Anne-Marie Blackburn
@tanoui10.bsky.social
Climate and biodiversity crises
Disability and chronic illness
Women's issues
Art and Craft
Disability and chronic illness
Women's issues
Art and Craft
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Back to the Alphabet, P is for Polar Bears
Happy Sunday x
#watercolour #polarbears #indigo #wildlife #art
Happy Sunday x
#watercolour #polarbears #indigo #wildlife #art
February 15, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Back to the Alphabet, P is for Polar Bears
Happy Sunday x
#watercolour #polarbears #indigo #wildlife #art
Happy Sunday x
#watercolour #polarbears #indigo #wildlife #art
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A new all-electric double-decker Climate Stripes bus has started taking passengers around Reading today.
The bus shows the warming stripes for Reading back to the 1860s and will hopefully help start climate conversations amongst passengers.
#ShowYourStripes
The bus shows the warming stripes for Reading back to the 1860s and will hopefully help start climate conversations amongst passengers.
#ShowYourStripes
February 6, 2026 at 7:13 PM
A new all-electric double-decker Climate Stripes bus has started taking passengers around Reading today.
The bus shows the warming stripes for Reading back to the 1860s and will hopefully help start climate conversations amongst passengers.
#ShowYourStripes
The bus shows the warming stripes for Reading back to the 1860s and will hopefully help start climate conversations amongst passengers.
#ShowYourStripes
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I would trust him with my case
This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
February 5, 2026 at 1:25 PM
I would trust him with my case
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It was a tough decision, lots of really good submissions. I’m mostly very happy with where we landed. Enjoy! - & tell me if you think I have terrible taste.
This year's Climate Fiction Prize longlist looks great. Read all of last year's list, haven't read any of these yet. Time to get stuck in.
Explore the longlist - The Climate Fiction Prize
Explore the inaugural longlist for the Climate Fiction Prize
climatefictionprize.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 1:02 PM
It was a tough decision, lots of really good submissions. I’m mostly very happy with where we landed. Enjoy! - & tell me if you think I have terrible taste.
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I’m pleased to share my latest article in @uk.theconversation.com
It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene.
Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵
It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene.
Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵
Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
Preventable deaths in a warming world: how politics shapes who lives and who dies
Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
tcnv.link
February 3, 2026 at 8:14 AM
I’m pleased to share my latest article in @uk.theconversation.com
It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene.
Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵
It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene.
Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵
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Gender genocide in Afghanistan: "after the demise of the present generation of female doctors, midwives, surgeons and nurses who are still permitted to work, women will receive no medical aid whatsoever."
The death of medical care for Afghan women | Letter
Letter: Dr Carol Mann says the world is silent while women in Afghanistan face a bleak future, in response to an article on the Taliban’s birth control ban
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Gender genocide in Afghanistan: "after the demise of the present generation of female doctors, midwives, surgeons and nurses who are still permitted to work, women will receive no medical aid whatsoever."
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The Trump administration formally withdrew federal guidance that required pharmacies to dispense methotrexate. Chronically ill people may face more challenges in getting this drug for their health. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
HHS will allow pharmacies to boycott lifesaving drugs used in medication abortion
Misoprostol and methotrexate do more than end pregnancies—but anti-abortion pharmacists can now refuse to offer them and still get federal funds.
www.motherjones.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:20 PM
The Trump administration formally withdrew federal guidance that required pharmacies to dispense methotrexate. Chronically ill people may face more challenges in getting this drug for their health. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!
January 27, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!
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We are just starting to grasp the wide range of disastrous impacts we are having on the lives of other animals
#Biodiversity
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#Biodiversity
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:49 AM
We are just starting to grasp the wide range of disastrous impacts we are having on the lives of other animals
#Biodiversity
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#Biodiversity
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Un scientifique est attaqué, le service public est attaqué : le Trumpisme est déjà bien présent en France. Plus inquiétant encore, le manque de soutien des institutions publiques et politiques. Ce n'est pas en fermant les yeux ou en se taisant que l'extrême-droite sera stoppée.
Le député Charles Alloncle a accusé un scientifique du climat de complotisme. On a vérifié, et c'est le chercheur qui a raison : les violences faites aux femmes augmentent avec le réchauffement climatique.
bonpote.com/les-violence...
bonpote.com/les-violence...
Les violences faites aux femmes augmentent elles avec le réchauffement climatique ?
Les violences faites aux femmes augmentent elles avec le réchauffement climatique ? Le chercheur Kévin Jean est attaqué par le député
bonpote.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Un scientifique est attaqué, le service public est attaqué : le Trumpisme est déjà bien présent en France. Plus inquiétant encore, le manque de soutien des institutions publiques et politiques. Ce n'est pas en fermant les yeux ou en se taisant que l'extrême-droite sera stoppée.
