Ed Begley Jr. is brill in Young Sheldon. His exasperation when lecturing and working with Sheldon is magnificent 😂 #comedy #youngsheldon

Sunrise this morning. Between 08:15 and 08:40 in Dundonald, Belfast. #sunrise

Where Mahmoud says "My parents got me a golden ticket so I can dump on the rest of you"

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

Good article bringing a reality-check to the claim of an automonous AI cyber-attack. arstechnica.com/security/202...

Quanta contributing writer @maxlevy.bsky.social has received a Kavli Gold Award from @aaas.org and @kavlifoundation.org for “The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology,” a detailed account of how small organisms use static electricity to their advantage. www.quantamagazine.org/quantanews/q...

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Yet another reason why Reform UK would be torn apart really quickly in office... Not only would they lose loads of MPs amid the inevitable scandals and resignations, but their voter base is shallow with nothing in common. Can we not just avoid the whole debacle? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Am I the only one who thinks Farage is an ungrateful f***er? I mean the BBC platforms him all the time and rarely calls him to account (Left wing bias? Don’t make me laugh!). Yet he slags the BBC off at every opportunity and wants to abolish the very media outlet that has made his career.

Sky at Night always used to have an early repeat - and we're back, with our collaboration with the Curious Cases team on at 7pm tomorrow on BBC4. Please watch if you possibly can - support your local science program! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Amazing. A timelapse video of the Melbourne Cricket Ground being converted back to cricket after the Aussie Rules Football season. Including 8 drop in pitches. 10-minute video: https://youtu.be/4NQi3hIS2WA #cricket

Sam Fender has donated the entirety of his £25,000 Mercury Prize winnings to the Music Venue Trust (MVT), which works to preserve the UK's grassroots music venues. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8xpw9n95qo #music #live

I bought Think Like a Mathematician ebook after reading the free sample on Apple Books. #books #maths #math https://books.apple.com/gb/book/think-like-a-mathematician/id6736534471

Still super stressed about this.

Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.

The utter preposterousness of this interview. A media figure talking about BBC bias while describing the president as his "friend". A child could see trough it.

Some of the most powerful and well-paid people in the world don't understand a lesson that every schoolchild knows: if you surrender to bullies, they will only bully you more

I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said

It's too late now but an alternative strategy might have been to invite Prescott to shove his crank report up his hole

What’s going on in Chicago beggars belief. Fascism alive in America. To think the BBC bowed to the man who did this. archive.ph/2025.11.08-2...

A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

There’s a lot written about leadership & teamwork but the HEMS crews are one of the best examples, anywhere, of how to operate at the sharp end of practice. Made this for BBC Radio 4 about the people who make it happen. 11am GMT today or find it here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Gary Lineker absolutely called it. bsky.app/profile/poli...

I added 47 new releases to my music library this week. The playlists below have a selected track from each one. In no particular order. Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/playlist/... Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/34c... #Music #NewMusic

I added 47 new releases to my music library this week. The playlists below have a selected track from each one. In no particular order. Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/playlist/... Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/34c... #Music #NewMusic

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

Tremendous news that spineless right wing arse Tim Davie has resigned as BBC DG! Golden opportunity for Labour to put someone in that won't kowtow to fascist frog faced Nazi shitbag Farage and his zombie footsoldiers 24/7. Although given how useless Starmer is, he'll just pick who the AI says.

A great point. If you read the UK press, spend time on X and fall prey to elite radicalisation, you can very easily fool yourself into thinking you represent the silent majority when in fact you are an increasingly extreme minority. It's funny when conservatives scold liberals about their "bubbles"

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm

If you want to understand the delusions behind this push for AI in everything, and how we can fight back against it, read my book: bookshop.org/p/books/more...

James Watson made some tremendous contributions to science, and expressed many grotesque views, which were racist, sexist and ignorant. These are all well documented.

Just your usual reminder that Britain's main emerging problem is that immigration is going to be far too low going forward, and it desperately needs radical plans to boost the numbers coming in by multiples.

It is possible to recognise that Watson's treatment of Franklin was despicable and at the same time to acknowledge that Matthew is right.

Good. #cricket #bowlersunion #swingandseamdivision https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cy4pw4xlllmo

Jethro Tull have released a new remastered version of their Live in Berlin 1985 album. Parts of it are bonkers😊 Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/live-in-berlin-1985-remastered-2025-live/1846148146 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1se6JuXLiTWIYNlh7J3y0y #music #flute […]

Rosalind Franklin will be a footnote in many obituaries and news articles today. Here’s an account of what went on in the work to determine the structure of DNA. #science #biology #history https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5

Don’t be such an asshole that it dominates your obituary. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

BREAKING: Cornell caved. Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...

The @physicsworld.bsky.social Quantum Briefing is very good (and not just because I have a long piece on the quantum computing industry in it). And it's free to read! physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...

The next 12 months will be the most consequential for American politics since the 1850s. I don't say that glibly. We warned what would happen and they've done it and more. It appears we still have free elections, and so now they will now throw everything they have at us, a fascist kitchen sink.

This Ari Melber video about the US elections yesterday is superb. Stay for the second half and his interview with Zohran Mamdani from a few days before election day. 12-minute video: https://youtu.be/p_mNei0QbGU #uspolitics #zohranmamdani

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

The principle that we all contribute to high quality public services and a welfare safety net is a good one. Solidarity is a virtue. It’s not progressive nor left-wing to attack it as a principle. We all contribute, but those with the broadest shoulders contribute the most.

Condolences to Justin Webb at this difficult time

I imagine 🇺🇸 media will now do what 🇬🇧 media did after Labour were elected in a landslide, do everything they can to bring down the people their audience have just decided to put in power.

TIL that Saiorse Ronan is playing Linda McCartney in the four upcoming films about The Beatles. #film

Widow Wanky.

Wrote a short history of conspiracy theories, and why we're drowning in them, for MIT Technology Review. Short answer: they're not really theories but a way of understanding the world — false yet seductive www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...