Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 05/09/2026That was very moving, and takes me back 17 years to my own mother’s death. Look after yourself, through all the different stages of grief, as they can creep up on you and knock you for six sometimes. If you dream about your parents, as I do, may you keep dreaming, because it becomes such a comfort. 100
Reposted by Emma WaghornDr Jo Swabe @joswabe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026In this @thelancet.com comment, my co-authors & I argue that if @ec.europa.eu is serious about One Health, it must ban fur farming. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comIf the EU is serious about One Health, it must ban fur farmingAll content on this site: Copyright © 2026 Elsevier B.V., its licensors, and contributors. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies. For all open access content, the relevant licensing terms apply. 011
Reposted by Emma WaghornJuraj Mikurcik @jurajmikurcik.bsky.social · 25/06/2026This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it. 5633041411
Reposted by Emma WaghornProf. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 20/06/2026🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10 63867418
Reposted by Emma WaghornWePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 15/06/2026The EU must embrace the technology needed to improve food security, sustainability, and safety. Without it, we will continue to see food waste, crop failures, and higher costs and pollution from agricultural inputs. Call on MEPs to support NGTs this week. Act now: act.weplanet.org/p/eu-support... 082
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Estimated annual deaths include: “more than 1,000 harbour porpoises and common dolphins …, 10,000 seabirds and 500 seals. Six humpback whales and 30 minke whales were also found dead in Scottish creel ropes.” Lots of non-target fishes as well. And the target fishes have a terrible death. Not humane. 000
Reposted by Emma WaghornBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 26/05/2026In which Tony Blair hallucinates that he's the prime minister of Canada. 6973
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Trying hard to stop myself searching for “All the insects wept” … 120
Reposted by Emma WaghornThames21 @thames21.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Thames21 welcomes Defra’s announcement of 13 new bathing water sites across England, including stretches of the River Thames at Ham and Kingston, and Pangbourne Meadow in Berkshire. 🧵⬇️ 📸©Olivia Mooney-Griffiths 242
Reposted by Emma WaghornCaroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Well worth reading this especially in the context of the narrative of a “war on the motorist”. Importantly, Kyd recognises that harmful driving is normalised, understands we need to change the narrative in how we think about poor driving and is clear the legal framework needs work. 34917
Reposted by Emma WaghornNYTimes Communications @nytimespr.bsky.social · 03/04/2026A correction will appear in tomorrow's print edition: "A headline with an article on Friday about President Trump’s threats to leave NATO misstated the full name of the body. It is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, not the North American Treaty Organization." 378545150
Reposted by Emma WaghornShipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 01/04/2026That’s one hell of a cover….. 256185844886
Reposted by Emma WaghornNot In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026More than 86,000 women have now signed the Not In Our Name letter to say that trans exclusion is not what we want and should not be done on our behalf. If you’re a woman who believes in dignity, fairness and standing alongside our trans+ siblings, add your name: notinourname.org.uknotinourname.org.ukHome - Not in our nameNot In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community 115972
Reposted by Emma WaghornStop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 09/02/2026“The next time someone shares with you some anti-London b******t, be sure to send them this video" Excellent explainer from @evanedinger.bsky.social, countering hate and lies about London www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDky... #racism #hateforprofit #stopfundinghateyoutube.comWhy The Internet Is Terrified of LondonYouTube video by Evan Edinger 24402169
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Perhaps the author of the book, Bruce Friedrich (brucefriedrich.bsky.social), could clarify?brucefriedrich.bsky.socialBruce Friedrich (@brucefriedrich.bsky.social)- author, Meat (top ten new release in science, Publishers Weekly), meatbook.org - founder + president, Good Food Institute (top 5 climate charity acc to Giving Green: tinyurl.com/3yaw9han) 000
Reposted by Emma WaghornThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed… …perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place. 411392250
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Bruce Friedrich is here. Perhaps he could elucidate? brucefriedrich.bsky.socialbrucefriedrich.bsky.socialBruce Friedrich (@brucefriedrich.bsky.social)- author, Meat (top ten new release in science, Publishers Weekly), meatbook.org - founder + president, Good Food Institute (top 5 climate charity acc to Giving Green: tinyurl.com/3yaw9han) 000
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Yes, of course there are people who can’t thrive, or survive, without meat. Is this not another reason for developing novel proteins and cultured meat? If you could have a food rich in heme iron that didn’t require the slaughter of animals, wouldn’t you jump at the chance? 200
Reposted by Emma WaghornAlice Auersperg @auersperga.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments. www.cell.com/current-biol... 9354124
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 20/12/2025“This actually might be the worst thing we’ve seen coming out of HHS this year, and that’s saying a lot, in an unimaginably damaging year for science and public health.” youtube.com/shorts/aSHjr...youtube.comUnethical researchYouTube video by Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN 021
Reposted by Emma WaghornKit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 15/12/2025"If people are really worried about the flu season then we could start vaccinating more adults" Spot on from @chrischirp.bsky.social 512037
Reposted by Emma WaghornTom Pollard @pollardtom.bsky.social · 08/12/2025It's right to explore what's driving increased prevalence & what support people need. But as @johnharris1969.bsky.social says, in "a country in which questioning other people’s needs is almost becoming a national sport" the government risks stoking a toxic debate www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe right’s callous overdiagnosis bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on it | John HarrisThankfully, we now know more about conditions such as autism and ADHD. The health secretary must not be part of this attempt to turn back the clock, says Guardian columnist John Harris 0105
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Nothing. But what’s wrong with calling something a veggie burger, which is a term I’ve used for the 40+ years I’ve been vegan or vegetarian? And what would be the alternative to veggie sausage? Veggie spherocylinder? Veggie capsule? 070
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 01/12/2025NORTH - Ullapool, Scotland SOUTH - Somewhere in the Falkland Islands, south of Port Stanley 010
