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Wylie Horn
@wyliehorn.bsky.social
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Passionate naturalist and thrawn gadgie. Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig. Bruidhinn Gàidhlig rium mas e ur thoil e.
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Wylie Horn @wyliehorn.bsky.social · 1h
#ScottishBirding #ornithology
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World Seabird Union @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social · 1h
The Scottish Government is hiring a Marine Ornithologist! 🐦 Provide scientific advice on marine birds & support marine renewable energy policy and research, including ScotMER, ORJIP & OWEC.

Apply now 👉 bit.ly/4ohpDuE
Marine Ornithologist
Do you want to use your scientific and research expertise to play an important role in decisions made on the sustainable delivery of marine renewables and the marine environment?
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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 3h
Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 6h
As someone who briefly taught A-level English, I see that migrants will now be required to have studied at least one of the Canterbury Tales before entering Britain. May I recommend The Nun's Priest's Tale?

I'm sure every Reform voter will be able to share their knowledge of the works of Chaucer.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 10h
Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK
Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 11h
Yesterday I learnt that kids travel for free on the Glasgow Subway during school holidays and half-term. Nice one, Glasgow. Round and round for nowt on the Clockwork Orange, gorgeous free museums and free rodent fun in Kelvingrove Park.
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 9h
AND THAT, beautiful creatures is a wrap!

ALL our panel events are HYBRID so do book in to join us from wherever you are, all tickets are sliding scale, and the Book Fair itself is free to browse from 12 on Thurs 6th until 6pm Sun 9th.

Please help us spread the word!

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Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC @ebdonana.bsky.social · 10h
#EBDPub Human persecution is the leading cause of wolf deaths. 74% of wolf mortality in Europe & North America is human-caused — 60% from legal or illegal hunting.

Based on data from 140 studies, it’s the first global analysis of wolf mortality.

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Lady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.bsky.social · 7h
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'Absolutely right': Scottish care boss backs SNP plan to defy Labour visa ban
JOHN Swinney announcing that the Scottish Government will sponsor "displaced" international care workers to come to Scotland has been…
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 1d
Disappointing news out of Germany where voters in Hamburg voted against a referendum to do a basic income experiment where 2,000 people would have gotten €1,346 a month for 3 years. 63% voted no, and 37% voted yes.
Volksentscheid für Grundeinkommen in Hamburg gescheitert - WELT
Das Experiment «Hamburg testet Grundeinkommen» kommt nicht zustande. Das Votum der Bürger war klar.
www.welt.de
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Shetland News @shetnews.co.uk · 1d
Election candidate Hannah Mary Goodlad has secured support from the SNP for a motion to reserve cabin and vehicle space for Shetland residents on the Aberdeen-Lerwick ferry route.
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SNP backs motion to reserve cabin and vehicle space for islanders on ferries
ELECTION candidate Hannah Mary Goodlad has secured support from the SNP for a motion to reserve cabin and vehicle space for Shetland residents on the...
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 4d
Also, if you're "in bed with flu", it's almost certainly Covid.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 4d
After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

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England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet
The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 4d
It's also not "just another" extinction, it's the first from mainland Europe in centuries. CENTURIES.

And there will be others within our lifetime.

That's biodiversity loss.

We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794
XC398794 Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)
Awful wind noise in the original! See sonogram and notes of the recording circumstances on p12 of Gretton A. (1991) The ecology and conservation of the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris). ...
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 4d
Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 6d
Not seen this one before #FungiFriends, think it’s Green Brittlegill, Russula aeruginia, found beneath Silver Birch. Caps of the mature specimens were very green, younger ones were paler. Stipe chalk white & tapering at base, gills white & crowded. Such a pretty mushroom 💚
#FungiFriday
Photos of green-capped mushrooms beneath Silver Birch trees. I’ve not seen a Brittlegill with a green cap before! The young specimens were pale minty green deepening to a darker moss/olive green in the more mature examples.
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Wylie Horn @wyliehorn.bsky.social · 6d
There can be only one.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6d
No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.
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Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 6d
Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 6d
Yay, congrats to @willgeorge.bsky.social on finding a York Groundsel!
@bsbicountries.bsky.social was hunting for one the other day, but they are hard to find at this time of year.
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Will George @willgeorge.bsky.social · 7d
Found this in York. It's a groundsel, but is it a York Groundsel?! @bramblebotanist.bsky.social
A phone photo of a plant with yellow flowers and green toothed leaves
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 6d
This is scary

We need manufacturing capacity so we can't be held to ransom says
@nickdearden.bsky.social
theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Start by reversing the sale of previously publicly owned Vaccine Manufacturing + Innovation Centre www.bmj.com/content/376/...

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Britain prepares NHS drug spending hike to stave off Trump tariffs
Officials briefed the Trump administration on fresh proposals for pharma pricing earlier this week.
www.politico.eu
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7d
We always knew that Labour cares about little else other than keeping private developers happy.

But here's proof showing off to JP Morgan despite destruction of some of the "rarest creatures in our country."

Let's make that description Labour votes.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
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Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 7d
He doesn't want areas where there is a 'preponderance' of one race over another. My kids school in rural Suffolk had one black family in a school of 1200 pupils. But that's not what he means, is it?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7d
Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA
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nicki @crescentwand.bsky.social · 7d
wild how we keep testing different types of UBI and they're all successful

it's almost like there should be universal basic income for all people
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 7d
Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?
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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 7d
In Ireland we grow up learning about how in the Dark Ages pilgrims would travel here from all over Europe to read books that had been saved here while they were lost elsewhere & I think we need to get our politicians to think like this about things like Basic Income. A light for the darkening world.
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Wylie Horn @wyliehorn.bsky.social · 7d
Careless Wispas?
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Cllr Brian Wernham 🔶 C.Eng. MA History @brianwernham.bsky.social · 8d
“I’m hearing Wispas about Kemi’s leadership.”

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate
Misprinted wrappers pulled from Manchester goodie bags after derision on social media
www.theguardian.com
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 7d
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 8d
It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
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