My university/faculty has a policy where they deactivate your access card evey 3 years without prior warning, and then you need to request reinstating access. And the autoreply says "it can take 2-3 days to action this". They could consider sending a warning email 2 weeks in advance. They don't...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The British police has so many of these cases. Nothing ever gets done against the police officers involved, see Hillsborough.

It is beyond insulting for @aaas.org to plan to host Brian Greene, an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, for a plenary talk at #AAAS2026, then cancel it the day before, only for the replacement to insist Greene was a “good scientist” and that he wished we could all hear from him.

How your email finds me

At a concert in TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht. Highest seat in the building!

If I would have been a woman, these are examples of the gene pool that would make my womb slam shut. They are walking candidates for Darwin awards.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Oh dear, the kiss of death for #Starmer.

Goodwin's decline from pretty mediocre academic to racist right wing incel isn't new or particularly original. It's also not the fault of women, migrants or anyone else. It is a tale as old as time, a sad, arrogant, loser trying to blame their deficiencies on everyone else. So perfect for Reform.

NEW The High Court rules the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful. What did the judgment say and not say, and what has changed and not changed. And what happens next. Quick explainer by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

#Predatory journals are becoming assertive: "Disappointed by the lack of response to our earlier communication, this serves as a final reminder regarding manuscript submission ..." I think the enforcement team must be getting ready.

That Manchester United statement in full...

#cinderella #godfather #mashup

I see that the racist and xeophobic tax dodging creep from ManU has done a nonpology (sorry to those ninnies that are oversensitive) instead of fully retracting his idiot remarks and promising to shut up and pay tax.

I've no idea who did this as I received it via WhatsApp....nb @scottwortley.bsky.social

We’ve made our analytical pipeline THRESHER publicly available! Just provide your genomes and it handles strain and/or cluster composition, and generates quality visualizations for you. Easy to install,thoroughly documented,and validated on published datasets and simulations. Manuscript coming soon!

I have the solution for the #AI problems. We make all genAI/LLMs exclusively responsible for #VAR. Within weeks it will be so hated (and always wrong) dat people will queue up to pull the plug and burn down the companies. Problem solved.

Imagine working at an Ineos Institute and being funded by this tax-dodging creep.

New profile alert! The latest microbial profile in Microbiology, the low down on the recently renamed Candidozyma auris. @microbiologysociety.org @leighannsherry.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

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www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f... Paul Dacre pretends to have feelings or morals? If we grind him down to atoms, we still would not find any humanity.

It is the truth . (painful #LOL) #academia

Something compelled me to make this

When my current cat Meg arrived with her late sister, I was warned they were very scared and nervous. I just released them in the living room, lied down on the sofa and fell asleep. They were roaming the room when I woke up, got back under the sofa and I let them be. Now Meg is a bellyrub addict.

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f... Ofcom: "We are spineless cowards and don't dare to do anything about fascist propaganda"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Anyone believing this would get smarter from decapitation.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Frothing xenophobes like Mahmood and Starmer still "think" that being Reform Lite is a vote winner. Stupid and nasty.

I understand the red for Szoboszlai. But why does Haaland not get a second yellow? He should have been off as well.

#LoL Like Mick Jagger doing the Harlem Shuffle.

#wintergames So Lindsey Vonn's egotrip has ended and unfortunately she seems badly injured. But I am not a fan of this. She was and is taking away attention (and sponsoring) from the current crop of sporters, is directly affecting the race and all the news will be about Vonn anyway.

sabrina carpenter singing islands in the stream w the muppets has healed me in ways i did not know i needed

Meg sings happy birthday to her cousin Marcus, 2 today! #caturday #catsofbluesky #proofofcat

I think the UK Metascience Unit is doing a Streisand Effect with the mass email and dodgy intentions. At least editors of journals can send out personal emails and leverage thwir contacts. Here it just makes me want to warn my colleagues not to engage. Very poor choice of UKRI to fund this.

At long last, my final PhD chapter is out: we developed a novel evolutionary simulator of bacterial pangenomes, Pansim, fitting it to data from >600K genomes using a likelihood-free framework, PopPUNK-mod, to explore neutral and adaptive pangenome dynamics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Do people really need more reasons to boycott Wetherspoons pubs?

Every American needs to watch this:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... There is a bit of irony here.

"McSweeney... went on to mastermind Labour's landslide 2024 general election victory" Makes him sound like the hero of Mboto Gorge. Ten thousand Tory warriors armed to the teeth with kiwi fruit and guava halves. For gods sake, even Ed "Stuntman" Davey won 72 seats. #labour #mandelson

Have I ever mentioned how surreal it is to be an Editor-in-Chief of a journal called Vaccine right now? www.science.org/content/arti... It’s pretty wild, at least by typical academic journal editorial office standards.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Money badly spent. It will still be completely dysfunctional, full of putrid personalities and rampant in xenophobia, sexism, hatred and incompetence. #westminster

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl... Yes, sure. Just like they take viagra for their circulation issues 😇

The core British values like racism, xenophobia, thinking that an "expat" is different from a migrant, hooliganism, class culture etc? I have lived in the UK for >20 years. There are a lot of good British people, none of them flagshaggers or similar types.

POV Abraham Lincoln invites you to the theatre.

Though I try to stay humble, I'd say I'm probably the nation's top journalist when it comes to in-depth reporting on the Waitangi dildo strike. Even so, I hadn't picked up this piece of info until this week thespinoff.co.nz/politics/05-...

It is worth recalling that the position of U.K. Ambassador to the US was not vacant at the time the Prime Minister chose to appoint Peter Mandelson to the role. A highly competent and respected woman was replaced.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Hi @theguardian.com he has not cut off Edward. That piece of filth is still living in a mansion, gets plenty of money and is not hit with a cdicket bat each time he shows his face. So whoever wrote this garbage, GFY.

Anybody that is in the Epstein releases and only protests their innocence now? They can go to hell. They knew they were in it. They could have come forward themselves, and yes, step down from any role they had.