Rage Against the Miocene

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

It’s called a functioning spinal column. Thank you @scoutingamerica.bsky.social.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus & •58m Reports of Tehran's Gandhi Hospital being damaged during today's bombardment of the Iranian capital are extremely worrying. X @WHO is working to verify the incident. But it serves as a reminder that all efforts must be taken to prevent health facilities from being caught up in the ongoing conflict. Health facilities are protected under international humanitarian law. Health is #NotATarget

+ The UN education agency, UNESCO, says that the bombing of a primary school during the US and Israeli military attacks on Iran on Saturday constitutes a grave violation of humanitarian law.

Thick feather moss on a rock. Slender sporophytes reach upward from the moss. In the backround are trees and a leafy forest floor.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi! Happy St David's Day in the Wye Valley (Dyffryn Gwy).

Everything is drenched in green, moss smothering every stone. And from the moss, sporophytes burst out to welcome Spring.

Paleoclimate pattern effects help constrain climate sensitivity and 21st-century warming | PNAS Paleoclimates provide examples of past climate change that inform estimates of modern warming from greenhouse-gas emissions, known as Earth’s clima...

Really excited to see this paper out!! Led by @vtcoop.bsky.social we show that if you use cold and warm paleoclimates together, you can reduce uncertainty in Earth's climate sensitivity by quantifying the pattern effect and more precisely constrain future climate change www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Biomarker Constraints on Indo‐Pacific Warm Pool Temperature During the Late Pleistocene: The Role of Orbital Forcing Orbital-scale IPWP SST records show a dominant 100 kyr cycle and are in phase with greenhouse gas and ice volume changes U37K′ ${\mathrm{U}}_{37}^{{K}^{\prime }}$ and Mg/Ca records have a seasona...

Congratulations to Trang Tran (from the @leafwax.bsky.social lab along with @paleolipidrr.bsky.social) - Biomarker Constraints on Indo-Pacific Warm Pool Temperature During the Late Pleistocene: The Role of Orbital Forcing agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

View from a stone-walled castle looking down across a green valley and grey brooding cloudscape

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus / Happy St David's Day from the shattered 13th c walls of Castell Dinas Brân 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Built by Gruffydd Maelor II, prince of Powys Fadog, within
the ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort

#SirDdinbych #Denbighshire

#HillfortsWednesday on a Sunday 👋

I find I am honestly unsure what the long term implications are of the United States demonstrating twice in three months that its new preferred way of war is to engage in bolt-from-the-blue decapitation strikes with no obvious follow-up plan.

My instinct is that it will not turn out well.

a 3d paper model of a Mari Lwyd

Happy St Davids Day Welsh kids!
(from the Welsh-est item I have in at heykidsrocknroll.etsy
com)

Southern Ocean Vertical Carbon Stratification Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition Breakdowns of Southern Ocean carbon isotope stratification occur at multiple glacial terminations back to at least 1.55 million years ago An increasingly efficient Southern Ocean biological pump ...

Fantastic work by Aidan Starr, @ianhall.bsky.social & colleagues published in Paleo Paleo yesterday: Subsurface-to-deep C isotope gradients in the Southern Ocean across the MPT! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

I've also been struck by this. The Trump regime is normalising the decapitation of governments it dislikes by assassinating or abducting their leaders. There are good reasons why states have tended not to make this a norm.

Everything You Need To Know About Saint David’s Day | TheSprout The Patron Saint of Wales, Saint David, is celebrated every year on 1st March. Who is Saint David? Saint David, also known as Dewi Sant in Welsh, was a bishop during the 6th century in a town in West ...

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi!!

thesprout.co.uk/blog/saint-d...

Rhun ap Iorwerth: Plaid Cymru is ready to ‘lead the charge’ in Wales Leader launches ‘roadmap’ of first 100 days in power to show party is ready to govern if it wins Senedd elections

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Welsh Legends by D Parry Jones (1953 first edition), illustrated by Ivor Owen.

I was interviewed by a newspaper and asked what the most beautiful book I own is. Tough choice but I went for this.

People really struggling with the idea that the Iranian government sucks but we shouldn't be bombing them can both be true, eh?

Bezos could retrieve something from the disaster of his ownership of the @washingtonpost.com by emulating the Scott family in 1932. Give the paper away and endow it with, say, $1.5 bn. And have an independent trust run it in the public interest.

Trump hasn't gone to Congress for authorization to attack Iran. He hasn't explained the necessity or urgency of preemptive action by us. I'd very much like to see regime change in Iran, but Trump hasn't explained how we intend to help achieve that goal.

Congress: Just say No.

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

Remind me, when you slaughter 85 young school children, are you the Good Guys?

300,000 children face 10-year wait for settled status under UK plans, says IPPR Thinktank analysis says proposed ‘earned settlement’ changes could trap families in prolonged insecurity

Impact on children - will damage child poverty progress - and draft proposals that will block many women from ever getting settlement are among dozens of issues that look like a recipe for chaos, much of it unintended+ some intentional changes that hurt cohesion
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Take two seven year olds in a primary school in the Prime Minister’s constituency.

His Dad is a banker
Her Mum is the cleaner at that bank

Is the Government’s Ipoproposal that richer child gets permanent status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate not until they are 22?

This is such an exciting day for me, with the premiere of the film made about my 17 years rewilding an Irish Atlantic rainforest (also the film's title).

What a surreal moment in my life it'll be to see the ecosystem I know and love so well on a big cinema screen!!

Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters

By taking a far-right approach to immigration policy, cracking down on rights and placing it high on the agenda, Labour has not just turned its own voters away

It has mainstreamed far-right politics and strengthened Reform, both politically and electorally

Them doubling down should be unforgivable

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I don't have anything I can say on here except that I want everyone, especially the kids, to be safe and well, and that my heart hurts for so many people I care about who are terrified for their loved ones tonight

A bright green, oval-shaped capsule hangs like from the top of each long brown stem sticking up out of a thick bed of green moss (close-up image).

Our wet February has prompted a burst of new energy among the mosses. Their sporophytes are pushing up, each long stem topped with a pretty bauble - a capsule, getting ready to burst open and release the spores carrying the next generation.

Joe Dante and Hideo Kojima are close seconds but no director was more right about the future of war than Barry Levinson with the 1992 box office flop Toys.

Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments The opposition appeared overwhelming: Tens of thousands of emails poured into Southern California's top air pollution authority as its board weighed a June proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances...

They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.

Reflecting on the past and present, what does the future hold for nuclear in the South West region? It was great to be joined by @claireyoungmp.bsky.social and @evelynwelch.bsky.social at the annual @sw-nuclearhub.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social showcase to share ideas and shape what's next ☢️

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

‘I’ve never been so frightened’: the veteran reporter who turned his lens on the empty bedrooms of school shooting victims The director of an Oscar-nominated documentary that goes into the bedrooms of children killed in US school shootings on why it was his most daunting challenge to date – and the hard task of encouragin...

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...