Snuck out just before Christmas, the Government has confirmed that one of the conditions of the UK rejoining the EU's internal market for electricity will be the UK once again being signed up to the Renewable Energy Directive, or obligations tantamount to it. /1 www.gov.uk/government/p...

The UK oil and gas industry did not thank me for writing this story, which they believe is a sign that the UK isn't doing enough to support fossil fuels. Cue journalist bashing for stating the facts as per the company's own tax disclosures.

Rosebank developer Equinor paid no UK taxes last year #energysky

Judge quashes challenge to ‘secret’ nuclear adaptations at Sizewell C #energysky

Shell faces UK ruling over deadly typhoon #energysky

An organised pressure group claims energy secretary Ed Miliband 'refused' scrutiny of plans to include new overland flood barriers at the nuclear project site. Defence lawyers maintain the government line, saying it 'cannot be right' to challenge adaptations to major infra projects. #climatesky

It's satisfying when your Budget analysis and prediction proves right, without a crystal ball.

Short answer: not really. - Aurora analysts say electrification will lower bills, and a move to gas wouldn't register for a decade. - CfDs return what they cost. - Nuclear (Sizewell) adds £10 under the RAB. - Network charges are associated with grid build-out for all energy sources. #climatesky

Reeves’s Budget conundrum: Are green levies driving up the cost of energy? #energysky

With AI growing in ubiquity, humans will be reduced to permanent password-storage units.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

My book 'Rosalind' tells the story of the double helix through Rosalind Franklin's eyes; spotlighting photo 49 (from which she deduced findings), taken from an earlier experiment than photo 51, which became famous because James Watson saw it. wellcomecollection.org/works/qzrpnj...

A photograph of Rosalind Franklin in Italy, 1950. The poster behind her says "Anche Tu Puoi", which means, "You can, too", in English. How appropriate. digital.sciencehistory.org/works/v97xyyk (Courtesy of Science History Institute.)

Not sure if the subeditor lost something in translation. As I'm sure Cobb would agree, Crick was the first to say he couldn't have theorised the double helix without Rosalind Franklin's experimental data.

The UN warned this month that the 1.5 degree limit on global warming set under the Paris agreement may not be reached. But that's no reason to drop targets. Cutting fossil fuels could keep us within critical limits and UN national contributions suggest the emissions trajectory could tip. #climatesky

UN secretary says emissions are set to fall post-COP30 #energysky

Can the hive mind help me with a little mystery of science history? These photos in Raymond Gosling's thesis purport to be the same, but only the left shows the features of known photo 51. Rosalind Franklin's notes show they used the same specimen in an earlier experiment: 49. Could that explain it?

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There is truly no surer sign of being trapped in the Westminster bubble thank thinking that the person to reverse Labour's tanking poll numbers is Wes Streeting.

Indeed. Those who control the dominant narrative have a responsibility to free themselves of outworn ideas.

Unfortunately this article offered an outdated version of events pushed by Watson's memoir. There's little evidence Wilkins 'abhorred confrontation' (you need only read his letters), or that he focused on B DNA (which Franklin analysed in her '52/3 notebooks), nor did she see it as a 'distraction'.

Batteries are coming to Europe. Earlier this year Europe’s largest battery storage site went live at Blackhillock, Scotland. The facility has a capacity of 300MW/600MWh. Much larger batteries are under development: A huge 1 GW / 4 GWh system is being constructed in Jänschwalde, Germany.

It's a matter of public record that James Watson visited Rosalind Franklin's lab at this time in 1953 @matthewcobb.bsky.social, where he saw photo 51. As early as November 1951, he heard Rosalind Franklin's lecture. She corrected his subsequent flawed model. I included these details in my book.

I find these pages from Rosalind Franklin's notebooks in Jan/Feb 1953 particularly interesting. She draws her own diagrams of DNA, describing a possible structure with chains 'along a-c diagonal', and examines evidence for a '2-chain' helix from photo 49, an earlier x-ray of B DNA than photo 51.

In private, Rosalind Franklin's colleague at King's College, Maurice Wilkins, begrudged that James Watson and Francis Crick had pinched their data. As per this letter that surfaced at auction.

Here, Rosalind Franklin's colleague Maurice himself argues to the head of their lab in London that their data should not have been leaked to Watson and Crick. You're welcome.

Through reading her time-stamped and archived lab notebooks meticulously, and comparing those dates to the timeline in James Watson's memoir, and Maurice Wilkins' letters. You're welcome.

Rosalind Franklin was unavailable for comment

Rosalind Franklin will be remembered.

Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions

It’s a good day to look up Rosalind Franklin.

The DNA pioneer is Rosalind Franklin.

Justice for Rosalind Franklin.

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

So anyway, Rosalind Franklin

This is Rosalind Franklin. The real discoverer of the DNA structure.

Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty. But beware...

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

She never had a voice as she died before Watson and Crick were awarded a Nobel alongside her colleague Wilkins. To read her story, you could try, 'Rosalind': www.waterstones.com/book/rosalin...

James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helix, has died. As this article points out, for many years he "had to deal with" accusations that he had stolen a woman, Rosalind Franklin's, work. www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

What does the collapse of a challenger energy retail company mean for the market? With supplier OVO also warning in its latest accounts about its ability to continue as a going concern, what happens next? #energysky

Does Tomato’s collapse signal a wider failure in the energy market? #energysky

Ørsted sells 50% Hornsea 3 stake to Apollo in £4.5bn deal #energysky

Microsoft ‘cannot achieve its goals without carbon removal’ #energysky

UK government cuts heavy-industry electricity costs by £420m #energysky

Former PM Theresa May splits from party over net zero #energysky

In his letter to the big six this month, Net Zero parliamentary committee chair Bill Esterson asked how to stop energy bills rising, amid warnings about non-commodity costs. He says green subsidies comprise just a tenth of bill costs... proposing to curb excess profits by network operators. #netzero

VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: In conversation with UK Energy Security and Net Zero Committee chair Bill Esterson #energysky