Somehow our streets have become taken over by vehicles. We’ve allowed the needs of motor traffic to dictate the experience of everyone getting around or hanging around on our streets.
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And children have lost out more than any of us. We can do so much better.
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We're so pleased to see this report from @aliceferguson.bsky.social & Tim Gill published.
Huge thanks to Alice, Ingrid and all at @playingout.bsky.social for their incredible work over the years.
We need to rebalance our streets and put children's needs front & centre. #Health #ActiveTravel
Paint is not protection.
Research here in the UK has found that paint can be worse than nothing at all:
Whilst protected lanes reduce the risk of injury by 40-65%, advisory (paint-only) cycle lanes are associated with a 30% *increase* in injury risk.
Source: findingspress.org/article/1822...
see?
here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared
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Great thread. Reminds us that blaming social media for things really misses how much traditional media set patterns of discourse up. And it's no good pretending it was all accidental.
Proud to be an IBCLC!
And grateful for all the amazing people I’ve met along the way- thank you! 💕
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#HappyIBCLCDay!!
"It’s critical that we really consider what the impacts of data centres will be before we charge into approving them en masse" ~ @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social
We've launched an inquiry into data centres 👉 committees.parliament.uk/work/9651/ri...
Extreme heat lessons for elite sport
Malcolm Mistry explains athletes' physical exertion & high ambient #HeatStress not only reduces performance, but poses significant health risk in new analysis with implications for #TourdeFrance & 2026 #WorldCup.🚴⚽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
Thx!
Broken link? Can you give another link pls?
Part 1 of 3...
📸 These photos show just how awful the school run in an urban environment can be.
🚲🚶🏽We asked parents in the London borough of Lewisham to share photos capturing their experiences of taking their children to school.
👀 What you see here highlights some recurring issues.
Ultra-processed. Cheap. Low in goodness.
Too many children are still served unhealthy food at school.
Watch our animation featuring Emma Thompson and young campaigners to see the impact and join the call to improve #schoolfood standards 🍽️🌈
🎬 Watch the animation → youtu.be/DEAaBcKx23A
It was such a privilege to get to work on this amazing material from an incredible site and team - now the earliest handheld wooden tools in the archaeological record, taking evidence back to 430,000 years! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
For a while, it looked like our society was serious about making work life more family friendly. It's a sad day when a large employer, like mine, decides to take a giant step backward.
Buckland wrote this despite understanding that women of his time, whether his wife Mary, or #MaryAnning whose work he benefitted from, were serious, skilled palaeontological fieldworkers & thinkers...
Here's the @trowelblazers.bsky.social article on Mary Buckland
trowelblazers.com/2014/05/09/m...
Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Proven science via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath
Point from @ndzitina.bsky.social govt is looking at policies in isolation ex. bf + shared parental leave. They can clash &d put families in really difficult situations. Govt needs to look at this holistically, so many impacts, so many different depts have a role to play : climate, housing etc
Being able to identify hoaxes, avoid scams & debunk propaganda is a civic skill required in today's information society. That's why curriculum for students in Finland includes media literacy lessons, aimed at safeguarding a precious resource: the truth. Via @aljazeera.com
Over to you, @wandsworthlabour.bsky.social @TFL @london.gov.uk
Him: a wombat and his girlfriend were caught on a backyard camera.
Me: how do you know it wasn't a wombat and her boyfriend
Him: you know you could be called strident lol
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...
Oh no! Such an inspiring model for #LastMile
Big moment for Europe: in December, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in the EU for the first time.
This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
It has become increasingly clear that X - a platform now actively producing explicit and abusive material against women and children - is not an appropriate platform to be using for our comms.
I will keep pushing for action from the govt & relevant authorities in this area.
The government's Road Safety Strategy was just published. Could it spell the end of Ghost Plates? Find out, here lauralaker.substack.com/p/goodbye-to...
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Our next free doctoral training webinar takes place next Wednesday. Join us for guidance and examples of uncovering marginalised and minoritised stories in collections.
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Although I think that area is maxed out for grants already
