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Two students look at objects in the reading room at The Museum of English Rural Life.

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?

We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.

Find out more:

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.

This is a Monarchy. Trials happen under the monarch's coat of arms.

Doesn't anybody realise how being imprisoned without a jury, the defendant's peers looks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Delighted to see Hotwells School in Bristol maintaining its secular status - and not being taken over by a religious school. Schools should be MORE inclusive and pluralistic - not segregating children according to religion or forcing a particular religion on them.
discover.swns.com/2025/11/tv-p...

Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧

Everyone give a warm howl to the newest member of the WCC family, Sabine! 🐺

Sabine joins us from the Akron Zoo and will be pairing with Red Wolf Mac as part of the essential recovery efforts for her species. Tap the link in below to see Sabine live on our webcams.🎥

nywolf.org/meet-our-wol...

OK, going to have trouble paying rent again this month due to back injury.

Would appreciate so much the spreading of my online shop to get some cool orders sent out next week.
All signed.

davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com

Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?

Blue whales are going eerily silent —and scientists say it’s a warning sign. Blue whale vocalizations dropped nearly 40% alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations...

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

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A back injury bad enough to warrant an A&E MRI scan who then insisted on specialist spinal treatment.
Cracked vertebrae & herniated/bulging discs really stops you doing stuff.

Just told that NHS wait times are so long that the soonest help will be a phone consultation in Feb at the earliest.

Red and blue graphic that says "PFIs were 70% more expensive. EveryDoctor's new report exposes the lobbying push to bring back PFI. Chancellor Rachel Reeves could revive a financing model once branded a "catastrophic wate of taxpayers' money".

💡Did you know the NHS is about to pay £21bn+ to private companies? 💸

A staggering amount that could have gone straight into hospitals and front-line care — but instead, it’s lining the pockets of private firms.

➡️ everydoctor.org.uk/nhs-trusts-t...

The UK is about to give the US an extra £3bn a year.

The NHS 'can't afford' to pay doctors £500m a year more.

But it will give the USA 6x as much for nothing.

Humanist Heritage: Charles Darwin (1809-1882) I cannot pretend to throw the least light on such abstruse problems. The mystery of the beginning of all things […]

You can of course read more about the life, work, and monumental legacy of Charles Darwin on #HumanistHeritage heritage.humanists.uk/charles-darw...

🚨 New research from EveryDoctor reveals that organisations who benefit from PFI are lobbying the government to bring it back!!

This is outrageous + the NHS can’t afford more debt. Find out more 👇 everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...

I’ve just written this…

open.substack.com/pub/jujuliag...

The NHS is seeing a costly old mistake return: PFI-style deals. 💸
They've drained billions; now similar plans are back.

We’re watching closely. Read more & help hold them accountable:
everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...

My snowdrop necklace made by casting a real snowdrop in recycled silver

My lily of the valley necklace made by casting a real lily of the valley flower in recycled silver

My wren necklace, individually handmade like all my jewellery designs, made by sculpting a tiny wren in recycled silver

My bluebell necklace made by casting a real English bluebell from a friend's garden in recycled silver

I make each of my flower necklaces by casting real flowers in silver incl snowdrop & bluebells.
I also hand-sculpt much-loved bird species to make wearable versions incl wrens & blackbirds
20% off my jewellery atm with code TINYOWL20
Cut off day for🌲orders is Tue 25 Nov: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

Never forget. Never never forget the scumbag buffoon who killed so many people and scarred the lives of so many more.

This is a genuine question: Outside of the UK, does anyone know of another National Park where it is an annual event to release thousands of non-native birds? Or even occasionally? I only ask because the more I think about it, the more barking mad it sounds. #birds #nationalparks

Scary stuff - and well done @theguardian.com for exposing such a sordid, sad, dangerous business.

CPRE Shropshire calls for winter hedge-planting volunteers CPRE Shropshire wants volunteers to help plant more than 4km of hedges this winter.

Charity calls for winter hedge-planting volunteers

#Shropshire

🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

Lovely things made by my lovely and very talented friend!

#Archaeology #Wales #Christmas #Cymru

If RFK Jr.’s CDC now promoting the lie that vaccines cause autism while he personally profits off said lie isn’t a conflict of interest, I don’t know what is.

Our health agencies are now full-blown propaganda machines.

Today is a dark day in the USA.

My brother could recite the whole book by heart before he could read it!

Thank you all who emailed their MP about protecting nature in the #PIB. We're disappointed that MPs didn't vote the way we hoped but we’re not giving up. Debates continue and we’re urging MPs to make the right decision for nature.

Please share & sign the e-action buff.ly/eDrWPi9

📸Russell Savory

The govt's proposed new asylum laws are impractical, ineffectual, and outright cruel. Aping the rhetoric of Reform won't fix the real issues in this country; it will only stir up more false divisions and endanger already vulnerable communities.

If there were no boats tomorrow, all asylum seekers were sent home tomorrow, people would be not one iota better off. That’s the information that needs to be out there. Not one iota!

What happens when wolves leave Yellowstone - WyoFile Crossing Yellowstone National Park's protective boundary, an apex predator becomes prey. These wolves don't last long in the modern Mountain West.

Wolf 1331F thrived in Yellowstone. Outside the park, she faced a deadly reality: hunters and no protections. Thousands of Northern Rockies wolves face the same fate, often unnoticed. Their stories deserve to be told, and all wolves deserve protection no matter where they roam.
https://bit.ly/3XAfo9s

If you love Jane Austen, you’ll hugely enjoy Rachel Parris’s new novel Introducing Mr Collins — few people know Austen, or comedy, better than Rachel (a founding member of the hilarious Austentatious improv troupe)

It's Tubby Custard. (BBC children's programme)

We are all one war, one hurricane, one military coup, one wildfire, one drought, one economic collapse away from becoming an "asylum seeker".

There’s plenty to criticise about the BBC — but it’s our BBC, and when Trump attacks it, we should defend it.

The BBC World Service supports democracy activists worldwide. I Let's look into the motives of those attacking the BBC.

#BBC #PressFreedom