some Irish primary school kids made a tune and there is zero legitimate reason for it to go this hard holy shit

✨🎵 “I searched for my spark and I found it” ✨🎵

Cruinniú na nÓg, Europe’s only national free day of creativity for young people is back, with over 1,000 free activities, taking place on Saturday, June 15. 🎉

#CruinniuNaNog - an initiative of Creative Ireland, supported by RTÉ

EXCITING: Oxford school transforms staff car park into kids playground!
I had the immense pleasure today of visiting Christ Church Cathedral School, a small music focused city-centre school with around 65 staff and now just 9 parking spaces. Here's how.. (1/13)

The University of Oxford is to vote on making all its peer-reviewed research “open access” – meaning anyone can read it without paying the high fees demanded by journal publishers. Congregation will vote on 11 June on a proposal to release research under Creative Commons terms.

Exciting news for me! We FINALLY launched 'School Streets' at the school in my ward this week after 2+ years of trying.
Read on to find out more about what it is, the benefits, & how we did it. Oh, and here's a selection of the bike racks at the school from today. 💖🚲 (1/14)

Pleased to see these pages in the latest National Trust magazine! The reintroduce of medieval-style farming at Rhosili Bay is one of the projects I wrote about in my book. I looked around a few years ago – it's a magnificent experiment, from which there is so much to learn.

Wonder if anyone on here knows whether old #Hedgerow Removal Notices are viewable anywhere for Oxford City Council ? Planning portal uninformative on issue Oxford History Judy Webb

New preprint with Andrew Gelman Andrew Gelman et al.:
How statistical challenges and misreadings of the literature combine to produce unreplicable science: An example from psychology.
osf.io/preprints/psya…

There are lots of #ChurchesCountOnNature events organised as part of #LoveYourBurialGroundWeek
To find out if there is one taking place near you check this map - new activities being added every week 🙌
caringforgodsacre.org.uk/get-involved/v…

The UK high street may be in trouble but Oxford's Cowley Road is outperforming it, according to analysis from Coalition for Healthy Streets and Active Travel, with a 5% vacancy rate vs the national average of 11.5% cohsat.org.uk/cowley-road-re…

Concerning those 'spontaneous', 'authentic' 'grass-roots' (& definitely not Tory manufactured astroturf) anti-ULEZ groups...

Locals have teamed up with traders to create the inaugural Magdalen Road Food Festival in East Oxford on Saturday 1st June, featuring food from around the world and the launch of a new art exhibition 'The DNA of my favourite street' 🧵1/

Shells of the World by M. G. Harasewych is now available and offers a marvelously illustrated natural history of the world’s #mollusks .

Enjoy a free sample of this beautiful book today: hubs.ly/Q02tFDZc0 #shells

NPMS volunteers & registered supporters, check your inboxes to find news and updates from the scheme. Including the release of our latest Annual report and info on some of our upcoming training opportunities! #NPMS #botany #plantsurveys #citsci

🧵A Bronze Age well has been discovered in Benson during excavations by Oxford Archaeology for Oxfordshire County Council for the Benson Relief Road. Cllr Judy Roberts, Cabinet Member for Infrastructure and Development, said: “This find gives fantastic insight into the area’s past 1/

New figures show that more local residents are visiting Oxford city centre, with the percentage of visitors from OX postcodes steadily increasing since measurement began in 2023. Full report: oxfordclarion.uk/more-locals-th…

Oxford was one of the areas worst hit by rent hikes in 2023, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS). 19.9% of all households experienced rising private rents. Outside London, only Brighton was higher. The average increase was £138 per month. ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

How reliable is this research? Tool flags papers discussed on PubPeer nature.com/articles/d4158…

Sometimes a brave politician comes along, connects with the enormity of avoidable grief (sadly, largely because of her own life story), listens and then acts. Here is Kim Leadbeater MBE MP doing just that.

4,935 people were killed or seriously injured in crashes involving young