We're hiring! The Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London is seeking a new Assistant Professor in ecology, evolution, or environmental science. It's a great department with great students at a great university. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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📌 ICYMI — Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to ‘Topple’ Theresa May The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now"… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/bannon-epstein-farage-and-johnson-and-the-plot-to-topple-theresa-may/

Our bizarre, self-inflicted science funding crisis is finally getting some attention in the general media. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I watched much of Ian Chapman's (Head of @ukri.org) appearance this morning at @ukparliament.parliament.uk Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.. A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting... A 🧵

Reduction in funding by UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council would be ‘most drastic’ cut to curiosity-driven science ‘in a generation’ warn scientific leaders #highered #EduSky

While my sympathy is limited, a 23 year old tech nerd with likely no media experience giving cringey answers to the FT about working 90 hour weeks and eating steak is probably less deserving of our dunks than the billionaires and VCs that have convinced him this is how he must live to be valued.

Critic Campaign: it's time to admit that it was a mistake to abolish the Department if Culture. Keir Starmer should bring it back. thecritic.co.uk/brin...

I'm trying to read this paper and Nature Communications is serving me an ad for what appear to be crotchless panties

What a great meeting, not sure who else I can on this platform other than @marcsdionne.bsky.social & @cbartman.bsky.social

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

if you have actual friends to try to entertain

We're advertising for a bacteriology technician and a post-doc to work on AI-guided antibiotic development as part of a large multidisciplinary Fleming Initiative project: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

"We followed everything we were supposed to do" Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages. Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms. A thread 1/8

SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

An absolute disaster. All of this on the day I got an email telling me my direct debit was going up. Southern Water are absolutely useless and should not be allowed to run this shit show. Prosecute the management and re-nationalise it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Apparently, Daniel Hannan hears ancestral voices preaching bigotry. He would be embarrassed to amplify them if he had any moral sense whatsoever.

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

If you're a scientist our journalist writing a piece about Watson and his "complex and nuanced character", you're deliberately ignoring the fact that his views made him one of the most extreme racist and sexist scientific "leaders" of his time. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

James Watson died yesterday. He was a bad man with many bad ideas. We owe a debt of gratitude to the unknown hero who uploaded this picture of him to Wikipedia.

Dear funding agencies, I know we all want to discover the wonder drug that will cure the horrible diseases, but to do that, we need to invest in basic, unsexy, foundational research on how the systems work. Funding can’t all be drug development. Sincerely, Looking for basic research grants.

Model organisms, in particular non-mammalian model organisms, such as yeast, Caenorhabditis elegans, #Drosophila and zebrafish, have long stood at the centre of biological discovery www.nature.com/articles/s41...

People point to the Tories broader record in government but them leaning on Ofcom to leave GB News alone despite its repeated regulatory breaches & its star presenter being a political rival of theirs may actually be the thing that dooms them Naturally, Labour are refusing to correct this mistake

"The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value." - John Gurdon

Hm is it bad if the industry somehow propping up a trembling economy is based almost entirely on our collective willingness to let it do crimes

This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...

Amongst pro-migration voters - i.e. Labour's base last year and the easiest votes to recover in future - support for this policy is...0%. Nil. Nada. Zip. Zero. Goals don't come more open than this. Labour should be attacking this proposal at every opportunity.

Farage’s proposal to create a permanent underclass of migrants has 3% support. *3%*. If ever there was a golden political opportunity for Starmer’s Labour-whose support base let’s not forget is *pro-migration* - this is it. Is this mealy mouthed accountant language the best they can do?

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Mix of cowardice and failing to understand the way racists have forced the agenda. This has to come to an end.

Keir Starmer should be old enough to remember that we didn't use to call them patriots, we called them football hooligans.

If I were the UK Government I would simply not route all my communications through the platform whose owner just called for regime change in Britain and said "fight back or die"

This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I find it grimly hilarious that I now cannot stop reading "ACAB" as "assigned cops at birth"

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

so, as I understand it, the position here is that if you had a hard upbringing, you're allowed extrajudicial executions

It's far too long a story to fit in 300 characters, but—having done something similar*—I find this entirely believable. * I didn't lose my shoe

He was only 83. A man who famously protested segregation was only 83 and has just passed. 👁️👁️

'On the afternoon of Feb. 1, 1960, Mr. McNeil and three classmates from what is now North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro approached the whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth’s, sat on the turquoise- and salmon-colored vinyl seats and nervously ordered coffee.'

My entire feed rn is Senator: Do you think heart failure causes death RFK: Senator, medicine doesn't work, we all need to be drinking raccoon blood

RFK Jr., leaving Rudy Giuliani beside a broken bicycle in the middle of Central Park East Drive at 2AM

'Early on in her life, Esther defied societal conventions by pursuing biochemistry, against recommendations from her teachers who believed that a career in science was too difficult for women' academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

somehow we are in a world where Goebbels the Lesser imagines himself competent to judge the scientific credibility of the stupidest Kennedy

In which we are reminded that Lucy Lawless is great. "Q. Which living person do you most despise and why? A. I currently have a special enmity for Stockton Rush of the Titan submersible disaster. Whoops. He’s dead." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

signs reminding restaurant workers to wash their hands after they use the toilet are just another way the state crushes the human spirit

"Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis" is one of the great American literary works of the 20th century

It's wonderful to see an MP coming out clearly and forthrightly against the xenophobic bigots. It would be even better to see this message coming from Downing Street.