#CofEPeeps My immediate thought was, ‘Surely ASB help hasn’t been needed since 2000?’ (OK, will find out who they really are now…)

I'm excited to share our review "Rationalizing recommendations for influenza and COVID-19 vaccines", which we feel makes a strong case for universal influenza and COVID-19 vaccination policies. With almost 500 references & 8 supplementary tables it's a beast so let me break it down for you....1/n

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They've lost the 9yos

It's now close to 54,000 signatures! ❤️ Keep sharing and spread our letter even further....

The space elevator project was funded by the world's billionaires, who were offered exclusive luxury tickets on the first ride up into space. After the launch, the project announced a second funding round, to start looking into the feasibility and advisability of installing a "down" button.

All of 4 pages into my new book on South Africa anti-apartheid work and Allen Boesak is PREACHING.

the booker prize judges make a lot of fuss about having to read 153 books. but assuming an average weight of 750g per book, that comes in at 115kg of literature - or just under the weight of a single adult male ostrich

📈 "L'épidémie de Covid-19 repart de plus belle." Après une forte hausse des infections depuis début septembre, SPF anticipe une explosion « à un rythme exponentiel » dans les prochaines semaines. La campagne vaccinale ne doit débuter que mi-octobre : trop tard, selon de nombreux pros de santé."

Trijn van Leemput was a Dutch heroine of the Eighty Year’s War and became a lasting symbol of Utrecht’s resistance against the Spanish. According to legend, in 1577 Trijn led a group of women to begin the demolition of the city’s Vredenburg Castle — hence the pickaxe and the brick.

Lançons la joute "Toponymie et poésie" : un lieu-dit, un extrait de carte et un peu de vie... Un toponyme de circonstance ! (Commune de Marigny-en-Orxois, Aisne)

Tell me you’re not into preserving railways, model trains, knitting, whist, industrial archeology, woodworking, watercolour, rambling, horses and riding, craft beer, Jane Austin, theatre, photography…

Please do read and share this thread on @changingrealities.bsky.social parents and carers take on what needs to be in the schools white paper. Echoes much of what @johnharris1969.bsky.social said yesterday, & what thousands of parents are calling for.

Does Tylenol cause autism? (A comprehensive neuroscientific response to the recent US govt report) [Summary] No, of course not! What's wrong with you? [Full answer] NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-[1/237]

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner! “The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

You’re much closer to becoming disabled or homeless than you are to becoming rich and wealthy. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of. We need robust social supports & safety nets to ensure everyone is properly cared for.

They should make an international franchise out of Murder She Wrote called Murder She Translated, where Jessica Fletcher's various translators in different countries also happen to solve crimes in their spare time

We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Quite a niche question today. Does anyone know if the phrase 'a nun's buttock' or similar is in any way proverbial in France?

Brilliant

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Mmm… proverbially, no one can escape death or taxes. Don’t know about this guy’s tax situation, but given many of the tech bros seem to avoid paying a proportionate amount of tax, maybe that gives them a weird sense of entitlement vis-à-vis avoiding death too?

Please consider signing this. I am clinically vulnerable, I care for someone who is 96 and has dementia, yet the Government has decided that I now have to pay ~£100 for a covid vaccine. Many clinically vulnerable people cannot afford this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Bishop Irenei of London:

My satsuma is like a Russian doll! #TinyJoys

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

Congratulations to Danny and what a stunning church - more churches should have glass roofs (more info about the church in linked article downthread).

"If we keep calling autistic communication a 'deficit,' we miss the truth. Autistic ppl don’t lack social skills; we have our own. We connect in ways that make sense within our neurotype, just as other groups do." Dr. Megan Neff; her #SNS panel is in 15 min. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.

The stunning Georgian interior of St Deiniol’s, Worthenbury has a complete set of original 18th-century box pews, an elegant triple-decker pulpit, and a grand west gallery. 1/7

Listening to the Quiet Revival. A few thoughts and a few questions. thurible.net/2025/09/12/l... #QuietRevival

In a deal brokered by expert peace negotiators, questions such as “how are you?” will now be answered with “fine, thanks” and no more than one sentence of additional, low-stakes information.

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

New episode of the NT Pod. Traditional ten minute ep., but now with pics! #NTPod #thefourthsynopticgospel www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMYU...

"Mais pourquoi le clergé veut-il interdire la danse dans ses cahiers de doléances ?" Eh bien parce que, en plus de la "dépravation des moeurs", cela entraîne parfois des accidents fâcheux...

Martin Biddle's excavations at St Alban's Chapter House have now been published. A fantastic achievement for everyone involved. Please @archaeopress.bsky.social can you depost the hard copy in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk so I can read it! www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

To spell some shit out unambiguously: fascism requires domestic abuse to propagate itself. Demands it. There is no way to humanely teach your children that might makes right. There is no way to gently love a spouse you think is your genetic intellectual inferior. These are inextricably linked.

Young people in England and Australia are supposedly poor at learning languages – our research shows this isn’t true theconversation.com/young-people... via @theconversation.com #languagelearning #langsky

Slightly diminish a book: Murder on the Gatwick Express

A T. rex riding a bicycle is less anachronistic than a T. rex fighting a Stegosaurus. 🚲🦖

This is also a good point. If you have hearing aids that connect to your phone, you should probably either turn off the emergency alert function or make sure you’re not wearing the aids at 3pm today.

If you know anyone who has to keep a phone secret, and can safely let them know, it is going to be really, really, important that they know to make sure those phones are switched off, or on airplane mode, before the alert goes through at 3pm.

Twice this afternoon I have made a cup of tea and sat down to do something, only to find when it’s time to make tea again, the cuppa is right there, undrunk.

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

"Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was born in 1910 and won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the structures of penicillin and vitamin B... Then, in 1969, she also discovered the structure of insulin..." cen.acs.org/careers/dive...

It's been a busy couple of weeks for Ancient Near Eastern archaeologists. Here's a 🧵: www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancien...

This is interesting. Some of the examples read like badly translated French marketing copy (the sort that was poorly written in the first place) perhaps indicating a major source of training material.

A l'heure de faire l'appel et de découvrir les prénoms de nos élèves, saviez-vous que le Moyen Âge est une période marquée par un changement complet dans la manière de nommer les gens ? On parle de "double révolution anthroponymique", et c'est passionnant. Un fil ⬇️ #medievalists #medievalsky

I notice, editing this morning, that a lot of writers avoid double "that": "He wants to tell her he loves her, but he knows that that is a step there's no going back from." There is of course absolutely nothing wrong with this formulation though! The first is a conjunction, the second a pronoun.