What did Hubble see on your birthday? 🎂 Select your date and check out the images this great observatory has taken over the last 36 years: https://go.nasa.gov/4eHwD2g ⭐ Share your favorite birthday image in the comments! 🔭

The England football team is rooted in immigration. Whether it succeeds or fails at this World Cup, it’s a great example of the brilliance of multiculturalism in the UK.

do you wanna tell math-based ghost-stories, or is the poor little baby 2²

New protein testing reveals all 20 tested Homo naledi fossils in the Dinaledi Chamber are female. For my work on symbolic behavior, this is an incredible, strange turning point that shatters old dogmas. Read "The Daughters of Dinaledi": open.substack.com/pub/deephist...

A UK Exclusive Exhibition is opening at the Royal Armouries in Leeds tomorrow This Ghengis Khan: How The Mongols Ruled The World - brings together over 250 rare ancient treasures from Mongolia alongside cutting-edge CGI displays. It's a must-do. #RoyalArmouries #GenghisKhan #YorkshireEvents

So happy and proud to see this paper out in @natcomms.nature.com today! We show that traces of human DNA can persist on cave walls for thousands of years. Absolutely fantastic work by the wonderful Alba Bossoms Mesa at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and a great team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Addictive, frictionless thinking" is about as good a description of AI I've seen, and captures the danger it represents so succinctly.

New pinned post! Hello friends - I'm Jay and I'm a TV producer (Evolution, Walking with Dinosaurs 2025, & Earth), a science communicator, and a paleoartist. My current ongoing projects include short animated films, 3D sculpts, illustrations, a book proposal, and more! #sciart #paleoart

Would you look at that... 900. We’re close now. Very close. But this is the hardest bit - the final 100 people who decide whether we hit 1,000 and deliver all five pledges for Sheffield.

Sheffield is full of people with great stories to tell. Not all of them get the chance. If we reach 1,000 members, we’ll launch a new writers’ programme - inviting pitches every two months, selecting the best idea and working with the writer each time to get it published.

How The Death Of The Dinosaurs Is Why We Sleep At Night The theory that supports this is known as the “nocturnal bottleneck hypothesis” Temporal niche expansion in mammals from a nocturnal ancestor after dinosaur extinction🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... (👉For image Treemble from treemble.org.)

Somehow the description of today looks even better in French. La masterclass delivered. #Notts

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...

I’ve been writing about Andy Burnham in Manchester for a while. We’ve had a few run-ins but I think he has qualities that people don’t appreciate and weaknesses that spell trouble. I wrote this for @manchestermill.bsky.social I hope it’s insightful and fair. manchestermill.co.uk/stop-looking...

The Danish gov’t has installed floating platforms planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in the harbors and canals of Copenhagen, to create urban habitat sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life. #FlowersOfBluesky #InnovativeSolutions💡

Subscribe to the Continent. It’s free, and it’s so good.

🛡️ The Melsonby Hoard exhibition officially opens at the Yorkshire Museum tomorrow. It’s the largest Iron Age metalwork hoard ever found in the UK—over 800 objects including chariot wheels, cauldrons and weapons 🏺 shorturl.at/6EYNA #MelsonbyHoard #YorkshireMuseum #IronAge #BritishHistory

Our exhibition is coming to Sheffield 24 Oct - 9 Nov, book here yeah! 👉 bit.ly/ModernTossSh...

Happy 13th anniversary to that terrible misunderstanding at a WI meeting.

I am excited to announce that I will be talking about my adventures in search of Roman Scotland at the Boswell Book Festival @bozzybookfest.bsky.social at Dumfries House on Sunday 10th May. In person or online tickets available here: shorturl.at/qjcGm #RomanFortThursday

"He just thought he had some kind of duty, as a senior figure in the environmental establishment, to keep the morale of his young audience up." Read about my meeting with the former boss of the Environment Agency, Sir James Bevan. rupertsreads.substack.com/p/how-those-...

