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Steve is smelling the shrubbery again. He's trying his best.
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Steve is smelling the shrubbery again. He's trying his best.
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Looking for something to do as the nights draw in?
Earlier this year, during the #FestivalofArchaeology, three of our brilliant archaeologists provided an opportunity to learn more about the varied work they’re involved with.
Head to the @archaeologyuk YouTube channel to watch: bit.ly/3LQtS2i
Earlier this year, during the #FestivalofArchaeology, three of our brilliant archaeologists provided an opportunity to learn more about the varied work they’re involved with.
Head to the @archaeologyuk YouTube channel to watch: bit.ly/3LQtS2i
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Looking for something to do as the nights draw in?
Earlier this year, during the #FestivalofArchaeology, three of our brilliant archaeologists provided an opportunity to learn more about the varied work they’re involved with.
Head to the @archaeologyuk YouTube channel to watch: bit.ly/3LQtS2i
Earlier this year, during the #FestivalofArchaeology, three of our brilliant archaeologists provided an opportunity to learn more about the varied work they’re involved with.
Head to the @archaeologyuk YouTube channel to watch: bit.ly/3LQtS2i
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November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Izzet Khanim Mirzaaga Orujova (1909-1983) was an Azerbaijani chemist and actress.
She was the first Azerbaijani film actress, starring in the film Sevil (1929).
A women's rights movement figure, she was also the first woman in her country to become an oil engineer.
🧪 #WomenInSTEM
She was the first Azerbaijani film actress, starring in the film Sevil (1929).
A women's rights movement figure, she was also the first woman in her country to become an oil engineer.
🧪 #WomenInSTEM
November 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Izzet Khanim Mirzaaga Orujova (1909-1983) was an Azerbaijani chemist and actress.
She was the first Azerbaijani film actress, starring in the film Sevil (1929).
A women's rights movement figure, she was also the first woman in her country to become an oil engineer.
🧪 #WomenInSTEM
She was the first Azerbaijani film actress, starring in the film Sevil (1929).
A women's rights movement figure, she was also the first woman in her country to become an oil engineer.
🧪 #WomenInSTEM
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Virginia Sink US chemical engineer & 1st woman automotive engineer @ Chrysler. #WWII responsible for hiring 500 women then 1950 Group Leader in Chemical Research Dept. 1957-62 worked on LA smog project developing Cleaner Air Package. d. #OTD 20 Nov 1986 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgini...
November 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Virginia Sink US chemical engineer & 1st woman automotive engineer @ Chrysler. #WWII responsible for hiring 500 women then 1950 Group Leader in Chemical Research Dept. 1957-62 worked on LA smog project developing Cleaner Air Package. d. #OTD 20 Nov 1986 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgini...
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How One Brilliant Woman Mapped the Ocean Floor’s Secrets: www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/arti...
Marie Tharp's meticulous hand-drawn #maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor were integral to the acceptance of plate-tectonic theory and confirmed continental drift. #WomenInSTEM #GeoWeek #cartography
Marie Tharp's meticulous hand-drawn #maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor were integral to the acceptance of plate-tectonic theory and confirmed continental drift. #WomenInSTEM #GeoWeek #cartography
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
How One Brilliant Woman Mapped the Ocean Floor’s Secrets: www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/arti...
Marie Tharp's meticulous hand-drawn #maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor were integral to the acceptance of plate-tectonic theory and confirmed continental drift. #WomenInSTEM #GeoWeek #cartography
Marie Tharp's meticulous hand-drawn #maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor were integral to the acceptance of plate-tectonic theory and confirmed continental drift. #WomenInSTEM #GeoWeek #cartography
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November 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Green-headed sunbird, Makumbaya, Gambia. Added 8 sunbirds to my life list when out here. This one less frequent than beautiful or variable sunbirds. Stunning colours, obviously, in a very small village 5.11.25. 🇬🇲 ✅ #192 #birdinggambia #birds
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Green-headed sunbird, Makumbaya, Gambia. Added 8 sunbirds to my life list when out here. This one less frequent than beautiful or variable sunbirds. Stunning colours, obviously, in a very small village 5.11.25. 🇬🇲 ✅ #192 #birdinggambia #birds
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Morning all. A really cold frosty start to the day, with a shepherd’s warning sky. First job of the day is to insulate the wormery for the coming winter months. I’ll be recycling some packaging which should do the job. Keep warm & safe everyone 😊 🌱
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Morning all. A really cold frosty start to the day, with a shepherd’s warning sky. First job of the day is to insulate the wormery for the coming winter months. I’ll be recycling some packaging which should do the job. Keep warm & safe everyone 😊 🌱
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What happens when a village community stands its ground against the potential environmental threat from a powerful developer
By David Eddy
By David Eddy
Foxholes’ ‘line in the chalk’: locals come together to resist gas drilling proposal
What happens when a village community stands its ground against the potential environmental threat from a powerful developer
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
What happens when a village community stands its ground against the potential environmental threat from a powerful developer
By David Eddy
By David Eddy
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Channel Tunnel says UK investment 'non-viable' as it halts projects.
