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abel @abelwithatable.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Do not look away.

Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal
As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly.
Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process.
They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years.
They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe.
We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release.
We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not
"being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims."
Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is.
We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting.
Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center.
The wait had already been too long a week ago.
I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community.
Jaime Cook
Prek-12 Principal
Sackets Harbor, NY

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Ed Foster. @fo5tered.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Twiglet the Robin (R) feeding his female companion a mealworm as part of their bonding ritual. She flutters her wings and the male feeds her to show he will provide for their chicks 🪶 #birds #DDOR

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 08/04/2025

If you listen to one thing today, let it be Donna Ockenden’s Desert Island Discs. An early life of deprivation and disadvantage fed a fierce drive to do right by women and their babies. Hero. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Desert Island Discs - Donna Ockenden, midwife - BBC Sounds

Donna Ockenden, midwife, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸

Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm
To: Byron Preiss
Dear Byron,
Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the
first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above).
I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible.
One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again
whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the
States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the
way it is!
There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense.
Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every
single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that
Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay with

are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So
why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And
'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that
Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't
mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel
disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that
people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You
wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'.
There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a
generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to
"Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they
haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks
Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text
of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the
continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't
heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most
people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of
just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and
see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people
are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get
through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Love how all hayfever advice is basically 'don't you go outside now ever. No not today, never.'

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Good morning , a rather nice #FoxOfTheDay today , don't you think ? Thank you to @NeillBrid for sharing !

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

#BushtitoftheDay Female Bushtit with snowflakes #birds #nature 🌿

An extreme close-up portrait of a tiny, round bird with incredibly fluffy beige-gray feathers and a grumpy expression. Small snowflakes rest on its head, suggesting winter conditions. The bird's large, expressive yellow eyes and tiny black beak give it an almost comically stern appearance, while its plumped-up plumage creates a nearly perfect ball shape.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

UK: Brexit is the biggest act of economic self harm any country will ever perform USA: Hold my beer...

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Fawn Harrad-Hyde @fawnharradhyde.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

New paper in which we argue that at times of deterioration care home residents are seen as ‘out of place’ in both care home and hospital settings. doi.org/10.1016/j.so... [1/5 🧵]

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Redirecting

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Trisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

One of my favourite quotes… #GreatGatsby

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

Chloris chloris - a Greenfinch showing off his colours during the @sussexornitholo.bsky.social walk at #Tidemills at the weekend and lots of ‘wheezing’ going on. A ‘very common resident’ in Sussex (Sussex Bird Report 2023) though perhaps it doesn’t always feel like it. #sussexbirding #ukbirding

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rp-photographic.bsky.social @rp-photographic.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Sometimes I feel like my Canyon Wren shots are just as much a study in the interaction between lichen and the volcanic rock it is breaking down. The driving force speeding up the weathering and erosion creating such an impressive landscape for the wren to call home. #birds

The white throat of the wren glows in the diffuse early morning light. It peers to the left, beak reaching out into empty space. The rock is dark, interlaced with cracks and fissures. The entire surface is coated in lichen ranging from orange, mint, cream and black.

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Paul Napier @wildlife-exposures.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Just days from the nest, a young Great Horned Owl... Western New York, USA - March 28, 2025 Canon EOS R5, RF 100-500 #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #canon #photographersunited #birds #birdphotography #birdsofprey #owls #owlets #greathorned

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Every so often the camera sends me an angle of a bird I haven’t seen before, and this one is a delight. 🪶

A red-bellied woodpecker perched at a feeder looking directly toward the camera

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Bella Donnelly @belladonnelly.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

quietly listening, Twiglet the Robin, clearly concentrating, how very sweet, what a very lovely Robin he is. Thank u to Ed Foster for this very nice photo

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Peargrin @peargrin.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Always a thrill to see a beautiful Fox Sparrow. They show up only rarely, and I’ve never seen more than one at a time. #Sparrow #Birds #wildlife #nature #photography #NewJersey

Large sparrow in rich brown, white, grey tones, sitting on a budding tree branch.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

When we first suggested there was a problem, they called us a “social media rabble”. Now the Royal College of Physicians has come round to our concerns. New statement: www.rcp.ac.uk/news-and-med... Vote for @drasifqasim.bsky.social for President

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RCP publishes submission to the independent review of the physician associate profession (the Leng review)

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Gareth Southgate, "Young men are suffering" "They're feeling isolated" "They're grappling with their masculinity and with their broader place in society" "The culture we create today will shape the kind of men that we inherit tomorrow"

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The crisis facing lost young men who are being manipulated by toxic influencers neatly captured by England’s most successful football manager Gareth Southgate in The Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC One

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Beautiful, powerful letter I have been asked by Harvard colleagues if they should keep quiet so as not put the larger Harvard community at risk with their words Took me a while to ruminate My response: Harvard is its people and their voices If we are silent then there is no Harvard to save

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 11/03/2025

"In its 80 year history, every UN leader has been a man, appointed through an opaque process likened to the papal conclave." @jocalynclark.bsky.social discusses the movement to elect a woman as UN secretary general www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 12/03/2025

"Our people have fought for this, our heroes died. How many injured, how many passed. So no one will forget about it... This is the most important red line. We will not let anyone forget about this crime against Ukraine," President Volodymyr Zelensky told journalists on March 12.

