grid of water. Companies don't do national planning. Yet govts intoxicated with privatisation
‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at risk
Council leaders say crumbling infrastructure and lack of water are jeopardising government’s plans for new homes
theguardian.com
Even the Spectator weighs in against 'the bonfire of the humanities' and proposed cuts at my uni: spectator.com/article/we-s...
We sacrifice the humanities at our peril
Another month, another of our great universities making brutal cuts. At Exeter (motto: lucem sequimur, ‘we follow the light’) over 500 members of staff have been notified their jobs are at risk in a p...
spectator.com
Join infectious disease immunologist and whooping-cough survivor Dr David Miles at The Blue Moon at 7:30pm on Tuesday for a pint and a booster shot of vaccine history, antivax scares and practical immunity to bad science. Buy tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/cambr...
This episode drops tomorrow on YouTube and all global pod players 😁
Greg Jenner (Historian)@gregjenner.bsky.social · 4w agoChris Nolan's movie The Odyssey is getting RAVE reviews! If you wanna know more about the original poem, but you also want to laugh, then check out our new episode of You're Dead To Me -- with expert Classicist Dr Emily Hauser and comedian Kiell Smith-Bynoe www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
The trauma therapist Hope Bastine has seen first-hand in her work the consequences of being raised by authoritarian parents. In this Idea, Bastine explores why so many fall into this parenting style and what a healthier alternative might look like
What draws well-meaning parents to authoritarian parenting? | Psyche Ideas
In my therapy room, I’ve seen the costs of the controlling impulse. Winnicott and Rogers show us healthier alternatives
buff.ly
We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.
What Worries Me Most About This Wildfire Smoke
We didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are.
heatmap.news
“There is no ‘real’ or ‘true’ version of any myth…” Extract from Pandora’s Jar 📘 www.panmacmillan.com/authors/nata... #TheOdyssey
Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…
What does it mean to be non-religious? Invite one of our school speakers for a visit so your students can find out more about the humanist approach to life. Go to understandinghumanism.org.uk/school-speak... to get your autumn term visit booked in!
Glasgow is hiring a lecturer in medieval history (c.800-1500) on an open-ended basis. We are a lovely bunch in the medieval area, would be great to have a new colleague! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSF052/l...
Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) at University of Glasgow
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) on jobs.ac.uk!
jobs.ac.uk
The new academic year starts in 2 months. The modules to run are set in stone even if the all-new first year ones haven’t yet been designed. All that remains is to decide which 3 of the 23 of us will still be here to teach them. The redundancy selection criteria has not yet been announced…
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4w ago'Academics fear they are being “set up to fail” after several institutions finished the academic year by announcing fresh job cuts, casting doubt over who will return after the summer break, and what courses they will be teaching.' 1/3
For every 10 swifts seen in 1995, only around 3 remained by 2022. What's driving one of Britain's fastest birds towards disappearance? Kate Moore reports.
No nest, no scream: why swifts need our help
The swift's iconic summer scream is fading as nest sites disappear and numbers crash. Can conservation efforts reverse its decline?
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Could someone please explain to the @nytimes.com that if we stopped to celebrate every country that has broken free from our tyrannical grasp, we’d never get any work done. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/w...
In Britain, July 4 Is Mostly Just a Saturday
nytimes.com
Nature is often not binary when it comes to sex. For example, did you know there's a species of lizard that doesn't have any males? 🦎 Biologist Josh Davis introduces us to animals reproducing by "virgin birth".
How did Christianity spread so far, so fast? @profaliceroberts.bsky.social started her story in my home of Pembrokeshire. What do the bones and archaeology of 5-6th century Wales tell us? #Humanism2026
Independent online content creaters building communities who are deconstructing religion - @holykoolaid.bsky.social, @survivinguniversal.bsky.social, Secular Sisters and @humanismnowpod.bsky.social talking platforms, hashtags, challenges and rewards #Humanism2026 #Deconstruction #FaithToFaithless
How to lobby your MP: the most practical of sessions at @humanists.uk’s #festivalofhumanism with lobbying aficionado @nathan-stilwell.bsky.social.
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social and @adamrutherford.bsky.social discussing human evolution and grammar pedants. #TeamBacterium #Humanism2026
Fantastic talk by @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social at the Festival of Humanism. Humans have been amazing at adapting to climate change in the past, but how do we face the changes from man-made climate change now? #Humanism2026
Fantastic talk by @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social at the Festival of Humanism. Humans have been amazing at adapting to climate change in the past, but how do we face the changes from man-made climate change now?
Alfredo Carpineti looking at the politics amd ethics of space. We rely heavily on satellites so how can we shape what happens above our heads? #Humanism2026
What on Earth?! This video is from Greenpeace. 💔
Thanks Mr Blair but a baselessly confident 6,000 word diatribe telling the UK to move right on every issue while embracing Trump and Silicon Valley wasn't even that cute all those times Dominic Cummings wrote it.