This is how corporations hold govts to ransom. Create panics. Give us what we want, or else ...
Want others to pay taxes, not them.
Whatever the democratic mandate, corporations want to rule.
This is how corporations hold govts to ransom. Create panics. Give us what we want, or else ...
Want others to pay taxes, not them.
Whatever the democratic mandate, corporations want to rule.
Channel Tunnel says UK investment 'non-viable' as it halts projects
The company claims
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Channel Tunnel says UK investment 'non-viable' as it halts projects.
This is how corporations hold govts to ransom. Create panics. Give us what we want, or else ...
Want others to pay taxes, not them.
Whatever the democratic mandate, corporations want to rule.
This is how corporations hold govts to ransom. Create panics. Give us what we want, or else ...
Want others to pay taxes, not them.
Whatever the democratic mandate, corporations want to rule.
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The US has approved a new female crash-test dummy with anatomy based on real women rather than a shrunk male model. It includes detailed neck, pelvis, and leg differences plus 150+ sensors. This should give clearer data on why women suffer higher injury rates
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technol...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technol...
The crash dummy aimed at protecting women drivers
Researchers in Sweden are close to completing an industry-first average female crash test dummy.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The US has approved a new female crash-test dummy with anatomy based on real women rather than a shrunk male model. It includes detailed neck, pelvis, and leg differences plus 150+ sensors. This should give clearer data on why women suffer higher injury rates
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technol...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technol...
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School repairs left unfinished as firm behind PFI contract goes into liquidation.
Massive profiteering from PFI. After 25-30 years assets need to be in good condition before transfer to the public body. Then the company goes bust.
Govt doing more PFI deals.
Massive profiteering from PFI. After 25-30 years assets need to be in good condition before transfer to the public body. Then the company goes bust.
Govt doing more PFI deals.
Repairs left unfinished as firm behind huge schools PFI contract goes into liquidation
The news heightens concerns that 88 schools in Stoke-on-Trent could be left with unfinished work.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
School repairs left unfinished as firm behind PFI contract goes into liquidation.
Massive profiteering from PFI. After 25-30 years assets need to be in good condition before transfer to the public body. Then the company goes bust.
Govt doing more PFI deals.
Massive profiteering from PFI. After 25-30 years assets need to be in good condition before transfer to the public body. Then the company goes bust.
Govt doing more PFI deals.
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It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand
An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand
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soups that look like they intend you harm
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
soups that look like they intend you harm
Reposting with an awareness of the deep irony involved...
In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Reposting with an awareness of the deep irony involved...
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I don’t know what the answer is either. We’ve built a world that seems unsustainable from almost every angle.
I try to keep some historical perspective since every generation complains about change, but genAI does seem like a bad shift. What happens when most people simply don’t know anything?
I try to keep some historical perspective since every generation complains about change, but genAI does seem like a bad shift. What happens when most people simply don’t know anything?
My students don’t even bother to remove “ChatGPT said…” from their assignments half the time…
We are doomed.
We are doomed.
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I don’t know what the answer is either. We’ve built a world that seems unsustainable from almost every angle.
I try to keep some historical perspective since every generation complains about change, but genAI does seem like a bad shift. What happens when most people simply don’t know anything?
I try to keep some historical perspective since every generation complains about change, but genAI does seem like a bad shift. What happens when most people simply don’t know anything?
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FWIW, I cannot duplicate this. Locations aren't showing up for me. Is it possible they turned this on and then immediately turned it off?
A huge question on social media and on X in particular is: How many of the big culture war accounts are from outside the U.S., posing as Americans?
A huge question on social media and on X in particular is: How many of the big culture war accounts are from outside the U.S., posing as Americans?
