Are you a doctor treating transgender patients in a state with restrictions on gender-affirming care? I am an investigative reporter and I want to talk to you. If you’re not, mind sharing this post?

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

😭Sad news😭 The authorities have finally caught up with us so this will be our last post on BlueSky. It's been a blast and we love you all. Especially our BFF @merchantshallyork.org 🥰🥰 Keep up with the posting, everyone. Together you can conquer the scourge of work-based productivity...

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

Wind turbines are such an eyesore.

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

OK, London. Let's see if we can find this guy. www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/new...

This is an astonishingly successful public policy reform, and so heartening. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Robert Peston talks to Stanford Professor Nick Bloom about the cost of Brexit on The Rest is Money: 🚨 "We could have doubled the money on the NHS if we'd not left the European Union." Brexit cost "£2,000 a year per person in Britain." Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yn3AQaNVDg

Take a look at a State Dept design for new American passports. Banana republic stuff. Genuinely tragic to see.

"When drs are treated as endlessly resilient, risks go unchallenged...long hours, sleep deprivation, emotional overload, moral distress, inadequate protection; exposure to violence or infection exist everywhere" Excellent from Kathryn McKinnon on #WorkersMemorialDay www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

This was one month after I started working at NASA in the Kepler Science Office. At this point I'd been looking for planets for AWHILE: 2 PhD projects and a postdoc, tens of thousands of stars, with nothing to show except stubbornness and a highly trained eye. This thumb drive had SO MANY PLANETS.

Inequality kills. People in the wealthiest UK areas have 20 more years of good health than those in the poorest. Healthy life expectancy for Richmond upon Thames man 69.3 yrs, woman 70.3 yrs. Man in Blackpool 50.9 years; woman in Hartlepool 51.2 years. Deaths rising among 25- to 49-year-olds.

"All in all, the use of ChatGPT for scientific purposes, in my honest opinion, clashes with core scientific integrity principles such as honesty, scrupulousness, transparency, responsibility, and independence. Therefore, I need to decline this invitation to review."

Mainly an appreciator of the #BlueSkyArtShow, I couldn't resist today's #Odd theme. A Storksbill seed, photographed in infrared. They're a super common weed, but I never really noticed them til the pandemic gave me little else to work with. #photography

"Day 068, Orbit 1054 — Opening the shutters in the morning: what a beautiful way to start the day! 🌍" – @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot #εpsilon 🎥 NASA/ESA

This is fun:

Well, isn’t this a sight for sore eyes! 😍 Our beloved Hubble appears in this amazing image from one of Vantor's WorldView Legion satellites. It was 36 years ago today that Hubble was launched in the bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Vantor.

Oceanographers from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa discovered the answer to how species diversity can be so vast and sustained in a seemingly homogeneous environment like the open ocean. 🌊

"RFK is unwilling to admit that he made a miscalculation or simply misunderstood percentages. Seemingly, this regime would prefer to try to rewrite the fundamental rules of mathematics rather than climb down over a simple mistake." My latest substack. open.substack.com/pu...

Headline of the Day.

This should be a mandatory test for wannabe politicians. Put them on front of a class of 4 year olds and see if they inspire them. The politicians inspiring the children. But more importantly the children inspiring the politician.

Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats.  Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.

New #MedSkyDebate Do you mentor young doctors and what is your advice? Do you provide references for them? I have a young doctor I helped into training and he is moving to a consultant job in the next few months. What advice would you give him?? Lots of discussion 😇

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

GP referrals will now be ‘assessed’ by a ‘Consultant led’ Single point of access 1 in 4 is the target to reject GPs & patients must insist on Jess’s Rule in referrals Any rejected referral must have a Consultant name & GMC number for accountability This is the only way to ensure patient choice

As it's the weekend, let's take a moment to enjoy and celebrate what for the entire country is an unalloyed good-news story!

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more

@disabilitystor1.bsky.social oh goody this one is gendered female and named after the history of science’s Patron Saint of Having Your Work Ripped Off and Unrecognized By Dudes

Last Feb, Francis rebuked Vance for his take on ordo amoris, today, US Bishops issue slap-down of VP: “When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercising his ministry as the Vicar of Christ.”

NATO has been the bedrock of our national security for over 75 years. Walking away from our strongest allies during a period of global instability is a serious mistake that makes every American less safe.

Congratulations to photographer Andrew Harnik who has won the White House Correspondents’ Association award for presidential news coverage with one of the greatest Oval Office photos ever captured.

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU. Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

A 🧵 on defence, following Lord Robertson's well-flagged intervention today, and who's to blame. Let's get one thing straight - the resources and equipment of the UK's Armed Forces today are almost entirely those bequeathed by the Tories. An inconvenient truth they would like us to forget. 1/

I know this isn’t funny but it made me laugh…

Cute but weak on crime

PRIVATE HEALTHCARE delivering to the NHS reported £2.2 billion in profits . Could that possibly be linked to the £1.1 billion NHS budget deficit.

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

Most of all, it’s a testament to the resilience and determination of the Hungarian people — and a reminder to all of us to keep striving for fairness, equality and the rule of law.

There is something in my eye. Sound on.

Trump, Putin, Farage… your boy took a hell of a beating. Congratulations to the people of Hungary for showing that populist extremists can be defeated – even despite Donald Trump’s best efforts.

Delicate moments at sunrise along the River Thames.

Let’s end tonight on a high note from Coldplay

The Young Liberals showed up in Montréal last night. #LIB2026

Pope Leo: “War divides; hope unites. Arrogance tramples upon others; love lifts up. Idolatry blinds us; the living God enlightens.”

#Artemis II 🚀 Mission Commander Reid Wiseman after being collected from the Orion Spacecraft “On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles”