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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#FOTW Daily Post 9 We're in uncharted territory The air you are breathing today is different in composition to any breathed by humans before. This is because CO2 levels are higher than at any time in the last 14 Million years, and still climbing Please share + tag 2 #FateOfTheWorld

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#FOTW Daily Post 6 Imagine heat so humid you can't sweat. No water, no shade will save you — organ failure within 6 hours. These 'wet-bulb' heatwaves become more common as the planet gets hotter. Not distant. Not abstract. Please share + tag 2 #FateOfTheWorld #TogetherUnstoppable

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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today one Russian paper claims “Russia’s military has been given political blank cheque to carry out full demilitarisation & deindustrialisation of Ukraine.” But nothing in the papers from Irkutsk, where there have been reports of a potentially “dangerous infection.” #ReadingRussia

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What are Russian newspapers saying about reports of a potentially "dangerous infection" in Irkutsk?

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#FOTW Daily Post 5 Favourite denier myth - volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans Ask me or any other volcanologist — false Volcanoes: ~300 million tonnes CO2/year. Humans: 130 times more Please pass on the truth. Share and tag 2 others #FateOfTheWorld #TogetherUnstoppable

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Earlier this summer mosquitoes capable of transmitting Zika virus and dengue were found breeding in homes in east London" Oh joy! Another perk of global heating www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Worst ever outbreak of bluetongue hits British farms

Climate crisis blamed as virus that originated in Africa spreads to livestock as far north as Aberdeenshire

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Alison Spring @acspring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm going to be giving a few talks this October. Details at canva.link/u6s278v13pfp... See you there! #GenHour #AncestryHour #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“What is happening in the equatorial Pacific is jaw-dropping and could well mark one of the biggest global weather upheavals in a millennium,” said Prof Bill McGuire in the Guardian on Tuesday The hyper El Nino continues to obliterate records www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Jaw-dropping’: Super El Niño bursts through temperature record months ahead of peak

The ‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will heavily impact communities across the world

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Having just missed out on adaptation as a BBC Radio drama, Skyseed is now open to TV and film options "Hacking the Earth might be the last thing we ever do' Drop me a line if you think you might be interested

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Extreme weather during summer 2026 is estimated to have cost the EU 180 billion Euros But still governments refuse to acknowledge the scale of the threat and turn away from any serious, effective, action Hard to comprehend really www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’

Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in denial?

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Roberta Metsola @president.europarl.europa.eu · 15/09/2026

This is the story of Taraneh & Romina. Twin sisters dragged from their beds and sentenced by the Iranian regime. Two of many young people facing death or imprisonment for the crime of demanding to live free. @europarl.europa.eu will keep their light shining until it breaks through the darkness.

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Alan Godfrey Maps (3,900+ publications and counting!) @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As well as being a valuable genealogy and historical reference, our maps are often filled with literary connections; from Tolkien to Biggles, Jane Austen to Winnie the Pooh and far far beyond! Dive in to our website and see who you can find...

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So pleased to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social demanding the Government’s suppressed then redacted report on ecosystem collapse be published in full. People can’t prepare for what they don’t know - concealing this report is unforgivable #WildSummit

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Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full

Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The government simultaneously telling people to stock up on food, and going ahead with extracting more fossil fuels from the North Sea www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The fact that they are incapable of connecting the two, shows they haven't a clue about what climate breakdown actually means

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Jackdaw gas field set to be approved as soon as mid-September, sources say

The government is set to give the go-ahead for the gas field off the coast of Aberdeen, the BBC understands.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This would be a disaster in terms of driving yet more planet-heating carbon emissions - and the fact they’re being fast-tracked to avoid greater public scrutiny suggests a total disregard for public opinion

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Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds

Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Anybody done a #OnePlaceStudy of a mountain bothy? Not volunteering but am writing up previous inhabitants of Suileag where husband is maintenance organiser. Shepherd and family, wife also a shepherd’s daughter. Spent Monday night there. #Sutherland www.assyntfoundation.scot/suileag-bothy

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Suileag Bothy | Assynt Foundation

Assynt Foundation. Suileag Bothy on Glencanisp Estate is looked after by the Mountain Bothies Association (MBA).

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?

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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports

Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations

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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

VIDEO: Our interview with Russian journalist and Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov. Producer @bbcbentavener.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=IngA...

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Victory no longer possible for Putin, Dmitry Muratov tells Steve Rosenberg | BBC News

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels

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Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues

Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

What are this morning’s Russian papers saying about Saturday’s restaurant bombing in Moscow? Almost nothing. #ReadingRussia

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Russian newspapers barely mention the Moscow restaurant bombing

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Anne M Powers @annempowers.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Red admiral on the new buddleia.

Red Admiral butterfly on deep burgundy buddleia flower.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Good grief, this hits home.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 25/07/2026

Andy Burnham wants growth for every region. There's an obvious lever to pull to achieve it. That delivers a £92 billion economic boost. Distributed across the UK. And especially to manufacturing-intensive areas in the Midlands & North. The answer to his domestic policy agenda? EU membership.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

She was whipped by men whose religion, which was created by other men, doesn't think men have the self-control not to be tempted to assault her if they simply see her hair. Seems that the wrong people are being whipped.

