Falconet
@falconet.bsky.social
Nature (birds especially), SF/Fantasy, Politics (left leaning), Dogs, Healthcare, Copious amounts of tea. Woke millennial.
Yorkshire, UK.
She/Her.
Yorkshire, UK.
She/Her.
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📉 Our new paper shows Bewick’s Swan numbers in NW/NE Europe have fallen to ~12,900 birds - a 56.7% decline since 1995, with further losses predicted by 2026 unless survival or breeding success improves. Flyway-wide conservation is urgent. 🦢 Download paper > tidsskrift.dk/Wildfowl/art... #Ornithology
December 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
📉 Our new paper shows Bewick’s Swan numbers in NW/NE Europe have fallen to ~12,900 birds - a 56.7% decline since 1995, with further losses predicted by 2026 unless survival or breeding success improves. Flyway-wide conservation is urgent. 🦢 Download paper > tidsskrift.dk/Wildfowl/art... #Ornithology
Love this from Humanists UK! #Thatshumanism is the perfect introduction to the humanist approach to life, featuring four animations narrated by Stephen Fry, and brand new posters all about humanism for schools. Have a look for yourself! humanists.uk/thatshumanism/
That's humanism
Humanists make sense of the world through logic, reason, and evidence, and always seek to treat those around us with warmth, understanding, and respect.
humanists.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Love this from Humanists UK! #Thatshumanism is the perfect introduction to the humanist approach to life, featuring four animations narrated by Stephen Fry, and brand new posters all about humanism for schools. Have a look for yourself! humanists.uk/thatshumanism/
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To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦♂️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦♂️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
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Short essay by David Todd about the emergence of scientific racism in 18th & 19th century France — taken from a June edition of @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Todd · Most Handsome and Best: ‘Enlightenment Biopolitics’
How can we account for France’s historical wavering on race, between an extraordinary openness to assimilation and...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Short essay by David Todd about the emergence of scientific racism in 18th & 19th century France — taken from a June edition of @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
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October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
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This report is entirely valid, and I welcome it. However, glancing at the Key Stage 3 curriculum, I can see how it's happened -- there's little emphasis on social history or non-political biography
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
School history lessons minimise the role of women, report finds
Campaigners say key stage 3 curriculum plays to misogny and teaches a ‘false version of the past’
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This report is entirely valid, and I welcome it. However, glancing at the Key Stage 3 curriculum, I can see how it's happened -- there's little emphasis on social history or non-political biography
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Labour must finally stand up firmly against a Reform policy. Call it out for the obscenity it is. Starmer has recently finally spoken out against populism and division. What could be more populist and divisive than this? Nor for heaven's sake, don't dodge it, or excuse it. Challenge it.
September 22, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Labour must finally stand up firmly against a Reform policy. Call it out for the obscenity it is. Starmer has recently finally spoken out against populism and division. What could be more populist and divisive than this? Nor for heaven's sake, don't dodge it, or excuse it. Challenge it.
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Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.
September 22, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.
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Reminder of why our work for inclusive education that prepares young people to think freely and understand others is so important.
RE should be broad & balanced, introducing pupils to a wide range of religions & non-religious worldviews, including humanism. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
RE should be broad & balanced, introducing pupils to a wide range of religions & non-religious worldviews, including humanism. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Calls for Christian-only RE highlight rising tide of Christian nationalism
Humanists UK has condemned remarks by Reform UK councillor David Fitzgerald, who told Northumberland County Council that children should only be taught Christianity in Religious Education (RE) because...
humanists.uk
September 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Reminder of why our work for inclusive education that prepares young people to think freely and understand others is so important.
RE should be broad & balanced, introducing pupils to a wide range of religions & non-religious worldviews, including humanism. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
RE should be broad & balanced, introducing pupils to a wide range of religions & non-religious worldviews, including humanism. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
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More extraordinary still is the sanitising of Kirk's politics. Kirk was - and this is just a straightforwardly factual statement - a far right activist. And here's a former British Prime Minister not merely mourning his death or condemning his murder but actively *praising* his politics.
We don’t yet know who killed Kirk or why. Not that you’d know it from the endless numbers of accounts on X with huge follower numbers, including British politicians, making as yet unknowable claims about the motivations behind the murder.
