Productivity increases between 5% and 13% with working from home, and worker wellbeing improves hugely too. But Farage doesn't care about reality. Or productivity. Or your wellbeing. He cares about the workplace property investors who bankroll him. www.greatplacetowork.com/resources/bl...

#OwlishMonday #MythologyMonday Ghost hunter Elliott O'Donnell called the unearthly creatures attached to certain families 'Clangorian' - including The White Owl of the Arundels who would be seen shortly before the death of a family member.

This is a shift we've been waiting for! ⚡️🚗 "I’m really encouraged by this: EVs outpacing petrol cars feels like a tipping point. It’s a systems signal that when the right options are available, people choose solutions." - Heather Jones, Research Fellow @carbonbrief.org 👉 https://bit.ly/3Mprsse

A beautiful and healthy 400 year old oak tree near my house was mysteriously assessed as “dying” and cut down after surveyors said it was thriving probably a coincidence that the landowner wants to let a local football club pave over the site but couldn’t bc of the tree

I fear The Tism may need to do a further tier to their T-shirts, adding "regularly" or even "daily" at the beginning for me

Just learned that the testicles of sparrows increase in size by over 100 times every spring. I hope everyone has a nice day.

STUNNING

Le paysage secret / The secret landscape - 1928 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112443

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Nordhaus labels ~3 °C warming “optimal” because it costs only ~2–3% of global GDP, roughly the size of the entire African economy! The implication is stark: #climate damages on the scale of wiping out Africa can be treated as an acceptable cost of continued fossil fuel use. 🧵

Greater Feast of Peter Kropotkin, died February 8, 1921 at Dmitrov, Russian SFSR hermetic.com/hermene... #calendar #historic #OTD #OnThisDay

One of my cherished roadtrip moments was walking past a rock shop that had a "mosasaur" skull in the window, causing Señor Maltese to give an impromptu lecture on mosasaur physiology for the employee and I. This would be the first time I heard the phrase "more Moroccan folk art than fossil".

Greater Feast of Iris Murdoch, died February 8, 1999 at Oxford, England hermetic.com/hermene... #calendar #historic #OTD #OnThisDay

Greater Manchester Police are investigating Reform over the potential breaking of electoral law in the Gorton & Denton by-election. The party sent out election materials without identifying they were the promoter. If Reform won the election the result could be overturned in court.

As I youngster I treasured the Knight Rider paperback "Mirror Image". It repeatedly talked about the dangers of being knocked out. I thought this was extraordinary for a novelisation of a TV action show.

For anyone who needs cheering up... here's Britain's smallest bird having a bath today in a woodland puddle. 😁😍🐦❤️ #birds 🪶

stealth!

#Caturday 🐱: Xu Beihong (China, 1895-1953) #Cat, 1952 ink & color on paper private collection www.chinaonlinemuseum.com/painting-xu-... #CatsInArt #ChineseArt

The Batman 2022

This is the UK security assessment that the government tried to bury: ecosystem collapse is a national security threat. Read how you can turn knowledge into action, addressed by Caroline Lucas & Rupert Read: resilience.org/stories/2026... #ClimateCrisis #NationalSecurity #Adaptation #Resilience

Aside from the message, which I support, his control of his instrument is impressive

"The British Olympic Association... is understood to be relaxed that Kenworthy has given a personal opinion on a subject that sits outside the Games." www.thetimes.com/sport/winter...

couldn’t politics just be announcing good policies designed to help people next to adorable children at tiny podiums? wouldn’t that be better?

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

One Nation Under A Groove (with Three or Four Dicks)

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Just a regular fox taking an #earlymodern Uber. Nothing to see here. #skystorians

You're telling me that Morgan McSweeney might lose his job and Wes Streeting might never be prime minister, because they were too close to Peter Mandelson? oh no that's terrible

This is the way. Thiel and Palantir are poison, the public hate both. Point out how Palantir's surveillance databases are driving ICE, and could one day come for ordinary citizens. Point out how Thiel is JD Vance's sugar-daddy, and has heaps of minions in Trump's administration.

LOVE THIS! ctan.math.illinois.edu/graphics/pgf... "This package provides an essential feature to LATEX that has been missing for too long. It adds a coffee stain to your documents. A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding them manually."

Actually Star Trek isn't preachy *enough* come to think of it. We needed to have Patrick Stewart climb through the screen, grab us by the lapels, and scream "HOW MANY PEOPLE DOES IT TAKE BEFORE IT BECOMES WRONG?" whilst shaking vigorously, apparently.

‘Difficult’ two years ahead for physics, warns STFC boss Latest from a media briefing with Michele Dougherty & Ian Chapman I attended today She confirmed the withdrawal of funding from the Large Hadron Collider upgrade, a collaboration with Cern www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Made it through hump day. Means it's almost sort of the weekend. Soon. Sleep well friends. Family sends love to you all. Hugs 💤💙💤

Oxford Professor of Astrophysics, Founder of Zooniverse and presenter of BBC’s Sky at Night, Chris Lintott, warns the Government against cuts to fundamental research in an article for the University of Oxford.

Hyphlonaechron - Grand Metamorphic Knights from Most Ancient Piquol-sorcerian Order of Veurvenäch Sathreoll 2022

CREATURES OF ONEIROGEA: Hrvonaesc Maldreopod 2022

dooodling

@thrivingautistic.bsky.social has a new signposting resource for Autistic Elders that may be of interest thrivingautistic.org/discovery-pr...

🇨🇦 PM Mark Carney put it well in his book Values: society has confused “value” (market price) with “values” (social, moral and ethical principles). The EU is a values-based system: rule of law, democracy and human rights, checks on power... Align wisely, UK. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 www.politico.eu/article/keir...

Hey yall, my family is going through a very rough period after my mother left her abusive marriage and I'm not able to fully support them alone. If you enjoyed my art, writing, or any of my work in the past, consider helping us move out. Please share! eternally grateful 🙏❤️ gofund.me/bd7e0e2e0

Excellent piece on why you should never negotiate with bigots: "Appeasement does not moderate or halt them; it only shifts the Overton window, until those seeking compromise find they have surrendered nearly everything they once stood for"

Xena didn't normalize bisexuals & lesbians & lesbians falling in love with bisexuals & ancient people of color in the 90s for us to forget our roots

Dear Film Industry, Wouldn't it be nice to have a film version of WUTHERING HEIGHTS that was: 1. Filmed in Yorkshire 2. With actors that one could plausibly believe to be from Yorkshire 3. Of the right age (teens and 20s) 4. Actually scripted by someone who has read the book ALL the way through?

Me: Wow I have a lot of stuff to do today! My body: Cool, I'm going to sleep for ten hours and you're going to wake up groggy as fuck My brain: Yay! Groggy means vacation! Me: (sighs)

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Thread. Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.

The reality that there are blurry boundaries between the two sexes and one can move from one to another more or less by choice is a deeply destabilizing one for people who believe in natural, unchanging hierarchies.

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

obligatory @mattielubchansky.com (from thenib.com/the-smartest...)