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Free nesting space available for House Martins !

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The worst ethnic cleansing in the West Bank since 1967 is taking place in the last few weeks. About 40,000 have been ordered to leave three refugee camps. This is from Jenin.

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I realise that it is becoming more and more likely that the UK has a far right government in the next five years unless the less right wing parties start realising that the whole of the UK don’t hate or fear immigrants and they can stop the race to the bottom on refugees

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

submitted 11 days ago • 537 comments

I offered to buy this jackdaw a drink and it declined and now we are just sitting here in awkward silence.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Did u know? Snails are amazing. When they don't fancy the climatic conditions - too cold, too hot, too dry, they just shut up shop & go into a prolonged state of suspended animation until the weather improves. This can last for months, even years, if needs be. Snails are super! 🐙🌍🐌

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

The Paris AI Action Summit - ensuring the potentially most disruptive technology in the history of humanity is inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure & sustainable. Instead Trump & the UK have refused to sign - opting instead for the Wild West approach. Total disaster.

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

Not enough refugees are permitted safe access so traffickers & exploiters target them. Instead of fixing that government are maintaining the ban on people who’ve been criminally exploited from accessing slavery support, putting them in restraints & chucking them to the wolves.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Horrified by news of our friend & fellow bookseller Mahmoud being arrested by Israeli forces alongside his nephew. A tireless campaigner for the power of literature, Mahmoud was in Edinburgh with us just months ago - please join call for their release! #Booksky www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Mission: Bee-fly 1. Look out for bee-flies. 2. Photograph bee-fly. 3. Identify bee-fly species observed. 4. Submit record to Bee-fly Watch. Disperse and observe biological recorders.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

A young woolly mammoth from Chauvet Cave, painted about 35,000 years ago, showing the hairy foot pads. From “Les Mammouths de la grotte Chauvet” by Bernard Gély and Marc Azéma

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Is this real?? Sckening - serving up people’s suffering to appease the populist Right. When will Labour learn you can’t out-Reform Reform? Instead, offer a far bolder agenda of green investment in local communities, public services in public hands, wealth taxes on super-rich, & a bit of hope FFS

submitted 16 days ago • 50 comments

Between 2016 and 2023 this sector faced a malicious government, bent on using universities and academics as an enemy. Now, we face one that is indifferent, which trots out the same holding pattern of public statements while everything burns. The entire time, students have suffered the consequences.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Trying to fix BNG is akin to trying to fix Brexit.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Hugely heartening news from Essex. Middlewick not saved yet but bravo Colchester City Council for listening to expert advice & having the courage to change their minds. In the current anti-newt-and-bat climate that's especially admirable. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Just last week someone told me Trump would never shut down USAID because it buys so much US grain and I said, "I wonder if he knows that"

submitted 18 days ago • 91 comments

Millions of disposable coffee cups are used in the UK every day. It’s estimated only 1% of these are recycled. Disposable cups release microplastics, and create litter in urban and rural areas. Using a reusable cup is one solution: bit.ly/4hFfswH

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business.

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Lovely to see the snowdrops pushing up through the grass and dead leaves. Recuperating from eye muscle surgery this week so taking some local walks whilst I’m stuck at home…

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Well done to Schools Week for digging in to what might look like a technical issue, but in reality will be what makes this framework fall apart.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

News: Colchester City Council recommends that the Middlewick Ranges be removed from the local plan housing allocation, on account of the site being "of national significance" to biodiversity. It's now time for Natural England to step up and notify the site SSSI. www.colchester.gov.uk/info/cbc-art...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯 Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke... A thread. 🧵

submitted 20 days ago • 51 comments

Absolutely DELIGHTED to hear that Colchester City Council may be about to remove the Middlewick Ranges from their Local Plan. This site is AMAZING ecologically and should never have been included. Well done to the tireless campaigners who have forced this rethink and to the council for listening.

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Ofsted, Feb 2025: "[We] heard loud and clear that we needed to reset our relationship with the professions ...and rebuild trust in the way we carry out inspections." Ofsted, also Feb 2025: 8 INSPECTION AREAS 5 GRADES TOO LATE TO PILOT OR TEST UNIONS HATE IT NO EVIDENCE BASE PUBLISHED YOU'RE WELCOME

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Ofsted: "Ofsted is changing – for the better." Whistleblower: "the new framework is amateurish and has been cobbled together at ridiculous speed with virtually no underpinning research" @pepediiasio.bsky.social: “proposals...seem deeply flawed”. And the consultation hasn't even started yet.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

🦇 (1/2) In response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s speech today: we believe that blaming the laws that protect bats, newts and other wildlife, as well as our wider environment, for planning delays is short sighted and misguided.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

RIP Hind Rajab. Today is one year on since this little six year old was killed (my daughter's age) - and then so were the two brave medics who came to rescue her, as agreed by the IDF, as she cowered in her family car with her family dead around her. I will never forget this story.

submitted 27 days ago • 61 comments

If you go down to the woods today you're sure of a big surprise. The woods are gone. Some shit new houses called 'The Woods' are there instead.

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

Just a reminder that the books we call "children's books" are really books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes absolutely no-one at all. They are BOOKS FOR EVERYONE - and you can never, ever be too old to read them, and to love them!

submitted 31 days ago • 39 comments

‘We owe it to the thousands of children who have been killed to pause and open ourselves up to the fullness of the little lives that were snatched away.’ Goodbye to the slain children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

Wow! This is a massive and extremely concerning finding...

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting. Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.

submitted 107 days ago • 117 comments

"The financialisation of housing is a major driver of the fivefold increase in prices since the 1980s. You cannot simultaneously ensure that housing remains a lucrative investment and that everyone is well housed – yet this is what the government seeks to do." #HousingFirst #AffordableHousing

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Lila al-Khatib, a two-year-old baby from the West Bank, was killed yesterday by an IDF sniper who shot her in the head. Her mother, who is pregnant, was also shot and injured. Not in Gaza, but in the West Bank. Someone tell me, how the hell can something like this bring someone security?

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

An incredible photo from Berlin this evening. An estimated 100,000 have been on the streets in the German capital today to protest against the Far Right and fascism in Europe. #Resist (📸 Ricarda Lang)

submitted 30 days ago • 76 comments

Well knock me down with a fucking feather, will you look at that?

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

The @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social are calling on retailers to label all peat containing products to help consumers avoid buying it. You can sign their open letter here to support them www.wildlifetrusts.org/peat-inspect... I’ve signed!

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

My favourite children's book of the year: SAFIYYAH'S WAR by Hiba Noor Khan. Absolutely beautiful & brilliant; every school & library should have a copy. To which end, I am giving away FREE COPIES TO SCHOOLS & LIBRARIES! Repost & follow to enter; closes 25th Jan 2025! #BooksOfTheYear #books #giveaway

submitted 66 days ago • 9 comments

'Breathing Space', etching by contemporary artist and printmaker Janis Goodman

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment