The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found.
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Ol skool burn!
'From e-waste to gold: a pathway to CO2 sustainability' [via Cornell Uni] 🧪💻🗑️🥇
"It’s estimated that a ton of e-waste contains at least 10 times more gold than a ton of the ore from which gold is extracted."
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#ewaste #gold #extraction #CO2 #sustainability
How America lost control of the bird flu and raised the risk of another pandemic www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
Text reads: "Elon Musk, SpaceX Face U.S. Reviews After Violating Security Reporting Rules" over a photo of Musk posing for a portrait. Photo by Amir Hamja.
Elon Musk and his company SpaceX failed to comply with federal reporting protocols aimed at protecting state secrets, including by not providing some details of his meetings with foreign leaders, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4iG0ojK
Can you imagine a country that banned men from letting their socks fall down and jailed them for 15 years if they let that happen. Me neither. The cruelty is almost farcical.
A screenshot of an article with the headline: why these orcas are wearing salmon hats again
These are the science stories I am here for!
Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows.
People in the US live with illness for 12.4 years on average – up from 10.9 years in 2000, according to a study published by the American Medical Association
The dark ages were probably better than this.
unbelievable! the autism link been debunked SO many times. such a waste of time and resource to do again- 😡
Soooo, there will be a $50,000 reward for finding the killers here too right, right? gothamist.com/news/teen-st...
Interesting article underlining the role emotion and technology are now playing in politics over policy and how the centre/left must wake up to this reality if they’re to offer appealing alternatives.
BREAKING: Assisted dying bill passes its second reading by 330 votes to 275, after emotional four-and-a-half hour debate, meaning it now proceeds to its next Commons stage.
Keir Starmer spotted by MPs going through the ‘aye’ lobby.
London please help. I’m praying for a miracle, I’ve just got into the office and noticed my mums locket (in all these photos) that I wear every day has fallen off my neck on my walk in. My mum died when I was seven and her jewellery is most of what I have of her. I’m devastated
ScienceWrite, a UK scheme for aspiring STEM writers from minoritised backgrounds, is open for 2025 applications!
The 3rd year @romatheengineer.bsky.social & I are running this, with support from @royalsociety.bsky.social & I am SO EXCITED
Deadline 3rd Jan #SciComm 🧪
www.sciencewrite.co.uk
Rita Allen Civic science fellows stand together after their presentation
Conference room windows looking over Stellenbosch and beautiful mountains!
Fascinating few days attending ‘communicating discovery science symposium’ #DiscSciComm24 in Stellenbosch, S.Africa. Wonderful to see so many inspirational examples of projects connecting science to society. Was interesting to introduce and present about the civic science movement. And what views!
🧪Hi Dani, I make science radio for the BBC, here’s the show I produce: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... would love to be added, thanks!
More than a million pallets of unusable PPE has now been burned
One million pallets
Don't get me started 😡😡