🎄Merry Christmas from Riverfly HQ!🎅
✨A huge thank you to all our amazing volunteers, partners, funders and supporters for everything you've done throughout 2025.
💧We hope you have a delightful festive break! We'll see you back out on the river in 2026.
🎁Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
It's Quizmas! Check out this week's posts on @riverflies.bsky.social and send an e-mail with your answer 🤶
You gotta wonder - do journalists at the Guardian talk to each other? First they run a story about Bacon being carcinogenic and the need for health warnings (a long standing food scandal that one) - then, barely a day later, a puff piece on which bacon ‘crisps up’ the best…..Jeez.
Jane Goodall dies, the Pope condemns climate deniers, and Kemi Badenoch decides today is a good day to say she’d scrap the Climate Change Act.
Economically bonkers, morally bankrupt, out of step with public opinion
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
There. Is. No. Such. Thing.
Cattle ranching is among the most destructive of all the world's industries.
"Regenerative" cattle ranching is simply greenwash.
A post this morning from Keir Starmer on Elon Musk's X in which he welcomes American financial investment into the UK and makes no comment on other matters
good that Keir has broken his silence this morning to ... continue posting on a website run by a man who yesterday addressed a far right rally to call for his overthrow, while not in any way addressing said far right rally
"Put them up anywhere" Was hoping the Home Secretary was talking about asylum seekers but sadly not.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
If I were Labour Prime Minister, I would simply criticise the bloke pushing mass deportations.
Love this. Real experiential learning in practice - 'because it’s how I like to work, with my hands. Simple as that.' 'We have the time to try, fail, try again. And so far, we’ve never not found a solution.'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Google Sign in is dunkin cereal milk gluten fr Al Overview +1 No, Dunkin' Cereal Milk is not gluten-free because it contains milk, which is a common allergen, and as a result, it is not suitable for those with celiac disease or gluten intolerance. However, coffee drinks, dairy milk, and non-dairy milks like oat, almond, and coconut milk are naturally gluten-free at Dunkin'.
In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
Screenshot of a tweet by J.K. Rowling replying to Mark Adam Harold. Mark's tweet asks, "How are you planning to police public toilets?" J.K. Rowling responds: "Quite easily, really. Decent men will stay out, as they always have, so we can assume all who don't are a threat, given their disregard for women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. Photographing, reporting and disseminating such men's images online will be a piece of cake." The tweet was posted at 10:51 PM on June 21, 2025, and has 216.9K views, 298 comments, 1.2K retweets, 10K likes, and 152 bookmarks.
JK Rowling explicitly calls on her followers to engage in vigilante actions against people they suspect are trans in bathrooms.
This is incredibly dangerous and far more likely to result in violence against gender nonconforming cis women.
What a wonderful day we had at the @freshwaterbio.bsky.social 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting at Nottingham Trent University. Brilliant discussions on ghost ponds, climate change, pollution, outdoor swimming, being 'activist scientist' and the concept of riverkin. Can't wait to do it again next year!
Steven Spielberg’s iconic film Jaws first hit theaters 50 years ago this month.
Since then, sharks have experienced the worst declines in their 450-million-year history. Can we trace that decline to their villainous portrayal in this influential movie?
Check out the latest from @therevelator.org ⬇️
1. It’s good to see this scandal being called out at last. My thanks and congratulations go to Lee Schofield, Karen Lloyd and Ian Convery. But it’s also absolutely infuriating that it has come to this point, as I explain in this thread.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is just the beginning - not only will careers be destroyed, but the quality will plummet
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The Riverfly Partnership Photography Competition. Enter by 30th June 2025
📢 Riverfly Photography competition reminder 📢
Find out more about our competition in the link below ⬇️
www.riverflies.org/photo-compet...
📷 Lynn Doe, A Riverfly by the River Ouzel, entrant from the 2016 photography competition.
#photo #competition #RiverflyPartnership
📸 On the hottest UK May 1st since records began.
Let’s get fossil fuel ads banned– just 9 days left to force a Parliamentary debate govpetition.uk/700024
We’re raising funds through the #GreenMatchFund for our #LakeDistrict #ArcticCharr Recovery and Management project, aka LD-CHARM 🐟
bit.ly/42BgnII
If you can, please donate. Each donation is matched pound-for-pound up to £10K, meaning we could unlock £20K of funding for £10K of donations!
Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!
Some thoughts on better ways to control parasites of pets without poisoning rivers and birds
youtu.be/xOnMh3zaO0o
7 Conclusion We surveyed 319 knowledge workers who use GenAI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot) at work at least once per week, to model how they enact critical thinking when using GenAI tools, and how GenAI affects their perceived effort of thinking critically. Analysing 936 real-world GenAI tool use examples our participants shared, we find that knowledge workers engage in critical thinking primarily to ensure the quality of their work, e.g. by verifying outputs against external sources. Moreover, while GenAl can improve worker effi-ciency, it can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving. Higher confidence in GenAI's ability to perform a task is related to less critical thinking effort. When using GenAl tools, the effort invested in critical thinking shifts from information gathering to information verification; from problem-solving to Al response integration; and from task execution to task stewardship. Knowledge workers face new challenges in critical thinking as they incorporate GenAl into their knowledge workflows. To that end, our work suggests that GenAl tools need to be designed to support knowledge workers' critical thinking by addressing their awareness, motivation, and ability barriers. Acknowledgments We thank members of the Tools for Thought group at Microsoft
Microsoft acknowledge that ChatGPT and other generative #AI is likely to make people less able use critical skills, and more reliant on trusting whatever they are served up by GenAI www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
See the Riverfly Partnership's posts this week for a little Christmas quiz I wrote! 🎅🏻
