there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Kinda surprised nobody’s snapped this up. Usually it goes in under a day. Would anyone like it? 🔭🧪

Would anyone like my @royalastrosoc.bsky.social 2026 diary? I use an electronic calendar so this is surplus to requirements. 🧪🔭

Would anyone like my @royalastrosoc.bsky.social 2026 diary? I use an electronic calendar so this is surplus to requirements. 🧪🔭

Met my first moon landing conspiracy theorist on holiday at dinner a couple of days ago. Luckily awkwardness avoided when I said "oh you're one of those people that believe in the Moon?" 🔭🧪

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Reminded today that I picked an image of an amazing, late scientist deeply involved in the discovery of the structure of DNA and so much more, whose name should be known by everyone, for my postgrad stats and deconvolution lecture 🧪 github.com/stephenserje...

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Genuinely delighted to have contributed to the Physics Without Frontiers workshop on AI for Afghan Students - rather nice write-up here (the pic of me also shows the work of my excellent postdoc Dr Laura Hunt) 🧪🔭 www.ictp.it/news/2025/11...

Many other @ec-euclid.bsky.social papers being released this week, including by Daniela Vergani and team on discoveries of galaxies with unusual emission lines - here's an explainer by @stephenserjeant.bsky.social 🧪🔭

Many new @ec-euclid.bsky.social papers have just been released too, including this beautiful morphological tuning fork of galaxies 🔭🧪 This page is interactive - have a play! www.euclid-ec.org/euclid-morph...

Some marvellous @ec-euclid.bsky.social press releases just out! A beautiful image of a shimmering infrared dark cloud observed with Euclid www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Attention UK astronomers and space scientists! 🪐🔭 Want to help shape global policy and direction within the astronomy community? Why not join the International Astronomical Union. Find out more on how to do so free of charge at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.

Tagging @davidallengreen.bsky.social on the offchance that this common lore is new. Corollary: lawyers don’t need spell-checkers?

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

A lovely day today spent at an @openuniversity.bsky.social graduation, celebrating everyone but especially for me the newly minted Dr Lynge Lauritsen & Dr Adam McMaster #OUFamily

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

This is a first… Unsolicited email asking for a journal article submission but neglecting to give a link to the submission system or even the name of the journal 🤦‍♂️🧪

"Because science rejects claims to truth based on authority and depends on the criticism of established ideas, it is the enemy of autocracy. Because scientific knowledge is tentative and provisional, it is the enemy of dogma. "

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social get a load of this! (It ties into my deeper thoughts about how vampire trends match economic downturns but that’s too scary for a Sunday night.)

I just love this surrealistic illustration of the cosmic optical background that Guy Bilout did a few years ago for a NYT article. Light comes from the dark Universe.

Aw crap 😢 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

While I'm working I have the Backyard Ultra world championship playing live on YouTube. They have 1 hour to complete each 4.2 mile lap. I caught the last 8 competitors setting off on lap 100. That's LAP. ONE. HUNDRED. These people are both insane and phenomenal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZiQ...

So that Louvre thing wasn't theft they were simply making their own AI museum, no idea what everyone's so upset about.

Very happy for my friend @akirschel.bsky.social and his colleagues, who have a paper just out in Science on the glorious weirdness of bird genetics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 (Also Alex just BQ's at the Amsterdam Marathon last weekend 😮🔥 #running #ukrunchat #runchat #blueskyrunning)

I genuinely find this very worrying, as someone with settled status! sure, Lam probably won't be home secretary tomorrow, but the mood music is changing, you can feel it, and I just don't trust Labour to fight like hell on our behalf, so unclear where this is going to go

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

This is on every one of the self-serving, obsequious hucksters that confirmed his egregious nomination

-beats head on wall- No government just lets experts run shit. Experts provide recoommendations and analysis of the likely outcomes and consequences of contemplated policies. RFK doesn't like what they're saying about the outcomes and consequences of his policies so he's stoking populist outcry.

🧪 The US government shutdown has resulted in layoffs for hundreds of CDC employees and the cancellation of nearly $7.6 billion in DOE energy research grants. Federal labs and museums are closed, and NSF grant reviews have been suspended.

Painted bike lanes don't work because painted car lanes don't work.

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

One of the wonderful things about social media is chancing across fascinating, detailed threads by someone expert & passionate about a thing, like this

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

An 18th century observation on populists and scholars, but startlingly relevant today. Posting also to the 🧪 feed for scicomm folk. From Threads

WOW. Posting also to the 🧪 feed

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

So yeah, this is something I've seen a LOT of shortly before the last few American elections. Just in case this is useful to any of my pals there ...

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

Spot-on.

I still can't quite believe that the very first attacks from Labour on Farage's bonkers idea to kick millions of people with INDEFINITE right to remain out of the UK were to argue that it's infeasible and wouldn't save anything like the amount he claimed. How about: - It's WRONG - It's IMMORAL ?

A bit late, but @davidallengreen.bsky.social said on Mastodon that this was just an attempt at mild irony. And now I have to reset my counter for "Successful corrections to DAG's blog" back to zero. <heaves lever, loud sounds of sparks and clunks, in the distance dogs bark>

I don't say this lightly, but this Reform policy is genuinely evil. People voting for this are voting to tear apart families and destroy lives, including those of close friends of mine. "Farage said he accepted the policy would split families" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What’s the prospect of the makers of Tylenol suing the administration for vast, astronomical sums?

So Reform / Farage want to deport hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of UK residents, turning the country into an effective police state, breaking treaties, and impoverishing the economy and health service? Just focus on all that. The moral gutter of politics.

Your reminder that legislation to curb the rights of trans people to use restrooms or do anything else means everyone's behaviour, clothing etc will be opened up to intrusive and unwanted scrutiny and potential challenge in our daily lives. This is not a 'them' issue. Trans rights are human rights.