Trump vs The BBC. Love or loathe the BBC, recent events have put the UK's journalistic sovereignty in peril. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCMn...

Tomorrow! "City of Cars" film screening and launch of the Pritchatts Road Accessibility Audit Report. All welcome.

You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires? This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get. Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires. They’re for everyone.

A new meditation app that embraces climate breakdown. Breathe in profit. Breathe out responsibility. If you’ve ever had problems with anxiety from being a fossil fuel executive, this is the app for you. Brought to you by @olifro.st

Penguin Revenge Climate Tribunal? Sign me up thanks! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Come join our group for an exciting PhD program!

The River Cherwell feeds into the River Thames. The River Thames fills up Farmoor reservoir. Farmoor reservoir supplies water to approx 600,000 people. Including my house. As well as letting it kill our wildlife, we are drinking this stuff.

‘If this were just a climate crisis, we would fix it. The technology, money and strategies have all been at hand for years. What stifles effective action is an …An epistemic crisis ie a crisis in the production and delivery of knowledge’ #ClimateEmergency www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚸 Better Streets for Birmingham are calling on all those preparing to stand for election in Birmingham next year to back practical steps to address the road safety emergency. Ask #1: Keep rolling out 20mph limits 👉Read the ten asks in full and co-sign them: betterstreetsforbirmingham....

There are thousands of things like this in tech. Why is search bad in Gmail. Why does Bluetooth suck. Why are most streaming apps bad. Why is file transfer still annoying. Every day it feels like I've got random issues with tech stuff while these companies sink billions into AI

We've joined with 15 local and national organisations, setting out 10 practical steps to address the city's road safety emergency and prevent needless deaths on our city's roads. Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....

Official data from government of British Columbia, along with satellite monitoring, backs claims that a Canadian subsidiary owned by Drax sourced 250-year-old trees to manufacture biomass pellets as recently as this year www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Meanwhile, CEOs make 280 times the typical worker today. The system is rigged.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

This @oilchange.bsky.social report into how Aus, Norway, the US and Canada are going hell-for-leather on oil and gas is pretty incredible. This graphic stood out to me: oilchange.org/publications...

Brand new video by Simon Clark about the last month of terrible climate news:

Viele denken, sie schützen den Wald, wenn sie #Windkraft verhindern – doch das Gegenteil stimmt. Ohne Windräder keine #Energiewende, ohne Energiewende kein Wald mehr, wie wir ihn kennen. Wer den Wald wirklich liebt, baut dort Windräder – für seine Zukunft. 💚

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

"Again looks like some will be discriminated against." Having to share even a tiny bit of public space is, for some car owners, discrimination.

Plant scientists Professor Graham Farquhar and Professor Susanne von Caemmerer transformed the world's understanding of photosynthesis, and now they have been jointly awarded the Royal Medal (Biological) from The Royal Society, at a ceremony in London. science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

The Trump administration on Thursday announced a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest remaining tracts of pristine wilderness in the United States. More by @maxinejoselow.bsky.social here:

Among the great essays of the twentieth century.

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can.

@djgibbs.bsky.social and I are advertising a MIBTP PhD project investigating the influence of low oxygen and ethylene signalling on plant-symbiont interactions. Please get in touch via email if you are interested and I can provide further details! www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profil...

job alert: UC Davis is looking to hire a 9 month tenure-track Assistant Professor of Mycology in the Department of Plant Pathology. More details below, for full consideration submit by 1 December 2025 recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

I stand with Salman Mirza.

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

Hagley Road's current design is an announcement that if you don't own a car in Birmimgham, you deserve neither safety nor dignity as you move around your city. But some changes are planned that acknowledge that car owners aren't the only ones who might use this corridor. Have your say here:

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

The Primary Energy Fallacy is the idea that all primary energy from fossil fuels must be replaced with equivalent amount of clean energy. BUT: Not necessary because >2/3 of all primary energy is lost as waste heat. Electrification+renewables are far more efficient. medium.com/@jan.rosenow...

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury. My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

📣 “Bikes stolen from train stations left for more than 2 hours will not be investigated,” says British Transport Police. 🗣️ Cycling UK’s Sophie Gordon: “Bike theft isn’t petty — it can be devastating.” 👉 Read more: road.cc/content/news...

Shape the future of #PlantScience! BTI, affiliated with Cornell, seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor to drive discovery in plant biology. Review of applications begins November. Apply: recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/J...

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science Dept. of Plant Sciences | Permanent | Closes on Monday 17 November 2025 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell... #plantsciences #plantscijobs #academicjobs

New PhD position in tree ecophysiology at BiFoR-FACE (Uni of Birmingham) 🌳 Looking at tree carbon and water dynamics under elevated CO2 and warming 🌡️ Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950

🇨🇳 Every second, China bolts down ~100 solar panels. H1 2025: 67% of global solar already. And before decade’s end, China’s solar capacity ALONE will eclipse the whole US grid. The first true electrostate is here—rising at hyperscale, rewriting energy history in real time. ⚡☀️ #Solar #EV #Energy #BESS

“Here, we painted some stick figures of bicycles on the road so drivers can practice running them over.”

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

If you want the Forest Service to be anything other than just a logging company get in those public comments, people

If you're wondering whether electric cars will replicate the inequalities automobility represents, check this out.

Critics slam renewables for land use but ignore fossil fuels' huge impact. Germany's Hambach lignite mine: 85 sq km pit, 300m deep, snapped from ISS. My first ever energy research protect professionally was on the externalities of lignite. In short: they are very significant!

Warum macht der Postillon wieder mal besseren Informationsjournalismus als viele andere?

Critics of renewables often point to land use as a reason not to invest in wind & solar. Land use IS a real issue for all energy assets incl renewables (unless on-site). But what critics conveniently forget is the huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Wickett, Texas. 👇

"Why do we have to kill kids?" @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org

Excellent new video from PBS Terra about the long term climate change impact on the probability of death across the USA:

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before” news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...