Exhibit A. Extraordinary stuff.
Exhibit A. Extraordinary stuff.
September 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
More extraordinary still is the sanitising of Kirk's politics. Kirk was - and this is just a straightforwardly factual statement - a far right activist. And here's a former British Prime Minister not merely mourning his death or condemning his murder but actively *praising* his politics.
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Absolutely delighted that my book THE LIE OF THE LAND has won the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing!
This week, one of the book’s recommendations, a ban on moorland burning, became a reality. Next, we need a Nature Bill for England…
bsky.app/profile/wain...
This week, one of the book’s recommendations, a ban on moorland burning, became a reality. Next, we need a Nature Bill for England…
bsky.app/profile/wain...
The WINNER of the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing...
The Lie of the Land, @guyshrubsole.bsky.social (@wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social)
#WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect
The Lie of the Land, @guyshrubsole.bsky.social (@wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social)
#WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect
September 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Absolutely delighted that my book THE LIE OF THE LAND has won the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing!
This week, one of the book’s recommendations, a ban on moorland burning, became a reality. Next, we need a Nature Bill for England…
bsky.app/profile/wain...
This week, one of the book’s recommendations, a ban on moorland burning, became a reality. Next, we need a Nature Bill for England…
bsky.app/profile/wain...
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if you want to get into science fiction you must read THE NATASHAS by Yelena Moskovich, MYSTERY TRAIN by Can Xue, HERSCHT 07769 by László Krasznahorkai, FEVER DREAM by Samanta Schweblin, MONSTRILIO by Gerardo Sámano Córdova, and FIRE LOGIC by Laurie J. Marks, precisely in that order
August 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
if you want to get into science fiction you must read THE NATASHAS by Yelena Moskovich, MYSTERY TRAIN by Can Xue, HERSCHT 07769 by László Krasznahorkai, FEVER DREAM by Samanta Schweblin, MONSTRILIO by Gerardo Sámano Córdova, and FIRE LOGIC by Laurie J. Marks, precisely in that order
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"In the US, there’s a rape every 68 seconds, a woman is beaten by an intimate partner every nine seconds.... Globally a woman or girl is murdered by her partner or family member every 10 minutes."
August 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"In the US, there’s a rape every 68 seconds, a woman is beaten by an intimate partner every nine seconds.... Globally a woman or girl is murdered by her partner or family member every 10 minutes."
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"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
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I had the honour of meeting Odeh Hadalin in Parliament, where he spoke with strength about life under military occupation in Umm al-Khair.
Yesterday, he was murdered by an Israeli settler.
Apartheid, ethnic cleansing & genocide are Israeli state policy.
Rest in power, Odeh 🇵🇸
Yesterday, he was murdered by an Israeli settler.
Apartheid, ethnic cleansing & genocide are Israeli state policy.
Rest in power, Odeh 🇵🇸
July 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I had the honour of meeting Odeh Hadalin in Parliament, where he spoke with strength about life under military occupation in Umm al-Khair.
Yesterday, he was murdered by an Israeli settler.
Apartheid, ethnic cleansing & genocide are Israeli state policy.
Rest in power, Odeh 🇵🇸
Yesterday, he was murdered by an Israeli settler.
Apartheid, ethnic cleansing & genocide are Israeli state policy.
Rest in power, Odeh 🇵🇸
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Record numbers of Hen Harriers have been illegally killed or gone missing in suspicious circumstances over the last five years:
RSPB reports worst year for Hen Harrier persecution
Record numbers of Hen Harriers have been illegally killed or gone missing in suspicious circumstances over the last five years. A new RSPB report shows that the majority of the 102 recorded incidents during that time occurred on or near grouse moors. Additionally, it reported that 2023 was also the worst recorded year for persecution of Hen Harriers.
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July 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Record numbers of Hen Harriers have been illegally killed or gone missing in suspicious circumstances over the last five years:
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Whenever someone—and it’s usually an agèd, agèd man—asks where all the great writers are today, I usually think two things. First, it’s a sign they don’t read much contemporary work: they don’t know who the important writers are now, and they mistake their knowledge gap for a gap in the real world.
