We're excited to announce that #CliftonSuspensionBridge Museum is up for an award at this year's Bristol, Bath & Somerset Tourism Awards! Our Underground Lantern Tour is a finalist in the Active & Learning Experience of the Year category. We couldn't be more proud of the our team of storytellers!

How many FRSs interfere with overseas politics, finance right-wing groups, dismantle US scientific infrastructure, perform Nazi salutes on camera, and use the largest social media platform on earth to promote disinformation on vaccines, COVID, climate change...etc? Naughty boy? Outright disgrace.

Please let this be true. Have we passed peak social media? - on.ft.com/4pTb1Di via @FT

And we’re off! #Inktober

I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.

💰 PPE Medpro must repay £122m for supplying defective PPE ⚖️ But it doesn’t stop with Baroness Mone. When will the ministers who referred their cronies onto the VIP Lane face consequences? https://goodlaw.social/f2e9

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an archaeologist in possession of a #Roman underfloor heating system, must be in want of a place to stand #HypocaustGate

It's the LAST DAY of the sale of my digital painting Jupiter Ammon - as a beautiful, limited edition, signed giclee print... www.alice-roberts.co.uk/prints/jupit...

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

This AI thing is not all it’s cracked up to be. #NotAsGoodAsWikipedia

I might as well give up now…

WELL DONE, RED ROSES!!!

I do love standing in a hypocaust! Do you know where this one is?

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess✅

Million-Year-Old Skull Pushes Back Homo Sapiens Origins By 400,000 Years www.iflscience.com/million-year...

“We’re not Tylenol experts, of course not.” Should have stopped there Richard, because the rest of what you said was incoherent.

Left: Richard Tice says Dr Aseem Malhotra has nothing to do with Reform UK's health policy Right: Dr Aseem Malhotra being introduced as the person helping advise on Reform UK's health policy at a Reform UK conference

London mayor Sadiq Khan hits back at ‘racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic’ Trump. About time. Trump spreads lies about every country. Trump is doing so much harm at home/abroad - undermining the UN. NATO, US economy, human rights, free speech, tolerance Will he ever be held to account?

8pm TODAY on @BBCTwo Digging for Britain s10 Ep 6, Ice Age Camp and a Saint with Syphilis In Scotland & northern England, @profaliceroberts.bsky.social investigates an Ice Age camp, the mystery of a medieval skeleton & the earliest evidence of salt making in Britain.

New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists. www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...

WHO statement on autism-related issues The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between #autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) during pregnancy Full statement bit.ly/47YsgwI

A humanist is a non-religious person who shapes their own life in the here and now, because they believe it’s the only life they have. They try to do good for its own sake, without expectation of reward after death. How humanist are you? Take our quiz! humanists.uk/humanism/how...

'Humanists UK was a lone voice sounding the alarm about far-right Christians looking to dissolve the boundaries between church and state... The idea was long dismissed as an Americanism that couldn’t happen here, but here it is.' @pollytoynbee.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

London's @conwayhall.bsky.social is one of two surviving buildings in the UK built for the non-religious. A humanist building, it was a place where non-religious people could gather and find community. It opened #OnThisDay 1929. Take the virtual tour with @humanismedu.bsky.social ⬇️

Writing in the Guardian, @pollytoynbee.bsky.social calls out dangerous supremacism: “On the Robinson march in London, the great wooden crosses looked like armaments… The marchers’ “Christ is King” flags declared a radicalised ethno-supremacism.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🍂 Happy #Autumn #Equinox, when day & night stand in balance. #Romans marked the vindemia & honoured Autumnus. Prehistoric Britons aligned monuments like Stonehenge & #Callanish to the sun. Today pagans celebrate Mabon or Alban Elfed. 🌗 📷 1-2) Autumn mosaics 3) Callanish. Credit: SpookyScotland

The COVID enquiry and last night’s ITV documentary shone light on a dark time - when billions of pounds of public money were shovelled into the pockets of private investors rather than public institutions - wasting existing expertise, wasting money, wasting lives in the process.

The ITV exposé on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…

I’m watching and it’s astounding. We all knew something like this was going on - but the extent of it! While so many were suffering, dying, sunk into loneliness - a few were absolutely RAKING IT IN. The COVID health crisis was a very, very lucrative opportunity for some.

📣I am very pleased to announce my book "VIP Lane" which covers 5 years of investigation uncovering the previous governments PPE procurement scandal + much more is now on sale. 👀 Buy a copy here: viplanebook.com 🚨Now the subject of a major ITV documentary hitting the screen next week. 🧵

Wolf Mountain by @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is a bargain 99p on Kindle today #affiliatelink amzn.to/422lNNo

“Harvard geneticist David Reich said … increasingly sophisticated analysis of genetic material made possible by technological advances shows that virtually everyone came from somewhere else, and everyone’s genetic background shows a mix from different waves of migration that washed over the globe.”

We want the media and politicians to recognise there's a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before” news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Royal Autopsy - presented by me & pathologist Dr Brett Lockyer - still streaming on Sky History: youtu.be/yeIdwiqJtfY?...

We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

It seems like it’s dangerous for scientists to speak out against Colossal’s “de extinction research”. www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

Excited for Series 13! For example, archaeologists in England recently found a richly furnished Anglo-Saxon grave, giving a 1,400-year-old glimpse into lives, loves, and beliefs 👉 glassalmanac.com/archaeologis... Can’t wait to see what new stories you bring to light this season!

My new book - #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power - in good company in the window of @hatchards.bsky.social bookshop, London, with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social, James Fox and Harry Sidebottom.

There's a great Substack piece by Adam Rutherford debunking all this nonsense. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

The man had many insights into life that I enjoy!

I love this Vonnegut post so much!

“Rich Grenyer, a biologist at the University of Oxford, said de-extinction is a “dangerous” distraction and that gene-edited animals are “at best a sort of simulation, rather like those unnerving animated AI portraits of dead relatives some… people create”.” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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MATs are really quite expensive… In each MAT, the “back office” is replicated. So we have CEOs, CFOs, etc etc all commanding large salaries that eat away at school funds… Then there is the demand for expensive schemes/programmes of learning… No surprise at all… www.tes.com/magazine/new...

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

Thank goodness for @channel4.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just 15 days left for this limited edition print of my Jupiter-Ammon painting…