Thank you - I was way out of my comfort zone! Here you go with the sprouts image!

A few pics of @ginarippon.bsky.social ‘s highly entertaining talk on the neuroscience of Christmas with @cosmicshambles.com last night. Regret that I didn’t get a photo of the slide explaining why sprouts can be bad for the brain.

Oh HarperCollins, what took you so long. New CEO?

On ep 4 of Pluribus (which I really like). Is it about generative AI?

The shortest day of the year is nearly here... great advice on beating the winter blues from psychologist Dr Stephanie Fitzgerald. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Important thread.

Delighted for my brilliant client @ginarippon.bsky.social who has won the British Psychological Society award for Popular Science book of the year for The Lost Girls of Autism. Congratulations, Gina! www.bps.org.uk/news/congrat...

“[An] excellent, state-of-the-art account of autism in girls." "Off the Spectrum" by @ginarippon.bsky.social is a @newscientist.com Book of the Year! Read more: bit.ly/4pF8U59

I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill Or about who bought his house in Frinton

Are you writing an unputdownable #thriller? Then it's time to put it down, book an #agent121 and find out what a #litagent thinks! 9 Dec @katebarker.bsky.social 11 Dec @mariliasavvides.bsky.social 19 Dec @amandapreston.bsky.social Book: www.iaminprint.co.uk #amwriting #thrillerbooks #thrillers

You know what would be an excellent Christmas present?

Great to hear Dr Stephanie Fitzgerald talking about her new book The Gifts of Winter on BBC All In the Mind with @claudiahammond.bsky.social - 17 mins in. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

NEW A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak By me: emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack) (Non-Substack link to follow.)

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.

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

It’s going to take ages to calm down, isn’t it.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

statistically, about 24% of television adverts in the UK should feature at least one publicly disgraced member of Reform/UKIP

Celebrity Traitors

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

New post just out: "On the edge" On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...

I paid £1.99 for a Twix at WHS Travel Euston yesterday. Why on earth is the promotional price for #ebooks still 99p? #amazon

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch. Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

Exclusive: Nigel Farage has not updated his register since May, despite continuing to present his GB News show, record Cameo videos and being a verified X user Qus are now being asked about the non-registration of his shareholding in GB parent co All Perspectives observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Thank you @katebarker.bsky.social . There was a section on the inaccurately negative impression of autism and autistic people that is part of this whole sorry saga. Got lost in the editing but important not to lose sight of it in the conversation 🤔😗

Proud of prof @ginarippon.bsky.social and her response to Trump's dangerous pronouncements on autism and paracetamol: www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

Duolingo channeling the zeitgeist

"Well what a huge surprise" - no woman, ever

If you’re around in Chelsea next Wednesday afternoon… chelseaheritagequarter.co.uk/chf/blood-an...

I'll be talking about non-fiction book proposals at this online event on 23rd Sept. Come along and ask questions! www.eventbrite.com/e/fwn-live-m...

No wonder I miss the '90s.

Just wait until the BBC, Sky, Mail, Telegraph, Express, Sun, and GBeebies get hold of this story of obvious and deliberate tax avoidance! JUST WAIT! <waits> <waits some more> <does today's sudoku> www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

You know when a famous person dies and you're surprised because you'd assumed they must already be dead? That, but for Nadine Dorries defecting to Reform.

Americans! I am told this the three day 25% off Barnes & Noble sale period. Well, here’s something you could preorder now to benefit from that discount. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/blood-and-...

Attention #crimewriters! Ready to solve the mystery of getting published? Secure 15 mins of #Agent121 time with a #litagent who loves your genre. Book: iaminprint.co.uk #Amwriting 3 Sept - @litagentfran.bsky.social 4 Sept - @katebarker.bsky.social 16 Sept - Nicky Lovick 17 Sept - Clare Coombes

Very happy to receive finished copies of this cracking thriller by @kathrynsharman.bsky.social, out from @hodderfiction.bsky.social later this month.

Frankly amazed by Bloomsbury’s position here. Indefensible!

#Crimewriters are you ready to make your move? Would you like 15 mins of #Agent121 time with a #literaryagent who loves your genre? Then book at www.iaminprint.co.uk/agent121 with: 3 Sept - @litagentfran.bsky.social 4 Sept - @katebarker.bsky.social 16 Sept - Nicky Lovick 17 Sept - Clare Coombes

Hey up @latitudefestival.bsky.social goers. I'll be on the Apollo Stage on Saturday lunchtime with @garwboy.bsky.social @robinince.bsky.social and @reggiewatts.bsky.social talking all things psychedelics. Join us at 1pm!

@ginarippon.bsky.social incisive as ever on autism and "over-diagnosis" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Writers 11 to 19, the #YoungWalterScottPrize is open for your entries! You could win a £500 travel grant, see your work in print, and visit one of the UK's best book festivals. Learn more at https://loom.ly/gr8Lmfk#YoungWalterScottPrize #ywsp #creativewriting #writingcompetition #AndrewMiller #SophieBerry

I do hope that the next DCMS/DSIT working group on #copyright and #AI will include some creators' representatives. The attendees at yesterday's meeting were just big tech and big publishers.

Lovely review of Blood & Treasure in the Economist. economist.com/culture/2025...

‘Victory, in popular myth, depends on the exceptional courage and skill of the nation to which the mythmaker happens to belong. Mr Weldon offers more convincing explanations’. economist.com/culture/2025...

This looks like a wonderful opportunity for writers: rsliterature.org/rsl-scriptor...

As I keep saying: if it's truth you want, read fiction, not 'true stories'. Fiction writers are honest liars. They're not out to con you. If you want to read a redemption narrative about going on a long walk, read The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.

Commentators: 'Labour's wasted its first year in office'. Ed Miliband:

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Today is the last day you can register books for PLR (money for library loans of your books in the UK and Ireland). They have to be already published. If you have unregistered books, you'll miss out on this year's income. It adds up! Illustrators and audio narrators are also entitled to a share.

Worthy cri de cœur