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TIL "She sells seashells by the seashore" is (likely) about Mary Anning. Despite transforming the science of paleontology, she had no official capacity as a scientist and sold seashells to make ends meet as men profited off her discoveries monetarily and professionally. youtube.com/shorts/2B8Iw...

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The Real Origins Behind This Famous Tongue Twister

YouTube video by Today I Learned Science

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 17h

Great things happen when you just leave a wood alone.

Old path through ancient woodland in Knoydart. The colours are slightly turning and there are furns and mossy patches at ground level.

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 19h

In the year I've been working w/ air pollution regulators on data center on-site emissions, I've seen almost no acknowledgement of this trend from energy-side advocates of data center buildout. This isn't just bad actors-it's a corporate playbook and a roadmap to a future of unconstrained emissions.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 21h

Knoydart. It's remote and only accessible by boat or via a very long walk. Well today we nearly moved there when border collie Shep point blank refused to board the boat back to civilisation. Luckily the experienced staff of Western Isle Cruises were able to pick him up and lob him on board. Phew.

Rainbow over loch Nevis looking towards Knoydart with a tiny white house amongst the mountains at the shore line.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I won't bore you with all the photos I took of tonight's sunset but these clouds over the peaks of Rum were a particular highlight.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I do love a beach holiday. Especially when it's an hour long hike through knee deep bog to get there.

The stunning Rhue beach with grass and sand in the foreground leading to fluffy clouds and blue sky.

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Dr Gary Fuller @drgaryfuller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Last year’s air pollution conference at the RSC was a sell-out, so we are running it again in collaboration with DEFRA’s Air Quality Expert Group, with presentations and discussion focused on the group’s work on airports, amines and carbon capture and wildfires. www.rsc.org/events/find-...

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Air Quality in the 21st Century

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm imagining living here; with views over Eigg and Rum (to the left) and the Cuillins on Skye (to the right). No neighbours to speak of. Quite a long walk from your parking space. And the nearest supermarket...?? Still it looks idyllic.

White house in the long grass at Smirisary with views out to sea and the small isles and the Cuillins in the distance.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Matterhorn SE face 27th sept. 2026 We are leaving a desert to next generations... 🔥 📷 Via Niko Froitzheim

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I always print my pictures dark,” he said. “I want my picture to hurt you. I don’t want you having any free rides. I’m there to upset you, and I’m there to make you feel uncomfortable... Otherwise, there’s no point in me going there in the first place.” www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/...

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“I want my picture to hurt you.” Now 90, renowned Vietnam War photographer Don McCullin shares why he wants to create photos to lose sleep over – and why he hates his most famous photograph | Digital Camera World

Ahead of his final book – and 91st birthday – Don McCullin recounts stories of working as a war photographer through decades of global conflict

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can see why the sky featured.

Sunset over Traigh beach with Rhum in the background.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Name the film featuring this most beautiful of beaches. Oil and the sky were its two main themes.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Driven through mini tsunami like waves from standing water to get to the NW Scottish coast. A tiny bit of sunset was offered before another hail storm. You've got to love the drama of the weather up here.

The sun setting off the coast at Arisaig.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We're all excited because Jarvis played Blitzkrieg Bop (c the Ramones) by @commonerschoir.bsky.social and the West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra on Music6 this afternoon and gave a nice plug for the 5 track EP from which it comes.

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Doctors and Scientists Against Wood Smoke Pollution @dsawsp.org · 19/09/2026

“The strongest association was observed for PM2.5… People living in areas with the highest levels of pollution had up to 70% higher odds of glaucoma compared with those living in the least polluted areas…”

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-heathrow... There's not a lot to disagree with here. If we had sector based emissions targets there would be no excuse for allowing the expansion of aviation as a means of producing economic growth.

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CCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’ - Carbon Brief

Aviation is on track to be responsible for 80% of the UK’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC).

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Last night Leeds Community Tango Orchestra played at the Leeds Music Club which has been an amateur performance space since 1932 (who knew). It's only our 2nd performance and only my 2nd double bass gig since 1984! It was fun. If you're a string or accordion player interested in playing get in touch

Leeds community tango orchestra playing in Adel Leeds.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

New trig point on Hutton Roof Crags. Amazing all round views from Ingleborough and Pen Y Ghent featured here to the lakeland fells and Heysham power station. Love this lesser visited part of the lakes. So much more vegetation.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Unalloyed good news as order placed for UK's first fleet of battery electric trains. Zero emission services are on their way for the TransPennine lines (in a decade or so's time). www.businessgreen.com/news/4535608...

