This is remarkable.

Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov

35°C is normal, we used to just call that summer! Here's how many summers topped 32°C 70s 4 80s 2 90s 8 2000s 6 2010s all of them 2020s all of them And here's how many summers topped 35°C 70s 1 80s 0 90s 2 2000s 2 2010s 3 2020s 4 (out of 6 so far)

It’s wild that politicians don’t seem to grasp the degree to which universities contribute to the economy- local, regional, national. The failure to intervene is a stain on this govt - a shocking dereliction of duty to every worker, every local business, every student, every area that is suffering

It tells you everything you need to know about Kemi Badneoch and Nigel Farage that as London schools, hospitals and transport networks all buckle under extreme record-breaking temperatures, they gather with fossil fuel lobbyists, climate deniers and the far-right to demand an end to Net Zero

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

FFS I thought we'd moved past the ignorance of illustrating stories about deadly heatwaves with photos of people frolicking at the beach/in lakes/in fountains. Heatwaves are the deadliest agents of climate change. They kill nearly half a million people each year, and that's only going to increase.

Irony is dead.

On Wednesday, Parliament will vote on the UK's 7th Carbon Budget, aligned with the scientific advice from the Climate Change Committee. Kemi Badenoch will lead her party in voting against it. The temperature in London on Wednesday:

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Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There is now clear evidence that the Great Israeli Real Estate event had unlawful activity at it. I've written to the Mayor of London to ask what he intends to do about it. This needs to be escalated immediately.

There are, in my view, 25 things everyone needs to understand in light of recent events: 1) Those out in our communities last night were not protestors, but organised far right extremists. 2) Their actions align with fascist ideologies. 3) So yes: these are fascist practices on our streets. 🧵

It's now been a year since I started @adrianchills.bsky.social. Thanks to everyone who has read, reposted and liked the stories. And if you haven't already followed and you like the idea of flash fiction horror stories based on the headlines to Guardian columns by Adrian Chiles, feel free to dive in

Quelle surprise: my comment on the Govt's latest climate commitment (www.gov.uk/government/n... is out of step, at least publicly, with many colleagues: www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react... With expert whitewash on one side & charlatans on the other, an honest climate debate stands no chance.

The NSF just eliminated geoscience postdocs, is trying to destroy NCAR, and is now dismantling the world's best array of ocean observatories for no reason, just uncomprehending childlike spite towards anyone who wants to learn anything about this planet www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

But you said AI was never sick :(

Fascinating reassessment of potential cave art in south Wales, with link to the original 1912 article - but isn’t the 17ka date considerably older than any other post-LGM evidence for humans in Britain?

I have seen AI described as a "technology founded on a lack of consent" and it has been echoing in my head since then

"This article examines how doomism might be countered focusing on 4 main messages: 1) doomism is a misunderstanding of the science, 2) there is still much that can be saved... 3) support for climate action is widely underestimated 4) climate change represents a possible catalyst for a transition"

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

FINALLY. Some more coverage of the havoc wrecked by these consultants. It takes SO much effort to get editors interested in this, though they’re (a) changing #UKHE beyond recognition and (b) putting a shitton of public money into their private Australian pockets…

I really hope that some people will consider complaining to the BBC, this is a huge editorial failure. It is platforming paid-for corporate lobbyists in place of informed expert voices..in the week that the Pope joined the ranks of world’s most astute AI commentators.

BBC Question Time now doing exact same with AI they did with Farage? This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice. Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And a Tory MP

It’s really frightening.

Tony Blair is "contemptuous of democracy, greases up to wealth and power and lets the poor go to hell. He is ruthless, mendacious, slippery and shameless...." @georgemonbiot.bsky.social in 2009, when it was already well time for "arresting Blair": www.monbiot.com/2009/10/26/a...

The Pope has done a rather lovely critique of technological instrumentalism for AI www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Free simulator teaches how to identify swimmers in distress/drowning. Important: drowning ppl can be dangerous to untrained rescuers. Call for lifeguard! If none can help, push float/object toward drowning person, avoid letting them grab you directly, esp in deep water. spotthedrowningchild.com

RE: new #Bluey episodes, a reminder that the reason Bandit (the dad) is an archaeologist is because dogs love digging up bones! However, Bluey’s creator Joe Brumm is also brother of renowned Stone Age expert, Professor Adam Brumm, who specialises in the earliest known cave art found in Indonesia…

Finally, my paper on public responses to Stonehenge in British news is out. "What's the Meaning of Stonehenge?" reveals that archaeological news faces challenges of scepticism & backlash in a post-Brexit, post-pandemic era. Open Access (currently with mistakes in rendering, waiting for T & F to fix)

One of the hardest things about working in HE at the moment is not just having friends and colleagues at various institutions across the country whose jobs are at risk of redundancy, which is, of course, awful, but because it's happening so often, desperately trying to to normalise it.

I didn't know about this, and it's a very cool part of Sheffield history! Sheffield Ladies Anti-Slavery Society was one of the first abolitionist groups to call for an immediate and unconditional end to slavery. shefflibraries.blogspot.com/2020/11/mary...

Consistent humanism means opposing the genocide in Gaza, AND antisemitism. It means opposing the US/Israeli invasion of Iran AND the Iranian regime's murder of its own people. It means opposing the US/UK invasion of Iraq AND the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It means confronting violence everywhere.

A platform backed by Peter Thiel and advised by Donald Trump Jr. is taking anonymous crypto bets on UK elections, missile strikes and the death of world leaders. In Britain no regulator will touch it A Nerve explainer by @tuckerian.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/polymarket...

We’ve been doggedly reporting on Palantir’s contracts with UK state…& this latest one with Met police is both creepy & opaque. Met has used Palantir to spy on its own officers. If it can do this to its own employees…what about the rest of us? By @mc00.bsky.social & @luciaoc.bsky.social

Nothing about universities or higher education at all. The managed decline continues. www.gov.uk/government/s...

💥Big intervention from Martin Wolf in the FT today. UK “elective dictatorship” + First Past the Post in a multi-party environment is a dangerous mix. A system where 30% of the vote can deliver near-unchecked power is not just unfair. It’s a constitutional vulnerability. www.ft.com/content/1a5a...

With #AltText for everyone, because everyone needs to know.

No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

This is now what passes for “science” from the BBC. Hackneyed cliches, faux mystery, factually incorrect statements. 1. Archaeologists are, once again, “baffled” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

People are struggling in the replies, but this is a *genuine* top tip (as we used to say), in that if you're talking negatively about Israel the modern nation, you can and should check whether you bring up Jewish people or Judaism in your rhetoric.

If you're a lecturer interested in pedagogy and in particular, helping working class students who might need a little extra advice to help them catch up with their privately schooled cohort, drop me a DM. Let's create something that will really benefit students.

if i buy this will i be as happy as the guy staring at a garbage bag half filled with his shit

Politico: "Badenoch will speak to media around 10.a.m...to unveil her party’s new 'Plan for Drivers.' It includes the eye-catching plans to abolish 24-hour bus lanes to ease traffic congestion" Ludicrous policy. Buses are used by millions of people every day. This will make all their lives harder.

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