#Biosecurity and the threat of H5N1 ( #birdflu ).

When we know the problem in US cows, why not test here?!
#OneHealth
telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

A wide-eyed, shield-biting ‘berserker’. One of the famous Lewis chess pieces from a large 12th-century gaming hoard found on the Isle of Lewis in 1831. Carved from walrus ivory. National Museum of Scotland. 📷 my own taken yesterday!nms.ac.uk/explore-our-co…

#Archaeology

#ArtDD2024
Redshank

Forgot to post this last night 🙄

#dailydrawing

Happy May! Next Trimontium Talk is happening soon on May 9th! In person & online. Roman Slingshot: the forgotten firepower of the ancient world with Prof Lawrence Keppie & Dr John Reid at 7pm! Online and in person. Visit the link to book your spot! 😊

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#OnThisDay 1 May 1645 Sir Marmaduke Rawdon and his regiment left Basing House, after the Marquis of Winchester successfully petitioned King Charles I to have the Royalist garrison composed exclusively of Catholics. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD #MightHaveCauseToRegretThis

A beautiful Hubble image of the galaxy NGC 4826, located about 17 million light-years away. NGC 4826 has a strange internal motion. Gas in the outer regions and the gas in its inner regions are rotating in opposite directions, which might be related to a recent merger.

Absolutely this. What happened, I wonder, to governing for the good of the nation?

Dionysia tapetodes Bunge. Primulaceae
Mashhad city, Iran
April 2024
Elevation 2490m
This species is propagated very well in its natural habitat.
#dionysia #perimula #Primulaceae #alpine #rockgarden #wildlife #wildflowers #photographychallenge #mountains #botanical #ecology

Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution! theguardian.com/environment/20…

There’s drinks related plastics everywhere, on our beaches, in our rivers, seas and countryside. Yet still the U.K. hasn’t got a Deposit Return Scheme #DRS - Wales no…

Join us weekly from May for our spring online lecture series, with talks on aspects of the 1600s by Mark Turnbull Author, John Morrill, Dr Stuart B Jennings and Stuart Orme. Ticket holders can watch live online or by a recording at their leisure! Details at: cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromwel…

Whose little face is this poking out of a bee hotel right in the centre of Sheffield?

A few people have asked me why my name isn't on the ballot paper?

That's because the London Assembly uses Proportional Representation which means voting for 'The Green Party' is how you can vote for me to be re-elected!

Also make sure you vote The Green Party on every ballot! 💚

My letter to the Conservatives Party Chairman Richard Holden MP MP 👇🏾

The Teeswork Freeport corruption in short.

2 businessmen paid £110 for a £100m site.
We paid £462m to clean it up they paid nothing
They made £100m selling scrap metal from clean up, we received nothing.

Michael Gov won’t investigate because he is in on it.

#ArtDD2024
Rook study

From a series of 4 lovely portrait photos by Ian Denton, with thanks.

#dailydrawing

🚨 BREAKING: Taxing fossil fuel giants could raise £580 BILLION to support the world’s most vulnerable facing climate damages, a new report finds.

Tax. Big. Oil. Now.

Ever wondered who invented robotics?

Ismail al-Jazari, a Muslim inventor from the 12th century is known as the 'father of robotics' due to his groundbreaking work in the field of automata, which are self-operating machines.

A thread on Ismail al-Jazari, engineering & robotics…

Have to say Private Eye Magazine is absolutely on fire this week. 👏👏👏

Do #VoteGreen in the London elections! We do wonderful practical things.

Chuffed, thanks to Rob and Museum of East Dorset. Clubmen information board included in their Rebellion and Revolt exhibition. If in #Wimborne Go see ..