61% of all political donations in the last quarter came from just 14 people Reform took in £9.3m from a handful of super rich donors British democracy is being bought. We urgently need action to take the money out of our politics

Antigen-resolved remodeling of EBV-specific CD8⁺ T cell immunity in multiple sclerosis www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

Happy to announce the release of IggyTop, a metadatabase for immune receptor–epitope interactions. It's integrated with scirpy v0.24 so you can readily use it to annotate your single-cell TCR datasets. iggytop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

A superpower's guide to losing a war of choice against a country with the GDP of Kentucky:

If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...

A lot of our discourse seems to assume that 1) these wrong beliefs somehow arise naturally and 2) politicians have a duty to behave as if these wrong beliefs are true. It saves asking questions about old and new media, or doing anything brave, but it’s rotting our society and economy.

This isn’t change. This is chasing Reform voters - again - on a promise of continued scapegoating of immigrants. As with Brexit, it’s perpetuating a lie to the British people. And we all pay the price for that lie. In our economy, our social care, our NHS and our communities.

British political discourse over the last 18 month seems to be under the mistaken impression that how you govern is just a matter of choice, that you can just will the world to be as it suits you. It does not work like that.

That's a great phrase, populism killing the future. And we have to face up to the fact that social media is the fundamental factor driving populism. Because social media - and its influence on traditional media - is the only common feature to all countries where populism is rising.

Perfect time for @pimlicat.bsky.social to send me these images, as we record a @quietriotpod.bsky.social on a topic which is, really, the umbrella question for many other topics: "Why are we so rubbish at building stuff?" The original HS2 £37bn plan vs its current £102bn version.

- Subsidising consumption in the face of a supply shock - reducing incentives to drive less/switch to EVs - using up limited fiscal space to help better-off drivers rather than the most vulnerable. Hard to think of a worse policy right now.

Latest frightening report on climate change impacts on UK (does not discuss how hotter parts of the world will get on) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

This scared the shit out of me until it was explained that it only crawls out late at night.

This whole thing of the entire global economy now being based solely on gullible fascists selling each other magic beans would be much funnier if the global economy wasn't how I feed, clothe, and house myself.

Totally uncool as in "global warming, whatever." Climate change is an economics issue, a health issue, an ag issue, a housing issue, a refugee issue, a public safety issue; you can talk about it in those terms, but not talking about it is not addressing the largest crisis of our time.....

Hantavirus outbreak should reset WHO's default approach to airborne risk 👏🏼 great op-ed by Milton, @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social , @dfisman.bsky.social et al www.bmj.com/content/393/...

YES from @labourlewis.bsky.social for @bylinetimes.bsky.social "The spread between UK & Dutch borrowing costs has widened sharply not because markets fear public investment, but because they have lost confidence in a model that borrows to subsidise private failure while never addressing its causes."

For starters: - immigration policy - EU/Brexit - tax reform Not saying any of these are politically easy, but all of these are things a UK govt *could* do.

At this point the UK would probably be a happier place if it was run by an imperial proconsul appointed by the EU Commission

Britain "at the heart of Europe", 2026 edition:

At first it was false balance, the BBC Politics department bending backwards to accommodate Brexit. But now its daily partisanship towards populism, its complete lack of commitment to democracy and transparency, make BBC Politics more a public disservice than a public service

A huge strategic mistake to put this program in the hands of a dodgy foreigh corporation when we have loads of talent that could build an industry that really meets needs for data sharing and privacy. But remember also that the holocaust was enabled by IBM card technology.

Yes, and even worse, I am quite sure the PM is being told that the Home Office view on migration is the single key obstacle to the closer ties he claims to want with the EU. So everyone in Brussels and Westminster can see the weakness when he can't apparently overcome this.

A lot of the scepticism about the idea that someone in Labour should turn the next few years into a debate about the EU again forgets that this strategy really just amounts to 'telling the truth to voters about Brexit and suggesting that we act on it'. It's not some 4D Chess move.

Are you worried about hantavirus? Well research on this virus and other emerging infections is disappearing in real time, right now. My Yale colleague just lost $5 million, which the National Science Foundation (NSF) has refused to release to his group. It is so twisted and sick.

Every day the news bulletin begins "President Trump has said..." Yet we know he'll say something different tomorrow, which is different to what he said yesterday, & that none of these statements is likely to be true. I get the problem for broadcasters, but this model is actively occluding the news

Thank you Fox News for introducing me to the concept of “Illegal immigrant professors.” www.foxnews.com/media/califo...

This is now what passes for “science” from the BBC. Hackneyed cliches, faux mystery, factually incorrect statements. 1. Archaeologists are, once again, “baffled” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The effects of our policies are so bad that we promise not to put them in your constituency is certainly an interesting campaign message

This is very good from Fraser Nelson and importantly, it's in a paper a lot of potentially Reform-curious voters will see it.

but equally, if you really think that why would you be prepared to risk it in a referendum, where you have said in the run up that your willingness to recommend continued membership is contingent on achieving some send order goals in a renegotiation. Doesn't add up

This was one of Cameron's more substantial speeches during the 2016 campaign. The argument could certainly be contested, but the sniggering dismissal of it as his "World War 3" speech - too absurd even to merit debate - marked a special low in Britain's ability to think seriously about geopolitics.

Johnson has nine children and not an ounce of integrity

Perhaps teach them history because it schools them in critical thinking and to give them a sense of what time and change actually are?

Going to have to start looking for American democracy with a microscope.

1/ "This is the pivot point in the energy transition folks. Fossil chaos drives people to electrotech, as this is the first oil shock with a superior alternative. " says @ember-energy.org @kingsmillbond.bsky.social We argued similarly last week at Wesleyan (slides here) tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe...

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Great interactions at our Superbooth at @aai.org 😊#AAI2026 with @cedar-epitopes.bsky.social @hipcproject.bsky.social @airr-knowledge.bsky.social

As it's the weekend, let's take a moment to enjoy and celebrate what for the entire country is an unalloyed good-news story!

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

It’s very sad to see the remnants at the Calais terminal of how the Eurotunnel was intended to operate. Just turn up, buy a ticket, and go. Now at weekends it’s a three hour chicane through the car park followed by inane questions from Border Force before you even arrive at the shuttle queue.

It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

Over-the-counter pet flea treatments could be banned under new UK rules