We need to think deeper: why is this unacceptable for a 17 year old but acceptable for an 18 year old - or a 57 year old? Age controls are not the real problem.

👏Build 👏 the 👏 sewage 👏 works 👏 takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/build-stev...

Today I'm posting a new blog about an astonishing scientific own goal. Hundreds of papers have reported using a totally wrong antibody to investigate the tumor suppressor p16. This mistake has happened because scientists have muddled the names of two proteins. forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m...

'For 66 years Valerie Smith kept a bomb in her garden and invited her neighbours to play with it.' Come for the classic local news story, stay for a fine example of the full fat Norwich accent which has to be heard to be believed.

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...

@johanduchene.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social Spent the last hour looking, found ten more apparently manipulated Western blots in Thermo Fisher's antibody verification data (across eight different catalogued products). Thread below. www.thermofisher.com/antibody/pro...

Incredible things are happening in Canada

Not just schematics but 'data' too.

Every day a new joy.

Timeline cleanse

Good morning from Vancouver

Reminder that there is no scientific definition for "ultra-processed food", and no theory for the mechanism by which it is supposedly uniquely harmful.

I cannot overstate how completely insane this story is

Cairo!

Everything is for sale

Did you know there's a barely hidden market for authorship of fake scientific papers in conferences? New preprint w/ @abalkina.bsky.social, @mkunesova.bsky.social, and @yaamurozturk.bsky.social : arxiv.org/abs/2604.22458 We found 4,000+ ads & matched them to 1,720 IEEE conf. papers! ...🧵

Some very Nordic developments. Uppsala has launched a campaign to try to get people to say hi to each other. An opinion writer in the local newspaper: "I am not going to start to say hello to people".

get in loser we’re being prosocial we’re paying our taxes we are NOT stealing from whole foods

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

Maybe I'm an authoritarian at heart, but this is something (along with illegal number plates) I'd come down hard on. Use ANPR as much as we can. Make sure it gets enforced.

Remembering that Jimmy Tarbuck stole Terry Thomas' cigarette holder for a pub quiz might be the intellectual highlight of my week.

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/

Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

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I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

"Kansas firefighters rescue chubby cat trapped in massive recliner while trying to hide from the vet" God speed, chubby cat.

Within you there are two eras. www.ft.com/content/5269...

something powerfully depressing about "seeing your friends" and "cooking food" apparently being seen as "making life harder" I hate it here!

Flying into Heathrow at sunrise is a good reminder that the South of England is a) beautiful and b) pretty empty.

Having a religious experience

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

What it should've said "Subsequently, 1mL of the final solution was added to 20mL of the skin sample and exposed to light for 7 min." The final (reaction) solution!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeesh

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So, about those Eid prayers in London... "What's the highest thing in Trafalgar Square?" "Nelson's column, innit?" "And the highest thing on the column?" "Nelson." "And on Nelson?" "His hat." "And the highest thing on his hat?" "That bit that sticks up." 1/8

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

Ah shit. An absolute titan. My favourite story about Hoare: he needed a sorting algorithm while working as a student in Russia the fifties, so he quickly wrote something that seemed to do the job. It’s now called Quicksort and it’s so elegant and powerful it’s still taught and used today.

What. A. Match.

This large metal cylinder in Osaka is not connected to the road overhead. It's new sewerage, and the top is supposed to be at road level. For reasons no-one can yet explain, the pipe rose 10m overnight. www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/202...

NEW: for @nytimes.com, I wrote about a new study showing that queen bumblebees can breathe underwater, surviving submerged for a week the “remarkable” study stems from a lab snafu, when a co-author thought she accidentally drowned several bees—but later found that they were alive 🧪 gift link 🎁

Everything is for sale

I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Would love to know why Cambridgeshire has such a preponderance of NSFW villages