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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 11h

The MERLIN project's Forth catchment case study has been shortlisted for an RSPB Nature of Scotland Award! The project, a collaboration with @forthriverstrust.bsky.social, @naturescot.bsky.social, UKCEH, @hutton.ac.uk & @stir.ac.uk, is in running for the Nature and Climate Action Award. 1/

Collage of four photos from the MERLIN project Forth catchment case study. From top left: overhead view of Allan Water, overhead view of scrapes, attendees and speaker at the MERLIN symposium, community spilling

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 12h

Autumnal weather is moving in this week as low pressure takes charge of UK weather. Read more in our news release ⬇️ www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

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EUMETSAT @eumetsat.int · 13h

❄️ Following its 15 Sept launch, #Copernicus Sentinel-3C has sent its first image from the SLSTR instrument! Our Image of the Week shows a 2 Oct spring storm off the coast of East Antarctica, with spiralling cloud bands & sea ice in fine detail. Learn more: bit.ly/3U5WCsA

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Tony Dunn @tony873004.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Newly-discovered asteroid 8NIQ001 approached from the daytime sky. It wasn't discovered until after a close approach of ~1000 km above the Arctic. The size of a compact car, it would have caused no damage had it hit. #astro 🔭

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

'Who Owns England? author @guyshrubsole.bsky.social said "It’s ridiculous that in the 21st century the public are kept in the dark about who owns the land beneath our feet. This is data that will help councils build more homes, expose who’s polluting our rivers and help communities restore nature".'

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 15/10/2026

REMINDER: If govt cuts heat-pump grants, the UK will have to import a lot more gas In 2023, Energy UK said that'd cost an extra £3bn over 2026-2030, but gas prices today are roughly ~2x what they were at the time of the analysis…

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Simon Knott @sjbknott.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Peribalus strictus today found in Bengeo garden. Until recently rare species in UK but now experiencing dramatic expansion in its range. @britishbugs.bsky.social #VernalShieldbug #climatechange

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 15/10/2026

We really do need a wet winter for southern England… some reservoirs are now below 20% of capacity Severe drought declared: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Severe drought declared in parts of southern England

Reservoir levels continue to drop after a hot summer and less September rain than normal.

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EU Institute for Security Studies @euiss.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Europe is heading into its toughest energy winter since 2022. Gas storage is low, oil and gas markets are tight, energy prices have risen sharply, and the threat of Russian attacks on energy infrastructure is growing. How Europe should prepare. 1/6 🧵⤵️

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

PoMS FIT Counts reveal Common Ivy as the most popular flower for pollinating insects! Read more in today’s news story from our partners at @savebutterflies.bsky.social ⬇️

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Cllr Ben O'Keeffe (EC&S) @greenbenokeeffe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

@tomhayesmp.bsky.social I often have to pay for the privilege of finding out who I need to chase with regards to obstructed rights of way or to find out who owns an unpermitted sewer outfall, it's really frustrating.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 14/10/2026

NEW: Another demand downgrade in the latest IEA oil market report Previously, IEA said a rebound in 2027 would outweigh the Homuz-related drop in 2026 Now, it sees oil failing to make up lost ground next year – demand will remain below 2025 levels

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Simon Knott @sjbknott.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

3rd brood Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus) feeding on Ivy (Hedera helix) today in Bengeo garden. @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/10/2026

40% of *everything being shipped everywhere on Earth* is fossil fuels Just an absolute laughing-stock clown-show of an energy source. This is laughably absurd, why do we treat this like it's normal and good Fossil fuels are a satirical fuel www.irena.org/-/media/File...

Global shipping transports fossil fuels and runs on oil: 40% of shipped products are fossil fuels or derivatives, while 99% of international shipping’s energy demand is met by oil-based fuels.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Farmland bird populations in England have now declined by a staggering 66% since 1970, according to the latest official figures. What's going to turn this around? Not piecemeal grants or trusting in the 'custodians of the countryside', but Landscape Recovery & regulation www.gov.uk/government/s...

Graph from DEFRA's report 'Wild bird populations in the UK and England, 1970 to 2025', published 13th October 2026, showing a two-thirds decline in farmland birds in England and the UK from 1970 to 2025.

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Absolutely desperate. As @guyshrubsole.bsky.social was saying at the weekend: 50 MILLION pheasants are released into the wild annually. The biomass outweighs that of all native bird species combined.

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The National Videogame Museum @nvmuk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#VHSfeature 👾 preserving videogame heritage isn’t just about preserving the games themselves; it’s also about preserving ephemera like development and promotional materials. One of the highlights of our collection is the larger than life Monument Valley model

a model depicting a level in Monument Valley, displayed on a grey plinth. It shows walkways, towers and arches in pale blue, pale pink and pale salmon colours. There are small figures of three black crows and one small girl wearing a white gown placed on the model.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Not mentioned about this unethical study is "why Guinea-Bissau"? The trial is not to test efficacy - we already know it's effective - it's to test non-specific effects. There is *zero* grounds to do that in a country with high risk of HepB - if UoSD is hell-bent on doing a study, do it in Denmark.

