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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 9h

Indeed.

The government has chosen to prioritise reducing (skilled, legal, for work) migration over growth and hence over improving public services.

No economic rationale - but even worse, no political rationale either.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15h

One mistake Labour made in their first year is loading quite a few new costs onto business all at once. They are risking doing something similar on immigration, I think.

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Jessie Williamson @jlwilliamson.bsky.social · 10h

My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 9h

EU citizens helped build this country, staff its hospitals and teach its children.

Our letter to the editor argues they deserve equal rights, not exclusion.

Letter from Camilla Cucinotta

Letter to the editor: A civilised society does not withhold care based on citizenship

Letter to the editor

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 8h

#Privatisation - a few profit and the rest of us pay.

Built on a cynical ideology and pure extractivism

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence

A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank

www.theguardian.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 14h

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Richard D. Gregory @richgreg3.bsky.social · 11h

@rspbscience.bsky.social 🐦

Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · 23h

Some breathtaking scenery in this short film on Leach's Petrel surveys on North Rona and Flannan from RSPB
#Seabirds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEQm...

Take a wild journey to remote Scottish islands with an RSPB team searching for a remarkable seabird

YouTube video by RSPB

www.youtube.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Holding govts to ransom.

Goldman Sachs warns Rachel Reeves against tax rises on banks.

Banks happy to be bailed out, take QE, mis-sell products, not to be prosecuted for frauds, hike charges, pay lousy rates on savings.

Need windfall taxes. Raise top rate of income tax.

Goldman chief delivers warning to Reeves over bank tax hikes

David Solomon urged the chancellor during a private meeting last week not to hit the industry with savage tax rises in her crucial budget statement next month, Sky News learns.

news.sky.com

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 13h

Help @bylinetimes.bsky.social step things up a level. We’re raising £20k to build a new special investigations team led by Nafeez Ahmed
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#NoStoneUnturned – Byline Times Shop

#NoStoneUnturned Help Byline Times go where others dare to tread. We’re raising £20k to build a new special investigations team led by Nafeez Ahmed. Byline Times is asking for your support to advance ...

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 10h

Great photo! Near Cambridge 🐞

National Trust - Midlands & East @midsandeastnt.bsky.social · 20h

The collective term for ladybirds is a loveliness.

Have you noticed that ladybirds have been taking advantage of the dry, sunny conditions to find a sheltered spot to hide for winter? The summer's warm conditions are responsible for this autumn's ladybird explosion.

📸 Mike Selby, Anglesey Abbey

Statue in the grounds at Anglesey Abbey covered in ladybirds.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11h

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Jamie Dunning @j-dunning.net · 13h

Our paper, describing kittiwake nesting on offshore infrastructure, is published OA today.

There are obvious implications for population monitoring, but comparison with onshore colonies would also be an interesting extension. 🌊🌊🌊

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Kittiwakes nesting on offshore oil and gas infrastructure: An emerging and under‐recorded phenomenon

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Kirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 12h

#seabirds #ornithology 🐧

marikimient.bsky.social @marikimient.bsky.social · 13h

🌍🐧 PhD: Study how Adélie penguins reveal Antarctic ecosystem resilience. (based in FR+UK)

Use AI + bio-logging (GPS, video, sensors) to link climate change, fisheries & conservation.

👉 Apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380114

#PhD #Antarctica #Ecology #AI #ClimateChange
@sosbangor.bsky.social

COFUND PhD position - Marine Ecology / Conservation

La Rochelle Université is recruiting a PhD candidate on a 3-year fixed-term contract. Title of the thesis project: Disentangling the influence of natural and man-made threats on prey-predator interact...

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12h

❓ Protecting women and girls?

