Mel Brown
@melbro.bsky.social
Science🎙️📻 maker, nature tramper, photo snapper, world & science news eater, civic science advocate, sunshine lover, queer🌈
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The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found.
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
FOI Exposes EHRC Bias: Private Meetings, Legal Echoes, and Policy Capture - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
Let’s be honest. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is not acting like a neutral regulator. It is not standing above the fray.
tacc.org.uk
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found.
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
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Absolutely fascinating on a lost civilisation www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Who built Europe’s first cities? Clues about the urban revolution emerge
Around 6,000 years ago, a group known as the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture developed egalitarian settlements north of the Black Sea and created the region’s earliest urban centres. Then, after two millen...
www.nature.com
January 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Absolutely fascinating on a lost civilisation www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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'From e-waste to gold: a pathway to CO2 sustainability' [via Cornell Uni] 🧪💻🗑️🥇
"It’s estimated that a ton of e-waste contains at least 10 times more gold than a ton of the ore from which gold is extracted."
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
#ewaste #gold #extraction #CO2 #sustainability
"It’s estimated that a ton of e-waste contains at least 10 times more gold than a ton of the ore from which gold is extracted."
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
#ewaste #gold #extraction #CO2 #sustainability
From e-waste to gold: a pathway to CO2 sustainability | Cornell Chronicle
A Cornell-led research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, to...
news.cornell.edu
January 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
'From e-waste to gold: a pathway to CO2 sustainability' [via Cornell Uni] 🧪💻🗑️🥇
"It’s estimated that a ton of e-waste contains at least 10 times more gold than a ton of the ore from which gold is extracted."
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
#ewaste #gold #extraction #CO2 #sustainability
"It’s estimated that a ton of e-waste contains at least 10 times more gold than a ton of the ore from which gold is extracted."
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
#ewaste #gold #extraction #CO2 #sustainability
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How America lost control of the bird flu and raised the risk of another pandemic www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
How America lost control of the bird flu and raised the risk of another pandemic
Exclusive reporting reveals how the United States lost track of a virus that could cause the next pandemic. Problems like the sluggish pace of federal action, a deference to industry, and neglect for ...
www.pbs.org
January 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
How America lost control of the bird flu and raised the risk of another pandemic www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
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Elon Musk and his company SpaceX failed to comply with federal reporting protocols aimed at protecting state secrets, including by not providing some details of his meetings with foreign leaders, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4iG0ojK
December 17, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Elon Musk and his company SpaceX failed to comply with federal reporting protocols aimed at protecting state secrets, including by not providing some details of his meetings with foreign leaders, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4iG0ojK
These are the science stories I am here for!
December 16, 2024 at 7:30 PM
These are the science stories I am here for!
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Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows.
People in the US live with illness for 12.4 years on average – up from 10.9 years in 2000, according to a study published by the American Medical Association
People in the US live with illness for 12.4 years on average – up from 10.9 years in 2000, according to a study published by the American Medical Association
Americans Spend More Years Sick Than Rest of World, Study Finds
Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows.
www.bloomberg.com
December 11, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows.
People in the US live with illness for 12.4 years on average – up from 10.9 years in 2000, according to a study published by the American Medical Association
People in the US live with illness for 12.4 years on average – up from 10.9 years in 2000, according to a study published by the American Medical Association
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unbelievable! the autism link been debunked SO many times. such a waste of time and resource to do again- 😡
Scientists have already investigated this. The result? The doctor pushing this junk science had his license revoked for spreading deadly lies about vaccines.
December 9, 2024 at 2:38 PM
unbelievable! the autism link been debunked SO many times. such a waste of time and resource to do again- 😡
Soooo, there will be a $50,000 reward for finding the killers here too right, right? gothamist.com/news/teen-st...
Teen stabbed to death in Financial District, another injured, police say
The stabbings happened after the suspects asked the victims whether they spoke English, according to the NYPD.
gothamist.com
December 8, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Soooo, there will be a $50,000 reward for finding the killers here too right, right? gothamist.com/news/teen-st...
Interesting article underlining the role emotion and technology are now playing in politics over policy and how the centre/left must wake up to this reality if they’re to offer appealing alternatives.
