a column on the brave, brave comedians who went to saudi arabia and told jokes about gay people and women drivers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kemi Badenoch said earlier this year that “silencing free speech harms democracy and “we must fight for it”. Unless of course its the free speech of a news organisation she happens to disagree with bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

"If you can purchase US citizenship for $5 million, the “illegals” are only guilty of being poor." -Feminist News

A French #researcher who had come to attend a #conference was randomly checked upon arrival in the US. Messages discussing the Trump administration's treatment of #scientists were found on his phone… (1/2) www-lemonde-fr.translate.goog/internationa...

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

Jimmy Carter never needed redemption The former president, who has died at age 100, knew that America should not confuse restraint with weakness. By Mark Damazer www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Happy to announce our new Zymo paper (with @quietscientist.bsky.social) which looks at the amazing long-term survival of asexual spores (blastospores). We argue that primary disease inoculum doesnt have to come from wind-blown ascospores.... bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Tagging #PlantPathology #PlantScience and #MicroSky - and I nearly forgot, the first author of this work is here on Bluesky now, so congrats to @williamkay.bsky.social on the publication of this paper!