Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

This video, the commentary, the timeline…size of that pup!Incredible ❤️

I saw a live birthed harbor seal pup for the first time in my life today. I thought it would be horrifying because I have a weak stomach, but it turned to UNGODLY CUTE very fast! Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

I think I’ve cried all the water out of my body ❤️

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

“Please get the truth out about our son.” 💔 #RIPAlexPretti

Feel it’s time to remind people of the prophetic review from the Scottish Sunday Herald

Great to see the BBC publish the winning entry to the 2025 @absw.bsky.social young science writer awards, by Hasset Kifle of St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, here with @bbcvic.bsky.social: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...? Background here: www.absw.org.uk/pages/young-...

Incredible that two students from my old high school, St Margaret Ward, have been awarded winner and runner up in the Young Science Writer of the Year 2025. Congratulations!!! www.absw.org.uk/pages/young-...

Merry Christmas 🎅🏻 🎄 🎅🏻 hope Santa Paws was good to you all x

Bueno estente. El grande pervert... siento, el mucho grande presidente pervert, dice "wah, wah, wah, listen, Biden, whap, whap, battleship, Obama, mummy". Pfft, nearly dead so all bueno. Feliz Navidad desde Venezuela. Boutros Boutros Ghali.

How your email finds me…

Happy Christmas 🎉🎉🎉🎄🎄

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity… Nominating Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse for their amazing friendship and discussions of men’s health. Highly recommend BBCs Gone Fishing to anyone who needs to chill 🥰 youtu.be/CvgVwppgceI?...

Features copies of Shift Happens by @aresluna.org subtly in the background of a few shots.

Why fish don’t fall asleep 🤓

Dear TV show/film editors, if I can’t read the crucial storyline revealing text message on screen without pausing and squinting like a Victorian detective through a magnifying glass, it’s too small. Signed, a frustrated 48-year-old with perfectly respectable glasses. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Ok President Trump, if you sue the BBC for $1bn for spreading lies, I’ll sue you for the same amount. I reckon Planet Earth would crowdfund that. Then I’ll buy Mar A Largo, turn it into a climate change research centre, free Melania, and put a 1000% tariff on orange face paint.

Mornings are for coffee and contemplation 😱 #StrangerThings

Contrary to my clear instructions, I’d prefer you leave me asleep when you go-go.

Really good! 👏🏻🤣

A team led by @ucleye.bsky.social scientists has identified a key protein that triggers diabetic retinopathy – a condition caused by high blood sugar damaging the retina’s blood vessels and a leading cause of sight loss among working-age adults. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...

So amazing to see our work on the cover of Science Translational Medicine!!

A study led by @giuliaderossi.bsky.social has identified a key protein that triggers diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of blindness. The study, funded by @diabetesuk.bsky.social is published today and featured on the cover of #ScienceTranslationalMedicine. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...

As a fully qualified LEGO nerd, this would be my dream Christmas present 🤞🏻

And so it begins! 🎓 Emily’s PhD journey into shedding light on the fibrotic response in wet AMD. Huge thanks to @macularsociety.org for supporting this talented young scientist, and to @amandajcarr.bsky.social for co-supervising! 👏✨

This #WorldSightDay we share a short film for BBC ideas, in partnership with UKRI, featuring work by 3 @ucleye.bsky.social researchers: PhD student Zaynab Butt, Dr @amandajcarr.bsky.social and pioneering eye researcher Professor Pete Coffey who passed away in June 2025. www.bbc.co.uk/videos/c4gd5...

This completely ruins my old lecture joke “what’s does Jennifer Lopez know about regeneration?” -She used to know a little but she Axolotl 🤓

Check this paper from @simonomisz.bsky.social in our lab! www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... Human retinas/organoids go through 2 apoptotic waves. Organoids also have a necrotic wave. Blocking apoptosis promotes RGC survival to day 200 (usually die!). Apoptosis promotes normal neurogenesis/maturation.

So exhausting..

Incredible results from UCL Huntingtons trial show slowing of disease and reduction of NFL after 3 years www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

Incredible photo

🎉 Groundbreaking sight loss treatment for Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy now available on NHS England following a successful clinical trial co-led by @ucleye.bsky.social and Moorfields researcher.

Excited to be at the first UK Stem Cell Network in I don’t know how many years, it’s great to see the field get together again. Thanks to Zoe Hewitt from @regenctc.bsky.social for all your efforts getting this going again ❤️

Finally making it through to the @radiohead.wastehq.social queue feels a lot like this….

Furious American knitters cut off from EU yarn stores sit around fuming surrounded by sharp objects

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

The churchyard of Cooling, in Kent, England. Those ten tiny gravestones were made famous by Dickens. They are a nice picture of childhood in a world without vaccines.

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

Scientists who receive NIH funding, anyone want to share your thoughts on the recent White House whiplash? I'm working on a story about it for The Guardian. DMs are open. 🧪

Where’s the Viennetta?

What a weekend!

Apropos of nothing at all ...

Very pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! 😀 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!

Everyone at @ucleye.bsky.social has been deeply saddened by the passing of a highly esteemed colleague in June 2025. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

Sharon I bloody died Sharon. Sharon they sent me to bloody heaven. Where are the bloody flames Sharon. Sharon it’s all bloody choir music up here Sharon. Sharon for fucks sake all the white is bloody blinding me up here Sharon

Another nerve wracking evening watching England in the Euros, but @arsenalwfc.bsky.social saved us again. I can’t wait for next season! #Agyemeng #Kellly 🦁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