The beans must flow.

#resadmin Academic scientists collaborating with industry is great. Top tip: Stick to the research plan or document changes in an amendment. Otherwise you may not get paid.

I despise Poilievre even more than I despise Farage.

Logistics are woke.

I assume this means that a draft speech was not pre-circulated to media . But objectively, that's a hilarious sentence.

The gods of copyright giveth, and they taketh away.

We talked about the devastating consequences of transphobic logic for years and nobody would listen or describe them as only occurring in rare circumstances to "outliers", refusing to comprehend data points (such as the amount of intersex people in a country) as people. Now we're here.

Monday Mood

I would do a better job as Prime Minister than Kemi Badenoch. So would all of you lot.

Curtains for zoosha, I suppose.

I'd like a caipirinha, please.

Are we sure that's not a university?

So the UK-US Pharma “deal”/“agreement” is now an “arrangement”, with no sign yet of a formal text. Serious case of anticipative compliance by U.K. Just do what we think US might want. @elstorreele.bsky.social www.gov.uk/government/n...

I would like to appeal to FIFA, in relation to my parking ticket.

Toronto nude spot emerges as unlikely flashpoint over Canada investment - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Not sure whether to laugh or cry #innovation

Bro, how did you think this was going to work?

Brits keen on banning stuff for other people latest!

6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."

I think that's quite reasonable, and surprisingly honest. Most work is utter drudgery, so it's good for the kids to fully experience this.

About 20 years of public and charitable funding underpinning this. Probably quite a few rejected grant applications along the way. That's the time horizon for life sciences research. Not a parliamentary term.

"Everyone in Scotland has suddenly discovered their Mexican ancestry" -- @shaunvlog_ x.com/shaunvlog_/s...

my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up

‘At present, Andy Burnham is a retail product: someone who appears relaxed around ordinary people and on camera, and although he has spent plenty of time in Westminster, hasn’t (yet) become reassociated with that much loathed place.’ @will-davies.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

V good. taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/07/03/a...

Spiritually, this is a Moby Dick adaptation

for the most part, that sort of thing is to be had anywhere

This kind of whining - from France - is so very Brexit. Until we take responsibility for the inevitable consequences of our own stupid choices, we will stay stuck in a sulky dead-end calling other people names. Boris Johnson rejected these data sharing arrangements. You get what you pay for. (Times)

It's not just that he didn't do these things, it's that on most of them he actively resisted it or, in many cases, has worsened them. The 2027 and 2028 budgets are apocalyptic, his defence plan is unfunded, immigration and race relations are worse than ever, he suspended MPs over child poverty!

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

Saugeen Rita Letendre ~ Abenaki 1976

I'm calling on Andy Burnham to appoint Ed Miliband as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Deputy Prime Minister, and Lord President of the Council.

I am low-key obsessed with this pair of Chinese designers, in no small part because the model guy is SERVING.

Exactly. My counterproposal for national service is to require it for people age 60.

As if a country that walked out of the EU, hoping that Brexit would lead to a collapse of the EU as other countries followed it out, which, of course, did not happen, is going to be given a decision-making role in the EU. The UK needs to get real. www.ft.com/content/c5b0...

We are a nation of vibes, not a nation of laws.

Weird...None of you are on this graph.

Incidentally, this highlights a general problem about people who confuse respect for the right to hold their beliefs with respect for those beliefs. Within the general bounds of politieness, I don't have to respect anyone's beliefs. I can think you are stupid and wrong.

Perils of socialism.

My recurring nightmare is that as more of everything is digital and as we defund and close libraries (university ones too) we're on a path of knowledge extinction. How confident are we that 250 years from now anyone can retrieve documents from today? We can't even access 1980s 5" floppies anymore.

All hail the King of the North! But which north? - www.ft.com/content/0da0... via @FT

An ex of mine was best man at a wedding where if he had so chosen he could have delivered the joke: "I've slept with them both and they're neither of them any good in bed". That ex is now a vicar.