Health activist🌏 Sociology of joyist. Bird pal🦜, Armchair Astronomer, zesty nerd. I respect courage, integrity, honour. Member: Women's Honour Roll
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Dr. Ann Lawless retweeted
The world is crying out for climate justice – in mitigation, in adaptation, in finance.
We must answer that call with action. And we don’t have a moment to lose.
At #UNGA, I asked leaders to over-deliver on #ClimateAction to avert a climate catastrophe.
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Let's say YES to respect and No to hate mongering
#NoToHate means: 🧡 Listening 💛 Empathy 💙 Kindness 💚 Respect ❤️ Love
Each of us can make a difference and build a brighter, more inclusive future.
What’s your story of kindness, inclusion and acceptance?
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Dr. Ann Lawless retweeted
Clearly, biting grass is high on Peppercorn's priority list.
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Swans
Last week, staff from Yellowstone's Bird Program, along with partners, released trumpeter swan cygnets along the Yellowstone River. 🦢 This release is part of an ongoing effort to increase the number of total swan and territorial pairs, which were nearly extirpated with only 4 birds documented in 2010. yellowstone.org/yellowstone-…
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Colour
A demonstration of additive light mixing. Overlapping red, green, and blue light creates white light. A narrow slit separates each source based on position, and blocking one color at a time reveals cyan, magenta, and yellow, each formed from the two remaining colors.
📽️: art.pete.repeat | IG
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Dr. Ann Lawless retweeted
One voice can start a movement! Fifteen years ago, Mom was blocked from continuing her education in neuroscience because of her medical device—me, her service dog.
She made a promise then: no one else should have to face that fight alone.
For nearly 15 years, we have advocated, educated, challenged barriers, and pushed for change. And we are finally watching that change take root.
Today, we have completed an entire 8-module course with @citiprogram on service dog access and disability inclusion, including access in laboratory environments, that will be shared internationally across academic and clinical settings.
We just completed an invited text book chapter for IGI Global’s Expanding Ethical Horizons in Human Research Studies addressing disability and service dog access in research and laboratory environments.
And perhaps most importantly, we are hearing from service dog handlers entering the sciences all the time.
Two years ago, we traveled to Trent University in Canada for a keynote, laboratory risk assessment, and discussion about service dog access. Today, Trent has FIVE service dog teams enrolled in its science programs. One of those students is taking molecular biology, forensic chemistry, toxicology, and crime scene investigation.
And here is one of their adorable assistance dogs, proudly sporting @rexspecsk9 and one of our custom laboratory coats—boots coming soon! 🐾🥼🥽
This is what change looks like.
What began 15 years ago as one student being told no has grown into something so much bigger. And now, through Sampson’s Legacy Foundation, we have the privilege of supporting the next generation of scientists with disabilities and their service dogs so they don't have to navigate these barriers alone.
One voice can start a movement. But it takes a community to change a culture—and make that change last.
Thank you for being part of that community. Your support is helping make this possible.
We have only 5 days left in our fundraiser: givebutter.com/fund-scholars…
Custom lab coats here: customdogcoats.com/labcoat
ALT A black labrador sitting wearing a white lab coat, and safety goggles, and a guide harness.
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Dr. Ann Lawless retweeted
Good morning from a mother and her little ones, finally knowing what safety feels like. 🤍🐾
A warm bed. A mother receiving treatment while her babies feed beside her. Full bellies. Gentle hands. No fear.
This is the life they deserve — not filthy streets, hunger, poisoning, shooting, culling and slow, painful deaths.
This misery CAN end. Mass sterilisation can break this cycle — but we need helping hands.
Please follow, share and carry their story onto new timelines. Every share can bring another person into this fight for them.
Help us protect, treat and sterilise more street animals:
tawf.org.uk/donate
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Protect stars by no touching
If you're a little ocean critter, it really sucks ass when a human rolls up and picks you up out of the water.
Take the humble sea star, for example. No gills, no lungs. It breathes through tiny bumps on its skin that pull oxygen straight out of the water. Lift it into the air for a photo and those bumps collapse. The critter suffocates.
And the grab itself does damage too. Sea stars, limpets, and mussels hang onto the rock with everything they've got, because letting go means getting eaten or washed away. Pry one off and you can tear it or kill it. Flip a rock and whatever lives underneath gets baked by the sun.
In a lot of marine protected areas, picking up an animal even for a second can get you fined.
Crouch down, get close, take the picture in the water. If you have to touch, wet your hand in seawater, make sure it's sunscreen-free, and use two fingers. Then leave it where it is.
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Dr. Ann Lawless retweeted
Une maison de retraite néerlandaise a trouvé un remède touchant à la solitude qui ronge ses résidents.
Elle a ouvert ses portes aux étudiants des universités, leur offrant un logement gratuit… en échange d’un simple engagement : consacrer au moins 30 heures par mois à partager du temps avec les aînés. Un repas, une conversation, une présence bienveillante.
Ainsi naît une belle réciprocité : un toit pour les jeunes, une chaleur humaine pour les anciens.
Un pacte de tendresse, où chacun donne, et chacun reçoit.
Le monde littéraire
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Dr. Ann Lawless retweeted
“When the British abolished slavery, they compensated the slave owners with 20 million pounds in 1834,” notes @miaamormottley, prime minister of Barbados, as part of her case for reparations. “We have borne double jeopardy,” Mottley says, “blood, sweat, and tears to create the Industrial Revolution, and . . . now to be its victims on the front line of a climate crisis.”
Watch her conversation at CFR with former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations @LindaT_G: cfr.org/event/a-conversation…
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Nuclear disarmament
Later this year, South Africa will preside over the #TPNW First Review Conference, a crucial moment to advance progress towards a nuclear-weapon-free world.
South Africa has demonstrated that with political will, credible and verifiable #nucleardisarmament is possible.
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Dr. Ann Lawless retweeted
Tree bark is secretly eating methane.
Scientists discovered that the world’s forests absorb 25–50 million tons of atmospheric methane every year through their bark.
Trees just got 7–12% better for the climate than we thought. Nature’s been quietly saving us this whole time.
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Farmers for Climate Action
📢 Frontline Voices Delegation to Canberra!
Hear from Simon, one of our dedicated farmers, on why he and fellow producers travelled to Canberra to meet directly with political decision-makers.
Our Frontline Voices farmers stood up for nature-friendly farming practices, advocating for vital changes in how the Government funds these sustainable methods.
Our ultimate goal? To improve the long-term resilience of our farming businesses and our landscapes. 🌾
👇 Watch Simon’s story below to find out what went down at Parliament House and how we are fighting for the future of farming.
#FrontlineVoices #SustainableFarming #Agribusiness #CanberraDelegation #NatureFriendlyFarming #RegenerativeAg #FarmingResilience
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bell hooks
#OtD 25 Sep 1952 influential Black author, activist, and feminist theorist, bell hooks was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She wrote over 30 books during her life, often critiquing what she termed the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy stories.workingclasshistory.…
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Restore trust
‘We must turn what we know into what we do.’
Barbados PM Mia Mottley tells #UNGA that a world facing war, climate change, inequality and the rapid rise of AI needs greater solidarity, stronger institutions and action to restore trust.
news.un.org/en/story/2026/09…
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