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Dr Paula Owens
@geopaula.bsky.social
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She/Her. Optimist, geographer, primary teacher & consultant, author. Trustee NAEE. Member Primary Geography Ed Board & EYPPC. PhD.
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🦇 Have a look at our brand new Halloween guide: www.bats.org.uk/support-bats... . A great resource for inspiration on how to help and celebrate bats this season!
Beautiful sunny Autumn Equinox & we’re celebrating apple abundance with crumble. Chair #NAEE UK Paul Vare calls this a time of the ‘Apple Moon’ & urges us to think of the privilege behind the crunch. Great Blog + Teaching activities #environmentalLunacy. naee.org.uk/apple-moon
Apple Moon - UK NAEE
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Geographical issues - core knowledge essential but never enough on its own. ‘Place’ also influenced by values, culture …#Criticalthinking #geographyteacher #enquiry
I can’t survive in a house’: Petra’s Bedouin resist moves to evict them from ancient cave homes.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘I can’t survive in a house’: Petra’s Bedouin resist moves to evict them from ancient cave homes
Plans to improve the world heritage site for tourists put its living culture at risk, say locals and campaigners
www.theguardian.com
I see Carol Ann Duffy the former poet laureate has written this fine poem re ‘that person’s’ visit and state banquet.
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The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it.

ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.

Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.

(c/o Caroline Codsi)
The wheel is turning .. great Blog from Dr David Dixon as we begin the lunar cycle of #HarvestMoon. Lots of ideas for schools to engage with as they return to school and think about harvest, seasonal changes & what’s happening in their area. From NAEE UK naee.org.uk/harvest-moon/
Harvest Moon - UK NAEE
Before the advent of mechanisation, people needed to have as much time during a day as possible in order to get the harvest in. This was greatly helped by the Harvest Moon.
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Ashamed of UK government & their erosion of civil liberties. Ashamed I wasn’t there protesting against the eradication of a nation & its people too. Get a grip #Labour.
Palestine Action ban protest: half of those arrested were 60 or over, data shows. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Palestine Action ban protest: half of those arrested were 60 or over, data shows
Total of 532 arrests at London protest on Saturday, most for displaying placards or signs in support of proscribed group
www.theguardian.com
Beautiful ‘Thistledown Moon’ rising tonight #fullmoon - do read this piece by @alanparkinson.bsky.social to find out why he suggests this name. naee.org.uk/thistledown-...
A blustery walk on the marshes. We spotted the familiar, cross-faced, hoppity stance of a Little Owl in the dark, corner rafters of a barn, & were accosted by a shouty Sedge Warbler. Such a lot of attitude for the size! Hawthorn awash with ripening fruit and Yellow Toadflax lifted the day’s colours.
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The results of a study in Nature Communications show that climate change is raising the odds of extreme fire years and the number of large forest fires, necessitating proactive measures to mitigate risks and adapt to extreme fire years. go.nature.com/4m8fTSA 🧪
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Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.

“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.

Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn
Amazing! We’ve just watched this video in utter awe - attempting to run 186 miles of the beautiful Pembrokeshire coastal path in 50 hours is - insane. Lovely short engaging film.
#Ultrarunner #Wales m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5w...
186 Miles Under 50 Hours on The Pembrokeshire Coast Path
YouTube video by Harrier Trail Running
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Lovely weekend with a friend - we top and tailed her conference w/e travelling & laughing together - in between I got a chance to do a bit of walking & swimming - saw my first compass jellyfish of the year!
Just wow! We are so tiny …
A stars massive outburst captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Credit: NASA/ESA
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Ploughing & draining the Fens of Cambridgeshire creating an ‘illusion of food security’, says @tonyjuniper.bsky.social at Moor Meadows conference in Chagford, Devon - because the fertile peat soils are being lost & causing huge carbon emissions