Excited to deliver the Christmas lecture of the Cambridge & Oxford Society in #Tokyo! Special thanks to HIH Princess Takamado - as gracious, vivacious & tenacious as ever in flying the Cambridge (& especially the Girton) flag!

EU rules help protect your rights, your 🎁 gifts, your 🐶 dog, and your ✈️ travels, so everything and everybody can make it home safely... and on time for the gathering! Merry Christmas from the European Parliament🎄

Sausages are Germany’s most popular street food. And only one thing could make them better: a sprinkle of Indian spices. This is the story of the Currywurst, maybe the most popular Indo-German invention. 🌭

Merry Christmas! May your day be filled with peace and joy!

From all at Australian Labor, we wish you a Merry Christmas.

Share with someone who's working today. ❤️

How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them arstechnica.com/information-...

If you got a problem, yo, I'll solvent, check out the gunk, isopropyl dissolves it

Probably!

Hello www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af5y... The small WA community finding its own solution to keep the power on | Landline | ABC News www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeCc... Outback Power: What renewables are offering to country towns. | Landline | ABC News OK, bye

Mindscape Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University. After a tough year for higher education, I give a pitch for the most idealistic, aspirational conception of the value of a liberal-arts education. #MindscapePodcast Happy Holidays all! www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

This important meta-science article should not be hidden behind a paywall.

Betty was one of the most generous people I had the privilege of interviewing. An extraordinary person who lived an extraordinary life.

The dedication and commitment of police officers was on full display last night, when off-duty officers turned up to Bondi to help. They are the best of Australia.

Tonight at 6:47pm, one week on from the terrorist attack at Bondi, we will pause for a minute’s silence and light a candle to remember the victims.

Surprise: Free Will Needs Quantum Physics to Fail, Physicists Show www.youtube.com/watch?v=VspN...

Riehl's book on category theory is legit, I wish I had that book first time around. Artfully succinct, plenty of problems for mastery.

This is an amazingly thoughtful, information-rich thread. By a sitting member of Congress! How about that.

The really good truths are esoteric, but they’re not actually suppressed. I have a whole podcast that talks about them all the time.

Happy Twentieth Day of December ❄️☃️ Only 5 days to go #ChristmasIsComing 🎄🎅🏼🤶🏻🦌

1. First, let's talk about the elephant in the room that he doesn't mention explicitly but haunts the whole piece: climate change is real, we've overshot the goal and the only way to turn the corner is to leave fossil fuel in the ground. To ignore that is to talk about rocketry and ignore gravity.

I am brimming with holiday spirit

Miyazaki is nearly unique in his ability to capture the authentic feel of fairy tales

before and after the Catbus appears on screen:

watching 'My Neighbor Totoro' for the first time in a while and Hillel was transfixed by the Catbus scenes, he woke up from a dead sleep & stared intently at the teevee the whole time lol

welcome home to your parents’ house, the channels are Yellowstone, masterpiece mystery, and Jimmy fallon, btw someone from your high school died in a real weird way

Many families & individuals seeking protection face unimaginable challenges. They are rebuilding their lives after fleeing conflict & danger - often arriving with nothing but hope for safety. Donate to our winter appeal today & help someone start again in safety. 🧡 ow.ly/ASpx50XJyGq

Harrison Ford will receive a lifetime achievement award from SAG-AFTRA in March. The actor union's president, Sean Astin, praised Ford on Thursday as a “singular presence” in American culture.

Besides being fun, what benefits have you gained from playing #roleplaying games? @scishow.bsky.social talks about it and #NightWitchesRPG gets an early shout out! #TTRPGs #larp #gaming

The Greens will work with the government to pass reforms through federal and state parliaments to tighten the rules around gun ownership. This is not America and we must  work both to eradicate antisemitism and racism and to reduce unnecessary guns in our community.

China Makes Breakthrough With Thorium Nuclear Reactor. Where is the West? www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJy...

Hello How will Erasmus work for the UK and who can take part? www.theguardian.com/education/20... The UK’s membership explained as it prepares to rejoin the EU education and training programme it left after Brexit OK, bye

Mindscape Ask Me Anything | December 2025. A few personal-advice questions (which I'm not great at), and several people who want to imagine they could be Laplace's Demon. My advice is that you are not Laplace's Demon. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

The UK is coming back to Erasmus! 🥳 Welcome back! German universities, vocational schools and companies have missed you! Leave your recommendations for which German university UK students should study at in 2027! 👇

Type design is weirdly fascinating to me. If it takes a bizarrely juvenile State Department directive to inspire an NYT explainer, maybe it's worth it. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A wicked little gothic whodunnit steeped in darkness and light, 'Wake Up Dead Man' is the best of the Knives Out series to date. Genuinely twisty, philosophically yearning, and with two charismatic lead performers in Daniel Craig and Josh O’Connor. satpa.pe/kOAbD3K

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

wow! Sleuth triumph www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

In my case, this painstaking labor in the process through which the science gets done. Science isn't measuring stuff in a lab. It's thinking deeply, extracting the heart of idea from the soup of thoughts running through my mind, molding it, and finding a way to communicate that idea to others.

Okay okay, by popular demand: Sean’s Ultimate Eclectic Xmas Xtravaganza playlist! open.spotify.com/playlist/0jk...

Tim Prudente wrote about why Jane Austen superfans flock to Baltimore to celebrate the beloved novelist, who was born 250 years ago today! www.thebanner.com/culture/arts...

It do be like that sometimes.

After mass violence such as the Bondi beach terror attack, distress does not stop with those directly affected.

The decision to pursue improved gun control laws took Australian leaders less than 24 hours following the Bondi shooting

Run With the Fox is a surprisingly good Xmas song, considering I’m pretty sure it was recorded just so Chris Squire could release a record credited to “Chris Squire’s Swiss Choir.” youtu.be/9aI1oWRgxwo?...

Photonic computers are processors that use light – not electricity – to complete their calculations. They could get is to AGI quickly, so the promise. Does the technology live up to the hype? I've had a look. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmEW...

Leo High School Choir captured our hearts this year in their incredible performance on America’s Got Talent. When President Obama met them this week on his trip in Chicago, they captured his heart, too, with their infectious enthusiasm and an impromptu performance of "U Will Know”.

For more than three years of gruelling negotiations, Precious Matsoso steered the group that drafted the first global pandemic treaty She is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025 go.nature.com/3YmrUK9