Great to visit Giannis & #MikisTheodorakis family home in Galatas #Chania today with @emmamaclennan.bsky.social. Now a beautiful national monument celebrating the life of a musician & activist who left an enormous musical legacy to Greece & the world. He died 4 years ago & is buried nearby.

Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

Fabulous stuff on the depressing nature of anti-vax

How do you feel about an extra 14m deaths, including 4.5 m children? Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030 - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

We are at #ITF25 in Leipzig this week representing the Eastern Partnership Road Safety Observatory 🇦🇲🇦🇿🇬🇪🇲🇩🇺🇦 So many interesting discussions and meetings. And great to be invited to join the panel on Leveraging Data for Transport Resilience. @emmamaclennan.bsky.social @davidjward.bsky.social

Privileged to attend HM King Charles’ garden party at Buckingham Palace today with @emmamaclennan.bsky.social Amused to chat with late John Smith’s 1992 Commons sparring partner ex Chancellor Lord Lamont. Great to meet also with fellow Tenterden residents Tim & Mary Monckton.

Experiments show that when bees are exposed to microplastic pollution, their memory gets so muddled they may forget the scents associated with sugary rewards. As a result, pollination may fail — which is bad news for flowers and crops.

⚡️'First to suffer' — Russia singles out Poland, Baltics in threat to NATO. These countries have shown "high aggressiveness" towards Russia and are "constantly rattling their weapons," Russia's Foreign Intelligence Director Sergey Naryshkin said on April 15.

The Trump administration has removed protections on thousands of acres of land in Nevada and New Mexico. The administration hopes to encourage logging, oil, and mineral mining in the region. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/c...

Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.

And there it is. https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/us-tariffs-brexit-mark-carney-391761/

💙 DC never disappoints. #handsoff

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

Trump's tariffs: ➡️ Mark Zuckerberg lost $17.9 billion ➡️ Jeff Bezos lost $15.9 billion ➡️ Elon Musk lost $11 billion Despite losing $44.8 billion between them, this will not reduce the quality of life of any of them Yale estimates Trump's tariffs will cost the average American household $3,800

UK Parliament report comes out in favour of 20mph limits as a norm for urban/village communities. In addition 28% casualty reduction after first 12 months of the Wales 20mph default and CIHT call for survivable national speed limits bit.ly/44bEUGw

1/ 🧠 Exciting progress in Motor Neuron Disease (MND) research at UCL! Researchers are working on new treatments thanks to a £78 million investment. buff.ly/pXE5Mpw #BrainAwarenessWeek #UCLBrainSciences

Yesterday’s APPG on MND meeting was so useful and informative. Well done IanByrneMP, MND Association, UKMNDRI and MNDPatients for your hard work. Good to see MNDScotland and the Doddie Foundation too. Now the follow-up! 🙏

We @ecf.com co-sign a letter to EU Commission president @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu with 9 other EU organisations, calling on EU to reject US vehicle standards or "regulatory equivalence" in automotive trade negotiations www.ecf.com/en/news/ecf-...

Top FDA vaccine expert blasts RFK Jr. as he’s forced out

Europeans' belief in the importance of the EU has surged to record levels, according to a survey released yesterday. 74% now say their country benefits from being in 🇪🇺 - up from 50% in 2010. And the biggest reason is about security, *not* the economy. europa.eu/eurobaromete...

£37bn a year. Let that sink in.

Day 83/365 Make today the first day in your journey to safer road use. #ProjectEDWARD

BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!

Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵

I wrote this in July 2016 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Journalists are trying to understand Trump’s irrational behavior, and are generally unwilling to consider the possibility that it's not some grand strategy, but a madman with increasingly diminished mental faculties.

The Trump administration just shut down a food safety committee to prevent bacteria in baby formula. They are also threatening to fire employees who prevent deli meat from being infected with Listeria and applesauce from being laced with lead.

Trump's USDA will roll back safety regulations to “streamline” meat processing. This will boost corporate profits at the expense of worker health and food safety. Last year's listeria outbreak tied to Boar's Head killed 10 people. We need more regulation, not less. Hello?

New substack, on @trevorcousins.bsky.social and @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social's brilliant new paper on the origin of Homo sapiens. arutherford.substack.com/p/human-evol...

The case for boycotting the United States | Robert Reich

Ursula von der Leyen in Copenhagen: "To all the people of Greenland – and of Denmark as a whole – I want to be very clear that Europe will always stand for sovereignty and territorial integrity."

People will die because of this.

1. Today the Tories unveil their new policy: ripping up the commitment to net zero by 2050. Kemi Badenoch, with no evidence, claims "it can’t be achieved without a serious drop in our living standards or by bankrupting us." What the evidence shows is the opposite. We can't prosper without it. 🧵

Three years ago,on March 16, 2022,Russian aviation dropped two 500-kg bombs on Mariupol Drama Theater.The building served as a shelter for civilians at the time 📹a survivor of the strike,12 year old Sasha Kuznetsov, shares his memories (the video is from 2022).Russian strike killed his mom that day

The anti-vax movement thrives on 'zombie' arguments – claims long debunked but endlessly repeated. Wakefield’s fraudulent autism study still fuels fear, despite overwhelming evidence against it. @guychapman.bsky.social reports

I can’t recommend this enough. Relevant for any period in human history but absolutely vital for 2025. The epilogue is a call-to-arms for us all. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social

Russia and China have e been waging a propaganda war against democracy. Trump just surrendered www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Great to have participated with @emmamaclennan.bsky.social at the World Bank/WRI #TTDC2025 in Washington this week. Despite nearby chaos & disruption clear pathways for sustainable transport discussed involving equity, diversity & action on climate change. Strong focus on road injury prevention too

It's good to see Isle of Man in the process of setting a 20mph limit as a norm for town and village streets. Wales has done it, Scotland is doing it, 61 English Highway Authorities already do it, Ireland is planning 30kmh. #20splenty where people are.

Oh. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

So, I am not suggesting we all go ACT UP on the Trump Administration but the level of mobilization right now is anemic at best. Time to turn the heat up. My latest for @thenation.com. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

"We don't want to be Americans - we want to be Greenlanders!"

Congestion pricing is working even better than anticipated: traffic is down, even outside the zone. "Where are those trips going? One possibility is more of these drivers are ditching the car for the train more than the MTA forecasted." Huge news today in @nyc.streetsblog.org:

“The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar, in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle, is actually the right to destroy the city.” - Lewis Mumford

I think this is Steve Liesman, economist at CNBC. MAN, he's such a breath of fresh air! Honest and smart, can explain the national and international economic consequences of Trumps nutf*ckery. (Trying to swear less.) Ohmygod, more more more!!!

Epic idea