Absolutely delighted to meet the very fabulous @profaliceroberts.bsky.social in Swansea tonight, thank you for the personally signed books, now added to our growing A. Roberts collection! If you can get tickets to Alice's current "Domination" tour, it's a very enjoyable couple of hours!

A week without twitter and I can't say I miss it.

My favourite pic from last night with @sangitamyska.bsky.social and @kevmoore.bsky.social Wonderful to see Sangita back in the interviewers chair. This trio is what friendship is all about. Forged on a sense of injustice, we've all three become friends.

A couple more pics from tonight -saying goodnight as I have a long drive to Newquay tomorrow. 🙏 Here’s me with Owen Jones and some of the Al Jazeera team and also with Sangita and David Noble who started the petition for her.

A great night with @sangitamyska.bsky.social

So we bought a static caravan!! Never thought that'd be my kind of thing. But Helen has set about making it a real beach retreat, and it is lovely. Through her business 'Mother Hen Rentals', she is taking bookings. We are controlling access for now through a closed facebook group....

For anyone who needs it, this is what fed my soul today #OCEANS #BeachLife #cymru

I didn't vote labour.

A lovely moonset this morning, to the backdrop of the dawn chorus. Some days it's just good to be alive on planet earth.

After JOBs rant over Sangita, the unbalanced, unhinged, and illogical have unleashed themselves all over the other place, I've temporarily returned there to defend my friend,but it goes to show what utter bollox some people post and believe, both here and there.

Really good view of the eclipse. Pics dont do it justice though!

A friend of mine was going through a crisis and began thinking he was a rindless lemon. He'd really lost his zest for life. #Dadjokes

Delighted to find the truly wonderful and inspirational @drlaurajwaters.bsky.social on BlueSky. If you are here for science and medicine, Laura is a great follow, especially for HIV topics. She also does great earrings (see profile pic!)

As you may know my 2nd language is French. What you may not know is my passion for French songs. I recall when Lara Fabian first sang this, what an experience though for these young women to sing "Je Suis Malade" with her. youtu.be/XCdyZuMGWz0?...

Milestone hit this week. Sub 93kg. Another 9kg to reach my 'fighting'weight! Yoyo'd a bit over Christmas but normality now resumed!!

I have been reunited with a beautiful old piano of mine. Here is my amazing blind piano tuner setting it up for me. While I've got my feet up!

This link in this post is intended for healthcare professionals. I am so proud of my team for developing this educational activity around HPV vaccination. I helped launch the vaccines almost 20 years ago. It is one of the things I am most proud of. touchinfectiousdiseasesime.org/in-conversat...

As scientists we generally try and remain apolitical in our professional capacity. That's because we provide advice in equal balance, without fear or favour, to all those in government. But... www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabram...

Please make sure that you and yours are vaccinated against polio. The risk is low, but higher in unvaccinated people. www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...

I kid you not, this is real. Does this mean every paper about a clinical trial which states 'inclusion criteria' (inclusion being a banned word), will get scrubbed. The lunatics really have taken over! gizmodo.com/the-list-of-...

Upped the swimming today. Back to 750m three times a week.

Finally hibernating my X account. Enough is enough.

Also.....am I the only person who posts here because I know specific people are on the other place but not this one?!! Pretty sure I'm not!

Am I the only person who sends a thank you email to just the sender and not the entire company as ccd?!

There's no bloody "may" about it!!

Zero other words needed. RFK Jnrs cousin has it right. www.linkedin.com/posts/jimpic...

Played a few tunes on a hotel piano where we stayed, other guests thought i was the resident pianist. Bit chuffed at that, I must be improving !!!

I bawb sy'n ei ddathlu: dydd Santes Dwynwen hapus. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I fits, so I sits!

Are those benefits in the room with you now Chancellor? My business has only seen increased costs in doing business in, and with Europe, since Brexit - it continues to be an unmitigated disaster that just drives higher costs for businesses, and it's SME's like mine that are hardest hit.

Today I graduated from the Help to Grow Management course at Cardiff Metropolitan University. A course that is accredited by the Small Business Charter. It was an excellent, if intense, 12 week course, and even a man of my more mature years learned a lot! #LifeLongLearning

Every time someone says 'phenomena', my brain goes here.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbZ_...

Interesting development! www.dawn.com/news/1885809

Chiron was not only half man, half horse, he was also a doctor of medicine. He was the centaur for disease control. #medicaljokes

It's no secret that I am no big fan of the church or any other institutionalised organised religion, for that matter. However, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde. Remember that name.

Gotta love Michael Sheen. #Cymru vm.tiktok.com/ZGdADSvxq/

Two sociologists are sitting by the pool. One turns to the other and asks, “Have you read Marx?” to which he replies, “Yes, it’s these damn wicker chairs.” #Dadjokes

This is incredible. My Dad was one of the technologists behind developing video-guided keyhole surgery. I worked with him in my early career rolling the tech out in the UK - it was one of the most amazing periods of my life. If he were here today he'd love this! www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

It's a good idea not to study French philosophy before Roman poetry. As that would be putting Descartes before the Horace. #smartarsejokes

For the love of God people, please stop cross posting from twitterX, I come here to avoid all that sh1te. (I know I've done it on occasion, but I shan't again, and today of all days I don't want to see the worst of this world get further amplified)

Two atoms were walking down the street. One turns to the other and says, “Oh, no! I think I lost an electron!” The other responds, “Are you sure?!?” “Yes, I’m positive!” #sciencejokes

Ive been having the same accountant do my self assessment for me for 20 years. He has saved me way more than I pay him, another refund this year!

How desperately sad. He was a funny man, but his demons haunted him. RIP Tony. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Over on X I took issue with Oakeshott about her sharing a school children's video about Ukrainian refugees that she'd suggested would attract grooming gangs. The replies were 60% supportive. But the other 40% were mindless sheep, with a worse vocabulary. That place is dying rapidly.

Anyone else identify? youtu.be/Dztcs4t6MXE?...

Not a bad view from my home office this morning. Bore da!

This is of course good news, but the attempt to whip up panic by some in the media was unecessary. I'm always cautious when there are outbreaks, but this is not a novel pathogen, we know what we are dealing with. msn.com/en-us/health/o…

#DryJanuary Not doing it! But I'm back to no booze on a school night! All that gin i got cannot sit there for the whole of January!

Seems fair enough!!