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/reform-councillor-suspended-amid-misconduct-allegations-from-331118/

Reform councillor suspended amid investigation into ‘lewd remarks’

A Reform UK councillor has been suspended amid an investigation into allegations of misconduct following a complaint by “several women”.

www.kentonline.co.uk

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 13h

I assume Nigel Farage won't be making this 'hurty words' guy the star guest at the next Reform conference.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h

Afghan man jailed for five years for TikTok threat to kill Nigel Farage

Fayaz Khan, 26, was also sentenced at Southwark crown court for entering the UK illegally on a small boat A man who came to the UK on a small boat has been sentenced to five years in prison for making a threat to kill Nigel Farage in a TikTok video last year. Fayaz Khan, 26, an Afghan national, made the threat to kill the Reform UK leader on 14 October 2024 in a video on the social media platform that Farage said was “pretty chilling”. Continue reading...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 13h

So, I suggest to Trump cheerleaders to celebrate this result, but shake their pompoms a little less vigorously about his methods, lest they find themselves in "Mussolini made the trains run on time" territory, in a few months, when those qualities mey be deployed in a way they disapprove of. 6/6

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Katharine Kite @katharinekite.bsky.social · 13h

More of this please. People who know their stuff and can explain it clearly. Really useful to get a handle on such things that I wouldn’t even think about but which are plainly critical for national development

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16h

This is absolutely nuts. As well as racist, xenophobic, deeply offensive and entirely ineffective.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 18h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 16h

In which I get to talk about the brave and brilliant Rachel Carson on the terrific podcast, Kindred. If you wonder if a single steadfast person can make a difference, she is a shining example. #environment #courage

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring | With Deborah Blum, Science Journalist

In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Deborah Blum, environmental journalist, Pulitzer-prize winning science writer and science columnist. Let me explain why…

www.kindredpodcast.co

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 16h

This changes everything!

The Northern Hemisphere used to radiate more heat to space than it absorbed from the sun, but this changed over the past 20 years.

More:

www.patreon.com/posts/141034...

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Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 16h

The Pentagon has long seen climate change as a national security threat not for environmental reasons, but because it undermines operations & readiness. Now—no surprise—the Trump admin is dismantling strategies based on that awareness. Our rivals are not.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Pentagon retreats from climate fight even as heat and storms slam US troops

For decades, the military treated climate crisis as a threat. Now it’s backing away from plans to protect people and bases from extreme weather

www.theguardian.com

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 23h

📺 Really looking forward to this event organised by the terrific by @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social team. The session will be especially useful for #ECRs in environmental research & thinking about different career pathways. It’s online and open to everyone @mybisa.bsky.social. Tune in on Friday ⬇️

Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 1d

Event this Friday, 17th Oct!

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy.

Three excellent speakers will talk about their different paths through environmental research.

Online - free - 1 til 2.30pm BST - register!

www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA

- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

www.bisa.ac.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Lloyds warns car finance scandal could cost it £2bn.

No one forced it to mis-sell financial products. Execs got bigger bonuses but won't bear any of the cost.

Lloyds promised to investigate HBOS frauds, promised a report by 2018. Still waiting. FCA does nothing.

Lloyds warns car finance scandal could cost it £2bn

The bank has set aside an additional £800m, saying the number of eligible claims is expected to be higher than previously thought.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15h

⚠️ Professor @jagjitchadha.bsky.social: "The European Investment Bank (during) our membership would typically lend us £6-7 billion pounds a year"

"The replacement banks we've got only lent £2.4 billion pounds. We have not replaced what we've lost from the European Investment Bank"

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 15h

@aradwanski.bsky.social preview of Carney’s likely climate strategy confirms that Canada is, yet again, refusing to deal with the oil and gas sector, which generates around 1/3 of Canada’s emissions. Carney is gambling w Canada's economic future & he should know better. 🧵

Carney’s climate vision to deprioritize emissions targets, focus on economic advantages

‘Climate competitiveness strategy’ expected this month as Prime Minister seeks to reframe Canada’s approach to environment, energy

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Marine Ornithology @marineorno.bsky.social · 1d

New paper: Seabirds off Indonesia by Muhammad Iqbal et al.
Spoiler: A few new species since 2000.
#seabirds #OpenAccess #Indonesia #ornithology

www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_2/53_...

www.marineornithology.org

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