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Biologist, retired film-maker, scientist for XR, advocate for Climate Literacy https://bit.ly/CLNZine London, UK, born here c.315ppm [bridged from https://mastodon.green/@SusiArnott on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Love this work! #Placebos more effective when patients aware. Would #rct double-blind protocols also have an impact? #MedSci https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2025/03/05/bmjebm-2024-112875

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Sharks make sounds? We know so little about #LifeOnEarth #animalcommunication #sentience #fish https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.242212

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My knee-jerk resistance to the word 'offset' doesn't stop this being interesting #Slimewatch https://www.newscientist.com/article/2473773-flourishing-microalgae-could-offset-emissions-as-the-planet-heats-up/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=currents

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Piece by #MennoSchilthuizen brings to mind the glorious tidal mudbanks of Central London #Slimewatch https://bit.ly/SW2 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26535362-300-in-the-city-anyone-can-be-a-naturalist-explorer/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=currents

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Help, Mastodon! I thought the point of Mastodon was to share across different subject areas - but @newscientist tells me this: "Log in with your mstdn.social credentials. If your account is hosted on a different server, you will not be able to log in here."

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Big banks are scheming about how to profit from catastrophic climate change. 🥲

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Event coming up with experienced trainer, facilitator, artist and activist #PoppyFlint https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walk-under-the-trees-tickets-1291121712799

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Chuffed to be included in the #UCL group pic at last nights booklaunch:) @sellathechemist @Protons4B #hughmontgomery #RealZero https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Scientists-for-XR/Scientists-on-Survival--Personal-Stories-of-Climate-Action/30202655

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Gig economy bosses might be up in court - but not for exploiting workers. #UKmigrants #snitch https://news.sky.com/story/gig-economy-bosses-could-face-jail-time-if-they-fail-to-check-employers-can-legally-work-in-uk-13338420

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#Gaza journalist describes observing #Eid under Israeli blockade/bombardment https://aje.io/7bvvjb

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#Eid_Mubarak - or is it? https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/eid-2025-does-saudi-arabia-report-impossible-moonsightings

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Violent London policing - breaking into a Quaker meeting house is a new low. Youngvpeople were meeting to share concern over #Gaza and #climatebreakdown […]

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"Science is the art of understanding truth and beauty" Join #ChrisPackham at #UKParliament this May 13th to advocate action on #planetarycrisis https://youtu.be/sBXHiiOF5Rg?si=8Cs5DnUtc6-YuXoK

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"The Signal fiasco is obscuring an essential question: why are we bombing Yemen?" Decades of failed US policy considered by #MohamadBazzi #journalism https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/trump-cabinet-military-signal-chat-yemen?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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"Species have always shifted their ranges in response to climate change... The problem for Great Britain, which it didn’t have immediately after the last Ice Age, is that it’s an island" Horribly good thread from #CharlieGardner on his paper with #JamesBullock #planetarycrisis #ecology

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"Science is the art of understanding truth and beauty" Join #ChrisPackham at #UKParliament this May 13th to advocate action on #planetarycrisis https://youtu.be/sBXHiiOF5Rg?si=8Cs5DnUtc6-YuXoK

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"The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by #FEMA but then deleted. The short-lived tool, which was keenly awaited within Fema as the first free, localized resource, shows] how much [#ClimateChange impacts will cost American communities." […]

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“Bending the curve of contemporary biodiversity loss and change is one of the greatest challenges facing our society" Benchmark study using #IPBES 5 drivers #planetarycrisis #biodiversity […]

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Useful map reminds us not all #USA routes to #MiddleEast are via #Europe #militarystrategy #DiegoGarcia https://news.sky.com/story/us-appears-to-be-significantly-increasing-its-military-presence-in-the-middle-east-13336089

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Today's jobs Microsoft thinks could use an AI assist: Researchers and analysts https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/microsoft_365_copilot_reasoning_agents/ If coworkers cranking out biz strategies and fussing over balance sheets seem robotic, you ain't seen nothing yet Microsoft on Wednesday […]

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Coming up this Friday: UK govt debates #WaterBill - proposed by @labourlewis but guess what - main support is from #GreenPartyUK - eloquent piece to camera from #EllieChownsMP @mpwatchnetwork https://youtube.com/shorts/E1Ge1xTes7A?si=mq7nSdlgdVib2w1t

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Since Friday, #wildfires #SouthKorea #planetarycrisis https://news.sky.com/story/helicopter-crashes-as-worst-ever-wildfires-rage-in-south-korea-13335898

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That convenient, unconvincing #boilingfrog analogy raising its head again, but: #animalbehaviour =(not)politicalbehaviour @wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

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So late to this, but v moved by the end of Series 1 of #Mo - OK characters don't go hungry and have lots of new clothes, but seems to pull few political punches for a sitcom set in Houston... #refugee #Palestine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_(TV_series)

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I wrote this in July 2016 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

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‘I firmly believe that bad things occur when good people remain silent. I hope this collection of essays will serve as a catalyst for widespread, vocal and informed action from scientists of all disciplines and backgrounds’ Kevin Anderson #ScientistsOnSurvival Buy your copy now 🔗 xrb.link/q0XP4C

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Via @cedric https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/3/EU-Clean-Industrial-Deal-in-action

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A scientist's journey into activism: good-hearted, informed, funny and purposeful talk from #TristramWyatt (who wrote The Book on pheromones) #ClimateProtest #NatureEmergency @ScientistRebellion https://youtu.be/D26F0JC0YCo?si=z2hPkr_SOjGZodxY

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Wonderful letter from UK soldier serving in Italy during WW2, to his baby son: don't try to appease a bully, and if your country's heading the wrong way then do something about it. Jump to 07.42.45: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_sounds_news?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile […]

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Chapter outlines for IPCC AR7 now approved: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2025/03/Decision-8-Working-Group-Outlines.pdf

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"While I am destroying democracy, people are throwing Molotov cocktails at my car dealerships. It is all very surprising."

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“Attempts to hide climate science from the public will not stop us from feeling the dire impacts of climate change" #damiencarrington quoting #UnionofConcernedScientists […]

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#CitizensArrest of criminally greedy water company CEO #ThamesWater https://www.citizensarrestnetwork.org/

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Seriously good thread from #AaronThierry on Bluesky #planetaryboundaries #polycrisis @ScientistRebellion https://bsky.app/profile/thierryaaron.bsky.social/post/3lknvyzgyts2j

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Agent Orange halts the cleanup of his namesake. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-halted-agent-orange-cleanup-dioxin-vietnam-poison-risk

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Holy shit. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say they’re trying to kill us all. “The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists” […]

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