Majority of voters want Brexit to be reversed, says Britain’s leading pollster There has been a ‘decisive and consistent shift away from Brexit’ since the referendum 10 years ago, says Sir John Curtice www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

"Heat pumps just shift gas burning to the power station." Wrong. Even if 100% of electricity came from gas, a heat pump at SCOP 3.8 uses 51% less gas than a boiler. At a terrible SCOP 2.5, still 25% less. David MacKay made this point in 2008. The maths hasn't changed.

How many rules does this duplicitous spiv have to break before someone, somewhere actually holds him to account? #Farage #Reform #ReformUK

This really is quite something. In the 15 years @carbonbrief.org have tracked UK media, 2025 was first ever year where more newspaper editorials opposed #climate action than supported it. Meanwhile, the *actual* climate crisis deepens by the month. Go figure.

Working with #AlphaFold3? Explore our webinar archive to hear from @danielrigden.bsky.social, where he examines the different models available, their strengths, weaknesses and their many uses! 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2tY...

Important data point here: “A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance”. The Greens have already hurt Labour even before any direct gains.

A. J. Casson (Canadian, 1898-1992) Untitled, 1966-68 Oil on linen canvas 261.6 x 200.7 cm (103 x 80 in) Government of Ontario Art Collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Educational Research in the Biosciences 2026 is now live. Join us 7–8 September at Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum to explore how students learn, how we assess them, and how we prepare them for the future: https://ow.ly/pZpe50YSkJL

How infuriating to hear the chairman(?) of Asda on the Today programme implying that land use for solar farms might significantly hurt UK food production. It's nonsense. Golf courses use more than solar ever will & beef/lamb production is huge yet provides a tiny fraction of our protein & calories.

They've created an unholy fear of these people and now they are weaponising them. It's literally how Nazii worked. Migrants are human beings not "illegals" and if you know someone who intends to vote Reform then it might be a moment to ask them if they are OK with disgusting behaviour like this.

This is grotesque on multiple levels.

Washington Hilton, where Trump will soon be arriving for the White House correspondents’ dinner. End the cover-up.

🚨 It’s official!!! 🚨 The U.K’s National Energy System Operator has just confirmed that on 22 April 2026 Britain set a new record of 98.8% zero carbon electricity…🇬🇧♻️⚡️🔋💡💪🥳

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026 * CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt * Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2 * Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse * Age of Electricity "confirmed" * "Extraordinary" solar growth * Batteries up 40% * EVs up 20% 1/10

Today is the 2 year anniversary of when I met the Ravens. They just checked me out from a distance then! Here is some of my fav footage: them courting, feeding each other, barrel rolling and some of their vocalisations. They are the most amazing birds and I am so lucky to have them!

#BlueSkyArtShow #Edge As The Daily Rothno

MattGPT Goodwin and Farage admit where their loyalties lie. Don’t ever let these fascist foghorns pretend they’re not fully signed up and paying members of the Putin/Trump/Orban fanclub. They’re distancing themselves frantically now. Too late. (Private Eye)

The LMB Rising Talent Fellowship is open for new applicants! Aimed at Black heritage scientists, the Fellowship offers a 3-year postdoctoral position beginning Oct-Dec 2026. Visit our website for more info: mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-... Please circulate this post to anyone who might be interested!

Again recommending these daily tech/science nuggets. LLMs uncritically absorbing fake info is as alarming as it is predictable.

Putin's point man in the EU has been pushed out This is good news for Europe and for democracy Let's hope voters in other countries reject Putin stooges Including Nigel Farage

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges

Happy War Crimes Day to all who celebrate.

Call for Targets: CASP17 (2026) Depositors: Help advance the frontiers of structural biology by submitting your targets

I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year. I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

I'm not a believer in the Great Man Theory of History, but there's a certain credibility to the Fucking Idiot Theory of History. And a Fucking Idiot may well just have got us all into World War Three. 6/6

Earthenware bowl covered in a whitish glaze and painted with glaze colors under a clear glaze (Iran, 11th century) Davids Samling (The David Collection), Denmark

Happy birthday to 🇨🇦Canadian medical researcher & #biochemist Maud Menten (1879-1960). 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for enzyme kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme histochemistry, still used in imaging of

Don’t buy a cow, or a car, and expect your city to give you someplace to park it. #UrbanTruth

FFS. Just ... FFS.

A historic day as the England Coast Path is completed. Congratulations to @ramblers.org.uk & @naturalengland.bsky.social. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin

I made this a while ago. There are some vertebrates in here but the inverts steal the show. I especially love the triangular plaid on the velvet worm.

"The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better." The Defense Secretary calling for a billionaire ally of the government to take over a media outlet & make it more pro-government. This is what authoritarianism looks like. But in other countries they try & hide it.

The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Our Computational Biology Facility(@cbflivuni.bsky.social) are proud to announce the winners of its fifth #InternationalWomensDay Scholarship – an annual award aiming to bridge the gap for women in the field of data science. ➡️ bit.ly/4sxQW6f #TeamLivUni | #WomeninScience

I can’t fucking stand this discussion about how bad we are at working with Trump. It’s not our job to to appease a fucking lunatic in the Whitehouse.

I cannot wait for the insights on this! He's going to: 1. Sample some local street food. 2. Ride a train. 3. Visit a temple. 4. Not mention the pogroms that the serving Prime Minister presided over. 5. Smile at some elephants. 6. Top up his kids' private school fees. 7. Say "India is changing".

Are we allowed to call them racists yet or are the media and politicians still going to pretend there is anything "legitimate" about either their concerns or grievances? This is who Labour is trying to appeal to via their own discriminatory and hostile policies. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded… The new Private Eye is out now.

Surprise! Seems those "legitimate concerns" were about melanin content after all

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

New version of our preprint on bioRxiv about bioRxiv up. Now that’s what I call a revision – 6 years after the first version! It has new data about our progress and highlights from a massive user survey. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

youre making a mockery of the fifa peace prize