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wanderinggaia.bsky.social
Writer, broadcaster, author (NOMAD CENTURY; TRANSCENDENCE; ANTHROPOCENE https://bit.ly/3QR898d) Human-Earth system science https://toot.community/@WanderingGaia
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I’m dying 😂

So exciting to see #sihek eggs confirmed in the wild for the first time in nearly 40 years! www.zsl.org/news-and-eve... #ConservationScience 🌍 🦤 🧪 #Ornithology

Helluva opening paragraph that.

Looking forward to a conversation in beautiful St Martins in the Fields at 6.30pm today! Do join us! 🌎 www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/calendar/the...

I wrote a book in Dutch! #NomadCentury

Go Maryland! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...

The BBC’s decline continues apace. Truly a tragedy

The rhyme of history

So great to hear that there are now about 200 North Island Brown Kiwi strolling around the hills of Wellington and more chicks are being born. There are good rates of chick survivorship so far. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

BBC muzzling one of its best presenters from making an excellent, wholly factual programme because heat pumps are “controversial”. An organisation badly in need of new leadership.

As the news report that US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth had a second signal chat in which he shared detailed military plans with his family One wonders if he was inspired by Mission Gainsborough from this episode of Blackadder Goes Forth 👀

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

What is Labour for exactly?

Looking forward to a conversation in beautiful St Martins in the Fields at 6.30pm today! Do join us! 🌎 www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/calendar/the...

Happy earth day!

Most of the world’s population wants stronger climate action. They just don’t realize that they are a majority #Climate

Not sure that’s true, sadly. Many made these arguments but the Brexit vote seemed largely ideological and unreasoned

Just watched Flushed Away with the kids. Very good!

That’s a shame, he seemed a kind one

Interesting article 👇

Terrifying thread - especially when you consider that Palantir has a major role in NHS data

This is where Starmer needs to focus: reducing poverty, improving health and social care. Not the anti immigration obsession and dogmatic fiscal rule obeisance

The USA is too dangerous to visit

This is horrific and the rot starts at the top with dehumanising language and policy

Saw bluebells today. Love that they always coincide with the soft green of fresh young beech leaves

My band has an album coming out in a few weeks. Here's a preview. If you like your music loud, you might like it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKM2...

Might try soaking up the excessive chocolate with cake and red wine

Deeply worrying and so sad

Love this

If Jesus was killed on Friday and rose 3 days later, why is it celebrated on Sunday while he’s still dead? Confused

This is great by @tomcalver.bsky.social on globalised tech manufacture

Incredibly misty and romantic "lunch with Farage" puff piece in the Times today, including a picture of him posing with the Eric Morecambe statue in Morecambe, which I'm not going to link to, but is a clear indicator that they're backing him over Badenoch

Stayed up making complex egg hunt for the kids and they’ve breezed through the hard clues and become completely stuck on the easy ones

‘Totally broken’: how Trump 2.0 has paralysed work at US science agencies www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Perfect headline

Looking at the trump circus and thinking we need that here? No one

Scienists sciencing up to 11. This article made me smile

Anchor Bolts xkcd.com/3078

This sequence is exactly why I don't think European leaders can really influence Trump (on Ukraine for example) through a good bilateral relationship Impossible to be in the room to force public decisions like this

The news is just relentlessly awful, and on such a scale :(

Every so often in history, a deranged leader will turn against scientific inquiry. An abassid caliph did in the 9th Century, Portugal’s king Manuel chased out his finest scholars because they were Jewish, Hitler also expelled his Jewish scientists. It has invariably been a terrible idea, but…

Indeed