How white working-class children are being failed A new eye-opening report paints a picture of white, working-class young people disengaged from education with high rates of school absence, writes Jackie Long. Read our latest newsletter: channel4news.substack.com/p/how-white-...

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

🔥Colorful Cuttlefish

It feels strange that humanity dreams of finding life on distant planets while forests here vanish every day. A forest takes decades to grow, to cool the air, protect wildlife, and create peace—yet only moments to destroy. The most important world is the one we already inhabit.

Geese on the river Cherwell

An unusual request in the name of archaeological science: Would anyone happen to have a Shetland or Exmoor pony that wouldn’t mind sending some fur samples to me? We’re trying to compare a potentially preserved fur specimen but there’s (perhaps unsurprisingly) few sources on fur fibre diameters!

Sundown at Poly Joke, Cornwall. A moment of serenity to soothe your timeline. Rest well, my friends. We go again tomorrow. 😊 #Cornwall #sunset #nature #flowers #calm #peace #life #mindfulness #sky #photography

There's so much evidence that speed cameras save lives, but they also make a small number of drivers angry and are ripe fodder for the culture wars, so it's impossible to say if they're good or not.

Happy Birthday Sir David Attenborough

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

The Apple Orchard. Kevin Kia

Thankx to THE BOSS for having Public Enemy perform at Springsteen Center American Music Honors ,, we should all always continue to FIGHT THE POWER

We spoke to @theguardian.com for this story on how one rural community is fighting back against bus cuts: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Here is an easy solution: Food stains are humiliating, as they suggest you're a little baby who can't feed themselves. Oil stains, such as those you'd get from working on your car, suggest you're tough, independent, and skilled. Thus, simply cover your food stains with used motor oil.

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

Spoiler alert: nothing trickled down.

❌👑 except...

No one is ever the butt of Bob Mortimer’s jokes. I like that about him.

NEW ANALYSIS: North Sea “drill baby drill” would cut bills by just £16–£82 per year, and only if tax revenues are redistributed. A fully renewable UK could save households up to £441 says @smithschool.ox.ac.uk. www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/drill-b...

[Day 5] GOD: What do you think? ANGEL: You’re tired. Why don’t we try making the birds tomorrow.

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

My reflections on ambient scribes in primary care medicine. Head line: “AI saves you time.” Well, I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that. open.substack.com/pub/benngooc...

⏰ Our National Benchmarking Survey deadline has been extended! 📨 Please complete the survey – members will have received the links by email. 🕒 Deadline to complete is 30th April Your insights will help shape the future of Hospital at Home nationally. #HospitalAtHome

All of us on this site know better, right? focusingonwildlife.com/news?mailpoe...

I was in a coffee shop today and the there were hundreds of fossils embedded in the marble walls and floors. Here’s a nice example. #CoffeeShopPalaeontology

Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades eos.org/articles/res...

- Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) - Photo courtesy of Dick Vautrinot on Instagram.

In 2025 the Puerto Rican music artist Bad Bunny released an album named DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS! Videos for this album featured a character named Sapo Concho, named after the real life Sapo Concho, the endangered Puerto Rican Crested Toad! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A popular press recap of all the cool stuff that @schmidtocean.bsky.social recently found off the coast of Argentina Deep-sea explorers film massive animal drifting through darkness in South Atlantic Ocean | Discover Wildlife share.google/99B8UnGPRL7y...

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Introduced species like foxes like to stalk the tiniest penguin, so an experimental program to protect the nesting colonies includes Maremmano sheepdog guardians keeping watch for threats. If that doesn't warm your heart, I think it's time to see a cardiologist.

In my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS: Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring. Here's a weird starting point: There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr. Cats that roar = genus Panthera Cats that purr = genus Felis

‘When we began this work in 2014, we had a simple aim: reduce unnecessary admissions while giving patients rapid access to the investigations & treatments they needed.’ Dr Shahid Nasim reflects on a decade of change in ambulatory & same day emergency care at @mse.nhs.uk: https://ow.ly/Q9MV50XXZqr

Going to learn some point-of-care ultrasound. What are the best use cases in primary care? In what scenarios does it make the biggest impact? #POCUS #PrimaryCareUltrasound

Technology advances mean some scientists rarely leave the lab and have stopped doing field work. A feature in Nature reports how ecologists fear this loss could lead to error, bias and oversimplification of results. #Academicsky 🧪

I'll be giving the Annual Guest Lecture for the Oxford Centre for Personalised Medicine. On 28th April 2026 at 5.30 pm. ‘Personalised Medicine, a Primary Care Perspective’. Open to all. cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/cpm-an...

A crested guan #CostaRicanWildlife

An agouti #CostaRicaWildlife

More #CostaRicawildlife. #herpetology

A visitor to the garden. They were ushered out with great caution. #Herpetology #CostaRicaWildlife

Here’s another one #CostaRicaWildlife

Glad to see our research in the Daily Mail in a really thoughtful and well researched piece from Elizabeth Haigh. This is the untold story of millions of children making their way to school in levels of unacceptable danger. We need #streetsforkids www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

📢 Calling all UK Hospital at Home Society members! 📨 Our National Benchmarking Survey has just been launched – please check your inbox and respond to help us deliver the most comprehensive look yet at Hospital at Home services across the UK. #HospitalAtHome

Editorial about the ultraprocessed food oligopoly putting profit before health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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😮 A sobering statistic for Road Safety Week... In the UK, SUVs are three times more likely to kill a child under the age of 10 and heavier cars are more likely to be involved in fatal collisions. Source: @cleancitiescampaign #roadsafetyweek #roadsafetyweek25 #carspreading #suvs #schoolrun

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Help us get this to 20,000 and beyond! #Dieselgate car manufacturers have never properly been held to account in the UK. Let's change that. Sign and share! #AirPollution