I know ‘my’ river a little better. In August, I completed walking, #barefoot, the #RiverTone, #Somerset fr source 2 mouth (53m). @paulpowlesland 🙏 you inspired this last April & it’d say this is a direct impact of the #RiverRoding #InterspeciesCouncil 🌊

@SomersetWT

@wildlifesomrset

If you live in and around #rivertone join us in the new year for something really quite amazing. https://t.co/uHT1Y6sE2b @TauntonTownFC @UWEBristol @WildlifeTrusts @SRACommunities @TauntonToGo @Riverflies @RSPCB_official

Paper 3 reveals why we find it so hard to implement effective policies: UPF corporations use trade associations, front groups, philanthropic façades, and influence in bodies like Codex to manufacture doubt about UPF science, frame UPF concerns as elitist or unscientific, and

We must ensure our elected officials are acting on the best intelligence when it comes to tackling the climate crisis . It's why I'm opening the National Emergency Briefing on 27 November , ensure your MP is attending at https://t.co/EybZE75FwM

Let's make hope normal again.

Excited but nervous in anticipation of welcoming 50 guardians from 20 rivers across the country to our @LawForNature River Guardians Summit this weekend to connect & equip each other with the skills & knowledge we need to protect the rivers we love.

I’m hiring! Come work with me and the amazing ASRA team on some massive stuff #job #systemicrisk #nonhumans https://t.co/8AXG5YOKXP

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper is out today. 🧵

Film clips from my presentation at the River Summit and Festival, focusing on freshwater fish and the challenges they face due to pollution in England’s rivers. It was truly an excellent day, meeting so many inspirational people. #freshwaterfish #pollution #rivers

Yes for nature restoration as a serious measure of national resilience: Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact

A recipe for DISASTER 🤢 @HughFW uncovers a recipe for toxic sewage sludge, full of: 🦠 Pathogens 🥄 Microplastics 🏭 And even industrial waste! Water companies are happy making money from this stinking sludge, and they've even got a plan if the government ever clamps down -

River Summit & Festival 8th July 2025, Morden hall, London. I will be presenting on film the world of rivers, the life that lives in these freshwater corridors. Will be covering also the darker side of what i film, Pollution. See you there. #rivers #freshwaterfish

New Anthropic research: AI values in the wild. We want AI models to have well-aligned values. But how do we know what values they’re expressing in real-life conversations? We studied hundreds of thousands of anonymized conversations to find out.

Feel so overawed to have been asked.

An early start in Falmouth this morning, as I joined dozens of local residents to support them in their battle to stop the destruction of their three beloved lime trees by the philistines @CornwallCouncil. The council are insistent that some stray roots mean they have no

Inspirational move by @YourRBI and something I hope other catchments can replicate @CaBAtweets. Voice of the #RiverTone, @FWAGSouthWest?

I wrote this thing. It's far from perfect, but at least it's done. Feedback welcome, especially if you're actually doing something. https://t.co/041bHXCqrw

Today, my book Infantry in Battle, 1733-1783, released. Why should you care? It changes the story of 18th century battles by telling the experiences of enlisted and NCOs, not just the officers. Battle looks different when you are enlisted. A thread for the infantrymen. 1/20

Britain's Eels Need You! The European Eel migration is one of the most incredible natural events on earth & in Britain we are lucky that our rivers, streams, lakes and ponds are some of the eels' key destinations. However, the eel population of Britain & Europe has crashed in