Someone, or some group, has cable-tied 16 union jacks around the BBC. Which feels excessive. I’d love to know if any outfit has a flag budget?

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dear internet- if I’m doing a science show about trains for the World Service, what should I absolutely cover, topic-wise?

I can’t read this as anything other than sarcastic trolling from the NYT puzzle bot

Last week, I joined @amsterdammed.bsky.social on Radio 4’s Inside Science to chat about my favourite science news: 🌋 How a volcanic eruption might have sparked the French Revolution ☀️ A new way to detect worrying solar storms 🐕 Dogs can thrive on a vegan diet www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

‘On 18 August, judicial police showed up at the Research Institute in Health Sciences (IRSS) in Bobo-Dioulasso, a key partner in Target Malaria, to stage what scientists described as a “brutal, humiliating” raid.’ My story on mosquitoes, malaria and misinformation in @science.org 🧪

Alert for Train Fans: I’m doing a special episode of Unexpected Elements for the 200th anniversary of passenger trains. It’s for the BBC World Service and is science themed, so any stories or experts I should be looking at? Please let me know/retweet

This week on #bbcinsidescience: solar panels in space, @simonparkin.bsky.social and @valmcdermid.bsky.social talk about Simon’s book, The Forbidden Gardens of Leningrad, shortlisted for the @royalsociety.org Trivedi Book Prize. @adamhartscience.bsky.social talks hunting for conservation.

On Science in Action today: the editor who won't be cowed. Following RFKjr's astonishing attack on a vaccine safety study published in Annals of Internal Medicine, editor Christine Laine defends the research, and explains why his demand for its retraction is rebuffed. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

What really killed Napoleon’s soldiers? I was on Radio 4’s Inside Science yesterday with @amsterdammed.bsky.social. Our favourite news: - what divorce looks like in birds - can we redirect spacecraft to look at a mysterious object which has entered our solar system? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This is the best threat for parents forced to look after the longed-for and neglected pet: “if you don’t clean its cage, it’s going to the zoo.”

We reported on this for BBC World Service’s Unexpected Elements last week… it seemed to make no sense to not use data you’re gathering anyway, so glad there’s been a u-turn on this matter

this week on #InsideScience. tsunami warnings, a Summer of Sports... data. And Scrumping. Primate scientist Cat Hobaiter explains why she's taken the word to describe how apes eat boozy fruit. Plus studio guest @garethmitchell.bsky.social on the best tech news. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

What flavour of quantum physics do YOU believe? @lizziegibney.bsky.social has done a helpful quiz in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In November of 2016, nearly 60 years after the paper was published internally, I had discovered the joke. A few years later, I filed to have the paper declassified, and the NSA eventually agreed, and even put it up on their webpage: media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/14/...

Top UN court says countries can sue each other "over historic emissions of planet-warming gases." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Octopuses fall for the “rubber arm” illusion, just like us. Learn more: scim.ag/40xyT4y

Lots about the material of our age on #insidescience this week

🚨2 months ago, every National Weather Service Director of the last 34 years took the unprecedented step of signing a joint, open letter. “Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.” The Houston office is 44% UNDERSTAFFED.

Thanks to @amsterdammed.bsky.social for this episode of Unexpected Elements, taking my report on the wreck of the X-Press Pearl for a journey through the impact of the chemical disaster on plankton, shipping pollution, & protecting caribou from shipping lanes. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Proposed NOAA Budget Calls for $0 for Climate Research eos.org/research-and...

Europe’s heatwave: leaders should remind the public why ambitious targets matter With net zero targets under attack from the populist right, dangerously high temperatures should refocus minds #climatechange www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On #insidescience this week - @chrislintott.bsky.social on the delights and demands of Vera Rubin images, @tweetisaurus.bsky.social on the new dino at @nhm.org and Simon Middleburgh on the air strikes at enrichment sites. Plus @carolinesteelscience talks through the week’s best science.

A HISTORIC MILESTONE: For the first time, solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear, making it the world’s 4th largest power source. In just 5 years, solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up. @ember-energy.org

The all excellent @carlzimmer.com was on Inside Science this week, talking about aerobiology, its history, Covid and more, all featured in his book AIRBORNE

People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix. It sends these people into delusional spirals. Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

#helgoland25 a ferryload of physicists, and a couple of journalists, make their way to the windswept island of Heligoland. 9th June 1925, Werner Heisenberg left this place with some calculations that would reshape our understanding of reality. 100 years on, why is quantum theory still hard to grasp?

London loveliness this morning. 🥰

I owe Robert Hilton my life, I guess.

Science-podcast fans, check out this week's BBCR4 Inside Science. @pennysarchet.bsky.social, @profmarkmaslin.bsky.social, @amsterdammed.bsky.social and I answer listener Qs like why do snails climb houses 🤔 & why can we look back in time but not into the future🔭🧪 📻: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

It looks like I'll be on BBC #InsideScience today (4.30pm BST) on Radio 4! 📻 I took @amsterdammed.bsky.social behind the scenes at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social to chat about my new book #NaturesMemory, and how #museums like ours can help save the world. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I enjoyed chatting about (possible, ancient, microbial) life on Mars and ministerial use of ChatGPT with @amsterdammed.bsky.social on Inside Science this week. Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

If you're into your science podcasts, check out BBC R4 Inside Science this week, as the lovely @apontzen.bsky.social, @amsterdammed.bsky.social and I have a nice long geeky chat about the new dark energy results from @desisurvey.bsky.social 🤓 📻: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #cosmology 🔭

The UK has announced a case of avian flu virus #H5N1 detected in a sheep (on a farm with infected birds). I think some of the significance of this (and the wider picture) is being missed in a lot of the reporting. So a short thread... 🧪 #IDsky www.gov.uk/government/n...

Big March for Palestine coming towards the BBC. Almost nobody here to hear it though.

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

🔴 For *four years* officials refused to release names of all companies linked to Conservative donors and party figures put in the 'VIP' lane for bumper Covid contracts Now a judge has ordered them to. Huge win for @jennacorderoy.bsky.social (and DfS) democracyforsale.substack.com/p/government...

Holy shit this is awful

Our latest research paper published today on a type of biodegradable plastics called PAC plastics. We did field trials in Dorset and found they did not biodegrade. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Really sad to report that our friend and colleague Richard Fortey passed away this morning after a short battle with cancer. We’ll all miss his wit and wisdom. Here he is checking out a dino footprint we found while filming together on the Isle of Wight

A Jurassic Treasure at the National Museum Scotland collection… but what is it? Tune in to Radio 4 right now to find out!

Bluesky thinks I’m spam so has limited my account. This move away from Twitter isn’t going brilliantly

Winter sunshine weekend. 😍

The PEPFAR program, which distributes HIV drugs, is estimated to have saved 25 million lives. The Trump administration has stopped it and taken its computer system offline, raising fears the program is done for good. Story by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social [Gift link] nyti.ms/4aCJHSx 2/12

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

I’m in Leuven, Belgium’s home of beer, looking at how to organise a non-alcoholic piss-up in a brewery. #BBCcrowdscience #workreally

Export to Europe? Know anyone who does – artists, designers, small businesses? There's a new Brexit bombshell coming 13 December and no-one seems to have been warned. It's called the General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR), and I've looked into it for @theneweuropean.bsky.social 🧵