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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 01/10/2026

No other city in the world has 4 universities in the top 50. Congrats to Imperial, UCL, King’s College and LSE. Another feather in London’s (graduation) cap as the greatest city in the world.

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World university rankings 2027: Where are London's institutions on the list?

The US and UK dominated the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, but which London university was highest?

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Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Breakfast I'm sharing a b&w shot of my amazing city, and its people, on as many days of 2026 as possible. #London #lovelondon #streetphotography

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 24/09/2026

The debate on AI is often framed as a choice between unchecked optimism and outright rejection. In truth, neither is right. The new AI Cities Index shows London is leading the way as we work to unlock AI's transformative benefits while managing its very real risks.

observer.co.uk

Sadiq Khan: London is ready to show the world how AI can ...

The technology is not without its risks, but it is also integral to our economic revival. It’s time the international community came together to ensure it is pioneered safely

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Gav Gordon🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @gavgordontogo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A Scottish Gym 📷 Rollei 35S 🎞️ Ilford HP5 #believeinfilm

Black-and-white photo looking down steep stone stairs flanked by classic street lamps and stone buildings toward an urban street curve.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every time I return to Paris, I notice they've done more to reclaim streets from drivers and cars, including removing on-street parking, protecting cyclists from drivers, and prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists in shared spaces. Other cities can learn a lot from Paris.

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Christoph Fischer Photography @beautysurroundsyou.com · 21/09/2026

The magnificent dead trees of Namibia's Deadvlei draw beautiful graphical shapes against a neighbouring red dune, towering more than 300 m/ 1000ft above. A unique, almost surreal scene, so typical of Namibia! #100%human #landscapephotography #photography #naturephotography #bluesky

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. — Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan sitting on a wooden garden bench, smiling at the camera with hands clasped, wearing a dark overcoat, light trousers and black shoes, against a stone wall with flowers.

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Support the journalists

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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We spent thousands of years trying to produce enough food, shelter and energy for everyone. We finally became capable of doing it. Then we invented shareholders.

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Christoph Fischer Photography @beautysurroundsyou.com · 02/09/2026

A one of a kind moment in Namibia's Deadvlei as dust, blown by strong winds, & illuminated by the morning sun, forms a stunning backdrop to the graceful dead trees which populate this unique part of the world. #100%human #photography #landscapephotography #nature #bluesky #naturephotography

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

One of the best job applications ever written came from the hands of Robert Pirosh in 1934. MGM loved it, took him on and in 1949 he won an Oscar for ‘Battleground’.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I love how the way our economy works is Moderna announces "so yeah we might have just cured cancer" and their stock price rockets to a third of Tesla, the people who make vehicles that explode

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annmonty.bsky.social @annmonty.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I love the mosh-mash of London. Photo taken during lockdown in 2020 - hence no vehicles in sight.

Photo taken in London in 2020 showing extreme differences between ancient and very modern buildings side by side.

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In the Spotlight The dramatic lighting & architecture at Baker Street station naturally draw commuters into the spotlight. Every time I'm there, it feels as though they're about to step onto a stage So I asked dancer Viola to pose beneath the lights, poised as if ready to dance

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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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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 13/07/2026

London's firefighters have shown extraordinary dedication over this period of high demand and challenging conditions. Thank you for all you do to keep our city safe. As the hot weather continues, it is important that Londoners follow all fire prevention guidance to help reduce the risk of fires.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Climate denial is out of touch with reality. You trust science for vaccines, surgery, and your smartphone,but deny climate science? Stop cherry-picking. Time to reject the lies and stand for our planet’s future. Like + RT to spread truth. #ClimateCrisis

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 03/07/2026

I’ve just frozen tram and bus fares again up to November. With our Weekend Hopper Fare during the school holidays - unlimited daily bus journeys for the price of one - we’re making it cheaper and easier for Londoners to get across the city.

Fares freeze?
Go on then.

Image of the Hopper Bus and Mayor of London

Bus and tram fares have been frozen
until November as the new Weekend
Hopper helps Londoners make the
most of the capital this summer.

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LONDON

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland fans stayed in Providence because it was way cheaper than Boston for the #WorldCup. To say thanks, they raised nearly $30,000 for local #charities. Pretty awesome how a soccer trip turned into something that helps a whole community. ⚽

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Scotland Fans Donate Nearly $30K to Providence Charities amid World Cup Group Stage

In addition to celebrating their country's 1-0 win over Haiti at the FIFA World Cup 2026 on Saturday, Scotland fans have found Providence so welcoming they're collectively making a significant donatio...

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A thousand times this. The BBC would also benefit from not giving a shit what the Daily Mail has to say about anything.

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Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

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Randy Douglas @randydouglas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

If you would never drive a Tesla, you should also consider not buying cheap crap from Amazon. Stop funding the oligarchs.

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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

South Africa has seen a major rise in low-cost renewable energy innovations specifically designed to support off-grid and rural communities. One of the most creative solutions involves repurposing old, discarded satellite dishes into highly efficient solar concentrators. #ActOnClimate #Renewables

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

@be-giant.bsky.social I just read about a kid who built an AI #recycling sorter after seeing how much stuff gets tossed in the wrong bins 🤖♻️ Pretty cool how one simple idea turned into tech that could actually help cities waste less stuff.

begiant.ca

Meet Oscar Sort, the cute AI helping us recycle better

Oscar Sort scans garbage to take the brainwork out of what goes in the bin – and drastically improve rates of recycling

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 08/05/2026

Happy 100th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough, a man who has inspired me and millions of others not just to see the beauty in the countless lifeforms that make up our precious natural world, but to acknowledge my own responsibility to preserve and protect it. Thank you, Sir David.

