Ben Secker
PhD researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University studying the Willow Tit.
- While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
- Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
- Pleased to see the jury make this decision. We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries. People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Remembering Kevin Campbell, who would have been 56 today A true gentleman & a fantastic player Sorely missed, but never forgotten 🙏
- My fondness for Kai Havertz has no limits.
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- That game literally couldn’t have ended in a better or funnier way. Whole stadium screaming “Havertz” while the Chelsea fans jam up the exits.
- CHELSEA PLAYERS CRYING 🚨
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- That was a truly horrible game of football made hilarious by the late Havertz goal. Sky waxing lyrical over Chelsea and Rosenior playing the long game when they just wasted at least an hour of a game when they were a goal down and had to score. Tactical disasterclass imo. Arsenal go to Wembley!
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- HAHAHA HAVE THAT YOU CUNTS
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- This bastion of moral virtue has opinions about the Green Party. Just remember that as they continue to attack us. This is who they are. Mask is off.
- 🚨 We’re recruiting! Spurn Bird Observatory is looking for a Head Little Tern Warden and 2 Assistant Wardens to help protect one of the UK’s most successful Little Tern colonies at Beacon Ponds. Seasonal roles | NLW | Accommodation available 👉 Apply: spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news
- Greens now odds on to win Gorton & Denton
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- The last one. Countless places across Britain have experienced this over the past few decades - the last local Willow Tit singing in early spring to find a mate who no longer exists, because there's none left. Ironic that a Great Tit came to put the boot in. #ukbirding
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- Our article, a birder’s guide to HPAI, was published today in @britishbirds.bsky.social - it’s open access this month. We explain how bird-flu infected seabirds in 2021/22 and the importance of citizen science to montoring future outbreaks in the wild. 🪶🧪 britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...
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- BREAKING: A Gamekeeper has pleaded guilty in England’s first-ever Hen Harrier persecution case. Covert video and audio gathered lawfully by the RSPB Investigations team has helped expose the deliberate targeting of a Hen Harrier, leading to a landmark guilty plea: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈
- On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers. But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
- This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- 1/ Spotted Flycatchers are in trouble, declining by 92% in the UK between 1967 and 2020. New work led by @cateden91.bsky.social & involving BTO has revealed the importance of rivers for the survival of this Red-listed migratory species. ⬇️ #Ornithology 📖 www.bto.org/Spotted-Flyc...
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- A some what different day…. Broadstones this morning. 2 Raven over, Wigeon pair, Bullfinch, Mistle Thrush, Buzzard @s-yorksbirding.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @btoengland.bsky.social #bird #wildlife #nature #ornithology
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- So is the purpose of this release to completely undercut public trust in science? I see no other possible outcome
[Not loaded yet]- A gloomy loop of Broadstones on way home. 2 Goldcrest along northern edge of reservoir and a female Stonechat added a bit of brightness. @s-yorksbirding.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @btoengland.bsky.social #birds #ornithology #winter
- Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
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- The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
- Very pleased to share #OpenAccess paper, which we think is important to understand woodland bird declines and impact of forestry on native ancient woodland in Britain. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology @ukceh.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @mizpas.bsky.social 🧵1/n
- Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times, up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street
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- The world should not come here. There should not be a World Cup here. I spoke out against the last World Cup because of concerns I had about human rights violations and it’s only right that I express the same concerns and condemnations now.
- As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today. ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
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