Keep reading to the 4 key insights. Very familiar. But there needs to be a balance between agility and careful planning. So often, pilot projects don’t involve adequate evaluation, leaving the scattered remains of promising interventions started with one-off money.

Applications are also invited for a new RHS programme for 2026, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and @chalkefestival.bsky.social. 'Pitch my Project' is for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in June bit.ly/44kfUMM. Closing date: 6 February. #Skystorians

Enjoying this book so much and can't wait to find out what happens next...

Was there any doubt that my favorite photo from Nov 2025 was going to be from the year’s biggest aurora storm? I chose this photo to share not only because it's a new one from that series to this channel but also the only one with my tiny little shadow at the bottom :) #yearinreview #northernlights

And finally, my favorite December 2025 photo is of my city, Reykjavík, looking cozy and beautiful in midnight snowfall. Thanks everyone for looking back at the year with me and being such a great group of people. Happy New Year! #yearinreview #winter #newyearseve

And of course the full moon lit up the local scenery to give us some great #nightphotography too.

Between Jan 1-3, Reykjavík takes an advertisement break. The majority of electronic ad space across the city turns into thought-provoking artwork annually. This year, science meets art: Sólarhringur, a digital sundial that mimics the unique winter hues of the lower arctic. #iceland #goldenhour #art

Reykjavík weather update. The average precipitation in January for the city is 75 mm (rain/snow). So far, we've had 0.5 mm this year. Next week's forecast shows zero precip., and one small chance thru the 26th. Great for aurora hunting, terrible for the flora and fauna. #northernlights #iceland

Gare, you seem to have seen everything! amazing. the sunglasses reminded me of chilling Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity"....

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la reine des neiges, c’est moi tags : Mélenchat, #winter #meteo #caturday #cats

Daughters friend wrote this in snow on my car. Apparently soooo last year. 🙄 Made me smile this morning when got to work though!

The CDC changed the universal vaccine schedule & no longer recommends Rotavirus Hepatitis A & B Meningitis Influenza RSV I’ve cared for previously healthy kids who died from RSV, influenza and meningitis. We all are going to be caring for a lot more now. In our already overflowing hospitals

I may not be working with my #Congressional representative ( @debbiedingell.house.gov) this year, but I definitely plan to stop by her office this week since I am on Capitol Hill to register my outrage about the new #vaccine schedule and that it will kill kids and their grandparents (my patients)

Passed an old primary school classmate on the street and looked them up. They're now a respected professor at a university. Another primary schoolmate is a professor and consultant surgeon at a hospital. One the child of a security guard, the other the child of a bus driver. Good on them.

“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster

Fifty years ago, a possibly mistaken murder and the disappearance of a playboy aristocrat gripped the nation. My documentary The Lucan Obsession starts this lunchtime at 1.45pm on BBC Radio 4. Or you can binge all 10 eps (they’re only 15 mins each) on BBC Sounds now. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Introducing our judges for the 2026 Women’s Prizes! Chaired by the former Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard and Baroness Thangam Debbonaire, these two incredible panels include poets, broadcasters, founders, comedians, DJs and more. Learn more at: womensprize.com/meet-the-jud...

Rebecca Lucy Taylor, AKA Self Esteem joins Vick Hope on the final episode of #Bookshelfie season 8, talking about pushing back against the male gaze, the healing power of her art and the challenges of being a female music artist in your 40s. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

So my 12 year old doesn't wear her glasses at school because a 'friend' told her they look stupid. Please send encouraging and persuasive words. The more the merrier! She's struggling to read without.

Teachers - Do you have pupils with physical disabilities that are in travelling distance of Sheffield? Anyone with a physical disability aged 5 upwards can book for this awesome day. Cost: Pay what you can afford.

"The bias we see on The Traitors only highlights just how discriminatory society is on the whole" I wrote about the unconscious racism and ableism on The Traitors for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Help wanted please. Do any of my friends and followers work for a company which can offer my 17 yr old some work experience. He is doing his A levels and has a keen interest in economics and finance. He’s approached many companies but not had any joy. We are Bham based but can travel. Thank you.

Fascinating history around the Pendle Hill witch trials. Another one for the walk wish list for this year. themorbidtourist.com/pendle-hill-...

