This short article on how burning coal causes global warming was published 110 years ago. Now it is high time to act on the climate crisis.

Project fear was tame compared to this… Details of Govt’s retained EU law bill are coming to light And it’s dystopian The Bill sets a default that will ‘turn off’ employment rights covering… - Holiday pay - Equal pay for women - Agency, part-time & fixed term workers…

If you think this government is failing NHS patients and staff, please could you RT this and follow me? EveryDoctor is working out if we can set up a legal challenge to hold them to account, and I need to connect with as many people as possible who want to push back 🚨💙

"This is going to have to be resisted on the streets, through campaigns and through industrial action. We can’t do that alone. We need everyone with us." RMT's Mick Lynch on why we need to defend the right to strike. RT if you're with him 👊 tribunemag.co.uk/2023/01/mick-l…

I am not a troublemaker. I dont want to piss anyone in the media off. But this is, as David Attenborough says, 'our biggest threat in thousands of years'. It should be front page news. Not Harry or celebrities or Rishi Sunak. EVERYTHING is at risk. youtube.com/watch?v=3D0oUr…

Last year, the UK Government's top suppliers earned over £19bn in revenue. Who were the winners & losers? Find out in our updated report:

I've rarely read legislation so lacking in underlying coherence and logic as today's bill from the government that would significantly restrict the right to strike - and I quote - in "health services, fire and rescue services, education services, transport...

🚨 Last week Christopher Harborne gave £1m to Boris Johnson. This week QinetiQ - the UK defence company whose biggest shareholder is Harborne - won an £80m government contract... Great scoop from Jim Fitzpatrick (also in morning's Politico London playbook) opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…

My constituency of Liverpool Walton is the most deprived in England. It has not received a penny of the Levelling Up Fund. Of the 80 successful bids in England, only half are in the 100 most deprived areas. The Prime Minister's affluent constituency, however, received £19m.

A polyculture of wheat grown with walnut trees produces ~ 40% higher yields. 1 hectare of wheat/walnut mix yields the same as 1.4 hectares of each crop grown separately. This is an example of overyielding.

Sajid Javid says we need to pay £20 for a GP appointment and £66 to go to A&E as a way to solve the NHS funding crisis. He’s wrong because there are so many better options in my new report on funding the NHS. A thread…..

What is going on with February?! A brief history of why it only has 28 days:

Bluetooth is named after a one thousand year old Danish king with rotten teeth, and its logo is based on the Viking runes for his initials. But that's all an accident - it was originally supposed to be called Personal Area Networking...

We are hiring - all permanent positions! Please get in touch if interested, deadline is 22nd February #fishsci EnvAgencyAnglia Environment Agency environmentagencyjobs.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/…

It's my birthday today and if you wanna give me a gift feel free to retweet my work ☺️

I had questions yesterday about eel smuggling. Questions like: "WFT?" & "Why? & "How?" So let's take a look. Eel smuggling is maybe the biggest wildlife crime going. It's a c. 4 billion a year black market industry. Interpol has called it "Europe's ivory trade." 1/7

Quick reminder that we're recruiting for 4 PhDs in fish ecology (eel, fish passes, wetlands, acoustic telemetry, stable isotopes etc). All applicants welcome, not just UK based. Deadline is Monday (17/4). DM for queries.

One of the most severe marine heatwaves on Earth has developed off the coast of Ireland and the UK, with water temperatures as high as 4-5°C above normal. NOAA's Marine Heatwave Watch has categorized this event as a Category 4 (extreme) marine heatwave.

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Wow! Wow! Wow! North Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies are going vertical again. And yes, I needed to extend the y-axis. Yesterday's temperature of 24.49°C (76.08°F) was 4.2σ above the 1991-2020 mean. The previous high for July 17 was 23.71°C (74.68°F) in 2020.