Dr. Rob Phillips

Flowering purple heather and pine trees on Ambersham Common

The blooming heather takes pride of place.

Now is the perfect time to get out and explore these wonderful plants that are so important to our heaths.

📷 Alexander Swyer
📍 Ambersham Common

UN nations gather for a 6th time to tackle the global plastics crisis Oil-producing nations have been opposed to cutting plastics production while others are in favor of recycling and reuse.

"We are pretty sure nobody wants plastic pollution." f-st.co/jSr40TF

#nocommentneeded 😊

doteveryone 3. Structuring your project Remember that the most important work is not writing the final report; it's the constant effort throughout the project to understand, to get to the point, and strip away distractions. Clarity doesn't appear because you are a lucky genius; it is achieved through hard work and deep understanding. It's a bad idea to expect something extraordinary to happen at the very end of the project, when it's just you, a Google doc, and a deadline. Instead, structure your project to make it easy to refine your thinking and understanding and create regular opportunities that "force the moment to its crisis". Build sharing into the project plan, and make regular appointments to discuss your thinking with others.

Anyway, sharing this in case you're an early career researcher who is leaning on AI a lot. Developing clear insight is the most important part of a research project; rather than boiling the ocean, it's worth finding something interesting and sticking with it.

Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."

Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis.

The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."

grist.org/climate/trou...

#Climate #Ice #Arctic #Norway #IceCream #Svalbard #Heat

#observation

Learning and Impact Lead applications close Thursday 🚨

Can you help us and our network better understand how change happens and the difference we can make in community organising, narrative change and wider civil society for a more equitable future?

jrf.octo-firstclass.co.uk/candidates/c....

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’, hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns

- Plastic production soared more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says expert review in @thelancet.com

#plasticstreaty
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Online talk: Designing Digital Culture: Tools for Civic Agency and Collective Futures - Talk at Online · V&A Join our panel discussion to explore how collaborative design practices can move us beyond passive participation toward digital cultures we actively shape

Engaging Design, Tools for design practices urging new forms of citizenships #book with #LauraFerrarello

Published by @epfllibrary.bsky.social unites work across #arts, #design and performance going beyond inclusion and changing the role enabling #citizens www.vam.ac.uk/event/V9zNyd...

Do you know someone 12-16 years old? Who might want to get outside and do something for wildlife?

Tell them about Wildlife Rangers - we have groups in Tilgate Park, Gatwick and Rye Harbour this August.

#Sussex #YouthAction #BetterOutdoors

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📷 Roz Bassford

Transformation of sunset clouds

#art #photo #photography #sky #twilight #clouds #tree #evening #EastCoastKin
©️skinskin

Two people look a beautiful sunset. One says, “I hate how pretty the end of the world is.”

A cartoon by Patrick McKelvie. #NewYorkerCartoons

See more cartoons from this week’s issue: www.newyorker.com/gallery/cart...

The Urban Naturalist: Cities, nature, and education Welcome to The Remake’s first book recommendation: Menno Schilthuizen’s The Urban Naturalist: How to Make the City Your Scientific Playground (MIT Press, 2025). Menno, a professor of evolution and…

"A playful, informative, and thought-provoking book about the non-human residents of cities and our relationship with them."

The Remake, a newsletter for educators and parents, recommends "The Urban Naturalist": www.theremake.org/the-urban-na... @schilthuizen.bsky.social

Motherfucking wind farms…

🌳 What if you could shape your city's treescape?

Our board game 'Urban Labor-a-Tree' uses real-life insights to demonstrate how strategic planting across different areas can create a better, more resilient treescape overall in urban areas.

🎲Curious? Read more 👉 www.sei.org/features/fro...

THESE ARE DANGEROUS TIMES: Cross Stitch Image courtesy of Bestsy Greer

Resurgence video: Kirstie Macleod reads an extract from her article ‘The Red Dress’.