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Great to take part in this episode, talking to @harrycliff.bsky.social about High-Luminosity LHC, and to LZ's Kimberley Palladino about their recent putative dark-matter detection. Also, the wonderful Kate Shaw of Sussex Uni on the forthcoming DUNE neutrino experiment.

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adskankster.eurosky.social @adskankster.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

When we had ours done, all the money went to a small installer company and their engineers.

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Robin Hawkes @robhawkes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Wow Coalburn is a huge battery! It swamps all the other grid-scale batteries on my energy map… It's currently importing some 473 MW out of a maximum 500 MW, that's nearly half the output level of a massive new wind farm like Dogger Bank A.

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Ed Porter @edporter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Great Britain: Q3 2026 added a record 917 MW / 1,844 MWh of battery capacity, taking the fleet to 8.5 GW / 14.4 GWh. Coalburn 1 came online at 500 MW, now the largest site in GB. Notably, revenues outpaced buildout: the ME BESS GB index rose 23% quarter on quarter against 12% capacity growth.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Tl;dr - it is predictable right now that the Chancellor, certainly next year and perhaps this year too, will have to spend less and tax more than currently being forecast because the government's immigration outcomes and policy goals directly contradict the assumptions of OBR forecasts

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adskankster.eurosky.social @adskankster.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

Sorry, it was seeing that name that probably triggered the thought.

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Aurora possible again next 2 nights...

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

First time attending Surbiton Ski Sunday, where people strap blocks of ice to their feet and compete to ski down a soaped street. I love this country.

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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

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adskankster.eurosky.social @adskankster.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word Moby Dick Splash

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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Be the hero! Electrify.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 10/10/2026

The October runs for dynamical El Niño models are now all out, and its a mixed bag. Some revise the event downward, some upward, but on average its still expected to peak at ~4C, albeit with the peak more likely to occur in December than November:

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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And not only was CO2 implicated in the Snowball recovery (aided by cloud and surface dust feedbacks), but it is almost certainly the cause of the initiation of global glaciation. At least for the Neoproterozoic Snowballs, the only way to get close to a global glaciation is to draw down

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

😊 I made a game about British birdsong and time travel. The newest level is set in #Ely, starting about 7000 years ago... 🐦‍⬛ Listen to birds, guess who's singing, and collect the dawn chorus. 🦻It's built for accessibility and free to play bird-times.lovable.app #IndieDev #GameDev #Birdsong

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And “Every combustion car and every gas boiler sold today leaves us exposed for 15 years to the next oil crisis. And each new industrial facility that runs on fossil fuels consolidates an import-dependent infrastructure for decades."

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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adskankster.eurosky.social @adskankster.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

It could be slowly moved to cover radiator upgrades, as that’s the big extra cost driver in older homes.

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There are four reasons why: 1. Scrapping the BUS would hollow out the growing heat pump industry, and it would be very hard to get it back again 2. With oil and gas prices soaring and government cutting levies from bills, conditions have never been better for the heat pump market to take off

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Looks like solar and batteries are working to replace diesel around the world and it's a very good thing. "In June, Nova Sociedade installed solar panels to power water pumps that fill storage tanks and provide clean water to all 36 families in the village." A good read.

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Solar power helps Amazon communities ditch diesel and prepare for El Niño drought

Off-grid solar power is spreading across Brazil’s Amazon, helping remote communities prepare for severe drought while replacing costly, polluting diesel generators.

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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Defra is gathering evidence that could shape the future policy on gamebird shooting. Have your say! Have you experienced issues such as gamebird collisions, dumped dead birds, illegal traps, suspicious raptor deaths, disturbance, damage or loss of access to land? For info, visit buff.ly/TGjrkrK

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A very notable thing about this graph is that it is not a long list of developed countries. Developing countries also list high on the list, well above the EU average (and long above the US). EVs are better than ICE, people are noticing, and the transition is happening...

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 09/10/2026

Drought-affected areas in Europe have expanded substantially in recent decades. By the end of August 2026, meteorological drought affected around 46% of Europe, with 40% of the affected area under extreme drought, a much larger share than in 2025. See more: climate.copernicus.eu/european-sum...

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Jack (tehTrunk) @tehtrunk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Can I get from Tottenham to Nottingham using only public bus services?

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The latest UK Hydrological Outlook suggests below normal river flows & groundwater levels are set to persist across Wales and eastern & southern England following a dry September. Normal to above normal flows in Scotland, Northern Ireland and northwest England. 🔗 hydoutuk.net/latest-outlook

Map of UK with shaded areas showing principal aquifers

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