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Ian Wallace

@cannockwanderer.bsky.social
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Explorer of the U.K. and the world. MSc student at University of Kent. Research interests include #walrus #wildlifetrade #ivory, connections between #anthropology and #conservation Supporter of Crystal Palace Football Club 🔴🔵 🏳️‍🌈 All views are my own

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Gorton & Denton is between the Green Party and Reform. And Farage knows his candidate is weak as. Hannah Spencer for the win.
Farage rejects Polanskis request for tv debate as Gorton byelection heats up
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
To remove a peer from the Lords requires a piece of primary legislation - an Act of Parliament. The clearest reason yet to change the whole thing to be elected representatives of the people we can boot out #mandelson #epstein #houseoflords #democracy #elections
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Let's talk about who funds Reform. Let's talk about how disastrous Brexit has been. Let's talk about why Gorton & Denton must vote Green & stop Reform. Why so quiet, Nigel Farage?
Zack Polanski challenges Nigel Farage to show down debate.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It’s been a while since I’ve seen a Downfall satire. Excellent time for a comeback
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Law enforcement without accountability is denial of justice
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Trump dodged the Vietnam war draft. 457 British Soldiers died in Afghanistan. I know whose opinion to listen to. Clue: It’s not Trump
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 20/01/2026
📸 This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope image reveals the intricacies of the Helix Nebula in stunning detail! 🧬 🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/01/Webb_reveals_Helix_Nebula_in_glistening_detail @science.esa.int @stsci.edu
A closeup of a small section of the Helix Nebula, an expanding shell of gas and dust. Thousands of orange and gold comet-like pillars stream upward from the bottom, like thin liquid blown up a sheet of glass. These pillars are around the circumference of the arced shell, which forms a partial orange semi-circle at the bottom. The pillars are more numerous and denser at the bottom, and darker red. They fade to orange and then yellow in the arc. In the top two-thirds, they are thinner and more golden, and it’s easier to see the black background of space. Several bright blue stars, some with diffraction spikes, are scattered throughout. A few larger stars are on the right side.
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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Red Kite (Milvus milvus): A distinctive large, graceful raptor with a long, forked, rusty-orange tail. Flies with easy languid wingbeats & lazy glides, circling gracefully. Thank you again Matt Trevillion for sharing your photo taken in Cambridgeshire, UK. #redkite #kite #wildlife #nature #cambridge
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 18/01/2026
📸 This was our #WeekInImages 12-16 January 2026. 🧪🔭 🔗 esa.int/About_Us/Week_in_images/Week_in_images_12-16_January_2026
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image over the South Atlantic Ocean features a close-up view of the A23a iceberg, once the world’s largest. The unusually cloud-free image shows the first signs that the iceberg will soon disintegrate completely.Captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 on 11 January 2026, this image shows active wildfires near Lake Rivadavia in Los Alerces National Park, Argentina, observed from low Earth orbit.Our fourth European Service Module arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States, last December. This powerhouse will propel Orion and its crew safely towards the Moon and back during the Artemis IV mission, and provide them with breathable air, drinkable water, and a comfortable temperature throughout their lunar journey. This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a full view of the Circinus galaxy, a nearby spiral galaxy about 13 million light-years away. The inset highlights a close-up from Webb of the galaxy’s core, where infrared observations pierce through dust to reveal hot material feeding its central supermassive black hole. Webb’s image, made using the Aperture Masking Interferometer (AMI) tool on its NIRISS (Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph) instrument, isolates hot dust in the immediate surroundings of the supermassive black hole, revealing that most of the infrared emission comes from a compact, dusty structure feeding the black hole rather than from outflowing material. In the Webb image, the inner face of the torus glows in infrared light, while the darker areas represent where the outer ring is blocking light.
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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
600-year-old #Viking #shipwreck is the largest of its kind. The medieval ‘cog’ was nearly 92 feet long and featured castles on its bow and stern. Link for more information and photos: www.popsci.com/science/larg...
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 17/01/2026
So the question now is this: who are you going to trust? Doctors and PhDs who did the research, all specialising in foetal and maternal health? Or an orange, geriatric former game-show host with multiple criminal convictions who famously struggles to pronounce the word “nuclear”?
