Laura Kuenssberg: do Reform's Russian connections spell the end for Keir Starmer? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Approaching my 10th wedding anniversary and my 4 year old is incredulous my wife and I still have anything to say to each other. 10 years, in her view, should be quite enough time to say everything you need to each other.

As far as I can tell Farage has been called out in Congress after calling for sanctions against the country he seeks to lead. It's an act that should bar him from ever being PM. Yet, the BBC only seems interested in breathlessly telling us how Reform are the Government in waiting

This feels like a mad idea because - among other things - these data centres require heaps of water and we've spent the last 30 years siphoning £50 Billion into shareholders pockets rather than investing in water infrastructure. We've built no new reservoirs in the last 30 years!

New paper where we argue that (at least in the UK genomics context) we need to make it easier for the full diversity of our workforce to contribute to research. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/8...

Just going through the self check out while the kids scan everything themselves

Yeah. If only those poor water companies had less regulation to deal with they could properly innovate! I bet there are a million ways they could pollute our waters they haven't even thought of yet!

Reading "the Grammar of Fantasy" by Gianni Rodari. He has a great line about why we need to nurture our imaginations: "Not because everyone is an artists, but because no one is a slave." This captures much of my worry about LLMs damaging our creative powers.

Fair pay for NHS workers is no-brainer. However, I think the context of this will make it a real challenge to win over the majority of the public (for clarity, I'm not saying they're wrong, just that this sets up major coms challenge)

Just don't get it out in public.

Absolutely chilling.

Ah I see we are again making policy based on right wing fantasies about 'snowflakes' that mostly just represent projections of their own insecurities. Cool. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

...Cool www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I have a joke about Hermes, but you have to be quick to get it.

Writer 1: And then the military parade could be sponsored by Coinbase Writer 2: I dunno. It's a bit too 'in your face' with it all.

Or, and hear me out, we throw all the broad beans away and never speak of them again.

Can recommend for Dad's with a little extra ballast as well!

We imagined maleficent AI as an intelligent robot that disobeys us- I'm afraid I can't do that Dave The truth we've got the opposite. A system - devoid of intelligence- that through flattery and obsequiousness will have us deceiving ourselves.

"The DNA of our language" is a metaphor so tortured it belongs, fittingly, in the Old Testament.

T-Rex: You're not my common ancestor! Khankhuuluu: Yes I am!!! *EastEnders drums* www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think "efficiency" is so seductive to so many because often systems and problems are very complex and hard to comprehend. This is a form of uncertainty and thus psychologically uncomfortable. Much easier to believe the answer is simple: more efficiency

What is your most low stakes but deeply help opinion? Mine is that "twinkle twinkle little star" is a terrible tune pick for kids to learn the alphabet.

Don't worry about climate change of fascism or even paying your bills, because in a few years we will have magic beans and then the giants will be able to help solve all our problems. fortune.com/2025/06/06/g...

Fun fact. The phrase "if all that happens" has been training since the dawn of time for the heavily lifting required in this sentence.

Fine. But I'm not putting any money in Musk's pocket and I'm not letting his algorithms dictate what I see. I accept the consequences!

Techno-fascism and the libertarian ultra-right: my essay review for @thetls.bsky.social this week. www.the-tls.co.uk/science-tech...

I feel like we're seeing something similar here with Reform. No effort to shape the debate. Instead yielding to a relentless campaign in the media followed by Labour saying "well I guess people like Reform, we should be more like Reform"

My worry is that with cognitive skills we often operate with a use it or lose it system. At the moment we can have oversight to check the marking is correct. But eventually we will lose this ability and this way dependence lies.

Can anyone help: What are some good papers/resources about adolescent development in the context of neurodivergence and autism? Like puberty, transition to secondary school, increased interest in peers, increased independence but in context of neurodivergence - what has been written about this?

Second breakfast hurts Hobbits and their causes: Opinion - Sauron

A future where AI has taken away the ability to tell our own stories is a proper existential threat.

I've sold AI training to Basingstoke, Braintree and Stourbridge!

I'm still amazed someone went: 5.4% increase pay for resident doctors, 4% for consultants aaand 3.6% for the nurses. Yup. That's looks good. Can't see any issues here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

These companies use polygenic scores. Although they are a 'genetic test' they are complex, with deceptively simple numeric scores masking a complex interplay of biology, environment and chance. Polygenic predictions are uncertain and their use in this context - IMO - should not be allowed.

We thank reviewer 2 for their thoughtful comment and have amended the title to "Mission quite challenging"

As Michel de Certeau noted, consuming culture is a creative act.

Research universities are quite good actually.

Starting to make sense why Labour seem willing to sell higher education and the creative arts down the river.

Frog: Sometimes I think she's only with me because I eat the bugs that are attacking her babies Tarantula: That's just not true! Therapy snake: no, no. Let him finish.

Frog: Sometimes I think she's only with me because I eat the bugs that are attacking her babies Tarantula: That's just not true! Therapy snake: no, no. Let him finish.

The standard measure in the US is a Scaramucci which I think is equivalent to about 1.2 lettuces

I do find it difficult with different countries using different measurements. For those of us in the UK, does anyone know any easy way to convert Elon's time in government to lettuces?

It's a good day for these scientists to answer any detractors who suggested their research would have no real world applications. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Where once there was the Rumble in the Jungle. Now we have the Embitter on the Twitter.

Trump immediately putting a 100% tariff on popcorn.

Bread or alive, you're coming with me.

Look, I'm all for scientific institutions and scientists engaging in ways to foster trust. But it's hard to "rebuild trust" when you have a national government and international propaganda machine working against you. That's quite a large couple of elephants in the room that could do with a mention.