Sam

What do these people think climate change is going to do to their tranquillity and beauty?! And the answer is 'at any cost', if what you really mean is 'what parts of our comfortable middle-class lives do we need to compromise to ensure a liveable future for our grandchildren'

Rusty is reliably excellent but this is Proper. (I am also in the 'read Apt Pupil once, never again' camp)

🌲Ed Sheeran explains to Louis Theroux that he dislikes private jets and prefers trains because "I like the environment, I like trees." We know that this type of messaging from celebrities is hugely impactful. We need far more of this from more stars.
As posted by @nowthisimpact.bsky.social

There it is. The first ever Heat Advisory issued in Alaska. This is the first year it has been an option. @alaskawx.bsky.social

I told you we’d be back

This internet poll is breaking men's brains! And this is what we get when male fitness standards clash with female preferences.

The latest batshit internet scandal is men accusing women of “lying” when stating a preference for Ollie Murs’ before pic.

So I unpacked all that

nataliaantonova.substack.com/p/this-inter...

People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

A former French military base, Vauban is a thriving neighbourhood of 5,500 residents connected to Freiburg town centre by bus and light rail. Built in the late 1990s as a radical experiment in low-car living, it forgoes virtually all on-street parking in favour of active, green, and social spaces. 🧵

Gene found to link obesity risk in labradors and humans Scientists have found a genetic cause of many labradors' - and some people's - tendency to overeat.

Dogs that are constantly hungry and prone to being overweight share common biology with some obesity-prone humans.

The researchers comment - "owners of slim dogs are not morally superior - and the same is true of slim people".
🧪🐕

www.bbc.com/news/article...

FYI I'm aware we're having some intermittent 'invalid handle' issues with our feed accounts which I'm trying to get fixed asap #academicsky

Well THIS is excellent news

Liz Truss called solar farms a “blight on the landscape”, but researchers have found they are actually better for birds than farmland

Solar farms in East Anglia had greater bird diversity & bird abundance than nearby arable land, a study finds

Paper here later www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

this was the actual cover in question - it's from the 1981 edition rather than the 1964 (I did not end up with a dress like this, obviously!)

When I got married, I couldn’t figure out why none of the dresses I tried on felt right, until I realised that was I was looking for was the dress on the cover of this book, which was apparently embedded in my subconscious

NOOOOOO

Elidor has the tensest opening chapter in all of children’s fiction I think. So good.

21-24% of Britons falsely believe that Axel Rudakubana is a Muslim, an immigrant to the UK, and was motivated by religious terrorism – and this figure has grown since the summer

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Oh I do NOT know how I feel about that #thetraitors

For me the most amazing thing about this video is the idea that whales have collective memory.

YouTube video by UKRI Stories Travelling to Antarctica | On board the RRS Sir David Attenborough

We asked the captain of the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough what it's like sailing to #Antarctica, and what he's noticed in the last 18 years as the climate changes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiXf...

Not only Fellows | Royal Society Louisiane Ferlier reports on the discoverability of non-Fellows in the Royal Society's Science in the Making resource.

"The Royal Society’s archives make clear the scientific contributions of women & other under-represented groups are threaded through the organisation’s history...[we are] therefore improving the discoverability of people from under-represented groups" royalsociety.org/blog/2024/12...

As the parent of an 11 year old HARD AGREE (what I wouldn't give be to able to just block Shorts)

How it started. How it’s going

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

If I was Kas or Freddie I wouldn’t want to stay tbh #thetraitors

at risk of turning into the eternal screaming bot:

aaaaaahhhhhhhh

From Ed Conway on Substack:

h/t @rustneversleeps.bsky.social

edconway.substack.com/p/hang-on-ar...

Sir Paul Nurse! #CunkOnLife

A graph showing that in the invent of a TikTok ban in the US, 40% of influencers indicated they would shift their focus to Facebook, while 39% of consumers expressed the same preference, from a report by First Insight

I like to think I know a decent amount about social media but this is not what I thought the answer to this question would be from the 'consumer' segment. (from First Insight's TikTok's Uncertain Future Report)

YouTube video by UKRI Stories The skateboarding heritage of Portrush  -  collaborative research empowering a grassroots community

Our first longer-form video, on how creative research can give under-represented groups a voice and a place in their local communities. This may make you think about skateboarding in a new way.

Days like today are where I really feel the information gap from the loss of local news coverage the most - nowhere to go to get good info about what roads are closed or open and so on (community Facebook groups are as good as it gets and that's not grand)