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UK's first major battery-electric train fleet to run across Pennines in 'landmark' £1bn deal

Plans unveiled for £1bn investment to build new fleet of 29 battery-electric trains at Alstom's Derby facility, enabling smoother, quieter, faster, and greener travel across the Pennines

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Am very saddened by this news. Many years ago Megan loaned us some ultrasonic equipment to help solve an experimental problem we were struggling with. We shared some snowy UCU rallies. To transition at the peak of an academic career is very a brave thing. A unique person lost from the University.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It certainly is not, particularly since most of these vessels will be operating on marine diesel without pollution aftertreatment systems.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tired of all the AI nonsense going around? Go and stand on a moor and listen to the wind...

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Ilikecaketoo (UK) @ilikecaketoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I do love a moortop installation and harmonic fields on Baildon Moor did not disappoint. So many different ways in which the wind can interact with structure to produce ever changing sound shapes. On until Sunday.

A cello on top of a moor with a single lengthy string attached to a pole.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Where am I? Under surprisingly blue skies given the location although it's clouded over now...

River side reflections featuring a variety of architectural styles and ages.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Did the BBC not send a photographer on the parade?? Well at least Leeds got a mention for its superb carnival thats nearly as old as me... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Leeds West Indian Carnival still thrills after 59 years

The annual event brings a touch of late summer colour, excitement and culture to Leeds.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Carnival! The real one in Chapeltown, not that other one in London. A fabulous weekend as always. #IloveLeeds

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Pleased to see Tories are still incapable of learning the lesson that “ending the war on motorists” is not an election winning stance in London, which has the highest walking & cycling rates, lowest car ownership & best public transport of anywhere in Britain. It’s like they don’t know any of this

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The biggest risk is never on the risk register. In this case the government pandering to manufacturered populism and prejudices refuses to take simple, costless, steps (taking students out of immigration figures) that would have preserved the sector.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 28/08/2026

Not sure why this gets lost in basically every conversation about energy affordability, but the bills we pay depend on both prices and usage. Energy efficiency, from appliance standards to building codes, is the most effective energy affordability policy in US history and there's not a close 2nd.

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Watch this. Then order that heat pump you've been meaning to get around to for a while.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In case you're wondering about the best way to spend your evening.

The guitar chords for Jolene. Am C G Am G Am.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Oh lordy what a loss. It's a cliche to say they don't write them like that any more, but they don't do they?? This is one of my favs but I also can't forget playing Jolene with old pals over the years. 😪😪 youtu.be/Sz5cOv4_e_U?...

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Dolly Parton - Hard Candy Christmas (performed live Dec 1988 w Bob Hope intro)(stereo)

YouTube video by Kelly's Classics

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

At Bradford Cartwright Hall to see the Jim Moir exhibition amongst other things. Very good. Who knew that Vic Reeves was born in Leeds and trained as an apprentice mechanical engineer.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I do like a tree tunnel, especially if it involves scrawny hawthorns.

Looking down a natural tunnel with a mossy dry stone wall on one side and a line of scrawny hawthorns on the other.

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Dr Gary Fuller @drgaryfuller.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“When the air cleared, fewer patients filled the cardiac wards. This regional transition serves as a microcosm of what can be achieved globally through sustained emission reductions.” My latest for @theguardian.com on West Macedonia, Bradford, ULEZ and more. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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What happens to people’s health when air pollution is reduced?

Growing evidence that cutting coal use and bans on high-polluting vehicles are leading directly to health benefits

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Grown my first pumpkin! Small but definitely looks like one.

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Covered by BBC here. An absolute vindication of the work of so many campaigners over the years. @ellarobertafdn.bsky.social, @mumsforlungs.bsky.social, @cleanairlondon.bsky.social, Elaine Francis from Mapping for Change, multiple academics and groups across London. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone

Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I suspect it will be even more extreme for Chinese students in the UK because they are also using AI for translation which means their working English never improves to the level required to do well in an exam.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It's proper raining up on the moors. Hurrah!

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Good point. Going through the IPCC AR6 report to prepare climate science lectures I had a few moments of "well I want to show this updated data but why has the presentation become so much more complex, and how the hell am I going to explain that to Chinese students who's English isn't great".

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Here’s a bank saying the thing that everyone else in the EU can see with their own eyes. If you weaken climate action because you want better economic outcomes, your economic outcomes get much worse because of the bad climate change you could have acted on.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

How low can media commentary go? Apparently as low as this. Shameful.

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Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Describe your music taste with only three artists. Hard but here goes... 1. A Certain Ratio 2. Larry Heard 3. Astor Piazzolla

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