One of the driest summers on record, and almost none of it is in the free, permanent public record. If you're in an affected part of England or Wales, upload your photos to Wikimedia Commons and help us complete the record 👇
Tree, Kew, London. Planted 1881. Died 2022, aged 141. Probable cause of death: man-made climate change.
As you canvas everything the war in Iran is fucking up, I bet you never even thought of this one! The ships idling in the strait are undergoing "biofouling," picking up all kinds of invasive organisms that they are going to spread everywhere once they're released.
Ships stranded by war could cause marine ‘superspreader’ event, study warns
Scientists warn of unintentional risks from idle ships sitting for months in the Strait of Hormuz.
washingtonpost.com
Somehow reminds me the stickers from @scottwlaschin.bsky.social with: F# |> I ❤️
Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 3w agoForth xkcd.com/3277/
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It has been 10 years since we re-opened the Museum to the public, after an 18-month closure as part of a £2.7 million redevelopment and expansion. 1/4
My two cents www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
You're Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad
American politics has become so insane that being reasonable feels like a malady, and MAGA agrees.
liberalcurrents.com
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.RFK Jr on measles: "The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris."
I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.
Parsing Farage’s démarche farce. A day earlier than usual, new post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on what little Brexit news there is but mainly on Farage's 'resignation' and the deeper issues of defining democracy and of cryptocurrencies: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/07/pars...
This is great. It's. been awhile since I've laughed so bitterly. inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-...
Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
inpreparation.substack.com
CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.
Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm actually surprised by her apparent desire to do this: I thought she had the self-awareness to know her superpower is convincing the Epstein class of her brilliance, not conning us plebeians. But I guess I was giving her too much credit.
If you are only going to read one thread today, make it this one. 👇
Lauren Dobson-Hughes@ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 2mo agoMusk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
Everyone is reposting "A Bigger Splash" today, but I think that his 80's LA stuff are his masterworks. "Pearblossom Highway", "Mulholland Drive", and "A Visit with Christopher and Don" are amazing.
David Hockney@davidhockney.bsky.social · 3mo agoPearblossom Highway, 11th to 18th April 1986 No.2 https://www.wikiart.org/en/david-hockney/pearblossom-highway-11th-to-18th-april-1986-no-2-1986
Pearblossom Highway, 11th to 18th April 1986 No.2 https://www.wikiart.org/en/david-hockney/pearblossom-highway-11th-to-18th-april-1986-no-2-1986
Campaign win! Duchy of Cornwall announces plan to “double the extent of duchy-managed Atlantic rainforest on Dartmoor by the early 2040s” This means Black-a-Tor Copse, as well as Wistman’s Wood! A first step towards doubling rainforests across Dartmoor’s commons www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘A gesture towards nature’: call for Dartmoor’s temperate rainforest to double in size
Campaign comes as Duchy of Cornwall announces plan to expand small pockets of ancient woodland at two sites
theguardian.com
Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈
My university has a fund for post-docs coming from abroad! If you are interested in working with me & our group on something related to programming systems and languages, from PL, HCI or historical & philosophical perspectives, get in touch (ideally in a few days...) See: cuni.cz/UKEN-178.html
Junior Fund
cuni.cz
Most people don't realize the size of Iran. It's helpful to see Iran vs Texas vs northern Europe at the same scale.
given the modern conservative fascination with Sparta it's at least a little funny that they've engineered a situation in which Persia is able to level a dramatically uneven battlefield by forcing the conflict into a narrow pathway
Blake Emerson@blakeprof.bsky.social · 5mo agoWater not big missiles shoot far.
Were raising money to fight and win the local elections in May on the IOW 💚 Can you spare a few quid? Thank you 🙏 actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Help elect more Green Councillors this May!
On May 7th 2026, 39 Isle of Wight Councillors and 1 Regional Mayor will be elected! Help us elect more Green councillors than ever before, and our first ever Green Mayor. By donating today you can he...
actionnetwork.org
Up there with one of my favourite things I’ve ever made. Episode 1 of Word For Word is here, and it’s with the inimitable poet Len Pennie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnyl...
The languages that shaped Len Pennie
YouTube video by Word For Word with Sophia Smith Galer
youtube.com
And have to share two @edutopia.org posts in a row because this one from @mrrablin.bsky.social is SO cool! I have never seen this seating-arrangement strategy before. www.edutopia.org/article/clas...
An Unconventional Seating Plan Designed to Benefit Focus and Learning
After years of search and experimentation, this teacher finally hit on a room layout that allowed for efficient shifting between whole class, small group, and independent work.
edutopia.org
Come March, the buds on the tree's begin to burst, this #dataviz shows the timing of bud burst for different tree species across the UK. The black lines show the timing in the Spring for the years 2000 to 2025 and the blue line is the average day for that species.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll get my LLM to use regular expressions.” Now they have three problems.
There hasn't been much media coverage outside the science media of the Epstein scientists. So I wrote about them here for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. As many in science know, John Brockman was central in linking Epstein to scientific "public intellectuals". www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
Epstein and the moral rot of US public intellectuals
The disgraced sex offender was able to gather a group of scientists and thinkers around him who shared his anti-woke, anti-women and Silicon Valley techno-fascist views. But it doesn’t end with Epstei...
thenewworld.co.uk