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Eva Amsen @evaamsen.com · 02/05/2026

Last year, @absw.bsky.social Young Science Writer of the Year (and secondary school student) Hasset Kifle already covered the link between shoes and running records. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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How 'super shoes' transformed running

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Together Alliance @togetheralliance.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Emotional. We turned up in our hundreds of thousands. With love, joy and hope in bucketloads. Know that today wasn’t the end of a journey, it was the beginning. This is how we’ll turn the tide against the far right. We outnumber them, now let’s outorganise them.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Kenya and Zimbabwe are among the first African countries to offer #lenacapavir, a game-changing #HIV prevention injection that's shown 100% efficacy 💉. You only need it twice a year. Kenya is already giving it out free at public clinics 🇰🇪, while Zimbabwe is rolling it out across 24 sites 🇿🇼.

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Kenya to offer patients free six-month HIV 'breakthrough' prevention jab

Kenya's health authorities have begun administering lenacapavir, a long-acting HIV prevention drug delivered by injection that offers protection for six months. The treatment will be available free of...

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annmonty.bsky.social @annmonty.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

It has taken me 20 years to understand that the the only reliable indication that Summer has truly started in London, are the early morning vapor trails seen from my bedroom window.

Multiple vapour trails crisscrossing London’s skyline.

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annmonty.bsky.social @annmonty.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

So good to see the amazing view from my office window, with a blue- sky background for the first time this year. Lucky to live in London.

The rooftops of a building in the Clerkenwell area of London with a sunny background.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 26/02/2026

Delighted to announce that following the consultation, I'm giving the green light to make Oxford Street traffic-free.

bbc.co.uk

Oxford Street pedestrianisation plan gets final official approval

City Hall hopes to stop traffic from using the street by September.

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Eva Amsen @evaamsen.com · 24/02/2026

Something I worked on last year is now live: the Digital Museum of Learning (@dmolearning.bsky.social) story "What can I learn from sounds?" It's meant for children and part of the larger "Teaming up with Technology for Learning" virtual exhibition. #scicomm www.museumoflearning.org/stories/what...

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What can I learn from sounds?

Sounds are everywhere. People make sound when they talk or play music, but you can hear other sounds as well. Maybe you hear birds singing outside, the wind blowing through the trees or traffic noises...

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Who invented non-reflective glass? American physicist & chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett in 1938. It revolutionized optics--& led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. #WomenInSTEM #inventor

Black-and-white 1950s photograph of physicist Katharine Burr Blodgett in her General Electric laboratory. Seated at a desk, she wears glasses and a striped short-sleeved blouse, holding a ruler and examining papers with focused intensity. Shelves of bottles and equipment line the background — the workspace of the woman who invented non-reflective glass.

Side-by-side demonstration of Katharine Burr Blodgett's 1938 invention: non-reflective glass. Left: three colorful yarn balls (red, blue, yellow) are clearly visible through coated glass with no glare. Right: the same balls appear blurred and distorted by reflections through ordinary clear glass. A powerful visual proof of the invisible coating that revolutionized lenses, windows, and screens.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Biochemist Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn was born #OTD in 1948. She shared the 2009 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the enzyme telomerase & how chromosomes are protected by telomeres. This has 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 implications for the fields of #aging and #cancer research. #WomenInSTEM

Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, stands with arms crossed and a calm, confident smile, wearing a black blazer over a red top, shoulder-length silver-gray hair, and wire-rimmed glasses. Behind her is a blurred, vibrant red-and-orange abstract backdrop. A pioneering woman in STEM who reshaped our understanding of aging and DNA.

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Eva Amsen @evaamsen.com · 12/11/2025

If you're in London on November 29th, come to London Euphonia Orchestra's concert "From Arabian Nights to Hollywood Lights", in which we play both Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade and film music from E.T., Star Wars, Jurassic Park and Greatest Showman. www.londoneuphonia.com

Concert poster announcing "From Arabian Nights to Hollywood Lights", by London Euphonia Orchestra on November 29th

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annmonty.bsky.social @annmonty.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Many thanks to @londonfirebrigade.bsky.social for their proactive approach to fire prevention. They very helpfully installed new smoke alarms in my flat today. THANK YOU!

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

TWO WEEKS AWAY from publication of #TheCutThroatTrial and hardbacks have landed! They exist! This is happening! As Counting Crows crooned in Shrek, I think I’m accidentally in love. If grimly authentic crime fiction is your bag, you can pre-order in paper, e-book and audio here bio.to/7zNmPU

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This is Jakob Two Trees, a wooden troll living in the forest created by Danish artist Thomas Dambo. It's huge. 14 ft tall. There are six of them in the #PNW (each different). Amazing - just there, out in the woods, for all to see! #art #seattle #love #socool #photography #sculpture #hiking #walk

Gigantic wooden sculpture of a troll between four large trees. His hands wrapped around two of them. My lovely wife is standing next to the troll looking up at him and is dwarved by the sculpture. He is wearing a necklace of birdhouses to interact even more with nature.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Farage should never be interviewed without being forced to answer for failures of Brexit. That the man whose lies fuelled Brexit vote which has cost UK Billions & who said Liz Truss budget was “best Tory budget since 1986” could be trusted on *anything* is mind-boggling #bbclaura

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annmonty.bsky.social @annmonty.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A most intriguing stat from the latest “Births in England and Wales 2023” from ONS (UK): “Boxing Day (26 December) remained the least likely birth date for the 11th year in a row”.

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Bullet Train Looking back at one of my fave photos this year A train shoots out of the tunnel, down the platform & towards a Hamilton theatre poster. It looks like the man is staring down the barrel of his shotgun at the approaching train at Oxford Circus Underground station #photography #railway

Train Arrives at Oxford Circus London Underground station

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