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Dr Anna Ridgewell

@aridge.bsky.social
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Interdisciplinary social scientist, interested in equity in education, childhood geographies and participatory research methodologies. University of Sussex. 📚🤓🤔 Views my own.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/08/2026
Coral reefs around the world, struggling as climate change drives more frequent and more intense marine heat waves, are running out of time for recovery, according to a sweeping new report on the state of the world’s corals published on Monday. nyti.ms/3UmY6OZ
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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Get your Green future at Polanski Stores! 🛒 ✅️ Tax the super-rich ✅️ Lower bills ✅️ Sewage-free rivers ✅️ Real climate action The Green Party are selling a future for people and planet. Buy yours today - #VoteGreen
Mock up of photo of Zack Polanski standing outside a shop holding a basket of vegetables, overlaid with policy phrases including “Tax wealth”, “Lower bills”, “Funded NHS”, “Clean rivers” and “Climate action”, alongside a newspaper-style headline from the Express reading “Zany Zack Polanski’s Green Party are selling a future that nobody sane would choose” and a link to join.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Renewables have overtaken coal. Now is NOT the time to turn back the clock on progress. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
ember-energy.org
Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember
Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.
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Marcus @mmaarrccuuss.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
@thewaroncars.bsky.social "We need greener cities, with fewer cars" www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
bbc.com
'With power comes responsibility' - Hector Bellerin wins BBC Green Sports Award
Former Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin talks about his attempts to live a more sustainable life as he wins the BBC Green Sports Award.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Zack Polanski’s response to the Manchester terror attack has been a masterclass in mature statesmanship. Soulful, human, eloquent, empathetic, nuanced, confident and focused on healing. And bold. It has shone in contrast to so much weaponising or ill thought through commentary. Thank you Zack. 💪
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Wildfires are becoming unstoppable It can only be a matter of time before a major urban centre is obliterated www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
theguardian.com
Wildfires are getting deadlier and costing more. Experts warn they’re becoming unstoppable
Of 200 fires in the past 44 years, half of the fires that cost US$1bn or more were in the last decade
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 03/10/2025
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Fascinated by her exact blend of over-confidence, where you can see her doing that weird blinking thing she does when 'her complete lack of preparation or genuine intellectual curiosity' collides with 'facts she had not previously bothered to be across'.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
UK nature is amongst the most depleted on the planet And the government is determined to keep it that way www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development
Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people." Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
"the Labour government’s determination to roll back environmental laws in its push for growth will put some of the UK’s most precious and protected land at risk of destruction by housebuilding" Starmer's war on nature continues..... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Desecration of landscape’: the fight over development in areas of outstanding natural beauty
Residents of Woodgate estate in West Sussex enjoy its open spaces and wildlife but conservationists say it has set worrying precedent
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
For 'rethink' read weaken Starmer - a former human rights lawyer - panders to Farage and Reform once again Despicable cowardice www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
theguardian.com
Starmer to rethink human rights law to tackle ‘Farage boats’
Prime minister blames Brexit for surge in numbers of small boat crossings but defends UK’s membership of ECHR
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Is this actually a surprise to anyone out there? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Secret BBC filming exposes hidden culture of racism and misogyny inside Met Police
Panorama undercover investigation captures evidence that
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
nbcnews.com
After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts
At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
"below-the-radar operations to oust the prime minister are already in place" I really do hope so - out of his depth and out of time www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
theguardian.com
Can Keir survive? Inside the plot to bring down the prime minister
With his government mired in scandal, an operation to dethrone Starmer is now under way
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Just Stop Oil @just-stopoil.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
🚨 BREAKING: GANTRY CLIMBERS NOT GUILTY A jury found Sam, Isobel and Rachel not guilty of public nuisance at Guilford Crown Court today, after they climbed gantries above the M25 in 2022. The jury decided they had a reasonable excuse for taking action.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
To many American pundits liberalism isn’t a system of values to fight for but just a framework for civil discourse. Even on those pallid terms, Kirk’s discourse wasn’t civil and he didn’t defend free speech. He ran a McCarthyite blacklist of left-wing academics!
