The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*. The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.

50 years of ZUMA. Just like everyday, it's a good day to listen to one of the best albums ever.

Which is a long way round of saying: a lot of the pieces I’m reading on the crucial role of the BBC massively overweight news and underplay the wider role of 50 odd radio stations, a dozen TV stations and the vast majority of its output.

I reckon a shared national popular culture is just as important (if not more important) than a fact based, impartial news service for liberal democracy to work.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Two children lost. The wrong one found. The award-winning author of #TheMidnightKing, @tariqashkanani.bsky.social, returns with #TheHollowBoys. A dark and haunting thriller about lost children in a dying rust-belt town, coming May 2026. www.waterstones.com/book/the-hol...

Finally it’s here! 🌟⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... I’m sooo excited to share our latest article led by Steve Hill and Isabel Bravo-Ferrer 1- How does the vasculature communicate with astrocytes? 2- Is this communication dependent to what happens in the body. 3- Is it relevant to human diseases?

amzn.eu/d/5cqnKGt Although the official release date is 1 December, my latest novel The Night Watcher is available RIGHT NOW for Prime readers - and for free! Grab a copy and have a read 🥳

hello friends, loved ones, and haters, I wrote a long piece about the last 25 or so years of "indie," inspired by @chrisdeville.bsky.social's fine new book open.substack.com/pub/ericdhar...

How does this timid quote tally with what Keir Starmer said in his speech - and in his interviews - just a fortnight ago?

Should dementia research funding shift from biomedical science to social care? Join our live debate with Nancy Brown & @sorayam.bsky.social on 22 Oct, 8pm BST. Vote live & see if opinions change. #Dementia #SocialCare #BiomedicalResearch communities.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/c/events/deb...

Statistical analysis of connectivity within the central brain shows that around 6.5% of synaptic connections in the male and 1.3% of connections in the female are dimorphic. In the male, sex-specific circuit elements form highly interconnected clusters with similar connectivity. 9/10

Comparing the EM neurons to light microscopy datasets of fruitless and doublesex expression, we annotated the putative expression pattern of these genes for both the male and female connectomes. 7/10

We cross-matched neurons and identified over 7k isomorphic, 114 sexually dimorphic, 262 male- and 69 female-specific cell types. In total, these neurons make up 4.8% and 2.4% of the male and female brain, respectively. 6/10

As the first (and so far, only) male brain, we compared this connectome to the previously published #FlyWire #FAFB female dataset to investigate the structural differences across male and female brain connectomes. 5/10

Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint: “Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

If this happened at a steel plant there would be talk of government bail out to secure jobs

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

PREACH! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This morning at CSHL, Kristen Davis from the lab gives an amazing talk on her work studying the sexually dimorphic mechanisms of synapse formation! Such a great job, Kristen!!!

Incredibly useful new story by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on the 'crisis' for young college grads. Most analyses compare mid-20s workers with/without a degree. But as John points out, the relevant comparison group is actually *new entrants* with/without a degree - most non-degree workers enter at 18-19.

A depressing graphic, but a wonderful defense of our tiniest lab partners! 🦠🪱🪰

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

“My eyes! The goggles do nothing!”

Dr. Jane Goodall, the legendary animal rights advocate, has died at 91. Dr. Goodall's life was a beacon for progressive activism, a bridge between science & moral purpose. Rest in power, Dr. Goodall.The fight continues,for animals, for the planet, for the future &your voice will forever guide us.

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

59 mutations that suppress neurodegeneration induced by dNmant depletion in a Drosophila screen, including the known pro-degenerative molecule dSarm. Lots of new potential anti-degeneration drug targets to explore here.

Thomas Hunt Morgan was born OTD in 1866. If you're ever feeling that your work is uending and unedifying, remember that he once said this: "Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it." 🌱🐋🧪 #HistSTM

Look what we have here then.

This is dangerous, reckless, anti-science nonsense. Paracetamol is safe to use and Nigel Farage should stop spreading misinformation.

🤯"data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients" 🤯 Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com! Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/

So cool they discovered the cause of autism on basically day they guessed they would. I’m also glad they are withholding this information for a few days to prep for a WrestleMania-style announcement. This is how science works.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

"The only thing that could've increased the humiliation would have been the holding up of a dog biscuit tho' a treat for rolling over was proffered in the form of a tech deal, which Starmer wolfed down with all the grateful tail-wagging the president demands." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column.

This Onion story is a little too on the nose.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Say what you will about them but at least Change UK managed to have a Nando’s dinner first

new pape from our lab, led by the indefatigable @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social. i am very proud of this one.

The FlyBase situation has made the national news www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

superb column from @stephenkb.bsky.social “racism does not diminish through rising GDP but through the willingness of politicians to argue against it….” www.ft.com/content/fbbd...

This is the graph we show whenever someone talks about how back in the old days there weren't (people who are not whoever the person speaking thinks are the default). Mostly we do this to underscore that a rise in apparent frequency isn't always a rise in real frequency.

An absolute dream to visit BBC Radio Scotland this afternoon with @tariqashkanani.bsky.social for The Art Mix with @lenniesaurus.bsky.social. Thank you to Len for the great interview! Cc @headlinebooks.bsky.social @viperbooks.bsky.social @harryillingworth.bsky.social @dhhlitagency.bsky.social