A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

This year has been brutal for the #climate movement. Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven. Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025. Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️

Just a gif of the EU flag projected onto the London Eye as part of Mayor Sadiq Khan's London's New Year's Day fireworks 😀 The UK is £90 billion a year poorer because of Brexit i.e. tax rises and spending cuts, it's absurd One day soon the madness will end and the UK will #RejoinEU ☺️

Files on Andrew’s activities as trade envoy withheld by the government. Once again even disgraced royals are protected by the state. What’s there to hide? It’s more important than ever that transparency reigns with the Royal Family. And it never does. www.thetimes.com/article/c695...

So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British? Interesting www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I thought I’d share a few of my favourite photos by other people that I’ve seen on this platform in 2025. A slowly evolving thread. 🧵

St Mary's Church, Huntingfield, Suffolk, UK. The ceiling is considered a masterpiece of Victorian decoration and was created by largely unrecognised artist Mildred Holland in 1859-60, the wife of the church rector #WomensArt

So 2025 turned out to be a big year for de novo antibody design! Here are thoughts and predictions on the state of de novo antibody design heading into 2026 🧵

I genuinely once taught a child called Nausea. Apparently the (native speaker English) parents had seen the word in a leaflet somewhere during the pregnancy, thought it sounded nice and did no further research into what it meant before naming their baby.

Europe’s holiday wish? More speed, more options, more time for YOU. While many are winding down, Europe is gearing up: a major high-speed rail plan is set to transform travel by 2040. Here’s what’s coming ↓

Not many things in life will have you pumping your fist in the air, but watching little Tommy Robinson’s (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s) face and bravado drop when he gets called out for his racism and hypocrisy by boxer Ty Mitchell is one of them. This is glorious. 🔥

New York City, NY USA 📸©️Phil Penman #liminalphotography, #urbanwinterscape

A Tunicate #Salp’s Last Supper. A swimming smorgasbord wrapped in glassy flesh #photography #UnderwaterPhotography Link for more #photos and information: mossandfog.com/a-salps-last...

The EMDB wishes you a very Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and we are delighted to share our jointly designed EMDB/PDBe Christmas card with you. It has been a busy year, we look forward to seeing you in the New Year here! Card: A mixture of #cryoEM and X-ray diffraction structures.

Turns out all the flag waving and shouting isn’t for King and Country. Well ours anyway… So just which country is Yaxley Lennon and his buddies in Reform working for?

Haha. See also journals.iucr.org/m/issues/202...

2016 Daily Mail: We want foreigners out! We don’t care if it makes us poorer. Brexit means Brexit! 2025 Daily Mail: Foreigners are leaving Starmer’s Britain because this country is poor and shit! This country would be so much better off without this hypocritical, incendiary, irresponsible rag.

Just one of a number of eye-opening graphs in this brilliant piece (as per) from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com (www.ft.com/content/8252...) on "How redefining special needs rocked education". I'm posting this one because it's most relevant to what I do, but the one showing measures vs diagnoses is amazing.

If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

We're excited to release metaTraits.embl.de! 🦠 Interactively explore 140+ 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁𝘀, harmonized & integrated from culture-derived collections 🔬 & genome-based predictions 🧬 for >2M MAGs & genomes. Publication at NAR: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... @narjournal.bsky.social #microsky 🧵 1/8

Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.

Great to have this in the @narjournal.bsky.social 2026 Database Issue

After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X. Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Russia cannot be beaten. "But Putin can. He’s losing, not winning. And sooner or later, like the tsars and totalitarians of old, that same eternal Russia whose name he glorifies will chew him up and spit him out." Outstanding piece on Putin's deluded gambit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Starmer accuses the Brexiters of selling Brexit on lies and false promises. He’s guilty of pretence and obfuscation now. The EU won’t trust us or even consider major changes to the current deal if British politicians continue to lie, hedge and mislead. Act like a leader, Starmer. Damnit, man. LEAD.

Rant alert: Trump’s national security strategy trashing the EU and core values at heart of transatlantic alliance makes it all the more urgent for Starmer to pursue bolder reset with EU. His timidity loses valuable time and risks leaving us even more subject to events rather than shaping them. 🧵

From the @ebi.embl.org team published in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | The European Nucleotide Archive in 2025 | #Bioinformatics #Database #FAIR #Proteomics #Genomics #OpenScience #OpenData #ENA #INSDC 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

"The price of some foods hit by extreme weather are rising more than four times faster than others in the average shop...the price of butter, beef, milk, coffee and chocolate had risen by an average of 15.6% over the year" Climate change is not a problem for our grandchildren, it's today's crisis

Delighted to see this in the upcoming 2026 @narjournal.bsky.social Database Issue!

Here's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Every damn time.

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

@liverpooluni.bsky.social research news 🌍 🏆 European Capital of Innovation finalist 🏭 £14M Sustainable Future Factory 🧪 £100M AI Materials Hub for Innovation 💡 Enterprise Report 2024–25 🧠 Original Ideas podcast 🎓 Research Fellowships open 📊 Global subject success 👉 www.linkedin.com/pulse/our-re...

Happy Thanksgiving! Seven members of our coffee klatch gathered to connect together before we went our separate ways today, and they voted for this photo looking slightly north taken 8 minutes before sunrise. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it: A 6–8% hit to GDP That's £180bn-£240bn a year It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything. Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.

From Sameer Velankar & colleagues in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | #AlphaFold #Protein #Structure #Database 2025: a redesigned interface and updated structural coverage | #Bioinformatics #Proteomics #OpenScience #AFDB 🧪🔓 CC/ @ebi.embl.org ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Grand opening, grand closing. X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.

Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10.5 years in prison for taking bribes for pro-Russia interviews and speeches. Who else was involved,? Party can now add treason to racism, misogyny, islamaphobia, economic illiteracy as its electoral credentials.

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.” It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist

This was a great event. Really enjoyed talking to the participants about all sorts of interesting biology, and compliments to the organisers.

I agree that emotional addiction to chatbots is the number one risk of AI today. Here is a gift link to an important OpEd in the NYTimes: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...

From the @genomebrowser.bsky.social team in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2026 update | #Bioinformatics #Genomics #Database #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

A few py2Dmol updates 🧬 py2dmol.solab.org Integration with AlphaFoldDB (will auto fetch results). Drag and drop results from AF3-server or ColabFold for interactive experience! (1/4)

Labour pumping the accelerator in the race to the bottom. The Danish policy confiscates jewelry from asylum seekers to cover costs. I'm married to the daughter of a refugee and by far the most important objects in the in-laws house are the handful of pieces of jewelry her family arrived here with.

Vasilisa Romanenko’s Lush #Portraits Wrap Common #Birds in Decadent Patterns #flowers #art Link for more info and paintings: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/vasi...

Above all it’s offensive that we should deliberately try to reduce the number of *successful* asylum claims. We are still a wealthy country. We welcome a (shamefully) tiny share of the world‘s refugees. It should be an honour & pleasure to welcome people who need sanctuary. Shame on Labour. /end

'#Autumn light' by contemporary painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt