to those of you with a nice, clear view of the #aurora tonight: happy for you. great. love that for you. must be nice. enjoy. 🫩

Congratulations to AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio for the fun fact of being the first with 1M citations. Immigrated to beautiful Montréal aged 12 ⚜️https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03681-6

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For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.

Anyone interested in learning about why journals make a proactive effort to increase women's participation in the peer review process should take the time look at some actual evidence about why this is needed. Ditto journalists covering such a story. Do some reporting! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vertical video we’re coming for you! If that’s your bag come join the sharpest, most supportive team in science journalism lnkd.in/dvRtVTqz

Leif Penguinson makes a cameo on the latest edition of @natsustain.nature.com 🐧

I know there are 'no politics' feeds but does anyone know a good 'no USA' feed? I love those guys, I support them, they're my family, I go all out covering their country daily and sometimes I just need a break haha

Forbidden Nutribullet

Wooo! bsky.app/profile/natu...

Forbidden smartie

Imagine having Richard Robson as your 1st-year chem prof AND then he wins the Nobel 😁 www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/new...

The first exoplanet around a Sun-like star was discovered 30 years ago this month! Makes me think yet again of the AMAZING scrolly (published in 2013, pre-TESS spacecraft) by @adambecker.bsky.social @peteraldhous.com & MacGregor Campbell at @newscientist.com freelanceastro.github.io/how-many-ear...

I may have found my defining quote. Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

Some brief thoughts on the Anthropic settlement, and why I think most authors should claim their share of the settlement if they can, inadequate though I think it is: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/02/a...

WOW this interview by @maxkozlov.bsky.social is a banger

“I don’t think of writing as a craft that one repeats in order to perfect it, like blacksmithing or bread-baking. Writing is, rather, a practice that engages the writer in her whole capacity as a human: reading, thinking, feeling, choosing, and acting.” www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/702...

Wiki Wiki Bus namesake my beloved

The fantastic UK network of science and discovery centres needs your help to survive and thrive! Sign this letter urging the UKGov to stop excluding science from the financial support that is available for other museums, art galleries & theatres 🙏🧪🔭👩‍🔬🎢 👉✉️: www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...

Hats off to the factcheckers who tackled this one! 👏https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/09/25/fact-checking-donald-trumps-europe-claims-in-un-speech

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This story is very interesting, and this detail made me feel sick. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Gander Social is almost ready, if you have not signed up to Canada’s first social media platform, made in Canada, by Canadians, for Canadians, on Canadian servers, please do!

What a treat to speak to scientists at @csh.ac.at in beautiful Vienna, where so much fascinating and relevant work is happening! Check out their spectacular visualizations page just for a start: csh.ac.at/visuals/

Trains are so great! 🛤️ A few years ago we published an editorial with some tips based on our team's experience taking trains to conferences in Europe: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Oh I am so on board for this week's @nature.com editorial! Take it from someone who grew up without trains, and took a 13-hour train journey on Monday: they are the frikkin best 🚅 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Taking the train today from London to Vienna for work, and 12 hours in I can confirm: it’s ACE 🚂

Imagine, if you will, a kind of “stretch robotaxi”

Gonna restart my old Twitter thread about great immigrant and refugee scientists. Extra bonus in this one for those us who flunked a wee bit of physics here and there back in the day 😜 Rainer Weiss won the Nobel in 2017

I've been using Ecosia instead of Google search for about three months now and so far, it's great. An improvement. www.ecosia.org

I enjoyed this museum-shop vending machine at the William Morris Gallery in London 😁

Worth reading for Brits theconversation.com/homelessness...

Our friend Malcolm Appleby has been busy crafting this year's stunning Banchory Bangle. This year's “Bunnies and Brambles” design celebrates nature, renewal and hope. To be in with a chance of winning one of these beautiful bangles, head over to our website www.childrenfirst.org.uk/get-involved...

Mic drop from @abeba.bsky.social at UNESCO Digital Learning Week

This is an important moment in the US for vaccine law, federalism, & #PHLaw experts & I am absolutely begging journalists and pundits to seek out the scholarship & expertise of those who have been studying this subject for years rather than winging it or asking people Who. Are. Not. Legal. Experts.

This interesting post crystallizes so much about the downsides of using AI to do subtle and nuanced language work. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...

Ban cars 😍😍😍 wapo.st/3VtXAM8

Looking at the LinkedIn profile of one of the leading quantum-computing researchers in the world and this made me laugh

have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Particularly amazing because it’s almost reflective of the same people — born in 1952 vs born in 1947.

Wow! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

Great that Nike-man Phil Knight will give $2 billion to an Oregon cancer centre. Jarring, to me, that much of it will be spent on helping people navigate the US healthcare labyrinth www.opb.org/article/2025...

The Internet Archive lets you capture a snapshot of any webpage exactly as it appears now — creating a permanent, timestamped version you can cite later. This preserves evidence, prevents content from being quietly edited or deleted, and ensures that future readers can verify the original source.

Delighted to lend my North-American accent to help deliver @helenpearson.bsky.social ‘s brilliant feature in video form youtu.be/Vl9CYAGXtDM?...

“I find it remarkable that people who are very knowledgeable about quantum theory can be convinced of completely opposite views,” says theoretical physicist Gemma De les Coves.

You ever see a study and go hmm that's going to be linked in about 200 articles at a random point in time in the next five years