Aberdeen, Inverness and Fort William services will travel to and from London via the city in the West Midlands. The Lowland service that goes to Glasgow and Edinburgh is unaffected by the change.

This figure means the opposite of what these NIMBY clowns think. www.theguardian.com/environment/... Given 1. The UK has a quickly growing population unlike most of Europe 2. Its land area is proportionately more developed than comparable countries (eg France) We should be higher. /1

Microsoft spends billions to create calculator that is wrong nearly half the time.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services

This new column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social makes me think about when I recently had to talk to the police for yet another safety plan, I tried to “lighten” the mood by saying that we all knew this wasn’t my first rodeo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

[1/2] 📢 GLAMOS @scnat.ch press release out today: Swiss glaciers lost another 3% of their volume in 2025, the 4th-largest decline ever measured. In just 10 years, they’ve lost a quarter of their ice mass. Over 1k small glaciers have already vanished. 🔗 to press release: scnat.ch/en/uuid/i/9d...

“This year turned out to be a little less extreme than we feared", says Matthias Huss, director of GLAMOS. “However, what worries me is that we’re getting used to these very negative years. It’s a new normal, but one that shouldn’t be there.” @matthias-huss.bsky.social @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social

Why has Mobility-as-a-Service flopped? "There's no evidence I could find anywhere that these MaaS apps were changing how people travel or reducing driving. And I asked everyone, for years." [email protected]

“I am the very model of a modern major general.”

PostDoc in "Glacier Geophysics" (d/f/m) - Bremerhaven, Bremen, Germany - www.earthworks-jobs.com/job?id=11181 #PostDoc #Geophysics #geophysics #glaciology

I have to say that I've arrived at wondering whether the military will go along with orders to engage in illegal authoritarian suppression of the politically disfavored a whole lot sooner than I'd been expecting.

Today’s Hegseth speech puts me in mind of this speech from 8 years ago. All that culture-building work is now going to be undone, if the president and his henchmen get their way. youtu.be/mU0RfhvYN8s?...

Polar scientists meeting at @royalsociety.org in London this week are issuing a stark warning: dramatic and extreme changes in Antarctica are happening faster than expected, with consequences that will affect everyone on the planet. www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/a...

LAMBETH LIB DEMS CALL FOR “END TO FLEECEHOLD” AS NEW POLICIES ANNOUNCED

Immigrants strongly support their children learning English to a high standard, and see that as important for their future success in society not just in work. Nothing would say "immigrants themselves should learn" better than mass funding free adult language classes... like we used to...

fuck off fuck off fuck off fuck OFF with this bullshit

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

Today was one of my favourite lectures, on how evidence influences debates. Case A: 79 people died as a consequence of smart motorways (2010-2024). That's sufficient to pause the policy. Case B: In the first year of the Welsh 20mph scheme 900 fewer people were injured. There's still contestation.

Tomorrow is a little different. Having trained over 50,000 researchers (🤯) I’m spending the day with a Researcher Development team sharing how I do what I do. One of my guiding principles is creating training that I (a socially awkward grumpy weirdo) would be comfortable with.

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

"After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, or ARCUS, will close September 30." "The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives."

and also, because it’s not a physical card or a stamp in your passport or whatever, the newest thing is that airline staff are sometimes like ‘hmm but don’t you need a visa to travel to the UK’ and it’s like ‘no but i also don’t have any way of proving this to you’

Killed by the Net Zero Dad www.economist.com/britain/2025...

I was very sad to see this morning that ARCUS (the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States) is shutting down because NSF are no longer funding them. Another step backwards for American science. alaskapublic.org/news/environ...

Late Western Railway are living up to their reputation.

“No, that’s fine, I’ll just ask that esteemed professor coming all the way up here for a phd viva or guest lecture to bring a packed lunch”

Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal

The other fortunate thing wrt HIV/AIDS was that the government's response was co-ordinated by Willie Whitelaw, a man who led a Guards battalion in WWII and so probably had zero illusions about the effectiveness of an 'abstinence first' approach.

my (not deeply researched, i admit) theory is that the seemingly small insults, cuts and deceits are the thing that breaks university staff morale we are, by and large, deeply committed to the idea of a university and are, by and large, competent if stubborn—otherwise we wouldn’t be in the sector

Great thread, impossibly good picture.

One for the 90s kids…

Bloody hell this is good! @bhgreeley.bsky.social

This is awful. Here in the UK, we have something called the Haldane Principle which says that decisions about science funding should be made by scientists, to try and head off this kind of political interference. To my surprise, it’s actually described in law: www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/2...

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

Oh, now the Spectator has joined the Telegraph in wringing its hands about the university crisis! Like it's nothing to do with them. Too late guys, you've already smashed it, maybe think twice before going in with the bull in a china shop tactics next time eh. www.spectator.co.uk/article/pick...

We ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

My cartoon for this week’s Books pages in @theguardian.com

Don’t buy a Mous phone case. I’m on my second one (a warranty replacement) and it’s already failed the same way as the first one - the rubber has come away from the hard plastic.

🗣️ UPCOMING NYC EVENT 🗣️ On July 31st, we’ll be back at the South Street Seaport Museum for another FREE evening of polar & maritime talks, this time with a Queer History theme 🌈✨ ❄️ MORE INFO & RSVP HERE: southstreetseaportmuseum.org/queer-polar-...

Just imagine a world in which streets were cleaner, high streets better maintained, crime was a bit lower, there were more good jobs, public transport was a bit more frequent, council tax bills didn't go up 5% every year, some new libraries and leisure centres open. These are things people notice.

Because that's just what Cardiff University needs, an ugly and unfriendly building www.bbc.com/news/article...

Excited to share that some of the results from my master’s research have been published! Using SAR, we found evidence of winter meltwater persistence on George VI Ice Shelf and upstream of its grounding line 🛰️🧊 www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...

There’s no ‘could’ about doing less research. Colleagues here being told they can’t go for bids that don’t cover overhead (ie all the charity funders)

Ah the 'common law as the bastion of human rights' nonsense. Completely ignoring the many miscarriages of justice that led up to the Human Rights Act being passed. The classic debunk, from @conorgearty.bsky.social - ukconstitutionallaw.org/2014/11/13/c...

NERC: We need to open up environmental science! Why is it not diverse? Also NERC: We're scrapping Independent Research Fellowships, New Investigator Grants, Small Grants, are limiting applications from institutions based on past success rates and will only allow you to submit your proposal once.

Anyone still using WeTransfer… it’s probably breaking contract terms now to use it for any client work.

I kid you not, this story is simply a few phone calls to some very rich, often right wing people, asking them what they think about higher taxes on wealthy folk. City leaders call for ‘tax certainty’ from Rachel Reeves - on.ft.com/44KI9DB You'll be * amazed* what they say

Okay, this is hilarious! @tomgauld.bsky.social ⚒️🧪 #geology

Great Aletsch #Glacier - what a beauty 😍 Melting at the glacier terminus is incredible though this year as reported by measurements by @pronaturabl.bsky.social Already over 7️⃣ meters of ice loss since Oct 2024, with considerable melt also in winter.