Does engaging with the arts help to slow the aging process? According to this new paper from Fancourt et al the answer is yes! Alas, the paper is actually unsuitable for such claims. Let’s examine by discussing how you'd establish whether arts engagement actually caused future health! 1/18 🧵

Geriatric #medicine across countries: Specialised workforce, training and system integration challenges Overview of the current status of #GeriatricMedicine and the professional landscape of #geriatricians #Geriatrics #Ageing #Aging #Care #MedSky PDF👇 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Book launch: Insights into Creative and Participatory Research. 📚 As social scientists increasingly turn to creative and participatory methods, this book explores their power to democratise research and amplify participant voices. 📅12 May, 1:00 PM: https://ow.ly/aYOp50YV3fb

When election results go bad you seem to get two kinds of responses here; 'people are stupid & evil' V 'we live inside a system that denies people information & mostly elevates those who have the worst intentions'. One of these leads to frustrated inertia, the other opens the possibility of change.

Inspired by the Green Party wins of the last couple of days? A grass roots people powered movement to make life affordable for everyone and tackle the climate crisis. It's a great time to get involved! Join.greenparty.org.uk

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📣Election Day! Polling stations are open! Your chance to vote for amazing Green councillors who have just 2 vested interests - your local community and your environment. Make hope normal again & Vote Green💚 (& remember to take photo ID to the polling station!)

women, get out and vote today 💪 #HopeNotHate 💚💚💚

Older poll but the message remains, Zack and the Greens have got themselves to second place in a matter of months, Farage has been banging his drum for a decade. Imagine where will be by the next GE. 💚 Go Greens!

The Forde Report was commissioned by the UK Labour Party to examine accusations of anti antisemitism in the party under Jeremy Corbyn. It exonerated Corbyn & found there was a hierarchy of racism among the Right of the party, with islamophobia (1/3)

#VoteGreen #GetGreensElected #NoToFascism

On May 7th, get out and vote. You may think local council elections don't matter - but they do. Your vote matters. Your voice matters. #NoToFascism

𝙼𝙰𝚈 𝟽𝚃𝙷 𝙴𝙻𝙴𝙲𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽 𝚃𝙾𝙾𝙻𝙺𝙸𝚃 - 2 Do you have a friend or member of your family who struggles to get out to vote? Please take them with you. High voter turnout is the enemy of Reform UK. For God's sake, VOTE. 🙏✊️

"The earth, the air, the land, and the water are not an inheritance from our forefathers but on loan from our children." — Gandhi

Simple but hugely impactful Banksy installation in Regent's Street. Make it permanent.

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Solar panels don’t damage the countryside you just don’t like the way they look. Skylarks. Linnets. Yellowhammers. www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-pan...

Good night, lovely people and lovely dogs. I hope that you have a really wonderful weekend

This is the quietest month I've had, possibly ever. I have a favour to ask, if you like my work, could you please give it a share to help it get in front of more people? Thank you :) #watercolours #birdart 🪶

Louise Glück, born on this day in 1943

Happy Earth Day! 🌎

“We’re at a point where billionaires are creating apocalypse bunkers. Why are we facilitating 1% of people to survive after the world ends instead of the 99% of the people to survive in the world while it’s still here?” Great point by Munya Chawawa 👌🏻

Join us online on 22 April at 10:30 for Pavement Parking: Reform, Road Safety & Local Enforcement. This webinar will explore how local authorities can tackle pavement parking and improve safety, space and accessibility for all. Register here: https://bitly.livingstreets.org.uk/4coeLXE

English teachers (both primary & secondary), this is for you: UCL's Centre for Climate Change Education has just added new resources for teachers on helping pupils connect with nature via English teaching. They've got loads for other subjects too. Do share! climateeducation.org.uk/professional...

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired ~ K.E. Sermonté "I want quiet. I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved."

“Greens who were long dismissed as “idealistic” & “unrealistic” now look like hard-headed pragmatists & true patriots. They’re years ahead of their rivals in demanding a transition that makes sense on every level: environmental, economic & political” - great article from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👇

on these sunny days, solitary bees are busy laying eggs these bees are important pollinators, just like honeybees why not give them a home? 💚 #savethebees @greenhampshire.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

How to stop fascism and the far right. In a nutshell: offer voters a non-establishment eco-left alternative that *genuinely* stands for people and planet. It's not complicated.

If anyone is struggling, for whatever reason, hang in there. Here’s a poem for #NationalPoetryMonth. Sending love and strength #mentalhealth #poetry

Around *1/5* of all the species that live in a natural forest need dead wood. So no, it's not 'wasted' or 'untidy'. Even in your garden, spare a thought and leave it for them.

Excellent introduction to the health challenges rural and coastal communities face by Prof Chris Whitty this morning 🔥 Very inspiring Big Conversation event held by @whpartners.bsky.social 🙏 #healthinequalities #fairerfuture #determinantsofhealth

Dobby would like you to #VoteGreen in the local elections for a fairer future. (And more 🐿️ to play with in the park 🐶🐾) #GetGreensElected @greenparty.org.uk

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

Hi #Portfolioday 🥷🩵🐈‍⬛️ I'm LK, an artist trying to find her place in this strange world. These days I explore weird places with a cat and a samurai, mostly with indian ink and technical pen. Worldwide shipping of my prints : ko-fi.com/lkcreations/... For any inquiries : [email protected]

Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either: a. Incompetent b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't c. a & b

Truly astonishing number of screenings already booked for the National Emergency Briefing film. Very likely to be one near you. www.nebriefing.org/screening-map

More than a fifth of all “austerity generation” UK children scarred by poverty. Children bear the human cost of refusal to tax corporations and super rich. Tories want to reimpose the two child benefit cap to fund defence. Reform want to do the same to cut price of a pint of beer.

226,000 members. Elections in 25 days. Here's our Party Election Broadcast: youtu.be/DBPdWAJEE8M?...

most read environmental story in The Guardian: Patrick Barkham’s coverage of the #NetworkRail saga about how thousands are people are calling for swift nesting sites to be unblocked‼️email the CEO of Network Rail asking him to unblock the nests [email protected]

Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt

Did you know...? April is officially Citizen Science Month...! What better time to become a spotter with the National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme?! Run in partnership with @ptes-org.bsky.social, we're leading the NHMP, surveying #hedgehogs across the UK. Volunteer now 👉 www.nhmp.co.uk 📷 NHMP

Vote Green for a fairer future for all. #HopeNotHate #Fareham #LocksHeath #Hampshire join.greenparty.org.uk

To reduce disease, we all need to make some urgent but simple changes to how we feed our garden birds. See our website for the latest guidance: brnw.ch/21x1t4w

So excited to launch our local election campaign in London this morning. We’ll soon have hundreds more Green councillors right across the country. This election is Greens vs Reform - if you want hope, join us! Reform have £millions, we have people power and we really need you!

Applications open for @nihrspcr.bsky.social funded Nursing Commercial Research Fellowships 2026.📢 Fellows will gain skills in commercial research delivery, academic development, strategic systems working & cross‑sector collaboration. 📆Closes: 30 April 👉 tinyurl.com/3ha4wsp4 #GPSky #Nursing

Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.

Brutal.

"We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many...."

Before posting, don't forget to let Reform Ltd & Nigel Farage know your heart-felt feelings about them all over the leaflet ... meme via Paul Hodgson