Resurgence archive: Your wellness is (literally) in your own hands - Art: Knitting for my nephew by Alissa Mihai

#Craftivism is a way of looking at life where voicing opinions through #creativity makes your voice stronger, your #compassion deeper and your quest for #justice more infinite — @craftivista.bsky.social

This week’s newsletter explores the #transformative power of #art & #craft > conta.cc/4fbMcOf

#engagingdesign #book coming out soon #lauraferrarello #watch this space #designing #with not #for #postparticipatory #design #citizens published with ‪@epfllibrary.bsky.social #EPFL
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#engagingdesign #book coming out soon #lauraferrarello #watch this space #designing #with not #for #postparticipatory #design #citizens published with ‪@epfllibrary.bsky.social‬ #EPFL
@royalcollegeofart.bsky.social

#engagingdesign #book coming out soon #lauraferrarello #watch this space #designing #with not #for #postparticipatory #design #citizens published with ‪@epfllibrary.bsky.social‬ #EPFL
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#engagingdesign #book coming out soon #lauraferrarello #watch this space #designing #with not #for #postparticipatory #design #citizens published with ‪@epfllibrary.bsky.social‬ #EPFL
@royalcollegeofart.bsky.social

#engagingdesign #book coming out soon #lauraferrarello #watch this space #designing #with not #for #postparticipatory #design #citizens published with ‪@epfllibrary.bsky.social‬ #EPFL
@royalcollegeofart.bsky.social

England’s farmers to get new payments for cleaning up waterways Environment secretary says Defra will be launching changes to post-Brexit scheme for sustainable farming

‘England’s farmers to get new payments for cleaning up waterways’

This could be a useful reform to the Sustainable Farm Incentive (SFI), but needs to be paired with much better enforcement of regulations like Farming Rules for Water

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Devon campaigners call for ‘right to riverbank’ after finding Dart has 108 owners Research shows difficulties ahead for ministers if they are to keep manifesto pledge to extend riverside public access

Good work by access campaigners here in Devon ...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#engagingdesign #book coming out soon #lauraferrarello #watch this space #designing #with not #for #postparticipatory #design #citizens published with ‪@epfllibrary.bsky.social‬ #EPFL @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social

Online talk: Designing Digital Culture: Tools for Civic Agency and Collective Futures - Talk at Online · V&A Join our panel discussion to explore how collaborative design practices can move us beyond passive participation toward digital cultures we actively shape

Engaging Design, Tools for design practices urging new forms of citizenships #book with #LauraFerrarello

Published by @epfllibrary.bsky.social unites work across #arts, #design and performance going beyond inclusion and changing the role enabling #citizens www.vam.ac.uk/event/V9zNyd...

We Made Luigi Mangione’s 3D-Printed Gun—and Fired It In the wake of Luigi Mangione’s alleged killing of a health care CEO with a partially 3D-printed pistol, we built and tested the exact same model of weapon ourselves. And it was entirely legal.

I'm also working more than ever with our video team (more to come) who produced this mini-doc in which we built and tested Luigi Mangione's (alleged) 3D-printed gun ourselves to see how far DIY firearm technology has come.

Story: www.wired.com/story/luigi-...

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQB_...

‘It’s spectacular’: volunteer Dorset divers see summer of surging seahorses After efforts to make conditions better for the elusive creatures in Studland Bay, sightings are greatly increasing

‘It’s spectacular’: volunteer Dorset divers see summer of surging seahorses

An incredible chance to dive into the emerging SAFER movement.

Hear and connect with Caroline Lucas + other forging figures shaping UK climate adaptation.

🗓️ Tues 29 July, 8:15–9:45am (UK)
Free & online.

Sign up here so you don’t miss it:
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Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years review – a wild walk between life, death and sheep-shearing Using barbed wire, graveyard pebbles and prickly thorns, this retrospective plunges viewers into the raw sadness and beauty of rural life

Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years review – a wild walk between life, death and sheep-shearing www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

We're celebrating 10,000 Slow Ways routes with this stunning and electric mapping of our network by @urbangood.bsky.social.

The full map shows 5,790 routes rated 3+.

A massive congratulations and thanks to all of our volunteers.

See the map in full here buildstories.slowways.org/celebrating-...