Helen Holly
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All things science, economics and political
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Keep watching for updates of the Samud Humanitarian Flotilla carrying food and humanitarian aid to Gaza as they approach closer to their destination. Keep shining a light on this mission.
Keep watching for updates of the Samud Humanitarian Flotilla carrying food and humanitarian aid to Gaza as they approach closer to their destination. Keep shining a light on this mission.
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Keep watching for updates of the Samud Humanitarian Flotilla carrying food and humanitarian aid to Gaza as they approach closer to their destination. Keep shining a light on this mission.
Keep watching for updates of the Samud Humanitarian Flotilla carrying food and humanitarian aid to Gaza as they approach closer to their destination. Keep shining a light on this mission.
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Most crops in the British Isles? Gone.
A colder, drier climate devastating our food system.
UK arable land set to crash from 32% to just 7%.
Haven’t heard much about this? That’s why these people turned up in London today with their AMOC bomb. 🧵
A colder, drier climate devastating our food system.
UK arable land set to crash from 32% to just 7%.
Haven’t heard much about this? That’s why these people turned up in London today with their AMOC bomb. 🧵
August 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Most crops in the British Isles? Gone.
A colder, drier climate devastating our food system.
UK arable land set to crash from 32% to just 7%.
Haven’t heard much about this? That’s why these people turned up in London today with their AMOC bomb. 🧵
A colder, drier climate devastating our food system.
UK arable land set to crash from 32% to just 7%.
Haven’t heard much about this? That’s why these people turned up in London today with their AMOC bomb. 🧵
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Lest we forget
6-year-old Hind Rajab's last words with medics on the phone before being shot by 355 IDF bullets. They asked “Hind, why aren’t you speaking?” Hind, “I’m not talking because when I talk, blood comes out of my mouth & makes my clothes dirty. My mum doesn't want my clothes dirty.”
#gaza
6-year-old Hind Rajab's last words with medics on the phone before being shot by 355 IDF bullets. They asked “Hind, why aren’t you speaking?” Hind, “I’m not talking because when I talk, blood comes out of my mouth & makes my clothes dirty. My mum doesn't want my clothes dirty.”
#gaza
July 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lest we forget
6-year-old Hind Rajab's last words with medics on the phone before being shot by 355 IDF bullets. They asked “Hind, why aren’t you speaking?” Hind, “I’m not talking because when I talk, blood comes out of my mouth & makes my clothes dirty. My mum doesn't want my clothes dirty.”
#gaza
6-year-old Hind Rajab's last words with medics on the phone before being shot by 355 IDF bullets. They asked “Hind, why aren’t you speaking?” Hind, “I’m not talking because when I talk, blood comes out of my mouth & makes my clothes dirty. My mum doesn't want my clothes dirty.”
#gaza
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Zarah Sultana:
"Martin Forde concluded Labour operates a hierarchy of racism, where anti-Black racism & Islamophobia are brushed aside.
Now we have a Prime Minister who mimicked Enoch Powell with “island of strangers” & suspended the UK’s first Black woman MP twice.
It’s institutional racism."
"Martin Forde concluded Labour operates a hierarchy of racism, where anti-Black racism & Islamophobia are brushed aside.
Now we have a Prime Minister who mimicked Enoch Powell with “island of strangers” & suspended the UK’s first Black woman MP twice.
It’s institutional racism."
July 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Zarah Sultana:
"Martin Forde concluded Labour operates a hierarchy of racism, where anti-Black racism & Islamophobia are brushed aside.
Now we have a Prime Minister who mimicked Enoch Powell with “island of strangers” & suspended the UK’s first Black woman MP twice.
It’s institutional racism."
"Martin Forde concluded Labour operates a hierarchy of racism, where anti-Black racism & Islamophobia are brushed aside.
Now we have a Prime Minister who mimicked Enoch Powell with “island of strangers” & suspended the UK’s first Black woman MP twice.
It’s institutional racism."
