Rachel Bevins

'Climate change is here now, disrupting sport and threatening lives': TV's Matt Rendell on sportswashing at Vuelta a España, and why mid-race flights should be banned Former ITV broadcaster speaks out on cycling's dubious relationship with the environment and climate change

www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/clima... #climatechange #vuelta #cycling

‘We are on the frontline’: the ambitious plan to save an Alpine village from a climate catastrophe A huge lake formed by a melting glacier above Pralognan-la-Vanoise could inundate the village – but a project is under way to stop it

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Suleiman al-Obeid: Mohamed Salah calls out Uefa over tribute Mohamed Salah calls out Uefa over a tribute to Palestinian footballer Suleiman al-Obeid it posted on social media which failed to refer to the circumstances surrounding his death.

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The Sycamore Gap case has shed light on a deeper issue with trees The felling has prompted calls for stricter legal protections for other trees and drawn attention to wider issues

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The Sycamore Gap case has shed light on a deeper issue with trees - BBC News #nature #conservation #woodland

From classroom to court: university sports therapists at the Kabaddi World Cup 2025 The second edition of the Kabaddi World Cup, held in the West Midlands, England, from 17 March 2025 to 23 March 2025, showcased the thrilling sport of kabaddi on a global stage. This event not only hi...

bjsm.bmj.com/content/59/1... From classroom to court: university sports therapists at the Kabaddi World Cup 2025 | British Journal of Sports Medicine

Breaking the silence: addressing pelvic floor dysfunction in female athletes Pelvic floor health is recognised as one of the 10 domains of female athlete health that should be included in illness and injury surveillance.1 However, pelvic floor health and dysfunction are not ty...

bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl... Breaking the silence: addressing pelvic floor dysfunction in female athletes | British Journal of Sports Medicine

Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him AUSTIN, TX—Stressing that the billionaire’s completely erratic behavior had strained the already fraught relationships, sources confirmed Thursday that a rift was widening between Elon Musk and anyone...

😂 Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him — theonion.com/rift-widens-...

These subsidiaries now at De Montfort University, Surrey, and Coventry. Where else in #UKHE?

Entries open for National Junior Para Athletics Championships 2025 We are delighted to announce that entries for the National Junior Para Athletics Championships 2025 are now open.

Entries for the National Junior Para Athletics Championships 2025 are now open. The event takes place at Coventry Athletics Track at Warwick University in Coventry on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 July 2025.
Entry information available on our website: www.activityalliance.org.uk/news/9852-en...

AI image of trump as the pope

Just the official account for the US government portraying a convicted fraudster, rapist and sex predator as God's representative on Earth. Americans must be so proud.

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“A republic, if you can keep it” - but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy Mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information

My new post mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information.

Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully!

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What happens when you destroy the last hospital in a city containing the largest number of child amputees the world has ever seen? Israel's genocidal bombings are calculated to kill civilians not only directly but also via infection, starvation, and denial of basic care.

One in four women in England have serious reproductive health issue, survey finds Exclusive: Racial disparities highlighted as researchers estimate 10 million women have conditions such as fibroids or endometriosis

Unfortunately women still have to fight so hard to get any advice/ scans www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor ). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

It's so bleak that an entire country is being willfully driven into a recession just so a bunch of people who already have more money than they can spend in multiple lifetimes can pay less in tax.

This happened 8 days ago and is horrific

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Share this post to support SCAD Heart Attack Awareness week! Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD) is a little known and poorly understood cause of a heart attack, striking healthy, fit adults. #scadawarenessweek #scadheartattacks #heartmonth #gored #womenshealth

I want to be clear once more that every single vaccine on the childhood vaccine schedule in the United States has already been subjected to a randomized clinical trial. There is no evidence that giving more than one of these vaccines within the time period specified by the schedule poses any risk.

Paratriathlon Race Performance in Elite Ambulatory Athletes ... : American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation thlon competitions between 2018 and 2021. A total of 1094 results (men n = 774; women n = 320) were analyzed. One-way analysis of variance was used to compare overall performance time, absolute time s...

Latest paper - Paratriathlon Race Performance in Elite Ambulatory Athletes With Physical Impairments journals.lww.com/ajpmr/abstra...

Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis Websites offer only error messages on Thursday after president demands agriculture department shutter sites

We knew this kind of stuff was coming, but it doesn't make it acceptable.

Purging science is an attack on democracy.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says

This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?

seeing a few familiar faces as well as some new ones join this lovely musk- and zuck-free space 😌

might be a good time to remind you that if you work in SEM, you can use our amazing starter pack to easily find and follow your peers!

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1/ 🚨 The UK introduced Physician Associates (PAs) as a response to the healthcare workforce crisis. But the journey has been contentious, with lessons for other countries considering similar measures. A 🧵 on the findings from our new paper with Louella Vaughan and Giuliano Russo

Outdated guidelines mean doctors failing to spot heart condition in women Research finds hypertrophic cardiomyopathy testing that overlooks sex differences and body size is inadequate Doctors are failing to diagnose women with a potentially deadly heart condition because tests rely on outdated studies from the 1970s and do not…

Outdated guidelines mean doctors failing to spot heart condition in women

This is important & necessary. I’d add only that a) It’s clear many of the political & media figures deliberately ignoring these facts are playing with the sort of fire we saw on our streets this summer & b) Laura Kuenssberg’s failure to point this out to Farage was an appalling dereliction of duty.

The alternative 2024 sports awards: quotes, gaffes and animal cameos The best and worst of 2024 – featuring Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the war on woke and the happiest 34 seconds of the year Keeper Lewis Patching – saying sorry in March after signing on loan for Rushden & Diamonds, conceding four, headbutting a fan in the bar and…

The alternative 2024 sports awards: quotes, gaffes and animal cameos

‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports ...

“If anything, the AI cheating crisis has exposed how transactional the process of gaining a degree has become.”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

My cat was involved in my SCAD recovery too!