British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

Does anybody think the Social Admin of Dublin Airport is a football fan and was watching the match whilst working?

“This is the worst microplastic spill we’ve seen this year,” says environmentalist Joshua Beech. Worse even than the spill of nurdles (pre-production plastic pellets) in March, when two ships collided in the North Sea. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

No Wes Streeting, the BMA is not acting like a cartel. It’s acting like a trade union. And frankly it’s disgusting to hear you talk like this while huge numbers of doctors can’t get NHS jobs because you haven’t created them, while millions of patients are on waiting lists🚨🚨🚨

Revelling in the latest edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social From the BBC to migration, Islamophobia to disability, our editor in chief @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social has done an amazing job tying up the Carousel of Scapegoats with the co-morbidity of current politics ➡️ subscribe.bylinetimes.com

Yesterday Ukraine blew up the Novorossiysk oil refinery, which is still burning furiously. Today Russia has been forced to suspend all exports - 2.2 million barrels a day. That sound you now hear is the Russian economy burning.

"The best response to hatred is solidarity." ❤️

a “Space Force”, if you will

Trump's own AI is telling the truth about him (despite having the sources it uses restricted to favour Fox News etc.) He's going to hate it. Strongly. [FYI Truth Social are using the Perplexity Sonar API and it is Truth Social that control the sources used, not Perplexity.]

Every time I think FIFA can't possibly get any more corrupt, they outdo themselves.

Wrangling with Octopus Energy over money they've been taking from my account since they took over bulb for gas I have not been using. My meter hasn't worked since the takeover and Octopus have failed to repair it (or even come look at it) the whole time. Nearing 'instruct my solicitor' time.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

I used to think that time was easy! 😆 #MathsEd #UKEd youtube.com/watch?v=TK-8...

What are we doing to the planet - environmental catastrophe near Rye, East Sussex Campaigners have said before that the plastic micro beads or "nurdles" should be classified as hazardous same as oil, they cause just as much damage to marine life and birds

LOL at McCoist waffling away, then judging someone on how they speak! #COYS

I've collated some data from UCAS for the top 25-ish universities that our students (from the Hull area) progress to to study STEM subjects, comparing the published entry criteria, the most common grade profile for students currently on the course, and the lowest grades of a student on the course...

My musical tribute to Pauline Collins who has died aged 85. She was brilliant and award-winning in the film Shirley Valentine. But I will always remember her as parlourmaid Sarah Moffit in the 1970s ITV drama Upstairs, Downstairs.

Donald Trump Goes Into Standby Mode After Short-Circuit Electrocutes Operator

A New Yorker cover shouldn’t make me feel like this, but here it is, making me feel like this

Truly believe that @nikkolas_smith art will go down in history as important social commentary pieces like #normanrockwell, while more inclusive in his messaging… The world needs our #art. Driven by narratives that promote #peace.

Team talk next match: Play like we've only got 10 men on the pitch. That is all. #COYS

Has Richy had some sort of curse put on him that diverts the ball onto the goal posts? #COYS

Yes, Joe Hart, you can climb up to see the big gold cockerel. #COYS

It feels like each of the remaining 10 Spurs players has said to themselves 'I need to play for two now.' #COYS

Hey Micky, you're so fine, You're so fine you blow my mind, Hey Micky! 👏👏 Hey Micky!👏👏 #COYS

Oh dear, Randall. #COYS

Johnson again ole ole #COYS

Well, if I had to miss a match, it looks like I picked the right one. 😬 #COYS #Tottenham

I've had an enjoyable and productive day on a gluten-free bread baking course - despite battling uneven ovens at the venue!

Important thread for educators in England. ⬇️

Is he friends with '30p Lee'? Sounds like they'd get on well.

This is a brilliant idea.

Far scarier than a pumpkin!

Today, the Government submitted its evidence to the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB). If it were truly serious about education, it would invest in it, not continue to make the living standards of dedicated teachers worse. #InvestInEducation You can read our full statement here 👉 bit.ly/4oFOhFr

Alongside our sister trade unions, the NEU has issued the following joint statement to the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) in England. To repair the damage to our education service, the Government must properly invest in our teachers and school leaders👉bit.ly/4nxfQjt #InvestInEducation

TES: "The government has recommended a 6.5 per cent pay increase for teachers split across the next three academic years." This means teachers will receive below inflation pay rises for the at least the next three years, as I can't see the govt bringing inflation that low. #UKEd

Puppet Regime hits another home run. youtube.com/shorts/3YFBs...

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this. At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

Maryna Viazovska, Марина Вязовська, is a mathematician known for her work in sphere packing, which explores how to pack spheres in the densest way possible in a given number of dimensions. In 2022, she became only the second woman to win the Fields Medal. adalovelaceday.subst...

Jewel Plummer Cobb discovered how skin cells produce melanin and how they become cancerous. She also discovered that methotrexate was an effective treatment for some skin and lung cancers and childhood leukaemia. adalovelaceday.subst...

Valeria Correa Vaz de Paiva is a Brazilian mathematician, logician, computer scientist and computational linguist who introduced new ways to model linear logic in advanced programming languages. adalovelaceday.subst...

Leone Norwood Farrell invented the Toronto Method for large-scale vaccine production, making childhood immunisation programmes more affordable and facilitating the mass production of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine in the 1950s. adalovelaceday.subst...

'The "uncle" who Frodo said got rich by adventuring with Dwarves is actually a distant cousin, he clarified on Monday.' - Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, The Shire Post

This reminds me of a barn conversion I once lived in. You came in the front door at ground level, went up the quaint wooden stairs - and were looking straight out of a window at ground level! Confused visitors who arrived and wanted to use the bathroom. The house that farmer Jack built!

Farage: epic grifter

Ffs. Carole was right about everything. Please read and share open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Great photo from Jason Cairnduff for Reuters at the Hill Dickinson Stadium yesterday