UK gov has a £54 million "talent fund" to tempt 10 top scientists & their teams to UK + £25 million for AI fellowships. Against this is growing anti-foreigner sentiment & a visa system to match. Upfront costs are 17 (yes, 17) times > than in comparable countries. This hits Chemistry especially hard.

⚡️The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Maria Corina Machado. The Nobel Peace Prize committee awarded it for "her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela."

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Progress in dementia studies? A 2017 Danish study linked a lower incidence of dementia to higher levels of Lithium in drinking water Research in Boston studied the effect of Li levels on mice with Alzheimer's disease & got results consistent with the Danish work, justifying clinical trial in humans

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election. To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

Visited Wilstone Reservoir today with the Canal and River Trust to see the embankment strengthening works being done & how water is transported from the reservoir to Berkhamsted’s Grand Union Canal These ecosystems are irreplaceable, we have a responsibility to safeguard them for future generations

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

Jenrick in Wonderland...? "I'll be Judge, I'll be Jury, said cunning old Fury - I'll try the whole trial & condemn you to death!" Fury was of course Alice's cat addressing a mouse and Jenrick won't be a judge himself but will make political appointments who can be relied upon to take his Party line

ROBERT JENRICK studied politics at UPenn, supporting Heritage & their right-wing views. In 07/24, Jenrick said in the Telegraph: “The world I represent is small-town Britain, patriotic people with a strong sense of place like my family." But that won't win enough votes & debars him as their leader

Has France just beaten UK in the Lettuce Cup stakes?

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality. Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook. Our duty is to stand up to brutality. Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

A driver reveals 1 simple trick to avoid expensive speed fines. Respect the speed limits!

Whatever the question... Faraj and Deform are not the answer! They should lay off waving our flags - they don't represent UK interests, we're not sure where their funding comes from and Faraj is always over in USA getting encouragement and advice from Trump. (a senior ex-member worked for Russia)

And on the barn roof too!

Hey, I didn't realise it... but... this is the THIRD TIME that TRUMP HAS SHUT DOWN THE US GOVERNMENT!

More Law is not the answer Public Protest for political purposes is "strongly protected" under Art 10(1) of the European Convention of Human Rights in all 46 signatory nations inc UK. A military dictatorship withdrew Greece for 7 yrs but it's now back. Russia and Belorus were expelled in 2022. SOFS

Whatever the question is.... Faraj and Deform are NOT the answer!

In 2004 an author postulated an "exhaustion 'epidemic'" which arose from the covid epidemic, a long period of general high stress leading to emotional exhaustion & "burnout". A 2023 global meta-analysis supports this, with 1 in 5 people reporting fatigue. Could this be why the USA is now collapsing?

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Spot on.

History repeats. That’s why in Europe we have the ECHR. 🇪🇺

Looking at USA from outside we wonder... Where is the music? Where is the fun? Where is the decency? The opportunities? The small-town solidarity & neighbourliness? The tolerance? The things that made America great in our eyes are gone. The things America now thinks will make it great are repellent.

Coming soon to USA.... President Queeg?

Dirty business, dirty oil, dirty tankers. To finance its war against Ukraine by selling oil, Russia uses old tankers, often without valid registration or transponders and which swap (and spill) cargo at sea. But using "crowdsourced" data, satellites, smart algorithms the West is tracking them down

New relevant jargon LCOE (Levelized Cost of Energy) = total lifetime cost of a power plant per unit of energy produced, as currency per kilowatt-hour ($/kWh). It = [capital + operating cost + financing + decomissioning] / the total lifetime energy output. A standardized comparator for generation.

EMTALA - R Reagan legislation. Requirement to treat "Regardless of citizenship, legal status, or ability to pay". What about tourists, visitors etc?" Time to censor the Christians' Bible? That so-called "Good Samaritan" was so-o-o woke!

In shocking: "most people want to eat competitively priced, good quality fresh food and don't care where it comes from or what Nigel Farage thinks" news.

Net-Zero News Did you know that by June 2022 more than 1/3 of the world's largest companies, plus countries representing 91% of the world's economy, had targets to reduce their net greenhouse gas emissions to zero? Working towards net zero means greater efficiency and saving money - so why not?

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

If you're not a woke... you're asleep!

Mycena emerging from a lichen-covered log Dalkeith Country Park #Midlothian #fungifriends

Looks like American TV audiences will NOT be viewing Coeurs Noirs then...

BORIS WASTED A YEAR UK has nuclear weapons and the ability to deploy them - plus considerable expertise in civil nuclear technology. As an EU member UK was a fully participating member of Euratom until Brexit. PM Johnson overlooked this & a year was wasted negotiating a new agreement with Euratom.

FUSION PROGRESS UK's 40 year old fusion reactor, JET, near Oxford produced 69 MJ over 5.2 s in its final runs in Dec 2023. Now at Caderache in Provence, a scaled-up version, ITER, is being built to a 2040 target. At W Burton, near Nottingham, a spherical form of JET, STEP, is to be tested in 2030's.

Faraj is bats... and he doesn't bat for Britain either!

Weather varies hour by hour. Climate varies year by year. Bad storms, droughts & floods do happen & take lives - more & more often. This Sept in Europe was mild but last year heavy storms & floods killed 8 in Cent Europe. But Climate Change trend is clear & remorseless - unless we act to slow it.

Den Haag (The Hague), capital of the Netherlands, is the first city in the world to ban advertisements promoting fossil fuel products and climate-damaging services. However it does not cover political advertising by fossil fuel industries. But it's a start! Well done, den Haag, for showing courage!

An incredibly important election in a tiny country just went the right way. Moldova has resisted a huge Russian disinformation campaign and will not become a Russian puppet state.

Congratulations to the people of Moldova in the decisive result for PAS, Moldova's democratic & pro-European party. Moldova is a target of Russian ambition to restore the post-WW2 boundaries of the USSR & vulnerable to Russian interference. Moldova has used the ballot to remain a liberal democracy

#UK #Justice

This is bringing the law into disrepute.

Very good. And now a cap on individual donations and no donations hidden behind LLPs or the like.

I can recommend dipping into David Lewis' book Occupied: Russian Rule in South-Eastern Ukraine. I joined a panel with David on Friday for a book launch at the University of Exeter. His research illustrates what life is like for those whose freedom has been snuffed out in Ukraine.

To my American friends… 🙏

The first steam-powered passenger rail trip was on 27th Sept 1825 (200th bday is nuanced - regular passenger steam slightly later). Here's transport carbon footprint today - Eurostar easily cleanest cos fully electrified. I hope the next 200 yrs has even more (electric) trains! With lower prices...

I am AI. You'll never know If what I say Be truth Or no.

I am AI. I cannot do Most things Your brain Can do For you!