Starmer says past governments have been "squeamish" talking about immigration. Bullshit. Starmer isn't bravely breaking a taboo. He's blaming vulnerable people & deflecting attention from the super rich who hoard power & wealth. Want something better? join.greenparty.org.uk

Here's the key chart from that piece. Note what's on here with significant risk: genetic inheritance (twin on autism spectrum, sibling), third trimester stress, and factors that can affect maternal/paternal DNA. What doesn't carry risk? SSRIs. Sonograms. And vaccination. All very well tested.

Ask an immigrant with indefinite leave to remain how easy it is to sort out ID when getting a new job *right now*. This is a total disconnect from reality, racist, and stupid.

”Myndigheten för psykologiskt försvar och Säpo har under lång tid varnat för rysk och kinesisk informationspåverkan. Men när påverkansarbetet sker från länder som står närmare Sveriges intressen – som Israel – uteblir reaktionen helt.”

It's a match! An ornithological mystery 180 years in the making has finally been solved, as the skin of the final (reliably known) female Great Auk has been recovered from the Natural History Museum of Cincinnati! 🌍🧪👇 doi.org/10.1093/zool... #FossilFriday! #MAFSUK

🔎 New #MIPEX2025 findings: EU integration policies stagnate at 54/100 The latest Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) EU update reveals little progress in recent years, with significant gaps across Member States. 📊 Read the report: lnkd.in/eyxRbSSc #Migration #Integration #EuropeanUnion

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Det är just utanför riksdagen demonstrationsfriheten är som viktigast. Polisens agerande måste anses strida mot grundlagen.

“Either we have copyright law or we don’t. Either plagiarism and the theft of intellectual property are anathema to higher education or they aren’t. We’re either modeling academic honesty and integrity to our students or we aren’t.” —@thetattooedprof.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/some... 1/n

Wow detta känns riktigt dåligt, valåret har inte ens börjat

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

An excellent essay on the necessary function of shame in liberal society, from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

En delikat detalj med den här nyheten är att Helsingborgs Dagblad inte rapporterat om händelsen. skanesfolkblad.se/bil-korde-in...

Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.

"Hundratusentals arbetare, studenter och ungdomar gick samman i en landsomfattande generalstrejk mot folkmordet i Gaza och mot den italienska regeringens medlöperi med Israel." internationalen.se/italien-visa...

What Trump said are the well-worn and often rebutted lies of the fossil fuel lobby, whose lies are the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world. If you hear such climate science denial tropes, the answers to all of those can be found at skepticalscience.com

Well, this wasn’t at all predictable… …except by every single privacy advocate when Google launched Google Glass. #Cassandra

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. wants to find the causes of #autism by September. Erin McCanlies has spent the past 20yrs studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals at work affects the chance that they will have a child with the condition. RFK Jr. cut her entire lab. My latest video for @propublica.org

This is what politicization of the Justice Department results in.

Den queera fetischklubben Swedish leather men, SLM, har fått sitt Instagramkonto raderat av Meta. SLM ifrågasätter om det är förenligt med diskrimineringslagen.

You know what, something fantastic happened today. This guy Alaa who's been rotting in an Egyptian jail got released today, after lots of campaigning from good people all over www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Anti-autism campaigner, Karen Hoyland, 40, commented: “I love my child but I hate his autism. The other day I came home to find him lining up his guns, instead of playing with them like a normal kid.”

“[Charlie] did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them,” Trump said. “That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them." Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

”USA befinner sig väl ungefär där Erdogans Turkiet var 2016.” Statsvetarprofessor Staffan I Lindberg vid demokratiinstitutet @vdeminstitute.bsky.social säger att #USA inte längre kan klassas som en demokrati efter att journalister tystas. #demokrati #pressfrihet www.svd.se/a/gw5WxB/for...

SD-politikern Jessica Stegruds filmaktion visar hur täta banden är mellan moderpartiet och de högerextrema nätaktivisterna. När trollfabriken lade ned tog frilansarna vid – för att skapa en alternativ medievärld där aktivister förlöjligas och blir dokusåpor på nätet. www.flamman.se/palestinaror...