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#BREAKING | Israeli pilots are learning to fly advanced fighter jets with UK equipment
Israeli fighter pilots training with UK equipment
Exclusive: The UK government suspended fighter jet exports to Israel but still allows the sale of parts which help Israeli pilots learn to fly F-35s and F-16s.
www.declassifieduk.org
July 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
#BREAKING | Israeli pilots are learning to fly advanced fighter jets with UK equipment
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July 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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We should ALL be this great woman
"No, I'm bloody not"
"No, I'm bloody not"
July 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
We should ALL be this great woman
"No, I'm bloody not"
"No, I'm bloody not"
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"Life long peace campaigner Angie Zelter, arrested under the Terrorism Act for silently holding a placard! We are all Angie Zelter!"
July 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"Life long peace campaigner Angie Zelter, arrested under the Terrorism Act for silently holding a placard! We are all Angie Zelter!"
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July 21, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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July 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Francesca Albanese :
"We have entered the era of the "might makes right, with no exceptions. " Dark times await us all unless we, the global society, wake up and protect our rights. No one is free unless everyone is free".
#freepalestine
"We have entered the era of the "might makes right, with no exceptions. " Dark times await us all unless we, the global society, wake up and protect our rights. No one is free unless everyone is free".
#freepalestine
July 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Francesca Albanese :
"We have entered the era of the "might makes right, with no exceptions. " Dark times await us all unless we, the global society, wake up and protect our rights. No one is free unless everyone is free".
#freepalestine
"We have entered the era of the "might makes right, with no exceptions. " Dark times await us all unless we, the global society, wake up and protect our rights. No one is free unless everyone is free".
#freepalestine
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One year after the onshore wind ban was lifted, we're proud to launch VoteWind.org 🎉
Built with CEE & others, it lets people vote for sites where community wind could thrive. 💨🏘️
Enter your postcode & explore: VoteWind.org
#InvestInCommunityEnergy
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Built with CEE & others, it lets people vote for sites where community wind could thrive. 💨🏘️
Enter your postcode & explore: VoteWind.org
#InvestInCommunityEnergy
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July 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
One year after the onshore wind ban was lifted, we're proud to launch VoteWind.org 🎉
Built with CEE & others, it lets people vote for sites where community wind could thrive. 💨🏘️
Enter your postcode & explore: VoteWind.org
#InvestInCommunityEnergy
communityenergyengland.org/news/communi...
Built with CEE & others, it lets people vote for sites where community wind could thrive. 💨🏘️
Enter your postcode & explore: VoteWind.org
#InvestInCommunityEnergy
communityenergyengland.org/news/communi...
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#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 72
Arctic #bumblebees have adapted to (up to now!) a short cool flowering season.
They have large first broods of about 16 female workers that forage continuously all day and overnight during bright #arctic nights.
#bees
#nature
#beesanctuary
🐝🌍
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 72
Arctic #bumblebees have adapted to (up to now!) a short cool flowering season.
They have large first broods of about 16 female workers that forage continuously all day and overnight during bright #arctic nights.
#bees
#nature
#beesanctuary
🐝🌍
March 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 72
Arctic #bumblebees have adapted to (up to now!) a short cool flowering season.
They have large first broods of about 16 female workers that forage continuously all day and overnight during bright #arctic nights.
#bees
#nature
#beesanctuary
🐝🌍
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 72
Arctic #bumblebees have adapted to (up to now!) a short cool flowering season.
They have large first broods of about 16 female workers that forage continuously all day and overnight during bright #arctic nights.
#bees
#nature
#beesanctuary
🐝🌍
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Here's a CO2-fire-insect interaction that I hadn't considered.
It may be that beetle wood-boring activity allows fuels to burn more completely and release more CO2.
"...radial holes significantly (enhance) smoldering and carbon release."
🪲🪳🧪🌍
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
It may be that beetle wood-boring activity allows fuels to burn more completely and release more CO2.
"...radial holes significantly (enhance) smoldering and carbon release."
🪲🪳🧪🌍
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Do wood‐boring beetles influence the flammability of deadwood?
Global warming increases the risk of wildfire and insect outbreaks, potentially reducing the carbon storage function of coarse woody debris (CWD). There is an increasing focus on the interactive effe....
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March 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Here's a CO2-fire-insect interaction that I hadn't considered.
It may be that beetle wood-boring activity allows fuels to burn more completely and release more CO2.
"...radial holes significantly (enhance) smoldering and carbon release."
