Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

So, to clarify, spray-painting a plane is terrorism, holding a sign to support the organisation those that spray-painted the plane were members of is terrorism, but taking a foreign head of state hostage needs to wait for a press conference from the hostage taker for nuance?

The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law. After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.

The US attack on Venezuela is an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign country (with lots of oil). Venezuela has become a more deeply repressive dictatorship & urgently needs democratic solution but this is unjustified & unjustifiable. Look forward to seeing swift UK Government condemnation.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Western media utterly complicit in the Palestinian genocide

Venezuela - a question I asked in the #HouseofLords last month. Hoping we will get a stronger, clearer reaction this time from the UK government about the US attack, which cannot conceivably be legal under international law nataliebennett.org/latest/venez...

David Attenborough and a baby falcon in front of Big Ben is the telly we never thought we needed, but we so did.

There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.

Well done #Devon County Council www.facebook.com/share/p/1FoM...

It's not just Musk who should be in jail, it's anyone involved in any service that pornifies images, regardless of the age of the people. The production of non-consensual porn, including for the harassment of women, is quite obviously a major use of these services and everyone involved knows it.

What is shameful is that people have to use irregular crossings in the first place and we have a government which is so hostile, discriminatory and inhumane towards those seeking safety. It isn't the people seeking asylum who are the issue here www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Founded by our air quality expert @seetheair.bsky.social GO AQS has bought together researchers, practitioners & policy specialists to discuss indoor air quality as a public health issue Short clips from the webinars are now shared on the GO AQS Linked In, perfect for holiday viewing 👏🏽 Link below

Battery technology cuts bills for customers and massively reduces the need to generate energy yet this government is so captured by the developers that they won't even insist that new buildings are fitted with them. And they pretend to be green. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A vulnerable child was groomed and trafficked and then subjected to the most shocking experiences imaginable including the deaths of her babies. Instead of taking responsibility the British establishment stripped her of her citizenship and dumped her like old rubbish. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The PCR positivity map is out with Scottish data up to the 28th. England is blank because there's no UKHSA data for last week, and there will be none until next Thursday. So this is a Scotland-only update, with thanks to Public Health Scotland for the data. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/2

Wishing everyone a happy new year and we will be forging ahead in 2026 with renewed energy to find answers for people living with #LongCOVID, #MECFS, chronic #lyme and other infection-associated chronic conditions and illnesses. Speaking for myself, here are some questions I 1/

A very Happy New Year to you all. If you're still mitigating against infection from SARS-CoV-2 you have nothing but my respect and admiration. Wishing each and every one of you a wonderful 2026.

Happy #Veganuary to everyone who is going meat free. There is lots of advice and recipes in the link below.

“Our biggest hit of the year, Nick Tsergas ’s fascinating piece on “immunity theft” or why what we think we know about the lockdowns of the covid-19 pandemic reducing our immunity to other diseases is possibly wrong. “ Mun-Keat Looi (BMJ: International news and features editor) on Linked In

As always, my last post of the year reminder... Reducing emissions will reduce future climate warming and impacts. The time is now. Visualization made by globalcarbonbudget.org. Thanks for being here in 2025! I appreciate all the support 🙂

I have found biodiversity, to be the issue where techno-optimists, who claim climate change is no big deal, because we'll find a technological solution to it, come unstuck. When I ask them, how they'll solve the biodiversity crisis, they fall silent. Major system change is the only way.

Good morning. Let's make a collective resolution: this will be the year in which we start to turn things round.

Striding into 2026 with hope for nature. 🧡 #HappyNewYear from everyone at WWF-UK!

2025 has been shaped by collaboration, care, and steady commitment, with grateful thanks for the support of everyone who has shared their time, expertise, and goodwill. Attached are some highlights, with so much more to come. #HappyNewYear

What's on your wishlist for 2026? ✅ Workers' Rights ✅ Safe Schools ✅ A Compassionate Society ✅ Clean Air Join The Green Party & help us fight back against Fascism!