July 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Whenever someone—and it’s usually an agèd, agèd man—asks where all the great writers are today, I usually think two things. First, it’s a sign they don’t read much contemporary work: they don’t know who the important writers are now, and they mistake their knowledge gap for a gap in the real world.
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Bear in mind that if you held up a sign saying "I support genocide", you would not be arrested under the Terrorism Act.
Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.
This is real police state behaviour.
July 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Bear in mind that if you held up a sign saying "I support genocide", you would not be arrested under the Terrorism Act.
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Can we expand the narrative and definition of human development to include flourishing with nature? Our new paper in Nature explores such a vision, and outlines a metric - the Nature Relationship Index - to sit alongside the Human Development Index.
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
Can Nature & People Thrive Together?
🌍🧑🌾🌽🌎🌴🐬🌏🚵♀️🍄🌐👍
An Aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures @nature.com.web.brid.gy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An Aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures @nature.com.web.brid.gy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Can we expand the narrative and definition of human development to include flourishing with nature? Our new paper in Nature explores such a vision, and outlines a metric - the Nature Relationship Index - to sit alongside the Human Development Index.
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
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Have you heard my latest episode?
Ed Pullen, host of the Bird Banter Podcast, tells how his approach to birding now emphasizes bird experiences over listing, and how his genuine interest in connecting with fellow birders led to the creation of his podcast.
casualbirder.com/episode140
Ed Pullen, host of the Bird Banter Podcast, tells how his approach to birding now emphasizes bird experiences over listing, and how his genuine interest in connecting with fellow birders led to the creation of his podcast.
casualbirder.com/episode140
June 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Have you heard my latest episode?
Ed Pullen, host of the Bird Banter Podcast, tells how his approach to birding now emphasizes bird experiences over listing, and how his genuine interest in connecting with fellow birders led to the creation of his podcast.
casualbirder.com/episode140
Ed Pullen, host of the Bird Banter Podcast, tells how his approach to birding now emphasizes bird experiences over listing, and how his genuine interest in connecting with fellow birders led to the creation of his podcast.
casualbirder.com/episode140
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'Lone sunset' by contemporary US painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt
June 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
'Lone sunset' by contemporary US painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt
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Women’s bodies are war zones in Sudan, DRC, Haiti and beyond. Yet just 10% of funding to support survivors is provided.
Sexual violence in conflict is not invisible - it is ignored.
Our plea to donors: don’t cut money for survivors of these cowardly, pathetic men.
Sexual violence in conflict is not invisible - it is ignored.
Our plea to donors: don’t cut money for survivors of these cowardly, pathetic men.
June 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Women’s bodies are war zones in Sudan, DRC, Haiti and beyond. Yet just 10% of funding to support survivors is provided.
Sexual violence in conflict is not invisible - it is ignored.
Our plea to donors: don’t cut money for survivors of these cowardly, pathetic men.
Sexual violence in conflict is not invisible - it is ignored.
Our plea to donors: don’t cut money for survivors of these cowardly, pathetic men.
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To my fellow white folks: if you don't know the history, wikipedia has a good overview. And hey, why not read up on the Emancipation Proclamation while you're at it?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junetee...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancip...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junetee...
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Juneteenth - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
June 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
To my fellow white folks: if you don't know the history, wikipedia has a good overview. And hey, why not read up on the Emancipation Proclamation while you're at it?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junetee...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancip...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junetee...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancip...
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Hold plastic manufacturers accountable for the mess they have made!
they've known that the majority of the plastic they make cannot be recycled, but profits!
#CrimesAgainstOurPlanet
they've known that the majority of the plastic they make cannot be recycled, but profits!
#CrimesAgainstOurPlanet
Highly profitable micro plastics manufacturer sells highly profitable microplastics company before highly costly micro plastics law suits ruin profitability.
BASF initiates sale of coatings business at about $6.8 billion valuation, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4mJvNnC
May 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Hold plastic manufacturers accountable for the mess they have made!
they've known that the majority of the plastic they make cannot be recycled, but profits!
#CrimesAgainstOurPlanet
they've known that the majority of the plastic they make cannot be recycled, but profits!
#CrimesAgainstOurPlanet