I’m reading some Christmas poems tonight on The Adverb on BBC Radio 4. But don’t let that put you off, there’s a fabulous line-up of other guests: Jackie Kay, John Hegley and Sam Lee, expertly compered by Testament. It’ll be on the BBC Sounds app once it’s aired. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Good Morning! On this day, (Wednesday) December 17 in 1900 Mary Cartwright was born. Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright, DBE, FRS, FRSE was a British mathematician & was one of the pioneers of what would later become known as chaos theory. #HERstory #WomeninSTEM 🧪

"Bluesky is an echo chamber." "Bluesky doesn't have enough reach" "Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right" I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Thank you for all the messages and solidarity - I know it could be a strange week ahead so I may be quite quiet - but I am chipper and ready

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm." ~ Aldous Huxley The Tow Path at Argenteuil 🎨 Claude Monet (1875)

The rise of free oxygen may have initiated on marine mud www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

“The sun has long been set,
  The stars are out by twos and threes,
The little birds are piping yet
  Among the bushes and trees;
 There’s a cuckoo, and one or two thrushes,
 And a far-off wind that rushes,….” —William Wordsworth (The Sun Has Long Been Set) 1807 #AIart #Midjourney7 #Poetry

Wonderful book! I listened to the audiobook in the car. Superb on the music and the family stuff. Hope the lad's well. (Also made a playlist with most of the tunes :0)

For the first time, the MAGA base has turned on Trump - over Epstein. And significantly the rebels were led by a once ultra loyal woman. It shows there’s a limit to the cult’s acceptance, and Trump’s power. It also reveals his weak spot: Epstein and female rage My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

I'm participating in an "Open Science Exploratory Roundtable" in the Max Planck Society later this week, so bumping my grumpy thoughts about open science again. I'm as curious as everyone else to see what a club of competitive narcissists who succeeded under the status quo (the MPG) can manage!

Today is Lise Meitner's birthday, as well as Marie Curie. I wrote this blogpost about Meitner and her life a while back. Let's celebrate the woman who 'never lost her humanity'. occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

House prices have gone up in the French town of Sauté since it's become gentlyfried.

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Definitely a good use of AI!

Oh joy, this is wonderful. And a great choice for the recipients. I had a great chat with Michel at the Helgoland quantum centenary: he's such a modest guy.

🧵1/ Excited to share our new paper introducing a new #singlecell assay: scTF-seq, a high-throughput single-cell approach to explore how transcription factor (TF) dose shapes cell identity and reprogramming outcomes. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big congrats to the entire team @EPFL & @SIAT_China

The Margrittest Captcha of all time.

New blog post! Ever wonder what geom_histogram is actually doing? How about geom_boxplot? In celebration of the release of #ggplot2 4.0.0 (ggplot8?), I explore the relationships between the “geoms” and “stats” offered by the core {ggplot2} functions. #rstats

In case you’ve ever wondered how they do it… www.worldofmoose.com/products/mum...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope returns to this spot after more than 20 years! This is the second-largest star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Bright, young stars light up gas clouds & sculpt clumps of dust with powerful ultraviolet radiation 👉 esahubble.org/images/potw2... 🔭

An evergreen thread: Race/Ethnicity is *not the same* as genetics, and you can't use Race/Ethnicity as a sort of stand-in for genetics. These two concepts are connected via aspects like skin colour, but the connection is alot less profound and categorical than most people think.

