Coincidence I'm sure, but it's difficult *not* to make the #JurassicPark connection between #Radio4 reports of the discovery of Hitler's DNA on the #TodayProgramme earlier, with the #InOurTime on #Dinosaurs right now. It suggests some sort of #BoysFromBrazil remake to capture our fascist zeitgeist.

Anyone looking for a short primer on the #CarbonCycle (🌳and 🌊) could do a lot worse than today's #TheLifeScientific programme on #BBCRadio4 with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social interviewing @pfriedling.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) ... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Alternatively: "100% of #gamers believe #Steam has a monopoly on PC games that spares them from having to install multiple bullshit apps like #Uplay / #EAApp" Sure, @steampowered.com's monopoly is bad, but so is having to tolerate a whole load of crap alternative platforms.

Hey @royalsociety.org - hate to break it to you, but just because you were formed in the wake of Britain's last civil war, doesn't mean you'll weather one fomented by your most racist, most scumbaggy Fellow. You're embarrassing UK science by acquiescing to a fellow who doesn't even respect you.

Hello #Clippy - sorry! Hello #Mico! arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

I *knew* it! The dinosaurs 🦕 were ROBBED!

Nice to see an #ESM study on 🌊 #mCDR looking at ecosystem interactions in #OAE - something which we totally glossed over in our own recent evaluation! 🤭

Today in metaphors for gross bureaucratic overreach, near-complete lack of perspective, blind qualitative thinking, wildly disproportionate targeting of low-hanging fruit, effective favouring of corporate offenders, spiteful use of enforcement, unconscionable failure to see the woods for the trees.

Reassuring that the Republican Party has safely put democracy out of the reach of the electorate ...

I'm not entirely sure how to take this ...

An amazing literal manifestation of the destruction that Trump et al. are wreaking on the wider fabric of the US ...

The intriguing #MountainsOfKong got a passing mention on this morning's #StartTheWeek on #BBCRadio4. Looking them up on @wikipedia.org, I was surprised to discover that an early proponent of this wholly fictional range was none other than the 🌊 oceanographer, #JamesRennell.

Headline translated: Social parasite says it will exit host if unimpeded access to bleed it dry discontinued #GamblingPrevention #EndAddiction

Looks like opponents of #SolarRadiationManagement have a new ally in their fight: #MAHA asshats. Less concerned by #MoralHazard than #ImaginaryHazard, but my enemy's enemy is my friend, right? #SRM #ClimateInterventions #Chemtrails

Writing a paper? OK with being savagely beaten by an AI "Reviewer 2"? Then maybe give this new service a try …

While visiting @samsocean.bsky.social near #Oban, Team #SMARTEX takes a moment to look at a much shallower marine ecosystem … 🌊

Glasgow keeps on being #Glasgow ...

<Looks around> No shit, Sherlock

No it's not. (WTF happened to #NationalGeographic?)

Your regular reminder that businesses are playing the CC-PP game 24:7. They commonise costs (CC) where they can (in this case, the climate cost of methane), and always privatise profits (PP). This means all of us pay (including them, but only a little) while they keep all of the gain.

🚨New GMD publication alert!🚨 🌊 Do you like your limiting nutrients to be proximate or ultimate? Delighted to have worked on this with David, Jamie and Toby. *And* to be reunited with one of my great model loves, #GEnIE! And with more to follow ... #MarineBiogeochemistry #BiogeochemicalModelling

I think this might be enough to allow #KemiBadenoch to squeak under the limbo bar already set at "zero credibility" ...

🚨 Warning! 🚨 A second Pope is making all the right noises. High risk of turning Catholic! ...

This sort of deep-dive dissection into the motivations of the terrible people who, somehow, have control of the levers of power is pretty much absent from most media channels. At the very point when we most need such scrutiny. Someone please give this guy a job.

What kind of moron says "three to four days" when there are lives on the line? Rightly or wrongly (100% the latter) this asshat has power over people's lives ... and he trots out vague bullshit deadlines?

Intriguing / depressing 🇬🇧 vs. 🇺🇸 divergence in the news today. While 🇬🇧 medics are bemoaning the rollout of a telehealth scheme as damaging to patients (esp. non-digital seniors), seniors in the 🇺🇸 actually face a loss of such services ahead of yet another retarded govt shutdown.

