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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 5d

What does a healthier diet look like for us and for the planet? The new EAT-Lancet report is out today.

With less food waste, better farming shifting diets with 2/3 more fruit +veg+nuts & much less meat we can cut food emissions in half & protect water & wildlife.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

The global context has shifted dramatically since publication of the first EAT–Lancet Commission in 2019, with increased geopolitical instability, soaring food prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacer...

www.thelancet.com

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Greg 📎🍉 @gregory-c-leavitt.bsky.social · 8d

US capital is more interested in power and control than it is in profits, otherwise we would implement more profitable policies like UBI and a 4 day 32 hour work week.

THE DUTCH HAVE JUST ENDED THE 40-HOUR WORK WEEK, MOVING TO 32 HOURS OVER 4 DAYS WITH FRIDAYS OFF. WORKERS ARE HAPPIER, AND COMPANIES ARE WINNING.
THE INVESTIGATIVE

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 11d

Land restoration in Burkina Faso’s Centre-Ouest and Kadiogo regions is women’s work.

Here, women have made fertilizer trees their indispensable allies in reviving farmland.

Thanks to these nitrogen-fixing and shade-providing trees, they’re bringing degraded soils back to life.

Burkina Faso’s women farmers reviving the land with fertilizer trees

CASSOU, Burkina Faso — With her daba in hand, her back bent from decades in the fields, Maan — meaning “grandmother” in the local Nuni language of Burkina Faso’s Centre-Ouest region — isn’t ready to…

news.mongabay.com

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 15d

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable.

This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 15d

This is first time I’ve heard the govt making the Labour argument for controlling immigration.

Mahmood argues that controlling our borders is good for race relations, because uncontrolled immigration is feeding far right rhetoric and tensions.

Expect to hear a lot more of that.

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Jeremy Farr @jeremyfarr.bsky.social · 16d

Brutalist Canberra

Brutalist architecture around an Asian diner. The name of the restaurant is Baby, written in red neon lights across the windows.

A cropped shot of the Asian diner showing people inside. Thinking of the painting 'Nighthawks', 1942, by Edward Hopper.

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Exeter Food @exeterfood.bsky.social · 16d

🍽️ @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social are walking the walk with sustainable local food #LocalFood

University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social · 16d

#Sustainability starts locally.
At our ESI café, run by Falmouth Exeter Plus, our vibrant flavours meet fresh, responsibly acquired ingredients, sourced in Cornwall.

@cornwall.exeter.ac.uk @exetergses.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @exeterfood.bsky.social

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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · Sep 3

I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR

Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")

@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 17d

“The apes were particularly fond of figs, which contained some of the highest levels of alcohol the team recorded”

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Chimps consume equivalent of a beer a day in alcohol from fermented fruit

Study finds chimpanzees’ enthusiasm for guzzling ripe fruit puts their ethanol intake at about 14g per day

www.theguardian.com

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Jeremy Farr @jeremyfarr.bsky.social · 19d

Same crowd

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Andrew Flachs @drflachsophone.bsky.social · 21d

New paper on the intersections of ethnobiology and degrowth: two ways of understanding our place in the world through action-oriented, imaginative research into socioecological relationships.

doi.org/10.1177/0278...

Ethnobiology and Degrowth: A Review of the Opportunities for Collaboration, Generative Inquiry, and Solidarity in Socio-Ecological Research - Andrew Flachs, 2025

For centuries, global political economic relations have been informed by a model of growth premised on transforming plants, animals, knowledge, labor, water, an...

doi.org

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 23d

A database of archaeology Codes of Ethics.
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Archaeological Ethics Database – A project by the Register of Professional Archaeologists & the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists

archaeologicalethics.org

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Slow Food @slowfoodhq.bsky.social · 29d

🤯 The EU plans huge cuts to rules protecting workers, rights & the environment.

We join 470+ groups warning von der Leyen: protections are being sold for profit!

Laws must serve people & planet, not corporate gains.

Full statement
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/o...

#RulestoProtect #SOTEU

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Fernando Farache @ffarache.bsky.social · Aug 26

Ramphastos dicolorus Linnaeus, 1766 | Tucano-de-bico-verde | Red-breasted Toucan . Trilha dos Tucanos, Tapiraí -SP, Brasil

📸 #Canon R7 + rf 100–400mm

#wildlife #birds #photography #naturephotography #nature #Brazil #biodiversity

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Jeremy Farr @jeremyfarr.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Wild ungulates and salvage logging modulate disturbance effects on moth communities in spruce‐dominated forests

In an area of massive forest disturbance, taxonomic and functional moth diversity currently benefit from a re-opening of dense, dark forests. At a landscape scale, management should aim at diverse ma...

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · Sep 3

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD

Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!

