Andrew Harmsworth
@harmsy.bsky.social
Teacher. Physics. Sustainability. Cycling. Electrify Everything!
Orchids revived, the corpse ambulant and a poetic ruined abbey. These are the news stories I want to read.
⚡️Physics teachers! What liquid is 2.5x denser than water and could make pumped hydro access more locations? vimeo.com/1200747167 1/2
RheEnergise on BBC Spotlight 11th June 2026
Kirk England, Environment correspondent visits RheEnergise's first project in Devon, UK to see it in action. Interviews with Peter Hawkins, Project Engineer, Lizzi Gold, Business Development Manager a...
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Andy Burnham has promised to bring in a new system of social care. But the government needs to address the desperately important issue of who owns and runs it. Privatisation has been a failed — we’re paying more for worse care while private equity sharks walk away with huge profit margins.
Hugely important - and powerful - letter to the Prime Minister from NEB climate science expert Professor @kevinclimate.bsky.social and other senior academics. Please share #NationalEmergencyBriefing
Kevin Anderson@kevinclimate.bsky.social · last wk.Open letter to the PM on Rosebank & Jackdaw oil and gas fields, covered in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Full letter here: climateuncensored.com/letter-to-th...
Utter insanity. Hopefully Burnham will overturn the decision and demand a review of UKRI's spending priorities.
Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · last wk.Earlier this year UKRI launched a funding call to invest £40M in ONE AI lab. www.ukri.org/opportunity/... For some unknown reason they decided to fund TWO AI labs at the cost of £60M. An extra £20M. Just found. That's the equivalent of 7 more years of Jodrell Bank. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-la...
🧠 Stumbled upon this gem a few years ago, having missed it first time around. I echo MEM’s view here: read it, or read it again. It’s alarmingly prescient and a call to arm (the brain). 📕
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 2w agoReviewed it in 2017 for @nature.com's "Summer Books" column: www.nature.com/articles/548...
It is 1996. The president was born in 1946. It is 2006. The president was born in 1946. It is 2026. The president was born in 1946. (2016 was an outlier and should be disregarded.)
Joshua Eaton@joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 3w agoClinton, Bush Jr. and Trump were all born in 1946.
I do love gate bracing, particularly adjustable ones like this, but I think it’s the wrong way round…
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy capital growth come, thy riches be won, on Earth, that it become Hell. Lead us not into rewilding, but generate asset growth, for we desire money, power and glory, forever and ever, Amen.
#KCSIE2026 still does not name #ClimateChange. But heat, flooding, water disruption, climate distress and misinformation are already shaping pupils’ welfare, attendance, behaviour and learning. I’ve created a free climate-literate safeguarding INSET resource for DSLs. Please share with school leads
KCSIE Still Cannot See Climate Change – But School Leaders and DSLs Can
Despite best efforts, England's new Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance does not name climate change. But a climate-literate Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) can still notice when climate is changing the safeguarding context. This article comes with a free KCSIE 2026-aligned INSET resource for schools: slides, DSL guidance and staff handout.
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Here’s Herr Trump’s stock as of Friday. This shows the past 2 years. The all-time high Trump Media & Technology Group stock closing price was 97.54 on March 04, 2022. As of Friday it closed at 8.54. Thoughts an prayers 😁🤣😁
Up, up and away!
David Tomkins 🦋@davidctomkins.bsky.social · 4w agoEvery so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-gra...
Virgin Media fined £28m for repeatedly preventing customers from cancelling contracts. "Deliberate call-dropping" tactics, customers put on hold "for no reason". Commission scheme "effectively encouraged" and rewarded abuses. No exec fined/charged for carefully designed scam to fleece customers.
Virgin Media fined £28m for preventing customers from cancelling contracts
Millions of phone calls from customers were "likely mishandled" over nearly a three-year period, the regulator says.
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Education is the most important thing in the world. We should invest in it. Everywhere.
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 4w ago"Baseless 'weather warfare' claims spread as deadly heat strikes multiple continents" by Stevie Rosenfeld and @manonjacob.bsky.social for @afp.com News Agency: factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
"Farage was given a deadline of 1pm on Tuesday to respond to the Guardian about this article. He gave a video address at 2pm announcing he would force a byelection in his seat of Clacton-on-Sea."
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 4w agoEXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Just needs an anti-sleaze independent candidate to stand and win — like Martin Bell — how about it @carolvorders.bsky.social ?
Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4w agoFarage just shot himself in the foot with a bazooka
Nobody wants EVs” is now a decade-old genre of journalism. Over that decade, EV share of new UK car sales went from 0.3% to 25%. The genre hasn’t aged well.
Has FIFA told us what the final score in Monday’s USA v Belgium game is going to be yet?
After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵
Climate change is literally canceling US independence Day celebrations. The July 4 parade in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American independence, has been canceled due to extreme heat. Heat waves aren’t new - what’s new is that climate change is making them hotter and more dangerous.
Philadelphia cancels 4th of July parade due to extreme heat, organizers say
Philadelphia's Salute to Independence parade has been canceled due to extreme heat in the weather forecast.
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