Easy solution - move to Kagi.com for searching the internet. It's worth the cost to take control of your searches and the data they generate.

Just a shout-out to the folks over at @pathoplexus.org and, importantly, all the scientists sharing genomic data with such amazing speed. It's great to see the field having moved to a new platform, with non-transparent platforms being a thing of the past. Fantastic.

Here's looking at you, Stephen!

I feel like I hated this style even before ChatGPT saturated it. It was the style of salesman and hucksters. It is summarizing facts in the tone that a fitness influencer would use to sell you branded supplements.

'Morning conversation', linocut by Olesya Dzhurayeva, contemporary Ukrainian printmaker #WomensArt #Monday

Happy to live in the little cold green corner of this map. 🇫🇮

And…90 days are up from the original tweet. Add a ☑️ to the “AI bro is wildly miscalibrated” tally.

Contrast the Philips resignation with Davies-Jones, below. She wrote clearly and gave concrete examples. She believes paragraphs can have more than one sentence. He fills a side of A4 with mostly carriage returns. And sounds like a robot.

What an amazing artifact: simultaneously ratifying the new world order and misspelling Pennsylvania. Particularly apt timing to review treaties that abase great powers that are not as powerful as they seemed.

She's really very good at this. Worth watching both clips -- total's only about 5 minutes.

I'm declaring the term "eGenes" to refer to genes for which a study has found an eQTL is over the line. It perpetuates a clumsy acronym we'd be better off without, and the e ultimately stand for "expression" which applies to all genes. Just say "genes" -- plenty clear in the context of your paper.

How to make sense of what's happening in the UK? Why not join one of the most acute observers of British politics & society, the historian @helenebismarck.bsky.social, who'll be launching her new book "Fantastic Kingdom" at QMUL on 17 June? Free tickets here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fantastic-...

I only met Craig Venter once or twice, so have no personal opinion on his personality. But his impact on science - and how it gets done (or at least got done) in this country - was tremendous. Success in science is not just about intellectual prowess but also about drive.

Trump said that his mother had a "crush" on Charles when he was Prince of Wales. But Trump is _older_ than the King! His mother was 36 years older than him! WTF was he talking about?

If you’re feeling low, just remember that you probably didn’t spend 15 years and £6 billion building an armoured vehicle that causes vomiting and hearing loss to the soldiers using it. www.ft.com/content/4cd6...

This is brilliant #coffee

The difference in the UK vs US meaning of the word “mentalist” can cause confusion, but really either works here:

April 24, 2026

It’s just too depressing for words

I am absolutely shite at recognising when someone is flirting with me. Like, comically bad at it. My mates would mock me about it. But something happened today that made me so happy. 1/?

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Cool PhD position 👇

I'm ready for PM Ed Milliband if it means we can stop talking about Mandelson. (He also gave a very good performance on Today today, even with Nick Robinson being his usual prickly self)

Today‘s news in Finland: yle.fi/a/74-20221623

Oh my. Earthset, from the Artemis II Crew. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Allbirds’ stock is insane on every time scale. Why did they IPO for a bajillion dollars? Why does anyone think now that they are well positioned to transition to AI?

Ugh, the AI slop picture of Trump as Jesus, Vance officiously hectoring the Pope, and now Hegseth quoting a luridly violent film in a prayer service. It’s just too much to take.

I’m begging someone on set for The Pitt to tell them how to pronounce ”angina”

It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

i am reading a paper about "multiplex screening" and it is 2-plex you can screen two things i love the confidence to call this multiplex

WOW that’s a heck of a lineup. I don’t even live in the UK and I’m thinking of signing up! 😂

Nature research paper: Saturation editing of RNU4-2 reveals distinct dominant and recessive disorders go.nature.com/4mgGcqK

April 13, 2026

A thread about the farthest apart two humans have ever been

The best news might be that it's much harder for incumbents to steal elections than everyone fears

I doubt that Pope Leo XIV will lose any sleep over this, before he begins his pilgrimage to Africa tomorrow. But the rest of us should. Because it is unhinged, uncharitable and unchristian. Is there no bottom to this moral squalor?

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

Magisterial from @ldfreedman.bsky.social samf.substack.com/p/the-causes...

I am 100% here for @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com being my source for live coverage of the Hungarian elections.

Essential reading, as always. This captured something I noticed listening to NPR cover the ceasefire. They quoted Trump’s blather that the 10 point plan was a solid basis for negotiation as a reason for optimism when even a moment’s inspection revealed it was Iran’s maximalist starting point.

This account may be my best ever Bluesky follow

I don't really understand the ins and outs of the US oil market, but I don't think supply can be instantaneously massively ramped up. So if all those tankers come and fill up with US oil, and take it away, doesn't it make domestic fuel prices go up?

"Melania chose not to include any assertion of her husband’s innocence in the Epstein affair. Melania is no fool. And now she seems to think that the man to whom she hitched herself may be going down. She’s trying to arrange not to go down with him." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The Melania statement feels like the biggest Streisand effect ever. Suddenly it’s in the news worldwide. Radio 4 even wryly concluded their coverage of it by saying “The reason she made the statement remains a mystery “ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This whole piece is a gripping read, but the opening is written with LeCarre level espionage flair. Trump, Netanyahu and 7 senior members of the administration assemble in the Situation room, described down to which seats they took. Left unspoken is the obvious: "who on earth leaked all this?"

THEN vs NOW: Parks Road looking towards Keble College. 📷 | Oxfordshire History Centre #ThrowbackThursday

Delighted to share our latest research from the 23andMe Research Team, just published in @nature.com ! We looked at data from >27,000 participants to uncover how human genetics influences weight loss efficacy and side effects of GLP-1 medications like semaglutide. A short thread 🧵👇

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada