Kerry P

Animal biology, the environment, equality, art, jangly guitars and Hammond organs mostly

[American Bird Conservancy @ABCbirds]

SpaceX and Louisiana politicians plan to transform one of the Gulf’s most important bird habitats into the world’s largest space launch site – a decision made without local input or environmental review.

Read more from @City_Business:
https://t.co/4wJdTYbYgg

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

Japan killed 14,000 bears after a rise in deadly attacks on people – but will it work? @guardian
The scale of bear culling in Japan is unrivalled in the modern era 💔
“Bears killed 13 people in Japan last year, as a lack of forest foods increased conflicts. Yet some say the country’s controversial cull could threaten the endangered species”
Tragic how humankind destroy habitats and then destroy the animals who leave their homes to seek food
#WildForLife

https://t.co/lrb5abPLEM

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

Compulsory Purchase Order or lose the UK’s most historic grassroots arts street. That’s the choice. The very soul of Brummie cultural DNA continues to rot away. Inaction is complicity.

[Kate Clanchy @KateClanchy1]

Neda is twelve, and because she lives in Afghanistan she must be completely covered before she leaves the house.

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

Two Years Six Months ago we told @RichParkerLab that Glenbrook Property couldn’t be trusted with the UK’s oldest working cinema. I hate to say I told you so…

When will @RichParkerLab @andyburnham @lisanandy @joanneroney @rogerbhx & co step in and give it back to Birmingham? 🤷‍♂️

[Hannah Sampson @hannahbsampson]

This note in the final book from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library wrecked me last year when my daughter turned 5. Tearing up again reading it now.

[Colman Domingo @colmandomingo]

Dolly taught us that you can be anything and do anything and to do it with kindness. What a light. We are all grateful that we lived in a time of Dolly Parton. We will always love her.

[Burnham-On-Sea.com @burnham_on_sea]

Burnham‑On‑Sea beach becomes canvas for giant message to PM from environmental campaign group https://t.co/quBT2JRAKV

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 464 former MPs now have passes giving them unescorted access to Parliament, up from 330 in just two years.

Some left the Commons nearly 40 years ago.

Liz Truss and most of her former Cabinet still have them.

Parliament is supposed to belong to the people not operate as a lifelong private members’ club for former politicians and their networks.

[Tanita Tikaram💙 @tanita_tikaram]

It’s worse than that . Finch said he was acting on “a number” of complaints from local people. So Labour MP Rachel Taylor asked the council for the actual figures. There have been no complaints. If you lied like this in a normal job you’d be sacked. Why are our journos who’ve🧵

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

Hey @andyburnham hope you enjoyed the Everton game. Any chance you could step up here and save the UK’s most historically important arts street before Everton play Villa in December? Will buy you a pint and a pie if you do (not bribery though!!)

[Kate Clanchy @KateClanchy1]

Samreen just sent me this incredible poem from Afghanistan. She's stuck in a boiling hot attic with on/off electricity and a marginal internet connection. She will see if you like her poem though, and it will help.

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

Yesterday was Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin & Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy’s birthdays

They were both born in Hallam Hospital, West Bromwich. Exactly 1yr apart in 1948 and 1949. Both would later develop early associations with The Crown Pub (Home of Black Sabbath) & become megastars

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 One dead. Hundreds sick. 38% hospitalised.

UKHSA is investigating a Salmonella outbreak involving 207 confirmed cases which may be linked to imported eggs.

The Food Standards Agency says:
“There is no evidence that UK-produced eggs are affected.”

And where were the suspected imported eggs mainly being used?

Restaurants, cafés and catering establishments.

The Brexit promise to escape EU regulations always meant dangerously lower food standards. Traceability and border controls protect the public.

Consumers cannot Buy British when they aren’t even told the origin of ingredients used in the food they are served.

Brexit Britain has weaker import controls and we have pursued cheaper global food imports. This is destroying food security and putting lives at risk.

Food security means food safety too.

We should be strengthening British food production and demanding robust equivalence and verification from imports, not treating food regulation as an inconvenience to trade.

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

🔴 NEW

The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

By @NafeezAhmed

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

Subscribe to support fearless independent journalism.

https://t.co/XqrA9cRolw

[Mobility Behaviour 👨‍🎓 @davidlois_uned]

"El Ayuntamiento de París hizo un estudio para ver cómo adaptar la ciudad a las altas temperaturas y en 2023 aprobó un plan para recuperar el 40% del espacio público en su cobertura natural, incluyendo despavimentar, crear permeabilidad natural y replantar arbolado"

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

We cannot control who owns Liverpool Football Club, but as supporters we can control how strong our collective voice is.

My message to all Reds is simple: join @spiritofshankly

Run by fans, for fans, Spirit of Shankly is the recognised democratic Supporters’ Trust of @LFC and the @WeAreTheFSA

Our responsibility is to give supporters a powerful collective voice, protect our club’s heritage and secure a structural stake for supporters in our club.

Build fan power.

Protect what makes our club special. Make sure we are organised and ready for any battles ahead.

Our club. Our legacy. Our responsibility.

#LFC

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

We’re watching the Taliban celebrating five years of power in Afghanistan and hundreds have taken to the streets of the capital Kabul. It is the country the UN has described as the most repressive in the world for women and girls. Women and girls are banned from schools from aged 12; they’re barred from most work and public spaces. They’re not allowed to do sport. After more than two decades of reporting from the country through invasion, occupation and now a return to Taliban rule, it’s clear the regime is tightening its grip on power. Human rights advocates say there should be no engagement with the Taliban until women’s rights are restored

[Campaign for the Arts @_CFTA]

Arts A-levels: still vanishing 🚨

In 2010, roughly 1 in every 6.5 A-level entries was in the arts. Today, it's 1 in 10.

Every single subject we track now accounts for a smaller share of entries than it did in 2010 👇

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Remember Afghanistan? Remember the Taliban? They’ve been in power for five years now. And during those years the Taliban authorities have systematically stripped women and girls of virtually all their rights - in the name of religion. The rules upon rules have resulted in the “world’s most severe women’s rights crisis”, as described by the gender equality agency UN Women .