Dutch authorities plan to shut down the Netherlands’ last remaining duck slaughterhouse, located in Ermelo in the Veluwe region. 🙌 👉 Learn more: https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/10/17/dutch-authorities-to-close-controversial-last-duck-slaughterhouse #netherlands #dutch #ducks #animalrights

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

"It's just 22 more oil fields" No. It's 900 million tonnes of CO2 🌍 It's 149+ species at risk 🦈 It's 95% of them drilling through wildlife nurseries 🐟 It's our entire ocean ecosystem 🌊 This game's rigged. Time to change the rules. ✊ 📧 Email your MP → https://bit.ly/490ZLPq

Big oil is playing games with our ocean. 22 new oil fields could be approved by the government. 8 are INSIDE or next to protected areas. The deck's stacked against our oceans. Email your MP now #OilFieldFiles #StopRosebank #ProtectOurOceans #DrillOrDrop #OceanaUK act.oceana.org/page/171529/...

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Genuinely this is just repulsive. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...

Please take action!

Wise words by Sir John Lawton: "There is no surrogate metric that can reliably assess conservation success or failure without knowing what is happening to populations of plants and animals in the landscape." Write to your MP today: act.bats.org.uk/urge-your-mp...

🦇 Our #podcast #BatChat is back!! Listen to the first episode in your usual platform! We're starting this exciting new collection of interviews with our President, Chris Packham ! Steve Roe and Chris talk bats, Bills and the battle for Britain’s wildlife.

🦇 November is here and for bats periods of torpor are lasting longer. Some begin hibernation, to save energy over the colder months, when insects are harder to find. They are using stored fat as fuel.

On 17 November @RNIB are hosting a Parliamentary event for MPs to learn how vision rehabilitation changes lives. Your MP is more likely to attend if they are invited by you. Ask them to join the event by using this easy online action. change.rnib.org.uk/page/178571/...

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

AI hallucinates because it’s trained to fake answers it doesn’t know. Teaching chatbots to say “I don’t know” could curb hallucinations. It could also break AI’s business model.

Zohran Mamdani in New York Catherine Connolly in Ireland Rob Jetten in the Netherlands Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly The rise of the far right is not inevitable. If we work together, we can dare to hope.

84% of trans people polled by YouGov said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people. A terrifying story - founded on actual data - which the BBC still refused to carry. Link to polling in the blog. goodlawproject.org/abject-terro...

I thought I was being a bit cheeky when I suggested The Herald gave their proposed advertising budget to the @edinfoodproject.bsky.social. So all credit to them for this big donation! Foodbanks shouldn't exist. Meantime, the EFP helps people in so many ways. www.edinburghminute.com/local-journa...

Looking forward to dropping Hugh's review of the Edinburgh Gang Show tomorrow. The Gang Sow is at the Festival Theatre all week to Saturday 8 November 2025.

🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...

There have been a few cases now of Reform members and this case an actual councillor quitting over their extremist position about ending ILR. As an aside both the Grauniad and Sky mention his concerns over ILR but the BBC report doesn’t… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A lot of other high profile X accounts have joined in this attack on a member of the public who merely said filling out all the PIP forms was so difficult only people with genuine cause would persevere. This is why the #BBCQT production team shouldn’t book bad faith actors. They have a duty of care.

Lewis is absolutely right here

"As long as the university system in the UK is so wildly underfunded as it is now, universities will be vulnerable to attacks like this." That’s the crux of it, isn’t it?

Something in politics happened and if you're trans you won't hate it.

The U.S. retreat from global health, China’s Health Silk Road initiative, and the formation of stronger regional blocs leaves Europe with less capacity to stabilize global health governance and more competition in shaping its future, writes Chatham House's Emma Ross.

The world needs to resist measuring artificial intelligence's (AI) success only by rollout speed. Dino Rech explains the importance of building ethics into AI tools to responsibly strengthen health systems.

Tobacco and alcohol drive noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Political scientist Eric Crosbie examines how a "commercial determinants of health" framework could counter the lobbying pushed by these industries.

India is the world’s leading generic drug producer but continues to face huge gaps with mental health treatment for its people. Clinical pharmacologist Sameer Khasbage explains how innovative primary care solutions are making mental health resources more accessible.

Think Global Health offers three charts to recount what has unfolded since the October 7 attack and to take stock of the immense health needs in Gaza.

I had the privilege of reporting on the health and humanitarian crisis unfolding in the DRC for @thinkglobalhealth.org amid the abrupt U.S. retreat from the global stage. Thanks to @amymaxmen.bsky.social for connecting me with some of the incredible voices featured in this piece.

Also lots of credit to data editor @akrugman.bsky.social for putting together such an easy to use tracker. If you're taking requests, I vote adding rubella.

I'd love to say lots of nice things about this invaluable preventable disease tracker from @monscience.bsky.social and team at Think Global Health. It's an incredible resource. But I can't get over my anger & sadness that this resource is even needed. www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...

This is what Nigel's been up to.

The British public's concern about climate change bounced back up this summer It's now roughly in line with where it stood during 2023 and 2024 But it's still slightly down from 2021 in the run-up to the #COP26 climate summit at Glasgow www.gov.uk/government/s...

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UK military equipment used by militia accused of genocide found in Sudan, UN told

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds

Forget diplomatic niceties: it's beyond time Europe denounced Trump's trashing of democracy in the US | Paul Taylor

Organised crime making millions from illegal waste dumping in UK, says committee

Elizabeth Warren urges US regulators to investigate Jes Staley ties to Epstein

After a decade of tireless campaigning, Claire Throssell’s fight for her sons, Jack and Paul, has finally changed the law! The Government has announced it will scrap the “presumption of contact” - a rule that often forced children to have contact with abusive parents.

🚨 Yet another new low for the water industry. The Environment Agency has just given eight out of nine water companies a failing grade - the worst results on record. Privatised water has failed customers and our environment. It’s time for a system that puts people and planet before profit.

Tonight’s preset for LITTLE WOMEN from EUTC at the Bedlam. Pics by @clairevpf.bsky.social for Hugh Simpson who is on reviewing duty for @alledintheatre.bsky.social

Genuinely fascinating and terrifying to have a person who has never read a book or basically anything and only learns and retains about 5% of what the last person he spoke with told him running the country

Wildly illegal trade policy violating both US and international law, on top of wildly illegal murder of civilians in international & foreign waters, violating both US and international law.

Donald Trump's effort to deploy troops in American cities is not normal. There is no rational justification for such a deployment. It is a breach of the most fundamental values and customs that our armed forces operate on.

Democracy in action, Illinois. Proud of our state for peacefully showing up and speaking out together in one voice to fight back against Donald Trump’s takeover of our democracy.