Tonight we are introducing our nephew to Jaws as his 12th birthday present. We have had an early visit from my favourite shark Bruce.

Everyone, apparently, has questions to answer. Except the people responsible for bringing the system to its knees. Too "complex" to go into that.

Celebrate International Turd On A Mantelpiece Day by downloading Quite Ugly One Morning for only 99p, as it's today's Kindle Daily Deal.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Blimey that’s a long way to come on a raft 😭

🏛️ PODYSSEY SEASON 2 - All the details! 📜 What. Where. When. 🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/6Aw1... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... @sturdyalex.bsky.social

There’s no screening for ovarian cancer and it’s really difficult to spot: you can’t squidge your ovaries in the shower to check for lumps. Also it’s very good at masquerading at other things, like IBS and diverticulitis. Please take a look at this list of symptoms - and share if you can.

The joke is on Microsoft, I never post on LinkedIn

Looks like the science community has found a home. academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

I don't know who to credit this image to, but anyway, they got the price wrong. That 2/9d should read £122 million

www.facebook.com/share/p/19C1... My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

OK, this is a test to see if the internet can help my mum. Can you identify a comic rhyming monologue my mum performed at school in the 1960s? She has been blurting out lines at random as long as I've been alive, but can't remember who wrote it, and internet searches bring nothing up. Ahem: 1/?

Never change Scotland

Catching up with @alexpodyssey.bsky.social episodes on the way up to Aberdeen. What a brilliant series and impressively fresh when you consider how much has been already said on Greek mythology

If you need a good laugh, start reading and don’t stop until you get to The Bath Incident.

Friends, @thelifeofsharks.com has a new book coming out. I just reviewed it and it’s great! You can preorder here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/473994...

Quite an unfortunate place to drift off into an ellipsis.

We may have a king but he wouldn’t destroy a palace on a whim.

Tonight I helped Beavers do an egg drop and then dash over to the Cheltenham Lit Fest and watch an excellent panel discuss conspiracy theories. The two are not connected. Or are they?! @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social @philtinline.bsky.social

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

Waterstones are offering 25% off pre-orders of QUite Ugly One Evening from today until Friday night, on their website and app. Enter “OCTOBER25” at the checkout. www.waterstones.com/campaign/oct...

Excellent. RIP AI 😂

The utter hypocrisy

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old “The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?” Treasure magazine, 1964 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Important info if you bought a car, motorbike or campervan on finance from April 2007 to Nov 2024. A snippet from the new ‘car finance mis-selling everything you need to know' Martin Lewis Podcast available on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., Apple, Spotify & all the usual pod players.

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election. To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

A good friend has submitted this brilliant model of the library from Buffy to Lego Ideas. I’d be very grateful for your help in getting her to 5k supporters: beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

COME ON

Being made redundant or may be? DON'T think, I'll sort my finances when I've time once I'm not working. You're in work, with an income now, so you can truthfully say that on the applications form meaning more chance of acceptance. Sort finances as soon as you've an inkling things may change.

From #EASD2025 - Profs Jane Speight & Richard Holt discuss the importance of the launch of the first draft of the EASD clinical practice guideline on the assessment & management of distress in adults with type 1 or type 2 #diabetes. Watch now 👉 buff.ly/75J652i #DiabetesSky #MedSky

The Beaver Scouts slept 9 to 6.30 am. I did not. Bit knackered but we had fun and we didn’t get blown away by Storm Amy.

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

Beaver Scout sleepover. 12 young people in a Scout hut and 25 kg conkers = hours of child-led play while the leaders drink tea. Win win! @scoutsuk.bsky.social

"She's the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE, Archbishop of Canterbury, but she's Mrs Mullally to you."

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

Horrid news from Manchester :(

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

Sad news

Do you sometimes see/report/handle dead wildlife as a scientist (including volunteer community scientists)? If so, do you have any strategies for dealing with the stress and grief that these encounters can cause? I'm building a toolkit for myself and for some other stressed out folks! context:

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

Aah so sorry to read that Ming Campbell has died. A good man and the first MP I ever voted for.

The NHS is groaning under dilapidated, disparate IT systems. It costs the NHS a fortune in admin. So of course the govt thinking a new ID system is where they should invest money?! And the chances of keeping it secure? @libdemcam.bsky.social

BREAKING: Israel has ordered shut the Allenby Crossing, the only gateway for three million Palestinians in the West Bank to the outside world, “until further notice,” in what appears to be a response to the wave of recognition of Palestine by UN member states including key European allies.

UK medicine regulator confirms there is no evidence paracetamol causes autism in children www.gov.uk/government/n...

Paracetamol during pregnancy does NOT cause autism. More bollocks non-science shaming pregnant people is JUST what we don't need. We are already told what to do and what not to do so much during pregnancy (much worse in the states of course). This has made me furious tbh.

The Lib Dems are right. I know for a fact that a lot of Russian interference isn’t publicised. The Government needs to start calling it out every time it happens so that the public understands we’re at war,

This thread is why I won’t be using AI anytime soon - there are a million accurate anatomical sources on the internet but this is what it comes up with.