Mariam Abu Dagga, a Palestinian journalist whose photos captured the destruction in Gaza, died in an Israeli strike on Gaza's Nasser Hospital, the one she regularly documented. Here are some of the scenes Dagga captured during the war:

The Joker, The Riddler, The Penguin and Catwoman collaborate to dispose of the Dynamic Duo in... 🦇 BATMAN the movie (1966) 11:35am #AdamWest #BurtWard #BurgessMeredith #LeeMeriwether #CesarRomero comic strip family feature #TPTVsubtitles

To understand our Milky Way's history, we need to study star clusters. Gaia excelled at this, having: ✨ performed a cluster inventory 💫 mapped the Sun’s neighbourhood 🔗 revealed hidden links in the sky With more data still to come, Gaia has a lot more to teach us 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

RDM Weekly Issue 9 is out! 📫 - NIH DMS Plans Lesson Set - Ethically Making and Sharing Data @cynthiaheider.com - Creating Psych-DS #rstats Projects @ianhussey.mmmdata.io - Yoda Metadata Editor @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Scientists Stumbled Across A Sunken Whale Carcass That Could Support The Ecosystem For Decades | IFLScience

Worst bleaching on record for Western Australian coral reefs. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

RFK Jr. is upset that a recent large Danish study in Annals of Internal Medicine, conducted over 20 yrs in 1 M kids, found no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines & 50 different health conditions. His request for the retraction was rejected. 🧪 www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Data come in many different formats and are used in many different ways, but in many cases, a checklist like this (along with good data documentation) can help you verify if a dataset is in a usable format for most general purposes. osf.io/t8upr

Tiny ribbons, big role: In zebrafish, sensory hair cells use stable microtubules and kinesin motors to build and position ribbon synapses, structures that keep signals flowing in hearing and balance. Read our new Insight Article: buff.ly/BBVXbYw

I want a pet raven

For the latest image of the month, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope revisits the iconic Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The deep observations reveal more than 2500 sources sparkling in this tiny patch of sky ✨ Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭🧪 #extragalactic

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social, Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism. Looking forward to following you wherever you land, Your fan, Mar🐫

I really appreciate being given the opportunity to contribute to this Nature article on best practices for versioning shared data! 🫱📂🫲 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

To all of us who're thriving... Tomorrow will always be waiting for us to make it better... Here's To Life...💐 Here's to Life is a 1992 studio album by Shirley Horn, arranged by Johnny Mandel. #music youtu.be/UTv3TONfTTQ?...

If the govt stubbornly presses on with its apparent quest to remove educational rights from SEND kids in mainstream schools, this is what the fight will look like: cold bureaucracy and Treasurythink v raw humanity (from today's Mirror, thanks to @carriegrant.bsky.social)

Howtown is one of my favorite science video shows. It's rigorous, funny, deeply researched and incredibly well-produced

New version 0.3.1 of tidyplots.org now on CRAN 🚀 🍒 Paired comparisons in `add_test_*()` 📋 Selected comparisons in `add_test_*()` 🌍 Global options for all tidyplots 🐣 New `add_ellipse()` function 👀 Functions to rename, reorder, sort, reverse now end in `*_levels()` #tidyplots #rstats #dataviz #phd

This is how you can test selected comparisons in #tidyplots 0.3.1 📋 #rstats #dataviz #phd

Barbra Streisand's attempt to remove a photo of her Malibu mansion from the Internet backfired resulting in the photo going viral & creating a new term: "the Streisand effect" This week, Hungary's failed attempt to ban #BudapestPride has led to the coining of a new word: "Orbanned" #Pride #Budapest

The Good Father is published today. It’s my best book, my most personal book, the book that most closely approaches what it was that I set out to do. I hope you’ll give it a try…💙📚

Newcastle, you were bloody brilliant – thank you for two unforgettable nights. ❤️
 Manchester tomorrow! 📷 Jimi Love Tour info & more: linktr.ee/timminchin Band 🔥: Jak Housden Evan Mannell Emily Moore Jeni Magaña Robbie Robson

"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot." — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

#TourTheUniverse with us! 🔭 Start from a vast cosmic panorama featuring some 14 million galaxies and zoom in until you reach a single swirling spiral galaxy. The final image is enlarged 600 times compared to the 208-gigapixel mosaic. All thanks to #ESAEuclid, our dark Universe detective 🕵️ 🧪