GOOGLE PARTNERS WITH UTAH TO ROLL OUT GEMINI FOR EDUCATION IN K-12 SCHOOLS FROM 2026-27.

I’m old enough to remember when protecting children was considered a moral, social, and political imperative. 😷

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” ~Angela Davis. Image: UC-Santa Cruz.

this will cause Trump serious psychic injury, as it should www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Suspecting Nettle has aphids & #Ladybird stops now and then to eat. Web search suggests they eat 50 aphids per day! #Rathlin #Island #WildlifeWednesday #WildWebsWednesday @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #ECK

Just a gif of the EU flag projected onto the London Eye as part of Mayor Sadiq Khan's London's New Year's Day fireworks 😀 The UK is £90 billion a year poorer because of Brexit i.e. tax rises and spending cuts, it's absurd One day soon the madness will end and the UK will #RejoinEU ☺️

Oh, heart-breaking little poem by Andrea Cohen

I woke up at 4.30am on Tuesday with racing anxious,self-hating thoughts-I longed to step out of my brain.Then I heard Steve the blackbird-his beautiful tweet patterns quietened & slowed my thoughts. Research shows that birdsong is more effective than meditation apps at alleviating stress. Sound UP🎵:

Josephine Baker born 120 yrs ago today: 6/3/1906. The singer/actress/dancer had great professional success in France. She spied for the French Resistance during World War II. She later returned to her native U.S. & became a vocal civil rights advocate. She lived until 1975. Image: Public domain.

Suspecting Nettle has aphids & #Ladybird stops now and then to eat. Web search suggests they eat 50 aphids per day! #Rathlin #Island #WildlifeWednesday #WildWebsWednesday @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #ECK

Happy World Otter Day

AI usage doesn't have to be unethical. An ethical AI would have elements like: 1. Sustainable resource footprint 2. Only consensual information in its model 3. Effective guardrails among other things.

A professor used Ai to write a newspaper Op-Ed. She used only her own writing as the database for Ai. She didn't disclose it. The paper has strict rules against using Ai for writing. The University defended it as proper use of Ai. Is transparency the issue OR is Ai use for writing always unethical?

WHO's Tedros on Ebola: 340 cases including 60 deaths in DRC

Tedros: WHO risk assessment on Ebola remains unchanged

Dismay as Trump officials to dismantle key ocean monitoring system

Semperoper Dresden is refusing to allow me to my seat wearing this. It's "streetwear".

Everyone has the right to protect themselves by wearing a respirator. We need safer concerts. Thank you to @mudlarklives.bsky.social for his account.

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

It seems that not only are we living with preventable infections but also living with more severe impacts than necessary. #CleantheAir

Filtering the air may help prevent your own infection from becoming more severe If everyone in a household becomes infected with the same virus, does it help to isolate from each other and can you be a danger to yourself? Read on to find out... 🧪🧵1/ #AirQuality #IAQ #Ventilation #Infection #COVID

Dr Amir Khan telling it as it is. bsky.app/profile/long...

LONG TB Why name: Between 30% & 80% of pulmonary TB survivors experience persistent symptoms, organ damage or functional impairment after treatment completion; a burden that existing outcome metrics fail to capture. @organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social journals.lww.com/jfmpc/fullte...

A study of more than 13,000 US nursing homes concludes that those in states that adopted laws granting them immunity from COVID-related lawsuits operated with 2.5% less daily staff than those in states without those protections. Read more: ow.ly/2j7P50Z6Uc9

Silence protects abusers. Ignorance lets it continue. Let's change that. #SurvivorMusic @lacassetulsa.bsky.social @tboneski.bsky.social @fifthcolumnblue.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @catnandu24.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @anastazja.bsky.social bsky.social

Hi, everyone My Twitter account had to deleted after it got hacked. After much thought & waiting I have opened a new account @SunilRaina65375 to stay connected & keep posting on health & disease primarily because bsky has not much members over here in India. @organicbotanic.bsky.social

June 1, 2026 As we enter the summer months, we’re hitting the ground running. There is so much news today, I’m going to have to let some of it splash over into tomorrow to do it justice. For today, Iran and its role in the president’s deteriorating mental condition are going to take center stage….

