Toby Jones’s next campaign? Misinformation, and a huge immersive theatre show Meera Syal also to star in London production reflecting producer’s experience of censorship in Georgia

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Looks lovely, where are you?

National public health group calls for RFK Jr. to resign, citing 'complete disregard for science' Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has shown "complete disregard for science” and should resign, says Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association.

Georges Benjamin, exec director of the American Public Health Assn, calls on Secretary Kennedy to resign, calling him "a danger to the public’s health.”
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Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process. They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release. We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not "being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims." Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center. The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. Jaime Cook Prek-12 Principal Sackets Harbor, NY

Do not look away.

Twiglet the Robin (R) feeding his female companion a mealworm as part of their bonding ritual. She flutters her wings and the male feeds her to show he will provide for their chicks 🪶 #birds #DDOR

Desert Island Discs - Donna Ockenden, midwife - BBC Sounds Donna Ockenden, midwife, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.

If you listen to one thing today, let it be Donna Ockenden’s Desert Island Discs. An early life of deprivation and disadvantage fed a fierce drive to do right by women and their babies. Hero. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm To: Byron Preiss Dear Byron, Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above). I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible. One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the way it is! There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense. Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay with

are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And 'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'. There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to "Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.

Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸

Love how all hayfever advice is basically 'don't you go outside now ever. No not today, never.'

Good morning , a rather nice #FoxOfTheDay today , don't you think ? Thank you to @NeillBrid for sharing !

An extreme close-up portrait of a tiny, round bird with incredibly fluffy beige-gray feathers and a grumpy expression. Small snowflakes rest on its head, suggesting winter conditions. The bird's large, expressive yellow eyes and tiny black beak give it an almost comically stern appearance, while its plumped-up plumage creates a nearly perfect ball shape.

#BushtitoftheDay

Female Bushtit with snowflakes

#birds #nature 🌿

UK: Brexit is the biggest act of economic self harm any country will ever perform
USA: Hold my beer...

New paper in which we argue that at times of deterioration care home residents are seen as ‘out of place’ in both care home and hospital settings.

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Thanks for posting, will look forward to reading this

One of my favourite quotes…

#GreatGatsby

Chloris chloris - a Greenfinch showing off his colours during the @sussexornitholo.bsky.social walk at #Tidemills at the weekend and lots of ‘wheezing’ going on. A ‘very common resident’ in Sussex (Sussex Bird Report 2023) though perhaps it doesn’t always feel like it. #sussexbirding #ukbirding

The white throat of the wren glows in the diffuse early morning light. It peers to the left, beak reaching out into empty space. The rock is dark, interlaced with cracks and fissures. The entire surface is coated in lichen ranging from orange, mint, cream and black.

Sometimes I feel like my Canyon Wren shots are just as much a study in the interaction between lichen and the volcanic rock it is breaking down. The driving force speeding up the weathering and erosion creating such an impressive landscape for the wren to call home. #birds

Just days from the nest, a young Great Horned Owl...
Western New York, USA - March 28, 2025

Canon EOS R5, RF 100-500
#photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #canon #photographersunited #birds #birdphotography #birdsofprey #owls #owlets #greathorned

A red-bellied woodpecker perched at a feeder looking directly toward the camera

Every so often the camera sends me an angle of a bird I haven’t seen before, and this one is a delight. 🪶

quietly listening, Twiglet the Robin, clearly concentrating, how very sweet, what a very lovely Robin he is.
Thank u to Ed Foster for this very nice photo

Large sparrow in rich brown, white, grey tones, sitting on a budding tree branch.

Always a thrill to see a beautiful Fox Sparrow. They show up only rarely, and I’ve never seen more than one at a time.
#Sparrow #Birds #wildlife #nature #photography #NewJersey

RCP publishes submission to the independent review of the physician associate profession (the Leng review)

When we first suggested there was a problem, they called us a “social media rabble”. Now the Royal College of Physicians has come round to our concerns. New statement:

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Vote for @drasifqasim.bsky.social for President

Gareth Southgate, "Young men are suffering"

"They're feeling isolated"

"They're grappling with their masculinity and with their broader place in society"

"The culture we create today will shape the kind of men that we inherit tomorrow"

The crisis facing lost young men who are being manipulated by toxic influencers neatly captured by England’s most successful football manager Gareth Southgate in The Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC One

Beautiful, powerful letter

I have been asked by Harvard colleagues if they should keep quiet so as not put the larger Harvard community at risk with their words

Took me a while to ruminate

My response:

Harvard is its people and their voices

If we are silent then there is no Harvard to save

"In its 80 year history, every UN leader has been a man, appointed through an opaque process likened to the papal conclave."

@jocalynclark.bsky.social discusses the movement to elect a woman as UN secretary general
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"Our people have fought for this, our heroes died. How many injured, how many passed. So no one will forget about it... This is the most important red line. We will not let anyone forget about this crime against Ukraine," President Volodymyr Zelensky told journalists on March 12.

Sebastopol Goose (Danubian Goose) in the water standing, wings out wide.. showing off..

If you see this post, post or quote repost a bird or animal…
‘Showing Off’
There is always one!! 😉🪿🪶🌱
Sebastopol Goose or
Danubian Goose
#JimmysFarm U.K. 📷 Mar ‘25
#Nature #Flamboyant #Fun #Breathe #GetOutSide

Another superb image from ‪@naturehawk.bsky.social‬ for today's #FoxOfTheDay