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Navigating the transition: strategies for founders and CEOs in social ventures Social entrepreneurs @LoicMnzs, @AlexRamamurthy, and @Kath_BeeBee joined @CamSocVent's @markg to discuss the challenges of moving on from their first social ventures. Watch - youtu.be/Z_Pjds0MJjQ?si…

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@HullImages Looking across to the promised land...

The Humber Bridge from Hessle Foreshore. #hull #yorkshire #travel #architecture #art #photography

@MillRoad4People @CambsCC @alexbeckett @neil4labour1 I came a cropper a few metres from there years ago. Was heading into town on my bike and a car driving in the opp. direction turned right without seeing me (looking). Cue a somersault over the handlebars. Fortunately just bruises and bent forks.

Bad accident this morning, near the junction of Mill, Devonshire and Kingston. Lots of minor and as in this case more serious accidents happen here. Hope everyone makes a swift and full recovery. @CambsCC @alexbeckett @neil4labour1 maybe now we can have the safety work completed?

@RugbyPass Feeding in the scrum... followed by caterpillar rucks.

You can get rid of one from rugby immediately, which do you choose?

@badpassherts Bells should not be too loud (“aggressive ringing/you made me jump”) or too quiet (“didn’t hear you”).

@rrspur @MikeyCycling @carltonreid Good effort!

@HarryHamishGray Common sense needed on both parts I think. On a path like this even if the dog was on lead it could get in the way... so slow down and ring the bell. But I often see owners playing with their dog on national cycle paths that go through acres of empty park land.

@stephenjones9 It might not have been designed for that but given we have it, surely better to get game changing decisions correct?

The TMO was brought in to avoid huge reffing errors and to spot dirty play. It was never meant for microscopic judgement calls and endless interruptions. The TMO must be reined back immediately thetimes.co.uk/article/samoa-…

Well deserved! bbc.co.uk/news/health-66…

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@Forest_Smoking Very true. The line being peddled at the time was that pubs would be flooded with non-smokers who had been driven away. Yeah.... right.

'Smoking ban will kill pubs,’ predicted landlord of Taunton pub that closed soon after. He was right. In the decade after the ban, 20% of the pub estate in England in 2006 (ie before the ban) had closed. somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/23771722.…

@willcarling @Courtney_Lawes Or not… as the case might be

So 100 caps for @Courtney_Lawes - some achievement - some man!! Just have a feeling we will see a very different England today. 🤞🤞🌹❤️

Fast growing STEM charity Kinetic Science is recruiting #trustees. A great opportunity for anyone passionate about science education. More info and application here trustees-unlimited.co.uk/roles/the-kine…

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A proper inquiry into the burning of the historic "crooked house" - Sign the Petition! chng.it/Twn9gGqt via @UKChange

@ProfBrianCox Given the low prob of life, the time taken to get intelligence and the possibility that will self destruct I think other intelligent life in the universe is certain but few & far between. Assuming faster than light travel is impossible there won’t be (m)any cosmic get-togethers.

A few more thoughts on the possibility of life beyond Earth. All these thoughts are guesses. The lack of firm evidence for alien intelligence (so far) is sometimes called the Fermi Paradox, and it is a paradox. Put simply, there has been over 10 billion years and there are many millions of worlds in the Milky Way on which a civilisation could have arisen as far as we know. At first sight, one might therefore expect that there should be many civilisations in the galaxy far in advance of us, and we might have expected to see them. Why don’t we (or, let’s be careful, why is the evidence not bloody obvious!)? One answer might be that civilisations never develop interstellar travel. I don’t see any reason why interstellar travel is impossible, and I think we’ll develop it if we survive into the 22nd century. Related - perhaps civilisations don’t ever solve the problems posed by industrialisation and the discovery of nuclear weapons and never make it to the stars. Topical - see Oppenheimer!Maybe just ‘getting along’ as a global civilisation is harder than science. Maybe (see UFO hearings) they are here but we haven’t discovered them or somebody knows but has managed to keep it a secret? Maybe. But if this is the case then at least I can say that the alien civilisations aren’t making their presence very obvious, otherwise my Astronomy colleagues who spend their time gazing at the sky and listening for signals would surely have spotted them! But let’s not rule out the possibility that we just haven’t detected them (or there is evidence but only a few people know about it) but they are indeed here. My guess is that the average number of civilisations in a typical galaxy is low - perhaps less than 1. That’s a guess, based on what we know about the evolution of complex life on Earth. Put simply, it took the best part of 4 billion years here to go from cell to civilisation, and that’s a third of the age of the Universe. I think this MAY imply that, if this is typical (lots of ifs) then the Milky Way may be filled with microbes but not complex living things at our level of intelligence. This would be my guess. BUT make no mistake, I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if a UFO landed in Oldham town centre tomorrow morning and the captain said ‘Take me to the leader of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council’. In that case the Fermi Paradox would no longer be a paradox, I’d have learnt a lot about biology and I could get back to tweeting about other interesting stuff. I’d also ask them why gravity is so weak relative to the other forces of Nature.

@BBCFoodProg @SheilaDillon The issue is who pays for the research? If big pharma create a drug with a marginal effect they plough millions into trials & more into marketing to medics. If there’s something I can grow on a log in the garden or buy cheaply online who will pay for clinical research?

How did mushrooms like Lion’s Mane, Shiitake, Chaga, and Turkey Tail go from ancient wild food to the latest hot wellness trend? Today @SheilaDillon looks into the claims around medicinal mushrooms, and what benefit they may have for our overall health bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

It's been a pleasure judging this category at #se100 this year. Well done Joe. @whatjoe @zerogravity @PioneersPost