Beautiful, evocative writing from @phoebetaplin.bsky.social in this @theguardian.com piece on a new stargazing opportunity in the Lake District. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Was thinking of taking out an Economist digital subscription until I realised I already had one through my local, tax-funded public library. Sometimes you forget how great these things are #publiclibrariesFTW

Christmas Day Yahtzee will never be the same 😁

Reupping for the Monday crowd, @drmichaelbrooks.bsky.social offers timely digital security advice for researchers who are afraid that they — or their data — could end up in cyberattackers’ crosshairs. @nature.com 🧪

All scientists, regardless of research discipline or geography, are potential targets of cyberattacks. “The problem is bigger than any one president, prime minister or leader of a totalitarian or authoritarian state.” New @nature.com, some timely advice, by @drmichaelbrooks.bsky.social 🧪

This is excellent

Don’t know who on here needs to hear this, but I wrote a thing for Nature about file formats for biological microscopes that is much more interesting than it sounds 😁

An extraordinary story, beautifully told

No answer from anyone on the Other Site, and it’s a genuine journalistic issue for me: is “compute” a noun now? I’ve had a couple of tech people talk to me about “the compute” they’re working with. I haven’t felt so grammatically uncomfortable since “parent” became a verb

Move over, Cordyceps, there’s a new “zombie” parasite to haunt our dreams. The lancet liver fluke controls infected ants with a temperature-based on/off switch. arstechnica.com?p=1969792

This is right on my doorstep, I really want to do it, and I bet I don’t because there’s always something unimportant that has to be done today, isn’t there?… www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/...

Let’s start with the important things. This is Raffy.