🪲🪳🧪🌍
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
It may be that beetle wood-boring activity allows fuels to burn more completely and release more CO2.
"...radial holes significantly (enhance) smoldering and carbon release."
🪲🪳🧪🌍
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Did u know?This season,look carefully at the small souls you find in yr wild space. Find out more about them & their importance to the ecosystems in yr garden.The little*teardrop* in the first pic is the pupa of a Marmalade Hoverfly. As an adult it pollinates,as a larva it eats aphids. Win-win! 🌱🌿🌍🪲
March 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Did u know?This season,look carefully at the small souls you find in yr wild space. Find out more about them & their importance to the ecosystems in yr garden.The little*teardrop* in the first pic is the pupa of a Marmalade Hoverfly. As an adult it pollinates,as a larva it eats aphids. Win-win! 🌱🌿🌍🪲
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So much profound beauty in our world. But it seems the forces unable to see beyond their own wealth, power, and egos are in the ascendant right now.
It's our duty to mind ourselves and each other in these tough times, which may well get much worse. The living world depends on us never giving up. 🌍
It's our duty to mind ourselves and each other in these tough times, which may well get much worse. The living world depends on us never giving up. 🌍
March 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
So much profound beauty in our world. But it seems the forces unable to see beyond their own wealth, power, and egos are in the ascendant right now.
It's our duty to mind ourselves and each other in these tough times, which may well get much worse. The living world depends on us never giving up. 🌍
It's our duty to mind ourselves and each other in these tough times, which may well get much worse. The living world depends on us never giving up. 🌍
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Kiripiti Reserve in Te Horo is also special because it contains some of the best remaining examples of wild growing akeake (Dodonea viscosa) on the Kāpiti Coast.
As we walked my friend Donna-Mari retold the story of Akerautangi, the father of Taiaha.
🧪🌏
www.festival.nz/article/a-wi...
As we walked my friend Donna-Mari retold the story of Akerautangi, the father of Taiaha.
🧪🌏
www.festival.nz/article/a-wi...
March 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Kiripiti Reserve in Te Horo is also special because it contains some of the best remaining examples of wild growing akeake (Dodonea viscosa) on the Kāpiti Coast.
As we walked my friend Donna-Mari retold the story of Akerautangi, the father of Taiaha.
🧪🌏
www.festival.nz/article/a-wi...
As we walked my friend Donna-Mari retold the story of Akerautangi, the father of Taiaha.
🧪🌏
www.festival.nz/article/a-wi...
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We've just finished scything the reed in "car park fen" (so named given its proximity to a hospital car park). This area is still being restored, and will likely need cutting twice more this year. Looking forward to seeing which seeds we spread last year germinate!
#OxfordshireFens #FenResoration 🌍
#OxfordshireFens #FenResoration 🌍
March 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
We've just finished scything the reed in "car park fen" (so named given its proximity to a hospital car park). This area is still being restored, and will likely need cutting twice more this year. Looking forward to seeing which seeds we spread last year germinate!
#OxfordshireFens #FenResoration 🌍
#OxfordshireFens #FenResoration 🌍
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#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 66
Pollen ‘safe sites’ exist on bee bodies which bees can’t reach when grooming (waist & dorsal area of thorax/abdomen).
The anthers/stigmas of #flowers regularly come into contact with these parts ensuring #pollination.
#bees
#beesanctuary
🌍🐝
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 66
Pollen ‘safe sites’ exist on bee bodies which bees can’t reach when grooming (waist & dorsal area of thorax/abdomen).
The anthers/stigmas of #flowers regularly come into contact with these parts ensuring #pollination.
#bees
#beesanctuary
🌍🐝
March 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 66
Pollen ‘safe sites’ exist on bee bodies which bees can’t reach when grooming (waist & dorsal area of thorax/abdomen).
The anthers/stigmas of #flowers regularly come into contact with these parts ensuring #pollination.
#bees
#beesanctuary
🌍🐝
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 66
Pollen ‘safe sites’ exist on bee bodies which bees can’t reach when grooming (waist & dorsal area of thorax/abdomen).
The anthers/stigmas of #flowers regularly come into contact with these parts ensuring #pollination.
#bees
#beesanctuary
🌍🐝