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Iranian singer sentenced to 74 lashes for performing without hijab - rights group

The 29-year-old and eight other musicians have been punished by the autocratic regime for sharing ‘vulgar and immoral content’

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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Every traditional argument against the expansion of large-scale #solarfarms rests on the single idea that you cannot grow food on land covered by glass panels. But recent agricultural data has proven it wrong. French agrivoltaic trials released groundbreaking results from elevated solar canopies

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Alan Godfrey Maps (3,900+ publications and counting!) @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🔊Subscription announcement!🔊 10 x London Large Scale 1862-72; East End, Stepney & Limehouse. *Two maps* per publication with our specially written introductions! 🦜Early bird offer £30 + free postage before late June! Click the link for more information ❤️ www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/london-subsc...

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RegQualGenes @regqualgenes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Congratulations to RQG member Nicola Johnson on being awarded the Masters Dissertation Prize by the British Commission for Maritime History, for her work on the Titanic Relief Fund. Find out more about her work on allaboutancestors.com #Genealogy #Titanic #MaritimeHistory

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

My daughter's beloved child is the one I hold here. The one that I held on my lap While we looked at the light of the sun when we were alive, And that I still hold, now that we are both dead. - inscription on this c. 400 BCE Greek grave marker, carved with a grandmother holding a swaddled baby

Fragmentary marble sculpture of a woman and baby now in the Metropolitan Museum (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254695)

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 28/05/2026

Pint 87! Some more numbers for you. 4300 donations are needed every day. 140000 new donors are needed every year. Only 2% of people who are eligible to donate do. If you think you might be able to, please visit www.blood.co.uk. Give donation a shot in the arm.

A needle in my arm taking donation number 87. Yes you do feel it when it goes in but its short lived and there is no pain once you are flowing. You just get to put your feet up for a bit

You are brilliantly cared for by the teams at all the donation centres, and they travel around so you can fine one near you (or you can be like me and travel around a bit, see your region, and maybe donate a little bit sooner

I claim no credit for this great art work. Some ace painted rocks on the recovery table next to the big pile of squash, crisps and biscuits in the Newton Aycliife centre today

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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John Boeren, LLM, MSc, QG 🇳🇱 @antecedentia.com · 23/05/2026

Looking forward to my trip to Glasgow in June. I get to speak at the @strathgenealogy.bsky.social conference about ancestral tourism: how to bring #genealogy, #culturalheritage and travelling together to form a meaningful and fun experience. #familyhistory #academicgenealogy

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

If you would like to hear some of the mysteries connected to royal wardrobes past & the makers involved then do come along to #derbybookfestival this Thursday 28 May. Why was Queen Alexandra’s bodice cut in this unusual way? 1903 dress by Morin Blossier @romtoronto.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 18/05/2026

An NHS campaigner reveals how spy-tech giant Palantir tried to secretly hire influencers to smear Good Law Project 👀 🎧 Listen to The Shadow Contract👇 goodlaw.social/1e69ba

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Wera Hobhouse MP @werahobhouse.org.uk · 13/05/2026

Men are using Meta AI glasses to secretly film women at beaches, shops, on the street & on nights out. They then post these clips online where they receive a barrage of misogynistic abuse. I’m campaigning to make this behaviour an offence. Women deserve to feel safe in public spaces.

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Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever

The biggest tech firms are set to sell millions of smart glasses despite growing privacy concerns.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 11/05/2026

We were told our data would stay under NHS control. But an internal document just revealed the truth: Palantir staff are being granted “unlimited access”. Join us demanding this spy-tech firm gets out of our NHS 👇 goodlaw.social/658abc

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

For a year-and-a-half, I've been attempting to get to the bottom of a photograph showing Nigel Farage posing with far-right activists. Our new investigation casts fresh doubts on Farage’s claim that he refuses to associate with extreme elements of the populist right bylinetimes.com/2026/05/06/r...

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Reform UK Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church

For a year-and-a-half, Byline Times has attempted to get to the bottom of a photograph showing the party’s leader with far-right activists. Now, this newspaper's findings cast fresh doubts on Farage’s...

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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

In today’s Russian papers: Stalin rehabilitated, Soviet jeans remembered, Nato “fragmented” and Moscow wondering “will Nato’s foundation stone, the Article 5 principle of collective security, work?” #ReadingRussia

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From Stalin to Soviet jeans: Russian newspapers remember the past.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 27/04/2026

Is global warming tipping key Atlantic ocean currents towards ‘collapse’? ✍️ @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org 🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org and Kerry Cleaver Read here ➡️ buff.ly/mgaIBvM

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John Boeren, LLM, MSc, QG 🇳🇱 @antecedentia.com · 24/04/2026

I arrived in Birmingham yesterday. Had a first glimpse of what the city has to offer. More sightseeing today, but also the informal start of the RQG @regqualgenes.bsky.social conference. That is the reason why I am here! #RQGConf2026

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 24/04/2026

Great Britain's electricity grid hit 98.8% zero carbon during a 30-minute period on the afternoon of 22 April, @neso-energy.bsky.social says. Solar generation may (they're still checking) have hit a record 15 GW between 1200 and 1300 on 23 April, also.

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John Boeren, LLM, MSc, QG 🇳🇱 @antecedentia.com · 15/04/2026

We’ve got a few tickets left. So be quick. Will I see you in Birmingham next week? #genealogy #familyhistory #RQGConf2026

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Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

In 1835, two men broke into the Green Man Pub in Chesterfield and stole various items, including spoons which they tried to sell to a pawnbroker's in Sheffield. Our latest blog post relates how the investigation unfolded and eventually led to both men being sent to Tasmania:

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A Pub Robbery in Chesterfield

I recently came across some interesting examinations given as evidence for a robbery at the Green Man Pub in Chesterfield in October 1835. Luckily, I was also able to follow the story, and the outc…

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