🔴Reform UK Councils Are Dismantling the Fight Against Climate Change Nigel Farage’s party is spreading climate change denial, while blocking any localised action to deal with the threat, an academic analysis of Reform councils has found bylinetimes.com/2026/03/24/r...

The BBC finally admits that Israel has nukes, but calls its weapons "undeclared" rather than what they actually are, which is "illegal" and "in breach of the 1968 treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons"

New in IA72: Looking Back to Move Forward – The Benefits of Researching Archaeological Archives for Policy Making Today by Paulina Florjanowicz doi.org/10.11141/ia.... #archaeology 🏺 #Poland #heritage #policy #Biskupin #pseudo-archaeology #propaganda #engagement #education

'Scientists have issued a dire warning that the widespread death of key eucalypt species in Australian ecosystems could be imminent, due to global heating. Scientists gathered at the Snow Gum Summit last week to discuss combating the loss of an iconic tree'. www.melbournefoe.org.au/media_releas...

Researchers report the earliest known clay ornamental tradition outside of Europe, offering insights into the social organization of craft production. Learn more in this week’s issue of #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/3N8v0Qd

Equinoctial Greetings! [photo: English Heritage]

Jacob did it so you don't have to

Edinburgh Post-Apocalyptic Book Group - tomorrow!

The revolution of 1871 ... sprang spontaneously from within the masses, and it was among the great mass of the people that it found its defenders, its heroes, its martyrs–and it is exactly for this ‘mob’ character that the bourgeoisie will never forgive it. robertgraham.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/k...

"Through rigorous scholarship and compelling storytelling, archaeology shows that the extraordinary was never alien. It was always human." theconversation.com/why-some-peo...

18 mars 1871

"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit the views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering." - The Doctor

This is the number of scientific grants made by the US National Science Foundation in recent years. 2026 is... different. On Friday's Rare Earth, we'll be discussing the impact of US events on the climate/environment. How bad is it & will global progress just reshape itself, leaving the US out?

“YouGov agrees to change poll results after Farage criticism” (Times headline) So, populist grifter MP who can’t be arsed to do his constituency work, has a full-on tantrum about polling, in case - by giving a more accurate prediction - it impacts donations to his party. How is this democracy?

Élisée Reclus, 15 March 1830 – 4 July 1905

The Climate Chronicles, Episode 13: The Bones at Star Carr @dagomardegroot.bsky.social zooms in on the archaeological site of Star Carr, where – just over 11,000 years ago – a group of families settled beside a small lake in what is now northern England. 🧪 Listen here: buff.ly/yQjydPd

Keep returning to the thought that this parasitic activity creates mechanically recovered information, and the eventual AI outputs are the equivalent to cheap sausages. All dust, lips and arseholes

The mere fact that Weimer is requesting information about bookshops from Germany’s domestic intelligence agency is not only unusual; it is, at the very least, legally questionable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This, still, constantly. No matter how persuasively "AI" talks to you, it still gets basic, ordinary, factual tasks wrong, over and over. This is not intelligence, and it's a very special brand of stupidity to think it is.

TrowelBlazers - highlighting the contributions of women in the ‘digging’ sciences: archaeology, geology, and palaeontology. trowelblazers.com

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! This sewing needle was made from animal bone some 13,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start Length: 5.6 cm 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺

No doubt in my mind that LLMs have trained on cautionary distopian SciFi and use that to output distopian AI reality. It's not sentience by a long shot, it's just a very dumb irony of where we are at right now.

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Palantir’s Double Conflict of Interest in the War Against Iran War was inevitable claimed the three most senior figures in the AI analytics firm, which both provided the justification for US/Israeli strikes and profits from the conflict bylinetimes.com/2026/03/05/p...

Around 60,000 years ago, humans in southern Africa made etchings on eggshells. There are hatches, grids, rotations, repetitions—signs that the artist had the final egg design in mind before starting the work! archaeology.org/news/2026/03/04/ostrich-eggshell-etchings-analyzed/

this is a must read 🔥🔥

Just heard of another major British Palaeolithic site falling through the planning & protection net and being green-lit for development. That's 3 confirmed in 3 years, with 2 others I'm investigating. The failure to schedule Palaeolithic sites & the erosion of planning protections are to blame. 🚨🦣🏺

This is a companion piece to Felix Driver, Barbara Brayshay and Toby Butler’s recent article 'Oral Histories of the Environmental Movement: Making an Activist Archive' which is available Open Access in Issue 100 of History Workshop Journal.

Writing in the 12th century, the Persian polymath Omar Khayyám's writings were considered heretical in his time — but today Edward Fitzerland's 1859 translation is one of the most widely read poems in the English language. A testament to Iran's remarkable traditions of free inquiry and rationalism

A 13th-Century Cookbook Featuring 475 Recipes from Moorish Spain Gets Published in a New Translated Edition

Sunderland shouldn't lose an important cultural centre because the government won't fund universities properly. If the University of Sunderland can't keep it open, then the community should get to decide what happens.

For the first time, officials at the U.S. National Science Foundation have spoken publicly about how President Donald Trump is now calling the shots at the $9 billion research agency, with his administration reorienting it to focus on White House priorities. https://scim.ag/3Ow4Qap

it is far, far from the most important thing, but it is still an important thing. An article that came out earlier this month theconversation.com/gazas-cultur...

“I saw nothing, I did nothing wrong.” Aye Bill, but that’s what you said about making a mess on a dress in the Oval Office.

Workers are working to rule at Durham.

'Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Edinburgh are to begin strike action following management's plans for £140 million in cuts and up to 1,800 job losses.' 1/2

The latest Freedom of Thought report from @humanists.bsky.social is a valuable resource for any RE teachers teaching about freedom of religion or belief (which we hope you all are) humanists.uk/2026/02/26/t...

📣 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 Throughout April, we'll spotlight: 🔹 Education and inclusion 🔹 Capacity building 🔹 Long-term sustainability of CS initiatives Does your work align with these themes? Submit your contribution here: forms.monday.com/forms/0b0bcd... 📅 Deadline: 20 March

We’re back! Bigger and better!! We’ve got TWO stages this year as the Shambles Forest expands with more incredible guests and shows at @latitudefestival.bsky.social this summer. And we’re bringing an astronaut this time! Tickets at latitudefestival.co.uk

Good to see journalists covering the links between University of Buckingham’s Centre for Heterodox Science and race science networks. It ought to be pretty shocking to see a university openly affiliate with pseudoscience peddlers such as Aporia

Found it: Debora Mackenzie and Andy Coghlan, “Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world,” New Scientist, October 19, 2011 www.newscientist.com/article/mg21...

Rain intensity has ALREADY increased by more than 20% after just 1.5°C of global heating - enough to cause the extensive, long lasting winter flooding we've seen. Imagine the effects of the 3°C and more that we face as climate deniers fight to slow our green transition. share.google/vzFiW8bMc7WQ...

The world is turning upside down with tariff wars and Epstein revelations It’s reassuring to see normality in some places Like the news that Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is going to be even more over time & over budget giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This is an absolutely essential read by @isisnaucratis.bsky.social on the moral duties of the historian in the face of genocide everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/o...

At least Senator Joe McCarthy made his false accusations in public: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/20/labour-minister-falsely-linked-journalists-to-pro-kremlin-network-in-emails-to-gchq