This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

www.nature.com

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Professor Clare Collins AO @profccollins.bsky.social · Sep 4

Not all processed foods are bad for you. Here’s what you can tell from reading the label
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Not all processed foods are bad for you. Here’s what you can tell from reading the label

Processed foods vary greatly in their nutritional quality – and the number and type of food additives used to manufacture them.

theconversation.com

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Dave Young @daveinthedark.bsky.social · Sep 4

Back when you could jump on/off a number 12 bus as it went around the roundabout.

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · Sep 3

Not seeing like a state is the only thing worse than seeing like a state, as we are about to find out

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Aug 31

USDA quietly said Friday it will, after a century, end the Farm Labor Survey (FLS), the only wage survey of ag employers.

FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages.
#LaborDay #EconSky
www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...

Newsroom
ASB Notice
NASS discontinues select data collection programs and reports
Issued August 28, 2025, by the Agricultural Statistics Board of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service. For more information, contact Lance Honig at Lance.Honig@usda.gov or (202) 690-8141.

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is discontinuing the Mink Survey (OMB Control Number 0535-0212) and the Agricultural Labor Survey (OMB Control Number 0535-0109), as these collections are deemed duplicative and/or no longer necessary. This action is taken under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) as part of the government’s efforts to improve efficiency and eliminate unnecessary burdens.

The Notice of Discontinuance of Information Collections submitted to the Federal Register can be found here.

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NASS is the federal statistical agency responsible for producing official data about U.S. agriculture and is committed to providing timely, accurate and useful statistics in service to U.S. agriculture.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Home Office's own (excellent) research summary says

a) asylum seekers come to the UK primarily because of social networks/ties

b) welfare and labour market policies are *not* a big "pull factor"

c) safe routes would help

freemovement.org.uk/wp-content/u...

nce 2017, the number of asylum applications in the UK has been increasing, by 2019 returning to levels seen during 2015-16 although the UK was relatively little affected by the European 'migration crisis’. This recent increase is likely due in part to movement to the UK by those already in Europe. • In 2019, at least 1 in 6 asylum applicants to the UK had made a prior application in a European country. • However, only a small portion of secondary movement across Europe is to the UK – in 2019, the UK produced just 6% of Eurodac hits relating to prior applications elsewhere in Europe. • While many entering the UK may travel through France, most top nationalities applying for asylum in the UK do not apply in France in large numbers (with the exception of Sudanese, Afghan and Albanian applicants). Social networks, shared languages and diasporas motivate asylum seekers to reach certain destination countries • Social networks aid migrant integration to society, acting as facilitators of information relating to life in the destination country. They are considered trusted sources and are likely to influence migration journeys more than information from formal institutions. • The presence of diaspora communities can motivate migrants to reach certain destination countries. The proportion of diasporas in the EU+ residing in the UK is correlated with the proportion of asylum applications across the EU+ made in the UK (see slide 21). Armed conflict, human rights abuses, poverty, political & economic instability and violence are factors that forcibly displace migrants • The majority (57%) of individuals escaping persecution are internally displaced within their own countries and most refugees displaced abroad stay within their region of displacement, living in countries neighbouring their countries of origin 1 2 . • Of the number of asylum seekers that reach Europe, only a small percentage claim asylum in the UK. In 2019, the UK received 6% of total EU+ asylum applications. • A …

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Jeremy Farr @jeremyfarr.bsky.social · Sep 1

Exactly. The most iconic food place for Palace fans in SE London is a Jamaican jerk hut.

Tasty Jerk - Jamaican takeaway next to Selhurst Park Stadium (Crystal Palace FC)

"Tasty Jerk is the south-east London Vatican for the new manager announcements from Palace" Evening Standard

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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · Aug 31

Happy to share this new piece in @foodtank.bsky.social co-authored with my grad student Anastasia Papadopoulos on the need for a new approach to food policies in the face of the current trade wars - highlighting possibilities of cooperative self-reliance @ipes-food.org

foodtank.com/news/2025/08...

In the Crossfire of Trade Wars, Food Systems Need a New Plan

Food systems are too important to leave to the whims of one country, let alone one person.

foodtank.com

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Jeremy Farr @jeremyfarr.bsky.social · Aug 31

Just listened to this - fantastic! What a great podcast. I'll be working my way through the back catalog.

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Jeremy Farr @jeremyfarr.bsky.social · Aug 30

Oh thanks, I'll check it out!

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Jeremy Farr @jeremyfarr.bsky.social · Aug 30

I'm supervising a masters student who's writing their dissertation on representations of sustainability of oat and dairy on TikTok. Teaser: there are some pretty crazy politics and ideology at play in these communities.

Obviously caveats of social media bias towards sensational content apply.

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · Aug 30

Really good from @henrymance.ft.com Why the Vegans Lost on.ft.com/3JDAIHp

Why the vegans lost

[FREE TO READ] Veganism didn’t become less good for us or the planet, so what changed?

on.ft.com

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