Paracetamol is safe in pregnancy, says study refuting
Trump autism claims
Philippa Roxby and Jim Reed - Health reporters
[Credit: Getty Images]
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Early depiction of work-based shenanigans. #MosaicMonday Huqoq Synagogue, Israel. blog.lostartpress.com/2024/04/07/r...
An ancient mosaic showing a variety of woodworkers, including a couple of men on the left sawing a vertical plank with a frame saw, and on the right two men fighting, one with a mallet and one using a frame saw as weapons.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/12/2025
‘Zack is a phenomenal leader’: Siân Berry on the Green party’s next steps as membership doubles
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‘Zack is a phenomenal leader’: Siân Berry on the Green party’s next steps as membership doubles
Since Zack Polanski took over as leader, the party has doubled its membership and its four MPs want to take on Reform’s anger and build community spirit
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Well done to everyone involved! www.theguardian.com/environment/... #illegalwildlifetrade #conservation #CITES #iucn
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Snakes, spiders and rare birds seized by Border Force in month-long operation
Wildlife smuggling is serious organised crime that ‘fuels corruption and drives species to extinction’, Home Office says
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
There’s two people claiming to be England openers at the crease at the moment. This can’t be right as neither of them are out for a duck and both have reached double figures. Who are they and what have they done with the real Crawley and Duckett? #cricket #auseng #theashes
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
#OTD in 1967, Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars & changed our view of the universe. 𝘉𝘶𝘵... The #Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery went to to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish & to astronomer Martin Ryle. theconversation.com/fifty-years-... #WomenInSTEM #astrophysics #MatildaEffect
Split image: Main photo — black-and-white portrait of young Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the 1960s, smiling broadly in front of the large lattice structure at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (SW of Cambridge in the UK). Inset (left) — color portrait of Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell today, short graying hair, glasses, and a warm smile, wearing a blue jacket.
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David Roberts @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
BBC News - Puffins: Isle of Muck comeback 'proves restoration works' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Puffins: Isle of Muck comeback 'proves restoration works'
Puffins have been seen on the Isle of Muck off Antrim for the first time in at least 25 years
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 05/11/2025
Sea otters have underarm pockets that they keep food and their favourite stones in.
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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 03/11/2025
According to a medieval Irish legal text on cats called Catslechtae (Cat-Sections), if a cat is able to purr and to catch mice, it’s worth three cows and if it’s only able to purr, it’s worth one cow and a half.
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
In a deep dank cave in the Amazon rainforest, there are yet undiscovered to science species of insects that was nearer to #Sarr than a Liverpool defender tonight #CPFC #LIVCRY
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Well it's not every day that you get to stand on the site of a brand new Observatory! This is Clatteringshaws loch, in the Galloway Forest #DarkSky Park, home of the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish Dark Sky Observatory. Construction starts soon and like a phoenix SDSO will rise from the ashes! Re-opening mid-2027. 🥳🔭🧪
It's a dreich cloudy Autumnal day, but Catherine is nevertheless smiling in front of a very scenic loch with mountains in the distance.  This patch of grass is about to have two observatory domes built on it.An old white stone brick single story building that will become the Scottish Dark Sky Observatory visitors centre.  The trees in the distance have red autumn leaves on them.In the scrub a sign reads Welcome to The Scottish Dark Sky Observatory, and then below that a rather unwelcome "Private Land" :)
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David Roberts @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🚨New Paper!🚨 A hedonic analysis of the market for Southeast Asian slipper #orchids (Paphiopedilum) in #Biodiversity & #Conservation by Robinson, Fraser, Balcombe & @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social @dice-kent.bsky.social #orchid #wildlifetrade doi.org/10.1007/s105...
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A hedonic analysis of the market for Southeast Asian slipper orchids (Paphiopedilum) - Biodiversity and Conservation
Since the Victorian era, orchids have been in continuous demand within the horticultural trade. As a result, the entire family of over 29,000 species are listed in the Convention on International Trad...
