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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 4h
Today is World Migratory Bird Day. Please say hello to the Pfeilstorch (‘arrow stork’). In 1822 this bird was shot in the German village of Klütz. It already had a 30-inch arrow in its neck. The arrow was made of African wood, and this bird played a pivotal role in our understanding of migration.
A stuffed stork – white with a black arse and red legs and bill. It has a long arrow through its neck.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
'Watson told the podcast he would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns if the situation arose, saying: “[Palantir] don’t actually work in that sector, but yes, of course we would"' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts
Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns
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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WE WON. Lead in gunshot will finally be banned across the EU! Just now, the European Parliament approved in plenary the Commission's proposal to restrict lead in gunshot. This decision ends years of debate on one of Europe's most persistent forms of lead pollution.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Two Canadian Scientists Develop an Inhaled Vaccine Mist That Delivers Immunity Directly to the Lungs, Right Where Viruses Enter Two scientists, Fiona Smaill and Zhou Xing, developed AeroVax, an inhaled vaccine mist designed to reach the lungs in just 2 minutes.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 09/10/2026
A batch of previously undisclosed documents also reveals Exxon promoted climate-solution claims, such as its work on biofuels and carbon capture and storage, that its own scientists said were unlikely to reach commercial scale: arstechnica.visitlink.me/tPZG9V
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Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign
Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)
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Dan O'Hara @skeuomorphology.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The PCR positivity map is out and the national average has risen again to 10.65% in England, 5.4% in Scotland. Scottish data is as of 4 days ago (Sunday); English data is as of 3 days ago (Monday). jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/8
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document, The Right Way, overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Guess how the Institute of Economic Affairs - the dark money think tank behind Liz Truss - is covering the rise of the far-right in Brazil?
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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
📢 Tories have pledged to abolish Natural England & Environment Agency. A year ago I flagged both as highly exposed to political interference. They've been weakened by yrs of cuts & loss of autonomy. Abolition removes scrutiny but doesn't fix problems christinapagel.substack.com/p/abolishing...
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Abolishing our independent public bodies removes scrutiny without fixing the underlying problem
A vulnerability we highlightd a year ago is now Conservative policy
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is a message for @andyburnham.bsky.social
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There aren't many days when you can kayak off Start Point, renowned for one of Britain's most dangerous tidal races. But yesterday the stars aligned, so I bunked off work. Delighted to see Rupert Kirkwood (the Lone Kayaker) out there. He took this picture of me +1. Before you ask: yes, it's real. 🧵
In my kayak, watching a bluefin tuna leaping beside me.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons" A small Canadian study of 24 people with Long COVID found signs that dopamine-releasing neurons may be damaged. Those with bigger changes had worse memory, slower movement and less motivation.
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Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons
Scientists have discovered a distinct change in the brains of people with long COVID that might explain some of the illness's most debilitating symptoms.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Tech Bros won’t stop with the US & Argentina. This is a global project. Please read the thread. #PaxSilica
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Walking Pete @walkingpete.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In your house this autumn.. Giant House Spiders: They’re quick, they skitter, but don’t panic!! - they may look big with long hairy legs, but they're more interested in escaping from people than scaring us… Great blog👇 #Spiders #HouseSpiders #Wildlife www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/sara-bo...
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Giant house spiders: the misunderstood autumn visitors | The Wildlife Trusts
These unexpected house guests can cause a bit of surprise. But if you take the time to look a little closer, there's a lot to love about them.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These are stunning
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/09/2026
Skylarks and sandwich terns among new birdies on reserve created from ‘boring old golf course’
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Skylarks and sandwich terns among new birdies on reserve created from ‘boring old golf course’
National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools There is no chance of a birdie or an eagle any more. But there are skylarks, short-eared owls, avocets and curlew. Sandilands, a former golf course on the Lincolnshire coast, has been transformed by the National Trust into a 2km-long nature reserve with wetlands, wading pools, rough grassland and coastal scrub. Continue reading...
