Debunking Rupert Lowe’s claims on Rogan’s podcast. Please share as widely as you can open.substack.com/pub/zeteouk/...

Ouch! 80% of Dublin’s electricity going to data centres? Tom Parlon, chair of the Irish Data Centres Supplier Alliance needs reminding that his members cannot ignore environmental and consumer concerns. europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/chat-ar...

Sobering to see in one chart how June temperature records have been broken this year in so many European countries www.ft.com/content/5f06...

British Museum sets historic precedent by surreptitiously acquiring domestic antiquity.

Is that awl you found? A Neolithic borer / piercer, a task-specific stone tool, primarily designed to make holes in wood, hides or antler, made of flint over 5,000 years ago Photographed as freshly excavated at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset in June #Durotriges26 #FindsFriday #FlintFriday

Absolutely, definitely, not “the Establishment”…

There may be some clues here, who knows? “Fiona Cottrell’s son… had offered money-laundering services on the dark web and subsequently wrote a book called How to Launder Money” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

At this rate by 2040 they'll have a non-religious person do the Thought For The Day on Radio 4!! 📻📻🎙️

Well, it’s great to hear that after years of breaking their own impartiality rules, inviting Farage onto Question Time *how many times?!* they are now pursuing rigorous journalism. www.thenational.scot/news/2626517...

That’s another episode of #Grounded in the can! We’ve had an epic time exploring history & landscape - and cultural connections through time - in beautiful Fife!

An important paper about protecting science from political interference. Europe needs to defend its science against the kind of attacks unfurling in the US. By Martin McKee, Christina Pagel & Tiago Correia in the European Journal of Public Health: academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

Game on, Nige.

FARAGE’S CLACTON HEADACHE: will Count Binface be only other by-election candidate? youtu.be/3A-OnbGYRwI

Just imagining a scenario where England won the world cup and Count Binface won the Clacton by election...

Sky News, "Nigel Farage perhaps was not expecting at 10pm to find that Count Binface was his only rival" "The motive seems to be the Standards Commissioners Inquiry"

NEW: Why did Nigel Farage throw the 2019 ‘Brexit’ election for Boris Johnson? What does it have to do with Harborne’s £5m gift? And why is it tearing apart Britain’s far-right parties? A @thenerve.news investigation by me & @luciaoc.bsky.social (Link below) 1/ #TheHarborneReceipts

1. Make a shit-ton of money. 2. Hire tutors. 3. Impose their expectations on their children. 4. Profit!

Two episodes in the bag! I’m working with old friends on a brand new project - bringing British landscape archaeology to Channel 4… #Grounded #DreamTeam

"Burnham will need to recognise the deliberate, systematic character of Israel’s destruction of the whole Palestinian society in Gaza – in short, he will need to acknowledge the genocide." ✍️ @martinshaw.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/03/w...

“She argues that the world needs to rediscover the idea of the common good, our shared fate that depends on equitably nurturing the bounty of our only planet.” Count me in, Prof Mariana Mazzucato! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why are we standing by and watching this happen? “Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an ⁠independent UN inquiry has found…. about 30% of the people killed by Israeli forces have been children.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I have written a novel! I really hope you like it. It's about Cleopatra and Marcus Antonius - their two stories intertwined - from the blood and mud of the Gallic Wars to the glittering splendour of ancient Alexandria. And you can pre-order it from TODAY linktr.ee/thegoddessqu...

Goodbye Cornwall! You’ve been delicious. See you again soon!

My model of this little guy has now been produced in life size by the @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social crew. I visited the museum to help them paint it in preparation for a starring role in @profaliceroberts.bsky.social's & David Stevens' award winning show garden at the BBC Gardener's World Live expo.

Happy longest day, everyone!

For the third by-election in a row Reform UK offered voters the politics of rage and for the third time in a row they have been roundly rejected as a result. How Andy Burnham's massive victory in Makerfield shows the wheels are now coming off of the Nigel Farage project

Before and after.

This Brit nails it. #Immigration

We unveiled our Garden of Evolution at Gardeners World Live today! 500 million years in one garden… we’re there all week until Sunday! Here I am with co-conspirator and garden designer extraordinaire David Stevens. www.thenec.co.uk/events/bbc-g...

