Helen Gray

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📸 These photos show just how awful the school run in an urban environment can be.

🚲🚶🏽We asked parents in the London borough of Lewisham to share photos capturing their experiences of taking their children to school.

👀 What you see here highlights some recurring issues.

Ultra-processed. Cheap. Low in goodness.

Too many children are still served unhealthy food at school.

Watch our animation featuring Emma Thompson and young campaigners to see the impact and join the call to improve #schoolfood standards 🍽️🌈

🎬 Watch the animation → youtu.be/DEAaBcKx23A

Evidence for the earliest hominin use of wooden handheld tools found at Marathousa 1 (Greece) | PNAS The Middle Pleistocene (MP; ca. 774 to 129 ka) marks a critical period of human evolution, characterized by increasing behavioral complexity and th...

It was such a privilege to get to work on this amazing material from an incredible site and team - now the earliest handheld wooden tools in the archaeological record, taking evidence back to 430,000 years! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

For a while, it looked like our society was serious about making work life more family friendly. It's a sad day when a large employer, like mine, decides to take a giant step backward.

Buckland wrote this despite understanding that women of his time, whether his wife Mary, or #MaryAnning whose work he benefitted from, were serious, skilled palaeontological fieldworkers & thinkers...
Here's the @trowelblazers.bsky.social article on Mary Buckland
trowelblazers.com/2014/05/09/m...

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Proven science via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath

Point from @ndzitina.bsky.social govt is looking at policies in isolation ex. bf + shared parental leave. They can clash &d put families in really difficult situations. Govt needs to look at this holistically, so many impacts, so many different depts have a role to play : climate, housing etc

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Finland teaches media literacy to fight fake news and disinformation

Being able to identify hoaxes, avoid scams & debunk propaganda is a civic skill required in today's information society. That's why curriculum for students in Finland includes media literacy lessons, aimed at safeguarding a precious resource: the truth. Via @aljazeera.com

Over to you, @wandsworthlabour.bsky.social @TFL @london.gov.uk

Him: a wombat and his girlfriend were caught on a backyard camera.
Me: how do you know it wasn't a wombat and her boyfriend
Him: you know you could be called strident lol
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...

Oh no! Such an inspiring model for #LastMile

Big moment for Europe: in December, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in the EU for the first time.

This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

It has become increasingly clear that X - a platform now actively producing explicit and abusive material against women and children - is not an appropriate platform to be using for our comms.

I will keep pushing for action from the govt & relevant authorities in this area.

Goodbye to ghosts on the road? Government takes on vehicle reg plate tampering

The government's Road Safety Strategy was just published. Could it spell the end of Ghost Plates? Find out, here lauralaker.substack.com/p/goodbye-to...

Doctoral Training Programme: What's Not There? Absences in Collections | Museums and Collections Explore techniques to research 'against the grain' and uncover marginalised stories.

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

Our next free doctoral training webinar takes place next Wednesday. Join us for guidance and examples of uncovering marginalised and minoritised stories in collections.

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

Although I think that area is maxed out for grants already

Good question, I don’t know. But they do fund archaeology outside the US

Current Funding Priorities Due to disruptions in the nonprofit sector and regular periodic review of the Foundation’s funding priorities, the Board has chosen to accept unsolicited inquiries in Summer 2025; those grant…

I recently discovered a small charitable foundation that gives grants for mapmaking and cartography! reploglefoundation.org/grants-2/cur...

My New Year's resolution: to tidy up my open browser tabs. What do you think? Too ambitious? #NYE2026

this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)

If your house of worship is silent about the cruelty and the attacks on your neighbors by ICE, you’re at the wrong church, mosque, synagogue, temple, or gurdwara.

Powerful ad by Interfaith Alliance — a plea for humanity.

Do you have any Xmas wishes to protect our planet or to address the climate crisis?

RUTHERFORD COUNTY: “Her whole focus is regaining custody of her daughter.”

Woman gives birth in custody, ICE separates from her baby for 35 days even after all charges dropped - locked up in Louisiana while her newborn is in state custody in Tennessee.

Still looking for that perfect Christmas gift?

We have a huge range of unique, expert-led workshops lined up for 2026! From bronze casting and Stone Age sewing, to corn dollies, belt weaving, chainmail & flintknapping..

Check out our 2026 workshops: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/whats-on/cal...

Will just have to reuse my last year’s calendar! ☺️

Ah, I’m sorry I missed out on this year’s calendar! But glad you have successful sales 💕