Now why would you put Sabine Hossenfelder on this list? 😬 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Barry Glending doing a Barney Ronay here 👇🏾

Someone once told me "if you are not liberal when young, you have no heart; if you aren't conservative when old, you have no brain". I've moved more to the far Left with age, but am finding it difficult to relate to people now. Apathy and ignorance seem to have increased everwhere.

A Palestinian, son of Palestinians displaced from Gaza (Al-Masmiyya) to Jordan, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry... Professor Omar Munis Yaghi from the University of Berkeley!! ..Some members of the Yaghi family are still under the rubble in Gaza!

How the Modi government shields coal & oil tycoons from judicial and media scrutiny. Reporting by @rishpardikar.bsky.social drilled.media/news/modi-ad...

The only way to deny biologists a chemistry #nobelprize was to find something that spans ALL of chemistry 😂

Metal organic frameworks! Kitagawa, Robson and Yaghi for the Chemistry #nobelprize They'd been favourites for a few years now.

Metal organic frameworks! Kitagawa, Robson and Yaghi for the Chemistry #nobelprize They'd been favourites for a few years now.

"Significant parts of the economics profession don’t seem that interested in what’s happening in the economy in terms of its actual substance.” @mrajshekhar.bsky.social @rapiduplift.bsky.social @[email protected] @maitrey.bsky.social www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

"Why are cough syrups so widely prescribed in India? One reason is the weakness of India's primary healthcare system, particularly in smaller towns and rural areas." www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is one big bubble about to burst isn't it?

"Rhetoric without consequence has been the West’s modus operandi for decades. The cost has been catastrophic." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Music for tonight: Raga Kirwani youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Biology is (extremely complicated) chemistry in any case... 😛

On the rise of Nikhil Kamath www.thenewsminute.com/karnataka/wt... Lovely work by Indulekha and @thenewsminute.com

Nice explainer for today's physics #nobelprize www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

🚨The 2025 #NobelPrize for Physics goes to John Clark, Michel Devoret & John Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantization in an electric circuit”. More details soon... ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/john-clark...

Until this morning, Mary E. Brunkow, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine #Nobelprize , had no wikipedia page. She now has one, thanks to the contributors. 👍☺️👏 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_E....

Without an understanding of immune tolerance, organ transplantation will not be possible. Also, their discoveries opened avenues for cancer and auto immune disease therapies. Congratulations to these year's awardees of the nobel prize in physiology or medicine. bit.ly/4mC0Gc5

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

Huh. I was under the impression that they'd already been given Nobel prizes. 🤷🏾‍♂️

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This looks gorgeous! The first-early access software on steam that I'll buy. (Don't care for the cat though) fediscience.org/@edwardeng/1...

Love to see scientists share stories of their discoveries; even more so when it is work that I was awed by in my college days 🙂 bsky.app/profile/did:...

I suspect that indeed they have just made this matter worse for themselves. The trouble with this statement from Adrian Smith is that it conflicts with the RS's Code of Conduct (e.g. below).

He should have been expelled. This is way more than policing opinions. - Inciting violence at far right rallies - Interfering in government affairs - Destroying health and science infrastructures - Ensuring thousands will die Abusers, excused and enabled by craven others, always grow in power.

I am so dismayed a the statement today from the President of the @royalsociety.org that I want to publish here the letter I wrote to him yesterday urging him to address the clear concerns of the UK scientific community.

Deeply disappointing. Once again the @royalsociety.org has avoided explaining how *actions* by Elon Musk that clearly repudiate the Society's values are consistent with the code of conduct that Fellows must adhere to. royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

A conference of three primates, discussing videography and their varying perspectives on nature documentaries. Jane Goodall and husband Hugo van Lawick, 1974. Third primate's name unknown.

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

"Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91" [gift link, free to read] www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

"They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace." -- Tacitus

I could point to a few ideas of/from the West and say "this is good". Increasingly difficult to do so now, as my students won't accept ethical arguments from such an amoral source.

Beautiful drawing of ciliogenesis in airway cells from Sorokin, 1968: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/.... Just shown on stage by @mahjoublab.bsky.social at #GEF25

Great piece by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social on the descent of Sabine Hossenfelder, from science communicator to contrarian outrage-monger www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

There's enough evidence that moving to the right doesn't help centre-left parties, yet they continue to do that. Is this just an issue in the English-speaking countries? Or are these parties hellbent on committing suicide?

Hi! Did you know that you aren’t pronouncing axolotl correctly? Suppression of indigenous languages by the Spanish is one of the Four Wounds of Colonization. This is a small subversion of colonial power you can use! Axolotl is a Nahuatl word, and it sounds like this:

Can always rely on Beethoven to lift spirits when I'm down. Today it's this album from two masters at the top of their craft. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

And this man is taken seriously by the "leftist" establishment in the US 🙄 www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

It would be nice if @theguardian.com wrote articles on how the rich countries of the global North were making the leap to become green countries. [Not disagreeing with what India needs to do btw]

Economic apartheid in India. This isn't just the first instance, and isn't only restricted to North India. www.newslaundry.com/2025/09/24/s...

How long do I have to wait for this to make it to the market? 😅 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just the latest story in elections in India not being free & fair anymore. www.reporters-collective.in/trc/repeated...

This is absolutely shocking.

Persian and Balochi music mixed with a little jazz. youtube.com/watch?v=kUaC...

My most awaited book of the year. Just have to figure out how I get it to India 🙂

"Do you want to spend more time feeling like real inside members of a pure and defined club, or do you want to discover things?" 👏🏾 @dereklowe.bsky.social www.science.org/content/blog...

This is lovely! youtube.com/watch?v=iNa0...

And this is how I learnt a new Mick Herron book is out 🥳

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