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Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.

This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.

44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

A letterpress print of a goldcrest with these words above Goldcrest Through the hole in the stone And the hawthorn's bower Through the thumb and The index finger's o Through the window's crack And the needle's eye The goldcrests go They nest in a thimble Stitch a quilt of spiders' webs Feed their young with dew Through the handle of the tea cup And the link in the chain fence Through the mouth of the spring And the skull of the crow Through the loophole In our dreams and spells The goldcrests go.

Goldcrest
Beautiful art
Splendid words.

Image: Roy Hubbard; text: Andrew Morrison

pink hellebore flower in sunshine with an approaching queen bee

I beelieve this is what is known as a 'making a bee line' #hellebore #bumblebee #queenbee @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social @greenhampshire.bsky.social

As violence escalates across the Middle East, it is children who are paying the highest price. Right now, our teams are responding with emergency support for vulnerable, traumatised children and their families.

🔗 Please support our response: bit.ly/4rSsAnN

Children deserve safety. Everywhere.

a moss and ivy covered tree bole leans over a stream towards other trunks

#ForestFriday keep safe 💚
#ForestSky

JAMA Insights: Using Numerical Comparisons to Help Patients Make Choices. Effective conversations with patients about risk are fundamental for shared decision-making. Table: Tools in the Comparison Toolbox with preferred/less informative communication.

💡 JAMA Insights: Numeric risk comparisons anchored in patient context may improve shared decision-making and help patients interpret clinical choices.

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What do this ancient oak, this swallowtail, this natterjack have in common?

1) They live on Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserves.

2) They benefit from people buying This Wild Dream. ALL profits go to NWT (nothing to me).

Help us celebrate NWT’s centenary TODAY www.thebookhive.co.uk/product/this...

#Lebanon: MSF launched an emergency response after intense Israeli airstrikes displaced 10ks of people across the country.

Sana Kawtharani, Community Health Educator, updates:

The Peace of Wild Things Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. from Openings: Poems (1968)

My dad used to tell my siblings and me that his favorite sound was silence. I get it now. In the midst of the chaos, in the midst of the turmoil of life in this world and in this head, I sometimes need to remind myself to actively seek silence, and the sounds it lets in.

⭐️ Competition time!! ⭐️

World Book Day is all about getting EVERYONE reading - so comment & tell us about your favourite hedgehoggy book & we'll pick a winner at random to receive a copy of Let's Explore Hedgehogs 🦔
📚️ 🦔 📚️

This prize has been kindly donated by @siskikalla.bsky.social 💚

its simply beautiful

silhouette of an oak in front of setting sun and blue sky

just in time for #thicktrunktuesday - reacquainting with a favourite oak, surrounded by spring birdsong. Bliss.

EVENT: New evidence-based guidelines are being launched to support the implementation of sustained wellbeing support for healthcare staff.

🗓 Monday 23 March 2026 | 1:00 – 2:00pm
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wonderful! taking my ears out for a walk later in hope of chiffchaffing!

Glorious yellow 💛 hand picked daffodils in a water jug in a kitchen

🌿☕ Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus☕🌿

St David (Dewi Sant) is the patron saint of Wales, celebrated on March 1st

He was known as Dewi Ddyfrwr (David the Water Drinker) for his ascetic, teetotal & vegetarian lifestyle

A key figure in the Welsh Age of Saints, preaching widely, including SW England & Brittany🌿

large alder tree with catkins over a canal with a blue sky

alder by the #ItchenNavigation #treesky

To All Who Read this post:

You All have bone spurs..

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

the sandy head of a chihuahua poking out from under a red duvet

mawning, haff a great day #chihuahua #saturdayvibes

If only government policy
all over the world
hadn't been bought
from corrupt politicians
by greedy billionaires
there might be different priorities
like eradicating poverty,
ending wars,
tackling climate change ...

meme via Democratic Socialism Now

Graphic banner featuring the title “Two Worlds of Clinical Trials: Academic and Industry Sponsored Studies” in bold dark text on a light background. A stylised medical syringe illustration appears on the left. On the right is a portrait photograph of Dr Peter Connelly, an older white male with short grey hair and glasses, smiling and wearing a dark jumper. The Dementia Researcher logo appears in the lower section. The design uses muted tones and a professional layout consistent with research blog branding.

Academic trials often ask different questions to commercial ones. Both matter. Both bring challenges. Dr Peter Connelly talks about the key differences in his latest blog.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-two-wor...

it's an 'own goal' for Starmer....he won't learn...

'Birdbrain' benefits: How being an expert birdwatcher may boost cognition New research shows that seasoned birders — including older adults — had denser tissue in parts of the brain tied to attention and perception.

For all you #birders out there (including me) -
'Birdbrain' benefits: new research shows that seasoned birders had denser tissue in parts of the brain tied to working memory, spatial awareness & object recognition. #BirdBrain

Link for more information: www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

YouTube video by Emanuil Ivanov Bill Evans - Peace Piece (Emanuil Ivanov)

I'm listening to Bill Evans.

youtu.be/niZEyBTcO0g?...

I hope you all find a piece of peace this evening 💙

love this - one of my favourite piano pieces - just transcendent...

Fall in UK net migration threatens to carve deep hole in public finances Issue is expected to come under the spotlight in chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement

The migration doom loop at work: does anyone in government seriously think that a strategy designed to keep out skilled workers and students makes either economic or political sense?

://www.ft.com/content/7408ad00-e4eb-41c7-8849-36061bc0eac1

For every human being in need of a hug, i sent two. Join us Thursdays at #humansOfBlueSky and Broadcast this so more people join Show photos candid or portraits feed at▶️ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:75olwwdd7syhlxbwzr55tpnf/feed/aaabnxswjrqra #storytelling #luiscordobapharchive #eastcoastkin #BAS #cityscape #photography #portrait #argentina

For every human being in need of a hug, i sent two.
Join us Thursdays at #humansOfBlueSky and Broadcast this so more people join Show photos candid or portraits
feed at▶️
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#storytelling #luiscordobapharchive #eastcoastkin #BAS #cityscape #photography #portrait #argentina

joyful!

Hannah and Zack in a park

Green Menaces - let’s go. 💚

Huge huge thanks to everyone who’s backed this campaign and shown it so much love.

Now we leave nothing on the pitch. Let’s get this over the line.

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