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

If you see this post, post or quote repost a bird or animal… ‘Showing Off’ There is always one!! 😉🪿🪶🌱 Sebastopol Goose or Danubian Goose #JimmysFarm U.K. 📷 Mar ‘25 #Nature #Flamboyant #Fun #Breathe #GetOutSide

Sebastopol Goose
(Danubian Goose) in the water standing, wings out wide.. showing off..

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Another superb image from ‪@naturehawk.bsky.social‬ for today's #FoxOfTheDay

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The Bolton Strid Knows what you did, She's waiting, ever-flowing, And when you go To rest below She'll show what you need showing.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

<*Attenborough voice*> As the days lengthen and winter retreats, the cobra chickens slowly emerge from under the snow #birds

Two black geese with white cheek patches are seen poking their heads up over a snow bank. The one in the foreground is in sharp focus and has its beak open showing its tongue.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Who's ready for a little chaos?

A book cover showing a brunette woman with a knife, splattered in blood, looking dubiously to one side. The text reads "COMING SEPTEMBER 30, 2025: New York Times Bestselling Author Seanan McGuire, SILVER AND LEAD, an October Daye novel."

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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Today was special. I finally got to meet one of my favourite artists @hestercoxprint.bsky.social at her studio in Horton-in-Ribblesdale. We have a few of Hester's collagraphs already, but having seen this one in 'real life' we found it impossible to resist! More here: www.hestercox.com #art #birds

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NIHR Policy Research Unit: Healthy Ageing (NIHR HAPRU) @nihrhapru.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

📢Check out our new blog: "Improving methods for studying Health Inequality and Inequity in evidence synthesis". Read more about the research and find the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology article here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2025/03/06/i...

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Improving methods for studying Health Inequality and Inequity in evidence synthesis

A reflection on Health Inequalities and Health Inequities

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Mairéad Hearne | Swirl and Thread Book Blog @maireadhearne.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Oooooh, this is my favourite post here today ❤️❤️

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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Super excited to be invited to speak at our annual conference

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Just a reminder for anyone who receives SPSS, Stata, or SAS files but does not have licenses for these programs (🙋), you can import any of these files into #rstats and work them! My favorite package for working with these files is {haven}. haven.tidyverse.org

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"What the hell are you humans up to?" I don't know, bird. I just don't know. (Northern Cardinal) #birds 🌿

A bright red bird with a pointy crest stands on a bare branch and looks towards the camera with a goofy, intense expession

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Suzanne Reeves @suzanne-reeves.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I miss lots of my twitter friends but sadly had to leave a platform owned by Musk.

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"Yesterday I wrote a piece for the Guardian about my decision to step down as an Associate Editor at the Royal Society’s journal Open Science. The response has been overwhelming." My latest substack. open.substack.com/pu...

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates

It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates

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Tuomas Pernu @tuomaspernu.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

It's naive to think that the US has some strategy. Here: "He described Trump’s decision-making as driven by personal relationships and 'neuron flashes' rather than a deep understanding of national interests." Trump simply doesn't have what it takes for his job. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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Major international crisis ‘much more likely’ in Trump’s second term, says his ex-national security adviser

John Bolton delivers scathing critique of Trump’s lack of knowledge or coherent strategy: ‘I’m very worried’

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John McGowan @jmc223.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Crocuses - Frankley Worcestershire UK - 04-03-25 #photography #flowers #crocus #spring

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I wholeheartedly agree with this piece from @kityates.bsky.social. The Royal Society has to take may things into consideration, including what its US members feel - but even so, I think the right course in this instance is very clear, and they ducked it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates

It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Is Trump sacrificing Ukraine to Putin? youtu.be/HUCN5Rnl8Ps

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 03/03/2025

In the wake of the Feb. 28 clash in the Oval Office, the Kyiv Independent went to the streets of Kyiv to ask Ukrainians what they think of the now infamous meeting.

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Ukrainians react to Trump-Zelensky clash

YouTube video by Kyiv Independent

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Thank you to @eleanorreece for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay - a sleek young individual

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Dr K WILDSCHUT @drkwildschut1984.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

All the grown ups

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