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28/ If we want to do more than chroniclers of a preventable tragedy. Scientists need to contribute to social movements pushing for change. Paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

There are 3 important global conservation targets for 2030: protect 30% land & sea; halt forest loss, and restore 350 Mha of degraded landscapes Our new analysis suggests that under current trajectories, all 3 targets will be missed - by a large margin link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Too often reviewers & editors seem to think authors should act on every point raised in an ms review If the authors can give a good argument why they should not do as requested, that should be sufficient to make a decision Rather than going back & forth, again & again

We still do not know what causes autism. We do know that the MMR vaccine does not cause autism. We need more research on the cause of autism. We don't need more research on MMR as a cause of autism (it's been done and its not).

Someone had to... Clifton Suspension Bridge have left X.

So - loads of people are leaving X Wondering whether to do so myself…

“Only unimportant people take trains People to whom time isn’t money, but life, their life lived and to be lived.” Ursula K Le Guin

Many scientists seem not to understand the philosophy of science Science (or the scientific process) has no values, but scientists do science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

So much misinformation around today on who will be affected by changes to inheritance tax - and lobbyists pretending the data isn't clear to obfuscate. We have detailed data on estates so the truth is in fact very clear if you care to look 🧵

Protest is our right And the media has a big role in reporting it in an unbiased way So compare front page coverage of a few thousand farmers protesting yesterday with virtually no coverage of the 10s of thousands at the Restore Nature Now protest earlier this year

"1% of the population own half the land in England... the media have portrayed a very distorted view of the countryside, how land is used & who owns it" Great to speak to James O'Brien on LBC about the #ClarksonTax protests - watch the full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=r-kRyY…

So, I've just spent a bit of time looking into the debate on IHT and farming. I... got a shock. First, a note: I have a friend who runs a family farm. In his view, the whole thing is a something and nothing. 🧵

And this third point is very significant: we have evidence the rich are deliberately investing their money in land to avoid paying IHT. Jeremy Clarkson himself admitted that was why he bought so much land in an interview with the Times back in 2021. /5

UN’s climate negotiations continue at COP29 in Azerbaijan, a petrochemical state implicated in ethnic cleansing. But there is so much at stake for the Global South, we can’t just dismiss COP29 as another failed conference 🧵 #Cop29 #ClimateFinance

I’ll be leaving X soon Please find me on 🦋 - jmbecologist.bsky.social

Wimborne marks Cop29 by reading aloud the voices of the Global South - including the words of Vanessa Nakate, Ugandan environmental activist, and Licyprita Kangujam, child environmental activist from India #Cop29 #COP29Azerbaijan #ClimateFinance

It is vital that our MPs attend this reading of the CAN Bill - this is critical for our future. Please attend Vikki Slade MP 🔶💙 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Watch our great little film about the home of the Realisation Festival youtu.be/bISxUdU_hvU Find out about the connection between the Shaftesbury Estate and ecological catastrophe in UK’s largest lake, Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland #SaveLoughNeagh Realisation 2025

We're offering a PhD place on Rewilding! This PhD will study the wilder grazing at Purbeck Heaths ‘Super National Nature Reserve’, which is shifting towards the restoration of natural processes to create a more dynamic, complex landscape findaphd.com/phds/project/c…

Government gives go-ahead to Portland incinerator. Will Canford incinerator be next? This would belch toxins & forever chemicals into Wimborne’s air BCP Council must say *NO* to Canford Incinerator: energy from waste is neither needed nor wanted theguardian.com/environment/20…