Are you: 🍁 Canadian? 🍁 In a UK postgraduate programme? 🍁 Entering your second year? Check out the Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund (Nothing to do with me, but I thought it might appeal to a few of my contacts 🫰 ) www.canadianscholarshipfund.co.uk

In 2014, I wrote a story about a rare exoplanet alignment, an exosyzygy, due to take place in 2026. At the time it seemed impossibly far off, but now here we are - and unfortunately, astronomers haven't been granted time with a telescope to observe this event, so we're going to miss it!

Please journalists read this

I really think this is the most important basic journalistic error we need to stamp out right now. If you know why Grok can’t comment on anything and also know any journalists, please check in with them and help them understand it too.

My family have done this custom Stave jigsaw puzzle every Xmas since 1985 😁 Some pieces feel like old friends!

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

Saw the headline, clicked for a chuckle, realised it's written by my sister... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

News you can use

Dr. Leila Denmark co-developed the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine. World's oldest practicing pediatrician until she retired at age 103 (after 73 yrs). At the time of her death at age 114 & 60 days, she was the 5th-oldest validated living person in the world & 3rd-oldest in the US. #WomenInSTEM

To mark ten years of the Paris Agreement, I recently had a conversation with Nigel Topping, chair of the UK Climate Change Committee, hosted by Springer Nature. Take a gander to discover why we’re both really excited about cement.

Incredible story -- so many jaw-dropping moments. Wow. (Don't worry, everybody lives.) www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2...

Hell of a combo

Woohoo what fun! Take care of yourselves fellow people of Earth 🌍🌎🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍🌎🌏

GO IMMIGRANTS YAY 💪https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/science/nobel-prize-immigrants-science.html

Why does training always have to be in the form of video lectures now? I can read FFS

The voices of division are growing louder. It’s up to us to unite against them. Join the #TOGETHER Against the Far Right national demonstration in London on 28 March. @togetheralliance.bsky.social Save the date and sign-up for updates: togetheralliance.org.uk

Holy moly, this is so much fun. This is a cool game the Digital team at Center for Countering Digital Hate put together off their own initiative in their spare time! Hey and tell us your real score! Mine was 5…. :( counterhate.com/spot-the-fake/

Ooh and it's a very cool one! 🦾

Not sure what this says about me but I've never clicked a news link faster IN MY LIFE -- hope it goes well for them!

The newsletters will continue until morale improves

The live AV performances and installations at this event are going to be amazing -- and it's all FREE! So make a night of it 28–29 Nov 2025 from 12:00–23:00 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/d-fuse-pre...

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

Oh god it's US thanksgiving soon please help

Very short but absolutely brutal www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

“The government’s phasing out of the penny has been “a bit chaotic,” said Mark Weller, executive director of [penny-advocacy group(!)] Americans for Common Cents.” www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/b...

V much looking forward to talking at the immersive art and ideas festival that is *D-Fuse Nine Earths Summit @ P3* in London. See you Sat 29 November which is, happily, 'pay as you can' during the day www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/d-fuse-pre...

guys we CURED CANCER

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...