Something is eating my acer campestre. #wildlifegarden #wildlifegardening
HGourlayUCL
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Honorary Lecturer UCL Institute of Education (Science Education)
Richard MurphyWhat is GDP — and why is it so wrong? https://youtu.be/eUa3u_GQVr4?si=Hf0ImZGl-77WUM0i GDP is not national income. It does not measure well-being. And it’s not the future. In this video I explain why this outdated measure is holding back better policy — and what could replace it.
What is GDP — and why is it so wrong?
Ben BrockertThis is the 100 year anniversary of humans having an idea of what the heck the sun and all the stars actually are. If you had asked a leading astronomer in 1925 what the sun was, they would say that it's basically the same as Earth, but very hot.
In Cecilia Payne's doctoral thesis she was the first to say, from spectral data, that the sun was overwhelmingly made of hydrogen and helium.
It was later described as "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy".
GreyShuckRelocated beavers improve River Glaven water quality
Relocated beavers improve River Glaven water quality - Feddit UK
Two beavers who were moved from Scotland to Norfolk four years ago have improved the water quality where they are living, experts have said. Eeyore and Winnie have made an area of the River Glaven, near Holt, their home after the landowner gave permission for them to live there. Norfolk Rivers Trust said they could “possibly” now be released from their enclosure under licence after the government recently approved the reintroduction of the animals into the wild.
#education If the UK government's aim is to improve education this doesn't seem like a great plan: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/may/24/children-with-special-needs-in-england-may-lose-legal-right-to-school-support
There is a new petition here: https://38d.gs/cdpr
Not sure why spending £35 on a swift brick for each new house would be controversial: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/23/labour-blocks-proposal-for-swift-bricks-in-all-new-homes It seems to me like it would be such an easy win to support #wildlife
Teaching about the structure of the Earth? I taught it for many years before hearing about Inge Lehmann: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge_Lehmann Let's all give women scientists the credit they deserve. #womeninstem
You might ask what this has to do with education. Child poverty is thought to be a cause of poorer educational attainment.
When your nation's government decides to delay its child poverty strategy because 'not enough political benefit' https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/23/no-10-delays-child-poverty-plan-despite-tens-of-thousands-more-hardship