A lot of people here are are also still posting over there and I'm sorry but that you tolerate this shit is beyond my comprehension.

You will not be able to control geopolitical events in 2026, but you will be able to control how you interact with the people around you, so do your best to be excellent to them. Happy New Year Bluesky folk!

May you, too, avoid your foes?

Happy New Year, start it off smiling with this golden oldie

Speaking from the bottom of my heart, my wish for 2026 is peace. A just and lasting peace for Ukraine. For nearly four years, the Ukrainian people have shown extraordinary courage under the fire of an unprovoked war. We wish them and all people across the world peace, well-deserved peace, in 2026.

Sunset over the Mont Saint Michel… #photography #culture #art #landscape

Christmas is associated with a figure with a long white beard, surrounded by many elves - a clear Christianization of Gandalf.

"In 2004, it took the world a full year to install 1 gigawatt of solar power capacity. Today, twice that amount goes online each day."

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

How are we feeling about Wellcome Open Research? I was just asked to review, and while I would be happy to give back to Wellcome, I have never heard about the journal/platform before

"We just follow what Denmark does" may not sound so bad on the face of it, but actually points to some weaknesses in Denmark's (and for that matter, France's) vaccination schedule. Chickenpox is an unpleasant disease and there is evidence emerging of long-term benefits of the vaccine in old age.

How are we feeling about Wellcome Open Research? I was just asked to review, and while I would be happy to give back to Wellcome, I have never heard about the journal/platform before

The number 1 movie when you were ten years old will define your 2026

Everyone needs to read this astoundingly disturbing piece by Charlotte Strøm on the dubious ethics of the Bandim project researchers As @markhoofnagle.medsky.social notes, ironically/surprisingly it’s published by the RFK Jr-boosting website Sensible Medicine www.sensible-med.com/p/the-false-...

'Tis the season - happy holidays to all who celebrate the new edition of the Hater's guide.

When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.

I miss the exciting place the future used to be, so I wrote this novel about that. Which is also about education, and childhood, and mining, and the political climate of the early 1980s, and bruised semi-rural industrial landscapes, and alpacas. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Our dept is hiring an associate professor in microeconomics / competition theory. It is a wonderful department - do get in touch. The job ad is in German but we teach more and more in English, so we‘re flexible. www.hu-berlin.de/en/universit...

Can't believe you can get into Nature Aging with the ecological fallacy

You remember that Nature Aging paper about how multilingualism protects against accelerated aging? Well…

I've taken the paywall off this piece. It's called My Dad, And The Toad Who Lived In His Shoe. Unsurprisingly, it's about my dad, and a toad who lived in his shoe. www.tom-cox.com/my-dad-and-t...

all of us will forever remember where we were when we heard that the UK-US Tech Prosperity Deal had been suspended. The shock on everyone's faces. People in the street, simply numb. Staring at their phones in disbelief. Our stoutest most reliable ally. How on earth. www.ft.com/content/afd4...

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

King Charles argued on Friday that, thanks to early diagnosis, his treatment will be reduced in the New Year. He urged people to take up cancer screening saying: “Early diagnosis quite simply saves lives.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/a... 1/10

Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.

Law review hall of fame 🏆

Rowlf the Dog went from one of the main Muppet staple (he's one of the main characters in the movie) to a relative player and the reasons for this were honestly really sad 🧵 For years Rowlf WAS the Muppets. He was the reason they broke from the occasional homicidal coffee commercial into big time

My wonderful former colleagues at MPIDR are looking for a post-doc that has experience working with genetic data! This is a nice opportunity and MPIDR offers a lot of time (and monetary support) for research.

My wonderful former colleagues at MPIDR are looking for a post-doc that has experience working with genetic data! This is a nice opportunity and MPIDR offers a lot of time (and monetary support) for research.

🧵1/ The UK-US pharma deal is being sold as a “landmark” win for patients and innovation. But behind the headlines lies a costly surrender, as @elstorreele.bsky.social & I explain @bmj.com

Outlook search function wrapped

wife got a timer for all of our christmas lights so obviously thinking of this

what do you even do about journalists like this. biggest megaphone on the planet at the times and choosing to promote lies. it doesn't do shit if we all block her, and we can only cancel subs so many times. i guess you hope for a sense of shame that you know isn't there

"I wish I could apply to this amazing opportunity" ‐ tenured academic reposting a 12 months Postdoc offer

"Come join us!!!" —member of academic search committee that will receive 200 applications for one role and may in fact hire zero people for it

once more I am begging everyone to do policy based on evidence, not on vibes from the loudest-shouting pressure groups. What the NHS is leaning towards - targeted screening for those most at risk - is the right way to do this. Blanket screening with an unreliable test causes harm.

An diesem Tag, an dem ich seit 12 Jahren krebsfrei bin (hab ich das schon erwähnt? ☺️🎀) möchte ich auch darauf hinweisen, dass Impfungen gegen Krebs schützen und sogar die Krebstherapie unterstützen können. Hört sich komisch an, is aber so. Lasst euch impfen!

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

"Freedom, like love and bird flu, should be allowed to spread unchecked." If you don't care about The Discourse, just read it for the prose.

Fungal Misadventure (a story in the form of a Bluesky thread) "Have you ever wondered?" he asked, as they picked mushrooms in the forest near her house. "How many people died from fungal misadventure during prehistory before we found out which of these were safe to eat?"

You are welcome to join us in MU Economics for this week's seminar "Case for the defense: co-worker effects on pay in the National Football League" presented by afarnell.bsky.social www.maynoothuniversity.ie/economics/ev...

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

I mentioned earlier that they chew on Nile Crocodiles - I wasn't kidding, baby Hippos use them as teething rings since the texture of their scales is satisfying to gum. Just this 12' long razor-toothed archosaur, sitting there going "stay calm, Clarence, you survived the asteroid, you can do this."

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb... Unser Fachbereich hat eine unbefristete Stelle E13 in der VWL-Lehre zu besetzen. Gerne retweeten und bis 30.11. bewerben.