Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”

"Rose Henderson felt within her rights" SHE WAS WITHIN HER RIGHTS

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Jfc

the only "honor" Watson's getting from me is that i've built a lab full of outstanding students who are everything he hated: Black, Indigenous, female, trans, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant, and beyond. he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.

there is quite literally something for everyone in this list, whew

In the interests of preserving several friendships, I should make abundantly clear that I most certainly HAVE NOT cooked paella. I have made saffron rice with bits in. Bits that include chicken, chorizo and prawn. Using Italian rice. In a wok. May shame follow me and my descendants for seven ages.

The complaints were about her altering an actual quote live on air because she didn't agree with it because of her ideology, but say it was her face if that makes you feel better www.bbc.com/news/article...

I am perfectly prepared to believe LLMs are more intelligent than the average AI pioneer.

People are taking the piss out of this, but I was intrigued by the Polish marking. Turns out it's an acknowledgment by the local community of three Polish squadrons who flew from a local RAF base, 22 of whom died in service and 6 of whom are buried locally. I think the mockery is uncalled for.

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

Our latest paper has just been published in Cell! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... We developed a new method called MCC ultra, which allows 3D chromatin structure to be visualised with a 1 base pair pixel size.

Devastated to see Mamdani plummet to victory with a result that shows his critics were right all along. Now is the time for the left to move towards the centre. It's time to reach across the aisle, to swing your partner, do-si-do and really lay into trans people for no reason.

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

FFS, it starts earlier every year. We're not even peak "Poppy Rage" season yet and we're already on "They're Banning Christmas". We also need to squeeze stuff about flags into this now.

NEW: Children faced more risk of rare heart problems after Covid-19 infection than they did after taking the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine, a big three-year study of under-18s in England has found. Important evidence for debates over vaccine safety, particularly in the US. www.ft.com/content/231d...

Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.

Trans rights is a winning platform. Pro immigration is a winning platform. Taxing the rich is a winning platform. Affordable housing is a winning platform. Free childcare is a winning platform. Hating Andrew Cuomo is a winning platform. SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM

A neat little quiz game: Is a headline homophobia from the 80s-90s or transphobia from the 2010s-2020s? Because it's all the same bullshit, repackaged for the hate du jour haveigotphobiaforyou.com

This is powerful stuff: the reasoning behind Pillay’s commission finding that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. “Children who were meant to be born from these reproductive specimens will never exist. Families will be forever changed and bloodlines may end.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

This is genuinely extraordinary

This looks cool and is going straight on the reading pile

Physicist Angela Collier makes the point that A1s can't do original thought. And now it turns out they don't want anyone else doing original thought either. 😀

That knowledge is something I have in common with God. Zero. Zero times.

Suddenly when puberty blockers are given to cis kids, the Daily Mail (the same newspaper which backed Hitler btw) finally admits that "their effects are not permanent, and once a child lets their blocking treatment lapse, puberty will just continue as normal." Which is true for trans kids too.

You know when I say "never trust the #LibDems?" and I get quite angry with you when you say they are your party? Yeah this is why. Here's their EQUALITIES SPOKESWOMAN, calling for segregation to be put in place in UK society, urgently.

#Motabiliity is paid for out of the #PIP you qualify for. If you don't take the car, they'll give you the PIP money instead. So this is 100% performative punishment of the #disabled by the fucking #Labour party on no factual basis whatsoever.

Of course he's a crypto chud, of fucking course he is

So, yes, I used the Chatterley anniversary to bang on about H G Wells. Well, it’s my account. Quite what he would have made (yes, this is another silly digression, but I like it) of his mention alongside Anthony Trollope and Hilaire Belloc in this Two Ronnies sketch is anyone’s guess

Still 8th in line to the throne. It is genuinely absurd that the current position is that Andrew is unfit to be a duke or a prince but theoretically could be fit to be King.

Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.

The 1st pregnancy via A.I. detected sperm (by finding 5 motile sperm in 2.5 million images) from a 39-year-old man with infertility. @thelancet.com thelancet.com/journals/lan...

There's not much to it, really. People cherry picked something in 29,903 characters that they thought was rare and said it was engineered. It wasn't rare and it definitely wasn't engineered. It's a half-rate version of the Bible code.

The flaws weren't well-hidden. This is the kind of basic sloppiness we're dealing with. Their own dataset of 72 genomes included: 2 copies of SARS2, 3 of SARS, 2 of MERS, 2 of TGEV ...and so on. I didn't spot this until I tried to reproduce their results. It shows how easily this stuff slips by.

Conclusion: All 11 "synthetic looking" sites are found in nature. The "anomalous" spacing isn't even rare. The "synthetic fingerprint" appears in natural viruses . The restriction map of SARS-CoV-2 is fully consistent with natural evolution from its bat virus relatives. arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833

What a gem from @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social in Cell! Expansion microscopy atlas of >200 eukaryotes comparing cytoskeletal architectures revealing structures not seen before. Stunning visualisation! Exactly the kind of transformative cell biology we need.

It's all about nostalgia for when they were young & people not like them "knew their place". As the comedian (whose name I can't remember) said, things weren't better when you were 18, things were better*because* you were 18.

If passed, this would place most of the US in the same position that *all* of the UK has been in since 2021 or so. This is why trans people don't listen to twerps who say 'vote Labour or else you'll get Reform'. We are already getting full Trump/Reform policies from a Labour government.

You'll have to ignore the buckets of anti-trans campaigning commentary in the piece, but the basic news is quite simple. The EHRC has failed to get the government to accept its anti-guidance in haste. Something is holding it up, perhaps for another a year www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Important study in Science today. Infectious disease suppressed during pandemic did rebound afterwards (due to immunity debt) but, the net impact was negative (net disease burden reduced). ➡️Avoiding infectious disease is a good thing! 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Humanity’s history is a continuous battle between us and the microbes. For most of our history, we were on the losing side. It wasn’t even close. We were losing very decisively.

Covid in England is definitely on the way down, but Flu is on the way up - and over a month early. My latest substack open.substack.com/pub/christin...

How d'you do I See you've met the Ozymandy-man He's just a little let down by these Trunkless legs They've left him just a Sandy man Don't get strung out By these fallen rocks Look on my works and despair-oh There's not much of the man In these desert sands But in life I was one hell of a Pharaoh

I keep thinking, "I want to go home" but I'm beginning to think what I'm defining as "home" is a world that is less exhausting and stressful, because I really don't know what else I mean at this point.

Change one letter, ruin a candy. Cadbury Herpes

I don’t have a problem with GMOs, I have a problem with #ColossalBio misrepresenting GMO grey wolves as Dire wolves™️ 🐺 🧪 #ExtinctionIsForever

"Listen, in some ways, I get it. When I came on the scene in 2001, I probably seemed pretty unsavory compared to the competitors. But that was when academic research happened in libraries and George W. Bush was considered the stupidest president."