1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is still too silent about the war in Gaza. Following my viral tweet last month, this is the updated & expanded version of how I see things based on >1000 articles and 1000s of videos/images of the war. 🧵of summary conclusions:

“This is a death potion for the river…”.

Steve Backshall has commissioned private analysis of water from the Thames, results are in & they are horrifying.
“Treat the water as though it is a biohazard.”
Further analysis & rage from Steve below & on Instagram (@ backshall.steve)

The New School of the Anthropocene is a radical, trans-disciplinary, low-fee experiment in higher ed.
I teach there & find it a true convivium.
Applications are now open for 24-25; virtual/in-person.
Learn more about New School of the Anthropocene's ethos & apply here: nsota.org/intro

'A shy young girl, hiding her face behind her friend, said hesitantly––'the river has the right to sing'.'
A beautiful short Shrishtee Bajpai essay on river-rights & river-guardianship in the Ladakh region.
Here: vikalpsangam.org/article/walkin…

Government announces a £35m package to halt & reverse the slow death of the River Wye.
Much to welcome here, but as charles watson notes: 'There's a thundering silence on critically important actions such as banning new intensive livestock production units'.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

'I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.'

Dorothy Wordsworth, from a letter to Lady Beaumont, 25 May 1804.

Weekend wonder for your ears: Cosmo Sheldrake's second studio album is out TODAY.
It's called Eye To The Ear, and it is sheer-pure straight-up music-magic.
Lichen, ocean, swallows, clouds––it's all here.
And 'Interdimensional' is a stone-cold classic.
found.ee/eyetotheear

No victory awaits Israel in Rafah. Only more death and destruction haaretz.com/opinion/2024-0….

Heard my first Blackcap singing not long after sun-up today, fresh in from North Africa. Liquid-metal notes, amid the glitter-chaff of the Goldfinches.
A real heart-lifter. They back with you yet?

200 yrs ago, William Blake etched these images of the 'River Spirits' of Albion (presently on display Fitzwilliam Museum).
The lower spirit swims gloriously free, frilled & finned.
The uppermost is, prophetically, today's river-spirit; a dying swan-being, a slump-necked naiad.

Drone footage of the illegally dumped landfill waste in Hoad’s Wood, nr Bethersden, Kent 💔🌳🌳🌳

This happened over July 23 - Jan 24 despite proactive community reporting 📢

Sign, share & RT to clean it up❗️

👉 change.org/rescuehoadswood 👈

Foreign Press Association presses again for immediate access to Gaza raising “questions about what Israel does not want international journalists to see”. The US administration has also pressed Netanyahu directly on the issue, still no change.

REVEALED: 18 Tory MPs have written to Environment Secretary Steve Barclay urging him to gut Natural England’s powers to create nature reserves (SSSIs)

This latest #AttackOnNature must not succeed

(Thanks to Joe Marshall for obtaining the letter)

Thread 1/

Pls read this thread-story about the planned, sustained, in-plain-sight destruction of a SSSI bluebell wood in Kent by illegal waste-disposers.
The inaction of multiple authorities, the broken system for nature protection; it’s all there.
Pls sign the petition, pls share the 🧵on

It may seem wrong that, after more than 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza have perished, it took the deaths of just seven international aid workers to stir Western governments into a sense of outrage, but that is the reality.
The cover page of the Independent

Tories order further massive real-terms cuts to performing & creative arts courses in England + hard cut of funding for widening access programmes to higher ed.
Economic madness (creative industries bring in £115bn in value pa), cultural idiocy & an assault on social mobility.

Today is release day for Night Creatures, an album I made with the amazing HOWL singers & M.Yuvan.
A collaboration I've loved.
We premiere tmrw Kings Place.
Would love your ears on it.
Listen/support/find out more/special editions of the album here: howlsingers.bandcamp.com/album/night-cr…

Today World Central Kitchen lost several of our sisters and brothers in an IDF air strike in Gaza. I am heartbroken and grieving for their families and friends and our whole WCK family. These are people…angels…I served alongside in Ukraine, Gaza, Turkey, Morocco, Bahamas, Indonesia. They…

'‘Uninvestible’: Britain’s biggest water company left in the lurch by shareholders.'

Even CNN are now getting in on the act. And Ofwat will still tell you it's not their fault.

edition.cnn.com/2024/03/28/bus…