Brexit is still killing everything that any Govt tries to do and nobody except the LibDems are prepared to admit it. It has been a greater disaster than anyone predicted. Think what £90bn in tax revenue could've done in so many 'sectors'. NHS, UKRI, etc etc etc.

This is why a con man shouldn’t have been allowed to become President! This 👇

Come on folks! With a bit more effort, you could end up with more factions than MPs.

1/ Collective punishment of tens of thousands of vetted Afghan partners won’t prevent radicalization. But it will guarantee fewer allies, more enemies, and higher risks for U.S. troops the next time we deploy. www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Will someone please ask the 89 million Americans who didn't vote in the last election if they are being affected by anything this administration is doing to the other Americans?

Brilliant analogy

An MP in Zimbabwe has called for the repeal of the country's "backwards" 1977 abortion law. He argued that safe abortion should be available to a wider range of Zimbabwean women, as it is currently restricted to a privileged few. Each year, 60,000 women die due to unsafe abortion.

Most residences did!

It wasn't the Romans. That was a set up. It was the People's Front of Judea, or the Judean People's Front. One of them. But bless Kemi. Every time she opens her mouth it is so entertaining

There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?

“Speaking outside his chateau in France…” I kid you not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Frikkin amazing stuff.

My entry for #WoodpeckerWednesday is this Pileated Woodpecker in my yard a few years ago in #Tacoma. #Birds #Nature #Photography

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If you can afford a £2M house you can afford £2,500 extra in tax

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... Congratulations to Dilem Shakir, Michael Batie, Chun-Sui Kwok, Niall Kenneth and @srochaliv.bsky.social on their their lovely study describing NF-κB’s central role in the hypoxia response - just out in EMBO Reports. A pleasure to collaborate with Team Rocha!!👏 🍾 👌

WTAF? Orwell is spinning in his grave. I think he wanted his works to be satire and warning, not prediction.

This week's (on time) selection of articles and #preprints on #proteostasis thanks to @biomednews.bsky.social -- biomed.news/bims-proteo/... Highlight - @drsimoncook.bsky.social RAF inhibitors activate the integrated stress response by direct activation of GCN2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In a massive backlash against MAGA fascism, Democrats have now swept school board elections in Pennsylvania, Texas and Ohio and defeating all terrorist Moms For Liberty candidates in the process. Much more of this please, we have a democracy to rescue. 💙👊

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

"We blew a hole in our roof a decade ago – and it’s long past time we fixed it." Indeed.

Aida Overton Walker (1880 -1914), US vaudeville performer, known as 'Queen of the Cake Walk', after a 1900s dance craze. The Cake Walk, originally performed by enslaved people, mocked slave owners & high society #womensart

Man arrested after five Red Kites found poisoned in Essex raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/22/m...

Superb footage including raising his red crown near the end

Very worrying developments for US science

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... Congratulations to Suzan Ber and @aesposito1975.bsky.social on their lovely study of KRAS alleles on glutamine and nitrogen metablism and signalling - just out in EMBO Reports. Such a pleasure to collaborate on this fascinating project! 👏

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

By characterizing abortion as health care, international orgs have pushed back against abortion exceptionalism. The World Health Organization recognizes that “[a]bortion is a simple health care intervention.” Numerous countries have adopted laws and policies to align with WHO recommendations.

🧠 Fully funded 4-year PhD studentship 🧠 Please repost BBSRC NWD project with @parikki.bsky.social and @iamabyron.bsky.social Come join us to look at how mechanical and oxidative stress signalling pathways converge on the synaptic scaffold protein talin. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Women are watching abusive dynamics play out on the national stage and for many it feels very, very familiar to what they’ve experienced regularly— I hope midterms are a referendum

The person standing in for Nigel Farage who said this was Martin Daubney. Farage. Daubney. Not very British-sounding names are they? What are we to conclude from this? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

🚨UK Ageing Research League Table update @babrahaminst.bsky.social claims 1st 🥇 @unibirmingham.bsky.social in 2nd 🥈 @ox.ac.uk in 3rd 🥉 @ucl.ac.uk & (bluesky shy?) Univeristy of Westmisnter narroly miss the podium & are tied for 4th. How did your institution rank? bsra.org.uk/uk-ageing-re...

Post 1 As noted yesterday: the in-vitro assay in the 2016 @cp-cell.bsky.social Cell paper from @brangwynnelab.bsky.social (dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.04.047) led to wrong conclusions about NPM1 LLPS in nucleolar assembly. (see image)

New independent report reveals locations of poisoned raptors in northern England, 2015-2023 - information that has been suppressed by government raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/17/n...

Bloody left wing bias etc etc etc

I’m really pleased to share the link to a new Cook Lab paper published today in Nature Communications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sacrists Gate and detail. Ely Cathedral. Gate built 1325. Probably by immigrants from Normandy!

☕The authors identify a chemical cocktail to generate #totipotent - like cells, which they then use to build an #embryo model. This model captures a developmental spectrum from early #embryogenesis to post-implantation events. bit.ly/4oHxUZp

Hen Harrier 'Susie', whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...

Beautiful new paper from @annebertolotti.bsky.social lab at LMB

Dartmoor is dying - it's time to bring it back to life. Today the Dartmoor Nature Alliance publish a new call to action to restore Dartmoor's habitats: rewet peat bogs, revive heaths by reducing grazing, double temperate rainforest area Read it & join here: www.dartmoornature.org.uk/call-to-action

Finally we will get to see less of Reform on the BBC. Unexpected benefits! ahttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/12/reform-uk-pulls-out-of-bbc-film-amid-trump-speech-edit-row

Good!

"Farage says small business owners who thought Brexit would cut regulation have been betrayed". Yes! By him and his ilk. But of course he wont accept responsibility. I'm waiting for "If it had been my Brexit it would all have been fine; sunlit uplands"

Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.

Regressive, anti-environment talk from… the Lib Dems’ Tim Farron. I dare @timfarron.bsky.social to publish the ‘evidence’ he claims to have here that Sea Eagles “would not enhance biodiversity” & would be a “huge threat” to lambs Ignorant & scaremongering www.wfelibdems.uk/news/article...

From the Govt who just blocked 'Swift Bricks' in new build houses in the Lords. A tiny change that would cost bobbins but make a huge difference for a declining species www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If Labour are willing to bin their manifesto pledges on tax rises, why not on Brexit? That would win them far, far more votes than raising taxes ever will. Indeed, tax rises are likely to crater their weak support even further. What's so magical about Brexit that it must remain untouchable?