NIH, NASA place limits on foreign co-authors. @science.org

Time for a radical curriculum shake up. It’s no coincidence that those NEETs are the very students who have come through Gove’s regressive curriculum changes, abandonment of vocational courses and over-emphasis on testing, exam grades, targets, league tables, etc.

NHS England admits it has been lying about Palantir’s effectiveness. Whilst the systems we build ourselves are producing better results with faster systems and happier medics.

Meanwhile, UK political debate is focused on the so-called "net zero zealotry" of Ed Miliband

One of the lessons of the last two years is that Labour urgently needs to stop being afraid of its own shadow. Burnham should appoint whoever he thinks would be the best Chancellor and throw his authority behind them. The Daily Mail will try to kill them anyway. So just govern.

Just 10 days after the SpaceX IPO, the stock has plunged and the average investor has seen most of their initial gains disappear. And don't forget: rules protecting investors from volatile new stocks were gutted — at SpaceX's behest. The universe's largest Ponzi scheme?

Today is my last day at Scientific American, which has been sold to LabX media group. For three decades I've led the magazine's coverage of human origins, archaeology, paleontology, animal behavior, ecology, BIRDS. End of an era. Anyway this feels weird to say, but I'm now available for assignments!

Brexit unleashed epic levels of political dishonesty and anti-immigrant prejudice which were weaponised by unregulated social media and a rightwing press unwilling to hold their own to account. Until govt deals honestly and robustly with this reality, political and national failure is inevitable.

I put my pragmatic head on and say Starmer must stand down. Not necessarily because of Burnham (I'm not enthused) but because the people who work closely with him are asking him to. Starmer has been the best PM in past 16 years that is undeniable.

Oh. So Tulsi Gabbard wrote a report showing that voting machine vulnerabilities didn’t flip any votes. And now she’s not the DNI anymore. Hmm. www.reuters.com/world/white-...

I call Elon Musk a Nazi because he's an avowed white supremacist who undermines democracies, incites pogroms, targets minorities, intentionally caused the death of >750,000 people (so far) while laughing about it ("feeding USAID into the wood chipper"), and did a Sieg Heil at Trump's inauguration.

The next PM could - and in my view should - properly stick it to Trump (as Meloni has just done); announce a plan to undo Brexit; put immigration to bed for at least one electoral cycle; take their government off Twitter; unequivocally condemn Netanyahu & resurrect Leveson 2… A boy can dream.

And just three old men are responsible for 90% of the world’s problems.

I condemn any attempt to sell property in the settlements in the West Bank, be that in London or anywhere else in the world. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...

Well, i know which one I'd choose...

List for the last two days. Lots of trade news from G7 including new British jobs. Much lost in the noise around Makerfield.

Grrrr...

>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses

It seems a good day to remind people that in the UK 3 times as many people work in Indian restaurants or for McDonalds as in the whole coal and steel industry. 5 times as many are academic staff at universities. If Labour does not understand its electorate, there is no way to appeal to it.

The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.

“.. Claims about Hormuz reopening are exactly why we built this: If ships start moving through the Strait with AIS transponders on, you’ll see it in the index — updated every 30 minutes ..” @bloomberg.com

Today is the last day to comment on the National Park Service website about what you think of Donald Trump's proposed Arch. Please take the time to share your opinion with them, and maybe repost so other people will comment too. The more the better. parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm...

Meanwhile at the White Trash White House last night the main event wasn’t even in the ring. Fights were breaking out on the lawn everywhere under the light of fireworks. Not since the White House burned down in 1814 have we seen so many battles. Sign! 🤡

I repeat what I've said all along: there are myriad ways to support Palestine that do not involve PAG. This is not to say opposing its proscription is not a cause, so long as one is clear that it is primarily about rights in the UK - not Palestine. UNICEF continues to do good work where it matters.

One of the most striking patterns from today’s historic vote: The higher the share of non-Swiss residents in a municipality, the *lower* the support for the far-right SVP initiative to cap Switzerland’s population at 10M. The contact hypothesis holds up well! Plot (c): @marcokistler.bsky.social

How can the Spectator write an article about Palantir, without revealing that its owner, Paul Marshall, has a major stake in the company? Just complete self-interested deception

The hospitality industry wants their VAT cut to 10%. It will cost £12bn Who benefits? ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Nope. 45% get nothing. ❌ Consumers? Nope - prices won't fall. ✅ Nearly half the cash goes straight to large chains. McDonald's gets £400m. 🧵:

This is how communities show up for each other. Do read this by Nicola Browne from Act Now👇

absolute lol at the idea i stare at an empty compose box. i fill it with mindfarts faster than i can think then hit send. only then do i look for typos and get angry at myself

Fundamentally, the British right has bet that the British public are, for want of a better word, bastards econ.st/3RXGzeZ Illustration: Nate Kitch

Musk is fomenting instability in Europe... we should treat him like the pariah he is.

MPs had damn well better decide this morning whose side they're really on before #PMQs at noon. Either they back liberal democracy and the rule of law or, by continuing to mouth weasel words about 'legitimate grievances', 'two-tier policing', 'back doors' and the like, they don't. #TimeToChoose

For the hundredth time. These are not "patriots". They are conspiring with our enemies to destroy this country and need to be treated accordingly

This is a really good thread, and I suspect it’s true. Long before AI, 25 yrs ago, I remember various people telling me they were going to write a quick romance novel “for the money” (an M&B advance then was around £5k). None of them could do it. Editors & readers didn’t respond to insincerity.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... The country which has appointed a man who admitted taking part in the violent coup attempt on January 6 to a sensitive defence job has no business lecturing the UK about law and order

Carent — a new word for someone like me, an old person looking after a parent, a growing challenge in aging societies like ours. I’m 73 and look after my mum who’s 97. My cousin’s about to turn 80 and she looks after her mum who turns 102 next month. Calling it carenting could help raise awareness.

Big Soup finally revealing their dastardly hand!

"A handful of African nations are rejecting American health aid, outraged by the Trump administration’s demands for access to private health records and even minerals in exchange for lifesaving medicine..." www.wsj.com/world/africa...

Just in case you were wondering, our Bicentennial Celebration in 1976 was held in multiple venues, and the artists included: The Eagles Fleetwood Mac Loggins & Messina (Their final performance before splitting up) Dan Fogelberg Elton John The Beach Boys America Elvis Presley Bruce Springsteen 1/2

HOWLING

there does seem to be something of a pattern here www.ft.com/content/2c3a...

Bettina’s Father was NOT Epstein’s accountant. Harry Loy Anderson Jr. (the late president of the Palm Beach National Bank & Trust Company) was not Jeffrey Epstein's accountant, but he was his primary Palm Beach banker and a character reference who aided Epstein.

As a child and adolescent psychologist, most new parents completely misunderstand 'gentle parenting' and don't even get me started on baby-led weaning...!

Pope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Khanna: "This is a Dred Scott court. They have engaged in the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877. One-third of African American seats are threatened. We are not speaking up strongly enough against a court that's rolling back civil rights"

It wasn’t just Obama’s deal, although I’m sure he’d like to claim credit, but it was a deal negotiated over years with the UK, Germany & France who all tried to maintain it after Trump’s unilateral withdrawal in 2018 but it eventually collapsed without the US support

Lest we forget: Obama secured the Iran deal without starting a war, shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, or losing a single American life. But please, tell me more about how “toughness” requires body bags.

I put in eight years at Twitter and did what I could. But it became clear that the new algorithm throttled what reach I once had. Realized staying there was just giving cover to a right-wing project. So I left. If you think "we" need to stay there or "we" can make a difference, you're delusional.