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TRUMP TO LILLY: DROP DEAD

BREAKING: Putin calls for emergency mediation session between his two employees.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

This is like a football match between two teams you dislike so you support the referee. Apart from the fact there isn't a referee in this match, but at least both of them can lose!

Steve Bannon wants Elon Musk deported, as per the NYT.

Quick. Somebody tell Trump that the best way to own Elon is to restore all research grants and double NSF funding.

De VS hebben T.A.C.O., Nederland heeft W.A.C.O. #Wilders

If you think Reform will solve the UK's problems, just have a look at what Wilders achieved in the Netherlands. 0 Zero Nothing Big promises, but in the end his only belief is islamophobia.

Normally politicians want to stay in government as long as possible, to maximize the chances of delivering their promises and because being in power is nice. With Wilders the opposite applies: the longer he stays, the clearer it becomes that his pledges are undeliverable.

A serious thing for Harvard to consider would be to relocate before the endowment is exhausted. Sell the campus land and move to another country and keep operating. Read the fate of CEU here below. They relocated several times and recently from Budapest to Vienna. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central...

Proud to have signed the Stockholm Declaration on Chemistry for the Future. A call to transform chemistry, where science empowers human well-being without degrading our ecosystems. Read it. Share it. Sign it. www.stockholm-declaration.org #SustainableScience #GreenChemistry

Chancellor Reeves: "Our biggest trading partners are our friends, our allies in the EU. For too long it's been too difficult to export, to bring in talent, to trade with our nearest neighbours and that's not good enough because it's held back our growth." Incredible that this even needs saying. ~AA

Science teachers! If you want to prebook a place for your class to visit our upcoming large-scale pop-up shop event in the St David's Centre in Cardiff in July 2025 please get in touch! The microbial world in, on and around us - Information, demonstrations, live stage, art, games, fun. 🤒🦠🧫🔬🥼🧪👨🏻‍🏫📖🛍️

And me.

Thrilled to reveal the cover for Bunny Vs Monkey book ELEVEN! Intergalactic Monkey Business is released in October, but available for preorder now! 🐰🐵🚀

Cowards.

Bavella, een bergketen in het zuiden van Corsica…

#ClimateChange 🌡️ is exceptional and caused by human greenhouse gas emissions 🏭 We are causing #globalwarming 10 times faster than past natural changes We are taking Earth’s 🌎 climate beyond natural limits, with carbon dioxide & temperatures levels not seen for 3 million years

Climate change is making fire seasons in Australia, the US, and Canada longer, and they’re starting to overlap. By 2050, the shared burden could grow by up to 29 days/year, straining firefighting partnerships (e.g. aircraft use) built on taking turns agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

This year's Earth Day @EarthDay has the theme "Our Power, Our Planet". CONNECTS-UK's super power is linking researchers across all types of expertise to solve the renewable power puzzle and to show the power of research to the people.

Wij zeggen: Er is wél een rode lijn. Onze advertentie, vandaag in het AD, Trouw en de Volkskrant. Deel dit statement en help ons om meer partijen te overtuigen.

You don't know what you have until it's gone - Brexit version. How I wish I had spoken out more and why I'm involved in @connects-uk.bsky.social now.

This is painful to watch, and I'm not even British. Mind you, I'm not claiming Dutch colonial past was better in any way, shape or form and I'm sure you'll find Netherlanders with similar attitudes to our past.

My thoughts on the “pharmaceutical tariffs” issue, and an explanation of just what a morass it is.

Don't you hate it when you accidentally post on Truth Social what you wanted to post on Signal?

Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

Hot damn, Steven Horsford just set fire to Trump's U.S. Trade Representative Jameison Greer over Trump's idiotic and costly tariff play.

Death toll as a result of a Russian ballistic missile strike on Kryvyi Rih rises to 18. Half of them, nine, are children. Absolutely heartbreaking. At the same time, Russian envoy in DC talks deals with the Trump's team. Russia senses impunity and will get more aggressive. Ukrainian kids will pay

In need of a good news story? This lovely open science story is all that is good about collaborative science!

Just a reminder that Wales pays to send its best pupils to study in England while universities in Wales avoid going bankrupt by making 14% of academics redundant. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Oh god it’s that day again isn’t it. The day when everyone tricks me and I fall for it. What joy.

A paper on the probability words used in intelligence analysis. Each word is meant to relate to a specific probability range. But people interpret these words in varied ways. "Participants greatly overestimated the probability for realistic possibility" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Drie prominente fascisme-wetenschappers verlaten de VS, onder wie @timothysnyder.bsky.social. 'Ich befürchte, dass es zu einem Bürgerkrieg kommen wird. Und ich möchte nicht, dass meine Kinder da hineingezogen werden.' www.derstandard.de/story/300000...

Eight weeks after launching its consultation which threatened 1807 academics with redundancy, Cardiff University has still not published the ‘critical friend’ report on Cardiff Business School promised in the consultation document. Meanwhile all Cardiff Business School academics remain at risk.

Join us in condemning Elon Musk bringing the Royal Society in to disrepute

what's the English translation of "Lebensraum"?

Welp. It happened. Our NIH training grant was terminated on Friday. Just highlighting this incredibly derisive language used in our termination notice. To focus on the positives, see some of the great things our undergraduates have done over the last couple of years: web.uri.edu/esteemed/

Even the smallest contamination on an NMR tube can significantly impact your results. A dirty sample can lead to: - Poor shimming and reduced sensitivity - Potential contamination of the probe, requiring time-consuming maintenance #NMRchat #ChemSky #RealTimeChem

It is hard to think of someone who has done more harm to US science in so short a time than Musk FRS. And it's still happening daily.

This is the moment we've worked toward for a long time: First public disclosure of the @asapdiscovery.bsky.social pan-coronavirus antiviral aiming to help keep humanity safe from future pandemic threats like MERS-CoV and other bat coronaviruses.

📢Important announcement! Today, the @asapdiscovery.bsky.social consortium disclosed the structure of our preclinical candidate, ASAP-0017445, a promising broad-spectrum antiviral with potent activity against SARS-CoV2 and other viruses belonging to the same family. (1/10)

With apologies for the bad language, but the Dutch PM really is called Dick - and this is a proposal to make him Donald Trump's prime ally. #satire

Verontrustend, @ajboekestijn.bsky.social en @robdewijk.bsky.social

Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback. Or, in the recent case of the ACS, trust leaves on a high-speed train.

Old chemistry labs be like #chemsky

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Are you sure this isn't the Scandinavian airline SAS, rather than the special forces, @theguardian.com...?

Quick - someone tell JD Vance that free speech is under attack in the USA. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms. It really works.