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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 9d

Please help combat BBC news blackout of Green Party!
@zackpolanski.bsky.social was the only party leader not interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their party conference.
So please RT his cracking conference speech..

Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 10d

Whatever your party politics, @zackpolanski.bsky.social leaders speech deserves to be heard..

www.youtube.com/live/TZx9Vng...

Leader's Speech - Zack Polanski at Green Party Conference 2025

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

www.youtube.com

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Sarah Hawkes @sarahhawkes.bsky.social · 9d

"They want to turn us into the British Isles. A huge meadow with only magpies and a few other birds"
I am shocked, most of all at how true it is about my country. @bioeaf.bsky.social cuts to the quick and speaks of our lack of care for our world, what we eat and the water we drink.

Eneko Arrondo @bioeaf.bsky.social · 9d

Quieren convertir la cordillera en las islas britanicas. Un prao enorme domde solo haya urracas y pocas

Ignacio Villaverde @wildlandfirefig.bsky.social · 10d

El lobby mafioganadero ya tiene al oso en su punto de mira:
"La presencia del oso ya supone «un problema mayor» que el lobo en León":

www.leonoticias.com/comarcas/pre...

Sarah Hawkes @sarahhawkes.bsky.social · 9d

Or the genocide of Paletinians or the treatment of Greta Thunberg at the hands of Zionists for bringing aid to a starving people. Nor was a Palestinian a perpetrator of the raid.

Sarah Hawkes @sarahhawkes.bsky.social · 9d

BBC interviewer this morning on synagogue raid
was a chance to foster understanding but -
conflated Palestine solidarity march w anti semitism,
Missed completely the reference to Palestininian generosity letting kids play with Kibbutz kids despite the terror their parents had inflicted.

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Sarah Hawkes @sarahhawkes.bsky.social · 9d

Despicable.

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 10d

Absolutely heinous.

Sarah Hawkes @sarahhawkes.bsky.social · 9d

Biodiversity needs a bigger role in the calculations. Give equal billing to the rest of biodiversity in research before making pronouncements. Do not ignore mono cultures, chemical inputs, non organic mass crop production threatening important cycles and systems on our planet.

Sarah Hawkes @sarahhawkes.bsky.social · 26d

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
My son Will Hawkes is on BBC R4 tomorrow talking about insect migration! 😍 So proud!

BBC Radio 4 - Rare Earth, Great Migrations

New technology gives fresh insights into the great animal migrations

www.bbc.co.uk

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Andrew Jewels @andrew-jewels.bsky.social · Sep 13

Following a post by @norwichbirder.bsky.social I checked some duckweed in Upshire, Essex today and found numerous Water Lily Aphids (Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae) and a couple of 7-spot Ladybirds feasting on them. #UKAphids #EssexWildlife

Duckweed with tiny grey aphids Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae on top

A single Water Lily Aphid on a duckweed leaf

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Sarah Hawkes @sarahhawkes.bsky.social · Sep 14

Oh wow, how brilliant! Peter Scott is one of my childhood heros alongside Gerald Durrell. Congratulations on this well deserved honour

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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · Sep 13

Last year 100,000 people marched across London in support of nature and BBC News didn’t cover it, leading to complaints to Ofcom about political bias. Today BBC News covered a similar size march on front pages and every channel demonstrating fully its political bias. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Police hurt during Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally in London

Some 25 arrests are made after

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sarah Hawkes @sarahhawkes.bsky.social · Aug 30

Find time to read this and talk about it if you can. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

I am a victim of nuclear testing. I have never been more afraid

Decades after Semipalatinsk, the collapse of arms control leaves the world on the edge again.

www.aljazeera.com

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Sarah Hawkes @sarahhawkes.bsky.social · Aug 30

great image! Morris dancers too.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 11

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars.

Even if those cars are electric.

And then there’s all the parking.

OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc.

Choices.

Simple.

Graphic showing a 9 m wide track for metros can move as many people as a 175 m road for cars.

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NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · Aug 26

When will the global community of states (incl Canada) stand up to the State of Israel & fulfil their obligations under Article I of the Genocide Convention.
That obligation is a duty "to PREVENT and to punish" the crime of genocide.
Let's focus on PREVENTION for now.
@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social

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Sarah Hawkes @sarahhawkes.bsky.social · Aug 17

Good news doesn't always come easy. A good job done.

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Sarah Hawkes @sarahhawkes.bsky.social · Aug 7

Things are changing fast. I'm looking forward to talking to one of the Finnish researchers on stoneflys once summer is over to compare notes and practice.

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Sarah Hawkes @sarahhawkes.bsky.social · Aug 6

I'm working on the very last populations of an aquatic insect, Isogenus nubecula, in the UK for #Buglife & #NaturamByth. in Finland, some popn.s cling on but heat & land use change is devastating. see M.Jackson: Landuse critical to aquatic environments for support ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

ora.ox.ac.uk

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Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social · Aug 5

“for barack, who dared the sky”
you wore your Black like a morning suit—
creased with hope, stitched in fire,
made the mic a pulpit
and the White House a choir.

they called it impossible.
you called it tuesday.
made yes we can
sound like truth on a school day.

your walk?
pure South Side sermon.👇🏾

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Sarah Hawkes @sarahhawkes.bsky.social · Aug 1

@stevewitherdenmp.bsky.social what is going on? The River Dee is our constituency's water supply and most precious resource and desperately in need of more not less protection. This legislation protects only big business, not real people

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Natur am Byth @naturambyth.bsky.social · Jul 23

Taking part in the #BigButterflyCount? 🦋

Wales has only 1 colony of the High Brown Fritillary, found at Old Castle Down, Vale of Glamorgan📍

Right now, females are laying eggs near violet leaves & bracken🍃

Learn how #NaturamByth is protecting them: www.naturambyth.cymru/en/our-work/...

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · Jul 23

Jo Grady of UCU has spoken out in support of Gaza students with offers at UK universities who are being blocked by the Home Office www.timeshighereducation.com/news/visa-ru...

Visa rules ‘obstructing’ Gazan students from UK universities

UCU’s Jo Grady urges Home Office to ‘do everything it can’ to ensure students with offers to study in the UK are able to do so

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Sarah Hawkes @sarahhawkes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Seemingly unremarkable human interventions on rivers can be immensely destructive to wildlife & pass unseen for years. Asking questions about rivers is vital. Not all answers cost millions & restoration has benefits for the whole ecosystem on land, in river and our oceans.

Peter powell @peterpowell.bsky.social · Jul 17

This is the Llynor.

It's one of the cleanest tributaries on the Dee.
No farmyards or sewage treatment works upstream.

And it's mostly forest, a big section being restored to ancient woodland.

But it has a major problem.

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Sarah Hawkes @sarahhawkes.bsky.social · Jul 17

It would. Warming waters are on another level even to a major pollutant incident.

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Sarah Hawkes @sarahhawkes.bsky.social · Jul 16

Isogenus nubecula, the stonefly in the Welsh Dee I study and talk about for #Buglife, is at risk along with the other invertebrates that feed the river fish and nesting birds. We must do exponentially more to tackle climate change

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