Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson Helen Morgan: "Nigel Farage wants to impose Trump's dangerous anti-science agenda here in the UK. Peddling this kind of nonsense is irresponsible and wrong. "It seems Farage would rather see pregnant women suffer in pain than stand up to his idol Donald Trump."

Inner child extremely excited about a crewed mission to the moon as soon as February! Outer adult painfully aware of the NASA funding cuts and their impact on wide-ranging and incredibly important scientific research. Anyone else simultaneously thrilled and downcast about this news?🔭🛰️

Everyone in this country is descended from immigrants. Every single last one of us. And many, like Mr Farage, will have very recent migrant ancestors indeed and not even know about it.

Janice and Kerry claim they're not racists. And you might be tempted to believe that until you read what Janice and Kerry think and then conclude that ... yup - they're racists.

I was finally able to update meteoriteorbits.info, also comparing the list to the Jenniskens & Devillepoix 2025 review. The list now contains the orbits of Aguas Zarcas (CM2), Hradec Kralové (LL5), Renchen (L5-6), Pusté Úlany (H5) and Haag (LL4-6). A total of 60 meteorites with published orbits!

Without the Mars Sample Return mission to return the core sample to Earth, however, we will never know if these are 3.5 billion yr old signs of fossilised microbial life or just a normal chemical process ☹️ Fab @sciam.bsky.social write-up here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-t... 🔭🧪

Been a busy morning chatting to the BBC, here's hoping those munro baggers can bag a meteorite too!

A very succinct summary of Christian's talk today at #EPSCDPS2025 on our work studying the effects of perchlorates on meteoritic organics 👇

The Perseverance rover on Mars has observed unusual minerals associated with organic matter — raising questions about the geochemistry of ancient Mars. go.nature.com/469V1nr

I’m unfortunately not at #EPSCDPS but Christian Schröder will be presenting some cool stuff I’ve been working on (on and off since 2019😳) simulating martian conditions on CM chondrites in the Thursday morning Mars session ☄️

Thinking that the solicitors who are doing your conveyancing are incompetent morons who stand a very real chance of completely ruining your life just makes Rayner more relateable imho.

Such a bizarre pledge from the Tories - which ironically, makes it clear that oil and gas will run out, unlike...the sun, wind and tides. A policy that appeals primarily to potential donors, and those who work in the sector who don't want a just transition www.thenational.scot/news/2542953...

Put all our abstracts about diversity and inclusion from past meetings back up first, you cowards

A rather misleading headline in the BBC this morning: the UK Space Agency is definitely not being scrapped! #UKSA will change from being an exec agency of, to a unit within, the Dept of Science, Innovation & Tech, reducing UKGov red tape. Thoughts?🧪🔭🛰️ ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Farewell to the brilliant Tom Lehrer. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

Happy “one of the few days of the year I’m not embarrassed to be 50% English” to those who celebrate

We're at a pretty worrying place when it comes to protest rights in the UK, in my opinion. Via the new Private Eye (alt text available)

Story of my life

Betelgeuse is a double! Fun to learn something new about a familiar star.

Tomorrow I’m returning to planetary science research & @uofglasgow.bsky.social as a post doc. I’ll be investing how shock pressures affect D/H ratios in hydrated minerals. 💫 I’ve had 2 years out of academia & more than 3 out of planetary science, anyone got any tips on returning to research?

Amid suspected fraud in the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), a new report says the airline industry should stop calling all alternatives to kerosene “sustainable”

Please say their lawyer is like a little hedgehog in a suit with a briefcase

CO2 emissions from Drax biomass power station are larger than the SIX most polluting gas power plants in the UK combined. Drax is STILL the UK’s largest emitter, and is likely to stay top of the list through 2030. https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/drax-is-still-the-uks-largest-emitter

Terrible Friday news dump.The wealth of expertise. The decades of scientific progress. The emerging and urgent challenges we were focused on tackling. It is all so short-sided and cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

This feels like one of those things where UKRI enforces consistency across the research councils (EPSRC already had a no resubmission rule) by choosing the worst option and applying it uniformly. Revising & resubmitting proposals makes better use of reviewer knowledge & improves the science we do.

