Political ideology is the strongest predictor of Messi-Ronaldo preference. Authoritarians who like short-form video are more likely to think Ronaldo is the GOAT.

St Andrews researchers catch sperm whale dialects evolving in the Mediterranean Sea 🐳🌊🥳 Read more...👇 https://ow.ly/zIou50Zg9S5 #EverToExcel

Decided to write to Heir Harmer one final letter after he announced his resignation

Depressing but very much worth a read and share. www.erininthemorning.com/p/starmers-r...

Irony is dead.

There's a whole series of books about this. Let's not, eh?

Pro-Palestine marches will openly be called "hate marches" in the press, but these arsonist pogroms, illustrated by a burned-out bus, are simply "disorder"

Absolutely wild how right-wing commentators and politicians are just completely ignoring the attempted pogrom in Belfast. Families with kids rescued from homes set on fire. And these same people who smear peaceful protests against genocide as hate marches say NOTHING

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

Sick of "legitimate concerns". "I'm scared of black people" isn't a "legitimate," it's just racism. "LGBT people make me irrationally angry" isn't "legitimate," you just fear difference. It's not legitimate to wish you lived in a country with only people who are exactly like you.

this should frighten you

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

There’s an increasingly scary question as to whether certain Labour MPs are merely ill-advisedly pandering for votes, or if they’ve become so mired in a toxic social media information ecosystem that they’ve actually fallen prey to far-right radicalisation.

It is now openly irresponsible for UK politicians and Government institutions to continue using Twitter/X as their primary communication platform. There should instead be serious conversations about banning it.

The scenes we saw in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Ayr last night are unacceptable. Scotland is a welcoming nation and those who choose to make their lives here are valued members of our communities. Racism, hatred and intimidation have no place in Scotland. We must stand against it.

Ban X in the UK. It serves no public good. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Keir Starmer has condemned the riots in Belfast, encouraged and promoted on X by the platform's owner, by posting his statement on X.

British government: good golly gosh we understand and agree with the legitimate concerns of the pogrommers but my goodness we must all come together and to our racist ethnic cleansing with Dignity and Respect through boring bureaucracy

BBC News is doing its very best. And our prospective PM wants in on the action.

You can't "legitimate concerns" a pogrom.

Elon Musk is a Fellow of the Royal Society. Judge people by the company they keep. bsky.app/profile/polp...

If anything was going to make me a doomer, it would be the failure of the progressive left to leave X in the face of this stuff. It genuinely feels like progressive public intellectuals think their hot takes and pithy tweets are more powerful than a billionaire-backed misinformation algorithm.

Media: Stop calling the people setting fire to the homes of people of colour in Belfast “protesters”. This is a pogrom.

It's time for the UK to ban X and Facebook.

Big thanks to the DUP, Reform, Tories etc for stirring this up all day. Thugs are now attacking people's homes in Belfast, wrecking hostels, checking cars at roadblocks for 'immigrants', burning vehicles and generally scaring the shit out of people. Hope you're all proud of yourselves. #Belfast

Another summer of hate.

The Far Right riot in Belfast last night was nothing less than “a race-based pogrom”, Belfast MP and leader of the SDLP Claire Hanna said. The mob hunted down non-whites and set fire to their homes. Carl Whyte, a local councillor, called it “a hard Far Right element”.

reading about the May government for a thing and mad, mad, mad that a Conservative Prime Minister said this nine years ago, I hate how much we've lost since then! I hate it so much! www.theguardian.com/society/2017...

It would take 200 years for a median-salary worker to earn what their CEO made in a single year.

For people to be humiliated because of who they are is not acceptable. We must make sure the law treats everyone equally. My latest column - www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Had one of my lovely walks through Glasgow last night - I love this city Off to Stockport now , then Stroud on Friday www.ticketsource.com/yellowlighte...

You may have noticed I disappeared from social media after my launch of @beyondxandy.bsky.social I was violently attacked by a transphobe who recognized me and have been in the hospital and resting If you'd like to help me with my medical bills, please consider donating here: gofund.me/9328f91f2

NEW: A likely hate crime in Chicago left a prominent trans science educator, @jeymccreight.bsky.social with severe injuries after a brutal late night beating. McCreight told @evanurquhart.bsky.social he's shaken but determined to continue his activism. CPD confirmed an ongoing investigation.

to be trans in 2026 is to be subject to ever increasing violent and dehumanizing news bits about your community while everyone else around you is excited about the knicks or whatever

📢 We are excited to announce this year’s Chemical Science symposium on the topic of digital chemistry in the age of AI and machine learning! Find out more at rsc.li/chemscisymp2026 The symposium will be held in London, UK on the 29th and 30th of October 2026 in person only. #ChemSciSymposium

The Guardian profited off stigmatising us and is now perhaps eager to profit off lamenting the tragedies wrought by that profiteering. Still, making such a statement now is better than continuing to vilify us when such vilification has grown to outlandish, unbelievable proportions. One cookie.

I am very concerned that not only does this guidance not appear to do this, but that it actively creates a situation where anyone could be challenged about accessing facilities based simply on how well someone else believes they visually conform to gender stereotypes.

People have joked about how John Fetterman's political views changed after he had a stroke. But there is evidence that authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism might be linked to brain damage. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nominations are now open for the 2026 EES Lectureship until 1 July 2026! Find out more about how to nominate at rsc.li/ees-lectures...

Polls are open in Scotland. You don't need ID or your polling card, just pop along and place your votes. All across Scotland you can vote Scottish Greens on the peach ballot.

Jesus Christ, this is more dystopic than anything Philip K Dick ever wrote but it’s what the Russo Brothers want for your AI Slop future

Sandie Peggie *still* getting front page stories and sympathetic interviews while Beth Upton has had to flee to Australia is so unbelievably grim.

Join us and make an impact in your field. Registration for the Chemical biology symposium 2026 closes on 27 April. Register now for the chance to showcase your work and discover the latest research. Register now: rsc.li/cbs2026 #ChemSky

Short and strong piece on why user friendly edtech, AI tutors and the like, endangers learning by removing the productive friction. Constrained AI might be seen as a solution, but is that then really better than education without AI? a roundtable chat in a room? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In #JMCA Issue 23, you can find a new Review published by @jmaterchem.rsc.org A Editor Subrata Kundu and co-authors, titled Electronic Frontiers of borophene: a computational mini-review on properties and emerging applications Read their exciting Review here: doi.org/10.1039/D5TA...