There are a few people that are inspirations to almost all scientists that I know, and Jane Goodall was one of them. RIP. 😢

Stunning! ❤️ Sharing for those also needing a beautiful musical interlude from pretty much everything else!

Wow, wow, wow! What a panacea! Thank you for the reminder among all the doomscrolling of the possibility of experiences like this!

End of this month is our book tour! See for details:
- 30th of September: www.humanityhub.org/calendar/pea... at @the Hague humanity hub
- 2nd of October: at @THUAS: www.dehaagsehogeschool.nl/over-de-haag... AND AT 17.00: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... at @unileiden.bsky.social

The best news!!! 😍

Having just been through something similar at Newcastle University, full solidarity to colleagues at Lancaster.

Over 400 jobs at risk, with all the wider reverberations cuts at that scale will involve.

Please sign and share their petition.

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Again, why critical thinking skills are crucial in education. If people are bombarded with a constant stream of algorithmically selected content that engages them emotionally and we aren't equipping them with critical thinking skills from an early age then things like this are the inevitable outcome

Many ecologists seem to be rallying to the politically-led aligning of nature recovery with economic growth

But with only vague notions about nature’s economic role

Degrowth is what is needed from the rich nations - to really allow nature to recover
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Trump administration is set to incinerate nearly 500 tonnes of emergency food, enough to feed 1.5 million children for a week. Despite repeated requests from USAID staff to distribute the food intended for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, they did not receive approval.

I spent months on this investigation and gathered docs from the UK courts, Land Registry and a French local authority, to show that Raynor and Moth Winn's story is not as they claim. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social @observeruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Get your National Climate Assessment from archive -dot- org: web.archive.org/web/20250629...

🧵 Just finished reading Upgrading Democracy by @pollycurtis.bsky.social at @demos-uk.bsky.social .
It’s a sharp, hopeful intervention in the face of democratic breakdown, and it aligns in profound ways with the epistemic collapse I’ve been tracking in my own work.
demos.co.uk/wp-content/u...

‼️ There are a few more days left to apply for the PhD positions in my group at KU Leuven. Make sure to send in applications by July 4! 👇

This is how you normalize authoritarianism.

When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left?
All the shifts are in just one direction.
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

The BBC plans to alter news “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama” in order to win the trust of Reform voters, Byline Times reports.

The plan was drawn up by senior executives including Director General Tim Davie and former GB News executive Robbie Gibb.

What a night! Needing coffee and carbs but first a snooze 😴

Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.

😅 Love it! If you must, I hope there are follow-ups you can learn: What have you got against my brown pants? They were sold as russet. They have been washed etc.

Oh no, I could quite fancy that one!

Beautiful! I had a lovely day last week along the Embankment, South Bank and in St James' Park under the shade of giant beeches. The city was gorgeous, lots of happy people milling around 💚

Can there be a Light Academia alternative? 😬

Goodness, he's gorgeous but looking somewhat traumatised! Laptops didn't mean he could sit on laps, the mouse wasn't his kind of mouse... So much for a young kitten to learn