Mikie Sherrill’s state police destroyed the mutual aid tent for families of the detained that had been in operation at Delaney Hall for more than a year, providing clothes, food, even stuffies for the kids. They just trashed it. I’m pretty speechless at the kind of person you have to be to do this

“Over the weekend, Bangladesh documented more than 1,300 suspected measles cases and two deaths, pushing the country’s tally to nearly 71,000 infections and 585 fatalities since the outbreak began in mid-March, according to the Bangladeshi Directorate General of Health Services.”

On #Rathlin #Island & not possible to do #OrchidChallenge due to swarms of biting midges. #Noticing UK most poisonous plant: Hemlock water dropwort (waiting to key out) #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK

So excited this morning to receive email confirmation from the Clerk of the above verge’s local Parish Council 🙏 They’re happy to provide a letter of confirmation so I can proceed with the County Council application for *Wildflower Verge* designation! 🌸🦋🕊️🌱 Thanks to all for encouraging support 💞

@botany-jen.bsky.social Interested in your opinion please bsky.app/profile/orga...

On #Rathlin #Island & not possible to do #OrchidChallenge due to swarms of biting midges. #Noticing UK most poisonous plant: Hemlock water dropwort (waiting to key out) #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK

Professor Clive Beggs stated during his testimony to the UK COVID Inquiry that there is no situation where respiratory droplets could be produced without producing significant amounts of aerosols. [Courtesy of @catinthehat.bsky.social]

@zackpolanski.bsky.social @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social NHS guidance does not consider aerosol risks, we are doing Covid again, stuck in droplet dogma. Toilet plumes -gastrointestinal symptoms Coughing - stage 2 Ebola -sputum Vomiting - studies show this generates large amounts of aerosols.

Allies of Andy Burnham will form a new "council" of cross-party figures to discuss working together to stop a Reform UK government news.sky.com/story/burnha...

I have read that we forget 90% of our lives so I’d like to submit 2020-2028 to my brain for consideration of deletion.

Gotta fly. Taking my dog out, in the rain. 🙄🙄🙄 See you all later. #flowers #bugs #photography #Macro #ECK of there’s some green #ColorADay #GreenSat

Death rate from Ebola means ‘5 out of 10 people’ are dying. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

@iandunt.bsky.social writes terrific prose fertilised from hard thinking & good values. I find it hard to pick “a best” But this is up there for its sheer acuity. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Awkward moment on #BBCQT Computer Science graduate who applied to over 150 jobs and still has no success Is say next to a guy whose company is using AI to reduce jobs

In case the above post isn’t clear, ACIP’s recommendations have reverted back to what they were before RFK Jr. installed a bunch of anti-vaxxers on ACIP who then proceeded made horrible decisions. Therefore, it should be pre-2025 business as usual in terms of getting vaccines paid for by insurance.

I did not expect health insurance companies to be the good guys ever, but today they are. AHIP has announced that insurance companies will cover all vaccines recommended by ACIP through 2027. Because a judge stayed RFK Jr’s Temu ACIP, this means they will use recommendations by actual experts.

And what will be the price rise for data centres and other commercial customers ? #speirgorm www.rte.ie/news/2026/05...

These new screening guidelines come as colon cancer rates rise in younger adults across the U.S. 1 in 5 new colorectal cancer cases now occur in people younger than 55, up from about 1 in 10 in the mid-1990s. abcnews.com/US/new-guide...

Student loan system acts as ‘tax on ambition’, graduates tell MPs

Last night, this colleague who has been at Delaney pretty much non-stop and has been gassed, spoke in Roxbury NJ to try to stop a new detention center. Please watch this. She is just a mom. You can make a difference, and it is time to step up.

Discover Britain's Most Biodiverse Walking Routes #WednesdayWalks

We are totally unprepared for another airborne virus because Labour still hasn’t changed the ‘flawed guidance’. 6 weeks and counting!