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

Private prison guards contracted by ICE retaliate agst 100 immigrants protesting abuse & neglect inside new California City Immigrant Detention Center. Immigrants report guards entered cell blocks wearing riot gear & arrested protesters. @ccijustice.bsky.social www.ccijustice.org/post/retalia...

For 20 years, I was suppressed in academia. Never again. theburnlist.shop 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #AddToBlackEduSky #FeministSky

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

like so many products to come out of silicon valley in the last decade or so, AI is a legal innovation masquerading as a tech innovation. the legal theory seems to be that AI is entitled to everything but liable for nothing.

On Twitter I have 47,500 subscribers. On BlueSky I have 28,500. Yes, my engagement on Twitter is absolutely massive with hundreds of comments - and most of it tends to be awful and consists of groups screaming over each other. On here, I have thoughtful feedback, robust discussions and what (1)

Just spotted the new eps of @thedailytism.com and it's relatable stuff. Esp the Autistics who struggles get one word out on autism (all the time) and the funeral for a bowl. The wake for my fork (It bent 😱) is next week... youtu.be/SSrQpabAD_c?...

Since Disney & fascists are trending, this is from the 1943 Writers Congress, led by Hollywood Writers Mobilization (for the war). Walt Disney was there, & every leftist who was anyone in H'wd. 🗃️ Disney briefly joined in - but so many of the rest got called by HUAC & blacklisted *b/c of this*.

Reminder: Prescott Bush, GW Bush's grandpa, was a fascist who was part of the Business Plot that attempted to violently overthrow the US government They chose Smedley Butler, one of FDR's close friends, as their leader en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescot... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busines...

“Archaeology isn’t neutral—it’s been used to build nationalist myths. This essay on 19th-century Italy shows how history gets weaponised.” medium.com/the-academic...

Over the past week, Russia has launched over 1,500 drones, 1,280 glide bombs, and 50 missiles at Ukraine. Zelensky noted that more than 132,000 foreign components were found in this weaponry, originating from Europe, the U.S., China, Japan, and others.

How does the brain fill in what's missing? Pattern completion pushes visual cortex into "seeing" what is not there. Great to see this out, congrats to the authors on this impressive work! #neuroskyence

This rethinking of MI from @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @boryslaw.bsky.social is going straight to the syllabus. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I've also thought MI useful as a way to test substantive hypothesis, so this was clarifying more generally. ajps.org/2021/10/11/o...

Det blev lite tok med SVT:s faktagranskning om språk i Ukraina, noterade @kallekn.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy och jag. De två första påpekandena är korrekta men att regioner kan besluta om ett andra ”lokalt” språk är fel. Denna rätt fanns i språklagen från 2012 som Janukovytj drev igenom. 1/3

This is one of the best pilots I've ever seen, can't eloquently put into words how much I loved it.

“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before” news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

"Democracies risk falling into a doom loop, in which restrictions on immigration mean ever greater demands on the purse of the native-born population and ever worse services, which in turn deepens opposition towards immigration" @stephenkb.bsky.social calls for honesty. www.ft.com/content/43da...

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FN-chefen Carl Skau i Ekots lördagsintervju idag. Om Gaza: ”Det är ett helvete. Barn som svälter till döds. Tusentals barn som driver runt utan sina föräldrar. Anarki, kaos. Dessutom fördrivs människor igen. De har redan flyttat kanske 20-30 gånger.” sverigesradio.se/play/avsnitt...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

If you’re canceling subscription services with giant companies with ties to terrible people, you should think about replacing them with a library card. Many library systems give you access to physical media (some of which you can’t find on streaming!) as well as other great stuff.

Apply to do a PhD with me, Laura Corbin, Gareth Hawkes and George Davey Smith ( @mendelrandom.bsky.social) in Bristol on identifying rare effects on health using new and innovative methods. Amazing team, great educational environment, lovely city. Forward to your undergrads wrapping up!