@janerusbridge.bsky.social
Writer - mostly novels (Bloomsbury), some short stories, a little poetry. Experimenting with non-fiction. Read a lot. Love research. Spent many years in education, teaching preschool to post-grad. Usually found somewhere outside.
Good news! Thrilling news! Keep a lookout...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Spring Day at Durdle Door - by Dorset artist, Gina Marshall
More of this artist's wok, here: www.ginamagnoliaart.com
Siskin, redpoll, goldfinch and greenfinch all gather at the #Feeders for today’s. Apparently a gathering like this when feeding is termed a mixed flock aggregation. #BirdOfTheDay #nature #photography #birds
Great session with weights for women my age (and younger!) with low bone density who are working on building bone strength. #GirlwithaPilatesMat has a wonderful variety of sessions including some weekly live classes. www.youtube.com/live/YkrWZ5q...
Me too. Especially GP surgeries and hospitals!
1. Very important study - and the primary reason I avoid infection.
'The long-term impact of COVID-19 may be consequential years after the infection and give rise to long-term illnesses including neurocognitive problems similar to what is seen in Alzheimer's disease'.
Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland is the largest lake in the UK. Tragically, it is also arguably now the UK's largest biohazard. A body of water close to where I live is now a perfect example of how agricultural practices and governmental inertia can create serious biological risk.
Things that happen in Scotland. 🙌🙏🫶👇
A month has passed since the arrest of Ali Asadollahi in Iran, following nationwide protests.
A steadfast voice for freedom and justice, we published his poem, 'I Used to Dream, I Used to Be Safe,' in MPT 'Rhythms of the Land'.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
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Oh my god people are giving small children AI toys and expecting them to learn communication from them??? THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT HUMANS SHOULD BE DOING THIS IS NOT AI'S JOB WHAT THE HELL www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
AI toys for children misread emotions and respond inappropriately, researchers warn
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'some creative arts graduates don’t appear to earn a significant graduate premium, but the UK’s creative industries are worth £125bn a year or, to put it another way, more than £1 in every £20 in the UK economy – a larger proportion of the nation’s wealth than almost any other country on earth.' 1/3
The paywall is off this latest piece of mine until 3pm today.
I've tried to write it in a way that will appeal to people who love badgers but which also won't alienate people who have mixed feelings about badgers or very rarely think about badgers.
www.tom-cox.com/letter-from-...
PFAS pollution in a drinking water source near the old Denham Film Studio, so high the source had to be taken out of use.
That's a water source that was providing 20 million litres a day to London, a city where water is already becoming scarce.
From my report on BBC Inside Science, today👇🏾
Join us on 1st May in the stunning Bute Hall in the University of Glasgow for our annual Spring Ceilidh!
🎻🎤 With live music coming from The Big Stupit Ceilidh Band & comedy from our star host Mark Nelson, you don’t want to miss out!
Tickets are £30 & are selling fast!
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'Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men' newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
More on the class action lawsuit against Grammarly over their ill-advised "Expert Review" AI feature that appropriated the names and identities of writers and journalists without their knowledge or consent gizmodo.com/grammarly-al...
SIGNED copies of Pixie, the new novel by Jill Dawson are available to pre-order from us!
A fictionalised story of Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith, artist, publisher & illustrator of the still-iconic Rider–Waite–Smith tarot deck.
Looks AMAZING
Order here.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
It’s disgusting. Martin Amis called writing “a war against cliché and herd thinking” and AI is a cliché generator built from feeding the herd into an algorithm. “We’ve sanded off all the edges that make writing interesting” should be a point of shame, not something to brag about.
This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.
Listening to the radio/tv in the UK is a sickening experience.
The presenters are literally cheering on the USA bombing Iran from UK bases while also demanding we spend 3% of our money on 'Defence' as soon as possible.
Literally the opposite of what everyone wants.
'Hope for the millions of Americans suffering from Long COVID will rely on how much the U.S. supports affected individuals and to what extent the country invests in groundbreaking research to better understand the condition'.
www.forbes.com/sites/omeraw...
“When Netanyahu – a man charged with international war crimes after killing countless civilians in Gaza – assassinates Iran’s dictator, that kills the man but immortalises the myth. Iranians wanted him tried for his crimes, not given the martyr-ending he craved.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Helm by Sarah Hall review – a mighty epic of climate change in slow motion. Top of my list of novels read last year ❤️ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Message to men: you can date/marry way, way above your league if you will just fucking learn to cook and do some laundry, please stop hitting yourself in the face with hammers or "optimising" things and try vacuumcleanermaxxing instead...
Terrible!
And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.