This Sunday marks the International Transgender Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️

There's not really an easy way to say this: At the moment, the world doesn't look too kindly on trans and gender-non-confirming individuals for one reason or another. 🧵

To re-cap last night; The SNP ambushed Labour, who blackmailed the speaker, who broke the rules, which saved Keir’s blushes, which gave the Tories the excuse to pretend to be angry so they could withdraw and not lose the vote, and the SNP were angry their plot failed, so neither…

Join Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum on the 12th March to discuss Priorities for improving soil health in the UK!

Our keynote speakers include Eleanor Reed John Crawford 💙 🇺🇦 Defra UK
Dr David Smedley Richard Bramley

More info: westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/conference/Soi…

#soilhealthuk #WFNFEVENTS

An important life skill
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The cost of the Large Hadron collider was about the combined net worth of the 5 richest people in America at the time it was planned

Today, any one of the 10 richest people could single-handedly fund the next collider and they'd still be the 10 richest people

This is a really nice summary of the hypocrisy in the way governments use the concept of immigration to hide policy failures and win votes whilst also boosting immigration because it is actually good for the economy.
on.ft.com/3vyWqFG via @financialtimes

Hey Mail+ I've updated your graph which shows that it was a spectacular miscalculation to publish it!

An exciting upcoming forum focussing on action on the ground westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/agenda/Soil-He…

Best Christmas present 😊

Before Johnson gives his evidence we should consider a few things:

1. Just how bad was the UK pandemic response?
2. How much could Johnson have affected this?
3. What was Johnson’s intent?
4. Was there any overt maleficence?

Thread 1/n (buckle-up!)

Most studies look at the effects of the soil environment on the soil microbial community. In this review we focus on the opposite: how the soil microbiome can help shape the soil environment

One example is soil aggregation, but there are many others.

#microbiome #soil

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big day for Scottish Alliance for Food (SCAF) and the Scottish Funding Council funded Alliances for Research Challenges (ARCs).
💡 Strategy day for food research & translation with Scottish Alliance for Food (SCAF)
🔈Our collective ARC evidence being presented in London by Mette High
🚀 4 ARCs launching officially at Royal Society of Edinburgh

We’re excited to share that the University of Glasgow has been selected as the new European hub of XPRIZE. The new hub will galvanize UK international innovation ecosystem and position Glasgow in the centre of growing XPRIZE movement.

cc: @UOfGlasgow Anousheh Ansari Uzma Khan FRSA FRSE

If you think you’re unbiased, it’s probably only because you believe you are.

OK. Shall we fix that? science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

But the observation in many long term experiments globally is that total soil organic C moves towards a maximum even when huge quantities of manure are applied or when grass permanently grown. So definitely a limit to soil C sequestration. MAOC only a part of the story.