Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

It’s disgusting for a newspaper to put Zacks name in the same headline as a child predator. But that’s what papers like this do, if they’re threatened by something they fear, they do disgusting things like this.

Put more eloquently.

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This oak door belonging to Westminster Abbey, London; England. It is the oldest and only Anglo-Saxon door in Great Britain. The door has been standing for over 950 years, dating back to the reign of Edward the Confessor during the 1050s CE. #archaeohistories

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air

This crazy world got you feeling down? Just listen to a little perspective from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life: #MontyPython #meaningoflife

We wrote two reviews on cell migration, published today in Nature Methods. They provides practical guidelines how to select a cell-migration assay and how to analyze cell-migration data Review 1: nature.com/articles/s41... Review 2: nature.com/articles/s41...

Britain could have joined Erasmus five years ago; an agreement on funding was completed between negotiators but vetoed “at the very last minute” by Boris Johnson. From Stefaan de Rynck’s book

Reminds me of the apocryphal question attributed to various US commentators during Gulf wars - “How did our oil get under their sand?”

🧠🪰 The adult Drosophila brain connectome now gives us a complete wiring diagram of ~140k neurons. But a wiring diagram alone isn’t understanding. How is this massive network organized? Our paper tackles that question by mapping community structure across the entire fly brain. 1/

Happy to act as a taster if someone wants to act as a baker 😉

@adamjkucharski.bsky.social @matthewcobb.bsky.social

Interesting

Rainbow Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta) 🌳 It has smooth, orange-tinted bark that sheds in strips, revealing streaks of pale green, red, orange, grey, and purplish brown

UK beware

Miracle on 34th Street for us

There will be a next stage Robin. Chin up!

wow

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Of course it is. Always follow the money.

fascinating

Offshore wind has been making waves in the British power system for 25 years, growing to become 🇬🇧’s SECOND largest source of power Starting with two small turbines in 2000, offshore wind has grown to generate nearly a fifth of British electricity. https://loom.ly/3fUtHXM

His legendary work spawned two life science fields: molecular biology and neuroscience. But that's only part of a much bigger story. An enthralling Ground Truths conversation with @matthewcobb.bsky.social on his new book CRICK erictopol.substack.com/p/the-story-...

“And then they made him a fake trophy because he kept whining and moaning and wouldn’t STFU.”

David Lammy, "Leaving the EU has badly damaged our economy" "Untruths were peddled by Brexiters" "We should work to be closer to EU" Labour should have said this 16 months ago when they came into office. Better late than never

this story isn’t going away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Interesting.

Can confirm we’re admitting lots of flu and RSV patients this week. If you have symptoms but don’t need medical care, please don’t mix and spread your virus. Some of those you infect may come to harm. It’s not ok to work or party while infectious. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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🧵How much should the NHS worry about this winter's flu wave? You may have seen this alarming headline on the BBC website today... I think it's too early to make this claim and the data does not support it. I think it will be a bad flu season but no evidence to think worse than previous yrs 1/8

Zack Polanski, "Labour are a government of cowards because you won't tell people the truth about migration" "Migration is a positive thing for our country" "We need migration" "We need fair and managed migration" "And that's what will change this conversation" *huge clap* #BBCQT

Good grief. Everyone who is interested in the issue of jury removal should read this 🧵

Farrugia AJ, et al. Fibrillar adhesions are the primary integrin complexes shaped by matrix topography. bioRxiv posted 1 December 2025 doi:10.1101/2025.11.26.690075. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.26.690075v1.abstract

Isn't it refreshing when someone actually does nuance and detail? H/t @andyverity.bsky.social at the BBC!

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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

Atypical monochromatic shirt Matthew!

If you don’t want to watch me and @erictopol.bsky.social chat on Substack, here’s a YouTube link:

💥 Well done! Great to see my babies (FLIER and Springboard) going from strength to strength and being supported by @wellcometrust.bsky.social !

Doesn't he have some real work to do?

Not the most deeply thought through review

This used to be career-ending stuff.

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Could be useful: Xie L, et al. STUPPIT is a proximity labeling tool for labeling intermediary proteins that bridge two non-interacting proteins. PLoS Biol. 2025 Nov 24;23(11):e3003227. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 41284752

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.