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
#openaccess paper of the week. Researchers from #ChesterZoo #APHA and other teams develop a vaccine for EEHV which has a 80% mortality rate in juvenile elephants www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Basically, whale poop recycle nutrients that enables phytoplankton and in turn krill to grow. Hunting whales means less recycling and less krill...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/10/2025
New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard
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New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard
Discovery of 1,900-year-old headstone dedicated to Roman sailor sets off effort to repatriate item to Italy A New Orleans couple clearing away undergrowth in their home’s yard unearthed a grave marker, setting off a quest for answers about how the roughly 1,900-year-old relic ended up there – and an effort to repatriate it to Italy. The remarkable discovery was the work of Tulane University anthropologist Daniella Santoro and her husband, Aaron Lorenz, according to a report published online Monday by the magazine of New Orleans’s Preservation Resource Center (PRC). Continue reading...
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
#openaccess paper of the week. What does the materials from bearded vulture nests tell us about about "regional ecology as well as the local ethnographic, historical, and biocultural conditions"?
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I just have to post this #iceage masterpiece from time to time: A tiny (3.7 cm) but amazing figurine of a woolly mammoth carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago. Found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura, south-west Germany. 📷 me 🏺
A mammoth figurine carved from ivory, its surface weathered with age. The shape captures the essence of the animal, with a prominent trunk and sloping back. The figure is displayed on a metal stand against a dark background.
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Bought two new pairs of shoes from @keswickboot.bsky.social. As always, excellent customer service and a great understanding of feet to suggest suitable brands for your needs #keswick #wainwrights
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Moments after an offside decision, Pino did a lovely swerve on the ball taking it away from the keeper, leaving #Nketiah with a straightforward tap in. Two goals in two games #DKYCRY #CPFC
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
#DKYCRY HT 0-1 with excellent goal from #Munoz. Can now see why #Glasner has a lot of faith in #Kamada #CPFC
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David Roberts @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
BBC News - UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer
Paddy fields are thriving in a quiet part of east England and might help feed us in the future.
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David Roberts @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
BBC News - New evidence proves North Sea asteroid impact www.bbc.com/news/article...
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New evidence confirms Yorkshire North Sea asteroid impact
Geologists say an asteroid hit the North Sea near Yorkshire more than 43 million years ago.
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Ah what a time it is to be a #CPFC Fan. 2-1 and 17 games unbeaten in all competitions 😃 #WHUCRY
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
#openaccess paper of the week. Libby et al. discussing perspectives in environmental humanities. How can we look beyond traditional scientific approaches to conservation questions? www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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Transdisciplinary Histories and the Rise of the Environmental Humanities | Global Environment
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0.
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
#Wainwrightbagging This trip involved walks over the fells of Latrigg and Lonscale Fell taking me to 75/214
Rainbow with Dodd in backgroundView to Keswick from LatriggMe on the summit of Lonscale Fell with Blencathra in backgroundEuropean Robin (Erithacus rubecula) sitting on a wire fence
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Biancamaria Zanzi sharing life since graduation including reflections on dolphin-human interactions involving boats blogs.kent.ac.uk/dice/2025/08... #DICE #UniversityofKent #Kent
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Alumni Spotlight: Saving Sea Turtles with Biancamaria Zanzi – DICE Writes
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/08/2025
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold
Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
A point against Forest who spunked millions on new players. Its blindingly obvious we have potential, so #Parish, just do it, back #Glasner and get the squad strengthened to push on #CPFC
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David Roberts @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
BBC News - Three more species of giraffe than previously thought, scientists say www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Three more giraffe species than previously thought, scientists say
Giraffes have always been thought to be one species, but scientists now say there are four.
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The good news is that we no longer have a 100% loss record in European competition (yes, I do count the intertoto cup 🤣). Onwards to #Norway next week but still, 1-0 and #Hughes is man of match for me #CPFC #CRYFRE
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Take our word for it, this is the finest local news live blog you will ever read. (And it should take you no longer than 20 seconds)
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Police presence at park in Newport - RECAP
There is police presence at Tredegar Park in Newport
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 16/08/2025
Two controlled AI debates to find out if the UK should rejoin the EU
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Who won the great AI Brexit debate?
Two controlled AI debates to find out if the UK should rejoin the EU
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Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
ooooh #Eze is starting today. Does not suggest a deal for him from Spurs is any closer than it was two days ago... #CPFC #CHECRY
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 16/08/2025
🚶 Walkable cities boost activity A new study tracking 2.1M US smartphone users found that moving to a more walkable city adds ~1,100 daily steps, with benefits sustained for months. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm 🧪
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Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature
By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walka...
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