We're getting people in Gipton and Harehills active one bike at a time! Working with The Big Bike Fix we've been taking used bikes, giving them a bit of TLC and putting them back into the hands of people ready to put them to use!

...and the UK is currently arresting pensioners for protesting THIS! Shame on you Starmer!!!

Genuinely one of the coolest things I've ever seen a cultural venue post

One of the most important sociological studies of our time: documenting the cat ladders of Switzerland brigitteschuster.com/swiss-cat-la...

something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.

Cliftonville (Kent) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 38.8% (+26.7) ➡️ RFM: 33.1% (-7.0) 🌳 CON: 15.2% (-4.5) 🌹 LAB: 10.4% (-11.6) 🙋 Ind: 1.3% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.2% (-1.9) No Ind (-3.0) as previous. Green GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2025.

Here’s a map of road deaths in Manchester since 2020… every single one an unacceptable loss of human life. And preventable. The council and mayor may have adopted a “Vision Zero” strategy, but it actually needs implementing. Otherwise it’s just nice words and continuing death and injury.

1 in 10 UK flights is a private jet. Fancy, filthy, and fuel-guzzling. It’s time to stop these climate-busting flights. Join the campaign: https://bit.ly/4rViP8q

Learn how identify different bird sounds in summer with this two-part online course led by our expert team. 🪶 Book a space ⬇️ Wednesday 29 April & 6 May, 7pm ➡️ bit.ly/3NPzWK7 Thursday 30 April & 7 May, 10am ➡️ bit.ly/4sgHIut Thursday 30 April & 7 May, 7pm ➡️ bit.ly/4cb9pPf #Ornithology #UKBirding

It may do absolutely no flipping good at all but you can email Keir Starmer and ask him to remove permission for the US to use UK bases here: contact.no10.gov.uk #Iran #Trump #War

BBC News - Call for citizen scientists to collect space dust www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Quck - help Swifts swiftly www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Bat Conservation Trust’s Nocturnal Garden at #RHS Chelsea Flower Show www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events...

Nice bit of guerilla tree planting to get the Easter Bank holiday weekend off to a good start. Fabulous weather to be out and about! (I can't help but wonder how much of a nicer place the UK would be if everyone who hung a flag had planted a tree or litter picked instead)

Israel has just passed a racist law introducing the death penalty to Palestinians. Demand the British government takes action & call for sanctions. It only takes 2 minutes to message your MP & Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper. Here’s a template: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/opposedeathp...

Can anyone explain why these training places, which presumably will ultimately benefit everyone in the UK through increased capacity/capability, have been withdrawn by the government in their attempt to avert strikes? How do they think this will work? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reason number 'who knows what now' for why so many of us are still so angry about Brexit and all the utterly unnecessary harm it has caused.

Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.

I dont like living in times where I really can't work out if something is an April fool joke or not, and certainly not when the biggest fool of all is in the white house

In these troubled times, have some sheep

Let's send a message from the British public: we want Palantir OUT of our NHS. 38d.gs/breakclause_...

Over the last month we've announced our new Headline Theme, celebrated our fourth anniversary, and published our annual report - it's been a busy March! You can read more on this, as well as finding a whole range of upcoming events from our research community, in our April newsletter 👇

Been hearing about "plug-in solar"? Wonder what it is? What the hype's all about? Let this cute dog (pug in solar, ahem) explain.

Hundreds of thousands of disabled people will have their benefit almost halved if the government assesses their condition might one day improve. Charities warn the move could cause large-scale hardship, including “destitution.” My report in tomorrow’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

And all that hysterical crying and wailing and gnashing of teeth (and death threats and vandalism and setting off improvised explosive devices!) about the ULEZ has just… evaporated. Almost like it never had any actual substance at all & was just an inevitable yet ephemeral feature of change per se

I thought the radiotags I use to track bats were small, but the technology used to study insect migrations is mind-blowing.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/mar/18/butterflies-crossing-oceans-moths-navigating-stars-insect-migrations-aoe #butterflies #insects #ecology

Another bat caught on fly-paper yesterday. The 2nd brought to me in 2 weeks. Dead on arrival: horrible lingering death. This stuff is not environmentally friendly (the manufacturer's photo of it hung from apple blossom is baffling). @davegoulson.bsky.social @batconservation.bsky.social #bats #nature

5am thought; imagine if we humans had taken inspiration from the blackbird outside my window and marked territory with song rather than with walls

Brilliant! And they just keep on appearing as you scroll. Everytime you think no more mammals, another comes along!

