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Cantwara Maegth; Loves rain, sleet, snow, mist, fog, natural history, Norfolk, Norway, Norwich, Natural Selection, Norse. Did I mention rain? Rain! (tw)It! 🤪
This is the literal definition of terrorism.
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d agoLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Strewth! That is 31 miles - 50 km! Well, you could walk it in a day.
@HStiles1@hstiles1.bsky.social · yesterdayLast week I was visiting friends in Surrey. They are near Guildford. This shows how small England is - from the Hog's Back ridge the late evening sun glinted off a tower in Westminster I suppose. From nearby you can see the south Downs & they are just before the sea. See Alt... Small island indeed!
Could we work out the angle of the building to the sun, from how the light reflects, knowing the position & exact time? I suppose so! By A31...
@HStiles1@hstiles1.bsky.social · yesterdayLast week I was visiting friends in Surrey. They are near Guildford. This shows how small England is - from the Hog's Back ridge the late evening sun glinted off a tower in Westminster I suppose. From nearby you can see the south Downs & they are just before the sea. See Alt... Small island indeed!
Last week I was visiting friends in Surrey. They are near Guildford. This shows how small England is - from the Hog's Back ridge the late evening sun glinted off a tower in Westminster I suppose. From nearby you can see the south Downs & they are just before the sea. See Alt... Small island indeed!
@matthewcobb.bsky.social That reminds me - have you seen Eviator Zerubavel's short book, Ancestors & Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, & Community? May be of some interest global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Ces gens vivent VRAIMENT dans une réalité alternative. C’est flippant.
Alerte Greenwashing@valmartinie.bsky.social · yesterday"La protection des espèces a-t-elle trop bien marché ?" Nouvelle tribune de Bertrand Alliot, marchand de déni climatique et écologique (qui déclarait notamment dans Le Point en octobre 2024 : "la biodiversité ne s'effondre pas en Europe") publiée dans Le Figaro le 10 juillet 2026. Fil à dérouler 👇
Our descent into mean-spirited, selfish barbarism continues.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
"Drawing on an analysis of over 100000 articles in ecology-related disciplines [...], we show that the shift to pay-to-publish OA has already reduced participation by researchers from many middle-income countries." nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Payment‐based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology
Opening access to the products of scientific research is widely considered a key step toward both fairness and better science worldwide. Since the 1990s, different forms of open access (OA) to journa...
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“I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house is on fire. Because it is.” - Greta Thunberg
On penal reform: what strikes me is the attention paid by the media to victims of crime. Sure, they have a voice, and one can only imagine their pain, but they are hardly disinterested parties and one should remember this when formulating policy about early release.
My book 'The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire' came out last year: it's depressing to see that the records for heat I noted in that book, which were good for 2024, have already tumbled. How. sap. will go extinct even sooner than I suggested. www.panmacmillan.com/authors/henr...
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire by Henry Gee
‘Brilliant’ – The Times‘Hugely informative and entertaining’ – New Scientist‘Put this at the head of your reading lists immediately’ – Eric IdleFrom Royal Socie
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Do people really want to spend ever more on #prison when it does nothing to reform those who can be reformed? It costs huge amounts to keep people in prison, so we ought to be working on more punishment that is useful to society & the prisoner, while ensuring the dangerous criminals remain inside.
Scottish actor #BrianCox, best known for playing Logan Roy in HBO’s Succession, isn’t afraid to speak his mind. In an interview with TRT World’s Ghida Fakhry, Cox explained why he refuses to stay quiet despite concerns about Hollywood backlash......” #AllHeroesDontWearCapes 🇵🇸
This is a question I didn’t even know needed answering - but I’ve seen a few weird SDS-PAGE results in my time…very cool
Magnus Kjærgaard@proteinmagnus.bsky.social · 2d agoWhy do intrinsically disordered proteins behave so weirdly during SDS-PAGE? This is the question we aim to answer in our recent paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
As well as everything else, we need to push Govts strongly. Legal cases doing this in France, Netherland, Italy & Sweden. And now a UK case from #CarbonReckoning demanding honest targets - for stronger action, policy and funding. Read more and please donate www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...
Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate Law
Carbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 3d agoA first year above 2C in the mid-2030s now looks plausible. 0.5C was first passed in 1980, 1.0C in 2010 and 1.5C in 2024. The 15-year trend runs at 0.42C per decade. The 2026 and 2027 points for the current El Nino are estimates. We're not remotely ready!
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election. Convictions for assaulting police officer, burglary of a police station, malicious communications, anti-semitism, racially aggravated harassment, harrasing MPs. Tories chasing Reform vote.
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
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lettuce farmers in california are reaping what lack of enforcement & DOGEing of food safety regs has sown
California Lettuce Growers Skip Harvest, Plow Their Crops Back Into the Ground
Federal health authorities haven’t linked U.S. produce to cyclospora, but some consumers are still steering clear.
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A field grasshopper Chorthippus brunneus hides on my bike-store green lid
Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy. Datacentre prioritised over building affordable homes. Little attention to environmental issues. Govt overturning local council refusal is not devolution or democracy. Big business always wins.
Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy
Campaigners decry Angela Rayner’s backing for Brick Lane project that has only 11 affordable homes
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The BBC Radio 4 PM programme managed to talk about the heat, WITH a meteorologist, & not mention anthropogenic #climatechange - so much for balance
Dan🌹🔵🌊🇺🇸@arepublic86.bsky.social · 3d agoThe next time a climate change denier comes at you with that excuse:
These killer flies zigzag in flight to escape their cannibal mates. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4xdEB9K
Hot iridescent worms in your area, Lurking in karstic caves, Slithering out of cave crickets 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/12/gord...
<i>Gordius wulingensis</i>
Horsehair worms are a menace to crickets (as well as mantis , millipedes , and centipedes ) everywhere. Imagine being a cricket going about ...
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Going to see the Odyssey later this week (Imax 70 booked up completely- if I enjoy the squished version, will go again when the exc has died down). This from classicist @daisydunn.bsky.social in the Literary Review is a well-informed, thoughtful review, far from the various polemics.
@jodrellbank.bsky.social If you have a crowd-funding page I'd be willing to contribute. Sure there are others who would, but surely this is loose change for some people. Compare MPs expenses... mpexpenses.org.uk
MP Expenses UK — £11,716,900 Claimed (2025-26)
MP expenses for 2025-26 — search every UK MP's IPSA claims. £11,716,900 claimed in 2025-26. Find your MP by postcode, sort by total claimed, party or constituency. Official data, free, no signup.
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I mean, just look at these beauties.... 🤩
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3d agoJarvis Cocker, New Order, Elbow, Dr Who (v. Eccleston), @daraobriain.bsky.social, Kraftwerk, Mogwai, Brian May, 2 astronauts (Peake & Hadfield), the Poet Laureate, the Lovell family & many more. Heartwarming to see how much the UK loves Jodrell Bank & astronomy🔭🙏 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...