Today is World Diabetes Day! The link between gut microbiota and diabetes is vital for early diagnosis and prevention. Machine learning can aid in diagnosing diabetes earlier by analyzing microbial profiles of the gut. Learn more in JMM: doi.org/10.1099/mgen... #JMM

Canada announces a $1.7 billion program to recruit top H1B visa holders from America. #cdnpoli

Just throwing this out there for reasons apnews.com/article/2022...

Saw this in France

A woman’s place is in the wrong

“We’ve overheard American tourists in London claiming to be Canadian, a phenomenon I last encountered during the Vietnam War.” Bill Keller on the growing Trump diaspora.

“So we asked ourselves: how could we make the common bicycle heavier, more dangerous and, ultimately, reliant on electricity” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes. On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales. On the right is the UK prison population. 🧵1/8

No doubt going to the same purchasers as the 100,000 artefacts from Sudan National Museum. I’d love to know more about the international black markets in this stuff.

The scoop we were all waiting for

The big announcement: Doctor Who’s @sophiealdred.bsky.social to star in an @aptshadow.bsky.social @mikecollins99.bsky.social graphic novel published by me! #DoctorWho winteriscoming.net/first-look-d...

On this Epstein stuff, just a reminder that multiple contestants in the Miss Teen USA pageant - to repeat, TEENAGERS - said that when Trump owned it, he would walk into the dressing room so he could watch them changing clothes www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kend...

When Trump was in his 50s, he said his daughter got him to promise not to date anyone younger than her. She was 17.

Rachel Reeves has called out Brexit for what it is - an act of economic sabotage, and our report shows that Brits agree with the Chancellor on Brexit. Before the Budget, write to your local news editor to show Brits know Brexit has been a failure. https://bit.ly/43W6k2i

It’s not a cult

PHOTO OF THE DAY. The coffin of the Unknown Warrior lies in Westminster Abbey (1920). 📷 google images

Here's the Govt announcement on proposed changes to rules around suspending councillors, codes of conduct etc. Sounds wonky but actually v important when it comes to rooting out wrongdoers, crooks and donation-hiders (when ministers get round to legislating on it) www.gov.uk/government/n...

“There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Even the corruption is just crass.

Fun fact: Today is the 1 year anniversary of Farage's foreign national girlfriend Ferrari buying his house. With unexplained wealth. That should be investigated...

A centenary celebration today of the late 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Welsh-born stage, film, radio and television actor and narrator #RichardBurton CBE born #OnThisDay 100 years ago in Pontrhydyfen, Neath Port Talbot

He also lobbies for U.S. Big Tech companies that have donated millions to Trump

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

I’ve just read that many Americans cook tinned green beans in a tin of soup for Thanksgiving. I really don’t know what to say.

Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.

The wonderful @rachelburden.bsky.social is talking with some Trump stooge on @bbc5live.bsky.social. Burden: “Do you agree with Leavitt that the BBC is 100% fake news?” Stooge (reluctantly): “I don’t think that…” Burden: “So should the BBC sue Karoline Leavitt?” 🤣🤣🤣

I’d love to see a technical legal analysis of how Trump thinks he could obtain significant damages against the BBC. Apart from questions of jurisdiction, proof, quantification, etc, does the BBC have any commercial assets? His own technique is to declare bankruptcy and transfer the business.

Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.

Thanks to Cameron and Johnson.

Story from @cjayanetti.bsky.social Reform’s North Northamptonshire Council is planning to double council tax on second homes 6 months after Farage denounced such policies as “madness” and “extortion” Another example of friction bw local and national policy www.politicshome.com/news/article...

🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA

When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”. Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...

I bet half the people in America would have been delighted not spend Thanksgiving with their in-laws. Flight cancelled-,oh dear, what a shame.

Want a good laugh? Follow these reports.

So Southern Water dumped poisonous beads on Camber Sands for TWO WEEKS without noticing?

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse... #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?

Seeing so many posts about who “Starmer and Nandy” will appoint as director general. Easy mistake but the government does not appoint the director general! The BBC board, whose members are appointed for rolling terms by the culture secretary, appoints the director general.

I must say that expropriating those frozen Russian assets does seem a bit like a hostile act to me. Provocative. And the reason for it is that European voters won’t pay higher taxes to fund their own defence.

"Nature still holds many surprises for us." ~ Urák István Extraordinary discovery in a cave on the river system that's the focus of my next book: the largest spider web ever recorded, home to two different spider species and 110,000 individuals. www.scientificamerican.com/article/worl...

Sleepy Do

I won’t be flying to the US any time soon, thanks.

Brazil actually cut a new road through the Amazon to allow COP30 delegates to get to the meeting, where world leaders then proclaimed their work on saving the planet. WTAF. 🤷🏻‍♂️ #COP30 #wato

More dodgy deals uncovered in the government’s VIP lane during the peak of the pandemic