there are two phrases in bonobo speak: "wanna smash?" and "yes"

The prize that could make ‘talking to the animals’ a reality observer.co.uk/news/science...

How climate change & pesticide interact to affect bee performance; looking ahead at var. approaches (incl. microbes) to help bees tinyurl.com/2s3ndu3j @theobserveruk.bsky.social highlight work from richjgill.bsky.social and @pgraystock.bsky.social Labs at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

I think Trump saw Being John Malkovich and made it a life goal www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/u...

This is very confused. 1. If those views are legitimate, then it's legit for Reform UK to propose them - the views don't magically change because the party does. 2. If it's legit to propose them, why is it unacceptable to oppose them? 3. How is opposing them the same as wanting mass deportation?

NEW: More than 160,000 private renters on low incomes face rent shortfalls worth up to hundreds or even thousands of pounds a year due to Labour’s housing benefit cuts Greater Manchester and the West Midlands are particularly badly hit By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT. From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't. A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:

On 26 April, I plan to be on the start line of the London Marathon. I’m in my fifties, I’ve only been running for a few years, and this will be my first marathon. I’m doing it to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT).

Flawless comms all the way to the moon and now they’re back it’s glitchy. Earth world problems.

Sure, the pictures the Orion astronauts took of the moon are great, but the thing I'm looking forward to most is someone sampling "copy, moon joy" or some other clip from the Artemis mission. observer.co.uk/culture/musi...

The teenagers have friends round so we’ve been banished upstairs, and both have colds so going out is, er, out. There’s an old TV, but the remote is awol. There’s only one option: terrestrial TV.

Thrilled to be nominated for Audio Journalist of the Year at the Wincott awards alongside Jonathan Lewis for our podcast Bumble vs the men's rights activists! Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5IpX...

What's the most under-rated driver of gender equality? (In praise of job-creating economic growth) www.ggd.world/p/whats-the-...

Kalahari by Abdullah Ibrahim youtu.be/8GEPxDW7L88?... To be fair it clicked around 10 mins in.

Existence-as-a-service

This is absolutely beautiful and very well done. > Nothing you own is finished. Everything exists in a state of permanent incompletion, permanently needing. https://www.terrygodier....

Faisal Islam has totally lost control of Newsnight.

Exc: As many as 80 Labour MPs are braced to oppose the home secretary's immigration policies Dozens of backbenchers and ministers are understood to be hostile to Shabana Mahmood's reforms. After the Gorton by-election they're pushing for a "recalibration" observer.co.uk/news/politic...

The maestros using new technologies to transform science observer.co.uk/news/science...

NEW: Hilary Cass gave the MHRA both barrels for pausing the puberty blockers trial. She told me it seemed more about politics than science and its idea of raising the participant ages to 14 would make the study “really really flawed”. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Slightly larger picture byline than usual today in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

It’s bad for the Tories to make false claims about mental health, but it’s also v bad for Reform to suggest being a barrister and serving in senior positions means she can’t possibly have had mental health problems. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Denmark has a cancer care system that is literally the envy of health systems in the western world www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This whole, horrible situation has exposed the US’s 2nd amendment as a sham. The entire point of it, all the dead children in schools, was all apparently so that ordinary citizens could arm themselves against tyranny. When tyranny arrives, what happens? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Reupping this for the science and medical research peeps observer.co.uk/news/science...

UCL and GOSH have managed to grow mini-stomachs from stem cells. It's a big deal for people with rare diseases and the large number of adults with stomach problems. observer.co.uk/news/science...

Looking forward to seeing the British Museum’s sarcophagi at Portrush harbour.

"I told Bibi [Netanyahu] to stop taking credit for the Dome. It's American."

“I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace.”

What this has done in fact has simply moved content off the timeline and into private interactions with grok. So deepfake porn is still happening, in a less transparent way

It’s not surprising that this meta analysis shows that people regain weight after stopping taking weight loss drigs but actually there are very important cavests not being mentioned in the coverage www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I've seen a few posts snarking about the junk food ad ban because gambling ads are everywhere on TV. That's a reason to restrict gambling ads ofc, rather than wash our hands of restricting junk food commercials. Advertising works. Promoting a product makes more people want it.

My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

Still the greatest lyric in the history of hiphop. #WeeGooseLives youtu.be/mMEnqUDon4Y?...

Still struggling to get my head around just how fast gene editing research is going. This from @ucl.ac.uk and @greatormondst.bsky.social is another extraordinary step forward www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Around 15 million people worldwide have suffered some sort of injury that has broken the link between brain and body. Could Prof Grégoire Courtine and his NeuroRestore clinic be the embodiment of hope for them? Read more as @jamestapper.bsky.social explores: https://bit.ly/4itcBIU

I was lucky enough to meet Markus Klementz recently. He lost the use of his legs after an accident and hasn't walked for seven years. Spinal injuries used to be effectively untreatable. Now they aren't and Markus is learning to stand and take a few steps. More here: observer.co.uk/news/science...

A business that wants to sack its employees within six months doesn’t exactly scream confidence and competence, does it? The claim is they don’t want to get stuck in tribunals. How about being better at recruitment? Or stop trying to make excuses for being bad bosses?

Lost their minds

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Wonderful tribute by @timadamswrites.bsky.social Rachel was always a wonderful colleague and over the past 14 months, during we experienced a horrendous period at the Guardian together, she became a cherished friend…. /cont. 🧵 observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Re-upping this piece on why solar storms are not just about pretty lights observer.co.uk/news/science...

As nations convene in Belém, @jamestapper.bsky.social explores many have withdrawn from funds for climate mitigation and biodiversity protection, leaving species at risk of extinction. Read more: https://bit.ly/4hYntyn

‘I don’t need a building named after me. I have the double helix’ ✍️ James Tapper on James Watson, scientist who discovered the double helix https://bit.ly/43koDy3

Fowl play: smugglers cash in as dancing parrots go viral A dark trade in exotic birds is flourishing, driven by avian social media stars ✍️ James Tapper https://bit.ly/4nJRqDq

‘A process of intimidation that the BBC’s supporters have long feared has been playing out behind closed doors is now unfolding in plain sight’ The Observer view: political interference at the BBC https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA