Dr Paul Monaghan

'That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of. The only home we've ever known.'

Carl Sagan

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

🚨 The situation is completely getting out of control.

Albania is erupting for the second consecutive day in angry mass protests against the Kushner land seizure deal worth $4 billion. 🇦🇱

The Albanian people refuse to become a new Palestine. 💥"

[Carl Vernon @RealCarlVernon]

Hosepipe ban.
Eat less meat and dairy.
Cancel your holiday.
Cycle don’t drive.
Stop burning wood.

Two words: Data centres.

[Lucy @TheLucyShow1]

This is Miss Mary, a 93 old woman who works AMC theaters cleaning trash people leave behind. My heart hurt watching this. This is not the way it should be. 🥹💔

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

British concentration camps were setup in Kenya in 1952 by Winston Churchill because they tried to rebel.

90,000 Kenyans were killed, tens of thousands tortured and many more starved and forced to work as slaves for years.

[Dr Paul Monaghan @_PaulMonaghan]

@richimedhurst Only half? Are you sure?

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

The government that cut winter fuel payments for pensioners just handed £1.3bn in taxpayer money in infrastructure support to Comcast, a US corporation building a theme park in Bedford.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Teach them so they will learn and know how the world is.

[Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour]

Just got a scam call. “This is the HMRC”.
“Who?”
“The HMRC”.
“What does HMRC stand for?”
Silence.
“Well?”
“Um, Revenue and Customs”.
“Do better. Goodbye.”

[Dr Paul Monaghan @_PaulMonaghan]

@ArmstrongT97969 Thank you for your cheerful comment and support.

Can I suggest that you perhaps take the opportunity to read the article under discussion, next time, before replying?

[Dr Paul Monaghan @_PaulMonaghan]

The Independent: "Disruption at two major UK airports due to jet fuel shortages", i.e. Edinburgh and Glasgow airports, which also happen to be the closest to the recently closed down Grangemouth oil refinery.

https://t.co/jPHKkZFLhW

[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

En arrivant au Brésil et en étant témoin de l'esclavage de près, Charles Darwin écrivit :

« Près de Rio de Janeiro, ma voisine d'en face était une vieille dame qui possédait des vis-pouces avec lesquelles elle écrasait les doigts de ses esclaves. Dans une maison où j'avais séjourné auparavant, un jeune serviteur mulâtre était, chaque jour et à toute heure, insulté, battu et pourchassé avec une fureur capable de décourager jusqu'au plus vil des animaux.

J'ai vu un enfant de six ou sept ans frappé à la tête avec un fouet (avant que je puisse intervenir) parce qu'il m'avait servi un verre d'eau légèrement trouble...

Et ce sont là des actes commis par des hommes qui prétendent aimer leur prochain comme eux-mêmes, qui croient en Dieu, et qui prient pour que Sa volonté soit faite sur terre !

Le sang bout dans nos veines et nos cœurs s'emballent quand nous songeons que nous, les Anglais, et nos descendants américains avec leurs cris fanfarons pour la liberté, avons été et sommes encore coupables de cet énorme crime. »

(Charles Darwin, Le Voyage du Beagle)

[🦋Butterfly🦋 @shemaali_77]

وأخيرا نضارة جديدة للطفل الغزاوي أيوب ♥♥🌹🌹

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The United States has more than 90,000 dams on its rivers. Many of them no longer generate power, hold back floods, or serve a purpose at all. They just sit there, aging, holding the water back.

Take one out, and the ecological recovery can happen breathtakingly fast.

In 2024, the largest dam removal in American history finished on the Klamath River, where four dams came down along the Oregon-California line. Within days, Chinook salmon were pushing into water they hadn't reached in generations.

By the fall of 2025, they had climbed all the way into the upper basin, spawning in streams that had been sealed off for more than a hundred years.

Damon Goodman, a regional director for California Trout, put it plainly: the rivers "seem to come alive almost instantly after dam removal."

Maine's Penobscot tells the same story. After two dams came down, the river herring went from a few thousand fish a year into the millions, and with them came back the eagles, ospreys, and otters that live off the run.

A dam is one of the few environmental problems you can fix by subtraction. Take the wall away, and the river seems to remember what it was.

[TRT عربي @TRTArabi]

بعد تعرض نظارته للكسر إثر انزلاقه بين الركام بسبب ضعف بصره.. جمعية خيرية تركية تسلّم الطفل أيوب علي جنيد، من منطقة جباليا شمالي قطاع غزة، نظارةً طبية جديدة ومساعدةً مالية للمساهمة في استكمال علاجه لدى طبيب العيون

#تفاعل ليصل إليك كل جديد

[Neil Woldrew @TheRealWoldrew]

After 20 years in the British Army, I asked the @PoppyLegion for some assistance.

Last year they made £56.6 million from the poppy appeal and the best they could do was to reply with 'Ask Citizens Advice'

And to think I've helped raise money for this lot!!!

@UponTyneNews

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

“Thank you... Ayoub sees the world clearly again.”
After his heartbreaking tears moved millions as he held the shattered pieces of the medical glasses he couldn’t see without, we return to reassure you about our brave little hero,

[Meg ✦ @Flicky0ps]

This is what flood control looks like when you have government officials and contractors who do not steal your money.

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

The Israeli ambassador to Europe is protesting the spread of this image. Let it spread all over the world. 🌍🔥"

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

DID YOU KNOW: Sequoia and redwood trees alive today were already mature when the Roman Empire was at its peak — the oldest living giant sequoias are over 3,000 years old, which means they were standing in California before the Parthenon was built in Athens, before Julius Caesar was born, and before the Roman Empire even existed.

[ثائر البنا، غزة 🇵🇸 @thaeralbannaa]

الحمد لله وبفضله، تم توفير نظارة جديدة للطفل أيوب
وتأمين طعام له بفضل الله ثم بفضل أهل الخير.
جزى الله كل من ساهم أو نشر أو دعم خير الجزاء، فقد كنتم سببًا في تخفيف معاناة طفل وإعادة البسمة إلى وجهه. 💕🤲

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A black-capped chickadee weighs about as much as a few sheets of paper. In a single autumn, it will hide tens of thousands of seeds, one at a time, in separate spots scattered across the forest. Then, all winter, it finds them again.

To pull this off, the bird's hippocampus, the brain region involved in spatial memory, undergoes a surge of new neuron growth during the caching season.

That still fascinates neuroscientists. For much of the 20th century, scientists believed adult brains could not make new neurons at all. Research on birds such as chickadees helped show that assumption was wrong.

So the little gray bird at your feeder in January is relying on a memory system that has been actively reshaped over the previous few months. For a creature that weighs less than half an ounce, it's one of the most impressive feats of memory in the animal world.