Huge hidden cave under castle with prehistoric hippo bones 'once in a lifetime' find. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you're sick of water companies being allowed to pump s**t into our rivers with no accountability: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

@locusmag.bsky.social have a fundraiser on at the moment. They are an absolute mainstay of SF so please do take a look. www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This is great news, and an amazing turnaround to achieve within 2 years #sheffield

NEW - I got to interview Dominic Cummings earlier this week. Britain's 16-bit Shaman. open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

BREAKING: Andrew Milne has been arrested. A spokesperson for South Yorkshire Police told The Tribune: "Detectives investigating allegations linked to the purchase and sale of freeholds in Sheffield have arrested a man on suspicion of fraud and blackmail."

It’s both Autism Awareness Month and #indieapril which obviously means an amazing itchio bundle of indie autistic books📚📦 Please support & get 30 brilliant sff & romance books by autistic authors with autistic MCs for $30! My book A Stage Over Ruthless Stars is here too 💙📚🪐 itch.io/b/3598/autis...

I guess with race science discourse still percolating, I should re-up my starter pack for people who work on the topic

Read yesterday about MI19’s antics at Trent House, AKA the Cockfosters Cage, where they kept both ranking German POWs in WWII. Oh. My. God. The British were scary good at this shit in WWII. Scary good. They played up, HARD, every stereotype the Germans had about the British upper class.

Thank you so much @tomgatti.bsky.social & @theobserveruk.bsky.social for showcasing the richness of non-fiction by women & the vitally important work of @womensprize.bsky.social in championing women's voices in literature. (1/2) observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

Read to the end to see the list of books banned, it's astonishing. To classify access to these works as a safeguarding risk is outrageous.Suppressing children's critical thinking skills increases vulnerability, and invoking 'safeguarding' to do so trivialises genuine safeguarding concerns #Booksky.

I have a Shark vacuum cleaner and am very happy with it. No thank you Dyson. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Non-Substack link on my personal blog davidallengreen.com/2026/02/land...

Great thread of funny clips, February blues antidote

Day 17: Some of the best comic timing I’ve ever seen. youtube.com/shorts/DOZ7m... #februaryisfunny

During the 16th century the Italian philosopher, Giordano Bruno, asserted that the universe is infinite and hosts infinite worlds. After a seven year trial, the Roman Inquisition charged him with blasphemy and heresy and he was burned at the stake In Rome #OnThisDay 1600. 👇

Ye kain whit else is a distraction? Haen tae sack yer US Ambassador because he was involved wae a nonce. Yer Scottish party leader cawin fur you tae resign. And a Lord losing the party whip cause he was involved wae anither nonce. But aye, you pop aff aboot the constitution Keir xxx

The team at Peak Boxes have launched their Gen#2 range. 3D‑printed from corn starch and wood shavings, with no petrochemicals and around 85% renewable content. A brilliant, eco‑friendly option for anyone helping swifts find safe nesting spaces across Sheffield. More info 👉 peakboxes.co.uk

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

The kids actually made animals that don't exist. The AI just put a bunch of stuff that already exists together into a polished slop blender. You can't get a better illustration of why AI can't create anything new while human creativity is bottomless.

the movies we truly deserve: thread

Sheffield Coffee diaries returns!!! ☕️ Been wanting to try 2323 Coffee on Norfolk Row for AGES They give you a rotating menu of espresso options I had cappuccino with a Kenyan coffee by Dak coffee roasters in Amsterdam 10/10. Elite stuff. Right up there with the city’s best

Anyone else remember the corporate media permanently camped outside Jeremy Corbyn’s door - often egged on by Labour Together’s scabrous little toadies? Or the tent in Nicola Sturgeon’s garden? Well done to @scotnational.bsky.social for choosing to publish this.

Peter Mandelson is telling the truth on one thing: the idea he was bought for a $4k “bursary” or a $75k gift is ridiculous The real incentive was a post-government payday - one so big he *rejected* a $3–5m-a-year offer And Epstein enabled that payday Here’s the evidence. 🧵

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

A new way to explore UK Poverty data ⬇️ Poverty is deepening. Developing solutions to tackle this problem starts with clear, accessible evidence. To make our data more accessible we’ve published all charts, maps and tables from our UK Poverty 2026 in a new, interactive dashboard.

My favourite way of saying “we’re on it” or “we’ll take care of that for you” is the Dutch we zullen dat varkentje wel even wassen. It means “we will certainly get that piglet washed.”