Regardless of one's views of the wider conflict, it is astounding that there are talking heads - including former TDs - that are claiming that the arrest of Irish citizens, including elected politicians, by a foreign military is simply not worthy of discussion

What is Micheál Martin for exactly?

Non-Irish people should be told that Ireland is creased with national hilarity because the Catholic conservative candidate who failed to get enough support did a presser to talk about how Ireland had been cheated out of having a real 'people's candidate' while holding a €20K+ Hermes handbag.

Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.

Maybe a good time to announce that I've just started a new job 🥳 Just when I thought I was out, the polyploids have pulled me back in 🐟🧍‍♂️🌱🧪

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

I will simply end this thread by saying that we need to reckon with the enormity of what Britain has done over the past two years. This is worse even than the invasion of Iraq. Do we want to live in a country, or a world, where there aren't consequences for this sort of behaviour?

It’s very curious to compare and contrast the likes of Bob Vylan and Kneecap and the media and politics reaction vs Linehan, it’s weird how free speech works isn’t it

If Bertie Ahern has zero haters then it is because I'm dead and the rest of them emigrated to Australia in 2009.

The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share

Starting to wonder if I missed the bit in the 2024 Labour manifesto where they committed to an all-out war against Irish artists.

So glad this work is published🥳 Highlight article written by @evopaa.bsky.social: Dosage-Sensitive Genes “Thread the Needle” of Selection doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... Evolution of Dosage-Sensitive Genes by Tissue-Restricted Expression Changes @genomebiolevol.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

there is simply no possible case for continued support for Israel and there has not been for quite some time a genocidal regime behaving with utter impunity, unconstrained by even the pretense of international law

Israel is storing recordings of Palestinians daily phone calls - millions of them - that they analyse to plan airstrikes / kill people - in Irish data centres Sweet Jesus www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

things tend to be difficult to prevent when you actively choose not to prevent them every day for ten years straight yes

Bombing Iran: appropriate. Singing about Northern Ireland in a disobliging manner: inappropriate. The former human rights lawyer has spoken.

this is really scrambling trying to blame renewables for making electricity TOO CHEAP, not blaming the gas/coal/nuclear plants who didn't fulfill the grid balancing obligations *that they're paid for*

Seems like most people on here are anti-evil. That's the kind of insular groupthink that loses elections :/

NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

“Growing recognition that women’s pain should be treated” Jeeeesus 😖

Just deranged. This was a *solved* problem.

There is also the newly emerging “jaded and bitter early career scientist” category

PM has said Supreme Court decision on woman definition brings ‘real clarity’ - so how come all I’ve seen in my feed the past week is ppl asking about whether it refers to genitals, chromosomes or hormones, whose going to check this & if male police can now strip search anyone they suspect is trans?

Race IS a social construct, but what does that actually mean? In the wake of Trump’s scientifically illiterate statements on race, I have written a handy explainer. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

This is shocking. Before anyone says it's the biggest failure ever seen in science communication, it's not (all) our fault! It's politically driven disinformation

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

literally they could have spent 5 mins checking his twitter

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

It’s always “We launched these tardigrades into space!” “We froze them to absolute zero!” “We threw them into an erupting volcano!” Never “We took these tardigrades on a holiday. They’re getting tiny massages and sipping little umbrella drinks on the beach.”

It was never about "waste," part 3,286

I just met with a researcher whose USDA grant was terminated. Does he study a DEI related topic? Climate change? Nope. His research is on reducing the spread of E. coli in poultry. What are we doing?

This report does not appear to dispute or cast doubt on the fact that more than a dozen bodies were found buried Why, then, is mass grave in quotation marks? What would be required to simply call it a mass grave?

this is absurd. the science is settled on this. the study linking autism to vaccines was debunked and the author was stripped of his medical license. america is under the control of conspiracy theorists

Per a source, recipients of CDC grants received a questionnaire (maybe from OMB) today with some "absolutely nuts" questions. "Can you confirm that your org does not work with entities associated with communist, socialist, or totalitarian parties, or any party that espouses anti-American beliefs?"

Nothing hosted by the US is now reliable. If it is critical, move it or mirror it.

🧪 #medsky #pedsky #episky Some are attempting to claim that the Texas measles outbreak was caused by the vaccine. Texas DOH reports that all genotyped samples have shown the D8 genotype of the virus. The vaccine is genotype A. It definitively is not from the vaccine.

Thinking about how Musk once floated the idea that we roll back all government regulation on industry and then reinstate “the ones that are needed” as they come up, as though that wasn’t how all existing regulation was created over the last two hundred something years

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Saw a skeet from @neilrkaye.bsky.social on a bulletin board today. Also, if you are 30 years old, more than half of all fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime.

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

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Boy, it’s a good thing science isn’t political

haven't seen this one on here yet

I am very sad.

No one else in cinema was cooking like him, RIP to a real one

80% of Irish people in a Sunday Indo poll say Musk is a threat to democracy and 66% say Irish politicians should leave twitter.