Jacob Parkman

Sheffield campaigners launch bid to buy Moscar Moor for community Moscar Moor is not for sale, but the group hopes to secure it under new Community Right to Buy law.

Sheffield campaigners launch bid to buy Moscar Moor for the community

Local Labour councillor Minesh Parekh said: “I look forward to people making use of the upcoming 'Community Right to Buy' legislation to bring mismanaged land into community hands”

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Starting a scrap while a player is down injured and then saying “he’s fine” over and over again before he’s carted off? Yeah there’s a limit and that was way past it.

Ongoing collapse of avifauna in temperate oceanic islands close to the mainland in the Anthropocene | Journal of Animal Ecology | besjournals.onlineli... | #ornithology 🪶🌍🧪

My response to those who say it’s “too late” to address climate change and global environmental damage.

It is NOT too late. As long as one tree is still standing, one whale is still swimming, and one child is still breathing it is not too late to protect something precious.

A yellow and two reds in union? Might have missed one knowing origin.

WOW!!!!!!!!!! SOMERSET CHASE DOWN 230 AND WIN BY 5 WICKETS!!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Spineless on student loans, spineless on AI theft.
Nick Clegg is 12 stone of pond slime stuffed into a suite and held up by the resulting noxious gasses & a true scumbag.

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

These books just arrived. Our new crop pollination book with info about fruits, vegetables, bees an conservation measures came out 😊 I hope we will also produce versions adapted to other countries.

Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times.

Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice www.wired.com/story/intell...

Incredibly cool!

Today we can announce a panel of judges has found:

- The ecological case against industrial sandeel fishing is sound

- The UK has the right to stop this damaging fishing in its waters

This means sandeels can be safeguarded for the seabirds that need them.

The image presents a comparison between two types of lawns to promote #NoMowMay. On the left side, titled "Why have a lawn like this?" it displays a grid of uniform green squares representing a plain, regularly mowed lawn. On the right side, titled "When you can have a lawn like this?" the grid intersperses colourful icons of a sunflower, a pink flower, a ladybug, a frog, a bee, a butterfly, a white flower with a yellow centre, a tulip, another sunflower, a red mushroom with white spots, and additional flowers, symbolising a lively, biodiverse lawn encouraged by letting grass grow naturally during May.

#NoMowMay has begun! 🌼

The rare chance to help nature by doing nothing.

6/6. Where do we go from here?
Further investigation, especially into exposure to modern
contaminants is required.
Monitoring wild populations should be prioritised, screening of chemicals should be improved & carried out before approval for use.
The effects of chemical mixtures are still unclear.

5/6. We found high confidence that DDT causes eggshell thinning & at least some
evidence that all investigated contaminants bar PFAS can cause EST.
Endocrine disruption is more investigated than eggshell thinning.
Papers on EST are more observational whereas ED are more experimental

Hier, Katy Perry s’est envolée pour quelques minutes dans l’espace à bord d’une fusée Blue Origin, propriété de Jeff Bezos.

À quel prix pour la planète ?

💥 429 tonnes de CO₂ par passager·e : c’est le coût estimé d’un vol spatial, soit 43 ans d’émissions d’un·e Français·e…

List of authors of the direwolf genome preprint, including George R R Martin

I know lots of research labs who don’t include undergrad lab assistants as coauthors on papers, because they just followed instructions and didn’t make a serious intellectual contribution.

But sure, putting a fantasy author who funded your work as a coauthor screams “serious science, not a stunt.”

Trump team cites wolf ‘de-extinction’ as reason to cut endangered species list The interior secretary hailed a biotech company’s claim to have brought back the dire wolf, while the administration and GOP push to roll back species protections.

Everyone who told me "what's the harm in hyping de-extinction technology that doesn't work" can choke on a bag of black-footed ferret dicks

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in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

1/🧵 #BOU2025 #CitizenScience #WildlifeHealth #OneHealth #Ornithology 🌏🧪

Hi, I’m Becki Lawson, a wildlife vet at @zslofficial.bsky.social, and today I will be exploring disease surveillance in wild birds in light of the overall health of people, animals, and the ecosystem – in short: One Health.

6/6. Where do we go from here?
Further investigation into eggshell thinning, especially from exposure to modern
contaminants is required.
Monitoring of wild populations should be prioritised
Screening of chemicals should be improved.
The effects of chemical mixtures are still unclear.

Investigated 6 contaminants for 2 toxic effects; Eggshell thinning (EST) & endocrine
disruption (ED)
Retrieved 3,195 papers
Applied systematic selection criteria
Produced confidence assessments for each contaminant & toxic effect
Identified studies types of retained papers

3/6. We are now producing more chemicals than ever before. At the same
time, “legacy” pollutants remain in the environment despite ceasing production due to their persistence. We investigated the literature to determine whether 6 focal
pollutants have a potential to cause eggshell thinning.

2/6. Historic eggshell thinning, attributed to the pesticide DDT, and caused increased reproductive failure as eggs were crushed or failed to hatch. This contributed to population declines in many species and several mechanisms have been put forward by which pollutants might cause this.

1/6. Are modern contaminants causing eggshell thinning in birds? In the first chapter
of my PhD I have completed a systematic review evaluating whether 6 contaminants
cause eggshell thinning by assessing the volume of & agreement in the literature.
#BOU2025 #SESH5 #Ornithology #Ecology 🌍 🧪

Saisons

Aujourd'hui, c'est l'équinoxe de mars, et donc le début du printemps pour l'hémisphère nord. A 10h01, le soleil va changer d'hémisphère terrestre et être donc plus présent dans l'hémisphère nord. Ça vous dit d'en savoir plus?

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400 killed. Mostly women and children.
And this is the front page headline.

1,080,000 nest records received, let the analysis commence!

Ireland are way more aligned with Leinster from a style perspective than last season.

The difference is that Ireland are playing generally better teams with deeper squads that don't fall off after 60 minutes when Leinster bring on Snyman and Barrett.

really didn't expect we would hit "Trump uses the presidency for a low energy Tesla ad" levels of sad