I’m British and this is the one American take on the discourse that I wholeheartedly approve this is the damn problem

does anyone know whether the extension of the red weather warning to Friday means I should cancel plans for return rail travel from Oxford to Cardiff tomorrow? It’s not a vital trip, but when I last looked predicted temperature for Cardiff was 26 degrees. Don’t want to be stuck on a hot train!

Here’s some background on one of those papers, retracted more than 20 years later. Internal documents reveal their own scientists wrote the paper and then gave to others to publish. retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/g...

my version. which I’d better clarify is intended to be ironic deevybee.blogspot.com/2011/03/one-...

What an interesting game

The main doorway from the replica Norse longhouse at Haroldswick on Unst in Shetland. The island has the remains of at least 60 medieval Norse longhouses, many still un-excavated. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Unst #Shetland

Jason Anderson (British Artist, born 1970) "Advance ll", 2025. Oil on Linen, 40 × 40 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

The Hooded Merganser is a small diving duck found across North America. It hunts underwater for fish, crayfish, and aquatic insects, using its thin serrated bill to grip slippery prey. When excited or threatened, it spreads its large crest into a striking black-and-white fan. 📷 Henry Cho

Koho Shoda (Japan, 1871–1946) : Moonlit Sea, 1930 woodblock print 28.3 × 22 cm | 9-1/2 x 6-7/8 in Private Collection Further descriptions in the alt text 👇

Hydration break. 📸NMS

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Is science self-correcting? Not in this Elsevier journal. Two 'five-second-retractions' were never retracted, even though I reported them to the journal in 2015. Eleven years later.... nothing. My latest blog post: scienceintegritydigest.com/2026/06/24/i...

The Leonard Cohen estate is objecting to President Trump's planned use of the song "Hallelujah" ahead of tonight's Freedom 250 rally on the National Mall here in Washington.

I CANNOT BELIEVE how much I find myself agreeing with Elon Musk and the House Republicans. Okay—let's do this. Let's secure our elections! Step 1: Deport Elon. Step 2: Arrest any official who removes the names of citizens from voting rolls. Step 3: Impeach all insurrectionists.

RFK Jr. , stem cells for autism, & more clinics including one selling rabbit/sheep cell injections for kids ipscell.com/2026/06/rfk-... #stemcells #autism

Exeter. Dundee. Nottingham. Sheffield. Note these are not 'marginal' Universities, even if we believe such places exist. These are large civic 'red brick' Univs, est'd. a century or more, research intensive & w. significant global profiles. Key British exporters. And yet the govt does... nothing.

HBS' latest filing in the Gino lawsuit contains a few new details: 1. A committee of 26 professors, admins, and fellows reviewed the allegations, and *unanimously concluded* that there was *clear and convincing evidence* of research misconduct.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Here’s the video on YouTube —> youtu.be/kLmvOnEjAS4?...

It was the same tone on 5 Live this morning. Talking about how the Met Office was predicting 45c heatwaves by 2036 with a chuckle and “well I guess we’d all better get used to it then.” 🤷‍♂️

I've been listening to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social on the origins and definitions of think tanks. When I started work at a think tank, my Dad struggled to understand what this meant. He made this and gave it to me for Christmas.

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

It’s 112 years since Edward Thomas took a journey during which his train came to an unexpected halt. (Four days later Archduke Franz Ferdinand met his own unscheduled stop, which, one way and another, also brought a premature end to Edward Thomas)

Color and Old street Just sharing my photography, thanks for watching🤝 #photography #streetphotography #ICMphotography #photo #japan #hongkong #fineartphotography #fineart #art

I almost missed this one — it sat buried in my library for months while I worked through everything else from this year's trips. It's from my home ground. Rhythm of the Ridges - Tukituki Valley, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand #photography #landscape #nz

Maybe not *today*. BBC News - Want to feel happier at work? Take a five-minute walk - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🧵1/ In our new paper, @chrischirp.bsky.social & I argue that while institutions can resist authoritarian pressure, some enable it. Looking at the current US regime, we examine why universities, law firms, and corporations often chose accommodation over resistance.

- Collared Owlet (Glaucidium brodiei) in Malaysia - Photo courtesy of HO Sung Wee‎.

A charming Egyptian figurine of a hippopotamus carved from calcite some 5,000 years ago! The oversized head with bulging eyes gives it a modern cartoon-like character! 🦛❤️ Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 📷 by me #Archaeology

The little chirpy slurps 😂😂😂 IG: Lilquackheads

The iconic Carnforth Station clock, which was made famous by the 1945 film Brief Encounter, has returned to its home on the station platform in Lancashire following an extensive restoration. It was manufactured in 1895 by Joyce & Co. of Whitchurch in Shropshire.

The babies are out today! This cutie is a fledgling barn swallow. He yawned so big as he waited for lunch. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

We wait for trains. We wait for answers. The trains come. The answers never will.

Interesting to see Hartley-Brewer, of all people, pushing Farage quite hard on this, and also interesting to see how uncomfortable Farage becomes as it goes on.

Swamp thing

And We Weren't Silent At All, Chumpster.......

Irony is dead.

Shadow Lines I love how on a sunny day, ribbons of light and shadow weave across the platforms at White City London Underground station.

My #cartoon on the #StraitOfHormuz impasse from the current @privateeyenews.bsky.social New issue out tomorrow... #whales

I was Out and About the other day and noticed the public water fountains for the first time and it was nice. This is good infrastructure.

Quite the thunderstorm in #Bath this evening!

A #Roman mosaic octopus, found in a villa at Villaquejida (Spain) - laid some 1800-1900 years ago, but still looking fabulous today #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky

What an impressive cake 🍰🤩 I’m impressed the kid asked for it too! I was also impressed that time I wandered into the British Museum, randomly hung a left – as I do – and saw the Rosetta Stone in front of me. Crazy to be face-to-face to that legendary object after reading about it as a kid.

In the stone ages I went to a training session where we were told students could only concentrate for 15 mins and this new invention - PowerPoint - would allow us to put up a captivating image. Professor of Medieval Italian was outraged: part of our job, he said, was to accustom people to boredom.

That’s the problem with recognising climate change is a scientific reality and then trying to ensure the only biosphere in the known universe remains habitable, it’s just such a downer.

BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...

1st anniversary of the best photo ever of the Royal Highland Show.

it’s got a wonderfully furtive expression