Illusory 'control', though. We have laws against bikes being nicked, against shoplifting, against tax evasion, against nicking big bounceback loans, against fraudulent company formation. And increasingly, these are just becoming optional, to be ignored with impunity. Why would this scheme differ?

“To be a good scientist, I have to take emotions out of work. Still, I would say looking at this data, when I allow myself to connect to it emotionally, then I am afraid. This really scares me,” she said.

In my life I've seen treatments for AIDs developed, vaccines for Ebola and malaria, and now this. Medical science is one is the areas that still consistently seems to make these miraculous advances and I'm genuinely grateful to everyone involved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huntington's disease has been successfully treated for the first time, doctors tell BBC

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Global investment in renewable energy up 10% on 2024 despite Trump rollback www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Backlash, what backlash? Study confirms three quarters of global GDP is still covered by national net zero goals and the number of corporate net zero goals is continuing to increase. Contrary to headlines, the world remains committed to rapid decarbonisation. www.businessgreen.com/news/4519353...

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

My favourite Robert Redford story is the one about why he got rejected for the lead role in The Graduate. RIP to a real one.

Lots of good and quite radical ideas for UK tax reform here from Dan Neidle. The inability of government after government to implement anything like this - and instead favouring silly stunts - has me despairing. on.ft.com/4nu8NrZ

This on the back of MSD walking away from £1B project in London and an almost completed building is pretty disastrous for UK Biomedical science.

Research reveals huge disparity between perceived and actual willingness of public to contribute to fixing climate - "[Politicians] have more public support than they may realise" #climatecrisis #89percent www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Oxford is to get a congestion charge of £5 per car per day, starting this autumn. Charges will be levied for driving past one of six camera sites. The decision, intended to accelerate bus services and encourage cycling/walking, was taken at an Oxfordshire County Council cabinet meeting this morning.

Here are 10 provocations on climate and energy. Tell me if you agree, disagree or have a nuanced take. Drop your own provocations in reply or quote post. Start: 1. By 2030, the use of air conditioning will lead to greater increase in electricity demand than data centers. And it's not even close!

Sentiment analysis on four decades worth of FT newspaper articles. 🥳 Rreally cool stuff from @joelsuss.ft.com. on.ft.com/4n2TVBq

the results so far on congestion pricing in new york have been so outrageously good that opposition to it works as a convenient identifier of unserious buffoons www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

Announcing Generation New Era: the first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years. It will study 30,000 children born in 2026 across the four nations of the UK. Watch out for upcoming opportunities for researchers and other stakeholders to engage with the study team via @clscohorts.bsky.social

Imagine going in a shop and seeing a sandwich labeled "£1.99 or £4.50 depending what time it is. You'll be punished as a thief if you pay the wrong amount but we won't tell you what time the prices change". That's the UK rail system that is

Liz Kendall to replace Peter Kyle as science secretary. Skills moved from DfE to Department of Work and Pensions, under its new secretary Pat McFadden. By @robinbisson.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Reform and X are not Britain, as John Curtice shows, though this loud minority voice thinks it is Migration bad for economy? 32% of public - but 73% of Reform Bad for our culture? 31% of public - 81% of Reform Rights for ethnic minorities have gone too far? 18% of public - but 49% of Reform

thanks to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social for introducing me to this movie poster, featuring a tagline that made me hyperventilate with laughter

Satellites have been tracking the water held in glaciers, lakes and the world’s vast underground reserves — aquifers. A extensive analysis of that data reveals water is rapidly disappearing beneath much of humanity’s feet, and large swaths of the Earth are drying out. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Fellow ‘Bluesky Elders’ will remember that the site was set up to pivot away from quote-tweets and dunks, but unfortunately I’ve found the perfect image to quote-tweet dunk someone with.

Build, build, build isn't much use as mantra if you then leave the new homes sitting empty for a year or more while the Building Safety Regulator gets round to approving them. This process used to take a matter of days when local authorities were in charge of it. news.sky.com/story/bluesk...

Finding key information shared at council meetings takes time and effort. Today, we've launched a tool that allows you to search verbatim quotes from council meetings in the UK and Ireland, without the need to watch long recordings or sift through extensive notes. council-search.bellingcat.com

Reform have arguably had more coverage for a content-free press conference than the Govt has for a major policy development affecting millions of parents

Bluesky is shrinking rather than growing. It has no source of revenue. If it doesn’t grow, *it will die*. Constantly making it unwelcoming, saying who you don’t want here, setting rules for what other sites people should and shouldn’t use, and the like, will kill it quicker.

Induction stoves are quieter, cooler, and produce less toxic pollution than gas. On the other hand, they also cook better, as a growing number of professional chefs recognize.

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

Exactly this, and all polling has made this clear for a long time. While there’s a 10-20% group who back any and every draconian idea, few of that group are likely to vote Labour, and most other voters anxious about immigration are responsive to specifics and context (eg deporting to Taliban is bad)

The UK's new normal is here: hotter and drier summers. The summer of 2025 will almost certainly be the warmest on record (we'll get confirmation next week). As this @metoffice.gov.uk graph shows, it looks set to break the record by a big margin too www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Imports of solar panels to Africa rose by 60% over 12 months to June 2024 If installed, Sierra Leone imported enough solar to generate 60% of 2023 supply PV imports to Algeria up 33x; to Zambia, Botswana & Sudan over 6-fold; tripled to DRC, Angola, Ethiopia www.theenergymix.com/africa-could...

Back to school is coming fast! In #Paris, they have la rentrée sorted. There are 300 "rue aux écoles," streets closed to cars, but open to people—up from 185 last year. That means *half* of kindergartens + elementary schools now have school streets. What's your city doing to keep kids safe?

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

Oh my god

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half. 📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

Twitter is dead.....scientifically speaking. www.southernfriedscience.com/twitter-suck...

“I hate the word moist” oh no I am sorry to hear that Here are some wet brownies Got you this very damp muffin Here’s some banana bread that is positively soaking in its juices Is this better for you Did I do it

I suppose this is the point when I should say again that: the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined* what this country is really good at is producing culture

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Are you a researcher who could do with £8k to engage the public about your research working with a gallery, museum, library or archive? We’ll shortly be opening a call so I just wanted to give you a heads up this is coming www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Thinking about the millions of QAnon followers who spun elaborate papedophile conspiracies from emails about pizza. All now strangely silent as a blackmail op so brazen it would be cut from a Verhoeven movie takes place between the American president and the world's most famous child sex trafficker.

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

14” in a day is easily a 1-in-1000 year event for Milwaukee. It’s insane this far north. Actually 14” in 10 days meets the 1-in-1000 year criteria. Yes, read that again. To be clear, this doesn’t mean it only happens once every 1000 years, it means the chance in any one year is .1% More below 1/

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

I spent the day with Curtis Yarvin and the "dissident right" at a garden party in Surrey and wrote quite a few words about it. My cover story for today’s FT Magazine on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]

"Senior Lib Dems are 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 pissed off - they feel the media are so desperate to prove they’re not ignoring Farage that they’re ignoring everyone else. Why does it appear the biggest third party in decades is being overlooked compared to Reform?