Well done to everyone who raced today and another special mention to a #WorldRecord breaking performance… Teddington Swimming Club bit.ly/2OTVndj

Just remember..... That in order to plant trees we need to grow those trees and to do that we need skilled people to grow those trees. #horticulture matters..... #ClimateChange google.com/url?sa=t&sourc…

Nicky Nicolson (Nicky Nicolson) of @bruneluni & KewGardens wins 2019 Young Researchers Award for developing #datamining & #machinelearning techniques that identify plant collectors & duplicate specimens, improving data across different herbaria: bit.ly/2OHioyT

"In sport, you can spend a lot of days in the dark, for a few really special days in the light." "I get to live my dream every day, my athletes are a true privilege." An inspiring speech from melanie marshall after she won the #ActionWoman Lifetime Achievement Award 👏

I picked a poor time to be looking for work. If anyone has a need for a Python programmer with broad experience from doing clever stuff to data, to full-stack financial model-based dashboard style web apps, let me know.

If your training pool has closed down (or if you've decided not to use it to avoid public transport or minimise social contact), here are a few ideas for maintaining some kind of swim fitness you could do instead.

Shocked and bewildered that Boris Johnson & the government feel that PUBS can open safely, but swimming pools (without even using changing rooms) can't open in a structured & managed way ... arguably one of the safest environments due to exercising in chemicals. @SteveBakerHW

We have launched an #OpenOurPools campaign‼️ Find out how you can support it here ⤵️

Thank you to Joyce Bailey for so kindly making crocheted face mask adapters for our staff. After a recent stay on Hardy Ward, Joyce made 20 for the ward staff and another 20 for the team on Blyth Ward, where she was cared for in 2018 😊🌈 📷 by chief of medicine Louise Hogh

Happy 20th birthday to the @kewscience Millennium Seed Bank partnership! Holding 2.3 billion living seeds from 39000 species in a bomb-proof vault, it could be considered the most biodiverse point on Earth kew.org/science/collec… #MSBP20

Here are the latest COVID figures in 🇫🇷: - The #DeltaVariant (blue) remains predominant and now accounts for 89% of new cases. - The #BetaVariant (red) is still on the decline and now accounts for 2.3% of new cases, and under 2% in continental France.

Almost 2,000 swimming pools could be lost by 2030, Swim England report says bbc.in/2ZpprDL

England’s oldest tree is over 2,000 years old. As part of the #EnglandTreesActionPlan, we’ve committed to review and update the Keepers of Time policy statement. Let’s protect ancient woodlands and ancient and veteran trees 👉 forestrycommission.blog.gov.uk/2022/05/27/kee… #OneStepGreener

The UK government has quietly decided against publishing more than two-thirds of the metrics it uses to track the health of nature in England this year, including the state of bird populations and fish stocks newscientist.com/article/233154…

It can be difficult getting conventional tools into narrow or fragile spaces, but tiny, shape-shifting robots could liquefy and flow to where they are needed newscientist.com/article/235607…

‘Controversial plans for the herbarium, have left Thiers and many other botanists worried “There are very few people in my field who think this is probably a good thing,” Thiers says… read more and help save Kew Herbarium 🌱 here: science.org/content/articl…

I’ve written to the Environment Secretary asking for urgent answers on plans to relocate the world-leading herbarium from Kew to Reading

A new tree of life for flowering plants has been compiled from genomic data, shedding light on what Charles Darwin called “an abominable mystery”. Learn more 👉 newscientist.com/article/242835…

🥳 Happy birthday Wikipedia! 🤝 For 24 years people have volunteered to make knowledge freely available to everyone online. 📖 Our Chief Exec, Lucy Crompton-Reid, reflects on the people-power behind the world's largest encyclopaedia for The RSA. bit.ly/4ja42mn