Important to remember that just a few decades ago US anti-abortionism was a fringe movement of secondary interest to the Republican party. But marrying the zeal of its fervent adherents with the resources of malevolent oligarchs got them to a dominant position today. Let's not make the same mistake.

#CloudPorn - I can never get enough.

Would love to be a fly on the wall when the #TimesOfIndia discover what coal-fired power stations (~45% of electricity production) and the resulting climate change will do to female 🦀 crabs, 🌊 marine ecosystems, 🌳 terrestrial ecosystems, 🚜 farming productivity, 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 human populations, coastlines, ...

Whoa there Broecker & Peng! I've seen academics chew out their colleagues for committing the cardinal sin of using "plants" as a shorthand synonym for "🌊 photoautotrophs" ...

@bas.ac.uk people - Is this true? If so, good for you. I'm not sure what equivalent film would best work for computer-based Earth system modelling scientists (specifically marine 🌊 BGC), but I'm open to suggestions.

For a normal political party, this sort of story would have its leader dragged in front of the microphones and asked questions like ... - How many other of *your* party members are taking #RussianMoney? - Are you taking Russian money? - Where did your money come from #MrFarage? No chance here.

Keep going Tice - keep tying yourself to the deadweight that is the incoherent insanity of Trumpland ...

Leaving aside the important political backdrop here, for a second I thought this image was one of those #MagicEye pictures from like 30 years ago ...

I really wish they'd stop calling it "scepticism" when it's clearly just "fuckwittery" ...

Amazing [*] how #DOGE in action almost perfectly encapsulates the false negative stereotype of "government jobs". A bunch of lazy, incompetent, and entitled skivers. And completely reckless with the lives of others. [*] Not really.

A new high point in "my car is more valuable than your life" ...

So this is a cool climate change website that's big on positive developments. Basically a review site for evaluating high/low tech things that might help reduce #ClimateChange. And there are a lot of them that seem pretty good ... plus some shady 🌊 ones I've worked on that get a deserved kicking.

You might think that your daily life is a Sisyphean grind in which nothing noteworthy happens, but spare a thought for #Phosphorus atoms ...

Maybe my understanding of capitalism is wrong, but I thought that if the world's most valuable drug company didn't want to sell to the UK at a price that it didn't like, then it just wouldn't sell. What am I missing? Have we kidnapped the CEO's family for extortion purposes?

Today in #FirstWorldProblems ... is there really no way to set up a daily steps target in the Activities #iPhone app? While it may not be the best fitness stat, it's very familiar and personally useful. But #Apple seem to judge otherwise and block doing this except via 3rd party apps. That right?

As I discount Space Aliens out of hand (cf. the complete lack of extraterrestrial evidence bar wishful thinking), I find myself having to grudgingly cede ground to the very-terrestrial conspiracy theory alternative expounded here (i.e. it's the military-industry complex). That's not good, right?

Only "in doubt"?!? Why the uncertainty @royalsociety.org? Is there something that's offsetting your Fellow's avowed racism, anti-science agenda, and recent call to violence?

"You have spent 2 of the required 3 minutes on this policy" #FairCop

Half-listening to #BBCRadio4 while working, I just caught a charming little drama about (of all people) #JamesMason. After some wiki-wormholing, I was astonished to discover his co-star from the excellent #NorthByNorthwest (1959), #EvaMarieSaint, celebrated her 101st birthday just the other month.

RuBisCO being crap but also the world's #1 enzyme by abundance was something drilled into me by #JohnRaven during my original degree last century. Cool to see research bypassing (to a point) what's been an evolutionarily insurmountable "brake" for 4 billion years.

Today in applications of Betteridge's Law ...

Excuse me, Social Media? While I did have a grim laugh of recognition, this isn't exactly what I want served-up on my first day back cycling after a 7-week break ...

It's almost like ... oh, I don't know ... like our political system is governed by a so-called "free press" owned and controlled by malevolent corporates that use whatever scraps they have to attack those reining-in their power, while soft-pedalling on egregious behaviour by those in their pocket.

A great little primer on #Geoengineering in today's edition of #RareEarth from @helenczerski.bsky.social and @tomheap.bsky.social ... 🌊