@oliverlamford
A co-ordinator for Nature by the Taff, a nature group building local appetites for change and ecological living in South Wales. Studying MSc Sustainability and Ecology at the Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth.
Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies."
No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.
While many are criticising the Bank of England's decision to take historical figures off banknotes, when we asked the public what they most wanted to see on banknotes, 63% picked something other than historical figures - including 59-60% of Tory and Reform voters
yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
🦋 Our 'Save the Small Blue at Cwm Tips' crowdfund has now closed — and thanks to your amazing support we raised £2,446.83!
Thank you to everyone who donated, shared and offered to volunteer. Together we can now begin restoring flower-rich grassland for the Small Blue and other wildlife. 🌼 (1/2)
This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.
Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.
NEW: More North Sea drilling would do far less to reduce the UK's reliance on volatile gas imports than the continued expansion of renewables and clean tech
Full analysis by me, @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social and @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org ⬇️
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why...
Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden.
The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite.
The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.
Dung Cannon - Pilobolus crystallinus. I love these fungi. So tiny. #FungiFriends
EXCLUSIVE: As the fight to tax the riches rages on, we’ve acquired leaked behind the scenes footage of the billionaires lobbying Governor Hochul to protect their wealth.
What you see may shock you:
The science of racism with Professor Keon West
Methane venting is not some avoidable mistake. It's a baked in part of gas extraction + processing.
If we continue to extract gas & oil, no way round it, we will be releasing vast amounts of this incredibly potent greenhouse gas.
We have to stop extracting fossil fuels, now.
Since 1992, human-produced capital per capita has increased by about 100%, while stocks of natural capital have been reduced by nearly 40%. 🌍
- IPBES #BizBiodiversity Assessment 🏡
🧪 Full Media kit: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
Isn’t it time we had a plan, just in case things do go catastrophically wrong?
Our new report “We Need a Plan B” by Theo Cox, Liam Kavanagh and @rupertread.bsky.social Read argues that waiting to win climate debates risks leaving us dangerously unprepared.
drive.google.com/file/d/1ID32...
We argue for developing a Plan B through Strategic Adaptation:
• building resilience
• planning for disruptions
• preparing supply chains & infrastructure
• strengthening community
Preparedness isn’t pessimism, it’s responsibility
Read the report: drive.google.com/file/d/1ID32...
- Cancers
- unexplained scarring on the lungs
- impaired fetal growth
- premature birth
- heart disease
Canadian doctors warn of alarming health trends near fracking sites:
share.google/Y3bkaYqgOUfb...
Looking down over around six four-petalled pinky/purple flowers, with others about to open.
Cuckoo cuckoo! Cuckooflower is out.
aka Milkmaids
aka Lady's Smock
aka Pink Folly
aka Meadowcress
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour
#UKwildlife
Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own
European pre-industrial agriculture was actually good for plant diversity. This according to a study that showed diversity slumped with the Black Death as human population crashed and land was abandoned and rewilded itself.
theconversation.com/the-black-de...
#biodiversity #agriculture #rewilding
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.
OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…
“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”
IMO we should not be letting the US use the UK bases at all. If that is too hard to do - politically or practically - then we should close the bases, because otherwise it is just servitude.
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
💥 Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @financialtimes.com:
"An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented.
First Past the Post achieves neither."
The words of a real leader. A leader of courage and conviction. A leader who puts peace before craven compliance and subjugation of his nation to an illegal war and an autocratic warmongering US President.
Well done Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez!
Black Death Research Reveals People & Nature Thrive Together 🌍
theconversation.com/the-black-de...
paper > doi.org/10.1111/ele....
The good kind of infighting. Creasy explaining very clearly why the policy sucks. More power to the backbenchers
The Metropolitan Police has raided the Westminster Quaker Meeting house – again, this time targeting Take Back Power's direct action training. There were 15 arrests
"I am getting to the point where I refuse to spend more of my time making the case. It just makes you think they don't actually want growth everywhere. They just want to hold on to things down here. We need Whitehall reform but we also need Westminster reform.”
The UK is almost three decades into a mass devolution of powers (if not resources to a similar extent).
The centre still acts like a nineteenth century colonial administration.
Staggering what it tries to manage- and fails to.
Burnham is right here.
New Welsh Government legislation has officially recognised the Eurasian beaver as a native species and granted it protected status