Few inches of snow in the U.K. and things grind to a halt! ⛄️

Also very cool: a study from 2024 found that in Scottish women fully vaccinated with the HPV vaccine in 2008, *no* cases of cervical cancer have been found. Not a single one. 100% success rate. Co-author: "It is [now] possible to make cervical cancer a rare disease.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our special issue, Janet Frame at 100, is here! To mark Frame's centenary we commissioned 10 new essays on her glittering oeuvre, from discussions of working-class cultures to her writing as southern modernism. Out now with Literature, Critique, and Empire Today journals.sagepub.com/toc/jclb/60/3

So… we got a real shedder this year… #ChristmasTree

@fieseler.bsky.social just reading your posts. Then this popped up. What are the chances? Is it an anniversary or similar?

Do NOT listen to those arseholes who criticise pre-prepared, tinned or frozen veg - anyway you can manage to get veggies into your body is good enough for jazz.

Check out these Gen Z bros lighting up the Moby Dick Marathon reading at 6:10am right now in New Bedford, MA. Most of the people who endured here in the museum up until this point are under 30 years old. Guys, the kids are all right.

Check this out! 🖼️ Over 25 attendees (and me) made this mural inspired by Moby Dick at an art shop across from the New Bedford Whaling Museum where we are attending the Moby Dick marathon right now. Peak art creation was 11pm to 2am, a break to get outside and use your hands during all the reading.

We are 16 hours into the Moby Dick reading marathon. It’s 4:44am and the coffee station ran out of cups. 😬 The read aloud session in the auditorium is piped in from a speaker.

Managed to get a run in this afternoon after a lazy start. The dam was semi frozen. Swans sensibly sticking to the edge. Beautiful. Fresh!

It's snowing!

Before sunrise on Tynemouth Longsands -

Is there anywhere on the web that does an Archers synopsis? I haven't listened in years but I'd like to know roughly what happened over Christmas/New Year without having to actually listen to it

I can now say that my first adult book comes out this year! Unapologetic Love Story opens with a very fancy black tie event at the V&A. At this party, enemies are made and sparks fly--all because a neurotypical writer gets a bit flustered upon meeting an autistic podcaster whose star is on the rise

Just finished my New Year read. I really enjoyed this. First i have read by @colettesnowden.bsky.social . Interesting format and characters, lots sub stories. Highly recommend 👍 @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

'Avatar Reef' teapot by UK based ceramicist Delfina Emmanuel, who creates work often inspired by marine life #WomensArt

Vietnamese artist Vu Bach Lien, Snow path, 2014, woodcut print #WomensArt

Jump Into 2026 I love the secret feature at Nine Elms London Underground station that reveals itself during a sunny day. If you arrive at the perfect moment, the roundel logo is beautifully projected onto the floor. So I took Dancer Andreya with me to interact with the scene.

One of the contributors to the book we're publishing in May about Global Football Clubs that are still essential parts of their communities lives in Caracas, 2km from an airfield that was bombed yesterday. He's been in touch and is OK but obviously concerned about what happens next.

Fancy meeting up on a free trip to Pompeii (UK folks only)? If you pre-order my new "Talking Classics" book (in which Pompeii features) from @Waterstones, you get to enter a prize draw for exactly that. Details, T&Cs here: www.waterstones.com/win/talking-...

#BookSky I’ve enjoyed reading Our Beautiful Mess by Adele Parks this week. Have you read this book yet? www.instagram.com/p/DTEEY-5iBo...

Forgot to tell you that it’s gluten-free!🤦🏻‍♀️

Looks like you are my Bluesky bestie @biggreenbooks.bsky.social and I have no life on Saturday evenings...and talk a lot about delirium, exercise and pku!

I am from Northenden and my mum and her family from Chorlton so i grew up very close to the Manchester Mersey and spent a lot of time on these riverbanks and the water parks next to them. Good to see www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@mancunianmedic.bsky.social I thought this might interest: manchestermill.co.uk/a-mancunian-...

Some people may be considering writing a novel this year. Good idea! I thought I'd share some practicalities that have worked for me as a very busy person who also writes. This is me sharing what I have tested and used. This is not advice. Reread the previous two sentences.