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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Dr Anna Ridgewell @aridge.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"...climate change makes up only about 1% of media coverage...many stories about disasters linked to climate change fail to mention the link, or mention climate change at all. Making these connections clearer may encourage stronger public support for climate action." This cannot happen fast enough.
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Dr Anna Ridgewell @aridge.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Pet sounds!
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Dr Anna Ridgewell @aridge.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Oh I'm so sad to hear this. Brian Wilson was one of the greats. A true musical visionary. RIP.
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Dr Anna Ridgewell @aridge.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Once these places are gone, they will be gone forever.
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Dr Anna Ridgewell @aridge.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Eddie Cochran knew.
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Dr Anna Ridgewell @aridge.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
"The number of cars with extremely high bonnets is “very disproportionate” in the UK." 😞 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
theguardian.com
Ever-rising height of car bonnets a ‘clear threat’ to children, report says
High-fronted SUVs are more likely to kill and are on the rise in Europe, with the UK an extreme example
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Shocked, shocked I tell you!
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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
In Ireland, too many people are cut off from nature—and with it, the health benefits it brings. Access to green space shouldn’t depend on owning a car. Nature should be for everyone.
thejournal.ie
Bad weather and lack of public transport among barriers keeping people from nature last summer
While people cited bad weather and a lack of public transport as barriers to being in nature, only 3% of those surveyed didn’t spend any time in nature last summer.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I mean.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
UK musicians hit with £914M+ loss post-Brexit. Streams, tickets, vinyl - it’s grim. Join @europeanmovement.co.uk to sign the petition: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/brexit_music...
europeanmovement.co.uk
Total Cost to Musicians Since Brexit - European Movement UK
The cost of Brexit to UK musicians is staggering. Discover the impact in Spotify streams, Wembley tickets, vinyl LPs, and more. Support the campaign and sign the petition!
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”. The man is a fraud.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 07/03/2025
The FAA approved another launch before the last crash investigation was completed — and it ended in another disaster. Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
It’s borderline criminal.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy #IWD2025 💚. This year’s theme is #AccelerateAction. At the current rate of progress, it will take until 2158 - roughly 5 generations from now - to reach full gender parity. It couldn’t be more urgent to break down the systemic barriers that women face, & to create a future safe for all 💪
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 08/03/2025
There is an alternative to Government welfare cuts - a 2% tax on wealth. There is no shortage of money here, we just need a fairer approach to tax - take more from the few not the many.
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OldBiker @oldbiker.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Did you know David Gilmour once sold his £3 million London mansion and donated every penny to a homeless charity called Crisis? He said, "I don't need all this luxury while others are fighting for a roof." No media catwalk, no rockstar egos-just pure generosity. He quietly changed lives❤️
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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Andrew Learmonth @andrewlearmonth.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Richard Tice came to Glasgow today to reveal Reform UK’s latest defectors. It did not go well. Got stuck when the Daily Mail’s Tom Gordon asked him for their names.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
What a load of old bollocks - Farage shouldn’t be allowed to get away with spouting this nonsense. The CBI reported just last week that the net zero sector is growing 3 times faster than the overall UK economy, & renewable energy is far cheaper than fossil fuels 🙄
thesun.co.uk
Net Zero is hiking your bills - UK industry is being MASSACRED by Labour
IT is clear for all to see that Sir Keir Starmer and his Government can’t stop talking about Reform UK. Up until just a few weeks ago, the Prime Minister had not mentioned us once in the House of C…
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Dr Owen Emmerson @drowenemmerson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
On #WorldBookDay2025, I thought I’d share one of the things I love most about #AnneBoleyn’s Books of Hours at Hever: their smell! Their ‘bibliosmia’ is a blend of cocoa, vanilla and spent fires that seep from the vellum as you turn their pages. If only I could bottle that scent.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“Is President Trump a Russian asset?” Jeff Merkley United States Senator
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MaTT FLaMMaBLe @mattflammable.com · 06/03/2025
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment. Happy World Book Day.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Anyone have that sinking feeling happening?
Social media post by John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz
) reading: 'I still can’t believe 77 million people rebooked on the Titanic.' The post includes a profile picture of John Pavlovitz wearing a plaid shirt.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Well said!
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