They read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius

Sunshine on #Leith for all at home here. There is no place for racists in #Edinburgh and there never will be. A humbling moment: the silence at the spot of the attack. Everyone united in it for our communities, a little boy waving from a window above. We can make a difference. We have a duty to.

Preparing to say goodbye to the mighty BBC Radio 4 Long Wave broadcast. The first service began 101 years ago. The transmitters at Droitwich, Westerglen and Burghead will be switched off at 0100 BST on Saturday. The 200 metre long AM signal at 198 Khz goes right through you and sounds fabulous!

Very promising results for protecting Willow Tit nests and good work by @wildhorizons.bsky.social . We love all Woodpeckers, but Great Spots are the culprits here.

After the shocking anti-Muslim stabbings in Edinburgh, Lord Provost Robert Aldridge has said “Let us unite against those who seek to create division and hatred.” Suspect Lewis Hawkes, 36, has been charged with attempted murder and offences “aggravated by reason of having a terrorist connection.”

Every result Scotland depend on for qualification going so badly we’re probably going to end up relegated

Larry Ellison gave $45M to support Trump's reelection in 2024. In return, Trump has given Ellison free rein to build more AI data centers and helped him gobble up companies like Paramount, WBD, and TikTok for his business empire. This is what oligarchy looks like.

Fuck me, this is insane

‘Likely’, Ed.

The “Flamingo Revolution,” as local activists have dubbed it, was set off by the luxury resort projects that Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and her husband, Jared Kushner, plan to build on nature reserves in Albania.

💡 The laser was a solution that preceded every problem it would solve. Nobody in 1953 could list its applications, because those applications did not yet exist. That is what foundational research looks like before anyone knows what it is for.

Teenage boys in UK ‘stuck’ reading primary-level books while girls’ tastes expand

Great news for nature!🎉 Late yesterday afternoon, Member States in the REACH committee voted in support of the Commission’s proposal to restrict lead in gunshot.

A good explainer about why it’s wise to be very skeptical of industrial carbon capture schemes…. projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

Anyway, it was a beautiful day on Ben Lomond yesterday. #ScotlandBrazil #WorldCup2026

Nae further comment needed.

'You can technically still qualify with a 2-0 defeat, possibly' is not the kind of pre-match message you should be imparting to the Scotland national team

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

Please consider signing this petition to save the Botanic Gardens in Dundee, my home town. The gardens are a place of learning, solace and inspiration, and are cherished by both Dundonians and visitors to the city. Its closure would be a terrible loss. c.org/syGLMR2NQL

Scottish commentators talking about American Football, tennis, and Formula One in an effort to avoid talking about the fitba…

Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows

𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐌𝐔𝐈𝐑 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐘 A big shoutout to the Stenhousemuir Tartan Army who are headed to tonight’s match in Florida! #scotland

Paying it forward! Rhode Islanders respond to the Tartan Army's generosity by donating to Glasgow hospital. Isn't it beautiful that kindness is contagious? www.wpri.com/news/its-goo...

Hydration break. 📸NMS

New in #BirdStudy Edge of extinction: Ring Ouzels found in just 9 sites in all-Ireland survey, all in County Donegal. Decline to near extinction of a mountain passerine: the status of the Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus in the Republic of Ireland in 2021 doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology

“Between the eastern and western communities of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) that call the region home, scientists have discerned distinct differences in communication style.” #scicomm #sensoryecology #bioacoustics #animalcommunication www.sciencealert.com/whales-appea... 🧪 🐋 🎶 🦊 🦑

Report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist

c.org/zJhSnx48VJ PLEASE consider signing this. I have visited many botanic gardens in Britain and Europe, and this is one of the best. It would be a travesty for an 'educational' institution to be allowed to desecrate it. Living heritage like this is arguably more important than fusty old mansions.

Just 10 days after the SpaceX IPO, the stock has plunged and the average investor has seen most of their initial gains disappear. And don't forget: rules protecting investors from volatile new stocks were gutted — at SpaceX's behest. The universe's largest Ponzi scheme?

Sheets of Bog Pimpernel in flower in Lye Valley #fen ..And can you spot also the leaves of Marsh Lousewort and some of Grass of Parnassus popping up through the pimpernel? @friendlyevalley.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

It’s #InvasiveSpeciesWeek & for the #WildflowerHour challenge we are focusing on those non-native naturalised plants that are proving problematic! Find one in bloom & share you pics this Sunday using the hashtag #InvasivePlants. Read more here bsbi.org/blog/2026/06/i…

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

‘Don’t remake Highlander!’ Highlander is so perfectly awful it’s impossible to remake. It’s not so bad that it’s good. It’s so bad it’s great. There’s no way to capture the demented bombast and po-faced lunacy of the original. So don’t try. There can be only one! In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

UK's top data and AI regulator quits maybe not a good fit in any case....?

I will take the win. Why can’t Congress protect other aspects of American science?

Green Party leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social has been cleared in an investigation over claims he failed to pay council tax while living on a London houseboat. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Amazing news! Cervical cancer deaths in younger women have plummeted in England following the rollout of the HPV vaccine, according to new research, published today in The Lancet. Read more: cruk.ink/4ozraO5

Windows update leaves third-party Office document launches in limbo

This week’s challenge is #PollinatorPals! Find a flowering wild or naturalised plant with a pollinating visitor & snap away. Of course it’s not just about bees! Butterflies, moths, wasps, flies & beetles can be #pollinators too! Share your pics for #Wildflowerhour Sunday 8-9pm 🪲🦋🪰🐝

Dune Brittlestems, Psathyrella ammophila. Lots on the seaward edge of the dunes at Sandscale Haws NNR today. Psathyrella ammophila, Dune Brittlestem mushroom share.google/QY7gBp94jYB6... #Fungi #FungiFriends

Anyone who's even just visited London for a weekend must know that this is the most unutterable bollocks.

Good lads, those Croatians. #JustSaying

A large demonstration is underway in Oxford city centre against the presence of a far-right agitator at the student debating society on St Michael’s Street. We are choosing not to give the society the publicity it desperately craves, but this sign encapsulates our thoughts.

A costly 'debate'? Businesses around St. Michael's Street are reporting planned early closures tomorrow. The Handlebar says its pavement licence has been revoked and will close at 3pm. The White Rabbit will close at 3.30 pm. Council leader Susan Brown criticised the cost of staging the event.

But that is exactly how the suffragettes operated. With a nationwide organisation of sleeper cells of arsonists and bombers. I’m gratefully people have reached out and referenced my work today. I remain (I believe) the only academic expert on the terrorism of the suffragettes. Links below:

The bat that weighs the same as a teaspoon of salt – and the biologist who rediscovered it www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yellow Centaury Cicendia filiformis in the New Forest, Hampshire today. Small population on a roadside damp flush near Holmsley. Always tiny, sometimes more so. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Long-bracted Sedge Carex extensa and Distant Sedge Carex distans in a West Sussex dune slack today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

I walked straight past this, even though I knew where it was. So had to double back and check. It's Marsh Pea, a rare species in Yorkshire (and scarce in the UK), and was reintroduced after a gap of a couple of hundred of years to Potteric Carr near Doncaster. A happy plant scrambling up a reed.