I saw this last year. It did make me laugh. Painfully accurate.

"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."

More news of road deaths of young men in cars. If we want to improve driving safety, we should remember this chart...

Nigel Farage and Elon Musk are dead against grooming gangs “paedos” until, that is, Musk’s profits are at stake Piece by me on a grim double standard comment.press/110126

Since Nurse has been talking about Musk in recent interviews, I think it’s worth flagging this post from 6 months ago, in which I suggested a way out of the debacle. So far, the RS has taken only one of the 3 suggested steps. It has a lot more work still to do. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

Sir Paul Nurse is an impressive scientist but what the Royal Society needs is Dorothy Bishop to take the helm and clean the place out. Fellows who bring the Society into disrepute need tougher action than himpathy. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Can the BBC please circulate this memo asap, word for word: When populists talk about preserving culture, they mean race. They are talking about preserving white skin and "whiteness" as they define it. Stop being dumb.

African descended people are walking around with surnames like McCalmont and Mcdonald but you're saying it's European culture facing erasure 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Re-upping this: Not accusing him of anything, just putting it out there. Quite the coincidence how these people always seem to be connected. I'm sure it's nothing. #BBCLauraK

Good morning, New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story ft.trib.al/JJJDgGZ

My latest blogpost considers the life and legacy of Nancy Lane Perham (which includes Athena Swan) and its relevance to the recently announced Women in Tech taskforce occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n... 1/3

“Migrants may come as students or dependants, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t work, & it turns out that a large proportion do.” So many preconceptions about immigration based on right-wing anti-immigrant ideology that are not backed up by facts.

This craven cowardice is not only morally repugnant, but also completely at odds with the Royal Society’s own code of conduct. By failing to uphold the code, Sir Paul Nurse looks like he’s himself also breaching it - both are bringing the Society into disrepute. royalsociety.org/-/media/abou...

The new ad campaign for X is nothing if not honest...

I saw the new film Nuremberg. It was based on the life of psychologist Douglas Kelly, who interviewed Nazi war criminals for five months before their trial. His book was not popular when he published it. Kelly's last chapter served as a warning from history, and this passage resonates with us now.

Here’s just some of that Royal Society code of conduct. It looks extremely clear to me that Musk is breaching it in multiple ways. It also seems clear to me that the Royal Society has explicitly set out that it should judge the character & actions o its fellows.

Another eight pupils at Nigel Farage's school accuse him of racism. One says he was called a "Paki" and told to "go back home" by Farage, who was three years older than him. New names say they spoke up after being angered by Farage's denials www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Journalists should condemn a state sponsored murder before clutching their pearls over imagined breaches of etiquette by public servants. Unbecoming, reeks of fascist bootlicking. You're a member of the Fourth Estate. Act like it.

The thing about the Minneapolis murder and the child sexual abuse material being churned out by X is that this is how far it has to go in violence and evidence before you get a visceral, immediate reaction on the left. On the right, a migrant drops a coffee cup and it's "lynch them all" by tea time.

Let's be clear: it is not for Elon Musk to "urgently deal" with his business's production of child pornography, it's for the Home Secretary to urgently call the Commissioner of the Met and ask when we can expect to see senior Twitter execs being arrested and brought in for questioning.

Your fact of the day: The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132. bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...

Every time a TERF comes for me, I write another article and post it. It reaches over a million people a day. Every time I debunk them. Every time it works. Because their entire ideology is projection. That is the only argument they have. Here’s one they can’t debunk open.substack.com/pub/danielli...

FIFA hurriedly cobbling together a Best Kidnapping Prize.

uh holy SHIT?

Lots of lovely free talks from Gresham College in London and can watch online live (or catch up) www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on?see...

In the U.S. in legislation, it had largely been confined to the anti-trans bills, staring with the ADF/ACPeds bathroom bans of 2015-2017, and surging from 2020 onward - though in the past couple of years you increasingly see members of the media and supposed allies using it. They've been hoodwinked.

The conservative proposition is that there are outgroups that the law must bind but not protect and there are ingroups that the law must protect but not bind.

I'm hoping we don't remember 2025 as the year it just became completely normalised for mainstream politicians to be openly racist and instead it's a blip. I'm not hugely optimistic.

Sunday Worship on BBC Radio 4 this morning celebrated the 80th and 70th birthdays of John Rutter and Bob Chilcott, respectively. Christmas music and commentary from both composers. Amazed that Rutter wrote ‘Nativity carol’ when he was just 16. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Not being in a cage makes mice less stressed, feels like one of those things that shouldn't take a massive experiment to verify, but here we are. I suspect this may lead, down the line, to requiring new lab standards to certin experiment with these animal models. 🧪 Link: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Happy to say that Monkfish Wellington (with prawns, scallops and mushrooms) worked very well for our Xmas dinner tonight.

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

I'm enjoying the Radio 4 celebrations of the centenary of the first Winnie the Pooh story. This quote about the cleverness of Rabbit made me laugh. It could apply to many people I think.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wins this year's Shkreli Award  edzardernst.com/2025/12/robe...

Never heard of this formulation but the explanation makes some sense.

Revealed: how big businesses are rolling back public support for Pride

Very pleased that @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social is able to sponsor this competition👇 📸We’d love to see your photos of science and scientists in the UK. Categories are: 🧑‍🤝‍🧑People in Science 🔬Microscopy images 📊Non-photography media 🖼️Image sets 🐛Wildlife & nature 🌃Astronomy 👀General

Reading is an active process. It is NOT the passive intake of information. Nor is it a skill that you either have or don’t have. It’s a skill (like writing) that requires lifelong cultivation. Especially if you aim to conduct original research in an ongoing way

I love these signs! I hope Cameron Hunt will do an installation in a UK city soon.

A useful feature I've not heard before. Did you know this @jobrodie.bsky.social ?

I’m disappointed that Craig didn’t read Queen Camilla’s letter in character. #strictly

Even if LLMs worked as their boosters claim, and could write the thing I intended to write when I sat down, what I intended to write and what I ended up writing might be the opposite.

Lie #1: Libraries indoctrinate. Truth: Censoring library books by removing them from libraries or prohibiting them from the shelves in the first place is indoctrination. https://www.oif.ala.org/lies-about-libraries-part-one/