This is fun! But let's hope I'm not the one put in charge of surviving on Mars, I apparently have only bad ideas when it comes to terraforming.

Happy pride to the super bisexuals

I work for a charity and we also would like hundreds of billions but we simply have to settle for creating an effective business strategy and implementation plan to generate income. Sometimes life's not fair, CEO of Anthropic.

🎧 Here’s a snippet from our latest MIC podcast, “Looking to the future of the profession: inside the Infection Specialist Workforce report” – one not to miss! Listen to the full episode over on the BIA website 👉 www.britishinfection.org/education-ev...

Anyone else in the ven diagram of people who were delighted by the #MexicoGoal and #AndyBurnham win in the same 15 mins? From CDMX to Makerfield

This is obviously very bad, but I am amused that it is a French academic who has used AI to give himself a spot of existential anxiety and a dose of intellectual impotence

An important reminder that progress is not linear, it needs constant attention and fight.

How to stymie biomedical research in the United States gift link nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...

“In a conflict like Sudan where women’s bodies are the battleground (GBV, lack of SRHR, acute malnutrition), how are we supposed to work when ‘gender’ has been erased from our vocabulary.” Powerful remarks by MSF at @humconberlin.bsky.social SRHR session.

Honestly why is the US cutting back on its scientists, where would it be without its biologists to solve complex fraud cases like this

Started reading this after people started posting it on 7 April... addictive mystery, mad premise, perfect worldbuilding, not sure if it would actually help if I knew anything about American football.

it feels quite bad that it's basically impossible to argue that much of the modern right in the west has become both entirely intellectually shallow and deeply, fundamentally morally corrupt without sounding like a tedious teenage tankie, because it is.....the factual truth

Yep, we're taking our academic journals off it this month at work. Get almost no engagement nowadays. Although bluesky is not much better, LinkedIn is the best for us now which I kinda hate because it means I have to spend time on LinkedIn

I try really hard to always be courteous to my fellow internet denizens but apparently a quick way to get on my bad side is to be misleading and/or inaccessible with space/science things. Science should be for everyone and misinformation about it undermines the whole point of scicomm.

Can the FIFA Peace Prize be transferred to, say, Pakistan? * *asking for a friend

Yes, love my parents but there was a lot of 'you'll never know the fear of the bomb' when I was being a brat in the 90s. Well now I do know the fear of the bomb so maybe we can revisit your position on purchasing the Spice Girls sticker book

Because of woke

The impact on all of us of a mindless Emperor's carelessness.

"Happy Eapter!" yelled Robert Jenrick. "Monday Thursday is here!" he screeched. "GREAT FRIDAY!" the man vomited while rolling in his own feces.

Absolutely awful news from a UK school, obviously dreadful. But also never thought I'd see Cheryl Cole would pop up alongside Orwell and Atwood on a banned books list

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Writing helps you organize and clarify your own thoughts. When others read, it helps them do the same, whether they agree with you or not. Both of us probably need the reminder a year from now. This is why it’s valuable to write, even if your ideas aren’t unique.

About half of the high-powered .50-caliber cartridges that the Mexican authorities have seized from cartels since 2012 were traced to an ammunition factory outside Kansas City, that is owned by the United States government. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...

Absolutely - in so many ways a great country and a great place to live, filled with charitable and kind people. Easy to forget that among the howls of the tabloids and the powerful people who want to tear it all down.

One of the most striking data visualizations I've ever seen, and it's just text: This Is Donald Trump’s Name 38,000 Times The Epstein files released so far contain more than 38,000 references to Trump, Melania, Mar-a-Lago, and other related words, according to the New York Times.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

I mean this is obviously appalling, but as a European come on guys there's some top scientists to poach here surely

- I was lying in bed the other night - was you - yes Dud, and I heard this tap, tap, tap on the window - who was it? - bloody Jim Pickard of the FT - no - yes Dud, "Peter, Peter" he said, "tell me about Jeffrey Epstein" - and what did you say? - I told him to 'fuck off' - that told him - it did Dud

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

So many men named in the Epstein files say "I was only emailing him for financial advice, something I now hugely regret of course" and then the email is "hi j-dawg, loved partying with you and the naughty little girls this weekend, same again soon, bestie?" and Epstein replying "me am sayy yse . !1"

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yes, great article. I keep thinking there's recognisable elements of Franco (and Salazar) in Trump's approach.

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Liz Truss's real legacy

And the UK govt had decided that this is the time to be punitive towards overseas students

It is profoundly ironic that the whole stated purpose of mass gun ownership in the US - which carries it with the associated cost of frequent mass shootings, including in schools - is to protect against oppressive tyrannical government and yet...

Would watch this reality show though

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the increasingly alarming scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.

Great article from @angelahuttner.bsky.social - "AI is not the problem. It can only augment problems that already exist. It is a catalyser, an enzyme that has found its substrate. And the substrate here is our broken academic and publishing systems—our academic-industrial complex". bit.ly/49A1UkY

We go live to the Protect our girls crew, unsure what they are doing

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

In sick this NYE with a cold, but still Happy New Year all!

Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:

Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. We’re haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what it’s worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.

Came home for Christmas, cat immediately scratched me, mum took cats side, I'm now in chair far from fireplace while cat lies resplendent in full glow of log burner

The US is not Denmark. Denmark is not the US. The Danish immunization schedule is not adapted for the realities of the American Healthcare system and population. Let me explain. This is a long thread so buckle up 🧵

That’s the thing about Trump: he has no positive virtues at all. He isn’t hard working or dedicated, he isn’t fun or generous or decent. He isn’t kind to children and animals: he appears to despise most of his kids. Even when he’s funny - which he can be - it’s usually because he’s being cruel.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.