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January provides a time for me to try new ideas and experiment....
The darkest nights produce the brightest stars." – John Green.
Happy Friday x
#watercolour #night #badgers #wildlife #Devon
The darkest nights produce the brightest stars." – John Green.
Happy Friday x
#watercolour #night #badgers #wildlife #Devon
January 16, 2026 at 8:02 AM
January provides a time for me to try new ideas and experiment....
The darkest nights produce the brightest stars." – John Green.
Happy Friday x
#watercolour #night #badgers #wildlife #Devon
The darkest nights produce the brightest stars." – John Green.
Happy Friday x
#watercolour #night #badgers #wildlife #Devon
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Wintry conditions over the UK today, stay safe everyone
Happy Friday x
#watercolour #snow #fox #winter #art
Happy Friday x
#watercolour #snow #fox #winter #art
January 9, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Wintry conditions over the UK today, stay safe everyone
Happy Friday x
#watercolour #snow #fox #winter #art
Happy Friday x
#watercolour #snow #fox #winter #art
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Long before the advent of Grok, online sexualised & violent trolling afforded men a gift like they hadn't had in millennia: an omnipresent tool to make the implicit threat of sexual violence that disciplines women in patriarchy explicit, so that no woman anywhere feels secure from its sanction.
This use of Grok isn't personal perversion but political terrorism: it's designed to silence women, make us retreat from public life.
Exemplified by the digital desecration of the body of Renee Good: someone prompted Grok to deepfake a bikini on her corpse.
"You're next" is the message to women.
Exemplified by the digital desecration of the body of Renee Good: someone prompted Grok to deepfake a bikini on her corpse.
"You're next" is the message to women.
January 9, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Long before the advent of Grok, online sexualised & violent trolling afforded men a gift like they hadn't had in millennia: an omnipresent tool to make the implicit threat of sexual violence that disciplines women in patriarchy explicit, so that no woman anywhere feels secure from its sanction.
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I'm so sad that the last time Labour lifted children or of poverty it was popular, & this time it's seen as toxic. 15 years of austerity rhetoric have really made a difference to the national character.
Important piece from the Prime Minister.
Today, Labour introduces legislation to scrap the two child limit and pave the way for the largest reduction in child poverty in a single parliament.
A pro-learning, anti-poverty policy that backs working families.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Today, Labour introduces legislation to scrap the two child limit and pave the way for the largest reduction in child poverty in a single parliament.
A pro-learning, anti-poverty policy that backs working families.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Keir Starmer: What Isla, 9, taught me about child poverty
The Prime Minister sets out what his Government is doing to tackle child poverty, amid rising pressure over his leadership
inews.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I'm so sad that the last time Labour lifted children or of poverty it was popular, & this time it's seen as toxic. 15 years of austerity rhetoric have really made a difference to the national character.
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💥 Join us for our first reading group session of the year on Jan 15th (Thursday), 6pm-7.30pm GMT over zoom.
We'll be reading from Brian Friel's Translations, set in Donegal, Ireland, and discussing storytelling and linguistic imperialism.
Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-cl...
We'll be reading from Brian Friel's Translations, set in Donegal, Ireland, and discussing storytelling and linguistic imperialism.
Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-cl...
January 6, 2026 at 4:23 PM
💥 Join us for our first reading group session of the year on Jan 15th (Thursday), 6pm-7.30pm GMT over zoom.
We'll be reading from Brian Friel's Translations, set in Donegal, Ireland, and discussing storytelling and linguistic imperialism.
Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-cl...
We'll be reading from Brian Friel's Translations, set in Donegal, Ireland, and discussing storytelling and linguistic imperialism.
Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-cl...
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'Snow Day London'
by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart
by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart
December 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
'Snow Day London'
by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart
by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart
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Life is messy, and we understand so little.
"Biological systems are more ambiguous than we give them credit to be and that ambiguity is actually a feature — it’s not a bug.”
scitechdaily.com/scientists-h...
"Biological systems are more ambiguous than we give them credit to be and that ambiguity is actually a feature — it’s not a bug.”
scitechdaily.com/scientists-h...
Scientists Have Discovered an Organism That Breaks Biology’s Golden Rule
An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms usually read the DNA code in a very strict and predictable way. Every codon...
scitechdaily.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Life is messy, and we understand so little.
"Biological systems are more ambiguous than we give them credit to be and that ambiguity is actually a feature — it’s not a bug.”
scitechdaily.com/scientists-h...
"Biological systems are more ambiguous than we give them credit to be and that ambiguity is actually a feature — it’s not a bug.”
scitechdaily.com/scientists-h...
