Ok. Who’s staying up for TLI? #Artemis2 #Artemis

If you’re loving the #Artemis2 coverage then you’ll *love* this. Think of it as the #Artemis program’s prequel. #16Sunsets podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/1...

Glorious to see #Artemis2 safely aloft. What an achievement. Wish I’d been there to see it. This was my last trip out, waiting to watch my buddy Mike Barratt to go with Crew 8 in 2024. I miss The Cape! Congrats to all at #NASA. Wonderful day.

Beautiful. Beautiful. #Artemis #Artemis2

Go for launch!! #Artemis #Artemis2

Here comes the poll at LCC Kennedy

Terminal count. #Artemis2 #NASA

We are so nearly there. All in the green. C’mon team. SEND IT!!! #Artemis2 #NASA

Deep into the countdown now. Artemis looking good. Vehicle, launcher, weather & crew. Keeping it all crossed for my buddies at #NASA. #artemis2 #GoArtemis2

Didn’t want to get affected like this giving evidence. Caught me by surprise. We all lost so much. We have to act on the inquiry’s recommendations. We have to be better now, so that we can be better next time.

🧵The Covid Inquiry’s latest reports have made one thing brutally clear: the first year of the pandemic - and especially the second Covid wave in winter 2020/21 - was devastating. Much of that devastation was avoidable. This 🧵: impact on NHS, impact on bereaved, and avoidable harm. 1/19

Doctors waiting on asylum decisions can work in NHS as Home Office lifts ban

I learned about a brilliant project yesterday to support British Sign Language (BSL) users, creating new signs for scientific terms in chemistry, oceanography, data science & more. And they're fabulously descriptive. Do have a look and share! www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/index.ht...

🔊 Prof @drkevinfong.bsky.social @uclengineering.bsky.social presents The Artificial Human in front of a live audience at @ucl.ac.uk. As UCL marks 200 years, they ask whether AI is the future of learning and how we can make the most of what it has to offer. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

LLMs: Useful tools or dead ends? Professor Mike Wooldridge weighs in on this episode of the BBC Radio 4 show The Artificial Human. Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @alekskrotoski.bsky.social @drkevinfong.bsky.social

Net migration in 2025 was about 160,000. That headline 2025 net migration figure will come out in May: it will clearly be significantly below the 205k for the year to June 2025 (est range: 130-180k) as 2025 visa data is now published. But the 2026 figure is likely to show negative net migration.

Kung Hei Fat Choy 🧧 !! Happy Year of the Fire Horse.

Please let this be true.

Hello, parents with young kids! I’m doing a very fun half-term event on Tuesday afternoon about Roman Britain, along with my book’s fab illustrator @rikinparekh.bsky.social Tickets affordable, @southbankcentre.bsky.social is great London venue near Waterloo station, and it’ll be great fun!

Viral posts paint the city as a hotbed of violence and, above all, knife crime. But the data tell a different story

The ‘AI bubble‘ under discussion in this excellent three-part series @alekskrotoski.bsky.social @drkevinfong.bsky.social

Everything you ever wanted to know about anaesthesia but were too afraid to ask. Presented by the always amazing @claudiahammond.bsky.social feat. @brucebiccard.bsky.social @estamatakis.bsky.social, Jennifer Hunter & me! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

A pleasure to join a BBC world service The Evidence panel at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on anaesthesia & consciousness. Great discussion with @drkevinfong.bsky.social @brucebiccard.bsky.social & Jennifer Hunter, expertly chaired by @claudiahammond.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

In tricky times, I hope this news will make at least some of you smile. www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/bl...

So glad!

🚨Fully funded PhD with me at UCL CORU on our new SPROCKET project to improve services for children with complex needs. The PhD will be building System Dynamics models to improve services - and hopefully pushing the methodology further too! Deadline: Jan 31st www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Great job opportunity!

New YouGov research for ippr finds that civic conceptions of being British are held by most people, with a third prioritising birthplace. Reform voters are outliers, against the general public view, weighting ancestry and ethnicity more highly www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Final cruise home this Christmas Eve, with the crew aboard Helimed 60. Spotted Santa getting ready for this year’s run. Wishing you a Happy Christmas from all of us at Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex. Time for bed kids HE’S ON HIS WAY 🎅

Farewell Jerry Bostick: Apollo Flight Dynamics Officer, rescuer of stranded astronauts, manning “The Trench” in Mission Control (which he described to me as “the first line of defence in human space flight”). Thank you for everything. Safe flight. #AdAstra

Immigration salience has less to do with aggregate Immigration numbers than - visibility of boats & asylum > visas - general vibes about integration - elite cues from media & political discourse in shaping public perceptions This is more true when immigration is falling then when it is rising

If you love science and comedy and @robinince.bsky.social, now is a great time to discover @cosmicshambles.com and everything they have to offer. And if you're in the vicinity of London, UK, check out their amazing holiday event, "Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People"

To be fair it’s going to be very funny when these clowns invent AGI and the super intelligent machine tells everyone to get offline, avoid processed food, stroll in the woods, seek community, eschew racism, pay high marginal rates of tax and ignore the ravings of deranged billionaires.

On the mathematics of Covid-19 and excess mortality in Sweden, and why their pandemic response might not have been quite as successful as first billed. Great Substack post from @adamjkucharski.bsky.social

Wednesday is saved.

There’s a lot written about leadership & teamwork but the HEMS crews are one of the best examples, anywhere, of how to operate at the sharp end of practice. Made this for BBC Radio 4 about the people who make it happen. 11am GMT today or find it here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Samir Zitouni, 48, remains in critical condition after the LNER rail employee heroically risked his life to save others from the attempts at murder on the Peterborough/Huntingdon train news.sky.com/story/train-...

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

Cause for hope.

“Science is never settled” sounds reasonable—but it’s often a rhetorical trick to undermine consensus on issues like vaccines or climate change. Science evolves, but some things are overwhelmingly supported by evidence. My latest for Live Science www.livescience.com/... 1/10

A timely book from @tomlevenson.bsky.social

Good morning, News from the UK is you are an award winner. 16 Sunsets won best Science And Technology Podcast last night 😀🎉

The good governor is right. For more information, sadly not immediately available, I have a book on the history of vaccine rejection coming out next spring. Early details here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808113...

NEW EPISODE: Are we prepared for the next pandemic? Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about COVID-19 and whether we're ready for the next pandemic. Listen on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSPandemic...

This week's guests are Tess Lambe‬, Wendy Barclay‬, @dremmacbw.bsky.social and @drkevinfong.bsky.social.

A really important episode on today's Artificial Human: Why is AI erasing people? Answer: it ain't just accidental bias. Find out what's happening and what we can do about it, with me and @drkevinfong.bsky.social by listening again on @bbcsounds.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

“If you lived in a world that wasn’t built for you, you’d feel disabled too.” Ever been erased by AI? Powerful stuff from Paralympic swimmer @JessSmith27 and @abran in this week’s #ArtificialHuman. Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Did you just miss the first episode of the new #ArtificialHuman series from BBC Radio 4 with me and @drkevinfong.bsky.social - CAN AI MAKE ME FITTER? Go on, listen again on @bbcsounds.bsky.social : www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Statement from the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency "MHRA confirms taking paracetamol during pregnancy remains safe and there is no evidence it causes autism in children" www.gov.uk/government/n...