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Hello, Jess. Are you a journalism student at City University? If so, yes, of course you can! 120
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 23/11/2025“People in countries like the UK don’t understand how refugees make decisions because our experiences are so different from theirs.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comThe life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remainUssu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision 000
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 22/11/2025“How can vulnerable nations be compensated for the “loss and damage” caused by climate breakdown if we haven’t the faintest idea how great that loss and damage might be?” 010
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Ice-skating or snow I could understand. It’s the water that’s so odd. Unless … it’s meant to represent the thaw following the Great Frost of 1683–4? I suppose that might be something to smile about! 130
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 18/11/2025I’ve just been to see it, and I’m even more puzzled. I can’t find anything that says what it is. What is it supposed to depict? Why is everyone looking so happy when there’s clearly just been a flood? The people of Kingston want to know! 3235
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Kruger: “The whole DEI/woke agenda that has infected so much of Whitehall will be in contravention of the civil service code that we introduce. Socially controversial political positions will not be acceptable in the civil service.” So anti-racism is socially controversial, but racism isn’t. 000
Reposted by Emma WaghornMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 22/09/2025Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.theguardian.comFarage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportationReform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services 1413012896
Reposted by Emma WaghornSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right… What a grim betrayal of our democracy. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...thelondoneconomic.comReform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletinsAstonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10. 14525581085
Reposted by Emma WaghornGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 18/09/2025"the hard data suggests that the largest of the UK’s very real problems are no more being caused by mass immigration than they are by a group of charity fundraisers rowing past Great Yarmouth" on.ft.com/3IsyVVu @timharford.ft.com with his facts and reasonablenesson.ft.comThe UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigrationIt’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there 517977
Reposted by Emma WaghornJonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Exciting to see this ancient law, which baffled scholars for centuries, finally being used. 2544283
Reposted by Emma WaghornHughstergeist @hughster.bsky.social · 13/09/2025"Rector, the Reverend Michael Smith, said it was "probably no coincidence" the graffiti appeared soon after an anti-racism meeting in the church hall" 132
Reposted by Emma WaghornRachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 12/09/2025EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge. 750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comThousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farmsExclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent 13172114
Reposted by Emma WaghornGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Astonishingly, I've discovered, the Tufton Street junktanks that shaped Liz Truss's agenda are still operating at the heart of government. Remind me what we voted for again ... This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWarning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10 | George MonbiotWho is running the government’s ‘growth school’ for civil servants? The answer surpassed my worst fears, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 671188553
Reposted by Emma WaghornDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 10/09/2025"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress 521561684
Reposted by Emma WaghornMSI Reproductive Choices @msichoices.org · 26/08/2025“Abortion is so much more normal and common than people think," says Kendall, an abortion nurse for @msichoicesuk.bsky.social Kendall told us what it's like to be an abortion provider in England, and what's changed since anti-choice groups were blocked from harassing people outside clinics ⤵️ 062
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 31/08/2025The irony is that the truly woke bread is wholemeal sourdough, which is impossible to find in an English supermarket. 100
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Russell Square? Or one of the many others designed by Leslie Green. Might be one that has since been demolished. 000
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 18/08/2025“As temperatures in this corner of northern Europe once again scrape the mid-30s, what must it be like to work in warehouses and factories with precious little ventilation, let alone air conditioning? How do builders and bike couriers cope?” Excellent piece from John Harris. 010
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Over 90% of blackcurrants grown commercially in the UK (around 10,000 tonnes) and nearly half grown around the world, are used for making Ribena. www.hutton.ac.uk/case_study/b...hutton.ac.ukBreeding resilient and sustainable blackcurrants for RibenaOur world’s leading blackcurrant breeding and research programme, is helping farmers grow more resilient and sustainable blackcurrant crops. 010
Reposted by Emma WaghornThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/07/2025‘Every human being deserves dignity’: asylum seeker in Essex hotel calls for understandingtheguardian.com‘Every human being deserves dignity’: asylum seeker in Essex hotel calls for understandingMan housed at hotel targeted in protests writes letter urging people not to resort to harmful stereotypes 1312524
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social · 26/07/2025“There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...you.38degrees.org.ukTake Big Money Out of Our PoliticsBritish politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p... 010
Reposted by Emma WaghornWild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Here's why we're in the High Court today.... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comSheep are destroying precious British habitats – and we taxpayers are footing the bill | Chris PackhamLarge parts of Dartmoor have been denuded of wildlife, harmed by farming and a mess of government schemes that are costly in every way, says naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham 07826
Reposted by Emma WaghornRuth Mottram @ruthmottram.eurosky.social · 15/07/2025"you need to make it cheap and easy for people to make the switch. If it’s expensive, most people won’t do it. If it’s difficult or inconvenient, then forget it." www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/the-false-...sustainabilitybynumbers.comThe false dichotomy of systemic and individual behaviour changeIndividuals aren't going to solve climate change, but they are an important part of the system that will get us there. 072