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Articles on net zero used to always explain the scientific background. But not anymore.
We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero
Articles on net zero used to always explain the scientific background. But not anymore.
tcnv.link
December 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Articles on net zero used to always explain the scientific background. But not anymore.
"Organ tuners make brief records of their visits and often jot down observations, including the temperature and humidity inside the building. Materials within organs are sensitive to climatic changes, which can knock the majestic instruments out of tune."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate
Researchers have realised the records are a ‘goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditions
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
"Organ tuners make brief records of their visits and often jot down observations, including the temperature and humidity inside the building. Materials within organs are sensitive to climatic changes, which can knock the majestic instruments out of tune."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Moth Advent 19. It’s rare when the highlight of an evening isn’t a lifer, but so it was on the late August evening on the Norfolk fen. To be fair it’s hard for almost any moth to top a Clifden Nonpareil, especially when you’ve never previously had one in the trap. Just a monster! #TeamMoth
December 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Moth Advent 19. It’s rare when the highlight of an evening isn’t a lifer, but so it was on the late August evening on the Norfolk fen. To be fair it’s hard for almost any moth to top a Clifden Nonpareil, especially when you’ve never previously had one in the trap. Just a monster! #TeamMoth
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Parabéns Gabriel Wallau, belo trabalho! Mostra a importância de monitorar os patógenos presentes nos biomas brasileiros!
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Parabéns Gabriel Wallau, belo trabalho! Mostra a importância de monitorar os patógenos presentes nos biomas brasileiros!
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‘So we were drawing on the energy of women’s liberation but also the energy of the trade unionists who had started the modern campaign for equal pay with the Ford Dagenham strike...’
50 years since the Sex Discrimination Act by Susanna Rustin.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
50 years since the Sex Discrimination Act by Susanna Rustin.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘Pretty birds and silly moos’: the women behind the Sex Discrimination Act
In the 50 years since equal rights for women were enshrined in UK law, the campaigners have been reduced to caricatures, or forgotten. But their struggle is worth remembering
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
‘So we were drawing on the energy of women’s liberation but also the energy of the trade unionists who had started the modern campaign for equal pay with the Ford Dagenham strike...’
50 years since the Sex Discrimination Act by Susanna Rustin.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
50 years since the Sex Discrimination Act by Susanna Rustin.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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ENORME retournement de situation pour l’autoroute A69 : le parquet de Toulouse demande sa suspension immédiate pour atteinte à l’environnement.
A lire en exclusivité, interview du juriste Hervé Hourcade chez FNE Occitanie qui a monté le dossier de plainte : bonpote.com/suspension-d...
A lire en exclusivité, interview du juriste Hervé Hourcade chez FNE Occitanie qui a monté le dossier de plainte : bonpote.com/suspension-d...
Suspension de l'A69 : comment 5 bénévoles font plier le chantier
Ce 18 décembre, le procureur de Toulouse a demandé la suspension des travaux sur 46 sites du chantier, qui a débordé illégalement sur
bonpote.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
ENORME retournement de situation pour l’autoroute A69 : le parquet de Toulouse demande sa suspension immédiate pour atteinte à l’environnement.
A lire en exclusivité, interview du juriste Hervé Hourcade chez FNE Occitanie qui a monté le dossier de plainte : bonpote.com/suspension-d...
A lire en exclusivité, interview du juriste Hervé Hourcade chez FNE Occitanie qui a monté le dossier de plainte : bonpote.com/suspension-d...
More calories, fewer nutrients, possible increase in lead, changing weather patterns, more intense weather events - the misleading "CO2 is plant food" was always a flimsy argument at best #FoodSecurity #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis
theconversation.com/climate-chan...
theconversation.com/climate-chan...
Climate change is affecting your food – and not in your favour
Our food is becoming more calorifc, less nutritious – and possibly more toxic.
theconversation.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
More calories, fewer nutrients, possible increase in lead, changing weather patterns, more intense weather events - the misleading "CO2 is plant food" was always a flimsy argument at best #FoodSecurity #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis
theconversation.com/climate-chan...
theconversation.com/climate-chan...
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Moth Advent 7. Back in London in June as a heat wave hit, and running the MV in a friend’s garden near Highgate Cemetery. I see a lot of Four-spotted Footman in Devon, but this was my first in London – and only the third for Middlesex (just pipped for second). Made the Camden New Journal! #TeamMoth
December 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Moth Advent 7. Back in London in June as a heat wave hit, and running the MV in a friend’s garden near Highgate Cemetery. I see a lot of Four-spotted Footman in Devon, but this was my first in London – and only the third for Middlesex (just pipped for second). Made the Camden New Journal! #TeamMoth