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

🧵And we're off, ladies and gentlemen! It's "they're banning the word EASTER" week. Regular as clockwork... So here comes a history lesson and media lesson all rolled into one thread! PS, I can't believe there's no easter egg emoji? This was the best I could do - 🗿🥚 🤣 I digress! 1/19

It's not a global fuel crisis, its a global Trump crisis

Over 100 million children have now been caught up in the Middle East crisis. Every day, thousands more are having to flee their homes to seek safety. 📣 Sign our petition: Tell the UK Government to take decisive action to end the fighting and protect children: warchild.org.uk/petition

A chilling read. I laughed out loud - in surprise - at some of the books on the 'inappropriate' list. We are not the US and should not set foot on the book banning path they're on, it leads nowhere good

Grooves for cables in the pavement are coming to Bradford. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Preparing for online job interviews today; opened Office365 to re-read applications and co-pilot has the usual random shitty prompts. Today it's suggesting writing funny out of office email responses. I am sick of crappy genAI products being forced at/on me. It's distracting and badly timed😡

It's only mid-March and my far from optimally aligned solar PV panels have powered the washing machine, the dishwasher, everything else in the house all day, filled up my battery for tonight/tomorrow and are now sending excess energy into the grid What's not to love about renewables?

Each stick acts as a leaf spring. By weaving them, they store elastic potential energy through the woven & bent tongue depressors. Once they are triggered potential energy converts into kinetic energy. #science #physics #nature #energy #cobraweave

“STOP ‘POINTING THE FINGER AT LACERATION’ AND FIX BLOOD LOSS” screams paper who bloody well knows the blood loss is because of the laceration, but supported cutting it in the first place.

1/3 Would you like to find out about different types of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS)? Are you interested in understanding policy barriers in England identified by NBS practitioners? If so, why not join a free webinar 💚 Unlocking Policy for Nature Based Solutions 📅 Thurs 26 March ⏲️ 11:00 – 12:00

Superbugs resistant to antibiotics are rising fast. I tested water at Lough Neagh (40% of Northern Ireland’s drinking water) & found high levels of antibiotic-resistant genes from human & livestock poo. If we treat waterways like sewers, this is what we get. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Growth of repair café culture in the UK, as communities reject consumerism climatewithbrian.com/2026/03/15/g...

Become a citizen scientist with the National Bat Monitoring Programme, there are suitable surveys for everyone and training available to expand your knowledge and experience. It's a great way to get outdoors and contribute to collecting vital data for bat conservation www.bats.org.uk/our-work/nat...

How Reform UK’s ‘family friendly’ agenda threatens women and girls

This is on a par with people panicking they are peeing blood, then revealing copious beetroot eating when being questioned on what theyve been doing differently than normal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For anyone utterly enraged at the way tech is stealing from creatives, and especially anyone using/considering using Grammarly which has gone a whole step further along the theft route

Net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock & bring health & economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the CCC have forecast. Each £ invested in reaching net zero yielded between £2 and £4 in benefits. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Anyway, here is a handy guide to getting started with ALT text. It's an important way we can make people with visual impairments or neurological processing issues feel welcome on bluesky. bsky.app/profile/cats...

Purple sprouting broccoli going well in its 2nd year of production (I left many heads on the plant last year to provide a pollen source in the garden, hence why this years heads are interspersed with seed heads) 🌱

No happy #IWD 2026 marked by the grim reality that it took a dead man’s emails for the world to believe the testimonies of 100s of women & girls. I urge scrutiny of how Epstein’s cabal & abuse have been health-washed And for more attention to the survivors of #VAW 👇 www.bmj.com/content/392/...