"That progressives have failed to grasp how utterly tech has changed everything in our political culture – esp. given revelations of the role of psychological profiling through social media – is exploited by the right as a new ‘Wild West’. Elon Musk, is the most logical next step in this trajectory"
The Psycho-Social-Techno Politics of ‘MAGA’ Trumps Democracy – And the Liberal Left Has No Answer
Donald Trump’s second victory in the United States is a warning sign to democracies everywhere of the centrality of emotions – and their manipulation – in the new politics of gross inequality and psyc...
bylinetimes.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Interesting article underlining the role emotion and technology are now playing in politics over policy and how the centre/left must wake up to this reality if they’re to offer appealing alternatives.
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BREAKING: Assisted dying bill passes its second reading by 330 votes to 275, after emotional four-and-a-half hour debate, meaning it now proceeds to its next Commons stage.
Keir Starmer spotted by MPs going through the ‘aye’ lobby.
Keir Starmer spotted by MPs going through the ‘aye’ lobby.
November 29, 2024 at 2:24 PM
BREAKING: Assisted dying bill passes its second reading by 330 votes to 275, after emotional four-and-a-half hour debate, meaning it now proceeds to its next Commons stage.
Keir Starmer spotted by MPs going through the ‘aye’ lobby.
Keir Starmer spotted by MPs going through the ‘aye’ lobby.
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London please help. I’m praying for a miracle, I’ve just got into the office and noticed my mums locket (in all these photos) that I wear every day has fallen off my neck on my walk in. My mum died when I was seven and her jewellery is most of what I have of her. I’m devastated
November 26, 2024 at 9:11 AM
London please help. I’m praying for a miracle, I’ve just got into the office and noticed my mums locket (in all these photos) that I wear every day has fallen off my neck on my walk in. My mum died when I was seven and her jewellery is most of what I have of her. I’m devastated
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New blogpost:
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deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...
deevybee.blogspot.com
November 25, 2024 at 7:49 AM
New blogpost:
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
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ScienceWrite, a UK scheme for aspiring STEM writers from minoritised backgrounds, is open for 2025 applications!
The 3rd year @romatheengineer.bsky.social & I are running this, with support from @royalsociety.bsky.social & I am SO EXCITED
Deadline 3rd Jan #SciComm 🧪
www.sciencewrite.co.uk
The 3rd year @romatheengineer.bsky.social & I are running this, with support from @royalsociety.bsky.social & I am SO EXCITED
Deadline 3rd Jan #SciComm 🧪
www.sciencewrite.co.uk
November 20, 2024 at 1:28 PM
ScienceWrite, a UK scheme for aspiring STEM writers from minoritised backgrounds, is open for 2025 applications!
The 3rd year @romatheengineer.bsky.social & I are running this, with support from @royalsociety.bsky.social & I am SO EXCITED
Deadline 3rd Jan #SciComm 🧪
www.sciencewrite.co.uk
The 3rd year @romatheengineer.bsky.social & I are running this, with support from @royalsociety.bsky.social & I am SO EXCITED
Deadline 3rd Jan #SciComm 🧪
www.sciencewrite.co.uk
Fascinating few days attending ‘communicating discovery science symposium’ #DiscSciComm24 in Stellenbosch, S.Africa. Wonderful to see so many inspirational examples of projects connecting science to society. Was interesting to introduce and present about the civic science movement. And what views!
November 20, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Fascinating few days attending ‘communicating discovery science symposium’ #DiscSciComm24 in Stellenbosch, S.Africa. Wonderful to see so many inspirational examples of projects connecting science to society. Was interesting to introduce and present about the civic science movement. And what views!
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More than a million pallets of unusable PPE has now been burned
One million pallets
Don't get me started 😡😡
One million pallets
Don't get me started 😡😡
More than a million pallets of unusable Covid PPE, costing £8.6 billion, have so far gone up in smoke
Billions of pounds were spent on completely unusable protective equipment, with a series of priority contracts handed to associates of Conservative ministers
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/14/m...
Billions of pounds were spent on completely unusable protective equipment, with a series of priority contracts handed to associates of Conservative ministers
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/14/m...
More Than a Million Pallets of Unusable Covid PPE Costing £8 Billion Have So Far Gone up in Smoke
Billions of pounds were spent on unusable protective equipment, with priority contracts handed to associates of Conservative ministers
bylinetimes.com
November 16, 2024 at 8:17 AM
More than a million pallets of unusable PPE has now been burned
One million pallets
Don't get me started 😡😡
One million pallets
Don't get me started 😡😡