So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

“Superman is too woke!” Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:

I’m old enough to remember when there was no point for the Global North to do anything about climate change because ‘coal in China’

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

My hollyhocks are finally blooming! They are now easily over 2 m tall, and I thought I was going to be engulfed by them on one of these days, but it seems that those growths are not more leaves but flowers! And they are black 😳

🚨 After months of defiance of court orders (and the Supreme Court) and claims under oath from cabinet level officials that they would never bring him back, the Trump admin blinks; Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being brought back to the U.S., where he can finally get some due process.

I am fascinated by how pretty the flowers of the catmint are. Our plant in our garden is in full bloom and the cuttings I took because they were invading the pathway are happily blooming in a vase and growing roots.

If you are a Spaniard interested in becoming a Teacher of Spanish in the UK, these grants are a great way to acquire your QTS. www.britishcouncil.es/about/press/...

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@noegguerrero.bsky.social Hola! Preguntilla: Cómo de familiarizada estás con la prop. de ley xa impulsar alquiler asequible? Veo el art.4 que afecta a residentes fuera de la UE q penaliza con un ITP adicional del 100% al comprar vivienda. Esto incluye españoles emigrados? Q pasa si quieren retornar?

Sue's guidance has always been very useful for me. Her books and webinars are very informative and full of practical examples. I might join her again this year for a refresher!

Did I share these gorgeous pictures of the landscape between Rye and Hastings? I cant get enough of them ❤️ #hiking

Via @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social on insta, the most accurate use of this meme ever

An island of strangers? Migration and asylum researcher @zoejardiniere.bsky.social dissects what Keir Starmer – and the far-right – both get wrong about immigration policy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDOe...

I did consider making a speech about tackling poverty, taxing the rich, nationalising utilities and properly funding the NHS and social care, but then I thought... nah, just go full Enoch Powell.

People across Europe, please sign and share all over the place, to ban conversion therapies in the EU. Deadline is on 17th May, and we need a million signatures, regardless of the country. Let´s banish this atrocity forever.https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

No amount of ‘tightening up’ of immigration rules will satisfy the ‘Reform curious’, unless you’re going to deport all black and brown people. Remember, they’re not properly English, as all those articles in the Telegraph, Spectator etc told us. Stop appeasing. Challenge.

No matter what you do, the far right will always want the next cruelty, and their torch-bearers in the press will attack you for not delivering it. All while priming voters to conceive of far right concerns as newly moderate. Again, this has happened in every single place this has ever been tried.

I've been able to run over 7 km for the first time ever, and my fitness age is 5 years younger. Not too bad!

Recently I overheard a conversation in the staff room. A colleague in another department is leaving us, and they were discussing his new role in the new school. Another member of the department said "take everything we've got: lesson plans, resources, anything you need" and it warmed my heart. 🎓🍎

Science teachers, we see you. We stand by you. To celebrate #TeacherAppreciationWeek, we will be holding a drawing for teachers to receive funding towards attendance at a conference of their choice. To enter the drawing, fill out our quick survey by 5/11: forms.gle/nieLb5Mrc1Zk... #EduSky #iteachbio

This is about all of us. Never forget that.

Our arrival to Hastings was perfectly timed! #hiking

It doesn't cease to amaze me.

It's nice to see all these ways to address students when they don't know the answers together in one infographic. I didn't realise it but this is pretty much what I do in my lessons, however I didn't know about "looking down" I'll have to research it! 🎓🧬

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

#biology #chatbiology #iteachbiology

A good politician would make policies that reduce harm. The Trump administration wants to change what legally counts as harm so they can, through creative accounting, say that less harm is happening. This is Orwellian pseudoscientific bullshit and we should oppose it.

What you're looking at is an animation based on electron microscopy of a modified phonograph needle picking up a recording of Johann Strauss. You can see the detail in the 'bumps' in the groove that vibrate the needle to produce the sound. You can SEE the recording & how it's translated to motion.

Bluebells season!! ❤️ #hiking

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

Never forget.

Some more good memories of last weekend #hiking

Seriously, if they get away with disappearing someone without reason or due process, and ignoring the Supreme Court, what's to stop them from doing it again, and to anyone they don't like? Just label them a terrorist and ship em off! To say that we're in a constitutional crisis is an understatement.

This should be grounds for both parties to come together and remove Trump from office. They have no intention of bringing Garcia back, in defiance of the unanimous Supreme Court decision, and are now labeling him a terrorist, despite no criminal record and being illegally/"accidentally" deported.

Fantastic news!

A bit of #hiking today around the Oare Marshes Nature Reserve.

How on Earth did I end up here? 🫣

A #ladybug preparing for takeoff They can eat up to 5,000 aphids in their lifetime, making them natural pest controllers! In some cultures they’re associated with luck

“De-extinction” is to biodiversity loss what “Mars colonization” is to climate change—wishful thinking that is at its core impossible but nevertheless sucks up attention and resources from actual solutions to these crises (which, ultimately, might be the whole point)

As Mark says, don't read too much into the stay. But this is sort of it. If SCOTUS agrees the government can disappear you to a Salvadorian labor camp, and there's no legal recourse even if you're innocent because of Article II, then none of your other rights mean a damn thing.

UK: Brexit is the biggest act of economic self harm any country will ever perform USA: Hold my beer...

Let the marking begin

The teaching term is over

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like.

Oppressed minorities scapegoated, violent rhetoric, concentration camps, people nabbed off the street, moves to annex neighboring countries, illegal power grabs... but please keep telling me how calling them Nazis is mean