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
FWIW, I cannot duplicate this. Locations aren't showing up for me. Is it possible they turned this on and then immediately turned it off?
A huge question on social media and on X in particular is: How many of the big culture war accounts are from outside the U.S., posing as Americans?
A huge question on social media and on X in particular is: How many of the big culture war accounts are from outside the U.S., posing as Americans?
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Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
A cryptocurrency backed by one of Nigel Farage’s biggest donors has been used to help Russia fight its war against Ukraine, British investigators say.
The National Crime Agency has spent four years trying to crack a multibillion-dollar scheme that exchanges cash from drug and gun sales in the UK for crypto, digital tokens that are designed to hide their users’ identities. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
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Macclesfield Central (Cheshire East) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+19.7)
🌹 LAB: 28.6% (-25.7)
➡️ RFM: 15.8% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.1% (-4.5)
⚖️ EQU: 2.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 2.2% (-7.7)
Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+19.7)
🌹 LAB: 28.6% (-25.7)
➡️ RFM: 15.8% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.1% (-4.5)
⚖️ EQU: 2.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 2.2% (-7.7)
Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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'People forget what Khashoggi was investigating when he was murdered. He was writing about Kushner turning over classified info to MBS, who used it to hunt down, arrest and murder his opponents.'
h/t @cocacolakid
h/t @cocacolakid
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
'People forget what Khashoggi was investigating when he was murdered. He was writing about Kushner turning over classified info to MBS, who used it to hunt down, arrest and murder his opponents.'
h/t @cocacolakid
h/t @cocacolakid
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Are you a member of a trade union?
Trade unionists are calling on the Labour government to do the right thing by the planet, UK communities and workers, and refuse approval for the climate-wrecking Rosebank oil field.
Sign the open letter 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Trade unionists are calling on the Labour government to do the right thing by the planet, UK communities and workers, and refuse approval for the climate-wrecking Rosebank oil field.
Sign the open letter 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Trade unionists say: Stop Rosebank!
If you are a trade union member, please add your name to this open letter to oppose approval of the Rosebank oil field. Signatories will be published. There is no strict cut-off point to sign, but we ...
docs.google.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Are you a member of a trade union?
Trade unionists are calling on the Labour government to do the right thing by the planet, UK communities and workers, and refuse approval for the climate-wrecking Rosebank oil field.
Sign the open letter 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Trade unionists are calling on the Labour government to do the right thing by the planet, UK communities and workers, and refuse approval for the climate-wrecking Rosebank oil field.
Sign the open letter 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Heat-pump homes put less strain on grid than expected, study shows.
Analysis of new-builds in Birmingham suggests all-electric homes not only use less energy but vary in peak usage meaning that peak loads are also lower than anticipated.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Analysis of new-builds in Birmingham suggests all-electric homes not only use less energy but vary in peak usage meaning that peak loads are also lower than anticipated.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Heat-pump homes put less strain on grid than expected, study shows
Analysis of new-builds in Birmingham suggests all-electric homes not only use less energy but vary in peak usage
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Heat-pump homes put less strain on grid than expected, study shows.
Analysis of new-builds in Birmingham suggests all-electric homes not only use less energy but vary in peak usage meaning that peak loads are also lower than anticipated.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Analysis of new-builds in Birmingham suggests all-electric homes not only use less energy but vary in peak usage meaning that peak loads are also lower than anticipated.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How Trump's attacks on US science are affecting researchers in Canada, by @ljevanso.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#cspc2025 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#cspc2025 🧪
Science on shaky ground: Canadian research shifts in the wake of US cuts
Scientists hunt for the silver lining amid the changing funding landscape.
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
How Trump's attacks on US science are affecting researchers in Canada, by @ljevanso.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#cspc2025 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#cspc2025 🧪
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There are many lessons about sustainability from the ancient world, as there are lessons from people today. We should listen.
Tonight’s event at 6pm is at Wolfson College and anyone can attend www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-polycr...
Tonight’s event at 6pm is at Wolfson College and anyone can attend www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-polycr...
The Polycrisis: political dysfunction, meet ecological collapse
George Monbiot will be in conversation with Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid about "The Polycrisis: political dysfunction, meet ecological collapse."
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
There are many lessons about sustainability from the ancient world, as there are lessons from people today. We should listen.
Tonight’s event at 6pm is at Wolfson College and anyone can attend www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-polycr...
Tonight’s event at 6pm is at Wolfson College and anyone can attend www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-polycr...