Heather Glass
@heatherglass.bsky.social
Londoner busy trying to create streets for people, build a big sewer, get more Lib Dems elected, and rekindle things with Europe. Would like to be on a bike. She/her Profile pic: me in a bike helmet and sunglasses in front of a field of yellow wildflowers
Cycle counter CS3Count on the Embankment cycle lane in London at 2,895 cycle journeys for the day at 08:32 this morning. @cs3cs6count.bsky.social
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New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
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90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...
Celebrating this chonky neutron star by adding it to my "How dense are neutron stars?" notebook. Find out what volume of this neutron star weighs as much as all of humanity on Earth right now! shanikagalaudage.github.io/scicomm-outr... Spoiler: it's tiny!
Prof Anna Watts@profannawatts.bsky.social · last mo.New NICER pulsar radius from the X-PSI team! For the gloriously chunky 1.9 solar mass pulsar PSR J1614-2230. Led by Lucien Mauviard, a finishing PhD student in Seb Guillot's group in Toulouse. #highenergyastro 🔭🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2609.00172
Some of London’s detractors are determined to paint a picture of a city becoming less safe. The facts tell a different story. These crimes are down ⬇️
The connection between Jadów in Poland and Scotland is remembered notesfrompoland.com/2021/10/12/p... And here is the Scottish event that took place in Jadów in July www.dzienszkocki.pl/index.php/en/ #Polska #Szkocja
Polish village commemorates long-lost Scottish community
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Bicycles brought unprecedented freedom to many women, creating a change in restrictive clothing, independence of movement and were an iconic symbol of early feminism. #WomensArt
So there we go - 23 hours and 12 minutes to visit 13 British cities. I think that is a pretty reasonable run rate and somehow or other, we met our stretch target. #BusCity24
The real scandal devastating high school sports is fossil-fueled climate chaos.
Five years+a few days ago, I set off on a 24-hour bus odyssey that would turn out to be the first of many occasional public transport challenges. (Origin story here for newbies www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...) Well, I couldn’t let that milestone pass without a new bus jolly. From 4pm, it’s #BusCity24
London council worker's bus odyssey sparks Twitter storm
Jo Kibble got from London to Morecambe in a day on public buses - "a great way to see the country".
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Thinking today of all the water-absorbing front gardens torn out and paved over to park cars on - all without any government oversight or regulation.
Birmingham weather warning as 'significant flooding' leads to fire service callouts
Heavy rain creates problems for residents, with flood alerts in place on Thursday across the region.
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“While biking around Delft, I passed mothers with their children, women in skirts and heels heading to meetings, teenage girls riding together, female students going to university and grandmothers enjoying an afternoon ride. It wasn't just one or two women I saw, but hundreds." READ: bit.ly/4gwB8MC
big change to my material conditions: I am a bike commuter now. I will be updating my transportation opinions dialectically (I am already 27% more opinionated about bike lanes and our school crossing guard comrades)
Thinking about the UK gov report "National Security Assessment on Global Ecosystems", Feb 2026. The language is incredibly stark. And it's *national security*, not exactly from tree-huggers: "Global ecosystem degradation & collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity... (high confidence)"
National security assessment on global ecosystems (accessible version)
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I can't believe the amount of recent history revisionism in the UK. Response to Polish immigration was so severe that it successfully led to Brexit. BREXIT. And tanked British economy. This happened last decade, you can just Google it.
Rolling out “academic freedom” as a rallying cry now, after the CRT panic led to a bunch of Black scholars and theory to be literally banned from classrooms, shit is too rich lol
I have gotten earbud volume warnings while the volume is on max and I legitimately could not hear the podcast i was listening to because cars on the road next to me were so loud.
OB Cycler@obcycler.bsky.social · 2mo agoBeyond the obvious concern trolling and ableist implication that people with hearing impairments shouldn't ride, people who don't spend a lot of time outside of cars don't realize how loud they are. This highway shoulder is the only bike route to UCSD btw.
Me, a US-based academic: I don’t care what any scholar believes, we all need to stand up publicly whenever someone’s academic freedom is threatened Me, continuing: also, the first time this has happened, motivating me to sign my first ever open letter, is in late 2026, to a race scientist, in Ghent
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
