Claims and ideas which happen to favour the ruling class don't dominate public life by accident. They're paid for by oligarchs and corporations then promoted by media outlets other oligarchs and corporations own. Once they've been drummed into our ears enough, they're internalised as "common sense".

Jack Szostak "All of these things frighten me, and they should frighten you as well. I made the decision to create a life for myself here, because I viewed this as a place that rewarded determination, hard work, and integrity. It still has a chance to be that place again."

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

A devastating read. Some of the personal stories behind the Conservative and Labour government's haphazard pivots between encouraging universities to attract international students and making Britain a less appealing place for them. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

UK intelligence agencies say nature destruction is a national security threat. We need to rapidly scale environmental deterrence: raising detection probability and violation costs of nature destruction until the expected penalty exceeds the gain. bencaldecott.substack.com/p/towards-en...

Anyone watching that speech has no idea whether Trump is escalating or deescalating the war with Iran. But to be fair, neither does he so🤷‍♂️.

Strikes me as an absurd threat, either we need the 4000 new training places or we don’t

Some first-rate science writing: For this story, @jdrakephd.bsky.social carefully read our recent paper and then we spent a very fun 90 minutes or so talking on zoom. His article that gets right to the heart of our model, explains it clearly, and then explores why it will matter in the future.

Ever wonder why most of the media provide wall-to-wall coverage of everything the far right does or says, while ignoring far bigger rallies and events and far more interesting discussions elsewhere on the political spectrum? There's no mystery. It's because they want the far right to triumph.

I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year. I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Breaking News! Code UFB! Global sea surface temperatures continue breaking daily records, with Mar. 23 having a preliminary SST of 21.141°C, ahead of the previous daily record of 21.118°C set in 2024. This graph shows how fast SSTs are rising compared to pre-2023 temperatures.

I got nothing. Nothing. Kate Marvel has been an inspiration for me, a top scientist and communicator, presenting the science clearly and with real human emotion and feeling. Destroying US science and NASA so much she is compelled to leave the job she loves is beyond evil.

Spain just boasted that because of their investment in renewable energy, Last week a mega watt hour of electricity just cost €14. Scotland also invested in renewable energy, but last week it cost us €158 for a mega watt hour of electricity. That's because Westminster set our energy policies!

Millions of people are carrying on their everyday lives, totally unaware of what's about to hit them. If Trump blows up Iran's power stations, Iran will destroy energy infrastructure across the Gulf. This would be one of the major "before-and-after" events of human history.

the fucker is 3 tweets away from declaring the Dems "illegal" and calling off the elections, pay attention people, he means this shit

HAPPY WEEKEND here's a quick one! On why climate deniers flat-out lied about a final report into Spain's blackout, pretending it was released 5 days before actual release + why that's reflective of desperation in an ACTUAL global fossil fuel crisis ketanjoshi.co/2026/03/21/t...

We should reconsider the term „energy crisis“ when speaking about the effects of the Iran war. This is very specifically a crisis of fossil fuels and their single point of failure. Fossil fuels are no longer synonymous with „energy“. We have other, better options.

We did this with tariffs. Now we’re doing this with war. And some insiders are making a fortune off the chaos.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

This article tells the story of what researchers have been going through over the past 14 months. As funding dries up, professors struggle to keep people employed and to keep doing the work. The Trump Administration is destroying so much science in this country. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

recent Trump moves against universities and knowledge youtube.com/shorts/j6_m0...

Unfathomably massive, life critical news that 97% of people won’t know because of the cretins who own and operate the mainstream news. (Sometimes it helps to say/write it out loud even though it does almost nothing at this point)

Six years ago, his principles were entirely different.

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein. 16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔 (From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

Absolutely we should fear terrorism and seek to prevent it. But we should also fear those who use either real terrorism or bogus claims about terrorism to boost their own powers, restrict our freedoms and corrode our democracy. Both present major threats to public life.

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Fossil companies dropping CCS ambitions aligns with my theory. If the "targets" fend off scrutiny and regulation, why keep them when there's no longer any threat of scrutiny or regulation? Equinor were *never* planning to recapture their toxic waste. We already knew this :) archive.ph/D23Q3

"The fact that the 1.5C limit was surpassed in 2024 despite many #climate projections forecasting a breach later, underscores how rapidly climate change is advancing... warming itself appears to be accelerating: the rate has risen from roughly ~0.05C per decade in the mid-20thCen to ~0.31C per dec"

Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 
 It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

"This is not just a slight warming; it is a fundamental change in how people will have to survive on the continent. Once regions in Africa enter a state of almost continuous heatwaves, the human body will have no window of time to recover."

This is the report I spoke of on #bbcaq just now - ministers tried to suppress it, were finally forced to release it after an FoI, but shamefully only published a redacted version. The first duty of Govt is to protect its citizens - that starts with being honest with us about scale of threat we face

The UK Government confuses means and ends. It tries to ’save money’ when its goal should be to improve citizens’ lives. Spending and taxation just move real resources around. Achieving ends requires investment in real resources. These cuts are mistaken. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Every American needs to watch this:

1. Noam Chomsky's response to the first tranche of Epstein docs - arrogant, high-handed, obfuscatory and, we now know, dishonest - reminded me of something: his response to my questions about genocide denial, 15 years ago. 🧵 www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2...

The Washington Post was consistently doing some of the best climate reporting out there in recent years. This is a huge loss (h/t @sammyroth.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/climatec...

"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?" Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.

Y’all didn’t realize they were using “Democracy dies in darkness” as a mission statement, not a salutary motto

EXTRAORDINARY Dozens of thousands of records are falling in >170 countries with margins never seen before in world climatic history. There had never been anything close to this. Expect records smashed every day of this month in millions sqkm area from Algeria to China. Updates next hours..

Climate economists like the Nobel-winning Nordhaus will be regarded by history as morally equivalent to concentration camp guards - only they won’t have the ‘only following orders’ excuse. It was prestige and money that bought their souls. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I think fixing stuff rather than burying human and cow shit is a better climate solution.