#Grotesque www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...

Reminder.

What a year it's been! 🥂 🎆 Record support for PR inside & outside of Parliament 🎇 A steadily growing grassroots movement 🎆 More and more voices in the media calling for fair votes 🎇 And some real opportunities ahead... Let's make 2026 the year of democracy! 💪

Very proud to be a co-author on this comprehensive preprint on the novel, growing saltation lineage BA.3.2, together with @tuliodna.bsky.social‬, @darrenmartin.bsky.social, Dikeledi Kekana, and lead author @graemedor.bsky.social. 1/11 bsky.app/profile/tuli...

I wholeheartedly feel safer in a place with these than I do with England flags. This 👇🏼

NHS under ‘extraordinary pressure’ as amber cold alerts issued for all England

3 year average temp above 1.5C. 1.7C predicted for 2027. Risk assessors, insurers & scientists warn of imminent economic derailment & billions of deaths. Weird that The Guardian don’t mention any of this in their economic outlook for 2026.

We don't know if the BA.3.2.2 saltation will mirror BA.2.86>JN1. Yet, I'm struck by complacency & cognitive dissonance wrt vax & possible impact. For flu, a handful of HA muts is bad clinically, despite OK ANNUAL vax ND50. BA.3.2.2 is off the map, but apparently all is well...

As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu. If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.

As the climate heats up and becomes more energetic the inevitable consequence is more storms, more droughts and more wildfires www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Anyway, good on everybody that does not have long COVID yet. I advise less scoffing and more precautions to stay that way, and if you have co-morbidities, it may prevent ultra short COVID as well.

So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British? Interesting www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Enough with the mask bullying. I mask because I understand aerosol transmission, because our governments all declared the pandemic over before cleaning indoor air, because I’m not OK with multiple reinfections of a new virus, because vulnerable people deserve access to society. #oneofthetwo

Solar+batteries is just going to win. Solar is comparatively cheap. It's the easiest for power companies to deploy (~1 year vs. 5-10 years for conventional power plants). It's inexpensive to maintain. It's environmentally beneficial. And it can add value to farms by providing shade. It's a winner

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Respectfully Jon Stewart, you were wrong on the @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social to mock people who mask. ICYMI: there are tens of millions of Americans who have been disabled by #LongCOVID and must do everything in their power to prevent further infections that make them vulnerable to further 1/

📌https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/comeap-response-to-aqeg-report-on-indoor-air-quality/response-to-the-air-quality-expert-group-aqeg-report-on-indoor-air-quality#comeap www.safeairschools.org/improving-cl...

Really pleased to see government recognition that indoor air quality affects health. However, there remains a clear gap between recognition & action, particularly for schools & children who are medically vulnerable. We already have the solutions.

It’s #winter. The buzzing has stopped - mostly. So what’s happened to all the #bees? Let me explain. Please #repost this thread. Don’t just like/look. It literally takes you a second. Costs you nothing. Bees are in trouble and need you good people to help. Thank you. #share #nature #education 1/14

Just some of the ways you helped bring our world back to life in 2025. 💚 More people than ever before are helping to protect and restore our one shared home. We can’t do it without you! 🌍👏

In the #ClimateEmergency, #FoodSecurity is an issue we need to be taking a LOT more seriously www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Countless numbers of children are carrying the permanent damage of Covid-19 within their bodies, after being repeatedly infected due to the deliberate negligence of adults who are utterly failing in their moral obligation to keep children safe from harm. #COVID19 #children

“Shared air.” My friends. It’s not even just shared air. It’s shared dirty air. It’s shared air that’s had breath, burps and flatus passed into it… and there isn’t an open window or filter in sight.

"Prof. Siegel said multiple studies have shown that improved air quality in classrooms results in better student performance on standardized tests, reduced absenteeism and less spread of infectious disease."