Good grief — he just can’t help himself! Classic narcissist. Everyone’s fav* Harvard astronomer has struck again! This has to be, as we call it here in Australia …. ‘taking the piss’, right? RIGHT?!?!?! HT SpaceFam pvt chat and someone that Loeb already has once tried to take on lmao

related related reminder, that student maintenance loans start to reduce if parental income is over £25k. Which means that *one* of your parents can be earning slightly less than minimum wage and you still don't get the full maintenance loan (and your parents are expected to make up the shortfall)

Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ Extraordinary work by my colleagues here on.ft.com/4kE1EUn

99% of people crossing the channel in small boats apply for asylum. About 70%+ receive it. The manner of entry to seek asylum does not determine if someone is a "genuine refugee". Nobody is risking their life crossing one of the world's busiest shipping routes to work for Deliveroo. #r4today

I signed up to this site with a goddamn Hotmail account, what more age verification do you need

The law of unintended consequences strikes again: on.ft.com/4nHyDtG

Subthread 🧵: what does VLT/MUSE show us about interstellar comet 2I/Borisov? An awful lot! We can measure what it is made of: both the dust it emitted, and the gases it produced, as this tiny body was heated by the Sun. We couldn't do this for 1I, because it didn't have detectable coma 🔭

We have images of a new interstellar visitor! ☄️ 👀 Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third object ever spotted coming from beyond our Solar System. In this timelapse, our VLT observes the comet move across the sky — just two days after its discovery! https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2527a/ 🔭 🧪

getting in an arms race with LLMs over em-dashes by using dashes so long ——— so very long ——— that they have never appeared in training data

Amplifying the call from Marc Delcroix and co. over the weekend: the team are looking to verify/refute a potential impact on #Saturn on July 5th, 09:00-09:15UT. Videos taken by amateur observers at that time might hold the key. This 📸 credit: Mario Rana pvol2.ehu.eus/pvol2/news/v...

Our new paper shows that soil cation exchange can delay CO₂ removal from enhanced weathering by years to decades. Lag varies by soil, climate, and land use—longest in high-CEC regions like the Corn Belt. Big implications for MRV, credit timing, and deployment strategy. Timing matters! 🪨🌾 Link below.

If you saw last night’s #meteor, please let @ukfall.org.uk know here 👇 ukfall.org.uk/report-a-fir...

Daylight fireball over the U.S. Southeast - and there may have been a related meteorite hit of a house: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Oa.... Visual reports: fireballs.imo.net/members/imo_.... Another TV report: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcTk...

We have deep concerns about government plans to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Nonviolent protest, and even acts of vandalism, should not be labelled as terrorism. Civil disobedience has been a powerful force for positive social change. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

I’m sorry, but the president declaring out of nowhere that a ceasefire was agreed upon to a baffled Israel and Iran who just sorta look at each other, shrug, and get back to it is the funniest thing that ever happened in a war.

Should #lpi and #usra restore all censored abstracts? Should they commit to preserving scientific freedom of speech at #lpsc? And should they commit to not censoring #lpsc2026 submissions? If the answer is yes, then sign this petition! https://forms.gle/G1yAxZqmDujbVDHR7

‘Even academics with secure jobs don’t feel secure. Meanwhile, those of us on fixed-term contracts sit and wait for our funding to run out.’ Ed Kiely on precarity in higher education: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Nature study: when do girls fall behind in #maths? During their 1st year at primary school. 4 yr study, 2.6M French children. By comparing kids born a month apart but in diff school years they show it's education, not age, that triggers the gap☹️ 🧪👩‍🔬 ℹ️: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 👇Excellent 🧵

Attn: Reporters/Influencers/etc - If you are doing a story on the PBR and the science cuts, and you want to reach the mission leadership of OSIRIS-APEX, you can reach out to me. I can't promise access to everyone, but if you're looking to save US space science, so are we.

@sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, a @ucl.ac.uk chemistry professor, has returned his 2014 Michael Faraday Prize to protest the @royalsociety.org's failure to take more decisive (or any) action against Elon Musk for his attack on science. 👏

I don’t think I’ve felt this united with the internet since we all mourned harambe

two grown ass men fighting during pride month is so funny to me

is it too niche to say did link throw a muddle bud at the whitehouse