Lovely video about our open day on Saturday from photographer Hayley Salter. Reminder that the consulation closes THIS FRIDAY so this week is the last chance to have your say about why community spaces like the Warehouse matter. mrhalliance.co.uk/consultation

Getting back to normal as a strategy after a disaster comes unstuck when: 1. The disaster, or change-event more generally, is not a one-off but a continuing process; and 2. The way we were living before the disaster made the disaster more likely weknow0.co.uk?p=3253

SEPTEMBER EVENT: We look forward to welcoming SF author @justinarobson.bsky.social as our next guest on Fri 11th Sept. Come and join us at @inthewarehouse.bsky.social, B'ham Friends of the Earth, or online via Zoom. Tickets available on the door or via Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1998349464041

What The Grand High Triangle Lover can teach us about our politics weknow0.co.uk?p=3265

A plea for the future of @inthewarehouse.bsky.social

Nick Foster@weknow0.bsky.social · 3w ago

A plea for the future of the Friends of the Earth Warehouse in Digbeth from one of its tenants, @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social. We are Mostly Harmless weknow0.co.uk?p=3244

A plea for the future of the Friends of the Earth Warehouse in Digbeth from one of its tenants, @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social. We are Mostly Harmless weknow0.co.uk?p=3244

Some musings about different experiences of redundancy and the consequences of this, with an inexplicable focus on boots weknow0.co.uk?p=3232

Stumbling into some new topics on my blog: what we learn, what we learn to ignore and the asymmetric costs of adapting to it all weknow0.co.uk?p=3224

Time travel the slow way weknow0.co.uk?p=3215

The phrase "A week is a long time in politics" is all tosh. The place where a week can be a really long time is football weknow0.co.uk?p=3198

An Oxford novel dressed in post apocalyptic clothes weknow0.co.uk?p=3177

Poor weather for running in Mexico City right now apparently. That's unfortunate

With trans rights under attack as never before, we need to show our support for the trans community. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a

I stand with trans people | Good Law Project

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Why does the IFoA insist on detailed accreditation of university courses on basic maths, stats and business and are so concerned about what assessment methods they use? It surely makes sense that the expertise within the profession and the university system are pooled weknow0.co.uk?p=2974

It would appear that reservoir management in England and Wales is playing catch up on the whole concept of risk management weknow0.co.uk?p=3161

Our actuarial education system needs to change to give students a fighting chance of being centaurs in the world awaiting them, masters of the technology and opportunities available, rather than the reverse-centaurs that our education system is currently preparing them to be weknow0.co.uk?p=3147

Trying to plan your future at the moment is like playing chess on a rollercoaster weknow0.co.uk?p=3121

Reminder that @antonyjohnston.bsky.social joins us at @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social THIS FRIDAY! Our last guest speaker until September. Hope to see you there! 😊

Nick Foster@weknow0.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to announce next @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social meeting on Friday 12 June 2026 with award-winning, New York Times bestselling graphic novelist, author and games writer, @antonyjohnston.bsky.social Location: FoE Warehouse, 54-57 Allison Street from 7.45pm. Further details attached below:

The most impactful experiences we have are frequently at a distance from our credentials. Whether or not OpenAI and Anthropic are proved right, we need to answer the question of what to learn when the future is uncertain weknow0.co.uk?p=3109

My short review of @rfkuang.bsky.social 's deliciously wicked academic satire about following your PhD supervisor into Hell weknow0.co.uk?p=3004

Excited to announce next @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social meeting on Friday 12 June 2026 with award-winning, New York Times bestselling graphic novelist, author and games writer, @antonyjohnston.bsky.social Location: FoE Warehouse, 54-57 Allison Street from 7.45pm. Further details attached below:

JUNE EVENT: We're very excited to welcome award-winning writer @antonyjohnston.bsky.social as our guest on Fri 12th June. Come and join us at @inthewarehouse.bsky.social, B'ham Friends of the Earth, or online via Zoom. Tickets available on the door or via Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1990418163307

Happy Book Birthday to @theresaderwin.bsky.social. Her dystopian Novella, #GodsVengenace is published today (22nd May) from #CrystalLakePublishing. Best of luck and congratulations on making it to print🎉🥂📚

Save the date and start thinking of some questions for @antonyjohnston.bsky.social when he visits us at @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social on 12 June! A master of storytelling in all its forms, from Atomic Blonde to SF to crime to westerns to rom coms to YA. Further details soon youtu.be/dzY0a7p2vXw?...

AdventureX 2025 – Keynote: Antony Johnston "How to Write a Great Story"

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If actuaries want to protect the pipeline of future actuaries, the education syllabus will need to be reviewed. Universities may need to plug people in at a different career point. The alternative is an ageing profession withering on the vine it refused to nurture weknow0.co.uk?p=3084

I had my head exploded by Hamnet last night weknow0.co.uk?p=3070

The arrival of the latest report from the IFoA and Anglia Ruskin - Planetary Solvency:Tipping into the wild unknown - is a chance to view the world from the POV of the flora and fauna we share it with. A fig tree for instance weknow0.co.uk?p=3062

The ice loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet is hard to grasp! This is what the 30 million tonnes of ice that Greenland loses every hour looks like, if it were positioned next to the Eiffel tower before melting:

Perhaps, instead of obsessing over GDP growth, we should be focusing on what countries like Iceland, Norway, Australia and New Zealand have been doing in recent years to tackle population health. I think it would make us all feel better weknow0.co.uk?p=3047

Congratulations to BSFG Committee member on the publication of her first novel. Wishing you lots of success

Theresa Derwin@theresaderwin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Here follows the pre-order link: geni.us/GodsVengeance