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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mcewanmorton.bsky.social @mcewanmorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wildlife will be affected by current drought for years to come, UK government says www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Wildlife will be affected by current drought for years to come, UK government says
The number of potentially damaging environmental incidents triggered by this year’s hot and dry weather has surpassed that of 2025
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21/09/2026
The people who sold us Brexit said we'd get closer to the Anglosphere instead - but it turns out those countries want to prioritise Europe Tell Burnham that we don't want to be left out: bestforbritain.org/petition/tell-burnham-canadas-getting-closer-to-the-eu-we-dont-want-to-be-left-behind/
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 20/09/2026
Normal? Not at all. Birdsong fades. Summer temperatures soar. The danger is we simply adjust – but we shouldn’t. We cannot allow the climate crisis to rewrite our idea of what's normal.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
💥 On Oct 12th, Parliament will debate the UK JOINING THE EU! Use this page below to send an email to your MP. In the context of Canada-EU, 61% of the UK public for joining, and devolved leaders saying the future is the EU... ...Westminster needs to catch up. Sign and share everywhere please. 👇
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Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026
I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
YouTube video by Hamilton
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Global Museum @globalmuseum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
With recent discussion about museum donation boxes in an online forum I thought I'd post this.😆 In this factory in India they clean the money. But not meaning of the term that we know in the West This is in the truest sense of the word! #globalmuseum #money #India
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15/09/2026
Tell me again that climate change is a hoax.
Chart showing global annual temperature abnormalities between 1880 and 2024
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Earl Russell LD @earlrussell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The UK does not have “credible” policies in place to reverse this trend of rising emissions, says the CCC in new advice to the government on future aviation policy. Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050. www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-heathrow...
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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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Dan O'Hara @skeuomorphology.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NHS England digital are proposing changes to their data releases, including stopping monthly data releases of covid hospital data. They propose to publish only in winter, alongside flu beds data.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 14/09/2026
🧵 Peter Keeley, a former MI5 agent who spent 15 years undercover in the IRA, now works for Stephen Lennon AKA Tommy Robinson. He’s supplying covertly-procured information while being supported by the British taxpayer. hopenothate.org.uk/lennons-secr...
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Lennon's Secret Agent
A former MI5 agent who operated as an IRA bomb maker is now working for Stephen Lennon. Despite still being supported by the British taxpayer, Peter Keeley appears to have broken the law by supplying ...
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It takes a special kind of arrogance to wipe out large numbers of entire species and not care about it www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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One in nine migratory birds threatened with extinction, global report says
Findings on decline of species such as Arctic tern and turtle dove published alongside flyways pledge at Kenya summit
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here is a nice mushroom
A large and beautiful bear’s head tooth mushroom grows from the flaky bark of a dying maple tree in a sultry summer swamp. All photos by me
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is absolute madness Labour - and I’d say what’s left of the centre right - is an existential battle against oligarchy But it hasn’t a clue that it is
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Permafrost (frozen ground) is thawing, triggering huge changes across Alaskan landscapes. Find out how and why as I trek across collapsing permafrost bogs. I write more about this and other climate trends like underground zombie fires that outlast winter in Bogland (wwnorton.com/books/bogland).
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
UK Hydrological Outlook: A wetter-than-average autumn expected but a regional contrast likely for river flows 💧 Above normal flows in northern and western areas; Groundwater levels and river flows likely to stay below normal to notably low in south of England; More normal conditions elsewhere. 1/
Map of UK with shaded areas showing principal aquifers, plus details from September 2026 UK Hydrological Outlook
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.
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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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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Christopher Harborne - the Reform mega donor who gave Farage £5m - is suing ex-Reform deputy leader, Ben Habib. The particulars of claim have now been published. And we need to talk about them. 1/
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEW: French researcher Stephanie Lamy exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey, and the media that fell into his trap. If you think the news cycle has “moved on” from this story, ask yourself why? broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-killin...
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The killing of a black man
A French researcher exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey and the media who fell into their trap
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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