Successive UK govts to unis: ok you should act like businesses. We are going to reduce yr funding. We are also going to cap student fees. Unis: ok let's get international students! Successive UK govts: also no.

"KEI is pleased that WHO negotiators eliminated problematic language on technology transfer in the global action plan on AMR." @who.int #WHA79 @grahamdutfield.bsky.social @anupamchander.bsky.social @jamielove.bsky.social

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Reform don't actually want to govern.

The 'stinging rebuke' is open access here. You don't need to be an historian to applaud it. #Skystorians 2/2

The "no more lockdowns" crowd is taking a sharp turn

Campaigners threaten legal action over UK-US deal on prices NHS pays for drugs www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

“This is exactly the kind of pathogen that's going to test whether the global health security infrastructure is functioning.” https://scim.ag/4duhS0G

American money is behind so much of the UK far right, from little Tommy to anti-abortion activism. It’s not even hidden

I use films to teach global health. Films are powerful and always resonate with students Here is a list of great movies focused on global health topics 👇 communities.springernature.com/posts/inspir...

Between 2021 and 2024, USAID is estimated to have saved 91 million lives. Before it shut down, the agency accounted for less than 1% of federal spending. The collapse may have already caused 762,000 preventable deaths and could lead to more than nine million preventable deaths by 2030, study says.

Isotope analysis of copper artefacts from Bronze Age Möriken-Wildegg, Switzerland found some copper was likely sourced as far away as Cyprus, indicating that, c.1400 BC, even rural communities were involved in the extensive Eurasian market networks. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Beyond GDP: 31 alternatives to the world’s favourite measure of economic health www.nature.com/articles/d41...

London is far from perfect. But this is a nice response to that tedious right wing lie about London being an Islamist, crime-ridden, multicultural hellhole. www.timeout.com/london/news/...

The UAE tries hard to keep its reputation spotless. But with the war in Sudan, how can it? | Nesrine Malik www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I think a lot of people are just as bewildered about this. I certainly am.

Steel industry: £1.1bn in GDP and 20,000 employees University sector: £265bn in GDP and 400,000 employees What the fuck am I missing here.

Yet another instance of “supporting innovation” rhetoric being used to bolster existing monopolies, so that those having perfectly legitimate sceptical views can be chastised for being anti-innovation

I don’t believe that most voters are OK with this. A moral failing of the British media that these four reprobates were not made (in)famous enough to be stopped.

The people "credible" on migration are the experts, people who provide services for migrants, economists who understand labour markets and migrants themselves. All ignored regularly by politicians/media, 0 funding, 0 resource, death threats and hostility. Gee whizz if only there was a solution.

It’s a little dispiriting that liberal-minded non-xenophobes are called to vote for the party they dislike the least. It’s fair to assume that all xenophobes WILL show up to vote. So we have to vote too.

New blog up on the Places, Plants and People Archive Network website, featuring lots of beautiful images of Kew Gardens! By @alyssamyers.bsky.social collections.reading.ac.uk/places-plant...

Keep Britain Kind

“Cameron’s strategy was extraction …He took the unique biometric facial features of a 14-year-old Indigenous girl, ran them through an industrial production process and generated billions of dollars in profit without ever once asking her permission.That is theft.” www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

His closest aide sentenced to 10.5 years for spying for the Russians. Failing to disclose £5m donation and how he bought a house in Clacton. A decade of school antisemitism and racism. Cavorting with Neo Nazis and planning mass deportations. What is the media love about Farage?

Politico - "GOODBYE VMAT: An updated World Health Organization action plan on antimicrobial resistance will promote technology sharing — minus qualifying language stipulating tech sharing would be on “voluntary and mutually agreed terms” (VMAT)." pro.politico.eu/news/europes... #WHA79 @who.int

AI cannot be a scientist any more than it can be an artist or a composer of music.

‘Beyond COP’ climate summit puts scientists at the centre of the action www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Immigration is falling sharply – why haven’t politicians noticed? www.thenewworld.co.uk/suner-katwal...

It remains very weird to me that in a world of actually useful technology -- photovoltaic power generation, mRNA vaccines, maglev trains, smart phones, etc -- the tech sector has gone so all-in on bullshit generators and plagiarism machines.

Corporatization of the climate? Innovation, intellectual property rights, and patents for climate change mitigation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @dgotham.bsky.social

this is very good and very depressing

This is a problem I have. As an insomniac I really must listen to more podcasts at 3 in the morning.

‘Beyond COP’ climate summit puts scientists at the centre of the action www.nature.com/articles/d41...

1/ So angry. First, this is what "elections have consequences" really looks like. In addition to big stuff like wars and Liberation Day tariffs, the whole vast US machinery of state is now working everywhere, on everything, to make the world worse in every way. Thanks guys.

Nature research paper: The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans go.nature.com/41SXrVX

Absolutely shameful - there is no excuse for this www.emjreviews.com/general-heal....

We need legislation so that this is criminalised, treated under the law as bribery. Problem is turkeys don’t vote for Christmas. But democracy eventually dies when the system is awash with money.

There are numerous overlooked or under-appreciated people, of whom Rosalind Franklin is the best known and for good reason. There are others including at my university, and here is one more theconversation.com/our-unsung-h...

A Roman emperor called Commodus was so enamored of himself that he renamed every month of the year and even the city of Rome after himself and had himself declared a god. Today his name is associated only with toilets. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes historyfacts.com/famous-figur...

We never seen "Putin threaten genocide". We have seen: -Deportations -Killing civilians & targeting infra to set conditions of life calculated to bring destruction of 🇺🇦 & 🇺🇦ians -Genocidal rhetoric -Forced adoptions -Arrests for speaking 🇺🇦 -Forced change of citizenship... But no "threats"...

Trump is on his hands and knees begging Iran to accept the same deal that Obama had and in return he will give them $20 Billion dollars. We spent one trillion dollars, and 14 service members lives for this? - are you kidding me... What a joke... Impeach and remove this idiot immediately. #Impeach

I've lived through relatively good and bad Tory & Labour governments, but never through a period like this. It simply does not matter what positive things this Labour government does. They're not permitted to spoil a relentless media assault. bylinetimes.com/2026/04/10/1...

When the American government set out to erase indigenous culture, one woman set out to save tribal music, traveling far and wide with her cylinder phonograph, trousers, and bow tie www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/21/f...

Good. It’s easy to forget that climate change denial & shilling for fossil fuel companies provided a template for Tufton Street, Brexit & pretty much every egregious example of persuading populations to vote against their own interests. The story of Don Pearlman should be taught in kindergartens…

He might as well answer in Russian.