Simon Lewis

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again...

'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Protest only works because it is cumulative. It takes time and energy to engage people and change the conversation. If this went ahead, protest would not work. This Labour government under Starmer is terrifyingly authoritarian.

Not to say COPs aren’t limited, problematic, failing in many ways etc. but he careful what you wish for.

At the very least during COP, for one time a year, the world as a whole focuses on climate. Which is an unequivocally good thing.

Care needed not to trash multilateralism in a way Trump does.

It’s absolutely not true that COPs “have done nothing to reduce emissions”. Small island states getting 1.5 C as target, against scientists’ + major polluters’ desires, moved the Overton window. Overall, emissions trajectories were 4-6 degrees C warming by 2100, now down to 2.5 ish.

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

- Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

Story by me
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NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power

We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before

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When Reform's Nathan Gill is sentenced for bribery, he will be the third of Nigel Farage's former MEPs to be jailed for being corrupt, after Tom Wise (expenses fraud) and Ashley Mote (falsely claiming benefits). What is it about Farage that attracts crooks?

“Our investigation uncovered that an elected MEP was taking payments to peddle narratives beneficial to Russian interests... This case goes to the heart of our democratic values.”

— head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, Commander Dominic Murphy

No.3. How is Starmer and his team so idiotic at every turn.

In reality, the UK is so broken due to the never-ending housing crisis. Fix that and most people have more disposable income and other problems become manageable.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

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The media has a great sway over people’s minds.

CBSI Director of Science - Kinshasa, Congo (Democratic Rep.) (CD) job with University of Kinshasa | 12843735 The Congo Basin Science Initiative (CBSI) is looking for a Director of Science to provide scientific leadership and coordination.

The Congo Basin Science Initiative (CBSI) is advertising for a Director of Science. Based in Kinshasa, 4 yrs position. Work with me, amazing students and great scientists to transform our understanding of the world’s second largest area of tropical forests. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Every single time a form of UBI is implemented, it is successful.

Don't be complacent, we saw the numbers at yesterday's event and we know the consequences if we let the Far Right gain more and more power and control of our lives. Watch and share this video and do what you can to support Wednesday's protest against Trump and everything he has become a symbol for

BREAKING🚨: People across the UK are showing up to demand the UK Government #StopRosebank.

Rosebank is the UK’s biggest undeveloped oil field, & it’s a bad deal for all of us.

Scenes from London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Aberdeen

Take digital action now👉 www.stopcambo.org.uk/doa-digital

There are 100 of my scientific papers and books there. If there is something I can do to add pressure, I’m all ears.

Postdoctoral Researcher in Atmospheric Chemistry

Are you interested in biosphere-atmosphere interactions, global modeling, and living in Zurich? If so, this postdoc position might be for you! Please share with any interested colleagues: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Four journalists among 15 killed in Israeli strike on hospital in Gaza, say health officials Deaths take to at least 192 the number of Palestinian journalists killed in the conflict since 7 October 2023

The two deadliest wars in history claimed about 70 journalists between them.

The ongoing war in Gaza has killed 192 Palestinian journalists in less than two years.

History will remember this not as a conflict, but as the mass execution of witnesses.

POLITICS JOE: Sally Rooney dedicates all British book sale proceeds to Palestine Action Source | The Irish Times

Sally Rooney dedicates all British book sale proceeds to Palestine Action.

Source | The Irish Times
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Two new exciting job opportunities at @universityofleeds.bsky.social machine-learning forecasting for West Africa.
ML is revolutionising forecasting, so this is a major opportunity.
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Mo Salah respond to a post by UEFA with: Can you tell us how he died, where, and why? The UEFA post reads: Farewell to Suleiman al-Obeid, the 'Palestinian Pelé'. A talent who gave hope to countless children, even in the darkest of times

Well said, Mo Salah.

Suleiman al-Obeid was shot dead by IDF forces whilst waiting for food aid in southern Gaza.

I also think the same. AI is a revolution like writing or computing. But on a much shorter timescale.

Huge new work in the central Congo peatlands, showing that the peatlands began forming 42,000 years ago. Culmination of around 15 major expeditions over the past decade, and a huge effort by many people.

It’s not OK for the UK to continue oil and gas exploration. And my advice to DRC, as basic economics, is not to try build what is a new industry in DRC, that is also a dying industry. Invest effort in the industries of the future.

It is!

Gorilla habitats and pristine forest at risk as DRC opens half of country to oil and gas drilling bids Government launches licensing round for 52 fossil fuel blocks, potentially undermining a flagship conservation initiative and affecting an estimated 39 million people

Democratic Republic of the Congo, again, opens its forests and peatlands for auction for oil exploration. Shockingly reckless. www.theguardian.com/environment/...