Huge thanks to @mja-uk.bsky.social for last night's awards for my brilliant columnist colleague @anjahuja.bsky.social and the @financialtimes.com project on the race against time to defeat mosquito-borne diseases. Congratulations to @ian-bott.bsky.social, @sdbernard.bsky.social and Charlie Bibby!

Honoured to be in the mix here, and congrats to all the finalists! 🙌🏽

@anjahuja.bsky.social here on the phenomenon called “emergent misalignment” where AI models can end up optimising for malice even when not explicitly trained to do so. www.ft.com/content/7f14...

Big thanks to the @mja-uk.bsky.social ‬for the double shortlisting, including for this piece on mosquitoes with @ian-bott.bsky.social, Steve Bernard and Charlie Bibby. www.ft.com/content/816c... Congrats also to my wonderful columnist colleague @anjahuja.bsky.social. mjauk.org/2025/08/15/f...

Janet Yellen in FT oped - Trump’s attack on the Fed threatens US credibility. History teaches us that chaos follows when leaders undermine the independence of central banks www.ft.com/content/d2ea...

The science of starvation - timely column here from @anjahuja.bsky.social on seminal 1940s study that remains hauntingly relevant today www.ft.com/content/fb0a...

The book that explains the billionaire doomers https://on.ft.com/3H4sp6x | opinion

NEW: The incredible shrinking fish: Baltic cod evolve to dodge nets Genetic shift driven by over-exploitation risks undermining populations beyond repair, according to research Register here to read some @financialtimes.com articles free: www.ft.com/register www.ft.com/content/5bf6...

Top chemist gives back Royal Society medal, in deepening Musk fallout. @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Exclusive @ft by @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social and me. www.ft.com/content/8778...

I also skeeted about this conference while it was happening: bsky.app/profile/drml...

This is the big one: Kennedy is firing the entire #ACIP in a move he says is needed to restore confidence in vaccines. "It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” Mike Osterholm of CIDRAP told me. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

This is on everyone who voted to confirm him, despite his track record. People fail to acknowledge the obvious when their privilege depends on being blind.

If an animal could speak, would we listen? Fascinating column by @anjahuja.bsky.social on.ft.com/4kwGAzC

NEW: EU food safety chief warns of bird flu threat to pigs Europe’s 133mn swine could become ‘dangerous virus laboratory', mixing bird and human influenzas to create pathogens transmissible between people. Register with @financialtimes.com here: www.ft.com/register www.ft.com/content/9c16...

Do we need a new generation of public institutions for ST&I? Join us tomorrow at 4pm for the first in a new UCL-STEaPP seminar series with @geoffmulgan.bsky.social, followed by a discussion with @anjahuja.bsky.social & @williamcb.bsky.social. Details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/do-we-need...

The cost of Trump’s attack on American science https://www.ft.com/content/67fd40e3-104e-4599-a8b2-3f34cd75c74a

NEW: Researchers have sued the NIH and HHS, alleging that they have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor" by terminating hundreds of grants, violating the APA, Fifth Amendment and the Separation of Powers.

Even in 2025, some things still shock. Like the apparent selection of a long-time vaccine opponent who was disciplined & fined for practicing medicine without a license to conduct a new HHS study into whether there's a link between vaccines and autism. www.statnews.com/2025/03/26/r...

About that meeting last night, by my colleague @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/abd8...

If you haven't - please do fill this in. If you are a creative of any sort. The ALCS guidelines are very useful as the questions become more impenetrable. Also - you don't have to answer it all. www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

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Always amazes me (not) that the people who crow the loudest about free speech, are the least tolerant of others exercising theirs.

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