An unapologetically angry post about what’s being done to US science:

My attitude to Tony Blair's opinions on AI is informed by my total conviction that he barely knows how to turn his own phone on.

Trading Places, the Channel 5 reality show, has just described Jesus as "the original influencer".

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

there was a lot wrong with the UK of the 1970s and 80s but the country did produce the absolute hardest public information films, adverts and posters known to man an entire government dept who clocked in every day & went to work scaring the living shit out of its citizens in amazing style

Space Karen‘s bullshit sci-fi story IPO may well be the 21st century’s South Sea Bubble.

Spotted on X:

Matt Le Tissier reveals real photo of what happened at Boro's training ground.

Hopefully this blog post in which I attempt to articulate the objectives of #DrugDesign will be useful for those using #AI and #ML in #DrugDiscovery | #ADME #cheminformatics #MedChem #chemsky 🧪 fbdd-lit.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...

I don't think a local model is directly transferable to national challenges - other than for the centre to encourage the same to happen elsewhere. bsky.app/profile/jame...

Such an awful debate in every respect. We don't want young people with aspirations. University might be bad for you. Was good for us the successful ones but you don't deserve the same. Mostly because governments have made a mess of financing.

Rejoining the EU is only one of the awkward questions will bear down on Burnham during the by-election campaign www.independent.co.uk/voices/what-...

Absolutely nothing prepared me for this Harry Potter lookalike. Dying.

"There is little to no statistical relationship between Reform performance and Labour performance, but a very strong (negative) relationship between Labour and Green performance." @patrick-pme.bsky.social

This is what normalisation looks like.

This whole thread!

Star Trek: The Original Series 🙃

This is the greatest scam email of all time. I now want to start every email with “Yourself there, take good note”. I salute you, random Argentine scammer who cranked the ChatGPT Oirish setting up to 11

Harsh but fair

This chart might look political, but it’s really about data science. The UK can rank great or poorly depending on the KPIs you choose. Our choice of data decides how we view reality.

These people demand the right to appoint faculty and prescribe the content of the curriculum at American universities.

*Sean Connery voice

Pope Leo has lost the Protestants, I repeat Pope Leo has lost the Protestants, this is unpreced— <wait my producer is just whispering something in my ear> Apparently this is precedented

NEW: The Green Party is STILL bad at being green (FREE TO READ) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-green-...

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

Vance has never asked the question ‘is the Pope a Catholic?’

The 21st century equivalent of 'My grandad smoked 60 a day and lived until he was a hundred.'

NEWS! US doctors defend Trump, "This is how we all dress now" newsthump.com/2026/04/14/u...

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

The real headline: crypto crook (who pleaded guilty to breaking US money laundering rules) plans to try and buy UK politics www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

My (fab) colleague @noahvickers.bsky.social reveals why West Yorkshire tram has faced delays🚊 Reveals details of a secret govt report showing Tracy Brabin’s attempts to start construction on the network before her next re-election campaign were blocked due to a high risk of wasted taxpayers’ cash

Morning.

A wonderful thread of how life expectancy with cancer has dramatically improved in the last 20 years. For instance this type of lung cancer your chance of living a year is up from zero to almost 80%.

You: Christ is risen Political Twitter: Pressures rises on Pilate’s defence spending after corpse evades two soldiers LinkedIn: Jesus has executed a rebound recovery and is looking at rebranding opportunities

From someone on the Eurostar.

Fair play, Oxford Mail, this April Fool did make me chuckle.

@seva.bsky.social is pulling no punches: "In 1991, the United States had a reason to fight; in 2003 it manufactured one; in 2026 it didn’t bother"

@octopus.energy CEO telling it like it is. (Source: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...).

Great post by Chris Curtis, Lab MP and ex-YouGov, on the problem of fake respondents in online polls open.substack.com/pub/chriscur...

So who fancies the next go at being Tottenham manager?

Trump Demands Allies Do Their Fair Share To Fuck Up The World

The #ItP view on #ML binding affinity prediction #DrugDesign #MedChem #CompChem #cheminformatics #AI #chemsky 🧪 “Unfortunately, we don’t spend much time on Easy Mode in the wonder drug factories” www.science.org/content/blog...

AI isn't killing jobs, it's 'unbundling' them into lower-paid chunks

You asked, we listened. Millions of AI-predicted protein complex structures are now available in the #AlphaFold Database. This spans homodimers from 20 of the most studied species, including humans, as well as the World Health Organization’s priority pathogens list. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...