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

For Brighton-based people, I'm speaking at BrightThink on Monday 22nd of June (next Monday). If you're free then come watch and say hi. I'll be debuting my talk about my new book: You Don't Know What You're Missing. Reserve your tickets here:

But that is exactly how the suffragettes operated. With a nationwide organisation of sleeper cells of arsonists and bombers. I’m gratefully people have reached out and referenced my work today. I remain (I believe) the only academic expert on the terrorism of the suffragettes. Links below:

People have been buying, trading and swapping football stickers for decades. Every World Cup brings a fresh album and the same hope: each new pack fills the gaps and gets you closer to completion. 1/10

Nearly 700 delegates. Over 40 incredible speakers. And over 5,000 coffees consumed (probably). The #FestivalofHumanism in Bournemouth was a huge hit. Thank you to everyone who joined us. See you next year! @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Photo credit: Olly Hunter ollyhunter.co.uk

Here’s a quick glimpse of what’s on offer at UCL’s “Unravelling the Palaeolithic” conference this Friday and Saturday. In-person tickets are almost sold out, but you can also join online: sites.google.com/view/unravel...

1500 years ago, the infrastructure of Roman cities - the roads, bridges and aqueducts - was left to fall into disrepair, while cash was pumped into new vanity projects: churches & cathedrals. Fast forward to the present day and precious water and energy is being guzzled by new gods: AI data farms.

I’ve just added up all the tv programmes I’ve presented, over 25 years, and it’s 204!

The #FestivalofHumanism grand finale and keynote lecture! We dig into the past with our Vice President @profaliceroberts.bsky.social. From South Wales to Istanbul to Alexandria, we're tracing how Christianity rose, spread, and came to dominate the ancient world. www.alice-roberts.co.uk/books

Yesterday, we recorded a special live audience episode of #UnholyHistories with our Vice Presidents @profaliceroberts.bsky.social and @adamrutherford.bsky.social. As you can see, by Alice and Adam's expression, it was a blast 😂. More info ⬇️

This was incredible. No hope but peace and justice: A dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian humanists: Yaniv Aknin, Jasr Kawkby - chaired by Sharon Booth A rational, constructive, empathetic discussion. Listen to their podcast here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

I’m listening to a fantastic panel at the Festival of Humanism - talking about non-religious communities online: YouTuber Thomas Westbrook @holykoolaid.bsky.social Laura Iteman, founder of Secular Sisters Rachael Reign, founder of Surviving Universal James Hodgson - host of Humanism Now podcast

Just 3 days until my Evolution Garden is unveiled at Gardeners World Live! www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...

Them: "Of course other cultures did not conceptualise childhood as we do." The Past: "Toys"

Brexit was an act of self-harm. "A decade on, Britain is an unhappier, more divided place, and leaving the EU has brought no discernible benefits. "Billions of pounds and extraordinary effort have been wasted on a project that made the country poorer."

In light of my forthcoming thread on human origins, here's a wide-ranging chat between @newscientist.com's Michael Marshall and @profaliceroberts.bsky.social about the deep origins of humankind and many other curious features of our biology www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdzy...

DNA turned geneticists into historians. But what do our genes actually tell us about race, intelligence & migration – and what do people just want them to say? A superb session with @adamrutherford.bsky.social & @profaliceroberts.bsky.social to close day 2 of @humanists.uk UK’s #FestivalofHumanism

Bluesky OGs @profaliceroberts.bsky.social, me and @lizzicollinge.bsky.social at the Festival of Humanism @humanists.uk in Bournemouth today!

Goodbye David Hockney. What a legend. His paintings blew my mind when I was a teenager, studying art. And they still do. Human creativity is amazing and he took it to an apogee.

“There has unquestionably been a huge increase in immigration over the last two decades, and it has made Britain far more diverse than it was. Yet by any measure you pick, violence in Britain has plummeted over that same period.“ zeteonews.co.uk/p/belfast-ri...

Why do we have big brains? Or walk on two legs? Biological anthropologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts talks human exceptionalism, evolution and her new book Humans with Michael Marshall