📢🤝Forest Research and the Sylva Foundation are inviting woodland owners and agents in England to take part in an exciting new project investigating how woodland structure influences biodiversity. 🔗 Find out more: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/owners-...

Plough it back into the community? #Disparity BBC News - What does Elon Musk do with all his money? www.bbc.com/news/article...

How much are the workers on the shopfloor getting paid, I wonder. #Disparity #WeNeedARevolution Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package approved by Tesla shareholders - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One of the consequences of electing a man-baby to the presidency of the #USA. BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2... Live updates: US flights cancelled as government shutdown leaves air traffic controllers unpaid

Learning the language and passing a test should be a prerequisite for settling anywhere. (Yes, I'd include eg Arabic for those settling in Dubai.) Otherwise there can be no meaningful #integration. BBC News - UK seeks Danish inspiration to shake up #immigration system www.bbc.com/news/article...

From today's @financialtimes.com #cop30

Quebec's Caribou are back in the news & it's bad news bc we knew that endless nonstop forestry clearcutting would destroy Caribou habitat & open forest for predators and there's no replacing old growth forest once it's gone. I saw a Gaspé caribou in 1993, photo is still on my desk 30 years later.

Wash your hands often; Sneeze/cough into a hankie/the crook of your arms; Wear a mask in public spaces if you're vulnerable/ill. #FluSeason BBC News - UK facing long, tough flu season, NHS chiefs warn www.bbc.com/news/article...

"His headgear choice upset many in Canada" 🤣 BBC News - Harry apologises to Canada for wearing LA Dodgers cap during World Series www.bbc.com/news/article...

And some in #France think we should #tax more… What about we spend less and better? #Budget

New Mexico.

We wouldn't buy it if it were in a film...

Thread #Forestry #Environment #Economy

Consumer choice can play a substantial role in mitigating the climate and biodiversity crises. One important decision is to choose pecans over almonds. Read more at Our Trees.

#Edinburgh #RogueParking

it's november and that means clammy the can of clam chowder expired TWENTY years ago this month! five more years until i pop him open and see what's inside! please repost so's i can get internet famous and quit my job

What does it mean for a tree to be “alive?” I’m sharing this #repost from 2024 because I think this is SUCH an important concept for us to understand! #tree #trees #forest #forests #ecology #woods #nature #death #outdoor #outdoors #forestry #biology #science #wildlife #habitat #stem #life

Where there's a will... #RenewableEnergy BBC News - 'This is the big one' - tech firms bet on electrifying rail www.bbc.com/news/article...

Benefit #fraud in comparison is bat piss. #TaxEvasion BBC News - Police seize €1.3bn from Campari owner over alleged tax evasion www.bbc.com/news/article...

"From the outside, it was complicated, but for those involved it led to ever bigger and elaborate trades which ultimately cost taxpayers across Europe billions". BBC News - I blew the whistle on a massive tax scam - and they sued me www.bbc.com/news/article...

Cos he's in touch with the little people who voted him and will sure make their lives better, just like #Farage and #ReformUK will over here. #Politics #Naivety BBC News - Trump remodels Lincoln bathroom in latest White House renovation www.bbc.com/news/article...

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

The timber needed to build homes like this ⬇️ comes from conifer plantations 🌲🌲🌲 Domestic availability of this timber is set for long term decline. Area of conifer forestry in Scotland has grown by only 0.5% in the last 25 yrs. Global demand for forest products will increase >100% in next 25 yrs

It's not a grassroots working class movement. "Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

New discovery by the BBC, #bedsits exist. 😅 Houses without lounges are a reality for renters - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another year and another planning farce for the Edinburgh Christmas Market. Trees and gardens aren’t being properly protected and the long term damage is being ignored. news.stv.tv/east-central...

Same every year. Please ask for signed copies of the “arboricultural method statement” and “arboricultural impact assessment” , and for evidence of the professional qualifications & competence of the person/s that prepared & approved those documents. Also ask when the site was last “decompacted” 🙏🏾

#Edinburgh #AnnualVandalism #Christmas #Hogmanay

The fall of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is no fall at all. It comes ELEVEN years too late and has only happened as a damage limitation exercise. We need to start having a grown up conversation about monarchy... and I'm starting it here. Me @noosphere.app www.noosphere.app/cast-into-th...

And by the way, the guy the wonderful Dutch🎉 just chose as their probable next PM ↙️ over far right Wilders - also - happens to be gay and married to an Argentine field hockey player↘️💪

"This is our Srebrenica moment. Just like the siege of Sarajevo, which was happening in full view of the world, el-Fasher is being destroyed while everyone watches. If no one intervenes, there will be no one left to save," Mahmoud told NPR's Morning Edition.

Agricultural buildings built from home grown timber. Supporting rural jobs and businesses, and storing carbon for 500 years.

Stunning.

Cruck frame barn, dated c 1550, from Llanerch Banna (Flint) and now at St Fagans National Museum of History. Such curved timbers known as crucks will feature a fair bit in my upcoming online talk on 25 Nov, Dating Ancient Buildings. Booking is now open. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...

How many premises, including office blocks, lie empty in the country? #Housing Government set to miss 1.5m target, housebuilders warn - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Inadvertent mistake" 😂. When aren't they. BBC News - Starmer rules out investigation as Reeves apologises for breaking housing rules www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sexist headline of the week. A work by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh has been sold at auction and a Scottish newspaper decided to report this by referring to her as ‘wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’.

Martin Lewis gives O2 & Ofcom both barrels after O2 hikes prices by more than it’d told customers & regulators do nowt to stop it! For full info and how to beat the rise see: www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/10... Courtesy of @goodmorningbritain.bsky.social youtu.be/2q7vsWzO7qw

O2's price hike feels like a mockery of Ofcom's consumer protection!

I've asked my printer, router, PC, and laptop, they say, "judge on the consistency of our performance". Better not, then. #Technology Would you really trust a robot to care for you in old age? - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The high hanging fruit we don't talk about often enough, seemingly don't do much about either - income tax revenue lost in the super rich's offshore accounts. #Budget #IncomeTax BBC News - Productivity downgrade may add £20bn to Budget hole www.bbc.com/news/article...

Farage: epic grifter

That might work but would require an accountable, well led and properly resourced planning department. The chronically underfunded current planning team and amateur group of Councillors making decisions won’t/can’t even regulate tents & stalls www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/strong-...

#Forests can produce an incredible range of #biobased, #sustainable and #renewable material alternatives with applications in many sectors of the economy. Online event on Wednesday with Napier, Glasgow & Edinburgh Universities. Plus SRUC, Scottish Forestry, Regenus www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-wil...

@duolingoverde.bsky.social , really? ALT text says, "Stereotypical, sexist caricature of "feminine" garb, in shocking purple and pink, complete with garter and, I kid you not, school girl socks and shoes and long pigtails (alarm bells ringing, anyone?), on a green owl." #EverydaySexism

VOI. A success? Gradually there are more of the pink bikes on the street. Any negative reports? Any negative impressions? Can we say the rollout is already a success?

Edinburgh has committed to being climate neutral by 2030. What is the point of commitments, climate strategies and city plans if @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social just ignores them ? www.edinburgh.gov.uk/2030climates... Front page of today’s @scotnational.bsky.social

👍🏼💓 Preston cafe owner starts 'phone jail' to encourage more chatting - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...