Becky

Duolingo year in review 2025 57 Japanese score 1380 longest streak 74429 total xp 3954 minutes spent As of 30 November

Still learning!

The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation From Covid to climate change, understanding the role conspiracy theories fulfil for people's identity in a shifting world can better help explain our ‘post-truth’ age, writes Hardeep Matharu

🔴The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation

From Covid to climate change, understanding the role conspiracy theories fulfil for people's identity can help explain our ‘post-truth’ age, writes @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-cost-o...

The first results from our swabbing station are in!

Check out our expanding gallery of the microbes that people in South Wales carry around on their skin, in their mouths and noses, and on their mobile phones...

🦠🧫👉🏼 www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025/...

Bearly Newsworthy: The Right Wing Newspapers Resurrecting Dead Cats The news this week has been chock full of stories designed to distract you from the important things that are actually happening in the country right now

🔴Bearly Newsworthy: The Right Wing Newspapers Resurrecting Dead Cats

The news this week has been chock full of stories designed to distract you from the important things that are actually happening in the country right now, reports @bearlypolitics.co.uk

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/bearly-new...

Exposed: Reform UK doesn’t know how government spending works Reform UK just confused a procurement framework with a spending scandal – and revealed they don’t understand government

Reform UK has uncovered the scandal of a “wasteful” £350m contract.

Small problem: it’s not a contract. Or £350m. Or a scandal.
But apart from that, spot on! 😬

The Bear explains how Reform got it completely wrong ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

You Wanted Sovereignty. This Is What It Looks Like. No-one’s stolen our fish. No laws were imposed by Brussels. This is what happens when a grown-up government tries to fix the mess the last one left behind.

As usual, there’s a lot of panic about the UK-EU trade deal, so I’ve taken the time to write an FAQ.

It covers what the trade deal actually does (and doesn’t), why the outrage is mostly theatre, why the fish are still fine, and no - Ursula von der Leyen is not your supreme overlord.

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Käärijä & Baby Lasagna - #eurodab at the Grand Final | Eurovision 2025 | #UnitedByMusic ​​🇨🇭 YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest

Highlight of the night!

youtu.be/DGsL8hA-1rE?...

Pharmacists face daily inappropriate demands for antibiotics, survey finds National Pharmacy Association says some patients hoard them for holidays despite threat posed by antimicrobial resistance

"Concerning findings." A new survey by the National Pharmacy Association says patients frequently return partially used antibiotics, while more than a third are aware of patients regularly hoarding them for a later date.

‘We have a rule when we hear the sirens: if you’ve started operating, you don’t stop’: 24 hours with doctors on the Ukrainian frontline Like the soldiers they battle to save, combat medics in Ukraine are under constant attack. Three years after the invasion, one NHS doctor bears witness

We need facts as never before.

3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline.

Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding.

Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

A bird lands on the pavement in a city. Singing to itself, it reaches down to peck some crumbs. But a person walks right up to it and goes to step on the crumbs. The bird looks scared and opens its wings!

The bird flies into the sky while people below it cross at a walk sign. The bird lands on a lamppost, regrouping. Then it flies back down.

The bird sees half a bagel on the road. It tries to land, but a car approaches! Scared, the bird flies up to a big globe lamp. It stands there, looking sad, as the sun sets. In the background, we see Toronto's CN tower.

The bird looks wistfully up at the descending night, the stars and the moon.

My first ever webcomic. I made this over 20 years ago (yikes). It's called Bird and Moon. Part 1/5

This is beautiful!

Happy New Year!

Korean or Get Eaten - Duolingo x Squid Game YouTube video by Duolingo

youtu.be/bN2rUoX7540?...

Thank you! Good luck with yours!

The Emoji Quiz — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us What kind of antibiotics are there? What do they do? Which infections can be treated with them? Who discovered them? Are there bacteria resistant to them? And why do they have to have such complicated...

Want to find out more about antibiotics? Want to do it in a fun way? Have you tried out our emoji quiz?

#AMR #SciEd

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Brown and white lop eared rabbit wearing a santa hat

Merry Christmas!

And songbird symphony is fab

If you haven't tried it already, subnautica is a fantastic game, I really enjoyed it!

千日毎日日本語を勉強しました！

I'm proud of myself for keeping this up. Might sound daft, but maintaining this streak has provided me motivation during some tough times.

Golden Duo the owl stood in front of a torii (traditional Japanese gate)

Golden Duo the owl stood in front of a torii (traditional Japanese gate) on the left, larger golden Duo the owl on the right

My partner made me another statue for my 1000 day streak on Duolingo (Japan themed as I'm learning Japanese) and I love it so much. 2nd picture with the original trophy he made for my 1 year streak!

I did it, 1000 day streak!

Trump announces RFK Jr as his pick to lead US health department A scion of Democratic dynasty, RFK Jr is known for embrace of anti-vaccine beliefs and other conspiracy theories

Well, amongst all the other worrying news, this is concerning...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Hello everyone 👋
This place seems nice 😊 Maybe I'll post more here than I did on the old X...
Expect microbiology, cute things, and video games!