Elon Musk FRS just doing his best for science

Need a mood boost? Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

I don't know for sure, but I'd bet that Mandelson was a key figure lobbying for Labour NOT to hold a proper inquiry into Russian interference in our elections. His closeness to Deripaska and others would have come out

"You should never overestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices." – George Monbiot

Renamed this blogpost on the basis of critical comments. My responses also added in a PS at the end of the post. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-... #PubPeer #retraction

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

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Oh my god, somebody actually listened to me.

Simon Kuper: "Donald Trump. He has probably done more to unite Europe than any European ever did." www.ft.com/content/dc9e...

The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.

A great horned owl takes flight before dusk in Longmont, Colorado. #FlyDay #bird #birds #birdphotography #owl #owls #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos

Lol Hashtag Streisand Effect.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

See, The Guardian did it correctly. They observed and verified something that is racist and referred to it as such directly, without hiding behind uncertainty that's really a reflection of discomfort about telling the truth. News media can be honest if they want to be. #journalism

Sir Guenter Treitel came to the UK on the Kindertransport. He became the foremost authority on English contract law. Famously, he held the Rolling Stones to their contract to play the Magdalen Ball in 1964 for £100 - they had suddenly become superstars after being booked as unknowns in 1963.

These ultra-fine structures shown at 30X magnification are the reason why geckos can adhere to most surfaces, using Van der Waals force. The power of hairy lizard toes! (🔬: Power & Syred, SciencePhotoLibrary)

"The Mandelson scandal is bad. Very bad indeed. And that therefore makes it comparable to an average Tuesday under the Johnson administration."

Hello 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES and other friends ( #teachers #psychologists ...) @pamelasnow.bsky.social's new X-handle is @PCSnow1604 (👀https://x.com/PCSnow1604👀). Unfollow her "old" handle which has been hacked. @deevybee.bsky.social @ashajournals.bsky.social @aft.org @alexquigley.bsky.social 🙏 share!

An interesting discussion on how to “rescue” the paper : podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

Controversial Danish vaccine research group faces new allegations: new paper shows many of their trial results have not been published. www.science.org/content/arti...

Imagine seriously claiming that this Putin-lover was "the greatest friend that Poland has ever had in the White House"

“The era of hiding behind servers is over”.

Utilitarian philosopher R.M. Hare has a discussion about how to bring up your kids if you were solely concerned with their happiness. He says: teach them not to seek happiness directly but be nice to people, make some true friends, get an absorbing hobby and a fulfilling job, be a good neighbour etc

That is a Rhodesia Solution letter for certain. youtu.be/pGJH_-S_MGs?...

As of today, on the @pci-regreports.bsky.social home page, you will find my name among amazing researchers who have been a real inspiration at different stages of my researcher journey. I'm so grateful for this opportunity 🙏 I really enjoy the recommender role & I'm ready to take things up a notch

Don't bring your kids to see "Some Like It Hot," I guess.

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It’s a longer video… but we REALLY need to talk about: Peter Mandelson and - Global Council Lobbying (as an adviser and as ambassador) Palantir This is where the Mandelson affair needs to go next.

Skyline cleanse

Definitely the best part of Jesus' sermon on the Mount after that boring stuff about the poor, the meek the merciful and the peace makers was when he moved on to his real core message: Blessed are the strong, powerful people with extremely good vision that can shoot rifles very well.

is there not one benevolent billionaire in the USA, who could start a newspaper that would employ those sacked by Washington Post, and provide a home for proper journalism?

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

🤢 FIVE WINNERS. MILLIONS LOSERS. 🚨Brexit beneficiaries: Johnson - PM Farage - fame Putin - a weaker UK Epstein - ??? Steve Bannon - Far right Growth Everyone else got higher prices, fewer rights, and a divided country.

If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.

had a little grumble about failure to implement data sharing policy at @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/389/...

The Washington Post but it’s ‘The Traitors’

#ProtistsOnSky no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...

Sometimes if you cut it down correctly, you can still see the last meal a tree had in its stomach when it died

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

February brings wild flashbacks. Of once having a normal life, with dreams, a job, plans, with happiness and carelessness… and of those first days when it all crashed, when the endless Groundhog Day of bombings, survival, sorrow, pain, and fear began.

For once, I was writing on PubPeer about my own subject and still ignored 😉 The kit is the wrong choice for detecting autoantibodies. The data presented with that ELISA is meaningless. Tells you something about the competency of those involved.

@dereklowe.bsky.social finds some AI slop www.science.org/content/blog... 🙁

Also note the comment by @sholtodavid.bsky.social , which has not been mentioned in the retraction, but seems important pubpeer.com/publications...

for detailed critique see: pubpeer.com/publications...

A journal has retracted the largest leucovorin trial in people with autism—one of just five randomized clinical trials assessing this treatment in autistic people. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/lar...

The Starling murmuration on Sinker's Fields, Whixall, this evening.

thanks to everyone for your suggestions of novels. Looking forward to trying them!